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Sunday, July 6, 2008

Add Circular Scrolling (and more!) to your laptop touchpad

From the Chinese Linux University!

http://www.chineselinuxuniversity.net/articles/13049.shtml

Add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or whatever your xorg.conf is at)

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "3"
EndSection

Be sure to have Synaptics added to the Server Layout

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Dealing with Debian source packages

I found this interesting post, quoting:

apt-get build-dep glibc
apt-get source -b glibc

should work

or, if you already have the build-dependencies and source files
downloaded (.orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, and .dsc):

dpkg-source -x glibc*.dsc
cd glibc-*
make -f debian/rules build

randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/
The dpkg-source utility is found in dpkg-dev package.