Linux-Misc Digest #947, Volume #24 Mon, 26 Jun 00 16:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Red Hat + Corel Desktop (David)
Re: stability of culture of helpfulness ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Compiling RTF tools on a redhat machine (Changelog)
Re: Full backup/restore? (Lenny Shovsky)
dat drive detection problem ("David E. Gordon")
Telnet with Wyse60 emulation (Squire VonGremlin)
Can't set password (jay)
Re: Tin newsreader (Mary P)
Re: Netscape & Video (Thomas Weinbrenner)
Re: How to speed up Netscape under Linux? (alan)
Re: Problems NFS mounting from Solaris to Linux (Linux is server) (Chris Thompson)
Re: GNU/LINUX at city of Boston Public Library departments ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse (Charles Tryon)
Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu (Ted)
Re: Change multiple filenames all at once? (Vilmos Soti)
Need help: PS/2 mouse not working in doom ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
xf86config setup (Scott Szymanski)
Re: [JOB] Debian installer needed near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu (Ted)
Re: WordPerfect 8: icons mangled (Rod Smith)
hep with libqt (Oder Santos)
Re: hep with libqt (Thomas Zajic)
Re: cp'ing files from Dos/Windows partition to Linux partition (Dances With Crows)
Re: KDE, GNOME etc (Christopher Browne)
Re: xf86config setup ("Gero H. Marten")
Linux on Compaq Armada M300 (David Plaut)
Re: Can't mount cdrom ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Something wrong. Unable to load Xwindows (ray)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David)
Subject: Red Hat + Corel Desktop
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:15:04 GMT
I have RH 6.0 installed on my PC. Is it possible to install the version of
KDE that comes with Corel Linux on my current configuration? If so, how?
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: stability of culture of helpfulness
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:07:11 GMT
In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006252222390.4371-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You are a real piece of work. Learn to spell, get an idea of what
> you are talking about, then maybe post if you have something useful
> to contribute, troll.
I believe that would make you the troll-ee. Nice spelling flame too!
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Before you buy.
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From: Changelog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compiling RTF tools on a redhat machine
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:12:38 GMT
Could someone compile this RTF tools on a linux machine and make them
available or email them to me. It uses imake. And I cannot figure it
out.
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/RTF/RTF-1.10.tar.Z
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From: Lenny Shovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Full backup/restore?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:22:02 GMT
i would also love to know that. tar doesn't seem to back up all files and
directories.
root wrote:
> How does one do a full back and restore of a Linux installation? I'm
> going to try to upgrade Red Hat 6.2 to XFree86 v4.
>
> I tried this once before and reached the point of preferring to
> reinstall Linux rather than continue to try to get the upgrade (or
> revert to prev version) to work. Not that big a deal since the
> installation was just a couple days old (I'm new to Linux).
>
> So, IAC, what I want to be able to do is back up my current
> configuration completely, and, if the upgrade fails, just restore off of
> tape so that my setup is completely restored.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
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From: "David E. Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dat drive detection problem
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:28:10 +0100
I'm having problems detecting mt DAT drive in my Compaq Proliant server with
RedHat 6.0. Has anyone else had this problem? How do I fix it?
Thanks!
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:34:21 -0500
From: Squire VonGremlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Telnet with Wyse60 emulation
Greetings,
Fairly new to most elements of Linux. Currently running Mandrake 7.0.
I am looking for a way to telnet from Linux to a unix box that is
running an application configured for Wyse60 support (line graphics,
etc.).
Is there a Wyse60 capable Linux telnet application out there?
A Linux telnet app that supports ANSI graphics would be nice too.
Waif
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From: jay <"jbeatty at"@ newharbor.com>
Subject: Can't set password
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 02:18:10 GMT
I lost my password. I'm running rh6.2. So I edited /etc/passwd to
delete passwords. Worked fine. No password needed to login.
So then I used passwd to set a new password. No complaints seemed to
work fine. But...
tried to login with new password. didn't work!! passwd had changed
passwd password to "x". Deleted and tried again. Same thing. One
problem is that /etc was on a bad disk, which I've now replaced. Is
there some file missing?
