Re: [techtalk] Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Sarah Hollings
My favourite Netscape bug (read with irony) is when my fingers forget I'm no longer in win and do or to copy or paste. This is 4.7 on Debian (Corel Linux actually). Netscape freezes up totally, not repainting any windows, not accepting any input, and has to be killed and restarted. Gr.

[techtalk] modem/PPP problems

2000-05-12 Thread Sarah Hollings
hiya, A while ago some very helpful types on this list gave me some clues that resulted in fixing the sound problems I had with my Linux machine at home. I am a newbie, I guess, but I have learnt heaps about Linux, and in particular modules, and dependencies thru that exercise. Now I have a rea

Re: [techtalk] Cable modem compatibility

2000-05-05 Thread Sarah Hollings
Jenn, I'm planning to go for cable modem access later this year. What I've heard is that Optus' "@ home" service (which runs on the same cable as their phone system) is compatible with Linux, but Telstra's "Advance" isn't - at least not without a lot of very time consuming friggin about. I'm a

[techtalk] sound.... still

2000-04-16 Thread Sarah Hollings
After much frigging about with my system, and I mean ***a very very large amount of frigging*** I still cannot get sound working on this machine. The crux of it seems to be that sound is all there, but I just can't tell the modconf program what the parameters are to make it sodding well work.

Re: [techtalk] hardware hassling me

2000-04-05 Thread Sarah Hollings
ts end before). "Tania M. Morell" wrote: > > Set your bios IDE1 and IDE2 options to "enabled" instead of "auto". > > -T > > Sarah Hollings wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having problems with my new HD install. I'm beginn

[techtalk] hardware hassling me

2000-04-05 Thread Sarah Hollings
Hi, I'm having problems with my new HD install. I'm beginning to think the 2nd IDE jumper on my m/b has gone, but maybe its something else. Can anyone think of anything? Symptoms are: I have an old P133 with on board IDE. When I have the new HD I just bought jumpered as Master (or slave) an

Re: [techtalk] newbie mouse weirdness

2000-04-04 Thread Sarah Hollings
The symlink thing that someone suggested seems to fix it!! Thanks people! I'm not sure what is going on still - so maybe I'll try to install gpm as I don't seem to have it at present. Sarah Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > Make sure you have gpm installed. :o) Same thing happened to me before I >

[techtalk] newbie mouse weirdness

2000-04-01 Thread Sarah Hollings
Hiya, Can anyone offer any clues to some bizarre mouse behaviour? Any help appreciated! My system is a clunky old Pentium 133, with a serial mouse (on ttyS0 I think), and serial modem (on ttyS1). I have recently installed Corel Linux (Debian with a slightly modified KDE desktop) and it's mostl

Re: [techtalk] cak-handed mouse in X ?

2000-04-01 Thread Sarah Hollings
Corel's version (at least) of the KDE desktop has this facility. "Jenn V." wrote: > > > > > remember to add it in your .xinitrc (or what ever you use). > > Heh. This looks like a good candidate for a patch for the setup > program. > (a 'reverse mouse buttons' button which puts this in the .xini