From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 13:07:54 EDT
> > Good guess. They are S-video input and output.
>
> They seem to be the same size, but different pin configuration than
> any S-video cable I've ever seen.
Oh, now I get it. They must be S-video and composite combined in a single
connector. You can plug an S-video cable directly into them. The composite
adapter must be wired straight through to a couple of the extra pins.
> Does the fact that they include only
> one adapter mean that 1) IBM is cheap; or 2) I can't do input and
> output at the same time?
Good question. I'd guess #1. <g>
> I don't see a Keyboard control panel. I am currently logged in as
> "heiby", rather than "Administrator", but I had given "heiby"
> Administrator privs.
>
> In the "Regional Options" control panel, there is "Your locale" on its
> "General" tab, which says, "English (United States)". In the "Language
> settings for the system, the only box checked is "Western Europe and
> United States (Default)". In the same control panel, the "Input
> Locales" tab has "Input language" of "English (United States)" and
> "Keyboard layout/IME" of "US". Below, "Press CAPS LOCK key" is
> selected "To turn off Caps Lock". Below that, "Hot keys for input
> locales" has both "Switch between input locales" and "Switch to
> English (United States) - US" set with a "Key sequence" of "(None)".
No Keyboard control panel? I've never seen that. How do you adjust the
keyboard repeat rate or cursor blink rate?
On my system, the Input Locales page appears in both the Keyboard panel and
the Regional Options panel.
> Although I find the idea of having primary boot into Linux
> intellectually and emotionally attractive, if Win2K doesn't lock up or
> crash any more often than once every week or two, it might be worth
> putting up with that level of instability to not have to do quite so
> much messing around with finding and configuring Linux drivers.
>
> With Win98SE, it was no contest. Win98SE hangs or crashes for me
> typically 5-10 times per week. We had a Linux system here that stayed
> up running software development for about three months, before I did a
> graceful shutdown before a severe storm came through. On the same
> Win98SE TP770ED that often runs Win98SE, I have had pretty good luck
> with Red Hat 6.2 (except when the system is docked, the subject for a
> future message thread).
>
> Any feeling for how stable Win2K Pro is?
Forget your experience with Win98SE. Win2K is much closer to Linux than it
is to Win98SE.
-Mike
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