So now, how do I set a password for root?
thanx
jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mary P)
Subject: Re: Tin newsreader
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 09:25:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24 Jun 2000 11:18:47 +1200, Bryan Hoyt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gave us this:
>...I want to figure out how to use tin
>... can someone please just tell me ai
quick way to download... the
>last 50 messages from a newsgroup
>If you can tell me how to do the same
thing with another console-based
>newsreader, say emacs or trn,
I would be just as happy.
Try the newsreader slrn, which you most
likely have if you have tin.
In slrn, once you select your newsgroup,
you are prompted to tell it how many msgs
to download. It doesn't get the whole
1500 or whatever by default.
And yes, in response to the other part
of your question, it may take a while
for the headers to download. This,
within reason, is normal and varies
with the efficiency of your news server.
Configuring slrn is not hard, man slrn
contains a URL you can use for guidance.
MP
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From: Thomas Weinbrenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape & Video
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:04:20 GMT
Reply-To: Thomas Weinbrenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thierry Cornelis wrote:
>
> > What do you use to view .mpg? I have no problem with 'mtv' and 'plugger
> > 3.0' as a plugin for netscape.
>
> Where does one get these plug-ins?
http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/plugger.html
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Thomas Weinbrenner
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From: alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to speed up Netscape under Linux?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 08:30:23 GMT
Charles Philip Chan wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Hal" == Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:06:10 -0230, Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >> I really hate to admitt this, but he's right....!!! I find
> >> that I am running at half speed compared to that of my Windows
> >> operation.... Is the bottleneck in Linux or Netscape.....???
> >> I think the Linux version of Netscape isn't using it's caching
> >> option effectively... Anyone else having problems like
> >> this...???????
>
> > NS is a red herring. Optimize your serial port and pppd.
>
> I have been using a program called irqtune for the past few years to
> reprioritise the irq's to make internet connections faster. It has
> worked quite well for me. Do a search on freshmeat.
>
> Charles
>
Optimize your serial port and pppd; how?
-Alan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Thompson)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problems NFS mounting from Solaris to Linux (Linux is server)
Date: 26 Jun 2000 19:43:04 GMT
In article <8j855r$hit$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kenny McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On the Solaris (2.5.1) side (w.x.y.z is IP addr of Linux machine (hard IP,
>no DNS):
>
># mount w.x.y.z:/tmp !$
>mount w.x.y.z:/tmp /splat
>nfs mount: w.x.y.z: NFS service not responding
>nfs mount: retrying: /splat
>^C# (I hit ^C here to interrupt it)
>
>and on the Linux side, in /var/log/messages (fluffy is machine name):
>
>Jun 26 12:21:13 fluffy mountd[469]: authenticated mount request from sunmachine:964
>Jun 26 12:21:13 fluffy kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>Jun 26 12:21:13 fluffy mountd[469]: authenticated mount request from sunmachine:964
>Jun 26 12:21:13 fluffy kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>Jun 26 12:21:18 fluffy mountd[469]: authenticated mount request from sunmachine:964
>Jun 26 12:21:18 fluffy kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>Jun 26 12:21:28 fluffy mountd[469]: authenticated mount request from sunmachine:964
>Jun 26 12:21:28 fluffy kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>
>Any ideas?
Well, on the face of it looks as though the Linux box is advertising NFS
version 3 support through its portmapper, but that its kernel doesn't actually
support version 3, so it all comes apart.
Try forcing NFS version 2 at the Solaris end by using
mount -o vers=2 w.x.y.z:/tmp /splat
and see whether that works any better.
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 [at] cam.ac.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GNU/LINUX at city of Boston Public Library departments
Crossposted-To: ne.internet.services
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 01:07:37 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Robie Basak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Isn't it nice how there's one standard interface for installing a
> package, through which you can easily check which files were installed
> where, read any additional install scripts and quickly verify that all
> installed files are still present and undamaged?
We don't want no steenkin "standard interface".
Linux is all about choice. You can CHOOSE the one that suits YOU.
(Try that in M$ world)
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From: Charles Tryon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 03:25:18 GMT
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I've been running the Linux version of Quake2 for a while, using a serial
mouse. I just upgraded to another motherboard with a PS/2 mouse. I got
Linux and X11 to recognize the new mouse, but Quake freaks out - as if it's
getting a continuous stream of negative coordinates or something. What do
I need to change in the configuration (or drivers) to get Quake to work?
