Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome
I think apt had some problems with handling CD's, especially multiple ones. You might want to check the bug list. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:45:05AM -0500, Robert Maynord wrote: > Dear debian-user List Friends: > > I have been following the Potato and Helix-Gnome discussions, and decided > to try the setup. I downloaded last weeks version of Potato, and it works > fine. I purchased the Helix-Gnome disk, and it works - at least with Red > Hat. I have unsuccessfully tried the Potato-Helix combination on two > completely different computers, so the problem must be mine. I begin with > the the Potato installation, and when it gets to the apt-get section, I > include the Helix-Gnome CD. Potato sees the Helix-Gnome CD fine, and I > select the three Helix-Gnome boxes in the apt-get "simple" selection area. > I then continue the installation, and all works fine until apt-get begins > the actual installation of the packages. Then the messages (describing > which packages are to be installed) appear at different starting points on > the screen. The last message is: "Do you want to continue? [Y/n]" At this > point the computer freezes and will not respond to a typed Y (enter) or any > other keyboard action. > > My hope is to use the Debian/Helix-Gnome combination on computers at an > elementary school. Any help on this problem would be very much appreciated!!! > > p.s. I have also tried installing Helix-Gnome after completing a > Potato-only installation. Potato installs fine. But when I begin the > Helix-Gnome part, directly from the CD as per Helix-Gnome instructions, the > same screen freezing occurs. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome - Solved!
Robert Maynord wrote: > Thanks for your responses! I finally solved the Potato and Helix-Gnome > installation problem. I found that if I do NOT use the "simple" package > choice in apt-get, but use the "advanced" instead, it works. I am able to > use the Helix-Gnome CD with no problem. Are you talking about the simple/advanced prompt when you do a fresh potato install? -- see shy jo
Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome - Solved!
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:39:15PM -0500, Robert Maynord wrote: > Dear Debian list: > > Thanks for your responses! I finally solved the Potato and Helix-Gnome > installation problem. I found that if I do NOT use the "simple" package > choice in apt-get, but use the "advanced" instead, it works. I am able to > use the Helix-Gnome CD with no problem. That's nice to hear! :-) > Except: There appears to be an IRQ conflict. My mouse hops all around the > perimeter of the screen, with no useful connections on the menus. I have > tried using XF86Setup to configure my PS/2 mouse to /dev/psaux. The mouse > works fine in the X test setup - just not in Gnome! > > I will continue with the troubleshooting Proposal: Set your mouse device to /dev/mouse, I think that's the canonical way of doing it. Then check how gpm is doing, I've had a lot of trouble when I tried to use the raw device for the mouse ... Then again, for me there was some voodoo in it too, and Potato was unstable back then. HTH. Morten -- Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men (Martin Luther King, Jr.)"
Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome - Solved!
Robert Maynord wrote: > > Dear Debian list: > > Thanks for your responses! I finally solved the Potato and Helix-Gnome > installation problem. I found that if I do NOT use the "simple" package > choice in apt-get, but use the "advanced" instead, it works. I am able to > use the Helix-Gnome CD with no problem. > > Except: There appears to be an IRQ conflict. My mouse hops all around the > perimeter of the screen, with no useful connections on the menus. I have > tried using XF86Setup to configure my PS/2 mouse to /dev/psaux. The mouse > works fine in the X test setup - just not in Gnome! > > I will continue with the troubleshooting > > Thanks again! > > Robert > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I had this problem also; I changed to protocol from ps2 to imps2, which solve the problem with my button-wheel style mouse. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Potato and Helix-Gnome - Solved!
Dear Debian list: Thanks for your responses! I finally solved the Potato and Helix-Gnome installation problem. I found that if I do NOT use the "simple" package choice in apt-get, but use the "advanced" instead, it works. I am able to use the Helix-Gnome CD with no problem. Except: There appears to be an IRQ conflict. My mouse hops all around the perimeter of the screen, with no useful connections on the menus. I have tried using XF86Setup to configure my PS/2 mouse to /dev/psaux. The mouse works fine in the X test setup - just not in Gnome! I will continue with the troubleshooting Thanks again! Robert
Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:45:05AM -0500, Robert Maynord wrote:
> Dear debian-user List Friends:
>
> I have been following the Potato and Helix-Gnome discussions, and decided
> to try the setup. I downloaded last weeks version of Potato, and it works
> fine. I purchased the Helix-Gnome disk, and it works - at least with Red
> Hat. I have unsuccessfully tried the Potato-Helix combination on two
> completely different computers, so the problem must be mine. I begin with
> the the Potato installation, and when it gets to the apt-get section, I
> include the Helix-Gnome CD. Potato sees the Helix-Gnome CD fine, and I
> select the three Helix-Gnome boxes in the apt-get "simple" selection area.
> I then continue the installation, and all works fine until apt-get begins
> the actual installation of the packages. Then the messages (describing
> which packages are to be installed) appear at different starting points on
> the screen. The last message is: "Do you want to continue? [Y/n]" At this
> point the computer freezes and will not respond to a typed Y (enter) or any
> other keyboard action.
>
> My hope is to use the Debian/Helix-Gnome combination on computers at an
> elementary school. Any help on this problem would be very much appreciated!!!
>
> p.s. I have also tried installing Helix-Gnome after completing a
> Potato-only installation. Potato installs fine. But when I begin the
> Helix-Gnome part, directly from the CD as per Helix-Gnome instructions, the
> same screen freezing occurs.
