On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:40:20 +0100, Murk wrote: > 1) Keyboard mapping. I have a UK mac keyboard on the ibook. How would I > select this? (the keyboard doesn't seem to have a tilde character, which > is pretty important!) Is there a relatively easy way to configure my own > mapping?
In X, "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" should do the trick. > 2) Running gnome. I have got close, ish. I have had red crosses on the > screen, some grey boxes with lines on... mostly things that look like TV > test signals. I have had to ssh into the machine to recover things too. No > joy. There were a set of questions about chipsets, bus settings, monitor > refresh rates.... I do not know how to answer these. I would not have > known how to get this info even under OS9. Again, badly configure X server. You should try to understand which hardware lies under the white plastic :) Try with "lspci -v" and if you have no clue on interpreting it post it in the list. > 3) then there are relatively minor issues like the sound, and configuring > power options (e.g. what pushing the power button does, and the throbbing > LED behind the power button. For sound, install alsa-related packages and then issue "alsaconf". Power management is taken care of by pbbuttonsd. > 4) I would like to give specific users (not all users) the ability to > power off without being root. For that you have to install sudo and configure it correctly. Otherwise, create a group called "shutdown" and add to this group the users you want to give shutdown privileges, then chown /sbin/shutdown to root:shutdown. Have fun! -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
