Star Office

So star office 4/5 can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use? well thats very nice of them, but how many people are going to be prepared to wait through a 50Mb download? Has anybody broken it up into 1MB pieces that can be downloaded gradually, or has anybody got it on CD that they can

PNP sound card lack of knowledge (or stupidity g)

i have a pnp SoundBlaster16, which was not in my computer when I installed Debian originally. trying to configure it I have read through the isapnpconfig stuff. What I now know is that to get it to work, I must configure the pnp then load some driver/module. the isapnp stuff seems fairly easy to

PNP sound card lack of knowledge (or stupidity g)

i have a pnp SoundBlaster16, which was not in my computer when I installed Debian originally. trying to configure it I have read through the isapnpconfig stuff. What I now know is that to get it to work, I must configure the pnp then load some driver/module. the isapnp stuff seems fairly easy to

X-Windows Mice

Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a PS/2 mouse? I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. Am I overly stupid? what am I doing wrong? Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Couldn't find Packages.gz

Hallo, I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following error message: Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable... I don't know what's wrong... HELP!!! ;-) I don't use the dselect ftp method, but I do know