Sounds very odd.
I don't know the CD-edition, so it might be there the problem is.
I know this is probably a redundant question, but are there *.deb's on
the CD('s)?
Can your drive read other CD's?
I've had some problems once with a CD-drive that was defective, it
sometimes hung the 'puter, but that was Windows I think ...
I use dselect/apt for all things Debian, and I have had no problems[1]
with the line:
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
in my /etc/apt/sources.list.
HTH.
Regards
Morten
[1] Except for some dependencies that Potato couldn't fulfill, easily
fixed with an upgrade of the relevant packages to Woody.
--
Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men (Martin Luther King, Jr.)"
Potato and Helix-Gnome
Dear debian-user List Friends: I have been following the Potato and Helix-Gnome discussions, and decided to try the setup. I downloaded last weeks version of Potato, and it works fine. I purchased the Helix-Gnome disk, and it works - at least with Red Hat. I have unsuccessfully tried the Potato-Helix combination on two completely different computers, so the problem must be mine. I begin with the the Potato installation, and when it gets to the apt-get section, I include the Helix-Gnome CD. Potato sees the Helix-Gnome CD fine, and I select the three Helix-Gnome boxes in the apt-get "simple" selection area. I then continue the installation, and all works fine until apt-get begins the actual installation of the packages. Then the messages (describing which packages are to be installed) appear at different starting points on the screen. The last message is: "Do you want to continue? [Y/n]" At this point the computer freezes and will not respond to a typed Y (enter) or any other keyboard action. My hope is to use the Debian/Helix-Gnome combination on computers at an elementary school. Any help on this problem would be very much appreciated!!! p.s. I have also tried installing Helix-Gnome after completing a Potato-only installation. Potato installs fine. But when I begin the Helix-Gnome part, directly from the CD as per Helix-Gnome instructions, the same screen freezing occurs.
Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome
Nobody ever had trouble with conflicting sound support of sawfish and gnome-audio in case one runs xmms? Dietmar
Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:32:50PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: => Hi Glyn, => => I suspect that they just call it woody because it came after the potato => freeze - it doesn't seem to depend on anything in woody. I installed it => on a Potato system with no (significant) problems. You must have two or three packages from woody in onder to be able to install all the gnome-helix packages on the potato. As you don't need these packages (i.e. you have not a palm pilot) you don't need anything from the woody. bye Gianluca -- Home Page Contro i brevetti del sw Boicotta Microsoft www.infinito.it/utenti/chewbe no-patents.prosa.it/ www.boycott-ms.org/ "If we have to file a thousand lawsuits a day, we'll do it. It's less expensive than losing CONTROL of YOUR creative works." ---Jack Valenti, President and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America
Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome
"J. Glyn Hughes" wrote: > New to Debian, I am a happy convert from RH, MDK, SuSE et al. > > Having had quite a scoot around, I am having trouble getting hold of Helix > Gnome for Potato - they only seem to have a binary release for Woody. > > I have seen references by those clearly more talented than I to installing > (perhaps shoe-horning) Helix onto Debian Potato, I know it's possible. > > Quite happy to investigate / play myself, perhaps someone could point me in > the right direction - for what where should I look if I want (the very > wonderful, apparently) Helix Gnome on my Debian 'Potato'. > The only thing I found that required woody was a dependency on libguile6 1:1.3.4-3. Potato provides 1.3.4-2. This was only for the games I think. I upgraded libguile6 to the woody version and all was well. Running nicely on potato. dyer
Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome
Hi Glyn, I suspect that they just call it woody because it came after the potato freeze - it doesn't seem to depend on anything in woody. I installed it on a Potato system with no (significant) problems. cheers, damon Quoth J. Glyn Hughes, > New to Debian, I am a happy convert from RH, MDK, SuSE et al. > > Having had quite a scoot around, I am having trouble getting hold of Helix > Gnome for Potato - they only seem to have a binary release for Woody. > > I have seen references by those clearly more talented than I to installing > (perhaps shoe-horning) Helix onto Debian Potato, I know it's possible. > > Quite happy to investigate / play myself, perhaps someone could point me in > the right direction - for what where should I look if I want (the very > wonderful, apparently) Helix Gnome on my Debian 'Potato'. > > TIA, > > Glyn > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) - pgpqxtIoGj9XY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome
I followed the instructions at for my potato installation and it worked great: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/958714217/ >>> "J. Glyn Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/08/00 10:49AM >>> New to Debian, I am a happy convert from RH, MDK, SuSE et al. Having had quite a scoot around, I am having trouble getting hold of Helix Gnome for Potato - they only seem to have a binary release for Woody. I have seen references by those clearly more talented than I to installing (perhaps shoe-horning) Helix onto Debian Potato, I know it's possible. Quite happy to investigate / play myself, perhaps someone could point me in the right direction - for what where should I look if I want (the very wonderful, apparently) Helix Gnome on my Debian 'Potato'. TIA, Glyn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Debian Potato and Helix Gnome
New to Debian, I am a happy convert from RH, MDK, SuSE et al. Having had quite a scoot around, I am having trouble getting hold of Helix Gnome for Potato - they only seem to have a binary release for Woody. I have seen references by those clearly more talented than I to installing (perhaps shoe-horning) Helix onto Debian Potato, I know it's possible. Quite happy to investigate / play myself, perhaps someone could point me in the right direction - for what where should I look if I want (the very wonderful, apparently) Helix Gnome on my Debian 'Potato'. TIA, Glyn
