Linux-Misc Digest #862, Volume #18 Tue, 2 Feb 99 02:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (jedi)
Re: Stepper Motor control ("David A. Frantz")
Re: Card database not found (Jack Timmons)
Zip Disk: Win 95 OK, Linux not happy
[Help] Need to implement SSL (Jay)
Re: Socks compliant? (Glenn Butcher)
Re: NEWBIE: rpm, dialup, apache, X-Windows help! (Collin Park)
Re: 'as' fails with Sig 11 on PS/2 (olivier Dulac)
Re: Zip Disk: Win 95 OK, Linux not happy (Nicholas Guarracino)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: New to Linux (Randal)
Re: ES1688 sound card ("Steve D. Perkins")
ES1688 sound card ("Steve D. Perkins")
Smail for Redhat (Kevin A.)
Canon C5000 driver (Sam Hostetter)
Re: Partition Magic ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Compiling error with Soundblaster AWE32 (MRoman)
Re: Linux/KDE/Netscape PAGING immensly (burk)
Re: Intellipoint Mouse (Richard Steiner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:07:47 -0800
On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:54:56 -0600, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Darin Johnson wrote:
>>
>> "Jeff Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Look at the embedded
>> > market. They pick the OS that best fits their machine.
>>
>> Actually, they don't really. The OS used in an embedded system is not
>> chosen for purely engineering reasons. Other major factors are
>> involved, such as what OS do the engineers currently know, what OS
>> have we used in other products, etc. You even have people trying to
>> push NT in real-time apps, which is so unsuited that the desire for it
>> can only be due to marketting.
>>
>> Basically, as insistant as I am that I use UNIX tools and such, there
>> are others that are just as insistent that they use Windows tools.
>> And there's the infuriating group in the middle who don't care (like
>> my boss who suggested I run NT, and then use a telnet window to UNIX
>> to get my work done like he does). This is independent upon whether
>> it's a real-time system, and embedded system, or whatever.
>>
>> --
>> Darin Johnson
>> Where am I? In the village... What do you want? Information...
>
>Just a comment: Windows telnet is the worst piece of junk that I have
>ever been subjected to use. I even jumped through hoops with different
>settings and could never get vi to work right. To me it looks like it
>is notepad with a tcp/ip connection. Worthless junk.
>Your boss must like self abuse or something. Tell him to get QVT/term.
SecureCRT is also a reasonably decent Windows telnet client.
The BSD thingum that comes with Win8x/NT is just an exercise
in masochism...
--
Herding Humans ~ Herding Cats
Neither will do a thing unless they really want to, or |||
is coerced to the point where it will scratch your eyes out / | \
as soon as your grip slips.
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stepper Motor control
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:42:29 -0500
Michel Catudal wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Ed Nather wrote:
>>
>> Max Wheatley wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Guys
>> >
>> > Seen some stepper motor control stuff under DOS using the parallel
port.
>> > Works fine BUT we want to do it under Linux.
>> >
>> > Now I guess we will not be able to talk to the parallel port directly
>> > under Linux.........
>> >
>> > Anyone got any experience or can point me in the right direction ????
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > --
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> You *can* talk to the parallel port directly under Linux. It's a bit
>> more awkward than in DOS, but possible. The O'Reilly book "Linux Device
>> Drivers" by Alessando Rubini tells you how, in detail.
>>
>> ed
>
>It is not a safe design. It would be less of a problem to use a
microcontroller
>and use the serial line to talk to it. You can make something real cheap
with
>an Atmel or PIC microcontroller. It's more reliable and you don't have to
worry
>about zapping the PC or yourself. A safe control would imply that you
isolate
>your parallel port with optos, it can be a pain and much more expensive
than
>just a small microcontroller. You can get a demo board from Atmel for about
$50
>or build your own for less. Atmel gives the assembler. Microchip got some
nice
>stuff too.
>In a few months I'll have a low cost C Compiler for the Atmel chips.
>I'll eventually have a working version for Linux with remote debugger.
>The OS/2 and winblows version will come this year. Linux, it depends how
long it takes
>IBM to release Visual Age for C++ for Linux. If they don't it's a major
change for
>me to make a version for Linux.
