X on debian woody imac (newbie)

[circlip]

Hi,

I have just setup Debian Woody on my imac from a 7cd set I bought a while ago.

I had some trouble with XFree86 settings, but finally rectified them through settings I found on the net.

Now, I login and start x typing either "X", or "XFree86". It loads, and I have a black and white screen with an "X" for the mouse cursor. It just keeps displaying that, and doesn't load a window manager or anything, but I think I have already installed a few. Is there something I need to type at the command line to start everything? eg., "XFree86 -windowmanagername"? If so, what should I type to get everything going?

Thanks.

[saikee]

You may have a job on your hand to get all the hardware to work. I still have a Debian Woody in one of my boxes and it has the oldest kernel 2.2.20. It works OK in GUI and so I expect yours too.

In your case I would configure the X Windows again. I could be wrong but I think the script is just
xf86config

To start the GUI in Woody try
gdm

By the way, Welcome to JustLinux

[circlip]

Hi and thanks for the welcome!

XF86config doesn't work with my imac, I had to find a tutorial to help me with the settings. X does boot with the "X" cursor and black and white screen, but it goes no further. I'm not sure if any windowmanagers were installed, but I thought I did install them. I'm actually using the 2.4 kernel.

I have setup Linux on pc's many times, including mini distros, but this is my first real attempt on a macintosh. I have tried Mandrake, and a couple others, but it seems to like debian better, plus this is the furthest I have gotten with any install.

Anything else I can try?

Thanks.

[circlip]

Got it working!!

I reinstalled from the beginning, and setup the video and monitor with the tutorial, and it works!! Only problem I have now, is that my "normal" user hasn't got permissiion to use the sound. (weird.) I'm using KDE, it works under "root" user though, it played some awesome sound in the beginning!

How do I set user permissions and stuff?

(I'm typing this from my macintosh Linux box!!) :)

[saikee]

I normally put my music in a separate partition, mount it and make it owned by the user.

chown -R "username" "/media/my_music/*"not too sure if the -R needed though but Bash should tell you.

The ownership can be changed in root console. To get it in Debian is by
sufollowed by the root passsword.

[je_fro]

you may also want to add yourself to the audio group...
here's the line in my /etc/group file...
audio::18:je_fro