Linux-Misc Digest #289, Volume #20 Fri, 21 May 99 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Communism dosn't even exist, never did... (Sod Enfopol98)
Re: Linux's Last Chance (Bruce Richardson)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Christopher Browne)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Christopher Browne)
Re: WordPerfect gunzip ("D. Vrabel")
Re: Which version of Linux is best? (Mike Redan)
Re: Linux's Last Chance (SammyTheSnake)
How many operating systems can i have on a linux pc? (Jseppe)
Unable to access mounted partition (Roy Varghese)
Re: car mp3 player ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: libttf.so.2 -- where to find ("Spud")
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't install Linux5.2 on Presario 5660 'Help'! (Glenn)
Re: [Q] memory usage puzzle ("D. Vrabel")
Re: Fax Recieve Software (Raj Rijhwani)
Re: Any problems upgrading from RH5.2 to RH6.0 ? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Root Password lost... ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: A full-screen cross-hair cursor for X - does it exist? (Roland Latour)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sod Enfopol98)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Communism dosn't even exist, never did...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 04:08:49 GMT
Robert Washburne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decided to put finger to keyboard
on the Thu, 20 May 1999 16:34:51 -0400. In doing so, they felt we
would all like to know:
>There appear to be only three models in the world;
>1) Marketable Commodity, where you are free to sell your services to
>whomever. This whould include entrepaneurship where you hire yourself as
>a farmer, painter, etc.
Called 'whoring' in certain circumstances. Media whores being the most
repulsive example.
>2) Serf/slave, where you are told what you will do. This is the model
>used by socialist/communist(alleged)/feudal/dictatorship systems.
I didn't even have to check your addy or message pathway to see that
you were an american... only americans tend to associate socialism
with Leninist/Stalinist communism...
>3) Unusable. Noone tells you what to do and noone hires you. Could be
>because you are independantly wealthy, the head of a "2)" form of
>government or just don't have anything of value to offer.
Liberal socialism? Generally referred to as 'anarchism' - but anarchy
merely being the absence of the State, as opposed to the common spin
of a system of violent lawlessness.
>> I can see how a car is a product, but i cannot percieve of myself as
>> such.
>
>Perception is one thing. The human mind is quite adept at "putting a
>spin" on reality. The important question is which of the above three
>models do you fall fit into. Having answered that, you know have the
>ability to rationally plot your future.
>
>Don't worry about being manipulated or exploited. You will be.
>Guarenteed.
Hell, even as a little child i could figure out that the only way
someone could get rich was by charging people more than the product
they were selling was worth, and paying less than the work was worth.
Yet far too many politicos seem incapable of grasping something so
obvious...
You cannot have a capitalist system and have a system that is fair.
>> But then again, i never was a good little communist.
>
>It's a human trend. The Pilgrims tried to set up a cummunist state when
>they came to America in 1620---all were to share equally in the
>harvest. But they were not good little communists and slacked off
>figuring that they would get the grain whether they worked the fields or
>not. Bottom line: bad harvest, winter of starvation with close to half
>of the population dieing. They changed to capitalism the next year with
>everyone responcible for their own food.
Whoops... i should have said capitalist - the only system where the
powerful get to shit on the little people, and yet the little people
willingly subscribe to it because occassionally one of them gets to
become one of the big people (and therefore shit on other people)...
Also the only system where i am not a person, i am a tradeable
product.
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From: Bruce Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux's Last Chance
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:16:14 +0100
Mr S A Penny wrote:
>
> In article <bA4OvJA$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >At the risk of being percieved as unhelpful: "RTFJF".
>
> erm, what does RTFJF mean? I know RTFM but I can't think what a JF might be...
Jargon File?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 04:16:09 GMT
On 20 May 1999 15:07:06 -0400, Michael David Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus) writes:
>>It was the 20 May 1999 16:33:18 +0200...
>>..and David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus) writes:
>>> > It was the Wed, 19 May 1999 17:51:51 -0500...
>>> > ..and Kenneth P. Turvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> > [schnibble]
>>> > > Now how did we get from operating systems to gun control?
>>> > Every thread degenerates into either an Emacs-vs.-vi debate or a gun
>>> > control flamewar after a finite amount of time.
>>> To which of those alternatives would Godwin's law apply?
>>Gun control advocates always bring up the Nazis after some time.
>
>It's the other way round, actually. It's the gun advocates who
>typically trot out the "Nazis had gun control" myth.
Two postings in a row mentioned Nazis (and I suppose this makes a
third), which clearly establishes the end of the thread...
