On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 00:53, Ken McAllister wrote:
> (1) Floppies
At a guess - perhaps the floppy module was not in the running kernel.
As root, this might have fixed it:
modprobe floppy
> (2) How do I configure Konqeror to display in list form, not icons?
View menu -> View mode -> "Detailed List View"
10 seconds to find - because I don't use konqueror
> (3) I have tried to get sound using the GUI tools without success. What
> command line tools are peoples favourites?
To play all mp3 in a dir randomly...
mpg123 -z *
^C once to skip to next file, ^C^C to stop program.
To say stuff (call from cron)
echo "The time is six P M" | festival -tts
> (4) For historical reasons I have two mice. Linux once did not
> recognise the Microsoft USB three-button mouse, so I bought a serial
> mouse. Why should Linux sometimes upon re-booting recognise both and
> sometimes not? Why should the USB mouse occasionally hang, requiring a
> re-boot? Again, I should be glad to have guidance about which M to RTF.
*shrug* Mandrake uses hardrake (?) or kudzu (?) to do automatic
hardware detection a-la windows. Perhaps thats being too energetic or
something?
