Enabling users to run tpb ------------------------- To get information about key presses and status changes of ThinkPad facilities, tpb requires access to the RAM in the real-time clock of the system. The device /dev/nvram provides access to this memory. Because misuse of this device could result in a system damage, only trustworthy people should be able to access the device. Thus the device should be open only to a specific group and all people that should be able to use tpb should be added to this group. By default the tpb package defines a group "nvram" and changes the permissions on /dev/nvram to "0640". The only thing the administrator has to do is to add the trustworthy people to the group "nvram" in /etc/groups. For owners of R series ThinkPads the administrator needs to change the permissions on /dev/nvram to "0660" to enable the usage of the OSS mixer in a different resolution than the default 15 steps. Fonts and locales ----------------- For full unicode, you need a lot of glyphs. Since many old fonts only include glyphs for ASCII or ISO-8859-*, this is a major problem. X11 does therefor use multiple fonts to combine them to a FontSet. Most of the time you needn't have a full set of all unicode glyphs, but only use a small subset. This subset depends on your locale setting, which specified which glyphs must be available for a FontSet to be complete. Therefor you should use wildcards in your font-specification, else X11 might not be able to find all required glyphs and doesn't create a font at all. It's a good idea to install additional fonts with other encodings, for example, the xfonts-{75dpi,100dpi,base}-transcoded are a good idea. If it still doesn't work, try to revert back to an non-UTF8 (LANG=de_DE) encoding or use good old ASCII (LANG=C).