Screwed Up Display

2004-12-31 Thread Michael Valdes
I upgrade to the latest Sarge build of Debian on my Powerbook G3 Firewire. As it started Xwindows my graphics became screwed up. There's what looks like a barcode in the middle of the screen and the display doesn't really refresh the contents of the desktop. I have to move my cursor over to see wha

Sound on Powerbook G3

2004-12-06 Thread Michael Valdes
Does anyone know how to configure the sound on my Powerbook G3 Firewire? I remember when I used to have Yellow Dog Linux, it configured itself with having dmasound. The sound worked very well with that setting but I don't know where to apply that in Debian linux. I don't think I got the option to

OpenOffice.org

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Valdes
Argh!!! I've been trying to install OpenOffice.org with no success. Let me tell you what I've tried: I've tried to download it from YDL's FTP site but the setup gude doesn't correspond to the contents of what the installer files should have. It's says to compile it from a ./setup shell script but