On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:36:10 -0800 (PST), tarvid wrote: > > On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:43 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > tarvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > caps lock state on keyboard gets mucked up > > > > having kernel problems? tried acpi=off noacpi? > > this is a coppermine machine with a two year old via chipset, if ACPI doesn't > work on this box, what box will it work on. >
Lots of machines have really bad acpi setups. acpi also interacts with some drivers like Nvidia in a bad way, sending the system into slow motion on my computer. > it is scsi but that seems to work great. > > Caps lock issues are a minor irritation easily circumvented. > > What I am after are fixes for basics such as > > konq - button text invisible - I've done some awkward things guessing when > there are two or more boxes Pick a different theme. This is a problem in the galaxy theme at the current time. > > cups - installing only the printers I want > Snip > my guess is there are workarounds but the noise on the cooker list makes them > hard to find. i was hoping for a short list of basic fixes and go after the > big issues that might really hurt > > jim tarvid
