Troy Rau wrote: > > You'll find it helpful to try to forget what you learned from Windows. > > You should reboot your computer every six months or so, after you've > > powered it down while you clean the dustpuppies out. > > 6 months? Wow!!. Is that not hard on the hardware?
Well, yes, but it's a trade-off. If you let the dustpuppies accumulate they'll block the airflow and cause over-heating. You'll probably have to take it apart to clean out the dust that's most likely to cause problems, so you'll have to power it off for a little while. If you only cycle the power a few times a year you'll probably junk it before the power cycles cause any damage. > I do not have much problem getting to the web page in UNIX, it is just in > trying to download something such as another browser or program for UNIX. > My network: I have 3 PC's running into a Linksys 4 port EtherFast Cable/DSL > router, which is tied into a Toshiba PCX1000 Cable Modem, Linksys 10/100 > Ethernet card. The only PC running UNIX is my EMachine 600 with 256 MB Ram, > 16 MB Voodo3 vid card, CS8621 Soundcard(which I need to find vesa drivers > for). I can browse the web using the kfm browser, but graphics are funky in > that they flash in and out of view, also text box's do the same. If I try > and d/l a .tgz file, it will try for a minute, and then come back and tell > me it cannot open the file. If I go to Windows on the same PC, it d/l fine. OK, good. You have plenty of network bandwidth, and you can still do email while your BSD machine is down. What I'd suggest is that you upgrade to FreeBSD 4.5 and XFree86 4.2.0, both of which were released very recently. Not that there's any problem with FreeBSD 4.2, but since you're just getting started you may as well go with the latest release. The big advantage is from newer packages. The KDE stuff on your 4.2 CDs is 15 months old, and I believe those folks have made some progress in that time. To enable your soundcard you just need to add a line "device pcm" to your kernel configuration file and build a new kernel. But we're straying off the topic of this list. Contact me directly and I'll walk you through the whole deal. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
