On 11 Aug, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Brian Morris wrote:
> I have a g4 powerbook with debian and I can send you the configurations file
> /etc/xorg.conf (tomorrow, when I have the computer) or you can find it
> yourself by searching web.
>
> If you want it.
Yeah, i'd like that.
> What it does is force you to use the button for clicking. However what gave
> me some adjustment challenges: it is also set to vertical scroll with two
> fingers. Ok, nice. 3rd it is set to secondary click - which you Really need
> somehow - by two fingers down and the mouse button click. That is sometimes
> tricky to do without scrolling.
?!? I didn't think trackpads from this era were able to recognize
multiple fingers.
> By the way, for speed, I am using the LXDE desktop environment. There is now
> an lxde cd, as well as a netinstall option for it. much faster and less
> resource consumptive than the other alternatives.
Yeah, i might look into that. Presumably i don't need to install from
scratch, so i'll search for an LXDE package.
> I guess you have got the wifi to work ?
Some years ago i had experimented with Ubuntu on the PowerBook, and i
do remember having to setup the Broadcom gizmo. IIRC the open source version
was only able to access the 802.11B protocol then. Can we use 802.11G now?
> took me a while to realize what they meant by the firmware packages, just
> dumb I guess, but then I also found there the firmware downloader for video
> acceleration which helps...
Are you using the driver from nVidia? Now that you mention it, there
is some annoyance in that the screen is only using 8-bit color. I wasn't going
to bring up the issue until i dealt with the trackpad thing, but the default
Debian wallpaper looks really ugly when posterized down to a few colors.
Sent from my MacBookPro
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