Linux-Misc Digest #710, Volume #21 Mon, 6 Sep 99 23:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Apache Setup (David Efflandt)
Suse 6.2 Hard Disk Installation Error, 'Can't Find Image !'? ("Allix")
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Spike!)
Re: Suse 6.2 Hard Disk Installation Error, 'Can't Find Image !'? (Spike!)
Re: Distributions RH, Suse, Mandrake (Spike!)
Re: What is best HTML Editor for LINUX? (Big Daddy)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (teknite)
Re: Maintaining 2 Networks (Michael Starkie)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (teknite)
Boot/Root Rescue Question (Jeffrey Smith)
Re: C vs C++ for Open Source projects (Russ Allbery)
Re: Sound Blaster Awe 64 PCI card ("Matthew O. Persico")
Re: making linux go away (Tom Taylor)
Re: Made my own "live CD" at last! Works great, too :-) (Terry Porter)
Can't start X fonts server (Victor Lee)
Re: WordPerfect on 24 bit visual? (Grant Edwards)
Re: I've got a PCI Winmodem... ("Tony Hunter")
Re: can't load libXt.so.6 (Ray Kohler)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Apache Setup
Date: 7 Sep 1999 01:07:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:49:32 -0400, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is what I would ultimately like to setup, it shouldnt be too hard, I
>think I am just running into some permissions issues. I am using RH6 with
>Apache 1.3.1
>
>1. Setup UserDir so host.domain.com/~username works. I have created a
>public_html directory and placed an index.html in the directory, but I
>always get "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~username on
>this server." as an error.
Check permissions of user's home directory. RedHat sets that to 700
regardless of umask, so apache will not even be able to find their
public_html. Try 755.
>2. Setup a Virtual Domain such as host2.domain.com or
>host.otherdomain.com. This is simple, I have this working, but I want to
>give a user permission to ftp to upload only to the virtual domain
>directory, but have no other permissions to run amok looking around the
>server. The virtual domains need to be able to run cgi also.
Have you read 'man ftpd' about how to set up a guest account? I think it
is just a matter of setting up a different guest account for each of those
users similar the annonymous ftp that limits them to /home/ftp.
Of course on sites where I only have ftp access, I use a CGI webshell to
look around if I need to find something. I also have CGI's that can find
Perl modules and perldocs for them, and another that can read man pages.
Otherwise it is rather difficult to find programs and troubleshoot CGI
when you have restricted ftp only access.
>Its always the simplest fixes that are the most mind boggling, any help or
>direction would be appreciated.
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From: "Allix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Suse 6.2 Hard Disk Installation Error, 'Can't Find Image !'?
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:09:33 -0400
Using rawrite I created a boot disk using the eide1 image and booted into
the installation. Eventually I got to
the part of the installation that asks me to locate where the files are. It
first asks for the hard disk which i put as /dev/hda1 and then the location
of suse , which i put as /suse (and have tried many variations and also
other folders in /suse), but i always get the error :
"can't find image !", Anyone know what this means ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:59:37 GMT
K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I suppose a user running the app on an alpha with FreeBSD might
>> have reason to care.
>Not in the *slightest*. Why? Simple: he presumably downloaded the
>package targetted for his machine. Why he needs to be reminded of this
>in the app's directory name I have no idea. Doesn't he *know* it's an
>x86 box running Linux, not a 68xxx running MacOS?
You are a bit narrow-minded here. It's not all that uncommon to
a) Share your I-put-my-source-here-and-compile-it directory between several
machines on your network.
b) Keep various versions of the sources for the same project online (if
for no other reason, then to be able to create diff files)
So no, he might _not_ know what machine the source was targetted for, or
what version it was, because "his machine" (or her machine, at that) might
be a rather ambiguous term (My personal list includes a 486, P5, P5MMX,
PPro and Celeron machines, some of them SMP, as well as two Alphas which
are slightly different from each other. Oh, and not all of them run the
same OS, either).
Bernie
--
Human blunders, however, usually do more to shape history
than human wickedness
A.J.P. Taylor
British historian, 1906-90
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:59:26 +0100
And verily, didst K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
> Golly gee, like I didn't know that. I also happen to know that out of
> the times I've downloaded apps for Linux that weren't part of the
> distribution package they usually came as... source.
Must've been quite a while ago then.
Oh, they still come as source, but they also come as .deb and/or .rpm files.
(The vast majority do anyway)
>> Debian and RedHat have
>> developed some nice package management systems for installing compiled
>> applications. If a user is scared of decompressing and untar'ing a file,
>> how do you think he'll feel about compiling it? He'd best stick with
>> packages.
> Indeed. Now, of the package systems available, which is the standard
> one? Or even three?
RPM is the most widely used.
But even that's not a problem, for we have alien to convert between
rpm, deb and tgz...
> WTF? What's ivf?
Last I heard, it was InVetro Fertilisation....
> Yes, yes, *you* like command-lines and switches. So do *I*. About 98%
> of the desktop users out there do NOT; they want it point-and-click
> easy; compare your method above to "click on setup.exe or the .EXE file
> you just downloaded."
Why not click on the app you want with the GUI version of rpm then????
D'OH!
<Snip far too much hype about a Microsloth install package>
>> Oh yes, if you're afraid of command lines, there are GUI frontends, too.
>> I haven't messed with them, though, as I can use my keyboard.
> As can I. As can most folks with functioning fingers. What some folks,
> such as you, fail to recognize is *why* GUIs are so popular. It's not
> that people can't use keyboards.
I think you missed the point...
You were going on an anti CLI rampage, and he kindly pointed out that RPM
could actually function as part of a GUI, which is readily available and
free.
> A computer is a tool to most people, not a hobby. Most people do *not*
> want to fart around learning 803 different command-line switches and
> trying to remember which apps they're used with.
KDE...
Most folks want a
> nice, simple, point-and-click interface complete with standardized menu
> locations, commands and so forth for common tasks.
KDE...
They want this
> because they want to be able to install, run, and if necessary uninstall
> their tools - word processors, spreadsheets, whatver - without *having*
> to know how the system works.
KDE...
> The problem with your view of things isn't that command lines are
> inherently bad, it's that you don't seem to comprehend that *not* every
> user is also a developer.
Why do you think that?
HE (and I for that matter) prefer CLI, but he has pointed out that GUI
versions of one hell of a lot of programs are available... Even TAR has
XTAR...
Many users want to *use* the machine, not
> have to understand it - that's *our* job, as developers. We're supposed
> to make the machine as nearly invisible to the user as we possibly can.
And this, IMNSHO is one of the saddest things ton happen to the computer
industry in decades, courtesy of M$.
If you buy a car, are you allowed to drive it away that instant, without
first having taken driving lessons and passed a test?
People who buy computers should be PREPARED to learn how to use them.
It would help prevent some of the incidents detailed in the computer
stupidities files.
> Is Windows perfect in this regard? Not hardly. It's simply about 8
> million times better than command-line based approaches.
10 years ago, the average user had to use CLI.
If they NEED to, they will. And give them a few months with it, and chances
are, they'd PREFER the flexibility. M$ has effectively locked people into a
windows (do it my way or not at all) type of environment.
The only CLI they have access to is DOS, and many don't even know THAT
exists...
> The only time I've ever had that problem was when the dll file was, in
> fact, corrupt - usually because I had a drive crash. Mind you, that
> hasn't happened in, oh, 4 years. So how does Linux handle that? Does
> Linux contain code that can magically rebuild dynamicly-loaded modules,
> presumably by analyzing what the calling application thinks they should
> do, then re-writing them on the fly?
I believe he's talking about all the crappy applications out there that
insist on installing their own DLLs, and thus break 10 other apllications
that used the old one.
Not heard of that phenominon?
Strange... Everyone else has.
THIS case, linux does handle it better, because every shared library
contains its version number in its filename, and applications know which
version to link to.
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Re: Suse 6.2 Hard Disk Installation Error, 'Can't Find Image !'?
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:17:47 +0100
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc, Allix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
> Using rawrite I created a boot disk using the eide1 image and booted into
> the installation. Eventually I got to
> the part of the installation that asks me to locate where the files are. It
> first asks for the hard disk which i put as /dev/hda1 and then the location
> of suse , which i put as /suse (and have tried many variations and also
> other folders in /suse), but i always get the error :
I've not seen this before, but if it's asking for the location of SuSE,
surely /cdrom would be the correct response?
(You did select INSTALL from CDROM didn't you?)
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Distributions RH, Suse, Mandrake
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:26:39 +0100
And verily, didst Charles M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
>> > than with Suse.
