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
