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I just installed DebianPPC on my iBook (500MHz). These are some of the problems I'm having:
*No sound
*Video won't use the whole screen, but only the upper left corner.
*CD Eject button won't work, but CD will eject from the command line.
*Sleep won't work when the lid is closed.
I've yet to find a configuration tool for any of this, including XF86 (resolution and color depth are fine, but display placement is whacked). I keep reading about something called "Debconf", but I don't know how to get into it to make adjustments. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
z0mbix
11-04-2002, 04:30 AM
With regards to the sound, have you added yourself to the audio group?
Originally posted by cheeky_zombie
With regards to the sound, have you added yourself to the audio group?
Ok, I'll try that... But I need to be able to get to the admin tools first, which I can't seem to find. I know Libranet had an adminmenu, and my reading is telling me that this Debconf thingy is a collection of scripts (which I haven't figured out what to do with yet).
Can anyone point me in the right direction? :confused:
z0mbix
11-04-2002, 09:39 AM
I believe debconf is in /sbin, but I've never run it directly. There's usually a dpkg command you can run to reconfigure things etc, but I'm afraid I don't know anything about macs or laptops. The normal reconfiguration command is dpkg-reconfigure <packagename>, so I'd try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to try and sort your screen problem out.
Originally posted by cheeky_zombie
I believe debconf is in /sbin, but I've never run it directly. There's usually a dpkg command you can run to reconfigure things etc, but I'm afraid I don't know anything about macs or laptops. The normal reconfiguration command is dpkg-reconfigure <packagename>, so I'd try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to try and sort your screen problem out.
Thanks, I'll try that tonight :) .
Originally posted by cheeky_zombie
I believe debconf is in /sbin, but I've never run it directly. There's usually a dpkg command you can run to reconfigure things etc, but I'm afraid I don't know anything about macs or laptops. The normal reconfiguration command is dpkg-reconfigure <packagename>, so I'd try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to try and sort your screen problem out.
Amazing... I used that exact command to reconfigure Xfree86. The new settings I used were not good; but after I rebooted, it tried to load X a couple of times, and then politely let me know that the settings are bad, and it dropped me back to the console :D .
You could only appreciate this if you've ever made a Linux system unbootable by fooling around with the X settings (having a graphical login, mind you), making the LILO bootloader whack out on ya. This is so cool :) . Now I know to study Apt and dpkg commands to get total control of my system. Debian is more forgiving than I thought ;) .
z0mbix
11-05-2002, 10:09 AM
Originally posted by solo
Amazing... I used that exact command to reconfigure Xfree86. The new settings I used were not good; but after I rebooted, it tried to load X a couple of times, and then politely let me know that the settings are bad, and it dropped me back to the console :D .
You could only appreciate this if you've ever made a Linux system unbootable by fooling around with the X settings (having a graphical login, mind you), making the LILO bootloader whack out on ya. This is so cool :) . Now I know to study Apt and dpkg commands to get total control of my system. Debian is more forgiving than I thought ;) .
lol, let me know how you get on :)
Is there a way to downgrade in Debian? A distribution upgrade I did has broken one of my network drivers; I get this error on boot up:
Can't find PHY...
A Google search only finds some raw source code for some sort of patch, but the network started just fine before all of this, so I figure I've upgraded myself into kind of anomaly. Upgrading separate packages from now on may keep me out of trouble (I hope ;) ).
z0mbix
12-14-2002, 03:24 PM
Do you mean one or several packages or the whole tree i.e. from testing to stable? If you mean the latter, there was an article about downgrading on debianplanet.org here:
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=880
I've never needed to downgrade though so don't really know :(
You could ask on debianhelp.org too :)
Good luck
Thanks... I'll check it out :) .