How does Ethernet device know address of transfer buffer

2001-11-07 Thread descdata
Hi, I can successfully install the 3c905 Ethernet driver, but I don’t know why it works. This proves I don’t know what is going on. I hope that someone can offer some light. I use install parameters “irq=11" and I don’t set an io address. If I try fill in the address e.g. “io=0x220" I receiv

Re: Minimized windows do not display icons under Sawfish

2001-10-31 Thread descdata
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:13:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized > > windows do not display icons. > > Good... then sawfish is working properly. > > > Are others showing icons properly? Is this one of this, slip a line into > > t

Minimized windows do not display icons under Sawfish

2001-10-30 Thread descdata
Hi, Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized windows do not display icons. Are others showing icons properly? Is this one of this, slip a line into the rc file things? Thanks for any suggestions, Gary

Default font does not display properly

2001-10-17 Thread descdata
Hi, I have a problem with fonts generally and vim-gkt particularly, the initial screen has Roman crosses for tilde characters and boxes for normal characters. I have a similar problem with other applications, like AbiWord. Other applications display text fine, except for the About box, which

debian equivalent of redhat mouseconfig

2001-08-30 Thread descdata
Hi, I'm trying to get X Window System up and running. I'm failing because I do not have a /dev/mouse. I understand that at some point I was suppose to make this a symbolic link to the real mouse device (??/dev/psaux ??). Poking around, I found mouseconfig, a redhat utility, which will (I hope