Thanks!
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B. Baggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!"
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I've been running the Linux version of Quake2 for a while, using a serial
mouse. I just upgraded to another motherboard with a PS/2 mouse.
I got Linux and X11 to recognize the new mouse, but Quake freaks out -
as if it's getting a continuous stream of negative coordinates or something.
What do I need to change in the configuration (or drivers) to get Quake
to work?
<p> Thanks!
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Servant,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted)
Subject: Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 05:47:51 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) uttered in comp.os.linux.misc:
>On 25 Jun 2000 04:29:06 GMT Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Having ruled out LILO due to the size of my hard drive . . .
>
>This makes no sense at all -- why would LILO (present in the MBR)
>take more space than LOADLIN (present in the FAT partition, along
>with a copy of the kernel)?
The problem is too much space, not too little. Linux resides past the
1024th cylinder on my 20 gig hard drive, so the version of LILO that I have
will not boot it. Rather than create a small /boot partition at the
beginning of the drive, I decided it would be far easier just to use
loadlin for the time being. I am not exactly sure how to install a
partition at the beginning of a drive, since it was my understanding that
fips does it at the end.
Ted Schuman
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Change multiple filenames all at once?
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 03:08:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck) writes:
>> I might be WAY off on this, because it seems so simple to me as opposed to
>> all of the other posts in this thread... but wouldn't this work?
>>
>> $ mv * *.html
>
> In DOS, but not in Unix shells Try it. You'll end up with only one
> file, or mv will complain that the last name is not a directory. Why
> (and understanding why is important)? Because the shell expands the
> wildcards, not the mv command. If you have files named "1", "2" and
> "3", mv will see:
>
> mv 1 2 3
>
> There are no ".html" files, so that expands to nothing. The resulting
> command tells mv to move "1" and "2" both to "3". Not what you wanted
> in this case but maybe just the ticket if "3" is a directory.
>
> This is a fundamental difference from DOS where each program handles
> wildcards its own way.
I would also add that in the DOS world, a filename has the so called
8.3 format. This filename.ext is coded right into the filesystem.
The filename (the 8) and the extension (3) are treated as if they
were different entities. However, in the Unix world, there is no such
split. One can have multiple extensions and they are still just a string
and have nothing to do with the filesystem code. This is one place
(and I think the only one) where DOS was easier. In Unix, one needs
a workaround since the extension is part of the filename. (the 8 part
of the filename.)
Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Need help: PS/2 mouse not working in doom
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 03:25:21 GMT
Just installed Doom and I can't get it to work with the mouse.
It aborts with "mouse init failed" or some such.
I have attempted to edit the ".doomrc" file with no success, perhaps
because I don't know what to enter for the "mousedev" setting,
although I have tried variations of "psaux", "ps aux", "PSAUX", etc.
"mousetype" is set as PS/2.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
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From: Scott Szymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xf86config setup
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 06:30:06 GMT
Hello
I have been triing forever to get the right configuration for my computer
with no success. I am using mandrake 6.0 and have a SiS6326 AGP 8mb video
card. I have a Digital Autoscan monitor that supports horizontal
frequencys from 30-70KHz and vertical frequencies from 50-120KHz, and it
has a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024. I have tried almost every setting
in Xconfigurator and it always fails the test it runs at the end and then
when i use startx, only certain things show up. I have also tried
xf86config with the same results. I would greatly appreciate if someone
could offer some help with this annoying problem.
Thanks for the help
Scott
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [JOB] Debian installer needed near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:00:09 GMT
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This employment offer that you present lacks credibility.
A few reasons for this opinion are:
You use of the term "peecee" for the common computer term "PC" (Personal
Computer) this may be the result of lack of experince in the computer field,
OR you are attempting to present yourself as different persona then your
true identity.
There is a Hollywood, Florida near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, your wording of
the locations makes it seem as though you are trying to appear less familiar
with the area than you in fact may be.
Then there is the ISP factor. Someone with a less than critical eye may
read your offer and think that you are located in Florida. However, I
believe you are located in the New York state in or near New York City.
