RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Small, Bradley
>You may well have the modem on /dev/ttyS0 = COM1, but you probably also >have your mouse there as well. In that case you are likely to hit >interrupt conflicts, and Linux will only see one of the devices. I don't think so, since my mouse is a "ps/2" mouse rather than a serial mouse. It could poss

Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Small, Bradley
Hi y'all and thanks for all the help so far.. Now I have X windows up and well it is cool so far. Just so everyone knows, when you D/L and install 3.3.3.1 of XFree86 you must also D/L the stuff in their "Servers" directory. Soon as I got the new SVGA server things got much better. Problem #1, I

RE: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread Small, Bradley
if I am not mistaken, (it may be rumors) Hotmail is run on Apache on Linux... but I don't know that for a fact. -Original Message- From: Eugene Sevinian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 3:45 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: linux usage by well known

X windows and ModeLines

1999-04-15 Thread Small, Bradley
Well I finally got X windows to come up. Kind of stark and doesn't do much :) I guess I must install other packages to make it actually interesting.. But I digress. The question is this: after finally getting to run the right server and XF86Setup and xf86config and all that jazz I am le

RE: Emacs on non-X machine

1999-04-14 Thread Small, Bradley
It seems to be running n mine and I don't have X working yet. It is just text mode Emacs, but then again, it isn't much uglier than the graphics mode one I have running on my NT box B -Original Message- From: Navindra Umanee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 2:28

More X windows problems

1999-04-14 Thread Small, Bradley
Ok here goes: After getting logged back into the system, and removing the xdm and xfs from my RC's I now have additional problems. I am using a Microsoft Intellimouse with the wheel thingie. So when run xf86config that is what I chose. Also, I ran gpm-mouse-test and it says that it is on /dev/psa

RE: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1

1999-04-13 Thread Small, Bradley
The way I understand it KDE uses some sort of non-free widget library. That is why they don't come with Debian Distributions. I would assume that CheapBytes includes it because they think it is a good idea. -Original Message- From: Pollywog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 1

Newbie X problem

1999-04-12 Thread Small, Bradley
I just installed the (slink) Debian distribution. It worked ok and seemed to be rather painless. I got lilo working even though I installed to a second disk in my system... So what's my problem? Here goes: I read the readme's and found that for my video card SiS 5597/5598 I would need the 3.3.3.1