>
> No idea about USB mice, though - or how you get the input from mouse
> wheels. Anyone?
they're on /dev/input/mice. Reading raw input works just as usual using
cat.
Judging from the way you configure them in X, the wheel works just like an
extra pair of buttons; rolling the wheel up counts a
> So how does one read raw data directly from the mouse?
>
> Curious minds, and all that.
cat /dev/mouse worked for me. Of course it also horked my mouse, so be
sure you're not doing anything terribly mouse-dependant before trying
this.
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>
> I'm sure you noticed but that webpage had an .asp
> ending which is active server page, which is Microsoft
> stuff. I think that article is just a subtle
> Microsoft ploy to steer people from Linux. I wrote
Use of ASP usually indicates some sort of sympathy for microsoft products;
however,
> > about whether or not Linux will make it as a desktop OS - and that
> > the lack of good, solid apps (like an office suite) is limiting it's
>
> I've actually heard that Solaris' StarOffice for Linux works quite well.
Assuming you have at least 128 MB RAM, yes, it works pretty well.
The w
>
> I *do* have the kernel headers installed. Installed by rpm, to
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.19/ - not /usr/src/linux. Looks like that is the
> problem, then.
>
> Any problem creating a symlink as /usr/src/linux/?
no, that's how it's usually done.
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> I'm having a problem when compiling mod_virgule. It doesn't seem to be
> a problem with mod_virgule, which is why I'm asking here and not
> there. ;-)
ls -la /usr/include/linux/param.h
-rw-r--r--1 root root 78 Oct 28 2000
/usr/include/linux/param.h
there it is..
This file
> emu10k1 = SBLive driver. Yes the via82 is for onboard sound. Hmm, lemme try
> something...
>
> Well that was certainly cute! It isn't using the SBLive as the sound card,
> it is using the onboard mobo sound thingy. Hmmph :/
>
> Any ideas on how to make the SBLive take over? :D
um, sure.
>
> Now I have checked the idiot things (Volume up on speakers, in XMMS, in sound
> mixer, is it plugged in etc). I also did "cat /proc/modules" and saw that
> emu10k1 was loaded (I think).
>
> [kath@localhost kath]$ cat /proc/modules
> emu10k144384 1 (autoclean)
> via82cxxx
> Does anyone have any insight in taking an rpm, modifying a couple files,
> and repackaging the rpm? I've been reading the rpm man page as I get
> time, but it's huge, and I'm not interested in rebuilding rpms from
> source, i'd just like to incorporate our site-specific configurations for
> stu
> Tell me I am crazy, but I have been thinking of this idea for several weeks.
> A new way to stream audio on the web. Work's like this:
>
> 1)The master machine take's the input of the music, it would have to be a file
> based format, translating a line input would be hard at first.
> 2)The mas
> Howdy gang. It only took two days, but I finally successfully created a good
> Debian ISO image. By gosh I am now the Rsync queen. After I burn the ISO
> file to a CD, what's it supposed to look like? Will it have lots of files
> and a regular file structure? Or will it still be a single mondo I
> 6gb laptop had windows installed on it .. i wanted linux, so i booted with
> some linux bootdisks, designed a nice partition table, wrote the changes,
> and then i recovered windows with the recovery cd.
>
> however, windows recognizes the 2.2gb partition it is on as the whole 6gb
> hard drive.
>
> Is it then better to write a script, or for me to do it myself in C, when I'm
> not a terribly experienced C programmer, especially wrt the UNIX interfaces to
> uids, and signals, and have never really had to write anything that avoids
> overruns?
>
> Or should every admin know C?
For the r
> myself. The reason I use terms rather than the consoles is I can get more
> onto the screen. Like, an 80x25 char display on a 19" monitor is not the
> most efficient use of real estate. I'm writing this in a 124x47
> gnome-terminal and can read all the all of the subject lines in mutt. So
>
Damn :)
Tis a pretty long rant, hope i don't get everyone snoring here.
well, in the beginning there was X. X by itself basically provides a way
for a server to communicate with clients. The clients tell the server
"draw a pixel here" and the server handles actually displaying that pixel
on-scr
> > Quoth Coldfire: > > i was just curious what the window manager of >
> choice is on this > > list :) .. i'm a die hard windowmaker fan...
>
>
> I'm currently addicted to Gnome - only because on my possessed
> computer only Gnome works with my motherboard's built in sound card.
> I like to l
> Well... Red Hat 7.1 didn't setup my zip drive for me the way Mandrake did
> recently, so I added the above alias line to my /etc/modules.conf file (yep,
> I was aware of that change) and followed the steps above and... the system
> tells me that /dev/sda4 is not a recognized device. ppa is l
>
> When my phone service carrier was Pacific Bell I could connect to my ISP at
> speeds between 46k & 50k. However, when I changed my carrier to Cox
> Communications the connection speed dropped to 34k. Now whenever I connect
> to my ISP the speed is always 34k. I have changed nothing & my modem
> >
> >
> > However, I don't see why they make such a big fuss about it; after all,
> > Linux has backdoors too so there's no difference between them.
> >
>
> 'cos you can find and close the backdoors with open source stuff (or was
> that irony above?).
I was deliberately mocking the entire "
> I'm trying to solve a mystery, and at the same time, figure out good metrics
> to determine our server speed, network speed, capacity, etc.
tough order :)
> One database-driven page in particular loads *extremely* slowly (like,
> minutes), from several computers in the client's office. I've
> I just got this note from Eric Raymond in my inbox. I must be on his
> PR list.
>
> I can't find any references online currently to the MS IIS backdoor ESR
> refers to. Have any of you heard of the backdoor, or seen security or
> press coverage of it? It's not on buqtraq or securityfocu
> You have three options: 1) Actually beg, borrow, buy, or steal a copy of
> Partition Magic or any other equivalent program, 2) add a second hard drive
> and install Linux on that, leaving your Windows drive intact. I highly
> recommend this option, as there is little or no chance of destroy
> I have been painstakingly going through the lilo documentation. I have not
> found in the documentation, on my computer or at sunsite, a single reference
> to this back door into my computer. It is not even documented in the source
> code.
then how is it that nearly everybody else knew ab
>
> I've been informed this is a 'feature' not a 'flaw'. sound like MS?
>
No, it doesn't.
The "linux single" or "linux 1" "security flaw" gets "spotted"
continuously, by people who don't realize that, given physical access to
the computer system, there's virtually *NO* way to protect from
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Hans Tegnerud wrote:
> Does anyone know if it's possible to configure dhcpd only to log
> critical errors to the syslog (or not at all)? dhcpd is is slowly
> filling my /var/log/messages files with DHCPREQUESTs and DHCPACKs of
> which I'm not all that interrested.
dhcpd itsel
> Rebooting using the 2.2.17 that I originally had, and again following the
> HOWTO, I 'make bzImage'd, replaced /vmlinuz (which appears to have been a
> symlink to something in /boot) with /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage0
> and ran lilo, then tried to reboot.
> Currently at boot, after the
> I have just gotten myself a PCI no-name ethernet card. I think I
> managed to compile the kernel modules correctly (NE2000 emulation), but
> I don't really know what else to do - I haven't connected it to
> anything yet, but will try with a notebook soon.
Okies, I don't know about the debian ne
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