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From: Tony Houghton on 3 Aug 2010 19:41 In <slrni5g8en.23t.h(a)realh.co.uk>, Tony Houghton <h(a)realh.co.uk> wrote: > PS Hi Richard, I remember you from comp.sys.acorn.*. Bit of a surprise > to see an argonet address again. Do the real ones still work? Except you're Stuart, not Richard. Sorry about that. I got muddled up because you used the torrens website, but I do remember your name well from csa.* too. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
From: thanatoid on 3 Aug 2010 22:14 zed <zed(a)zed.net.nz> wrote in news:gemini.l6jm5m00smb1s01pp.zed(a)zed.net.nz: <SNIP> > I agree with Chris. After going through openSUSE, Puppy, > Fedora, Ubuntu, and a host of others, I finally found > LinuxMint. It is what Ubuntu should be. No disclaimer, as > it has been my distrubution of choice for the last three + > years - and it just gets better. I hope this will not be considered hijacking this thread - I just saw the last sentence and thought - maybe THIS person can help me! I am a total NOOB, I just installed LinuxMint9 on a machine which has had 98SELite for years, and would like to install XP on another partition (ONLY because of a SINGLE video capture card which has NO 9x or Linux drivers...). [I am struggling with GRUB - dl'd a bunch of manuals, etc. but may be forced to post a question if I can't figure out how to install XP and have it show up in the GRUB boot menu.] My biggest problem right now is the monitor. For some reason, Mint can not detect my monitor and offers 3 default modes (shown with 0 Hz refresh, although it /looks/ like maybe 70 Hz at best - it's a CRT which can go up to 85 - steady as a rock), two of which look kind of crappy and one (1024x768) looks like an hourglass. There are no drivers for my MB with an IntelExtreme graphics chip circa 2003... It's a Compaq EVO D510 SFF. Is there any way (using xorg - that /seems/ to be the place to "configure stuff", although I have NO clue as what it is exactly, let alone how to use it...) to set up 1024x768 with 80- 85 refresh and (hopefully) end up with a rectangle, not an X- shaped image? If the hourglass will /not/ go away, I can live with 800 x 600 just fine, but would like to put the refresh rate at the max - 85 Hz, my eyes are killing me! Any advice will be greatly appreciated. -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." Ernst Jan Plugge
From: Chris Whelan on 4 Aug 2010 04:14 On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:14:26 +0000, thanatoid wrote: [...] > I hope this will not be considered hijacking this thread It might have been better to start a new one. > I am a total NOOB, I just installed LinuxMint9 on a machine which has > had 98SELite for years, and would like to install XP on another > partition (ONLY because of a SINGLE video capture card which has NO 9x > or Linux drivers...). To dual-boot, partition the drive first, install any Windows OS's second, install any Linux OS's last. There will be lots of "walk-throughs" on line to help you. > [I am struggling with GRUB - dl'd a bunch of manuals, etc. but may be > forced to post a question if I can't figure out how to install XP and > have it show up in the GRUB boot menu.] If you follow the sequence above, you won't need to do anything to Grub; all installed systems will show up. [Snip resolution woes] I can't help directly with this, but if no useful information is forthcoming from the Mint documentation (which is pretty sparse), it might be worth looking at the Ubuntu docs (which are comprehensive). Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply.
From: Jim Lesurf on 4 Aug 2010 04:12 In article <slrni5g8en.23t.h(a)realh.co.uk>, Tony Houghton <h(a)realh.co.uk> wrote: > ROX seems to have suffered from a similar decline in development > activity to RISC OS :-(. Since this thread now seems to have become long enough to morph/split topics... I'll display my ignorance to a wider audience. :-) What is it that you feel is lacking in ROX? On the systems I have it seems to run OK with only one or two minor 'puzzles' - which are probably due to other aspects of the systems. My personal 'magic wish' for ROX would be for it to provide an easy mechanism for 'save as' dragbox *before* the data to be saved is generated in the program. One as easy and part-of-ROX-out-of-the-box as the loading and running side. ROX makes drag and drop loading of data and starting of apps very easy. Simply a matter of having the correct AppRun and catching the results from the environment. (FWIW I'm thinking here of the way I write the bulk of the program in 'C' and call it from AppRun.) But there doesn't seem to be something as simple as having a #include <roxstuff.h> at the top and then something like get_rox_save_name(fred) to produce a dragbox that gives you the drop destination in a char array 'fred'. Or is this already there and just I've not yet sorted it out? I did try setting up the ROX Clib some time ago but became deterred as I had problems getting it up and running. Had the impression events were trying to nudge me towards Python. 8-] Slainte, Jim -- Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me. Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html
From: Theo Markettos on 4 Aug 2010 07:06
Jim Lesurf <noise(a)audiomisc.co.uk> wrote: > My personal 'magic wish' for ROX would be for it to provide an easy > mechanism for 'save as' dragbox *before* the data to be saved is generated > in the program. One as easy and part-of-ROX-out-of-the-box as the loading > and running side. One idea to do this would be to modify the toolkit(s) (GTK, Qt etc) to generate save as dragboxes rather than mini-filers. Then you'd just need to drop in a new libgtk.so shared library and all GTK apps should use that. It doesn't make the app load things by drag and drop but it gets rid of the 'Save As' mini-filer. The difficulty is that so much in the system depends on a specific version of GTK, so you'd have a job to keep up - you'd probably need to repatch and rebuild at every upgrade. Though I'm not sure how the mini-filers work... GIMP, for example, uses GTK but has its own. Maybe someone has already done this - I haven't followed ROX for years. Theo |