Re: Debian on ibook
Jack Malmostoso wrote:
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.
Okay, so that waits for later.... X first. What about the terminal
keyboard mapping (or is that a response to how to make a keyboard map?)
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.
Okay....
(I have to work out how to get files from one machine to the other, this
was by ssh and text copy!)
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea AGP
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 16
Capabilities: <available only to root>
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage
Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255,
IRQ 48
Memory at 94000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
I/O ports at 802400 [size=256]
Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Expansion ROM at 90020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
0000:01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea PCI
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 16
0000:01:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea Mac I/O
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16
Memory at 80000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
0000:01:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 27
Memory at 80081000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
0000:01:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 28
Memory at 80080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
0000:02:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea Internal PCI
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 16
0000:02:0e.0 ffff: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea FireWire (rev ff)
(prog-if ff)
!!! Unknown header type 7f
0000:02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea
GMAC (Sun GEM)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 16, IRQ 41
Memory at f5200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Expansion ROM at f5100000 [disabled] [size=1M]
Now, how do I turn that into something gnome can use?
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.
I'll get into that later. Thanks. I hope I can find and understand the
docs there!
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.
I'll try that later too, thanks.
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