Hello again, It's been a few days since my original post. I've been digging here and there trying to find information needed to solve my problems and I finally got it! Well, at least most of it. Of course, it wouldn't be possible without the help of the friendly people here... A big "thank you" goes to: Paul A. Bernicchi Lloyd Osten Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster Richard chris I managed to turn my modem speaker off only in console. No luck with kppp, though. I was advised to set my modem speaker loudness to zero, but I don't have any slider that would allow me to adjust the speaker level! Maybe it's the version of kppp I use? Maybe I'm overlooking something? Anyway, I can't find it in kppp 1.3.3 that comes with Mandrake 5.2 Commenting out/deleting the 'Virtual' section in /etc/X11/XF86Config gets rid of the virtual desktop in 800x600 (and up, I believe) but does not work in 640x480! The only way to disable it is to delete everything except 640x480 in supported resolutions. Weird. One last note: I got my DPMS features (Energy Star) working! Now my monitor shuts off after a certain time of inactivity. If anyone is interested in how to get it to work, please let me know and I'll provide a step-by-step setup. Regards, Tomasz P.S. Sorry about the missing topic in my previous message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ At 4/1/99 5:44:00 PM, I wrote: > > >Hello everyone, > > > >I've been using Mandrake 5.2 for 5 days now and had no problems whatsoever. >Configuration went OK and I got most of the things I wanted to work. I still have >a few questions though and I hope someone can help me out: > >1) how to enable DPMS features? I want my monitor to shut off after a specific >time. I put 'OffTime 30' in XF86Config but the DPMS is not enabled. If I do 'xset >+dpms' in X, it works alright but I want to have it set automatically. The manual >for XF86Config says that "power_saver has to be enabled". How? > >2) how to turn off the internal modem speaker (mine is USR Sportster >v.90/INT/D/F/V) so that it's silent when it dials out? Is it posible at all? I >often use my machine at nights and don't want to wake up my wife :-) > >3) how to get rid of the Virtual Desktop feature in KDE? I commented out all the >instances of 'Virtual' in XF86Config which fixed the problem partially. Everything >is OK in 800x600 but in 640x480 my screen behaves as if it were in virtual >800x600. (I have a 14" monitor so I can't use anything higher and sometimes need >640x480) > > > >Thanks very much in advance! > >Tomasz
