Thanks a lot Kelly. just letting you know that now the tapping on touchpad works following the instruction in the link you provided.!!
On 28 September 2010 00:08, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/aanlktinsq4ugwc3iwk6eymvehg9hab05ue0eg...@mail.gmail.com > >