--
"...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two
noted exceptions: being struck by lightning, or worse, your *computer*
being struck by lightning." -- By Matt Welsh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 04:16:22 GMT
On 20 May 1999 21:26:08 +0200, David Kastrup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) writes:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) writes:
>> >> You may be less likely to die, net, if you have a gun, because most
>> >> of the time, people "defending" themselves with guns don't fire them
>> >> - most people aren't stupid enough to wait around to be shot at.
>>
>> >So you would be of the opinion that a criminal armed with a gun
>> >telling me to pass my wallet will, if I grasp at a gun as an answer,
>> >turn his back on me and walk away?
>>
>> Not necessarily... But he might.
>>
>> Roughly speaking, if you resist with anything but a gun, you're more likely
>> to get hurt than if you don't resist. If you resist with a gun, you're less
>> likely to get hurt than if you don't resist.
>
>Don't be silly. There is no reason to shoot me if I don't resist.
This doesn't stop this from, too often, happening.
>If he was planning to kill me, anyway, there would be no point in asking
>me to pass the wallet first.
If the crime represents "wanting to have power over you," then what he
wants is your *obedience,* with the wallet as a distant priority. And
killing you may lie higher on the list than getting the wallet.
>Of course, if in the act of me passing my wallet, he will notice that
>I have a gun strapped to my side, he might consider killing me before
>turning his back. So if I carry a gun, the option of "not resisting"
>might be considerably more dangerous than if I don't.
Carrying a gun changes the decision tree entirely, shifting the root of
the tree fairly substantially. The decisions, once you're carrying a
gun, are different.
Carrying gun gives the option of armed resistance, and *nearly* mandates
that option.
Furthermore, in most of the jurisdictions where this is relevant (e.g.
Texas, Florida, and the like), the gun is likely to be deliberately
concealed, and thus shouldn't be noticed, if the carrier is competent...
--
"...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two
noted exceptions: being struck by lightning, or worse, your *computer*
being struck by lightning." -- By Matt Welsh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WordPerfect gunzip
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:22:39 +0100
On 21 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In his obvious haste, Jeff Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
> : I downloaded Corel WP8 (guilg00.gz) and when I try to gunzip I get the
> : message "not in gzip format". I clicked on "download now" and
> : downloaded the file. After the download was complete I saved the file
> : to a temporary directory for unzipping. This process has worked for
> : other ".gz / tar.gz" files. I don't understand the problem I'm having
> : with Corel. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Try
>
> tar -tvf guilg00.gz
>
> There's a chance it might not be gzipped after all...
> (I've heard of SOMETHING similar....)
Use file to tell what kind of file it is.
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Redan)
Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux;,alt.os.linux;
Subject: Re: Which version of Linux is best?
Date: 21 May 1999 13:26:17 GMT
it would probably be a good idea to do a search on www.deja.com on this
subject, it has been discussed several times before, and the arguments
probably haven't changed much. There are also a lot of comparisions out
thre on the web...do a quick search on altavista, and slashdot aswell...
hope that helps.
Mike
a 406 Hepcat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm a prosepective Lunux user and a multimedia (mainly pro-audio)
> producer and engineer. I'm using BeOS, but I'm also interested in
> Linux to (almost) completely relplace my Windoze systems. There are
> plenty of commercial versions of Linux out there to choose from (Red
> Hat, Open Linux, etc.), but which one is the best for what I want. Are
> the only differences the GUIs, or do they go deeper. I'm expecting a
> lot of responses to this, so don't let me down.
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From: SammyTheSnake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux's Last Chance
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:40:26 +0100
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>
>
> Mr S A Penny wrote:
> >
> > In article <bA4OvJA$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > >At the risk of being percieved as unhelpful: "RTFJF".
> >
> > erm, what does RTFJF mean? I know RTFM but I can't think what a JF might be...
>
> Jargon File?
cool, TVM
BTW, I prefer to get a reply by NG if I post to NG and by e-mail if I ask
by e-mail, but certainly not both. TIA.
SammyTheSnake
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jseppe)
Subject: How many operating systems can i have on a linux pc?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:14:09 GMT
I currently use lilo to dual boot between Windows 98 and Linux. Is
it possible to make it a quad boot PC? Ultimately, I would like to
run linux, NT, Netware, and some flavor of Windows (95, 98, or NT
workstation). Thanks -Joe
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From: Roy Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to access mounted partition
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:34:26 GMT
I have mounted my NTFS file system into /mnt/cdrive, fstab shows
/dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive ntfs user,ro 0 0
My problem is that I can access the mounted directory only when I
am logged in as root. No other user can access it, even though they
can mount it. Permission on the /mnt/cdrive directory is drwxrwxrwx.
Can anyone help please?
Kernel: 2.2.9
Thanks!
Roy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: car mp3 player
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:34:36 +0059
Try www.empeg.com.
It looks to be exactly what you need.
