[newbie] Setting Keyboard Auto Repeat Delay
Admiittedly this is trivial wwhen compared to problems some newbies have, but it has me stumped. The tuorepeat of my keyboard appears to be around 0.25 seconds with the repeat rate of about 30/sec or more. I tried setting them as follows: DelayRepeat BIOS1 sec 6 / sec XF86Config 3 sec 10/sec XF86Config-43 sec 10/sec But my keyboard still takes off too fast. Any ideas? I will borrow another brand of keyboard from work tomorrow (Monday) on the off chance that this Dell keyboard has the Auto Repeat function hard coded. Thanks, /Pen ps. The double characters you see in the message occured naturally and were not edited out. As you can see, the problem nipped my a couple of times in this message alone. It's relaly frustrating with passwords!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to Increase Keyboard Auto Repeat Delay
Ok... I'm whupped on this one. I've set my BIOS keyboard autorepeat delay to 3 seconds. I've set my XF86Config and XF86Config-4 Autorepeat option to 3000 10 But still, when I hit a key it starts autorepeating in well under a second. I would have to guess between 250 to 500 milliSeconds. Any thoughts? Have I missed some other config file? I am using a Dell keyboard by the way. Thanks, /Pen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where is Mahjongg score file?
Got it. And in the process discovered what must a be a rule of thumb (of sorts) that goes like this, You will never find what you are looking for in the FAQs, HOWTOs or docsets until *right after* you have sent the e-mail off to the reflector. Thanks,, /Pen On Tuesday 26 March 2002 11:24 pm, Pen Gwynne wrote: Ok, I've downloaded the srouce RPM and searched the files and ended up finding out that the name of the file is mahjongg.easy.scores, but the directory is defined by a bunch of macros that ultimately get exanded. What I haven;t been able to find is the definitions of the macros. An example of which would be RPM_BUILD_ROOT. Anyone know? Thanks, /Pen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where is Mahjongg score file?
Ok, I've downloaded the srouce RPM and searched the files and ended up finding out that the name of the file is mahjongg.easy.scores, but the directory is defined by a bunch of macros that ultimately get exanded. What I haven;t been able to find is the definitions of the macros. An example of which would be RPM_BUILD_ROOT. Anyone know? Thanks, /Pen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Keyboard repeat delay problem
Running ML8.1 and KDE. I can't find where to set the keyboard repeat delay and speed. Right now the delay is way too short. Perhaps this is not a settable function? There is a section in the BIOS, but ML8.1 doesn't seem to honor that setting. Any Suggestions? Thanks, /Pen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another web site crash with konqueror
Worked for me also, again I also have plugins installed and Konqueror brought up the page no problem. Went to Google and did a search on nsplugin. Thought I saw what was the right PRM and clicked on it. Got the dialog asking to Open or Save. That brought up MandrakeUpdate (or something MandrakeUpdate brings up). It needed a couple of other packages so I clicked OK to continue. It asked for the CD1 (of the ML8.1 set). Put that in. Next it gave me a choice to Force or Quit for some modules. Hit Force. Got the Installation succeeded message. Brought up Konquerer and still no complete rendering of the www.pixie.com. Went to Settings/Setup Konquerer and now get the message: /usr/lig/libcm_nsplugin..so: Cannot open object file: No such file or directory So I have to wonder where the install put the files. I went to the Web site under my user account, but it asked for the root passwd to run the install so things should have been cool. I am new to the ways of RPMs so may be doing something dumb. Any correction(s) appreciated. Thanks, /Pen --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another web site crash with konqueror
ML 8.1 (stock) Konquerer 2.2.1 - crashed here yesterday rendered all but the pictures today. Galeon 0.12.1 - displays the page, but without the two images Mozilla 0.9..4 - same as Galeon (makes sense) Netscape - did just fine Windows XP IE6 - did just fine Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MandrakeUpdate - where to get a list or sources
Really dumb question folks. Where can I get a list of ftp/http sites to pass into MandrakeUpdate. I am non-adventurous user in that I am primarily interested only in security updates. I looked on the Mandrake site but didn't find anything obvious. Course if it was obvious then I guess I wouldn't be sending this mail now Prior to Mandrake 8.1 spent a lot of time with Debian - which it were that easy with RPM!! Thanks, /Pen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] c compiler and its problem in 8.0
Eric,
Please do gcc -v or cc -v and tell us what it says. I have the following
4 line program:
int main()
{
printf(Hello World!);
}
It compiles and run properly, even without the normal #include files. I am
using a straight Mandrake 8.1 installation and my version of gcc is 2.96
2731.
Now let me say this. My prompt is the normal, or default
[pen@myhost dir]$
When I run the program what I see is:
Hello World![pen@myhost dir]$
You should also be aware of one more funny thing that Linux does. After
running a.out, the hello world example, As soon as I type something,
anything, then the hello world program output and my prompt line:
Hello World![pen@myhost dir]$
is comes just:
[pen@myhost dir]$
It looks like the program never printed anything at all.
Hope this helps.
/Pen
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Re: [newbie] Major problem
I hope someone might be able to help me. I had a power loss at the house today and after the linux box rebooted it wouldn't boot into KDE.. I may have had a similar problem recently. I was running Mandrake 8.1b3 on this box at the time of a power flicker. About a 1 second loss of power. It would hang during boot. I didn't even make it to a terminal login. I also have Debian installed on it. I booted into Debian and fscked the partition with ML 8.1b3 on it. I was able to reboot into Mandrake. The next day The power flickered again. So I did the same thing. This time it booted into ML 8.1b3; but things just weren't right. My ultimate solution was to finally upgrade to the released version of Mandrake 8.1 **and** buy a UPS (uninterruptable power supply). The Mandrake partition is an ext2 filesystem. The experience had made me want to look into the reiserfs at some point. Or perhaps the ext3 file system. /Pen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Major problem
Civileme, Yep, reiser will help prevent the error. So also will XFS and ext3. . . . It is a good idea to make /home a separate partition... Thanks for the words of advice. I have another partitiona that I can play with and I might just try one of the other file systems. I have always kept /home on a separate disk or (at least) partition. My personal is that the *only* way you can make sure that you have a clean, new install is if you have reformatted the drive! Clean drive == clean install. At least that's true in the MSFT world and I assume it holds here as well. If the partition is not reformatted then you're never sure if there isn't a shard left over from the previous installation that can get picked up by a program and cause some funny things to happen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
