Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-03 Thread Sergio Paracuellos
El jue, 02-12-2004 a las 23:04 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco escribió: Il giorno mer, 01-12-2004 alle 19:37 +0100, Pablo Gil ha scritto: 2.6.8. I've been told that this a really bad kernel for cd writing as well. Is it true? I tried many times, but I never managed to burn a data cd using 2.6.8,

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
It'd be great if there was an option like notaptypping so that the tapping would disabled while the user is typping keys. that, mouseemu can take care of. (along with middle/right click and mouse wheel emulation). http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/debian/mouseemu/

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-03 Thread Mark Ferry
Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Il giorno mer, 01-12-2004 alle 19:37 +0100, Pablo Gil ha scritto: 2.6.8. I've been told that this a really bad kernel for cd writing as well. Is it true? I tried many times, but I never managed to burn a data cd using 2.6.8, while I made once a audio CD and it worked.

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-03 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Friday 03 December 2004 0338, somebody named Sergio Paracuellos inscribed this message: El jue, 02-12-2004 a las 23:04 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco escribió: Il giorno mer, 01-12-2004 alle 19:37 +0100, Pablo Gil ha scritto: 2.6.8. I've been told that this a really bad kernel for cd writing

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-02 Thread Colin Leroy
On 01 Dec 2004 at 19h12, Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: Hi, Kernel bug, what version does he use? Kernel bug? Don't think so :-) Oh, it was once :) but rather on 2.6.5 or something. The line mixerchannels = volume, speaker in /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf tells pbuttonsd to adjust

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-02 Thread Jesus Climent
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:45:36PM -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:04:58 -0800, Dylan Beaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as for the trackpad try this as root; #trackpad notap I put this in a init.d script that is run at boot time... For those using pbbuttonsd, it

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-02 Thread Colin Leroy
On 02 Dec 2004 at 17h12, Jesus Climent wrote: Hi, It'd be great if there was an option like notaptypping so that the tapping would disabled while the user is typping keys. that, mouseemu can take care of. (along with middle/right click and mouse wheel emulation).

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-02 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: On 02 Dec 2004 at 17h12, Jesus Climent wrote: Hi, It'd be great if there was an option like notaptypping so that the tapping would disabled while the user is typping keys. that, mouseemu can take care of. (along with

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-02 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno mer, 01-12-2004 alle 19:37 +0100, Pablo Gil ha scritto: 2.6.8. I've been told that this a really bad kernel for cd writing as well. Is it true? I tried many times, but I never managed to burn a data cd using 2.6.8, while I made once a audio CD and it worked. Bye, Giuseppe

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-02 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 23:04 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Il giorno mer, 01-12-2004 alle 19:37 +0100, Pablo Gil ha scritto: 2.6.8. I've been told that this a really bad kernel for cd writing as well. Is it true? I tried many times, but I never managed to burn a data cd using 2.6.8, while I

Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Pablo Gil
Hi everyone! My fathers has just moved from MacOS 9 to Debian SID. As a final user he is acostumed to pay attention to the little details. The machine is a pismo G3 powerbook. He finds annoying that the screen lightens down a bit after a minute of non using keyboard or trackpad. When he is

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Pablo Gil
Oooops, I forgot attaching the pbbuttonsd.conf file! -- Pablo Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] # configfile for pbbuttonsd = version 0.5 # for options see man pbbuttonsd.conf #For more security! userallowed = paranoid # [MODULE POWERSAVE] onAC_sleep = no onAC_dim

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Michael Clemens
My trackpad is also too sensitive. A solution for this would be great!

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Colin Leroy
On 01 Dec 2004 at 14h12, Pablo Gil wrote: Hi, The last one is that when he tries to watch a movie with the headphones on and uses the keyboard buttons to change the volume the sound can be heard everywhere, not only through the headphones. I've told him to use the gnome volume control

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Colin Leroy
On 01 Dec 2004 at 14h12, Pablo Gil wrote: Hi, onAC_sleep= no onAC_dim = no onAC_blank= no onBattery_sleep = no onBattery_dim = no onBattery_blank = no This should prevent pbbuttonsd from dimming the screen and putting the laptop to

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 05:28 am, Pablo Gil wrote: Oooops, I forgot attaching the pbbuttonsd.conf file! as for the trackpad try this as root; #trackpad notap I put this in a init.d script that is run at boot time... cheers! -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Science Graduate Group University of

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Pablo Gil
El mié, 01-12-2004 a las 10:04 -0800, Dylan Beaudette escribió: On Wednesday 01 December 2004 05:28 am, Pablo Gil wrote: Oooops, I forgot attaching the pbbuttonsd.conf file! as for the trackpad try this as root; #trackpad notap Mmm. Thanks but that's not what I was looking for. He wants

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Pablo Gil
Ok. I changed some of the values and it finally worked. Thanks!! El mié, 01-12-2004 a las 17:22 +0100, Colin Leroy escribió: On 01 Dec 2004 at 14h12, Pablo Gil wrote: Hi, onAC_sleep = no onAC_dim= no onAC_blank = no onBattery_sleep = no

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Pablo Gil
2.6.8. I've been told that this a really bad kernel for cd writing as well. Is it true? El mié, 01-12-2004 a las 17:19 +0100, Colin Leroy escribió: On 01 Dec 2004 at 14h12, Pablo Gil wrote: Hi, The last one is that when he tries to watch a movie with the headphones on and uses the

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:19:38PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: On 01 Dec 2004 at 14h12, Pablo Gil wrote: Hi, The last one is that when he tries to watch a movie with the headphones on and uses the keyboard buttons to change the volume the sound can be heard everywhere, not only through

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:04:58 -0800, Dylan Beaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as for the trackpad try this as root; #trackpad notap I put this in a init.d script that is run at boot time... For those using pbbuttonsd, it can easily set notap using a line in /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf -- the

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 02:26:34PM +0100, Pablo Gil wrote: [...] Also he finds that the trackpad is too sensible. When he is writing he finds himself doing it several lines below or above due to that sensibility and has difficulties to navigate through menues... I don't [...] I use xset with