Just to elaborate the suggestion above is sound especially for a
multitasking operateing system like Linux. Consider optical isolation for
the micro serial port also, esp. in an industrial environment. For small
jobs, industrial controllers from any of the many vendors such as
Compumotor, can't be beat.
dave
>
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>Alors essayez donc Linux ou OS/2
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>We have software, food, music, news, search,
>history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 22:15:43 -0500
From: Jack Timmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Card database not found
I'm in luck, I'm running Linux 5.1.
When I run the Xconfigurator I get a large blue dialog box, it says a few
words about the XF86config file,. etc. The version of Xconfigurator is 3.57.
When I select "OK" in the dialog screen it comes back and tells me that:
"Can't read card database. Exiting"
If I try to run Xconfigurator --kickstart it comes back with the same
message.
Thanks for help,
Jack
en Russo wrote:
> Jack Timmons wrote:
>
> > New to Linux. Learning as fast as I can but I need a hand.
> >
> > I'm trying to use Xconfigurator to load Xwindows and I'm getting up to
> > the point where I get a blue empty box on my monitor (not the dreaded
> > Windows variety) with a message below it stating that the cardbase
> > cannot be read? Any thoughts? Thanks.
> >
> > Is there another way to load the card and the Xserver?
> >
> > Sorry if my terminology isn't quite to speed yet, I'm getting there.
>
> You need to be a little more specific.
>
> Which distribution of Linux are you using? (RedHat is my specialty)
> Which X-server are you trying to use? (/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 is
> what I am using)
>
> -Ben.
--
Take care,
Jack
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From: ball@chain ()
Subject: Zip Disk: Win 95 OK, Linux not happy
Date: 2 Feb 1999 04:25:43 GMT
Hi,
I have a zip disk, and it works OK in Windows 95 (though the
mouse gets jumpy during disk access). I combined a kernel
for zip use (copied ppa.h and ppa.c into /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi)
and did "make dep clean bzdisk"
I still can't insmod or do anything in the HOWTO to verify.
I've been over the HOWTO step-by-step. I even reinstalled
Linux from scratch after formatting my drive, and took
a pencil to check off HOWTO steps one by one.
No luck.
Right now, I have a small win95 partition I ONLY use for
zip disk access (and fstab the files over to linux). Has
anyone else had trouble? 2.2.1
Thanks
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From: Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: [Help] Need to implement SSL
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 05:09:56 +0000
All,
I neeed to implement SSL in a server that I have. I wrote the code for
the server and need
to add a Secure Socket Layer to it. I'm looking for a good description
of how the protocol works
and any examples I can get.
Thank you,
--
Jay O'Connor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.roadrunner.com/~joconnor
"God himself plays the bass strings first when He tunes the soul"
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From: Glenn Butcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Socks compliant?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 18:38:19 -0800
Michael Shuldman wrote:
>
> Steve Terrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is a Linux program like windows sockscap or
> > Hummingbird that will make any winsock program socks 4 and 5 compliant
> > for use with a socks proxy?
>
> The socksify program that comes with Dante (http://www.inet.no/dante)
> is supposed to do that. Support for "socksify" on linux was added
> in last version.
2.0.36? or 2.2.0?
Glenn Butcher
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin Park)
Subject: Re: NEWBIE: rpm, dialup, apache, X-Windows help!
Date: 2 Feb 1999 04:19:46 GMT
Hi,
I'll take a 10-minute crack at your questions and then I'd better get back
to work.
John Robson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: changed stuff and often found myself asking : "Now what?" I have
I know the feeling. You are not alone!
: Red Hat 5.2. Can people help me or point me to the right direction on the
: following :
: 1) rpm package: I installed the Corel Wordperfect 8 rpm from the bonus CD.
: It ran ok. Now what? Where is Wordperfect? And how do I start it? The
It's in a directory /opt/something/bin/xwp I think.
Here is how to find it easily (maybe not so quick though)
At the shell prompt, type
find /opt -name xwp -print
That should print out something like
/opt/something/maybe.something.else/bin/xwp
I don't have my linux laptop with me (leave it at home usually) but
if memory serves it's something like this.
: rpm didn't tell me in what directory it was installed. I think the
: program is called xwp. Do I have to go into X Windows?
Yes, you do.
: Same problem with other rpm packages. Where the heck were they installed and
: how to start them!
There is an option for rpm - one of the query options, something like
rpm -q -l PackageName
which will tell you all the files in the installed package "PackageName".
At the shell prompt, try
man rpm
for details. If you're like me, you'll have to read the rpm man page
many times over, because of the various purposes that you'll use 'rpm'
for (install, check, list installed, list not-yet-installed, uninstall,
upgrade, etc etc etc).
: 2) ppp set up and dialup: I'm sure this question has been asked a
: thousand times before by newbies, and I'm still puzzled and frustrated at not
: finding good AND consistent information on how to connect to my ISP. So,
: I have a 33.6 USR modem, an ISP running freebsd with apache. I tried to
: set up my ppp connection through Red Hat's Linuxconf tool. No luck. Can
: somebody give me a good lowdown and step-by-step information, faq on how to
: proceed and troubleshoot.
I didn't use Linuxconf -- I just use 'dip'. I believe there is a sample
script in the dip manpage. The dip package should be on your RH installation
media. I had to rebuild it from source because I wanted the secure-ID stuff
enabled, but if you have simple password authentication, "dip" ought to
work out-of-the-box. Basically you give "dip" a script that contains
phone# and all that stuff. Once a connection is established, it kicks
off pppd and you're on-line. Don't forget to do a "dip -k" when you're
done to hang up the phone. I think you have to be root to run "dip"
(it's in /usr/sbin/dip I think).
There are fancier ways of getting pppd going, but since I want to be
in control of when the computer dials out, I use the manual way. I also
have separate scripts for dialing in to my ISP (private use) and the
office system (work/biz use).
: 3) My own directories: I would like to create my own directory, say
: '/john/bin/scripts', and I want to include this directory in my path, so that
: I can execute my shell scripts from anywhere. How do I do it?
1. become root (You're not USUALLY root, are you?)
2. at shell prompt, type
mkdir -p /john/bin/scripts
chmod 777 /john/bin/scripts
(you might want to make the permissions a bit tighter on the directory,
or maybe make it belong to you -- say
man 1 chown
man 1 chmod
to get more details on these)
3. become your normal non-root self, cd to your home directory (just type
'cd' at the shell prompt), and then edit your .bash_profile , adding the
following at the end:
if echo :${PATH}: | grep :/john/bin/scripts/*: > /dev/null; then
: /john/bin/scripts already in path
else
PATH=$PATH:/john/bin/scripts
fi;
oops, 10 minutes up. hope the above was helpful.
cheers
collin <----- the above is not a statement of my employer, just
my own personal opinions.
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From: olivier Dulac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: 'as' fails with Sig 11 on PS/2
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:52:38 +0100
Just my "2 cents" (hey... Euro too have cents ;) :
There is a Siq11 FAQ, dedicated to that special signal, more often due to
hardware errors.. it gives a lot of possible explanations, and may be a
great help ? You can find it usefull, i guess... (search it in GNU/linux
distributions, or gcc distributions)
"Hope this helps..."
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From: Nicholas Guarracino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip Disk: Win 95 OK, Linux not happy
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:55:35 -0500
If you want to use ppa as a module, when you compile your kernel, you must
choose ppa as a module during make config. After you compile the
actual kernel, you have to make the modules separately by typing make modules.
Then you must install the modules by typing make modules_install. Have a look
under /lib/modules/2.2.1/scsi and there should be a file called ppa.o which is
the module you can load. Also make sure you've enabled module support in your
kernel as well.
Hope that helps.
>Hi,
> I
have a zip disk, and it works OK in Windows 95 (though the
>mouse gets jumpy
during disk access). I combined a kernel
>for zip use (copied ppa.h and ppa.c
into /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi)
>and did "make dep clean bzdisk"
>
> I
still can't insmod or do anything in the HOWTO to verify.
>I've been over the
HOWTO step-by-step. I even reinstalled
>Linux from scratch after formatting my
drive, and took
>a pencil to check off HOWTO steps one by one.
>
> No luck.
>
> Right now, I have a small win95 partition I ONLY use for
>zip disk access (and fstab the files over to linux). Has
>anyone else had trouble? 2.2.1
>
>Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 01:40:20 GMT
"Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hrmm.... I thought being an English (read UK) citizen she would have to been English
>no matter where she came from. (And
>wouldn't that make her something other than the English Queen?) (Heheh... a few play
>on words here...)
Hey, that's "the Queen of Australia" for you,mate ;-)
Bernie
--
============================================================================
"It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy...
...let's go exploring"
Calvin's final words, on December 31st, 1995
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From: Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to Linux
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:33:58 -0800
Question -
>>(Note windows can't see the linux partions without special
software).<<
What special software is that?
Randy
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ES1688 sound card
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 05:45:24 +0000
OH MY GOD!!!! Was that it all this time?!?
Thanks!
Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Try typing (as root) "sndconfig" at the command line. I think you'll
> be pleasantly suprised.
>
> Steve D. Perkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : It seems that there is only one thing left keeping my Linux system
> : from being "complete" and allowing me to just get rid of my Windows
> : partition. That is the fact that after years of Linux use, I am still
> : without sound. I've been a little too lazy to fool with it in the past
> : (and it wasn't really that high of a priority)... but I've finally
> : decided to knock it out.
>
> : I was wondering if anyone else out there has an ESS "ES1688" sound
> : card in their system, and what they had to do to make it work. I have
> : just re-installed my Linux box from scratch... with RedHat 5.2. I don't
> : know if RedHat 5.2 already has sound support built into the kernel, or
> : if you have to re-compile it (oh well, I've got to start experimenting
> : with that someday anyway I suppose!). If the sound support is already
> : there, can someone tell me what I need to do to "activate" it? If I do
> : need to re-compile the kernel I don't expect anyone to explain THAT step
> : by step in a newsgroup posting... but can you at least point me in the
> : right direction towards the resources I need to read to learn about it?
>
> : Thanks!
>
> : Steve
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ES1688 sound card
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 04:59:49 +0000
It seems that there is only one thing left keeping my Linux system
from being "complete" and allowing me to just get rid of my Windows
partition. That is the fact that after years of Linux use, I am still
without sound. I've been a little too lazy to fool with it in the past
(and it wasn't really that high of a priority)... but I've finally
decided to knock it out.
I was wondering if anyone else out there has an ESS "ES1688" sound
card in their system, and what they had to do to make it work. I have
just re-installed my Linux box from scratch... with RedHat 5.2. I don't
know if RedHat 5.2 already has sound support built into the kernel, or
if you have to re-compile it (oh well, I've got to start experimenting
with that someday anyway I suppose!). If the sound support is already
there, can someone tell me what I need to do to "activate" it? If I do
need to re-compile the kernel I don't expect anyone to explain THAT step
by step in a newsgroup posting... but can you at least point me in the
right direction towards the resources I need to read to learn about it?
Thanks!
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin A.)
Subject: Smail for Redhat
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 00:52:22 -0500
Anyone have an RPM of smail ?
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From: Sam Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Canon C5000 driver
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 22:13:02 -0500
For all those out there looking for a driver for the Canon Multipass
C5000, here is the response I got from Canon when I asked them:
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Subject: Re:MultiPASS - MULTIPASS C5000
*********** Your inquiry as follows: ***********
I would like to use my MultiPASS C5000 in the Linux operating
environment.
I looked at the User's manual, but it doesn't give any information
regarding the
internal specifications of the device which would be necessary for
writing a dr
iver.
Does Canon have a Linux driver for the C5000? Is there one in the
works? I wo
uld be happy with being able to just print at this point in time. The
other fea
tures aren't used as much.
Any help you can give me on this would be appreciated. I would even go
so far a
s to request internal specifications and pin-outs to try and write my
own driver
if one is not available.