Your email address is from Netmonger Communications, which is a small ISP
based in Bellmore NewYork. Netmonger Communications is so small or starved
for resources that it not able to provide a second authortive DNS server on
its own hosts. It's second authoritive DNS server is a DNS server run on a
host of Telecon Communications/Superior Net. Telecon Communications/Superior
Net is another ISP based in New York, in this case Johnstown New York.
However, you didn't connect to the internet through either of those ISP's.
Your connection was established through a third ISP located in New York
City, by the name of PANIX Public Access Networks Corporation. This ISP has
local dialup numbers for New York City, some other areas in New York outside
of New York City, and some area of New Jersey as well.
Your offer specifies Debian for your Linux distribution, you have
crossposted your offer into three Linux newsgroups but into none of the
debian specific newsgroups. Also since you are seeking professional and/or
expert support, there are newsgroups where you can advertise for the
services of computer consultants, you also did not crosspost into those
newsgroups either.
There is one more thing that can cause someone to doubt your offer's
credibility. This offer of yours is the only usenet newsgroup posting you
have made to date with this identity. This makes it appear that you may
have just created this on-line identity of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the purpose
to make this one offer, perhaps for some ulterior motive.
These are some of the reasons that I find your offer to not be credible.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8j4e4c$q2k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> We have need of a person who can install Debian on an IBM Aptiva peecee.
> This is a one shot install. The peecee is in a place called something
like
> "Hollywood", which is near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Old News Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted)
Subject: Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:15:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Turley) uttered in comp.os.linux.misc:
>On 25 Jun 2000 04:29:06 GMT, Ted apparently wrote:
>
>>
>> When I boot the system, I get a menu, as desired. However, Win98
>> boots even if I choose the Linux option. I have doublechecked every
>> filename and all of the syntax can't seem to get this to work. I
>> tried eliminating the bootopts.txt file and adding that information to
>> config.sys, as directed by the loadlin manual pages. I know loadlin
>> itself is not the problem - does anyone know what I can do? I suspect
>> something is configured somewhere in Win98 that needs to be changed.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Ted Schuman
>
>Copy my example at http://www.binary.net/dturley/linux/easylinux.html
>
>
Thanks for the idea, but this was essentially what I have been doing. I copied
your file verbatim but again the computer boots into windows when I choose the
Linux option.
Ted Schuman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8: icons mangled
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:56:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <C8r55.6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"G Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've installed WP8.0, personal (free) version. Both during installation,
> and when running the program after installation, the graphic icons are
> garbled and illegible. This is true both with the version of WP that comes
> with Mandrake 6.5, and with the version downloaded from Corel. My
> system: Mandrake 7.1, gnome 1.2, sawfish.
This problem is common with 24-bit displays, and occasionally with
32-bit displays. Try switching X to use a 16-bit display and see if it
goes away. (BTW, several other programs, including Netscape, suffer from
the same problem.)
Rumor had it that XFree86 4.0 would include a workaround for this
problem. I was under the impression that Mandrake 7.1 shipped with
XFree86 4.0. If so, and if that's what you're using, then obviously
this fix didn't arrive, which is unfortunate. If you're running XFree86
3.3.x and need a 24-bit display, though, you might consider upgrading
to XFree86 4.0.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Oder Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hep with libqt
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:03:20 GMT
Does anyone know where can I find libqt.so.1? Thanks in advance, Oder.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: hep with libqt
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:23:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 09:03:20 -0300, Oder Santos wrote:
> Does anyone know where can I find libqt.so.1?
<ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/source/>
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: cp'ing files from Dos/Windows partition to Linux partition
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:40:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:59:05 GMT, Bruceh
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I copied files from my Dos/Windows partition to /tmp on my Linux partition.
>I noticed that some of the files were not the same size. It seems as though
>text files were changed removing the \r characters.
>
>Is this a normal thing? If so, how do I supress this?
No, this is not normal. Check your /etc/fstab and make sure that no
"conv=" strings are present in the line that specifies mount options for
the DOS partition. It should look like so:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dos noexec,user,noauto 0 0
By default, no conversion is performed on DOS files, but you can get CRLF
-> LF translation on text files by specifying "conv=auto" in the fstab
options. Which distro is this, btw? Seems like a silly thing for them to
be doing....
