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  68. >Software With Known Problems</A
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  71. >Some RedHat/PPC packages don't mix well with
  72.     Linux/APUS. Please help me keep this list up to date so people
  73.     don't have to download useless packages.</P
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  79. > The <TT
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  81. >kbd*</TT
  82. > packages messes
  83.         up the keyboard layout. Do not install them. Supposedly
  84.         there are Amiga keyboard patches for the recent kdb
  85.         packages. I have not tried it myself though.  </P
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  89. > <SPAN
  90. CLASS="APPLICATION"
  91. >Emacs-nox</SPAN
  92. > core
  93.         dumps. This is a generic problem. The
  94.         <SPAN
  95. CLASS="APPLICATION"
  96. >emacs</SPAN
  97. > compiled with X libs
  98.         works fine.</P
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  102. > <SPAN
  103. CLASS="APPLICATION"
  104. >Gpm</SPAN
  105. > requires a
  106.         small patch to be working. This is available from <A
  107. HREF="sunsite.html#SD-MISC"
  108. ><I
  109. >the 'misc' directory at SunSITE Denmark</I
  110. ></A
  111. > (provided by Holger Jakob).  The
  112.           patch is not needed for <SPAN
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  114. >Gpm</SPAN
  115. >
  116.           version 1.16 and above. You may also have to add
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  119. >MOUSETYPE='BUSMOUSE'</TT
  120. > to
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  123. >/etc/sysconfig/mouse</TT
  124. >.</P
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  128. > <SPAN
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  130. >X</SPAN
  131. > had a bug
  132.            causing eterm, enlightenment, wmaker, mozilla, etc. to
  133.            crash when run on afb (i.e., no graphics card). This has
  134.            been fixed now. Sven has provided a binary of the X
  135.            server for Debian (may also work for other
  136.            distributions): <A
  137. HREF="http://dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr/~luther/xfree/XF68_FBDev_3.3.4_afb_fix.gz"
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  139. >           http://dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr/~luther/xfree/XF68_FBDev_3.3.4_afb_fix.gz</A
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