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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

Maybe there is some hardware difference between all of your computers, and 
the two computers that I have set up with X and had backspace problems on?
In any event, would it hurt to put those lines in -- i. e., would your 
system still work properly?  My problem was in BL2, not BL1.8.

I think James said his problem was that the delete acted like a backspace.  
In my case the backspace acted like a delete, and that is how xmodmap.std 
was set up.  If I fiddle with the .xinitrc that I found in the previous 
version of BL2, I could reverse the problem (my backspace and delete would 
both act like backspaces).  I had the problem in xterm and in flwriter.

Update on video cards.  Another trident ran at normal speed in the AMD.
I tried some of these cards in a Chinese made Celeron 500 computer.  Some 
of them would not fit into this huge computer because of poor case design 
but the ones that did ran even slower than in the AMD 300.  
For instance:  P133 - 112K,  AMD300 -70K, Celeron 500 - 40K.

The Trident that ran superfast in the 300 (135) ran at 40K in the 500.

Do most video cards slow down in computers which are newer than they are?
The 300 and 500 are 1998 and 1999 and the cards are mostly 94-97.
People must keep their cards when they throw out their computers.

I also notice that the same card will measure as being faster if it has 
less RAM in it, probably because the program tests it at higher 
resolutions or with more colors.


On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Steven, since at least 3 of us have complained about 
> > the backspace problem  (which implies 10 times as many 
> > are just putting up with it),
> 
> I simply don't understand where your backspace problem is 
> coming from.  I'm running BL2 right now and there is no 
> backspace problem.  
> 
> Composing this message: backspace...backspace...no problem
> Lauch the browser:  backspace...backspace...no problem
> Open an xterm: backspace...backspace...no problem
> 
> It is true that the xterm lacks the home/end/delete capability
> of the BL2 CLI, but backspace works fine.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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