On Friday 15 January 2010, Jeff Epler wrote: >The first rule of sending a screenshot is: simply don't. Better >to use lspci > somefile then use network or sneakernet to get it to >where you're doing e-mail.
My local floppy is busted. And I don't know about the one in that machine, never used it. I have more floppy drives, but the Nikon D-100 was handier, sorry. >Second best option is to transcribe it. Only works part time, even I have trouble reading my handwriting after the paper has cooled. :( >If you simply can't get by without an image, remember that you can >*resize* the image (change the number of pixels), which will also reduce >the file size. I'll keep that in mind, thanks. >The card is quite old (90s) so if it doesn't work I don't see much >reason to imagine it'd work on a newer system. Hopefully not too much bitrot. >The internet implies that the driver is in xserver-xorg-driver-glint but >on my (non-emc) 6.06 system without any such card that package >installed. I'll see if I can get a net connection to it and try that, thanks. ATM that runs to the shop, thru a hub, and back across the snow to a cracked window in the garage. I simply must get a better path, but that will only be through the attic I fear. And that's at least 30 feet of crawling over the drywall either way from the pulldown, getting old yellow fiberglass in every pore. Not my fav chore. >The incantation to reconfigure the X server is > dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg >if you want to spend additional time answering confusing questions, > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > >Jeff Thanks Jeff. Printed for sneakernet. ;-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Double your disk space - delete Windows! -- Albert Dorofeev ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
