Re: SiS 6326 - AOpen PT80 help.

2000-02-17 Thread Steve Gallagher
Tim Fairchild wrote: > > Hi. > > Trying to get X working with Open PT80 video (SiS 6326). It's listed as > supported by XFree-SVGA, (I have 3.3.5) but doesn't seem to be 100% > > Okay, so it will 'work' to some extent. Seems to be useable (but far > from perfect) at 24 bit and 800x600. Other mo

Re: Using scanners

2000-01-24 Thread Steve Gallagher
"Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Bill Ries-Knight wrote: > > > Is there a good archive of info on the MANY > > scanners out there? > Try www.torque.net/linux-pp.html which has refs for parallel port scanners. It seems the drivers are all alpha at the moment but might be worth a

Re: Parallel Port Zip Question

2000-01-24 Thread Steve Gallagher
> > Fellow Hatters; > > I just installed a stock RH 6.1 machine, and I'm trying to get the Parallel > Zip drive to work. I've been through the 'how-to's, the support section on > redhat.com, etc. It *is* plugged in. I sent this link for the scanners question earlier but it's worth a repeat.

Re: Tixwish-tk4.1

2000-01-13 Thread Steve Gallagher
"Pete (Online)" wrote: > > Hi > > I'm lookin to find out which program provide this so I can use my > Linux Library CD seems on the custom install I missed installing > sommething > > Cheers > Pete > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. I have ins

Re: sophisticated trickery(AfterStep)

1999-12-25 Thread Steve Gallagher
Hi Darin, One of the nice things about Linux is the different ways you can use it and the ability to stamp your own taste on your system. I have two favourite Window Managers. One is Afterstep and the other is Xfce. I use Afterstep for my user account and Xfce for root although I change this whe

Re: emacs repairs

1999-12-22 Thread Steve Gallagher
Darin Bailey wrote: > > My emacs editor is not working properly. I'm not sure if it didn't install > correctly or the setting are just really tweaked! The pulldown menu's are > not readable, where you would normally see the 'open' 'save' 'preferences' > etc... you just see the outline of where ev

X was slow - but now now!

1999-12-18 Thread Steve Gallagher
Hi Chaps, There has been a fair bit of discussion on this list about different problems with some graphics cards and, in particular, SiS cards. A visit to www.xfree86.org this afternoon paid huge dividends for me. They quoted some information about work down by Suse in writing alternative X serv

Re: X is slow

1999-12-14 Thread Steve Gallagher
Chris Dowling wrote: > I did have a similar problem. > > It basically boiled down to X expecting more video memory than the card > actualy had. For some reason it didn't probe properly. I set it to how > much mem it had, then it worked fine. > > I didn't bother to find out *what* caused it to pro

Re: emacs...wierd behavior

1999-12-14 Thread Steve Gallagher
Arni Raghu wrote: > Hi, > I have been using emacs for a while now...on my RH 6.0...all of a sudden now > when I start a new session of emacs, emacs starts all right but the fonts > appear totally wierd...it looks as if everything appears in reverse > video...why is that?? I swear I did not do any

Re: X is slow

1999-12-14 Thread Steve Gallagher
Sanjay Patel wrote: > I have the same thing if I use 16 bit color. Currently, I use 1024x768 in > 8 bit and it's useable. I have the same motherboard with the built-in > sound card (that I haven't got to work - yet), and the SiS6326 AGP. > Xconfigurator uses the stock SVGA server which, I belie

X is slow

1999-12-13 Thread Steve Gallagher
Hi list, If I run X windows (either GNOME or KDE) it works well at 800 x 600 res. However, 1024 x 768 is painful. It redraws the screen very slowly. For instance, if you scroll down a web page or a page of text or even down the file manager, you can see the page being redrwan several times. When

Re: sound with KDE

1999-12-02 Thread Steve Gallagher
Bill Jacobs wrote: > Greetings, > > I have RH 6.1 but can't get sound to work with KDE. When I log into gnome > I have sound. How do I setup sound for KDE? I've asked RED HAT and they > referred me to here and to KDE.org. I have gone into sndconfig and it > found my sound card, but when I go into