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   1. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Rodd Ahrenstorff)
   2. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Rodd Ahrenstorff)
   3. Re: tclug-list digest, Vol 1 #1962 - 6 msgs (OoO - ) (Jean Ahles)

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Message: 1
From: Rodd Ahrenstorff <rahrenstorff at yahoo.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:28:14 -0600
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

On Monday 18 February 2002 4:05 pm, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> Further, most people have no business using it. I'd never expect my mom to
> use it, or my sister or brother for that matter. They aren't into this sort
> of thing.

Most of those people might just tell you to kiss-off Ben.  Do you mean this 
open source operating system is meant for only the guru geek type admins?  My 
mom is using Lycoris Desktop/lx right now...and she had never used Windows at 
all.  My brother is also using Mandrake on his laptop.  Maybe it's your 
family members who aren't right-in-the-head :^)

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From: Rodd Ahrenstorff <rahrenstorff at yahoo.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:29:41 -0600
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

On Monday 18 February 2002 4:05 pm, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> Further, most people have no business using it. I'd never expect my mom to
> use it, or my sister or brother for that matter. They aren't into this sort
> of thing.

Most of those people might just tell you to kiss-off Ben.  Do you mean this 
open source operating system is meant for only the guru geek type admins?  My 
mom is using Lycoris Desktop/lx right now...and she had never used Windows at 
all.  My brother is also using Mandrake on his laptop.  Maybe it's your 
family members who aren't right-in-the-head :^)


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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:52:56 -0600
From: "Jean Ahles" <Jean.Ahles at us.fortis.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Subject: [TCLUG] Re: tclug-list digest, Vol 1 #1962 - 6 msgs (OoO - )
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

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   1. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Mike Hicks)
   2. Re: IBM history (Ben Lutgens)
   3. Making POP3 Work (Scott Raun)
   4. Re: tclug-list digest, Vol 1 #1961 - 14 msgs (OoO - ) (Jean Ahles)
   5. Re: IBM history (Glenn McDavid)
   6. Re: xf86config (Matthew S. Hallacy)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:44:09 -0600
From: Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

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Daniel Churchill <churchid at visi.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> > 
> > Why bother? None of those people will use linux anyway. They are "windows"
> > users. There's very little reason for them to switch.
>
> You bother because there are some users who have no experienc with Linx, 
> or who heard a horror story from a friend about some other friend of 
> theirs who tried Linux and couldn't get their sound to work and how it's 
> such a difficult OS to deal with.  You bother to show such users that 
> Linux really isn't that difficult.

Heh, reminds me that I switched from OS/2 to Linux due to the fact that
sound worked better in Linux.  Creative dropped support for OS/2 around
the time I started getting into Linux, so it just pushed me further along
the path.

> I'ts this sort of cynical "you stay on your side of the fence and I'll 
> stay on mine" attitude that poisons people toward even considering Linux 
> as an alternative, IMHO.

Ben can come off sounding pretty harsh..  I'm still not sure if he's just
schizo or if he likes to play devil's advocate and not tell anyone.  Oh
yeah, he likes flamewars, too, so it's probably impossible to say :-p

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:49:23 -0600
From: Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] IBM history
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org


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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:30:38PM -0600, Robert Leduc wrote:
>> > Prepare to feel old- the first system I had was a P75 :-)
>> > (Though I did use a 386 previously)

I'm almost 30 years old an my first computer was a P200MMX. I had used an
IBM XT when I was a kid though.

>> I owned at least 5 computers before I owned a 386. =20

holy shit.

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:21:41 -0600
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
From: Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org>
Subject: [TCLUG] Making POP3 Work
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

OK, I got a telnet session into port 110, and it claims to be talking.

Is there something that I have to do for a user account to be able to
access POP3?

