left handed mouse

2003-06-06 Thread John T. Williams
my father (who I just got to start using linux) asked me how to cause the mouse buttons to be inverted. And I had no idea, I've been searching through X-configuration guides and haven't found anything, does anyone have any ideas? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-n

xmt status = 0x400

2003-06-06 Thread James Miller
I don't know if anyone recalls the troubles I was having getting an Intel clone 82595FX NIC (ISA) working in a Slackish distro, but I made several posts about it. Finally got the NIC to work by using a module from a newer kernel: despite boot-time complaints, it works fine now. Well, now I'm expe

Re: Modem fails to initialize

2003-06-06 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:47 PM 6/6/2003 +0800, S. Barret Dolph wrote: My modem now fails to initialize. It worked fine before but now hangs. The modem is fine as I can use it with my old box. From the KPPP manual it says I may have such problems if mgetty is using the same line. But in the sysguard I don't find su

Modem fails to initialize

2003-06-06 Thread S. Barret Dolph
My modem now fails to initialize. It worked fine before but now hangs. The modem is fine as I can use it with my old box. From the KPPP manual it says I may have such problems if mgetty is using the same line. But in the sysguard I don't find such a process running. I did see mingetty but I don

reading links in proc - permission denied

2003-06-06 Thread linda w.
I'm misunderstanding something about links in proc. I thought 'ps', 'top' et al used /proc to display processes, command lines, etc. Since neither ps nor top are suid root, they are running with my uid permissions. However, if I do "ls -l" on /proc//exe, I get a "ls: cannot read symbolic link /

Re: Slackware 8.1.01 Install????

2003-06-06 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 05 June 2003 15:30, Hal MacArgle wrote: > On 06-04, pa3gcu wrote: > > Something wrong here, my slackware-8.1 cdrom obtained from a mirror site > > of slackware.com so its a slackware disk period. > > > > I booted my machine a 650Mhz PIII machine with slack 8.0 bare.i and > > color.gz di

Re: DSL reality check

2003-06-06 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Everything you describe in your query below should work fine. A couple of > details on that: > > 2. Remember that you will need on the router a modem that works with Linux. > Most cheap modems for PCs are so-called Winmodems and do not work with > Linux.

Re: DSL reality check

2003-06-06 Thread Ray Olszewski
Everything you describe in your query below should work fine. A couple of details on that: 1. DSL works by using line frequencies outside the audible range. Normally, DSL installations involve putting some sort of splitter on the line to separate the voice and DSL frequencies. (Currently, for e

DSL reality check

2003-06-06 Thread James Miller
I suppose this is as much a telecommunications question as it is a Linux question. But there is at least a Linux component to it, so here goes. My dial-up ISP contract expires soon so I'm looking at other ISP options. One thing I'm considering is getting DSL to share with the neighbor downstairs -