Bug#700946: nouveau module blacklisting bites when upgrading from wheezy to jessie

2016-01-02 Thread Ray Dillinger
I had the proprietary nvidia drivers installed in my Jessie machine when I decided to move to Stretch. During the upgrade process, there was a message that the open-source driver was compatible with my hardware now, and did I want to switch to the nouveau system. I always prefer open-source when

Bug#461489: A clarification; X settings for numlock-on not useful on keyboards that lack a numlock key.

2008-04-09 Thread Ray Dillinger
A clarification: This laptop has no numlock key as such - not even in its overlay keyset. The only way to toggle the numlock is to plug in an external (USB) keyboard and press the key on that - or to have the numlock setting inherited from my standard X settings, which is what was happening h

Bug#461489: Wow, that's embarassing...

2008-04-06 Thread Ray Dillinger
Yes, in fact it turns out to be that simple. X regards the num-lock behavior as implying the 'function key' behavior, even for keys that don't have anything to do with the numeric keypad overlay. So the workaround is, turn the numlock off. And the 'fix' that demotes this from regular to nea

Bug#461489: Documentation is nearly useless here

2008-03-03 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 03:23 +0100, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > You're contributing to a solution. I just did not have the time to check > the issue. If you want, you can report the bug directly to upstream > (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ - xkeyboard-config component). That is indeed a good

Bug#461489: Documentation is nearly useless here

2008-02-27 Thread Ray Dillinger
I've spent several days reading man pages, configuration directory README's, configuration files, ISO standards to figure out what the README's were saying, etc And aside from there being no useful mention whatsoever of laptop function keys, as far as I can tell keyboard configuration has b

Bug#461489: sense of laptop 'fn' key reversed on gateway MX6453

2008-01-19 Thread Ray Dillinger
please let me know how. If anyone knows what file to twiddle and how, I'll have a go at seeing if the solution works. Ray Dillinger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]