-- 
Scott Raun
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:03:34 -0600
From: "Jean Ahles" <Jean.Ahles at us.fortis.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Subject: [TCLUG] Re: tclug-list digest, Vol 1 #1961 - 14 msgs (OoO - )
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

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Thank you,
Jean 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: IBM history (James Spinti)
   2. Re: (rant) tar and `j' and `y' options (Chad C. Walstrom)
   3. Re: IBM history (Jay Kline)
   4. Re: (rant) tar and `j' and `y' options (Dan Drake)
   5. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Jim Kaufman)
   6. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Ben Lutgens)
   7. Re: IBM history (David Dyer-Bennet)
   8. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Daniel Churchill)
   9. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Michael Vieths)
  10. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Dave Sherman)
  11. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (James Spinti)
  12. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Kelly Black)
  13. Re: How to play music on Linux box! (Ben Lutgens)
  14. Re: IBM history (Robert Leduc)

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Message: 1
From: "James Spinti" <jspinti at dartdist.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] IBM history
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:13:29 -0600
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

<snip>
Selling for as little as $1,565, the PC used an Intel 4.77 megahertz
processor and Microsoft's Disk Operating System. The machine offered memory
capacities from 16K to 256K and either one or two diskette drives. An
expanded system for business with color graphics, two diskette drives and a
printer cost about $4,500.
<snip>
Full height, 160K 5.25" floppy.

My first PC was a Heathkit H-100 with dual 8088/8085 so you could use CP/M,
since there was so little software for the Z-DOS 1.0 OS.  It came with dual
360K drives and my printer had true descenders, too and 192K of system RAM
and 64K of video RAM expandable to 192K (at about $100/64K, if you installed
it yourself).

Ah, yes the good old days...4.77 MHz and considering it fast!

Misty eyed,

James Spinti
jspinti at dartdist dot com
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> if this doesn't make your eyes glaze over, you *are* a geek. :)
>
> http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/reference/faq_0000000011.html
>
> fascinating stuff. :)
> Carl Soderstrom.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:16:16 -0600
From: "Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie at wookimus.net>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] (rant) tar and `j' and `y' options
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org


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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:17:58AM -0600, Dan Drake wrote:
> Whose bright idea was it to have `j' be the option for handling
> bzipped tarballs?=20

There was a conflict with the original GNU tar application binding for
bzip2: 'I'.  It conflicts with other *NIX/BSD'ish use of that same
option.  Other characters were suggested, but 'j' was settled upon as
the default by the GNU tar maintainers.  I'm assuming that Brad at the
Math department ran into the same conflict, but instead of following the
development discussions on the GNU tar email list, he chose -y because
it wasn't being used.  This last is just an assumption on my part, but
knowing Brad, I don't think it's too far from the truth.

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Message: 3
From: Jay Kline <list at slushpupie.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] IBM history
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:27:02 -0600
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org



On Monday 18 February 2002 12:13 pm, you wrote:
> My first PC was a Heathkit H-100 with dual 8088/8085 so you could use CP/M,
> since there was so little software for the Z-DOS 1.0 OS.  It came with dual
> 360K drives and my printer had true descenders, too and 192K of system RAM
> and 64K of video RAM expandable to 192K (at about $100/64K, if you
> installed it yourself).
>
> Ah, yes the good old days...4.77 MHz and considering it fast!
>

Prepare to feel old- the first system I had was a P75 :-)
(Though I did use a 386 previously)

Jay

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:33:09 -0600
From: Dan Drake <drake+tclug at lemongecko.org>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] (rant) tar and `j' and `y' options
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org


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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 at 08:50AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> You forgot I.  A number of people favor explicitly piping between tar
> and bzip2 simply to avoid the j/y/I issue.

Good call. I should teach my fingers to do "bzcat" a bit more often.

I'm reminded of von Neumann's remark about math: "In mathematics, you
don't understand things, you just get used to them." I suppose *nix is
no different.

> > It seems like it wouldn't be difficult to extend the `z' option to
> > handle bzip2 archives, by simply looking at the file's extensions. Or
> > looking at the first bytes of the file and recognizing the binary
> > formats.
>=20
> For decoding/extracting, that makes good sense.  For encoding/
> creating an archive, it would be arguably the Wrong Thing.  z =3D gzip,
> not bzip2.

Ah, I didn't think of that. Yeah, when creating archives I usually use
"cf" (that's what my fingers do automatically) and then [g|b]zip the .tar
file.

