problems configuring X on my Dell laptop

Hello, I have recently installed debian (sarge) on a Dell Inspiron 1150 with an XGA 15 inch monitor, and an Intel 852GM/GME/GMV (64MB) video controller. However, I have not been able to configure and successfully start X (version 4.3.0.1). I have very little experience with this, and am not comf

X resolution on Dell Inspiron 1150

Hello, I'm trying to get X to fire up a resolution beyond 640x480, but although I've configured it to use 1024x768 (using dpkg-reconfigure), it doesn't. I've installed 855wrap and have it running before X is started, but it still runs in 640x480 mode. I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 with a 15' monit

no floppy controller found

Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron 1150, with one of these external floppy drives. The floppy drive works fine under windows xp, and I also used it without problems when installing debian the first time. However, debian linux is not recognizing it. "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" yields this in dmesg: ,---

Re: no floppy controller found

user,noauto 0 0 cyp Alexander Toresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cyprian Laskowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a Dell Inspiron 1150, with one of these external floppy drives. >> The floppy drive works fine under windows xp, and I also us

touching touchpad interpreted as ButtonPress

Hello, My Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop running sarge and X is exhibiting strange and often problematic touchpad behaviour: depending on the length of time that I touch the touchpad for, not just MotionNotify events but also ButtonPress and ButtonRelease events are generated! This means that the left

Re: touching touchpad interpreted as ButtonPress

I've got a synaptics touchpad. But it looks like I've got this problem figured out now, and it was actually very simple: just needed to quickly install tpconfig with --tapmode=0! cyp Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What touchpad do you have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT