X-Windows Mice

1998-09-09 Thread Frankay666
Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a PS/2 mouse? I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. Am I overly stupid? what am I doing wrong? Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Couldn't find Packages.gz

1998-09-09 Thread Frankay666
> Hallo, > I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal > Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following > error message: > Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable... > I don't know what's wrong... HELP!!! ;-) I don't use the dselect ftp method, but I do kn

PNP sound card lack of knowledge (or stupidity )

1998-09-15 Thread Frankay666
i have a pnp SoundBlaster16, which was not in my computer when I installed Debian originally. trying to configure it I have read through the isapnpconfig stuff. What I now know is that to get it to work, I must configure the pnp then load some driver/module. the isapnp stuff seems fairly easy to d

PNP sound card lack of knowledge (or stupidity )

1998-09-15 Thread Frankay666
i have a pnp SoundBlaster16, which was not in my computer when I installed Debian originally. trying to configure it I have read through the isapnpconfig stuff. What I now know is that to get it to work, I must configure the pnp then load some driver/module. the isapnp stuff seems fairly easy to d

Star Office

1998-10-15 Thread Frankay666
So star office 4/5 can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use? well thats very nice of them, but how many people are going to be prepared to wait through a 50Mb download? Has anybody broken it up into 1MB pieces that can be downloaded gradually, or has anybody got it on CD that they can lend