>>
>> SuSE uses RPM as well. Red Hat just tends to put things in awkward,
>> non-standard places, but Red Hat rpms will work with SuSE....
> I've noticed mention of this before and I'm curious. While I've been a
> Unix user for a long time, it wasn't until Linux that I've had to delve
> into administration. Just what does Redhat do that is so non-standard and
> what or who determines where the standard places are?
As I'm not a Red Hat user, but I can say that there is a File System
Hierarchy standard which SuSE does a good job adhering to.
There have been a few Red Hat files I've tried to install from a Red Hat
distro CD that caused problems due to installing in different places. I
think some libraries went into /usr/local/lib [from the standard distro].
(Can't think of any specifics at the moment)
SuSE also makes good use of the /opt directory for storing large, bulky,
non-system files such as KDE, GNOME, Wordperfect and StarOffice.
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From: Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is best HTML Editor for LINUX?
Date: 7 Sep 1999 01:18:06 GMT
Scribbling furiously, John Hasler managed to write....
: I concede that it might be possible to write an HTML editor that allows one
: to create usable Web pages without knowing HTML, but looking around the Web
: I see no evidence that such an editor is in use.
Me personally, I like the "Advanced Text Editor", in KDE. Syntax
highlighting. What else do you need?
--
Big Daddy
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the
law free.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (teknite)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:53:08 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:16:04 -0700, K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[snips]
>
Obviously you haven't installed "My Solar System" on a Win 98 machine. This
POS overwrote every *.dll it could find and effectively rendered an otherwise
stable system into a veggie.
You also haven't dealt with the Direct-X, Active-X or whatever the hell
it is called today problems as they relate to multimedia.
Certain versions work with certain programs and all will happily
overwrite other versions even if they are later versions.
While Windows applications install easily with one click and
maybe a question or two, the real fun begins later down
the line when other programs that used to work no longer function.
Brian Livingston (Windows Secrets author) wrote several articles
on this very topic and his research uncovered the theory that
many of Windows unstable behavior traits could be traced in fact
to *.dll hell.
Linux applications generally install easily and using xrpm it's really
a no brainer. Even compiling amounts to ./configure, make, make install
which is quite easy. The only difficulty I have encountered is some
of the cryptic "library missing" messages I have seen once in a while.
Sometimes they are easy to decipher and other times not, but a quick
question in a newsgroup usually gets the answer real fast.
As my education improves my pilot error will decrease.
I much prefer this to Installshield overwriting everything in sight.
At least it protects me from my ignorant, but willing to learn, self :)
teknite
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From: Michael Starkie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.network,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Maintaining 2 Networks
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 21:37:16 -0400
Well. I finally got it work. I had to set my default gateway (using linuxconf) to the
gateway of my pppd server. Then in kppp I check the "use default gateway" toggle.
There is an option for a static gateway. I should be able to type it here instead of
having to set my default gateway to the pppd gateway...but it doesn't work. I set up
two /etc/resolv.conf files. One for the network through ppp and another for the network
through my ethernet card. I use the ethernet as the default and then boot the system.
I can ping IP's on the ethernet. Before starting kppp I bring down eth0, connect to
ppp
using kppp, and I'm on the ppp0 network. THe next step is to try to bring eth0 up
again
and see if I can use both networks.
Tony Green wrote
> I certainly do. I use my linux machine as a Firewall/Gateway for my other machine to
> get onto the internet.
>
> Michael Starkie wrote:
>
> > Tony Green wrote:
> >
> > > Well,
> > >
> > > I use a lan connection and ppp at the same time without any problems. As for
> > > dynamic DNS etc - thats a different problem.
> > >
> > > I think you best bet it to right a little script which will allow you to change
> > > the relevnet files based on information that it gets from /var/log/messages?
> > >
> >
> > Do you use both networks at the same time?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (teknite)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:29:52 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:20:40 +0200, Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Create your own entry for Window Maker, name it, say "Window Maker
>without dock", and in the properties requester, type "wmaker
>--no-dock".
>
>mawa
Thanks for the tip, it worked perfectly!
The latest Gnome is quite stable and in fact the only bug I
have uncovered is that the logout prompt doesn't give me
the option to save, reboot etc like the manual says it should.
