On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 14:34, Shuanghe <tworiversf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, dear all Debian user, > > I have a few questions regarding the Debian Sid installation, missing > xorg.conf and functionality of Compiz. > > 1. I installed a few days ago the Sid (using businesscard iso) in my Dell > Inspiron 9300 laptop. More or less everything seems OK. There're 2 problems > though that I can see immediately after the installation. > > One thing is that my touchpad didn't work 100%. I mean I can move the mouse > point and the horizontal and vertical scroll bar work fine but I CANNOT use > "touch" for click. I had to click the 2 buttons below the touchpad for that. > It's not a big problem but it's annoying. Can anyone helps to solve this > problem?
This should help some: http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad#Debiansqueeze.2Ckernel2.6.32-4andlater.2CXorg7.5 > The other thing is that the installation didn't recognize my Windows OS. > Well, it did says during the installation that there's Windows OS on the > hard drive so I installed grub in MBR but grub didn't pick the windows up > when I rebooted the PC. I had to manually enable it after googling around. > Is this a bug? Anyway, I'm pretty new so I don't know how to report a bug > even if it is. So just a comment here. Grub2 picked my Windows partition when I created it, so yes, that's a regression. Use the "reportbug" command: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > 2. I installed compiz compizconfig-settings-manager > compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-gnome compiz-gtk and some extra fusion > packages (and of course, the Nvidia drive). However when I open CCSM and > enabled some nice shiny animates it didn't work at all. there's compiz wiki > http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz saying you have to edit xorg.conf manually. > Until then I found out that I don't even have this file. Should I manually > write one? but how? You generally don't need one anymore, but sometimes you need a partial one to get certain things working. I don't have time ATM to go into it. >I tried to create a xorg.conf in /etc/X11 and copy+paste > the paragraph from that wiki, and then "compiz --replace " with and without > sudo, no luck. after rebooting, ooops, no gnome desktop anymore. after > deleting the file everything went back as before. But I really like some of > the compiz functions such as scale addons and Expo for quick picking up the > windows. Any help here please? I don't know much about Compiz, and I don't touch binary drivers (actually, the Nouveau Open Source drivers might work for you, depends on your card), so maybe someone else can help. > by the way, I installed nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-486, there's another with > name nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686. No idea what's the difference. *-486 means it was compiled to work even on a 486 (do any of the cards supported by that driver even work in a 486?), *-686 means the compile included additional optimizations for the 686 (MMX, SSE, etc). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti==nsq4ugwc3i=wk6eymv=ehg9hab05ue0eg...@mail.gmail.com
