Linux-Misc Digest #137, Volume #24 Thu, 13 Apr 00 10:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Eterm and KDE (f038737_1_fnac)
online with linux
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Klaus-Georg Adams)
Re: LILO stops at LI (John in SD)
Re: Media Player (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Get Rid of MSh*t ^M's <CR> from a file... (Anton Dischner)
Re: uninstalling stuff (Nix)
Re: question about Oracle for linux (Anton Dischner)
Re: SMP (Anton Dischner)
Re: [FLAME] Re: monitoring users (JackStraw)
linux (gopinath)
How hard to upgrade? ("Joe M.")
fat filesystem (Daniel Gonzalez Valero)
Re: Media Player (mircea)
Can't get into X after rpm install ("Matt Crabb")
Re: only root can startx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: linux (Andreas Kahari)
Re: online with linux (Leejay Wu)
Re: linux (Leejay Wu)
Re: online with linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: only root can startx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What the heck is linux doing? (Leonard Evens)
ViewScan and slide scanners (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Re: Athlon and Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: uninstalling stuff ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: only root can startx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Partitioning problems (Leonard Evens)
Re: What the heck is linux doing? (Derek Jolly)
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From: f038737_1_fnac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Eterm and KDE
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:20:56 +0200
Hi,
I 've a Mandrake 7.0 v2, and some problems with KDE :
-when I change the colors of the windows, as user, it doesn't work
(but it works as root ...)
-and the Eterm and the Gnome terminals can't be transparent under KDE,
as under Gnome
or enlightenment ...
heeelp a little frenchie,
thanks a lot
Joan
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: online with linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:30:05 GMT
I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on my computer and it was hard but I did it somehow.Now
I have no idea how to go online.I go to that KPPP thing and i'm lost.Please someone
help.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Klaus-Georg Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 13 Apr 2000 13:22:01 +0200
<btolder> writes:
> David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > <btolder> writes:
>
> > I can't think of a single innovation to come out of Microsoft. Not
> > one. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to Microsoft's most important
> > innovation?
>
> Bringing quality software to the masses at a reasonable price. Bill Gates is
> to software what Henry Ford was to cars.
Could you please point me to the quality software made by Microsoft?
Especially the quality part.
Ok, abysmal quality can be constructed to count as quality. You didn't
mention the amount of quality in their software.
--
MfG, Klaus-Georg Adams
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO stops at LI
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:51:37 GMT
In reducing the size of your RedHat partition, two files critical to
the boot process moved: /boot/map and /boot/boot.b. These files are
referenced at absolute disk locations from the LILO first stage loader
(the guy who puts out the 'LI').
Boot from a floppy and then re-run LILO to reinstall the loader.
--John
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:30:04 GMT, Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Dear folks
>
>I've Redhat 6.1 installed as a partition on a HD, sharing with Win95. It
>works fine during the "LILO boot:", where i can choose
>between "windows"(win95) and "linux" until i use Partition Magic to reduce
>the size of my redhat partition. I was trying to transfer some empty space
>within the main redhat partition (not the swap linux swap partition) to
>the Windows partition. The notebook then stops at "LI" whenever i try
>booting up the machine again.
>
>Looking through the postings yield no result as no one seems to face the
>same problem as me, though suffering the same fate. I do not have any
>backup of my data or any info on those /dev/hda..etc info.
>
>I do not know how to create a boot disk to get ito Windows again, except
>the Windows created one, which when i tried, gets me to A:\. However i
>couldn't get into Win95 again fom C:\. The error message i got was "VFAT
>device initialization faied. A device or resource required by VFAT is not
>present or is unavailable. VFAT cannot continue loading. System Halted."
>
>Can anyone kindly help me please? I don't really understand the other help
>files.
>
>Henry
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Media Player
Date: 13 Apr 2000 12:03:32 GMT
ajn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have tried both of these options myself, and found that wine and media
> player didnt get along too well.... On the other hand, vmware was ok
> appart from severe choppiness in the sound - possibly due to lack of
> memory? Anyone else tried this?
Which version of VMware? IME, 2.x is *much* improved over 1.x, and sound
is one of the areas where it really shines (along with general speed).
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Anton Dischner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Get Rid of MSh*t ^M's <CR> from a file...
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:03:49 +0200
Hi,
in SuSE 6.4 dos2unix is aliased to 'recode ibmpc..lat1'
so if you prefer recode...
regards,
Toni
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From: Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: uninstalling stuff
Date: 12 Apr 2000 22:55:35 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Haynes) writes:
> My ~/.zshrc has
>
> set -A path \
> ~/* /bin /usr/local/* /usr/local/*/bin /usr/bin \
> /usr/* /usr/*/bin /usr/lib/*/ \
> /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/X11R6/bin
Bleah. How... inelegant.
And it doesn't help with shared library paths at all.
> which I don't object to, especially given that it's only me on my machines
Rather you than me. GNU stow is very good at doing this sort of thing
*right*.
--
`ndbm on Linux is an emulation, not the original. It comes in several
flavours; `slightly broken', `moderately broken', and `totally and
utterly broken'.' --- Nick Kew
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From: Anton Dischner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: question about Oracle for linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:11:09 +0200
Hi Eddy,
> From the Oracle web site, there is Oracle 8i for Linux.
> Have anyone tried it ? Has it any limitation for time and funcations ?
Hmmm, tried 8.0.5.1, runs perfect.
No it has no limitations.
Prepare for hassle with different java-runtimes for the 8i Version.
You'll need a lot of RAM!
If you use it mission critical beware of power outages which
will damage your filesystem -> destroy your database.
Journaled reiserfs was no solution for us.
Let's see SGI's XFS.
Also see: http://www.suse.de/en/support/oracle/index.html
>
> Eddy
Regards,
Toni
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From: Anton Dischner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:25:41 +0200
Hi,
in SuSE 6.4 ktop works out of the box.
Don't know if it is shipped with 6.3.
regards,
Toni
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From: JackStraw <jack.straw@witchita>
Subject: Re: [FLAME] Re: monitoring users
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:27:10 -0400
Jason:
>In this case, as a system administrator, I would quit the job that
>you are giving me, inform every person at the place of employment by
>standing outside the office, on the sidewalk with a picket sign
>saying why I quit and encouraging others to do the same. I would
>also inform the local media that youre spying on your workers with
>the purpose of "controlling your employees" and inform them that I
>will be forming a protest to your questionable work ethics.
>Eventually you will either loose buisiness because you have no one
>working for you, or your clients will leave because "some
>disgrunteled system administrator" is picketing your company for
>questionable ethics.
You forgot a scenario: Everone laughs at 'that goofball with the sign
that doesn't understand he can't do whatever he wants with his
employer's computer on his employer's time.'
I think this is likely.
--
JackStraw
0x3D561045
This Internet of yours is a wonderful invention."
--George W. Bush, in an e-mail to Al Gore.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000315/18/campaign-bush-text
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From: gopinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:30:02 GMT
Dear Sir,
I am having a PC (2GB harddisk, 32MB RAM, PentiumI). I want to download
Linux operating system. Is there any site which is providing the O/S for
free of cost?
Kindly do the needful.
Thanking You.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "Joe M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How hard to upgrade?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:45:32 +1000
Just wondering how hard it would be to upgrade different dist's of Linux
ie red hat 6.1 - 6.2? How much downloading required? difficult for a
newbie?
Joe
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From: Daniel Gonzalez Valero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fat filesystem
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:27:12 +0200
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Hi all,
Maybe this is not the place to ask this kind of question, but some of you will
probably be able to help me. If the appearance of this message here is VERY,
annoying, please point me to the correct news group.
I am working with a sandisk formated with a fat16 file system. I use this device
in several systems, one of them an embedded system running a RTOS. The FS used
by the RTOS complains about the presence of some stranneous entries in the root
directory. Below you'll find the log and the dump of the first sector of the root
directory. IMHOn the second entry should not be there - so it is normal
that the RTOS FS is complaining about it; the strange thing is that the Sandisk
was formated using a Win95 box. Any hint ?
