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for the battery meter what application is showing it? and are you using apm or acpi? you might try upgrading to the latest release of gkrellm and using acpi if you arent
try adding this to lilo for the mouse
append="psmouse_noext=1"
this seems common to me in both windows and linux. the not-charged icon never seems to be showing, but if you hover over it, the tool tip does say for me "Plugged in - Fully charged" even though the icon is showing the charged icon. not a problem for me since this behavior is in both linux and windows. using apm over here.
Thanks for the tips. I'm very new to linux (installed it 2 days ago) and i don't know a lot of this stuff. i have no idea what you mean by apm acpi. i do know i'm using GRUB though. thanks.
Thanks for the info. the touchpad only kind of works. it will move the cursor around, but everytime everytime i touch it it's like i've right clicked. and it also moves way too fast for me to really control.
not sure about the sensitivity, but in your XF86Config-4 file, you can go to the input device section of synaptics and play around with changing the min speed and max speed.
Thanks for the help. i'm really bad at this and i have no idea what to do to edit these files. i probably did something wrong installing the touchpad driver.
the file you'll need to edit is in /etc/X11/ (full path is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ).
here's my XF86Config-4 file. i'll highlet the parts that are important that you need to add/modify. nothing is changed from what was posted in the link i posted earlier.
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
#Option "XkbVariant" ""
#Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection
now remember in my file, the server layout and in the device input sections, mouse0 is the usb mouse and mouse[1] is the touchpad. your usb mouse might have a different identifier.
Well, I've tried a few things with that and so far the only change is I managed to load X without any mouse (X is annoying to use without one by the way). It's a good thing I know some of the commands or I would've been screwed. I haven't tried just copying the whole thing yet. I'm assuming that won't work since I have a different system than you. Here's my file.
Quote:
# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86
Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
it will work. X is X. in your server layout, change the option of your usb mouse identifier to "SendCoreEvents" and the option of your touchpad to "CorePointer"
my usb mouse - > InputDevice "Mouse0" "SendCoreEvents"
touchpad entry - > InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
those are the instructions straight from the developer of the synaptics touchpad utility.
follow the instructions on the link i posted earlier in this thread.
and why do you have 2 mouse devices listed? if you're only using the usb mouse, i'd dump the mouse0 input device section. it makes no sense to me at all.
Success!! That worked, thanks a lot. I had 3 mice for some reason and then since I had a mouse0 I assumed the same as yours, but it turned out to be absolutely nothing. Sorry to keep buggin you like that though.
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