iBook internal speakers volume

2003-08-12 Thread Emmanuel Eckard
Greetings ! I have an iBook 900 Mhz on which I have recently installed Debian sid. I have a little trouble with the internal speakers : they do work, but the sound is extremely low. Changing the volume in aumix has no effect. I have read that the speaker volume is mapped to t

Re: iBook internal speakers volume

2003-08-13 Thread Emmanuel Eckard
That worked ! The speakers actually produce a _really_ awfull sound at first, but after you quickly mute/demute the sound from the keyboard key (F3), everything comes back to normal life. Would you mind me including this hint into a future web page I might write about my experience setting up t

Re: swiss german keyboard config needed

2003-08-13 Thread Emmanuel Eckard
Hi ! I'm currently twicking my keyboard mapping file; the computer is an iBook and the layout is Swiss French, so I take it we're quite close to your keyboard. I found my file actually allows me to get the "tilde", the "at", and to change consoles, things that I couldn't do with the regular fi

Re: swiss german keyboard config needed

2003-08-15 Thread Emmanuel Eckard
> > Ah, right. Because Mac OS only uses the Alt key to generate 'odd' > > characters, but we use it for more. It sucks that Apple wired the iBooks > > so that the Alt_R key is a pain to get to. The Enter key on my iBook is > > in a good place (between the spacebar and right alt key)... > > Indeed.

Re: swiss german keyboard config needed (xev results)

2003-08-20 Thread Emmanuel Eckard
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 11:07, David M. Cooke wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:33:17PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 22:22, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > It seems that we need a new key for Multi_key as well. Any ideas? > > > > I proposed earlier what I've been using for

Re: iSight & Airport station.

2003-08-20 Thread Emmanuel Eckard
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 15:15, David Röhr wrote: > Is there a way to get the iSight camera working on Linux? Or maybe > something in the process? > > Is there realy a good reason why I should get a apple Airport station? > There are alot of 802.11d-radio stations that are _alot_ cheaper that >

Re: PBG4 12" Xmodmap doesn't work anymore

2003-08-21 Thread Emmanuel Eckard
In short: What is overriding Xmodmap and how can I still configure my multi and mode switch keys? if you're using KDE on a non-us keyboard, the internationalisation module overwrites the xmodmaps at KDE startup. I have a few modifications myself to my own keyboard, so I have to lamely run a