Thanks and regards,
--
Daniel Gonzalez Valero
Alcatel Bell
+3232408137
+32476435661 (GSM)
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0: 4f 53 45 5f 4c 4f 41 44 53 52 45 20 0 4b 2d 52 8d 28 8d 28 0 0 ae 9c 7c 10 2
0 6c 12 2 0 OSE_LOADSRE .K-R.(.(....|...l...
20: 41 62 0 68 0 2e 0 73 0 72 0 f 0 5f 65 0 0 0 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 0
0 ff ff ff ff Ab.h...s.r..._e.................
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0 41 ac 6 0 BH SRE..y.q.(.(...z.(E.A...
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1 0 0 0 0 PEPE ............W\'......
80: 4a 55 41 4e 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 f 58 5c 27 0
0 0 0 0 0 JUAN ............X\'......
a0: 42 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 53 52 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 59 58 5c 27 5f
1 6c 12 2 0 B SRE...........YX\'_.l...
c0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 ................................
e0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 ................................
100: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 ................................
120: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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0 0 0 0 0 ................................
1e0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 ................................
$ ls -l
Directory '/san/'
-arw-rw-rw- 0 135788 28 Mar 1988 19:37:28 OSE_LOAD.SRE
Could not stat '/san/Ab': No such file or directory.
Could not stat '/san/h': No such file or directory.
d-rwxrwxrwx 0 16384 30 Nov 1979 00:00:00 ./
Could not stat '/san/s.': No such file or directory.
Could not stat '/san/r': No such file or directory.
d-rwxrwxrwx 0 16384 30 Nov 1979 00:00:00 /
--rw-rw-rw- 0 437313 2 Apr 2000 15:20:38 BH.SRE
d-rwxrwxrwx 0 2048 28 Oct 1999 10:56:48 PEPE/
d-rwxrwxrwx 0 0 28 Oct 1999 11:00:30 JUAN/
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From: mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Media Player
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:45:36 -0400
ajn wrote:
>
> I have tried both of these options myself, and found that wine and media
> player didnt get along too well.... On the other hand, vmware was ok
> appart from severe choppiness in the sound - possibly due to lack of
> memory? Anyone else tried this?
>
> ajn
I'd say it's most likely due to lack of horsepower in your CPU,
remember, it has to run 2 OS at the same time :) Think about it more
like dividing the MHz in 2 for each. I can play MPEG4 with marginally
acceptable quality in VMware on a PII-450.
MST
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From: "Matt Crabb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't get into X after rpm install
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:34:01 GMT
Hi,
I recently installed some rpm's: libjpeg v6 ipchain and kwintv and ksupport
And after reboot I can't get into Xwindows (KDE) anymore, it boots up OK
until the stage were it tries to start the graphical login, then my monitor
switches to standby and back over and over again.
How can I sort this out? I have a boot disk if that is of help.
Is there anyway to get into KDE in safemode or something?
Any help really appreciated
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: only root can startx
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:51:10 GMT
In article <8d45ve$ufr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks but ... You talk to me in chinese... (distro, scratch...)
> I don't know this things. Sorry
>
> Allan
>
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> Before you buy.
>
Ok you are a newbie :) What I'm getting at is how did you install Linux?
distro is just a shortened form of distrubution, did you install RedHat,
Debian, suse, etc. I don't think you installed XFree86 (Windows for
Linux) from scratch, did you use an rpm file (ReadHat packing/program(?)
manager), or was it already there?
jollyroger
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:00:03 GMT
Many distributions have FTP sites with the whole shabang on it. Take a
look at <URL:http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html> for examples of
distributions.
I find Debian GNU/Linux particularly nice, see
<URL:http://www.debian.org/> and then
<URL:http://www.debian.org/distrib/> on how to get a copy.
You also want to read the Distribution HOWTO at
<URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Distribution-HOWTO.html>.
Good luck!
/A
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
gopinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> I am having a PC (2GB harddisk, 32MB RAM, PentiumI). I want to
download
> Linux operating system. Is there any site which is providing the O/S
for
> free of cost?
>
> Kindly do the needful.
