Re: X keymaps

2001-05-20 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Martin wrote: > i have debian up and running on my portege 7020ct but the keymap is really > screwed up... > > ie 'y' and 'z' swapped over, half the symbol keys produce different symbols, > backspace or other funky control characters... Try running xkeycaps - put it in your

Re: New ... please help

2001-05-20 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > > 3. does Debian support USB mouse ... if yes ... how could i > configure it ... ? > I would appreciate any advice I can get > > Don't know about that one... Well, under kernel 2.4.3 my USB joystick works Ok - compile the input core support, hid s

Toshiba Laptop

2001-05-20 Thread Bernd Dittmann
Hi, SuSE's 6.4 is currently (still) running on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 230CX) which is about two and a half years old. But the system is running fine so far. On my new harddisk I would like to run Debian 2.2r2 or its latest release respectively. Do I have to expect any troubles with Debian

Re: Toshiba Laptop

2001-05-20 Thread Dhruva Reddy
Contrary to popular belief, the different distributions of Linux do not vary in hardware support (at least not as far as I've seen). That said, the act of hardware configuration may be different under Debian. Before you switch, you may want to note all of your hardware settings. Then they will b

Re: X keymaps

2001-05-20 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Martin wrote: > i have debian up and running on my portege 7020ct but the keymap is really > screwed up... > > ie 'y' and 'z' swapped over, half the symbol keys produce different symbols, > backspace or other funky control characters... Try running xkeycaps - put it in your

Re: New ... please help

2001-05-20 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > > 3. does Debian support USB mouse ... if yes ... how could i > configure it ... ? > I would appreciate any advice I can get > > Don't know about that one... Well, under kernel 2.4.3 my USB joystick works Ok - compile the input core support, hid

Toshiba Laptop

2001-05-20 Thread Bernd Dittmann
Hi, SuSE's 6.4 is currently (still) running on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 230CX) which is about two and a half years old. But the system is running fine so far. On my new harddisk I would like to run Debian 2.2r2 or its latest release respectively. Do I have to expect any troubles with Debia

Re: Toshiba Laptop

2001-05-20 Thread Dhruva Reddy
Contrary to popular belief, the different distributions of Linux do not vary in hardware support (at least not as far as I've seen). That said, the act of hardware configuration may be different under Debian. Before you switch, you may want to note all of your hardware settings. Then they will