Dell 8000 - Manuals

. . . where “8TRACK0” is my domain, “Nori Heikkinen” is my username, and“mypassword” is my password (not really, ha ha). You can call this file what-ever you want to, and put it wherever you want. I called mine .smbmount-ned and put it in my homedir; it really doesn’t matter. Now that you’ve got tha...

3 External Mice This took me a while to figure out. For whatever reason, I couldn’t just plug inmy external USB mouse (which I needed in order to not kill my wrist on that damn trackpad! 2 ) and have it work. Instead, like with the rest of this install, I went through a whole song and dance about it...

3.2 Configuring X Dman, of debian-user, made a nice little summary 3 that I’m going to copy wholesale: If you want mouse in console and X: • gpm reads from the mouse device itself. With a PS/2 mouse this is/dev/psaux. With a USB mouse (and devfs, I haven’t used USB withoutdevfs) it is /dev/input/mic...

InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Logitech Mouse" EndSection For reference, my /etc/gpm.conf looks like this: device=/dev/input/miceresponsiveness=30repeat_type=rawtype=imps2append=""sample_rate= The important clauses there are the device, the repeat type, and the t...

and to make sure it got inserted at boot time, by adding it to /etc/modules . Make sure your sound devices exist ( /dev/dsp* ). Mine did. At this point, try catting a wave file to your sound device, to see if that did the trick: spycellar:~ # cat wavfile.wav > /dev/dsp Now you’re almost there. Yo...

crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Jun 30 12:17 /dev/dsp1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Jun 30 12:17 /dev/dsp2 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Jun 30 12:17 /dev/dsp3 You might have to restart X for the changes to take place within X, though they should work immediately on the console. This was all it to...

configured your shell, window manager, or any programs you’ve downloaded,your settings are saved there; /etc , because the system files that you spent so long getting right are saved there. The first time, I just plain forgot; the second time, I purposely didn’t back up /etc , because the system fil...

For those as sketchy on filesystem types as I am, it seems to be pretty basic. In the README on the original ext3 download page, the author answers thejournaling question: Q: What is journaling? A: It means you don’t have to fsck after a crash. Basically. This is useful, because it means that every ...

any combination of u/g/r permissions can be specified by three unique numbers.‘700’ means that the user has read, write, and execute permissions (6+4+1) butthat no one else does; ‘644’ means that the user has read and write permissions,and that everyone in the same group and all others have only rea...