Otherwise it has been perfect and yes I have added several
applications to the panel and they worked perfectly :)
teknite
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From: Jeffrey Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot/Root Rescue Question
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 21:38:05 -0400
I am attempting to create a boot/root disk pair that I can
use to resuscitate my system in the event of a disk problem.
Creating the boot disk is easy as long as I use rdev to set the
root device and the ramdisk word correctly for the kernel on
the diskette (ramdisk word is 49152).
I create the root disk by mounting a ramdisk, copying files to the
ramdisk, then creating a compressed image of the disk using gzip.
This compressed image is then written to a floppy. The trick is to
make sure you have all of the shared libraries and loaders needed
to execute.
Here is my current problem:
The kernel boots fine from the boot disk, and the kernel asks for the
root floppy as expected. The kernel seems to load the root disk OK
then reports the following error:
Warning: unable to open initial console.
This error is message is being generated within the init() function
in main.c. Why, I don't know?
Naturally I have been trying a shitload of different things to fix this
and I have come up with nothing. In the course of trying different
things I was able to (somehow) create a root disk that would get
past the above error and report the following:
INIT: version 2.76 booting
Enter Run Level:
If I enter the letter "S", I get the following error reported:
INIT: cannot execute /bin/sh
So it seams that "sometimes" I get past the console error and actually
run init. Now, if I remove the inittab file from the compressed root
filesystem I get the following:
INIT: version 2.76 booting
INIT: No inittab file found
Enter Run Level:
>From this I can assume that the kernel is recognizing the filesystem
since.
I am at the end of my rope with this
one. Any suggestions would be great.
Here is more info:
1) I compiled this kernel using make bzImage, ELF static.
2) The version of linux is 2.2.6.
3) I have performed "ldd" on agetty and I have included the files in
/lib
to support it.
4) I am using version 4.0 of slackware.
5) The following is the contents of the /lib directory (I don't show
the
symbolic links):
/lib/libc.so.5
/lib/libc.so.5.4.46
/lib/ld.so
/lib/ld-linux.so
/lib/ld-linux.so.1
/lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.9
/lib/libtermcap.so.2
/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
/lib/libext2fs.so.2
/lib/libext2fs.so.2.4
/lib/libcom_err.so.2
/lib/libcom_err.so.2.0
Thanks
--
Jeffrey Smith
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From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: C vs C++ for Open Source projects
Date: 06 Sep 1999 19:16:48 -0700
In gnu.misc.discuss, Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> perusing the gcc/egcs mailing lists, i see that the new `squangle' name
> mangling scheme is in the offings too. that's at least one more
> incompatible shared libstdc++ coming to you real soon now.
> therefore, i would not recommend using C++ and shared libstdc++ for any
> low level utilities. future breakage is a sure thing. you don't want
> to have system depend on such a utility in order to boot.
I believe the goal is to break C++ one more time with gcc 3.0 and the new
libstdc++, which I'm under the impression are supposed to happen at about
the same time, and then keep that interface for a reasonable length of
time.
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From: "Matthew O. Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Awe 64 PCI card
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 22:17:48 -0400
freddy wrote:
>
> How can I configure my Sound Blaster Awe64 PCI Card ?
use the sound configuration tool. the command is something like:
soundfg
sndconfig
soundconfig
I forget exact spelling. And I am not on Linux at this time.
--
Matthew O. Persico
You'll have to pry my Emacs from my cold dead oversized
control-pressing left pinky finger. -- Randal L. Schwartz
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From: Tom Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 21:59:10 -0400
General rule is: use DOS FDISK for the Windows partition and Linux fdisk for the
Linux part. Since Windows wants to be on the first partition you have to start
with the DOS version first.
> I missed the beginning of this thread. However, I did have a 'strange'experience.
> I bought a new machine. I wanted to install both Linux on
> it along with a small Windows2000 beta system. I used the Linux fdisk
> on the system. No matter what I did, the Windows system (2000 & 98) would
> not find the hard disk. Well, what they said was something like "error
> writing to drive" or some such. I then tried the Windows2000 "fdisk" and
> it would not write either. I have NO idea what the Linux fdisk put in
> the partition table. Anyway, Linux installed and ran OK, but I still
> wanted to see what Windows2000 looked like. So I decided to do the following:
> I booted into "linux single" so that I didn't need to worry about multitasking.
