> David Wright :
> To answer the question in the rant, "why the f* does this button
> exist": for the same reason that some people set a touchpad timeout
> each time a key is struck, to prevent the cursor careering around the
> screen when typing, thanks to the ball of the thumb rubbing the to
> Keith Bainbridge :
> Have you considered changing the bios so that the Fn keys need the Fn
> key to alter the screen and touchpad and for that matter sound
> settings etc accidently. It means the Fn keys will also function what
> was considered normally for decades.
Can't say I have... cons
>>>>> Steinar Bang :
> Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad
> stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5.
> At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I
> figured something had
> CToID :
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics#Touchpad_not_recognized_after_shutdown_from_Arch
> Certain touchpads (Elantech in particular) will fail to be
> recognized as a device of any sort after a standard shutdown from
> Arch Linux.
> This seems to fit your problem d
Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad
stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5.
At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I
figured something had gone wrong during the time and a reboot would fix
it.
So in <202
>>>>> Steinar Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Platform: Pentium M (Dell Latitude D600 laptop),
> debian sarge (testing/unstable),
> XFree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4,
> qt 3.3.2-0pre2,
> kde 3.2.2-1,
> fontconfig 2.2.3-1
> Whe
Platform: Intel Pentium M,
debian sarge (testing/unstable),
arpwatch 2.1a11-6.3
After my last "apt-get dist-upgrade", arpwatch has gotten very noisy.
It keeps sending me emails about every matchine it sees on the LAN.
At first it was kind of interesting. Right now, I would rat
Platform: Pentium M (Dell Latitude D600 laptop),
debian sarge (testing/unstable),
XFree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4,
qt 3.3.2-0pre2,
kde 3.2.2-1,
fontconfig 2.2.3-1
When I came back from vacation, I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" which
upgraded a lot of packag
> Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> So, now my preferences look like:
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 99
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 550
Mine look like this. It seems to be working. I've no idea why
(pinning is a mystery to me):
Pack
> Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Does this mean that it actually starts 4 X servers? That doesn't seem
>> to be the case, so I guess the "reserve" keyword makes the difference?
>> What does "reserve" mean in this context? There wasn't anything about
>> it in the comments of the file.
>
> Mauro Darida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Try (look at spacing):
> startx -- :2 vt8
Does the same as the same command without the "vt8", ie. starts an X
display with no WM, three xterms and an xclock.
It doesn't connect to the running DM using XDMCP, to get a login box.
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> Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Rather than use xinit, you might find it easier to just edit
> /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers to start up the second kdm session. I've had
> two login sessions before (don't do it any more), and I believe this
> is how I did it, but I no longer remember for sure.
My
>>>>> Steinar Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Platform: Intel PII 233
[snip!]
> kdm 3.1.3-1
[snip!]
> As far as I can tell from the /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc, the
> /etc/kde2/kdm/kdm-config, the /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess, and the
> /etc/X11/fs/config files, kdm sho
Platform: Intel PII 233
debian sarge (testing/unstable)
xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-12.1
kdm 3.1.3-1
I have an X server using kdm to handle sessions on the Ctrl-Alt-F7
display, and I'm trying to start a second X server also handled by kdm
on the Ctrl-Alt-F8'display, using x
> Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Check the comprehensive install manual at debian.org.
[snip!]
The manual doesn't give an answer to my question.
> No documentation? Nothing printed on the chips on the card, or no
> access to google?
I used the name of the card and google.
But that's
Previously, when I've done potato netinstalls, I've been using the
compact floppy set. This kernel has always autodetected NICs.
Last week I tried using a CD with the 2.4bf netinstall, to install on
an Compaq^H^H^H^H^H^HHP with two builtin Broadcom 5700 NICs, and one
extra e100-based NIC.
The Br
> Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> It's possible to make a kernel image deb on another Woody machine
> and install it on the target Woody machine.
My problem is that I don't have any other woody machines available to
do the build on.
Only sarge testing/unstable machines.
But in any cas
>>>>> Steinar Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Does anyone know of a 2.4.20 kernel packaged for woody?
Here it is:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2003/debian-security-200305/msg00288.html
Thanx to Herbert Xu for pointing me to it! (and of course also for
>>>>> Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:43:58AM +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a 2.4.20 kernel packaged for woody?
> You should be able to install the kernel-source package and compile
> it with the kernel-
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