What I really want is for tar to read my mind and do things
automatically. I'd also appreciate it if tar did my homework for me. And
I could go for some pizza right about now:

    $ tar --order-pizza
    tar: unrecognized option `--order-pizza'
    Try `tar --help' for more information.

=2E..darn. :)

Dan

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:41:31 -0600
From: Jim Kaufman <jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:28:12AM -0600, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:13:15AM -0600, Jim Kaufman wrote:
> >
> >It will be a very basic introduction to getting the sound card working
> >under Redhat 7.2, using xmms, lame and grip.
>=20
> O.k. that will take all of 5 minutes, what do you plan to do for the rest
> of the time? :-)
>=20
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> Sistina Software Inc.
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Well, the target audience is the TCPC group. They are knowledgeable
about PCs, but know little of Linux. I think I can stretch out the talk
for at least twenty minutes. Then we can all get a beer.

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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:00:38 -0600
From: Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:41:31PM -0600, Jim Kaufman wrote:
>
>Well, the target audience is the TCPC group. They are knowledgeable
>about PCs, but know little of Linux. I think I can stretch out the talk
>for at least twenty minutes. Then we can all get a beer.
>

Why bother? None of those people will use linux anyway. They are "windows"
users. There's very little reason for them to switch.

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Message: 7
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] IBM history
From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net>
Date: 18 Feb 2002 14:31:41 -0600
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

Jay Kline <list at slushpupie.com> writes:

> On Monday 18 February 2002 12:13 pm, you wrote:
> > My first PC was a Heathkit H-100 with dual 8088/8085 so you could use CP/M,
> > since there was so little software for the Z-DOS 1.0 OS.  It came with dual
> > 360K drives and my printer had true descenders, too and 192K of system RAM
> > and 64K of video RAM expandable to 192K (at about $100/64K, if you
> > installed it yourself).
> >
> > Ah, yes the good old days...4.77 MHz and considering it fast!
> >
> 
> Prepare to feel old- the first system I had was a P75 :-)
> (Though I did use a 386 previously)

I feel old. 

Do you feel young?

I owned at least 5 computers before I owned a 386.  

I worked on at least 8 different *types* of computer before I ever
owned a computer.

The first computer I programmed did not have any sort of disk drive.
It had 20,000 *decimal digits* of magnetic core memory.
-- 
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:46:28 -0600 (CST)
From: Daniel Churchill <churchid at visi.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ben Lutgens wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:41:31PM -0600, Jim Kaufman wrote:
> >
> >Well, the target audience is the TCPC group. They are knowledgeable
> >about PCs, but know little of Linux. I think I can stretch out the talk
> >for at least twenty minutes. Then we can all get a beer.
> >
> 
> Why bother? None of those people will use linux anyway. They are "windows"
> users. There's very little reason for them to switch.
>
You bother because there are some users who have no experienc with Linx, 
or who heard a horror story from a friend about some other friend of 
theirs who tried Linux and couldn't get their sound to work and how it's 
such a difficult OS to deal with.  You bother to show such users that 
Linux really isn't that difficult.

I'ts this sort of cynical "you stay on your side of the fence and I'll 
stay on mine" attitude that poisons people toward even considering Linux 
as an alternative, IMHO.

Just my $.02.

Dan 


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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:42:58 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Vieths <foeclan at visi.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ben Lutgens wrote:
>
> Why bother? None of those people will use linux anyway. They are "windows"
> users. There's very little reason for them to switch.

Why does anyone switch?  I could do as much on a Windows box with the
right tools, but I choose to use Linux.

Many of us were one of 'those people' at some point in our lives.  We
switched, or are switching, for some reason or other.  Maybe for somebody
it'll be 'Because someone at a PC user's group meeting showed me how'.

--
Michael Vieths
Foeclan at Visi.com



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Message: 10
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
From: Dave Sherman <dsherman at real-time.com>
To: TC-LUG <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Date: 18 Feb 2002 15:29:28 -0600
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org


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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> Why bother? None of those people will use linux anyway. They are "windows=
"
> users. There's very little reason for them to switch.

Troll!!

Dave
--=20
Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup.

