disabling trackpad

2002-12-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. how do I disable the trackpad? Any way of setting it so that it will only be disabled if a mouse is connected/detected?? Thanks, nirmal

clue on sparky

2002-12-21 Thread Jack Howarth
I believe I may have a clue as to why sparky is segfaulting in when run as a python extension. The upstream maintainer is using python 2.1.1 and tcl 8.3.4 so I built against our python 2.1.3 and tck 8.3.3. However I just noticed that sid's python2.1 is in fact built against tcl-8.4 now. Could t

sorry about the duplicate

2002-12-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Sorry about the duplicate message. I get a bounce back from the list server that seemed to indicate the first message was rejected as spam because of the title. So I resent it with a modified title. Jack

please help test sparky

2002-12-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Could someone familar with python give sparky a test on debian i386 sid? On debian ppc sid the program segfaults on loading its python module. The source for the program is available from... http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/sparky/ as sparky-source-3.106.tar.gz. If you untar it in /usr/local/src a

Re: ibook, still questions

2002-12-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du samedi 21 décembre 2002, vers 13:35, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> (I think this leads to a problem with Dual Head then) ? > What do you mean? radeonfb doesn't support dualhead yet. Yes, but XFree86 does. With latest DRI from you, XFree86

Re: Some quetions to XFree86.0.log

2002-12-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2002-12-20 at 20:54, Roland Wegmann wrote: > > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version > mismatch. > [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but version 1.2.1 or > newer is needed. > [dri] Disabling DRI. > > How can I install the right version of radeo

Re: Mysterious drive access and battery life

2002-12-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2002-12-21 at 08:59, Mark Williams wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:04:08 +0100 (CET) > Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Besides the usual suspects like syslog (adding a '-' in front of the > > file name doesn't sync the disk on every write), I did the following: > > > >

Re: ibook, still questions

2002-12-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2002-12-21 at 08:18, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du samedi 21 décembre 2002, vers 01:23, > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > >> Hmm. So video={radeon,ati128fb}, etc isn't needed anymore? Does the > >> kernel auto-detect it? > > > Yes. > > When booting

Problems with X on iBook

2002-12-21 Thread Saïd Ladjal
Hi every body, I have a new iBook 2 eith G3 700MHz CD, 12"1 and a Radeon 7500 graphic card. X windows works very unproperly. I installed a Debian Woody on it. this the output of lspci: 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LW The Display if flickering an

Re: Mysterious drive access and battery life

2002-12-21 Thread Mark Williams
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:04:08 +0100 (CET) Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides the usual suspects like syslog (adding a '-' in front of the > file name doesn't sync the disk on every write), I did the following: > > - tune bdflush: add to /proc/sysctl.conf: > > # Tune bdflush: >

Re: Mysterious drive access and battery life

2002-12-21 Thread Mark Williams
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:04:08 +0100 (CET) Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides the usual suspects like syslog (adding a '-' in front of the > file name doesn't sync the disk on every write), I did the following: > > - tune bdflush: add to /proc/sysctl.conf: > > # Tune bdflush: > v

Re: Some quetions to XFree86.0.log

2002-12-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du vendredi 20 décembre 2002, vers 20:54, "Roland Wegmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. > Entry deleted from font path. > Do I have to install this font manually? Do you care of cyrillic fonts ? >

Re: ibook, still questions

2002-12-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du samedi 21 décembre 2002, vers 01:23, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> Hmm. So video={radeon,ati128fb}, etc isn't needed anymore? Does the >> kernel auto-detect it? > Yes. When booting on external screen, it uses 1280x1024. How to specify to always use 1