Re: What is the correct way to overide hal defaults?

2009-06-13 Thread emikaadeo
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:05:14 +0200, Tom Rauchenwald wrote: Micha Feigin writes: I want to change the default settings for my synaptic touchpad in X. I tried changing /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi but it keeps getting written over during upgrades. Is there a

How to make Fn+F3 (suspend) combo work in Debian?

2009-06-10 Thread emikaadeo
Hi all! My laptop is HP Compaq nx7300. I want to make my suspend button (Fn+F3) work in debian. I want to do this through hal by properly editing file /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-hp.fdi and copy it to /etc/hal/fdi/policy. My question is, how to find out what keycode I mu

Re: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-10 Thread emikaadeo
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): >> You need >> >> Option "DontZap" "false" >> >> in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for >> xorg.conf, I'm writing from memory). > > This worked for about a week -- but na

Re: apt pinning and getting linux-image-686 from unstable

2009-06-04 Thread emikaadeo
H.S. wrote: > I suppose you meant 'wrong'. What is the correction? How about the > following? > > ~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 700 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-P

Re: apt pinning and getting linux-image-686 from unstable

2009-06-03 Thread emikaadeo
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Can somebody tell me if the following is possible using apt pinning? I > want to install the newer version of kernel (linux-image-2.6-686, ver > now is, I think, 2.6.29-3) from Untable to my Testing machine. > > I am thinking of using apt pinning. I know that I need to s

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread emikaadeo
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Now, nothing is created automatically. you need to provide a > hook script for this to happen. The user provides such scripts. For > example, to invoke mkinitramfs, I did: > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > cp /usr/share/ker

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread emikaadeo
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29 2009, Antonio Diaz wrote: > >> When I compile the kernel the file "initrd" is not created in spite >> of I'm specifying the "--initrd" option in the command line. Exactly, >> the command that I'm using to compile the kernel is: >> >> "make-kpkg --initrd