anand

I don't see the browser front /back button options inside acme. did i miss something ?

acme would work for that.  I use it on my laptop

 

urpmi acme

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I tried earlier, didn't work for me. I have finished loading 10.1 OE on my laptop, let me try with that.

I tried to setup the 2 extra keys on my thinkpad for going back and forth during browser, and finally gave up :( It didn't work out for me.

Has anyone got proper hibernation working ? If yes a step by step guide would be real nice.

AFAIK, you need to have a dedicated FAT swap partition for hybernating to work, though I never tried this. Have a look at this link http://www.beezmo.com/Linux.htm, and also check tphdisk http://samba.anu.edu.au/junkcode/#tphdisk utility to create the hybernation file

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It says thats for pheonix notebios laptops, whereas mine is a thinkpad r50. Also how will the system recognise the hibernation file ?

Ok this is strange now. I tried to work with Skype and it seemed to work without any problems now. Didn't have to do a thing, hahahaha

Thx, i will work on it rite away. Will post results.

anand, I am trying to get my IWP2200 working, where did you copy the firmware? For som reason the firmware will not load.

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Sorry never saw this message earlier.

Anyways what i got running was from a clean 10.1 CE. It like 10.0 Official recognised the wireless and showed ipw2100 module, however i could never got it running in 10.0. When i got 10.1 CE, a clean install and fiddling around with the wireless (nothing much, just that the wireless won't come up on boot up automatically and stuff) i got it running.

Though i have a very strange problem, when i shutdown the laptop, the wireless is still ON I have to keep the power button pressed in order to shut it down. I can't figure how to shutdown wireless on shutdown.

Any ideas on getting hibernate working on 10.1 CE on Thinkpad R50 ? I tried the above modules also, smapi, thinkpad, nothing works.

Sleep works, however the moon light on the thinkpad is on when the laptop is put in sleep mode, does it still consume too much power ? It doesn't happen under XP (i know i sound stupid comparing with XP)

Mandrake 10.1 CE

Can't get to run skype, says sound problems. Any clues ?

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For extra buttons on laptops, try a little piece of software called Acme. I used it to map all the multimedia keys on my Dell 8600.

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Where do i get it from ? Thx for being a life saver :)

Edit: Ok i found Acme, http://www.devin.com/acme/. however i get an error while compiling

checking for libgnomeui-2.0 libglade-2.0 libwnck-1.0 >= 2.1.5... Package libgnomeui-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgnomeui-2.0.pc'

to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No package 'libgnomeui-2.0' found

configure: error: Library requirements (libgnomeui-2.0 libglade-2.0 libwnck-1.0 >= 2.1.5) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

And i have complete gnome already installed, any clues on what i am missing here ?

i have ibm r50 with intel  wireless 2200 bg

also mdk 10.1

 

do you think that this procedure you are writing about will work for me?

thx

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I have a r50 as well. I did a scratch install on 10.1 CE and the wireless worked out of the box. It used ipw2100 driver though.

ok i installed lineak using urpmi. But when i run klineakconfig and lineakconfig, i got seg faults. :(

I manually ran lineak -l and choose 2-3 types of keyboards, restarted X, still the keys don't work in my browser.

Well its really nice. I was struggling with 10.0 Official on my R50 Thinkpad, then thought about giving 10.1 CE a try and voila! my wireless worked out in single shot. Things are running better.

Infact i am almost on verge to trash the winxp on the other partition and make mandrake 10.1 CE the only os on this laptop

( I still can't get to run the 2 extra keys i have on my laptop to work for back/ front during browsing.)

Overall everything looks cool

Just to add to the post, when i did

cat /dev/input/event2

i did get some junk chars on the screen when i pressed those two keys.

I checked the keycodes by running xev for the 2 extra keys, its 233 and 234.

Now i edited /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/inet, the microsoft keyboard section (yes i changed the keyboard to ms keyboard thinking it will help), defined a newline with reference to the same code in the /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86, restarted X, still nothing :(

If i run khotkeys nothing comes up.