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\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: KDE, GNOME etc
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:50:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when [EMAIL PROTECTED]
would say:
>I was wondering...
>I know thet KDE and GNOME aren't window managers, but I'm not entirely
>sure what else they do.
There are two main valid points of view on what they are:
a) To the programmer, KDE and GNOME are a set of libraries intended to
provide various services not provided by X or UNIX.
b) To the user, KDE and GNOME represent a set of applications that
_use_ the libraries from a) to provide some common functionality
across the set of applications.
>Personally I like the FVWM2 window manager.
>
>Is it possible to run KDE or GNOME apps with this window manager?
>Do I have to do anything special or can I just execute them?
>Do I just need the KDE and GNOME libraries installed to run KNE and
>GNOME apps, whatever WM is running?
If GNOME and KDE are "basically a set of libraries," or "basically
a set of apps _using_ those libraries," then presuably the answer
is that you indeed do need to have those libraries installed in order
to run the applications.
That is indeed the case; to run KDE stuff, you need the apps and the
relevant libraries. Ditto for GNOME. And as for the first question,
yes, they can run _fine_ along with whatever window manager you prefer
to use.
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xf86config setup
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:19:50 GMT
> Scott Szymanski wrote:
>
> Hello
> I have been triing forever to get the right configuration for my computer
> with no success. I am using mandrake 6.0 and have a SiS6326 AGP 8mb video
> card. I have a Digital Autoscan monitor that supports horizontal
> frequencys from 30-70KHz and vertical frequencies from 50-120KHz, and it
> has a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024. I have tried almost every setting
> in Xconfigurator and it always fails the test it runs at the end and then
> when i use startx, only certain things show up. I have also tried
> xf86config with the same results. I would greatly appreciate if someone
> could offer some help with this annoying problem.
> Thanks for the help
> Scott
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
As far as I recall, the SiS6326 isn't supported by Xfree. The only
help I can give, is that there is a commercial driver from Xig which
is supposed to support this card. You can look at
<www.xig.com/>
--
Gero H. Marten
<http://www.provi.de/gmarten/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Plaut)
Subject: Linux on Compaq Armada M300
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 19:12:56 GMT
I recently installed RedHat 6.2 on a Compaq Armada M300 laptop. As I wasn't
able to find an existing web page describing how to do this, I created one at
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut/m300
I hope this is helpful to others who are interested in running Linux on this
great machine.
-Dave
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David Plaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dept. of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Mellon Institute 115--CNBC, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213-2683
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut, MI 115I, 412/268-5145 (fax -5060)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't mount cdrom
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 19:41:52 GMT
Robert Hampf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> helt pessu fram:
: :
: : First; I did make dep not depmod but the kicker is that I was not
: : putting the new kernel in the right place. Once I put it in the right
: : place all but the cdrom and isofs symbols resolved. Any thoughts on
: : these. Are they neede for the ide-scsi when mounting a ide cdrom as a
: : scsi.
: Have you tried not to use modules? To compile everything into the
: kernel. It makes things a lot simplier.
No it doesn't. How can making your choices at compile time be simpler
than making your choices at run time?
That guy should just stop messing up: remove his modules, compile and
install new ones, end of argument. I'm sorry he's not capable of
working out on his own exactly which modules he's leaving undeleted and
which he's forgetting to replace, but if his neuron isn't up to it, it
just isn't ..
Peter
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Something wrong. Unable to load Xwindows
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:06:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am unable to load Xwindows I get the following messages:
> "_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 failed to set default
> font path unix/:-1 Fatal Server error : Could not open default font 'fixed'
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 giving up. xinit:
> Connection refused(errno111): unable to connect to xserver xinit:no such
> process(errno3): Server error" And then I get " According to
> /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running(768), but seems to have been
> murdered mysteriously INIT:Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 mins. "
> Pl. give me soln. to this problem, cause I can't access the net thru Linux
> without Xin.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Here's a "guess", and certainly nothing more. Ensure (perhaps by ps ax |grep
xfs) that the X font server is running, beFORE you start X. That's the complaint
you are seeing, that unix/:-1 stuff is about XFS.
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Ray R. Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
Ray's Linux gordo.penguinpowered.com 2.4.0-test2
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