disk partition questions

2005-02-12 Thread Michael Thon
Greetings - I would like to install debian testing in my 12" powerbook, configured to dual boot os x and debian and without blowing away my existing os x installation. (yes, I have my files backed up but I'd rather not reinstall everything if possible.) This system appears to have only two partit

Re: disk partition questions

2005-02-12 Thread Michael Thon
Oops, my bad. My disk actually had an Apple_partition_map by my brain registered Apple_bootstrap for some reason. I let the installer use all of my free space and it successfully installed the base system and bootloader. However, during the second stage of the installation, I was asked to se

external monitor on 12" powerbook

2005-06-01 Thread Michael Thon
Hola - Has anyone been successful at getting an external monitor working on a 12 inch aluminum powerbook? This machine has an Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 video and I'm using the nv driver for my xorg.conf. I've tried many xorg configurations and even several different linux distros but still I

Re: external monitor on 12" powerbook

2005-06-02 Thread Michael Thon
On Jun 2, 2005, at 12:55 AM, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: Hello Mike, I had this working once (there was a nice thread about this topic here), but *only* the external screen worked. If that is what you want I could search the xorg.conf... Only the external screen would be fine. I would like to

Re: external monitor on 12" powerbook

2005-06-02 Thread Michael Thon
"Plug in the adapter cable on boot (or when resuming from disk), no need to have the screen connected yet. Later after you attached the external display use: Option "CrtcNumber""0" Option "FlatPanel" "0" in your X configs device section.