Wireless with password not working

2007-07-01 Thread Matthias Brennwald
g Debian. However, I can't connect to password-protected networks (I works with Mac OS, though). Debian asks for the password, and then the network connection idles forever. Any ideas or hints? Matthias --- Matthias Brennwald Lägernstrasse 6 CH 8037 Zürich +41 (0)44 364 17 03 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Matthias Brennwald
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:26:02 +0200 (CEST) > "Matthias Brennwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear all >> >> I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition >> with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I mo

Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I mount this partition? I tried the following so far: - sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs - sudo mkdir /mnt/windows - sudo ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o fmask=011

Re: Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 20:43:44 +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During boot I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines that snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any

Re: Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option would be to have both "1440x1024" and "1280x1024" in the modes list What would this look like? Two 'Modes' lines? Or one line with two entries? How are they separated (space, comma, whatever)? and to use Control-Alt-Plus to switch between the modes.

Touchpad speed

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all moving the cursor with the touchpad of my PowerBook G4 is very slow in Debian Etch. I played around with the settings in xorg.conf, and that helped a bit, but it's still rather slow. I mainly played with 'AccelFactor' (I used values 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, and 10) and 'HorizScrollDelta'

Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During boot I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines that snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints or ideas? Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all I've got a laptop (Apple PowerBook G4) that I use both at home and on the road (with Debian Etch installed). At home, the laptop is connected to an external screen, with the laptop closed (so, at home, I don't use the laptops own screen). The two screens have different resolutions (l

Re: .profile, .Xmodmap, xorg.conf have no effect

2007-05-19 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Subject: Re: .profile, .Xmodmap, xorg.conf have no effect From: Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 22:35:42 +0200 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 22:00:32 +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all Af

.profile, .Xmodmap, xorg.conf have no effect

2007-05-18 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all After my success with Debian Etch on a PowerBook-G4 I tried installing Debian on a second PowerBook-G4, which is basically identical to my 'first' machine. However, with the second PowerBook, changes in xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) have no effect (I tried to setup the keyboard --

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-17 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Subject: Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard From: Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:49:26 +0200 To: debian-user To: debian-user ... remove mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L remove mod5 = ISO_Level3_Shift keycode 113 = Alt_L Meta_L keycode 64 = ISO_Level3_Shift add m

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Matthias Brennwald (bwm)
G' key of my keyboard) is not functional. Therefore: is it possible to explicitly tell X11 how to handle the behaviour of a given keystroke that is not otherwise handled by the 'normal' keymap settings? If so, I'd like to make 'Alt-g' to produce an '@' (th

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Matthias Brennwald (bwm)
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Dear all I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best to post my question (I posted this to debian-user and debian-powerpc). I successfully installed Debian 4.0 /

Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-15 Thread Matthias Brennwald (bwm)
iss-German keymap. However, I could not figure out how to produce an '@' symbol... in Mac OS X I press 'Option-g' to type an '@', but that does not work in Linux / Debian. Any hints? Matthias -- Matthias Brennwald Nagra Hardstrasse 73 CH-5430 Wettingen +41 56