Re: [SLUG] Laptop and lspci results

2005-09-27 Thread James Ballantine
Bill wrote: > Have just tried an MSI M510c notebook with Kanotix (Debian) 2005.03 lite > and viewing the results of lspci determined that Kanotix found all of > the hardware. > > Does this mean that I can expect that everything that was found will > work ? Or does it mean that hardware detection

Re: [SLUG] finding a file

2005-04-14 Thread James Ballantine
Not quite what you wanted, but to get the largest files or directories in the current directory in order, you can use: du -cks * |sort -nr |head -n15 This came from one of the O'Reilly UNIX books if I recall correctly. They suggested you alias it to 'ducks' for ease of typing. /james Ben Donoh

Re: [SLUG] Webcams - which to buy?

2005-01-03 Thread James Ballantine
It's worth noting that support for the Creative Webcam 5 (along with others based on the Philips pwc module) seems to have been dropped from the Linux kernel. see http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ for details. The driver was never completely free - there was a binary module called pwcx required