Re: [PLUG] Joystick detected, but not...

["Gregson Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

Fred,
I'll check those things out tonight.

With reference to modules:

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 12:32, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
>> > NLS =3D language modules. cp437 is code pagte 437 - I think that's the
=
>Englih
>> > language set. In effect, this is sort of locales-style stuff.
>>=20
>> So this is not needed for us English speakers?

>No. Not usually, anyway... not unless some app you are running needs
>them.

I do not know why cp437 and iso8859-1 are loaded, except that I also use
cyrillic on my machine.  When I start typing in Russian, cp1251 is loaded
dynamically.  When I then switch back to latin characters, the machine may
then look to load one (or both) of these character sets.  I change alphabets
through the keyboard|country function of KDE's (2.2.2) control panel.


>> > Advanced Power management. laptop type stuff, to power off after x
numb=
>er of
>> > minutes of inactivity.
>>=20
>> So this is not needed w/o laptop?

>>This is still useful if you are not on a laptop. It can turn the
>>power-saving mode on, cut the processor speed down, blank out the
>>monitor... things like that. You should leave it in there.

I manually added apm to /etc/modules because otherwise the system doesn't
use the "energy star" features of the monitor or shut itself off when I
shut down.

>> > Real Time Clock.
>>=20
>> Can you please give us detail on what this means? Just curious.

>rtc is used to allow access to the hardware clock via /dev/rtc. Some
>special programs require that. You'd know it if you were running one
>that needed it, however.

Well then, that's definitely a candidate for commenting-out in /etc/modules.
Wonder why Libranet would put that in there?


Thanks for your advice, Tobias!

Greg

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