My SMP machine doesn't like ACPI, it makes various Windows and Linux kernels crash, and so it's disabled. Win2k Pro and SuSE 8.1 on that machine work just fine without it, but while the wheel of my ...

For years, I never used the extra buttons on the side of my mouse, and mostly just viewed them as a nuisance. Too often I’d click them by accident and trigger some unwanted action, like navigating ...

iam new to linux so i tried installing knoppix/debian using the knx-hdinstall script from the live cd. that worked fine, so after mucking around a bit i did a apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. this ...