[SLUG] ask help(how do I read *.info under emacs or xemacs)

Dear List: I am a newbie of emacs . How do I read *.info under emacs or xemacs ? Thanks in advance! Henry

Re: [SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Michael Still wrote: How reliable is ext3 these days? No corrupts data bugs seen on the kernel list for some time. Am I being very brave if I upgrade my laptop hard disc? Not at all. There will be a performance hit, but on a laptop side-stepping the need to do a fsck

[SLUG] tulip driver RedHat 7.3

Hi all, Anyone out there using the tulip.o module with a DEC-21143 (CNET 100/10) NIC ? I found back when I upgraded to RH7.2 that their tulip.o driver was broken. Further investigation pointed me to Donald Becker's driver on www.scyld.com, which I was able to compile and worked OK on kernel

Re: [SLUG] ask help(how do I read *.info under emacs or xemacs)

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:16, henry wrote: Dear List: I am a newbie of emacs . How do I read *.info under emacs or xemacs ? C-h i will give you the main info menu, C-u h i will prompt you for a specific file. Brad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla mail IMAP

Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2 http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/ Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 and imap works fine. What imap server are you using? I'm using courier-imap. (imap-2001a-10) I tried Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 3

[SLUG] Re: ask help(how do I read *.info under emacs or xemacs)

At 28 May 2002 17:24:58 +1000, Brad Thomson wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:16, henry wrote: How do I read *.info under emacs or xemacs ? C-h i will give you the main info menu, C-u h i will prompt you for a specific file. and then: space for page down / next page n for next, p for

Re: [SLUG] sound not working

At 2:44 pm, Saturday, May 25 2002, Ken Foskey mumbled: I dont really want to muddy my system with an alien rpm package does anyone have any suggestions. if you really want to use ALSA, you need to install the modules for your kernel. apt-get install alsa-modules-$(uname -r) --

Re: [SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

On Tue, 28 May 2002 18:58:01 +1000 Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only trouble is that ext3 regularly syncs with the disk, so whilst it provides some peace of mind, it sucks battery life. I'm running Ext3 on my laptop and yes, Ext3 really DOES suck battery life. Has anybody experimented

[SLUG] ask emacs(how to open *.info)

Dear Lists : I did (as follows) to open a specific *.infoemacsenter- "Lisp-interactively" appeared in mini_bufferCtrl-uenter - "C-u" appeared in mini_bufferhenter - "" appeared in main-textienter - "i" appeared in main-text,just followed "" Could you tell me what mistake I did

Re: [SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

Michael Still wrote: How reliable is ext3 these days? Am I being very brave if I upgrade my laptop hard disc? Nah, not brave at all. Redhat ship with it now and I'm sure they've done their testing. I've been using it for a while now, no probs. I've only done it from a fresh install, no

Re: [SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

quote who=Erik de Castro Lopo I'm running Ext3 on my laptop and yes, Ext3 really DOES suck battery life. Has anybody experimented with reducing the sync rate? Funnily enough, Daniel Phillips has. He experiments with everything. :-) He did mention that the hack was horrid though. Whatever

Re: [SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

quote who=Glen Turner Not at all. There will be a performance hit, but on a laptop side-stepping the need to do a fsck on a unclean shutdown is worth it. Only trouble is that ext3 regularly syncs with the disk, so whilst it provides some peace of mind, it sucks battery life. ext3 is a nice

Re: [SLUG] sound not working

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 18:57, Steve Kowalik wrote: At 2:44 pm, Saturday, May 25 2002, Ken Foskey mumbled: I dont really want to muddy my system with an alien rpm package does anyone have any suggestions. if you really want to use ALSA, you need to install the modules for your kernel.

Re: [SLUG] tulip driver RedHat 7.3

Andy Eager [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Anyone out there using the tulip.o module with a DEC-21143 (CNET 100/10) NIC ? Have you tried de4x5.o module? It is an alternative driver for DEC-21x4x and works perfectly with my SMC DEC-21041. Cheers, TL -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

[SLUG] Re: ask emacs(how to open *.info)

At Tue, 28 May 2002 17:05:53 +0800, henry wrote: I did (as follows) to open a specific *.info emacs enter - Lisp-interactively appeared in mini_buffer Ctrl-uenter - C-u appeared in mini_buffer h enter - appeared in main-text i

[SLUG] Re: sound not working

At 28 May 2002 21:51:30 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: I dont want to use alsa, I just want sound to work. How do you reliably configure a sound card in Debian? there's the redhat sndconfig tool available (once you install it) if you want. i've never used it, so i don't know what its like. if

Re: [SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Zhasper wrote: Quite possibly, while installing Redhat, you chose to set up a firewall.. Try running firewall-config and turning all the firewalling off... Eek! As a trouble-shooting measure only, of course! If turning it off lets telnet

[SLUG] laptop keyboard

Hi all, my optima (dynamis, multimedia portable) has a function key in the lower left corner of the keyboard to activate certain functions on the function keys (12) and a number pad amongst the letter keys. can anyone give any suggestions on where the | pipe went? I get a ~ instead, and

Re: [SLUG] laptop keyboard

[Oops, didn't reply to the list] Bill Taylor was once rumoured to have said: Hi all, my optima (dynamis, multimedia portable) has a function key in the lower left corner of the keyboard to activate certain functions on the function keys (12) and a number pad amongst the letter keys. can