>
> Thanking You.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
>
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: online with linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:07:28 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 13-Apr-100 online with linux
by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on my computer and it was hard but
> I did it some how.Now I have no idea how to go online.I go to
> that KPPP thing and i'm lost.Please someone help.
*sigh*
Have you read 'Chapter 3: Configuring an Internet Connection' in
the Mandrake distro's 'User Guide and Reference Manual'?
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:11:14 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 13-Apr-100 linux by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I am having a PC (2GB harddisk, 32MB RAM, PentiumI). I want to
> download Linux operating system. Is there any site which is providing
> the O/S for free of cost?
Countless numbers of 'em, consuming vast amounts of bandwidth whenever
a new release is made...
See the 'Linux Distribution HOWTO' at linuxdoc.org.
> Kindly do the needful.
>
> Thanking You.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: online with linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:13:19 GMT
Unfortuanatly I don't use kppp, but it is basically a front end to pppd
anyway. There is a wonderful HOWTO on the subject in www.metalab.unc.edu
under the Linux Docs section and HOWTO. Just look for Keyworks like pppd
online and so forth. The only confusing part is that most ISP don't need
you to login first and then activate the ppp protocol. You need to just
Dial up the ISP and use either PAP or CHAP method. Also Dont try to get
online with AOL or something like that. Basically in your dialing script
you want to not include the lines that deal with "ogin" and "assword"
(They left off the first letters because of sometimes droped
comunications) When you do it this way you can set up permissions to
allow only certin users online, once you get the hang of permissions
that is :) I think that way is better anyway so you can determine line
speeds and so on. Yes it is more work but well worth the effort!!!
jollyroger
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on my computer and it was hard but I did
it somehow.Now I have no idea how to go online.I go to that KPPP thing
and i'm lost.Please someone help.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: only root can startx
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:23:19 GMT
> Ok you are a newbie :) What I'm getting at is how did you install
Linux?
> distro is just a shortened form of distrubution, did you install
RedHat,
> Debian, suse, etc. I don't think you installed XFree86 (Windows for
> Linux) from scratch, did you use an rpm file (ReadHat
packing/program(?)
> manager), or was it already there?
hum.. (thinking...) I installed Redhat linux i386 with KDE in mode
server and the Xfree86 was already there. Thanks if you can help me!
Allan
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What the heck is linux doing?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:21:44 -0500
Andreas Kahari wrote:
>
> Does the number 1179403647 tell you anything? It happens to be the
> integer representation of 'F', 'L', 'E' followed by octal 177.
>
> My guess is that you're on an Intel machine, which is little endian, and
> that 'od' therefore gets 1179403647. The Sparc running Solaris is a big
> endian machine... and so is the Java virtual machine it seems(?). That's
> your problem.
>
> /A
>
> --
> # Andreas K�h�ri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>.
> # All junk email is reported to the appropriate authorities.
>
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> Before you buy.
Excuse the ignorance, but what is the difference between a
"little endian" and a "big endian" machine?
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Subject: ViewScan and slide scanners
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:42:46 GMT
Has anyone used Hamrick Software's VueScan on a slide scanner with Linux?
What scanner? Which Linux? And how did it work for you?
--
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex
facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it.
-- Whitehead.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Athlon and Linux?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:37:36 GMT
The only advice I have to you is to be wary of the Epox EP-7KXA
motherboard. I have an Athlon 700 and everything is extremely speedy.
I will be doing some work with my system soon, and I hope to fix
whatever issue I seem to be having, but this motherboard I think may be
causing my system to lock.
I have disabled the onboard sound in the bios, have a dual boot
system, in Windoze I get static out of my SB Live for some reason.
Fixed with the mobo driver disk. When running Linux my system runs fine
for a short time then becomes unresponsive to anything but the reset
key.
There is a bios upgrade for the board, so perhaps when I flash it I
will have better luck.
Anyways, do some research. People with the Asus board seems to have
no problems at all.
Good luck
Mike
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A couple of questions...
