Re: [newbie] IBM Thinkpad trackpoint

2001-06-25 Thread Nico Krzebek
Same problem here with my TP570. Since you've already checked the archives, you've read that there's supposed something wrong with with the ps2 patch that Mandrake applied to their 2.4.3 kernel. So the easiest fix would be to use a different kernel (you currently find 2.4.5 on Mandrake cooker

Re: [newbie] Doom

2001-06-20 Thread Nico Krzebek
To obtain a list of all files belonging to an installed RPM, type rpm -ql package (without .rpm ending) For further options man rpm Nico On Monday 18 June 2001 18:15, you wrote: Hello I installed doom from an RPM that I downloaded from www.rpmfind.net but I don't know

Re: [newbie] RAM full

2001-06-13 Thread Nico Krzebek
but you DO have some swap space allocated on your hard disk, haven't you? On Tuesday 12 June 2001 23:23, you wrote: I'm using a Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium 3 with 128MB RAM, on a newly installed system. I found it a bit slow and quite a bit of the programs - like KDE mediaplayer - won´t start

[newbie] X 4.x freezes on Neomagic

2001-06-13 Thread Nico Krzebek
Has anyone else experienced spontanteous freezes under XFree86 4.x with an Neomagic chipset? I've tried out almost all 4.x releases. The last one was 4.1.0. At first I thought it was a KDE problem because I'm still able to move the mouse pointer but WindowMaker produced the same result, it

Re: [newbie] How to write a bash login script?

2001-06-08 Thread Nico Krzebek
Lucky you! I didn't get the softmodem on my TP570 (lucent modem) into a working state. Since your script needs to be run just once after system boot, you could for instance append the line /path_to_script/acpsetup to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so it gets automatically executed when your box

Re: [newbie] Divx

2001-06-05 Thread Nico Krzebek
There's also aviplay. It's not as stable as MPlayer but have a look for yourself. You'll find it at http://divx.euro.ru/ Again, you have to compile it yourself. I had some problems using gcc2.96 but it's documented in the FAQ. There are some links to other players on the webpage too.

Re: [newbie] Copy *.* to *.bak -- how?

2001-05-31 Thread Nico Krzebek
Have a look at the man page of mmv (multiple move). Nico On Thursday 31 May 2001 05:36, you wrote: Dear friends: Let's say I have the following files: File1 File2 File3 etc. Now, normally to make a backup copy of each, I would do the following: cp File1 File1.bk cp File2 File2.bk

Re: [newbie] EMACs: How save after editing a text area?

2001-05-29 Thread Nico Krzebek
(X)Emacs is able to read write remote files using FTP transparently. The only difference is how you enter the your file name. To access a file located on another machine (with running FTP server!) /user@host:file eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/index.html You can even use tab