From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 18 18:44:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA19778 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:44:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19773 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA15250; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:44:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: Doug White cc: The Classiest Man Alive , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > > > (1) How can I get emacs to accept my Backspace key for backspacing rather > > than my delete key? > > stty erase Just to amplify a bit, that's "stty erase ^H". That's a ^ and then an H, which stty knows means control-H. > > (4) Does anyone know if XFree86 supports any 3-D video cards. Not that it > > needs to support their 3-D functionality, just that X-Windows would run > > with it. > > Not sure. You would have to check with XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org). I have a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, which mostly works fine with XFree86 3.2 (the driver causes an occasional system hang, though, so I wouldn't recommend this hardware/software combination particularly. I don't know whether it's fixed in 3.2A or not). > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."