Hi Steve,
I enjoyed your comments as they throw new light into the linux jungle. > Red Hat 6.2 can be put onto ~130MB... that includes X. > Here is an important point. Should I stick to a new distro or should I use a smaller but old one ? > > The first thing I notice when installing arachne is that it comes with > > 2 executables: arachne-ggi and arachne-svgalib > > > > Arachne-svgalib seemed to execute right away although with some problems. > > but Arachne-ggi crashed the system right away. I then discovered that I > > ought to have ggi and gii libraries installed in order to work. > > I don't even know if ggi works with X windows or not. > > GGI *only* works with X-windows. This is the only way > I'll run Arachne on Linux. I have since your reply installed x-Windows but neither arachne-ggi neither X-Windows seems to work. > > Arachne-svgalib starts with some default values for vgaconfig and so far I > > have been unable to find a .conf file for svgalib 1.4.3 where to adjust > > some parameters. > > Did you look at /etc/vga/libvga.config ? > > but one problem showed up: the mouse moved very little > > which pointed to After I read your message I saw no /etc/vga directory, so I look for the source and re-installed svgalib. Now there is /etc/vga/ dir and I had place mouse scale back to original value in arachne.conf No problems with mouse scale now. > Hmmm... the rest of your message evaporated. But, the > mouse will act strange if you don't have svgalib configured > properly. > I am reposting the last part of the evaporated message ! Arachne-svgalib starts with some default values for vgaconfig and so far I have been unable to find a .conf file for svgalib 1.4.3 where to adjust some parameters. When I first started arachne-svgalib , the familiar arachne init page showed up which made feel at home as most things were similar to the Arachne 1.66 for DOS I use daily. but one problem showed up: the mouse moved very little which pointed to a scale problem. The only place I could adjust this was in Arachne.conf file (same as arachne.cfg in DOS). I tested some values until I got a usable mouse. This number was 2 which seemed way of low. ABOVE IS SOLVED NOW ! After this I tested arachne for a few hours on the net . It run OK ? but had 2 big problems. Every time I clicked on a link , a screen appeared "Can't open connection" , then I escaped (closed) arachne. In the linux text background screen there was "Can't create mouse thread" written many times. I then entered arachne again , then back page and there was the link Arachne couldn't open before. Also I experienced segmentation ? problems at the arachne-svgalib binary. After a while I got used to exit and enter Arachne that made navigation possible but inconvenient . The fact is I don't have the slightest idea what to do, But before, I have to learn a lot about Linux. On the plus side Arachne for Linux seems faster than Arachne for Dos. I will keep playing with Linux to learn, but I think Linux is not ready for me, or better I am not ready for linux The fact that several distributions have different libraries and some software was compiled with such library makes Linux a nightmare for a user. Imagine if there were 6 different io.sys DOS kernels each for a different software, then I would be forced to learn a lot more about how each io.sys was compiled. This is impractical. I will stick to MSDOS in which Bill Gates decreed how it was going to be, everybody else follows suit , and all software certainly work on Microsoft DOS. Linux reminds me of Babel Tower, and it will remain impractical for most people for a long time as a general purpose OS , exc