>
> I am thinking about buying an Athlon 700 and was wondering how it
worked
> with Linux. Right now I am running RH on an AMD K6-2 233 and it runs
> perfect, but a friend of mine said it ran kinda slow with his Athlon
> 600, so I wanted to get others' opinions also.
>
> Also, I need to get a new AGP video card to go with that Athlon and
was
> wondering which kind works good with Linux and is a good card. I
don't
> need a 3D accelerator like Voodoo or anything, just something that is
> AGP and has 8Megs of memory and easily does 24-bit color in 1600x1200.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
> --
> "You smoke your head on strait, then drink your woes away..." - Phil
> Anselmo
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: uninstalling stuff
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:35:52 GMT
I tend to do this by capturing the make install command in a file (Done
by doing something like this make -n install > installdata. The -n just
shows you the commands that will be executed, if it done with a lot of
loops without the -n may be better) then I just go through and delete
what make install stuck in there. I don't think you will miss anything
that way. (Note if any libraries are installed you may want to rename
them first before deleting them, just in case).
jollyroger
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is basic stuff I know but I can't seem to find the relevant
> documentation anywhere. The question is: how do I uninstall
applications
> that were installed using tar -xvzf (as opposed to RPMS which even I
can
> manage)?
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: only root can startx
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:40:43 GMT
First I need to know what it is the system does when you try to startx
when you are not root. any error messages? (Note I will need to leave
soon so I may have to help more tomarrow)
jollyroger
> hum.. (thinking...) I installed Redhat linux i386 with KDE in mode
> server and the Xfree86 was already there. Thanks if you can help me!
>
> Allan
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning problems
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:40:03 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all. I hope you can help me.
>
> I have an Aptiva E3U. In preparation for installing linux, I have tried
> partitioning my drive (8Gig) with fips. Prior to that I defrag, of
> course. However, every time, this fails (repartitioning) beacause
> something is left on the last cylinder. My understanding is that this
> is just the Windows swapfile, but I can't get rid of it. How do you do
> it? The closest I can get is Disabling Virtual Memory. This doesn't
> work and creates major headaches.
You should disable virtual memory, but that probably is not the
problem. Some vendors put files at the end of the Windows partition
which are not movable. You can see this if you choose the proper
option during defragging. In that case fips won't work. It
may in principle be possible to unmark these files, but then even
if you do move them, you may find you have problems.
The simplest solution is to use Partition Magic. (There are also
some other resizing tools available on the web, but I don't have
any experience with them. Still you might do a search with deja.com
to see if you come up with anything useful.) If you use it,
don't install it in your Windows partition, just use the installation
wizard to create and emergency disk. Then boot from the PM
emergency disk and run PM from it. That will be adequate for
resizing the Windows partition. It will also tell you when you
have got below the 1024 cylinder limit so you can leave room for
a boot partition of 10 or 20 Meg below cylinder 1024.
>
> I am trying to avoid destructive partitioning, but will do a complete
> reformat if I have to. I want to give the non-destructive approach one
> more try, but need to know how to get around that one glitch.
That is certainly an option and would avoid the cost of Partition
Magic. I've done it in the past on several occasions. The problem
is that installing Windows is generally harder than installing
Linux. The reason is that you have to reinstall various drivers
for hardware your vendor has provided and Windows does not know
about. In principle, using "Have disk" should suffice, and the
vendor will provide a device driver CD. But Windows 98 is very
stupid about being able to find what it needs on such a CD
even if you lead it by the nose. It keeps trying to look in
the wrong places. Without some guidance from the vendor, you
could have a lot of trouble.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Jolly)
Subject: Re: What the heck is linux doing?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:08:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leonard Evens), in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote
>Excuse the ignorance, but what is the difference between a
>"little endian" and a "big endian" machine?
It's the order in which a byte sequence is stored in memory.
To take the previous example, on a big endian machine the sequence
F,L,E,\177 will be stored in memory in the order (octal values)
\106, \114, \105, \177, i.e. the most significant byte is stored first.
F L E
Intel machines are little endian, which is the opposite. The least
significant byte is stored first, so the sequence will be stored as
\177, \105, \114, \106
E L F
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