Debian on ibook
I have a four(ish) year old ibook sitting on my desk. It was doing
nothing so I though 'let's give debian a whirl'.
I have it to a terminal prompt, can ssh out and things such as that, but
I am having a few difficulties, which I would appreciate some help with:
Am a linux/debian newbug, so please don't assume anything!
Order of criticality: 2, 1, 4, 3.
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?
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.
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.
4) I would like to give specific users (not all users) the ability to
power off without being root.
My backup plan is to move to OSX, I was on OS9, but I'd really like to
get debian going as a learning tool.
Help gratefully received.
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