Re: Disable selecting with trackpad?

2009-06-22 Thread Ross Gohlke
Cama wrote: Matthias Grimm a écrit : Because you wrote that the option changed nothing, I assume you have an USB trackpad. Unfortunately I have no idea how to configure this thing. If it's the case and he uses synaptics, I would advise either : TouchpadOff 2 or TapButton

Re: Disable selecting with trackpad?

2009-06-18 Thread Ross Gohlke
wrote: pbbuttonsd - i just installed it on my ibookG4 and no more a trackpad selection. hth Stephen Sefick On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Ross Gohlke wrote: Greetings, I have a Powerbook 12" 1.5GHZ. I am using XFCE as my window manager. I am running kernel 2.6.26.2 with Debian Squeeze. Is there

Disable selecting with trackpad?

2009-06-17 Thread Ross Gohlke
appletouch under Settings > Mouse > Devices. I turned this "feature" off under Mac OS X. Is there an equivalent (GUI or CLI) under Debian? Thanks, Ross Gohlke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Succes netbooting powerbook6,8

2009-03-23 Thread Ross Gohlke
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Binaries and directions from the link both worked. I am officially running a free, actively developed OS with working X11 on my Apple-abandoned platform. I'm giddy! See below for details, but I have questions: 1) Sound is not working. When launching

Re: help installing on powerbook6,8 w/ dead cd drive

2009-03-22 Thread Ross Gohlke
I think I was looking at outdated documentation. This sounds like it should work, I will let you know. Thanks for the prompt reply. Ross > Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 10:48 -0500, Ross Gohlke a écrit : >> I also looked into netbooting, but documentation is inconsistent and I >>

Re: help installing on powerbook6,8 w/ dead cd drive

2009-03-22 Thread Ross Gohlke
t; well documented on the web. > > On 3/22/09, Ross Gohlke wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I have tried and failed to install Debian on my powerbook. Please review >> my procedure and suggest revisions. >> >> SPECIFICATIONS >> powerbook6,8 - 1.5 GHz Po

help installing on powerbook6,8 w/ dead cd drive

2009-03-22 Thread Ross Gohlke
Greetings, I have tried and failed to install Debian on my powerbook. Please review my procedure and suggest revisions. SPECIFICATIONS powerbook6,8 - 1.5 GHz PowerPC 12" Mac OS 10.4 Dead SuperDrive No USB Boot (Open Firmware doesn't recognize external disks) Internal 150GB drive formatted with Di