Thanks again for all the tips! Well; it worked, more or less. The ftp client that my friend used ditched anything that was symlinked. :( This left me scrounging the xfonts, and a few other sundry bits via 28.8. sigh. Like a twit, I didn't realize that the sparc dir wasn't self-contained, so there were some more things to get. Luckily tetex was the only huge file I had to download myself.
Now for the interesting bits. When I type startx, it seems to take an inordinate amount of time before anything of interest happens. I get a white screen, and then a slightly off-white rectangle eventually appears in the centre of the screen, containing the debian splash image. The colour of this then becomes horrid (the off-white becomes a lavender colour) and it just sits. If I press the middle mouse button, I finally get sawmill to draw the grey stippled background. Problem with sawmill and xsun? My unpriviledged gets the same behaviour. I am able to run gkrellm, although it's drawing the cpu load graph strangely. I'll try upgrading to a newer gkrellm. As for the asclock-gtk, it segfaults if I try to launch it. The output of strace is not a small file, even when gzip'd. If anyone knows about such things, and could help me decipher the spew, I email it to you. If anyone else is using these programs, I would be interested in hearing from you. I am running potato on a sparc classic, with an 8bpp frame buffer. I get Cgoban complaining about not enough colours free, so I wouldn't be shocked to hear that the bit-depth is a problem. Thanks in advance. -- cheers, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on Earth. Where are they hiding? -Cabaret Voltaire "Yashar"