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nucleon · Help & Support (Stable)

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nucleon · Help & Support (Stable)

Hello everyone,

I would like to bind ' two taps' on my touchpad to middle click and 'three taps' on my touchpad to right click. How can I do that? [I looked up at http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad but mine is Elantech and there's nothing as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ on my PC]

And my laptop has an Nvidia gfx card, how to get it working with optimus technology? (So, that CPU switches between on board graphic card and dedicated gfx card according to needs. Something related to bumblebee, I haven't installed the drivers as of now lest I mess something.)

And how can I fix the brightness value to something? As in everytime I start my pc, the brightness is always 100%

Thanks in advance!

nucleon · Help & Support (Stable)

ew wrote:

What you`ve read isn`t true anymore. UEFI uses GPT instead of MS-DOS, and a gpt-disk can have unlimited number of primary partitions. On gpt-disk`s you don`t use extended and logical partitions. Only primary partitions.. Even though you have enabled legacy boot, and are booting in legacy mode, your disk will still be a gpt-disk, and therefore you don`t have the limitations of 4 primary partitions...

I think you are right about UEFI thing. But I think Legacy mode uses MS-DOS as fall back, I don't know about your gpt-disk's theory but it didn't seem to work for me. Once I deleted a primary partition (four -> three), I was able to use other partitions for crunchbang. To be on the un/safe side, I deleted every partition.

EDIT: After I deleted every partition, and installed windows... I installed Crunchbang on a logical partition, this wouldn't have been the case with gpt-disk, according to your description.

ew wrote:

As for the two partitions that are unusable, they probably belong to the Windows-install, and they shouldn`t be usable for Linux.

Not exactly. One of them belonged to Windows -> D Drive (didn't belong to windows-install though, it was just an ntfs formatted drive). But the other one was unallocated before I made a disk out of it by using gparted. And even if they belonged to Windows-install, I shouldn't have got the unusable msg, I think? I should have been able to delete them and make partition out of them but that wasn't the case.

ew wrote:

An empty disk can be converted into (MS-DOS/MBR), and then W7 can be installed in bios-mode, without the EFI and/or MSR partitions. Crunchbang can then be installed as it`s been done for ages, and Crunchbang will detect W7, and you will be able to boot W7 from Grub. If you`re interested in this just let me know. But you will loose everything on your disk.

Though, everything is working alright now (except grub), I would really like to know this method you are talking about. big_smile

kbmonkey wrote:

Wow good job in solving this one nucleon cool I have no experience with UEFI hardware myself so cannot give any tips around installing with it, but it seems you nailed it down.
As for partition size, that should be more than enough. My / is only 10GB and stays at a steady 70% full even with much development stuff installed.

Thanks man. I think I will be able to shrink crunchbang partition using gparted if needed, right? hmm

nucleon · Help & Support (Stable)

As no one seemed to understand what's going on. I decided to backup windows and delete every partition.

Epilogue:

1. Tried to install windows first.
2. Made one partition of 300 gigs and left 600 gigs unallocated.
3. Installed Windows.
4. Booted up with #! usb.
5. Somehow 600gig unallocated space is shown as 600 gig partition in crunchbang installation.
6. Deleted the partition.
7. Made 300 gig partition. Left 300gb unallocated.
8. Automatic usage of partition.
9. Installed crunchbang and grub successfully. And is working on boot.

You would think that went quite good, right?
But well, not exactly. Grub loaded. Tried to select Windows 7.
"The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible."

10. Installed Windows 7 again on the first partition(in which it was installed earlier)
11. Grub went dead.
12. Used EasyBCD.

Finally Working! big_smile

Any tips you would like to give to a new user?

nucleon · Help & Support (Stable)

Yes, my system do have UEFI but I have turned on the legacy mode from BIOS menu (or whatever is its UEFI equivalent.)

I don't have any problem with booting into Crunchbang Installation. All I am having is partition problem, according to what I have read, a hard disk can only have 4 primary partitions. By some kind of fucked up thing on my part, my hdd already have 4 primary partition according to Linux (but not according to windows). So, in Crunchbang installation, 2 partitions seem to be unallocated and unusable (though, I read that Linux can be installed on extended partitions, I don't know how to make one.)

I think I will reinstall windows and delete all the partitions then try again.

EDIT: I am getting the same unusable partition problem in Ubuntu too, that's why I think it's not related to UEFI.

nucleon · Help & Support (Stable)

Hello guys,

I am a refugee from Windows looking into learning and trying out linux for the good of everyone and everything. Though, I don't want to give up windows just yet and want to set them up in perfect harmony i.e dual boot. But unfortunately, I am not able to install crunchbang due to partitioning issue.

I have a 1 TB HDD which I had partitioned during installing windows. My lenovo laptop came with FreeDos and a recovery key partition...So, while I deleted the FreeDos partition (1GB), I left the recovery partition as is. The FreeDos partition, I deleted, gave me 1GB unallocated space which I thought would add with the other 365 GB space (I made a drive out of it afterwards by using windows disc management, see screenshot) which I had left unallocated for linux but somehow, it didn't.

Whenever I try to install crunchbang, it tells me that I have 2x300GB partitions (with free space) which are unusable and 4 other primary partitions (I don't know where they came from).

I downloaded GParted live disk and tried to see what's going on but to no avail.

Here are some screenshots:
GParted: http://i.imgur.com/P3QOZ6q.png
Windows: http://i.imgur.com/VcICVjN.png

If anyone could tell me what's wrong with this thing, I would really appreciate it. smile

EDIT: Both the screenshots were taken at same state. Yet, there's a difference b/w how space is seen by windows and gparted.

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