Re: [newbie] USB Mouse

2001-02-07 Thread Anthony C. Cheng
I would actually like to be able to use both of them like windows would allow me to. On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Matt Schroeder wrote: My BIOS had a setting to shut off the ps2 mouse port. After I did that I stopped getting an error when the mouse wasn't in the ps2 port since I was using my MS

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready

2001-02-06 Thread Anthony C. Cheng
What if more memory is added? How would one increase the swap partition? On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Todd Flinders wrote: I had always heard in the old days to have /var on its own partition as a security feature. It prevents a hacker from getting a log to flood the / partition. That may be

[newbie] two sound cards

2001-02-06 Thread Anthony C. Cheng
I have two sound cards installed, one pci and one on the motherboard. I'd like to use the pci sound card. Most of the programs, however, are using the one built on the motherboard. How do I set the pci card to be the default sound device? Also, what is the difference between /dev/audio and