Other Help Topics :: A few questions on various topics



Before I make an ass out of myself by asking what are probably silly questions I'll apologize in advance if this post makes no sense or that the answers I seek are easy to find even tho I've not had much success as yet doing so on my own.  heh fair warning, I've got more painkillers in me soooo I'm stoned um ya...anyway don't hurt me too much? :)

I'm on DSL 0.9.2 on a laptop and while playing around I noticed some weirdness tho it may be Hikarunix's implementation of DSL ... I'm not sure thats the case?

- EmelFM will *not* resize properly with a button click on its upper right corner box after configuring it in its "config" place.  I tried to change fonts & it froze.  I killed it & reloaded it up but min/maxmize doesn't work now.  If I try to configure it again it freezes.  why is this?

-  on other distros I can do ctrl-alt-esc to get an Xkill icon.  On dsl you use the menu.  Is there a kb key combo I can use or make one up on my own & put it somewhere?

- I use an intellimouse trackball by M$ which for some reason has  a scroll wheel that only works sporadically.  Its a usb mouse btw... is this fixable?

Lastly, is 0.9.3 worth really getting?  Is there a way to upgrade 9.2 to 9.3 w/out having to d/l & burn a new cd?  That seems to be a waste of time and I've seen ppl mention doing frugal installs to avoid this very problem, but I don't understand the instructions I've seen so far on this board to do it.  Point me in the right direction ?  

TIA for your time & energys helping me out.
aveline
i can only help a little...

minimize/maximize is controlled through fluxbox rather than the application, so if you're having trouble with it, there's something unusual happening...perhaps you are low on memory.

You can set up keyboard controls by editing /home/dsl/.fluxbox/keys
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook/en/html/c289.html
thx milkshaw very much.  Wish I knew what the prob is w/maxi & minimizing.

thx for the kb stuff :)

avey
Quote (aveline @ Feb. 17 2005,23:05)
Lastly, is 0.9.3 worth really getting?  Is there a way to upgrade 9.2 to 9.3 w/out having to d/l & burn a new cd?  That seems to be a waste of time and I've seen ppl mention doing frugal installs to avoid this very problem, but I don't understand the instructions I've seen so far on this board to do it.  Point me in the right direction ?

Hmmm, you can boot from a previous version CD and load up a newer version that is on your harddrive.  Use iso buster or something like that to open the iso and copy the knoppix file to your harddrive in /knoppix (I don't know what other files are needed, so I just add the entire cd contents - it's only 50mb after all.)
Then at the boot: prompt put in "dsl fromhd=/dev/hda1"

I'll have to check to see if you can have directories under that (ie. /dev/hda1/dsl/0.9.3)

Frugal installs from my understanding, is similar, except has a bootloader instead of the cd/boot floppy.
Quote (Caspar_s @ Feb. 18 2005,16:16)
Hmmm, you can boot from a previous version CD and load up a newer version that is on your harddrive.  Use iso buster or something like that to open the iso and copy the knoppix file to your harddrive in /knoppix (I don't know what other files are needed, so I just add the entire cd contents - it's only 50mb after all.)
Then at the boot: prompt put in "dsl fromhd=/dev/hda1"

I'll have to check to see if you can have directories under that (ie. /dev/hda1/dsl/0.9.3)

Frugal installs from my understanding, is similar, except has a bootloader instead of the cd/boot floppy.

I'm not certain how to do this, copying over the entire cd um an using the iso...etc... would you kindly write out instructions or point me in the right direction to find them myself?  The laptop in question has only linux installs on it.

Oh and a new question: is there a tool or command I can use to determine what version of the type of laptop &/or hardware it contains or must I just go to its BIOS & look?

TIA & TY for the responses thus far. :)

Avey
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