I've got a couple of critical problems with our G4 Macs running Woody which is stopping me unleashing it on a lab-full of final-year engineering students (who would make quite good testers I think). I apt-get dist-upgraded from potato on the machine set aside for testing.
First is that the sounds in KDE are white noise. I've seen posted bug report about dmasound_pmac not honouring byte-reversal requests, and I guess this is it. Unfortuantely, I'm trying to run an audio programming lab, and this is making things difficult to say the least 8-) Secondly, the # key has disappeared. Shift-3 just goes beep (actually "shhhhhhh") on the konsole, or produces a £ in emacs. The keyboard has no # (or delete (as opposed to backspace), for that matter). Thank you very, very much Apple. Perhaps they don't write C programs! Is there a *preferred* workaround for this? Maybe an xmodmap placed somewhere? Maybe I'm needing a keymap I don't know about? (shift-3 is still # on the console logins, however) Thridly (out of two 8-): the mouse crashes when exiting KDE. I've not seen this in a bug report. It's a USB one and works fine until you exit KDE. The remapping of F11 and F12 as the two mouse buttons works fine too (just left the stuff in from Potato). I know there's a way to go yet before Woody gets release, but I wanted to be ready 8-) Nick/ PS: what's the command debconf invokes to build an XF86Config-4? It was update-config xserver or something, but I've forgotten it, and can't find a ref to it anywhere. Not so bad now I've got a working X, but it was very handy to start with.