I know i am doing something stupid, but what is it ? And can u please take me step by step on this ?

Thx for the reply. Checking this rite now.

Btw i am using 10.1

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sorry couldn't reply sooner since i was out of town.

Now i tried to change the keyboard layout from KDE Control Center -> Accessibility -> Keyboard Layout. Even after i choose a different layout, where do i define the keycodes in X ?

Sorry if i sound too stupid on this, but i am certainly not able to find my way on this one. All i want is to enable the 2 extra keys i have on my R50 Thinkpad to emulate Alt+Left Arrow and Alt+Right Arrow while using firefox.

I choose to try the second method, running Xmodmap i get the following:

xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)

lock Caps_Lock (0x42)

control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)

mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x9c)

mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)

mod3

mod4 Super_L (0x7f), Hyper_L (0x80)

mod5 Mode_switch (0x5d), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)

What to do now ?

Btw i don't have /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xorg.

Anyone ??

From the KDE control center i can modify existing keys, but how do i add definations for new keys ?

This is 10.1 Community on a IBM Thinkpad R50.

Don't you get a response when you press the key? Do you use KDE? Look in the KDE control center, region and accesibility, keyboardconfiguration.

 

There are many keyboard models mentioned there. Try some of the more likely.

 

Do you get a response? Go to the kde control center, region and accesibility, khotkeys and bind the keys to the action you want to perform.

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I went to KDE control center -> Keyboard Shortcuts, i see the keyboard combinations there, however i can't seem to find a way to define my own methods. Sorry if i sound stupid but been banging my head on this for some time now without any success.

Btw i am using 10.1 Community.

Things have changed in 2 years :)

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Yes sure they have. I tried a lot of things, however nothing seemed to work. Let me try what you recommend and see what happens.

I used the guide at http://mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/print/keys.html to configure the extra keys on my laptop keyboard which are basically for the Browser Back and Front keys. However no matter what i do it doesn't work.

I assigned letter "e" to test it, and it worked, however i tried to assign "Left" or "Right" which are keys for browser left and right, they don't work. I tried to assign "Caps_Lock" ( got furious of it not working so tried other keys as well) and it didn't work.

Can someone please tell me what i am doing wrong and how to go about his ?

I was using Mandrake Offical 10.0 on my Thinkpad R50 (with linuxant wifi setup) until i decided to upgrade it to 10.1 Community.

Now after setting up, i ran urpmi --auto-select and it went for the upgrade. The system updated and came up properly. I was working on bluetooth prior to installing 10.1, so i again started to work with it and discovered problems with the kdebluetooth with the kernel 2.6.3 which was loaded by urpmi. Now the choice came to which kernel to use, and i started to download and install 2.6 series enterprise, 4GB... all of them one by one. It so happened (and i am not sure what caused it) suddenly the laptop started to hang the moment i choose a kernel.

Now the list of problems

1. Now the moment i choose a kernel it hangs, i resorted back to 2.6.3. Can anyone please tell me what went wrong ? Also which kernel do you recommend to use which has the best support for hardware and would be best to run on a IBM thinkpad R50.

2. In trying to fix the above (and jumping on various boats) i started klaptop and activated sleep, suspend and hibernated and tested the hibernate. The system hibernated fine, after trying to restore it, it just keeps on rebooting. Trying to fix this i choose failsafe mode under lilo options to remove the resume option from lilo.conf and atleast boot my laptop back properly. To my bad luck the laptop hangs at the line "Calibrating delay loop...". Now i can't boot to the 2.6.3 kernel because it keeps rebooting, i can't choose failsafe it hangs, i can't choose other kernels i downloaded since all hang the laptop moment they are choose from lilo.

This post is coming from the XP i have on the laptop running dual boot. And as you can see i have gotten myself into too much of a mess. I would really appreciate help to get this fixed up.

have you load up ndiswrapper with modprobe?  it says wlan0 is not there!!!

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Yes i have. After i do the modprobe, and see dmesg, i get the following in it:

ndiswrapper version 0.4 loaded