On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:25:56AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Chinook wrote: > >post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?] > ><snip> > > Whoops, spoke too soon. She is missing "hearts" that she plays with her > uum friends*. I thought I found it as part of a package called > "floater," but when I bring it up it only has bridge :-( Anyway, after Linux hearts card game on Google shows two good entries at the top.
One appears to be a project started this year: the other is about 9 years old on freshmeat. Those might be a good start to look at. > I installed it, it did not show up in a menu? I found it with the file > browser and can double click it, but even after a restart it is not in a > menu??? Then there is the question that if it does not include hearts > I'll figure out how to can it (false advertising?). Menu system not infallible: is it under Debian -> apps -> games or entertainment? To remove a package - apt-get remove floater > > Andrew M.A. Cater: I checked the various BOINC and client boards and > there are a lot of participants running the new BOINC on the latest > stable Debian. There does seem to be some classic [EMAIL PROTECTED] people > that are > disgruntled - not something I want to get into :-) > Good - glad you can get it going :) > > > >There are three little items I have not been able to resolve yet though, > >and would appreciate any pointers: > > > >1) When booting up, can the keyboard Num Lock be defaulted to On? I > >keep forgetting to hit the Num Lock key before any digits in passwords > >and it's an unconscious habit to use the number pad rather than the top > >row of the character section of the keyboard. > > Yes there is a BIOS setting and BIOS turns it on, but ??? turns it off > before one gets to the login. /etc/console-tools/config has no effect. > > I did find the mentioned numlockx package and installed it. It's a CLI > tool, so in what script where would I employ it*? > numlockx - works under X windows : if you start it in your X session start up scripts, then you'd have full numlock control if working in X. [Doesn't work for command line in a virtual terminal as far as I can see.] I still think it's probably a BIOS setting overall / a console-tools setting. > *OT Careful what you're thinking - this old man ain't completely brain > dead :-)) and I have searched though obviously not enough :-( > > the file path and line number within the file, I might be able to catch > up with you :-) I found what I thought was the file but could not see > where to edit it. > Start with /boot/grub/menu.lst perhaps? Not sure here. > I tried Gnome screensaver settings - blank screen works of course but > does not reduce power (monitor power green light stays on instead of > flashing yellow). If I set no screensaver then the screen never blanks > - duh :-) > > The settings in /etc/console-tools/config again have no effect. > > I did notice that BIOS has APM enabled (and ACPI seems to be an > extension of such), but in the boot config menu file APM=m (???) and > there is a slew of settings for ACPI. Could this be part of the problem? > modprobe apm ; aptitude install apmd ? [Or similarly for acpi] ?? HTH, > > ><snip> > >Thank you for your patience, > >Lee C > > > > Twice over, > Lee C > > > PS: I also meant to ask if one could switch back and forth between > Gnome and KDE. Rather than ask what the advantages are <b>to me</b>, I > was thinking of seeing for myself what KDE is like :-) > If you have a boot manager (gdm/kdm) running - select under Session All the best, Andy [Someone presumably used to British English, I can't imagine a non-Brit referring to themselves as an old fart :) ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]