Thank you, Sam Hostetter
*********** CCSI response as follows: ***********
Sam,
Thank you for your inquiry.
There is no support for Linux at this time.
I have no information regarding this OS or driver availability for it.
Best Regards,
Brooks
Canon Computer Systems, Inc.
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I believe if there is enough inquiry into this, we may be able to
convice Canon to develop a driver or at least release enough printer
specification to allow us to write the driver.
If you wish to add your voice, use the following link:
http://www.ccsi.canon.com/techsupport/emailsupport/index.html
Sam Hostetter (Parnasus)
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Magic
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:57:10 -0800
William H. Pridgen wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Aaron wrote:
>>
>> I know that the company says it should work, I'm just wondering if you
>> have run into any problems using Partition Magic 4 to resize (in my
>> case, make bigger) Linux ext2 partitions...
>> --
>> Aaron B. Hockley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Developer of Markup Master for HTML compatibility
>> http://www.netresource.org
>
>I wouldn't trust it. When I tried that, I found that I was no longer
>able to boot Linux.
> [...}
Well, that's not surprising at all.
When you resize a partition most likely you moved the kernel around, too.
I.e, you changed the physical location of the kernel.
Of course you can't boot using the old values, which are hardcoded in LILO,
after that!
Rerun /sbin/lilo (boot from a floppy) to tell LILO about the new location of
the kernel.
Please note, I don't know if there are any other problems with PM, but this
one is not caused by PM and there is about no way for PM to fix it.
jue
--
J�rgen Exner; microsoft.com, UID: jurgenex
Sorry for this anti-spam inconvenience
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From: MRoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Compiling error with Soundblaster AWE32
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 21:23:46 -0600
I'm no guru, but I may be able to help...
when you run 'make menuconfig' for the kernel, the sound section (where
you choose which api/chipsets to support) has a _further_ subsection
called 'additional low level drivers', go in there...
In the additional lowlevel drivers subsection, there's a toggle on whether
or not to install additional lowlevel audio driver support, toggle that to
yes, save your config and recompile.
Hope I helped some.... there maybe additional settings there for your
card, Good Luck!
Devin Baines wrote:
> I'm trying to recompile my kernel to add sound support under RH5.2 for
> my SoundBlaster AWE32 (configured normally).
>
> When I do a make zImage, it stops with the following error:
>
> make[2]; Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/drivers/sound'
> make all_targets
> make[3]; Entering directory '/usr'src/linux-2.0.36/drivers/sound'
> make[3]; *** No rule to make target `lowlevel/lowlevel.o', needed by
> `sound.a'. Stop.
> make[3]; Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/drivers/sound'
> make[2]; *** [first-rule] Error 2
> make[2]; Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/drivers/sound'
> make[1]; *** [sub-dirs] Error 2make[1]; Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/drivers'
> make; *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
> [root@slnt1 linux]#
>
> I had this card running under RH4.2 but cannot figure out what is
> causing this particular stop error.
>
> The IRQ and other settings seem to be correct.
>
> Any thoughts, Linux gurus?
>
> Thanks
>
> Devin
> ---
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> remove nospam to reply
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From: burk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux/KDE/Netscape PAGING immensly
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 22:28:31 -0500
And Netscape seems to leak memory. Usually, in my hands, a long session
with Netscape leads to high % mem used. One other thing ... are you sure
Linux see's all your RAM? With some computers (including the Compaq I
use to IP-Masq), Linux won't recognize all of your RAM without your
help.
-burk
--
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My Linux File Manager Page: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/LinuxFile.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Intellipoint Mouse
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 00:27:54 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
> Has anyone written a utility for making the flywheel on a Microsoft
>Intellipoint mouse work under X-Windows? (KDE under RH 5.2, to be
>precise). I'm not so sure that Microsoft has "gotten around yet" to
>realeasing the documentation and source code needed to easily write a
>driver... so I don't know if anyone's been able to reverse-engineer it
>or not.
This is a possible solution:
http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel
Not having an IntelliMouse, I've not tested it. There's also this page
which might have some helpful information:
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
I'm not a tagline, but I play one on TV...
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