Marshall Paul wrote:
> I loaded debian/sarge on Friday and have been playing
> with it since. I do have a number of problems, some
> simple and some more problematic.
>  
> 1. Less is more and I have more but I want less.  I
> don't seem to have the LESS command.  Can it be down
> loaded?  If so what package is it in or is it
> standalone?
> 
> 2. K3b doesn't work.  It works fine in SuSE, i.e. no
> problem with the hardware; hardware works fine in
> windowsXP too.  Un debian K3b gets an error writting
> to the disk.  The result is that the disk is toast. 
> The message said that No version of cdrdao was able to
> write to SCSI emulation: emable IDE-SCSI (SCSI
> emulation).  Did not have to do this in SuSE.  Any
> ideas. 
> 2.  Playing a CD seems to work, but no sound out of
> the speakers.
> 
> 3.  Mouse is erratic in that it takes more movement to
> get the cursor to move.  Slow (very slow) movement of
> the mouse causes no movement of the cursor.  Very
> annolying when trying to select a check box, etc. 
> Mouse works fine under WindowsXP and SuSE.
> 
> FYI:
> I was able to get postgreSQL and PgAccess working
> without much problem.  Apache came up clean too.  I
> really like the ease of loading and dumping packages
> under debian; they did a good job. In general I would
> be really happy with debian if it weren't for the
> mouse problem.
> 
> Marshall
> 
I don't know about 2 and 3.

For less, you can pick it up at http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
It's license is GPL. I've no idea why it's not included with debian.
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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