philtro
March 18th, 2009, 03:37 AM
Hello all, I've spent the last few weeks trying to get a friend's powerbook fully functional with linux, replacing the original OS. My search ended recently with jaunty- both KDE 4.2 and Gnome run awesome in jaunty with this laptop, much better than debian, opensuse, yellowdog, and fedora.
There's only a few issues and i've tried everything I could find online to address them without any success:
--I'd like to get the multi tap (two finger right click) and trackpad scrolling functions to work, however nothing I add to xorg.conf seems to have any effect on these behaviors- i'm at a loss what else to try.
--Mouseemu is set for ctrl/right click, but this functionality isn't working either and i'm not sure how to go about fixing it.
--Firefox: sites like youtube say the flash plugin is required, even when gnash or swfdec are installed (about:plugins shows them as well). I haven't had any problems with this until now (getting them to actually playback video has been a different issue). I've been trying them one at a time...
--Some colors on KDE are inverted, primarily plasma items. this guy posted a lovely SCREENSHOT (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67290). Opensuse with KDE 4.1 also did it.
The powerbook is a 15" 1.33, with an extra gig of ram.
thanks in advance for any help!
There's only a few issues and i've tried everything I could find online to address them without any success:
--I'd like to get the multi tap (two finger right click) and trackpad scrolling functions to work, however nothing I add to xorg.conf seems to have any effect on these behaviors- i'm at a loss what else to try.
--Mouseemu is set for ctrl/right click, but this functionality isn't working either and i'm not sure how to go about fixing it.
--Firefox: sites like youtube say the flash plugin is required, even when gnash or swfdec are installed (about:plugins shows them as well). I haven't had any problems with this until now (getting them to actually playback video has been a different issue). I've been trying them one at a time...
--Some colors on KDE are inverted, primarily plasma items. this guy posted a lovely SCREENSHOT (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67290). Opensuse with KDE 4.1 also did it.
The powerbook is a 15" 1.33, with an extra gig of ram.
thanks in advance for any help!