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From: "Spud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: libttf.so.2 -- where to find
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 01:54:42 GMT
You need the freetype package (i think the latest is 1.2)...check
www.enlightenment.org.
>I am trying to install enlightenment-0.15.5-32 and rpm says that it needs
>libttf.so.2 (amoung other things). I have resolved all the dependencies
>except for the subject lib. Unfortunately, I have no luck finding
libttf ---
>does anyone know which package contains it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Date: 21 May 1999 13:33:38 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware sven the hairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is linux inferior in its handling of multiple processors than other OSs?
: Somebody at work trashed linux in this area, but I couldn't object to his
: comments because I don't know much about multi-processor systems. Is he full
: of S**t?
with kernel-2.0.x only the BootStrap-Processor was able to handle
interrupts, and only one processor was able to be in kernel mode
at a time. With high I/O-traffic (server), that had slightly negative
effects on the performance.
But it didn't affect user-space programms, such as number-crunching.
Today (Kernel 2.2.x) everything is better :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can't install Linux5.2 on Presario 5660 'Help'!
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:00:35 GMT
On Thu, 20 May 1999 21:21:27 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn)
wrote:
>I have a Compaq Presario 5660: Pent.II, 128meg ram, 12gig HD. I used
>FIPS after doing a defrag, and split my HD into 8gig for my M.S. and
>have about 4gig I want for Linux. All went smooth until I went into
>Disk Druid, put my cursor on Mount Point, selected hda2 the 4gig and
>followed the instruction: "Press F1 to add partition. Enter / for
>Mount Point. Select Linux Native, leave default 1 for size and
>selected "Growable". I click Ok and get the following:
>
>"There are currently unallocated partition(s) present in the list of
>requested partition(s). The unallocated partition(s) are shown below
>with the reason they were not allocated.
>
>/............... boot partition too big"
>
>I tried using the supplemental floppy with my CDRom still to no avail.
>I am a 'newbie' working from Linux for Dummies and the Red Hat 5.2
>included in that CD. Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
>Compaq was of NO help. I am finding nothing on the Red Hat site.
>
>Thanks.... Glenn, To reply by email, remove NOSP from the email
>address in the header. Thanks again......
I received a gracious response by email to try fdisk as the
alternative. Trying that method I get the screen showing hda1 and
hda2 but with the following:
hda1 * 1 1000 7559968
hda2 1001 1557 4210920
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
physical = (532, 239, 63) logical - (1556, 239, 63)
When I try to make my Linux native partition, it says I have only
1001-1023 space. I end up with 170meg of free space as I did using
Disk Druid. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Remove NOSP
from my email in the header for any email response. Thanks very much.
Glenn
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Q] memory usage puzzle
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 17:19:16 +0100
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Jerome Mrozak wrote:
> I have SuSE 6.1 distribution (Linux 2.2.5) installed on a 80MB RAM
> computer. Booting to the CLI, 'free' reports that 55MB is used, 25MB
> unused. I am not running any expensive daemons at this moment (for
> example, not running httpd or crond or lpd or atd, etc.).
>
> I understand that Linux can run in 16MB, ??MB, etc. Yet it is reporting
> 55MB used.
>
> * Is Linux simply using the memory to cache, and will release this
> memory overuse as other programs require it?
Yes. See the output of free to see the amount of memory used by
processes.
> * I'm thinking that when I run a GUI (Gnome, KDE) that it will want to
> eat memory. Will I start swapping to swap partition simply because my
> "kernel" is chewing my RAM?
The kernel itself take up very little RAM (about 1MB ofn my machine).
> * Is my base setup configured wrong to use this much memory?
Nope. 55+25=80.
> * How is it my Linux eats more RAM (apparently) than the pig that is
> WinNT4?
It doesn't. Your just interpreting the figures incorrectly.
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raj Rijhwani)
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Fax Recieve Software
Date: Fri, 21 May 99 14:19:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7i277k$o3a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In comp.os.linux.setup Raj Rijhwani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Duh! After writing this I thought I'd give it another try. Found
> > some mention of locks and locking, realised it should all work as it
> > stands (previous failures notwithstanding), and tried it. Guess what?
> > It all worked straight out of the trap. I have no idea why it failed
> > repeatedly in the past - just chalk one up to the great god Glitch, I
> > guess...
> ...... post the instructions - ! It will help many ... I tried to get
> hylafax to work (email to fax) could not - I did manage to get
> efax to send -
That's more than I wanted to do: allow fax receive, or serial login,
or PPP login, or PPP dial-out. I didn't have to "do" much at all.
No change to my pre-existing PPP setup (which simply relies on
pppd to execute an appropriate connect script). I downloaded,
compiled, and installed mgetty & sendfax as per the instructions
accompanying the package. I set up inittab to call mgetty for the
two serial lines, did an init q, and bingo! Everything worked as
if I'd never had a conflict (which I most definitely did when I
last tried about 6 months ago).