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Message: 11
From: "James Spinti" <jspinti at dartdist.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:37:27 -0600
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Lutgens" <blutgens at sistina.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:41:31PM -0600, Jim Kaufman wrote:
>
>Well, the target audience is the TCPC group. They are knowledgeable
>about PCs, but know little of Linux. I think I can stretch out the talk
>for at least twenty minutes. Then we can all get a beer.
>

Why bother? None of those people will use linux anyway. They are "windows"
users. There's very little reason for them to switch.

-- 
Ben Lutgens  http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ 
Sistina Software Inc.

Having a bad user day, Ben :(  Or just need to stir the pot a bit?

check out this link, it could be worse:
http://www.ubersoft.net/d/20020212.html
or, worse yet:
http://www.ubersoft.net/d/20020213.html

Thanks,

James Spinti
jspinti at dartdist dot com
952-368-3278 ext. 396
952-368-3255 (fax)



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Message: 12
From: Kelly Black <kelly-black at mediaone.net>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:43:14 -0600
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

I was once one of "those" people.  After various os's with Basic and various 
assembler chunks as the main interface, I went off to do things with DOS and 
Winders.  I since gotten myself right in the head.  Although some would 
question how much.

:-)

Kelly Black
KB0GBJ

On Monday 18 February 2002 14:42, you wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> > Why bother? None of those people will use linux anyway. They are
> > "windows" users. There's very little reason for them to switch.
>
> Why does anyone switch?  I could do as much on a Windows box with the
> right tools, but I choose to use Linux.
>
> Many of us were one of 'those people' at some point in our lives.  We
> switched, or are switching, for some reason or other.  Maybe for somebody
> it'll be 'Because someone at a PC user's group meeting showed me how'.
>
> --
> Michael Vieths
> Foeclan at Visi.com
>

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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:05:26 -0600
From: Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to play music on Linux box!
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org


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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:37:27PM -0600, James Spinti wrote:
>Having a bad user day, Ben :(  Or just need to stir the pot a bit?

Neither, i just think we shouldn't push people to try linux. Let them
discover it on thier own. Otherwise, inevitably they'll have a hard time
then they'll tell everyone they know that it sucks (which wouldn't be
totally unreasonable since it would be thier opinion)


Further, most people have no business using it. I'd never expect my mom to
use it, or my sister or brother for that matter. They aren't into this sort
of thing.

--=20
Ben Lutgens		http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/=09
Sistina Software Inc.

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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:30:38 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Leduc <robertl at ccbr.umn.edu>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] IBM history
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org




On 18 Feb 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> Jay Kline <list at slushpupie.com> writes:
> 
> > On Monday 18 February 2002 12:13 pm, you wrote:
> > > Ah, yes the good old days...4.77 MHz and considering it fast!
> > >
> > 
> > Prepare to feel old- the first system I had was a P75 :-)
> > (Though I did use a 386 previously)
> 
> I feel old. 
> 
> Do you feel young?
> 
> I owned at least 5 computers before I owned a 386.  
>

I'm old enough to ask if you mean the 386 Intel chip or
the old IBM 386 mainframe.

R



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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:22:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Glenn McDavid <gmcdavid at winternet.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] IBM history
Organization: very little
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

After reading:

> The first computer I programmed did not have any sort of disk drive.
> It had 20,000 *decimal digits* of magnetic core memory.

I immediately thought:  That sounds like an IBM 1620.

Then I saw the msg was from

> David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net

and realized that I had used the same machine at Carleton College.
IIRC, the IBM 1130, mentioned on the web page, was marketed in part as a
replacement for the 1620.

Glenn McDavid
mailto:gmcdavid at winternet.com
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:25:14 -0600
From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix at techmonkeys.org>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] xf86config
Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:49:01PM -0600, Shawn Fertch wrote:

> Cool, this worked.  Thanks Matthew.  I neglected to write down the
> settings of XF86Config when I blew away RH.  One question, what is the
> ZAxisMapping for?  Scroll wheel?  However, I did shut off gpm and
> uninstalled the package.

Yes, ZAxisMapping is for the scrollwheel.

> Shawn

-- 
Matthew S. Hallacy                            FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix                  GPG public key 0x01938203


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