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 wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 14:34, Shuanghe 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
>
>
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