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any problems upgrading from RH5.2 to RH6.0 ?
Date: 21 May 1999 10:57:23 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am using RH5.2, and I have quite a lot of settings and programs
> installed. I want to upgrade to RH6.0 to get the new kernel, and latest
> version of all redhat-distributed programs/libraries I have
> installed.
you can get the new kernel anyhow. linuxhq and redhat have
instructions about what you need to upgrade. rpms exist for all the
things you need.
> I have never upgraded RH Linux as a whole, until now I have always made
> a totally new installation, but this time I have to much installed for
> this.
i started with redhat-5.0 and have kept it current so i effectively
have a 5.2 + all the 2.[12].* kernel requirements.
i recompiled the redhat glibc-2.1.1 source rpm and installed it. bash
and egcs continue to run just fine. then i recompiled egcs to get a
new libstdc++ (ver 2.9). next i did ncurses and octave. since then
my system continues to run just fine. there may be a few other
programs that also stop running but they can be rebuilt from source
rpms too. i don't know about any X lib problems. i continue to use
the one built for/with glibc-2.0.x. i can use binary rpms off
redhat-6.0 directories.[1]
one annoyance is that you will need libcstdc++ 2.7 and 2.8 for stuff
like netscape that you cannot compile yourself. i got the binaries
and just copied them to /usr/lib (or is it /lib?). one day i'll be
fancy and write up an rpm wrapper to keep the database happy.
> I know there is a install/upgrade option in the installation program.
>
> Can anybody tell me if this really work without problems, to choose
> upgrade and when done get a fresher system, with all apps and
> installations, like DNS, ISP, mailadress soundcardsetting and so all
> intact (apps naturally upgraded, if an upgrade is in RH6.0)?
i don't know. i'd back-up /etc and /home. then look around for other
configs scattered about and back them up too.
upgrading is easier if you have at least two partitions (you can
always have more if you like), a root / and a /home. this way you can
leave /home alone, chdir to /, and
tar cvzf etc /home/luser/etc-redhat-5.2.tar.gz
collect the other little configs and stuff you want to save out of /.
now you are free to blow / away and can install other linux
distributions if you wish.
hope this helps.
[1] i haven't been able to install redhat-6.0 pam. i am using the
source rpm and it complains about some security directory being empty.
is it simply a matter of moving the files out of /etc/pam into a new
home? if anyone has instructions or hints, please advise. thanks.
--
johan kullstam
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Root Password lost...
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:17:09 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thomas Veach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> D. Vrabel wrote:
[...]
> > boot into single user mode (use single option at the LILO prompt). Or
use
> > a boot disk that come with Red Hat.
> Is it just me, or is it realy this easy to break into a linux machine
> and take over as root?
This topic comes up every other week. Please, please check dejanews.
Excerpt from an earlier posting:
In short the next levels of attack are:
- boot from floppy and mount the HD
- reset the boot sequence to floppy first in the BIOS (if the system is
booting from HD)
- reset the BIOS to default values, maybe by removing the CMOS battery if
necessary (if the BIOS is password protected)
- remove the HD from the computer and hook it up to another machine
Bottom line: If you physical access to the computer then it is not secure,
although you can do something to make it a bit more difficult to break in by
- protecting LILO with a password
- deleting the floppy and the CD from the boot sequence in the BIOS (or
physically removing them from the computer)
- protecting the BIOS with a password (such that the boot sequence can not
be changed back)
- locking up the computer case or welding it shut (such that nobody can
remove the HD without force)
- putting the computer case in a locked room
- putting an armed guard next to the computer
It's up to you to decide, how much security you need and how much you want
to invest.
jue
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J�rgen Exner
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From: Roland Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A full-screen cross-hair cursor for X - does it exist?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 07:40:45 -0700
Erik Rossen wrote:
>
> In the Access-HOWTO it is mentioned that there is no full-screen
> cross-hair cursor program for X available. The latest version of this
> HOWTO was written in 1997, so I am wondering if things have changed.
>
> I am interested because I have a laptop with cheap screen and sometimes
> I find the X cursor a little difficult to follow, even with Xeyes.
I sometimes use a cursor image 171x68, of a shark. Had to use option
"sw_cursor" in XF86Config because the hardware cursor on most video
boards is designed for MS cursors. You can create a cursor image and
mask with 'bitmap'. Make the mask a little bit larger (and filled in)
than the cursor. The mask controls what on the background shows thru.
Then just 'xsetroot -cursor cursorfile maskfile'.
I haven't tried bigger cursors. There must be a limit in XFree86.
Give it a try.
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ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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