RE: Almost there. . .HELP

1998-08-13 Thread Midgley John
d also whether the route persists over a reboot), but perhaps someone will set us both straight? Regards John Midgley >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 12 August 1998 21:06 >To:Midgley John >Cc:The recipient's addres

RE: X-Triumph! What now?

1998-08-12 Thread Midgley John
Now I'm glad you asked me that. My best and fastest route to the Internet is through NT RAS at work. (I'm playing with Linux at home on my own time, at the moment!). At the moment, in W95, I RAS in, authenticate, the server dials me back, and bingo - a fairly peppy connection to the Internet. Can L

RE: X-Triumph! What now?

1998-08-12 Thread Midgley John
Ah, thanks. I wonder if there's a general answer to the next question this poses - how do I know which components I need? dselect is very good at saying 'Ah, you need this, now you need that!', but that means (at the moment) that I have to shut down Linux, restart the system, boot '95, log on to I

X-Triumph! What now?

1998-08-12 Thread Midgley John
A thousand thanks to those who replied to my PS/2 mouse problem. After following their advice (and only reinstalling a further two times), I now have a system that responds when I 'startx'. Only thing is, I just see a window that I can type commands in - not a huge advance on what I had before! Ob

Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

1998-08-11 Thread Midgley John
Hi all I'm just getting started with Linux, and I've had several goes at installing the Debian 2.0 distribution. I'm getting tanatalisingly close to a working X-Windows installation - much video card clicking and flashing - but it objects to a line in the XF86Config file which says '/dev/mouse'.