Re: Medion MD 95400 and Debian GNU/Linux

[Steffen Schuler <schuler.steffen@gmx.de>]

84hirsch@gmx.de wrote:

> Hi Steffen,
>
> I have installed debian on the same way like you. My first action was to use 
> qtparted to shrink the windows XP partitions. Then I have installed debian 
> and updated to the experimental version of debian and the 2.6.10 kernel. I 
> have no great problems upto now. What type are your problems concerning the 
> keyboard?
>
> I have running the 
> - power managment (more than four hours active time) with powernowd
> - wlan is working correctly with speedstep-centrino and wpa_supplicant
> - touchpad with synaptics 
>
> The main problem I have is the support of the audio and special buttons for 
> starting/stopping the wland, bluetoothd, audio ...
>
> Jan
>
>
>  
Hi Jan,

thanks for your email.
Audio was functioning automatically in Sid. I had to install the alsa 
drivers.
For the wlan and other keys look at:

http://www.hollstegge.de/md42200/md42200.pl?Debian/WLAN

He starts and stops wlan via a script.
To use normal buttons for executing commands look at

xbindkeys(1)

You see that the keypad is overlayed over the normal keys. Before I 
corrected it, I got
randomly one time the keypad symbol another time the underlying standard 
key symbol
when I pressed the overlayed keys. I corrected that by mapping the 
keypad keys to the
normal symbols in

/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/{pc,de}

Are you able to press correctly these keys without modification? 
Does Num_Lock function correctly for you?
I don't understand the cause of these errors in Xfree86 4.3.0 (in Sid).

Have a lot of fun with Debian GNU/Linux on your Medion.

Cheers,

Steffen