> I entered the command:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
>
> After about 2 minutes (this is a 13Gb drive), I pressed the <reset> button
> on the machine. The partition table was now "virgin". I could then
> successfully install Windows2000. I then re-installed Linux. I don't know
> what Linux did, but it put something on the HD that Windows2000 & Win98
> simply did NOT like and refused to work with.
>
> In any case, the "dd" command above should totally kill everything on the
> /dev/hda (primary master IDE). You must then reinstall whatever from
> scratch.
>
> As always, you do this at your own risk! If it doesn't work, I assume NO
> responsibility. It it ends up wiping out something precious, I assume NO
> responsibility! Know what you are doing!
>
> John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Porter)
Subject: Re: Made my own "live CD" at last! Works great, too :-)
Reply-To: No-Spam
Date: 7 Sep 1999 10:00:51 +0800
On 5 Sep 1999 22:26:27 -0700, Sitaram Chamarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Imagine a CD that you pop into almost any "recent" PC (needs a
>decent amount of RAM and preferably a VBE 2.0 compliant video
>card) and go straight into Linux.
>
>The URL:
>
> http://www.diac.com/~sitaram/linux-live-cd/
Cool :)
Reminds me of my first experience with Linux in 1993.
I plugged the Yggdrassil cd into my Cyrix 486slc, soundblaster cd drive
and the boot floppy into the 1.44 floppy drive, pressed reset and away it
went.
A complete ram based Linux install, found everything, in 1993!
I guess Yggdrassil, should really be the "Redhat" of Linux ?
I often get twinges of nostalgia, and want to re run my old Yggdrasil cd, but
then this pc, never gets rebooted.
Kind Regards
Terry
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From: Victor Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Can't start X fonts server
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 10:41:15 +0800
Hi all,
I have currently upgrade the Xserver from 3.3.3 to 3.3.5. After I
execute the preinst.sh, extract and finally postinst.sh., I can execute
XF86Setup and set the config successfully. But when I reboot the
machine, it hangs at the startup. It stops at the place where it is
trying to start the X fonts server. What can I do to correct this
problem?
What should I edit from the files so that it do not load the X fonts
server?
Any help is appreciated.
Victor.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect on 24 bit visual?
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 02:54:46 GMT
In article <37c383f3$1$ewyncunz$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerry Lapham wrote:
>> >> Why does WP work on one X server and not the other, when
>> >> they're both set up as 24 bpp truecolor?
>> >
>> >I don't know why but it also happens with Matrox. I'd suggest going to
>> >either 16 or 32 bpp.
>
>> Does 32 work for you? I was pretty sure I tried 32 and it
>> didn't work right either...
>
>When I first installed COL 2.2, it came up as 24bpp and WP (and I believe
>Netscape) didn't display color icons, etc.
Sure enough. WP displays bitmaps properly at 32 bpp and Netscape again
has colored icons (NS having gray icons wasn't such a big deal as WP
having none at all). I've always wondered about why I stopped seeing
colored icons in Netscape. I didn't notice that it happened at the
same time I switched from 32 to 24 bpp, and it didn't occur to me that
32 vs. 24 would make a difference since xwininfo reports a depth of 24
for both cases.
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! I OWN six pink
at HIPPOS!!
visi.com
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From: "Tony Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I've got a PCI Winmodem...
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 03:02:19 GMT
I have one of those damned "win/loss"modems in my thinkpad 390e. What a
piece of crap. It will definitely not work under linux. Mine is a Lucent
Winmodem. Lucent says they have no plans on writing a driver that will
support the unices. So, I have to go out and buy a new "real" modem that
will work under a "real" OS. Micro$loth has done it again.
Tony Hunter
Ray O'Leary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> David Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > I've just bought a V.90 Fax Modem from Microcomputer Research Inc.,
> > which I specifically bought on the say-so of the sales bod, who assured
> > me that it would work with linux.
> >
> > Have I inadvertently purchased a yellow citric fruit?
>
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From: Ray Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't load libXt.so.6
Date: 7 Sep 1999 02:58:11 GMT
Joseph H Zieniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: When I try to run it, I get the
: error:
: can't load libXt.so.6
: libXt.so.6 is located in /usr/X11R6/lib so why do I get the error?
: I tried to install netscape from other distributions and get the same
: error.
Does the file /etc/ld.so.conf contain the directory name /usr/X11R6/lib?
If not, add it at the end. Then run ldconfig. In fact, you might want to
run ldconfig even if you didn't edit ld.so.conf.
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Ray Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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