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masaclaw
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 Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:52 am Post subject: XF86Config Help for PowerBook G4 800 |
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I'm struggling to get X working properly on my PowerBook G4 800.
Can someone using a similar model machine post their working XF86Config file so I can try it out? Also - how was it created?
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PimpNasty
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| To aide in generating the XF86Config file on PPC, Gerk has written a cool little program. Do an "emerge xeasyconf" as root. Then run "Xeasyconf". |
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rac
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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Emailed.
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masaclaw
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Cheers guys.
I'll have a play round with "Xeasyconf" tonight - and thanks for sending your config file Robert - much appreciated. Can't wait to get it working!! |
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rac
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| masaclaw wrote: | | thanks for sending your config file |
One thing I forgot to mention - as I warned Chickpea earlier, look out for the dvorak keyboard layout unless you have also partaken of that particular flavor of kool-aid.
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masaclaw
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| rac wrote: | | One thing I forgot to mention - as I warned Chickpea earlier, look out for the dvorak keyboard layout unless you have also partaken of that particular flavor of kool-aid. |
Meaning? Sorry, not completely sure what your on about  |
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rac
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| masaclaw wrote: | | Meaning? Sorry, not completely sure what your on about |
If you don't use a dvorak keyboard layout, change the "dvorak" part to whatever layout is appropriate for your keyboard.
I sent an XF86Config to Chickpea once, and made the same warning to her. "Drinking the kool-aid" is a (somewhat gruesome and tasteless, but...) reference to the mass suicides of the People's Temple cult followers of Jim Jones - signifiying (usually tongue-in-cheek, with deliberate exaggeration) that one has adopted a non-mainstream viewpoint with something approaching religious fervor.
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masaclaw
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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Um, OK 
Thanks again. |
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zojas
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I do the dvorak thing too. The best thing about is that it made me learn to touch type. |
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