Linux-Misc Digest #778, Volume #26 Thu, 11 Jan 01 05:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: is gcc producing optimal code? ("Stefan Viljoen")
Re: changing window managers & .Xclients (Dave Brown)
Re: Problems installing updates (Bob Martin)
Re: Tax Software?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CDs play mono with SB16 and ALSA 0.5.10 -- OSS/Free fine (DualIP)
Re: Step-by step to install Linux RH7 and Win98. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 10mbit vs. 100mbit NIC (Norman Levin)
printcap:account name ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3). (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: Need help with process switching (Sebastian Hans)
Re: Linux on a 64MB flash disk (Klaus-Guenter Leiss)
Re: [OT] - AntiTrust comes out this Friday! (E J)
Re: iptables masquerading ("Ty Morton")
Re: Animated Gif Viewer (Eric)
Re: Animated Gif Viewer (Eric)
Re: how can i stop a "subject" spam (Xavier ROCHE)
compiling 2.4.0 modules error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: question: deleting/undeleting disk partitions (Andrew Gabriel)
Re: duplex printing ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Compiling ghostscript ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions? (Matt O'Toole)
Re: "reiserfsck" is needed ... got it ! (Ekkard Gerlach)
Re: changing window managers & .Xclients (Teet Tarno)
Re: L2-Cache of Pentium2 with Linux ("Ralf Render")
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: is gcc producing optimal code?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:18:39 +0200
Reply-To: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:93gm66$s84$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> As I understand it, unless gcc is built as a cross-compiler, it produces
> the same type of code as it is itself. That is, if gcc package was
> compiled for 386 (Redhat), it will produce code for 386, thereby not
> taking advantage of pentium-ness.
>
> My question is: do I need to recompile gcc to make it create optimized
> code?
I think so - I know that for MS-DOS systems you can get a compiler called
PGCC (Pentium GCC) that has been source code modified to produce optimized
Pentium code. Guess you get it for linux too - simply do a search for
"PGCC".
Regards,
Stefan Viljoen
F/EMS Dispatcher
Potchefstroom F/EMS
South Africa
http://home.intekom.com/rylan/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: changing window managers & .Xclients
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Jan 2001 00:38:19 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Connet wrote:
>Hi... I am new to linux and really do not know what I am doing.
>
>In order to change window managers, before I run startX, I edit my
>.Xclients file and uncomment the one I want. It looks like this:
>...
>
>Is this the *right* way to do it? It works.. but not sure if it is
>"appropriate." Should these be in another file? .xinitrc perhaps? I do
>not have an .xinitrc.
>
It depends. When you do that, various desktop switchers lose control.
Since I never used a desktop switcher, this was of no consequence.
The redhat one (gnome?) uses an entry in .wmstyle (.wm_style?) to
tell .Xclients what the "preferred window manager" is.
.xinitrc is useful if you do not use a graphical login screen (via
xdm or gdm or kdm or whatever); it's only invoked if you "startx".
.Xclients takes its place for a graphical login.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Problems installing updates
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:52:01 -0600
Don wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have RedHat 6.2 installed (everything was installed) and I'm trying to
> install the security and bug fixes. After d/l the RPM and isssuing a
> "rpm -Uvh <rpm module>", I keep getting this error message:
>
> error: <rpm module> cannot be installed
>
> Does anyone know what this means?
1. Are you do this as root?
2. use the vv option to get verbose debug output
rpm -Uvvh
--
Bob Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tax Software??
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:02:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher W. Aiken) writes:
> Is there any tax software like Kiplinger TAXCUT from
> H&R Block for FreeBSD or Linux?
You may be able to run TaxCut atop WINE; I must confess to not having
tried this out in a couple years, but I did run it successfully 2
years ago, and Wine _has_ to have improved since then...
The other major option would be to look to web-based tax preparation
systems; that seems to be an up'n'coming thing...
--
(reverse (concatenate 'string "ac.notelrac.teneerf@" "454aa"))
<http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/>
Rules of the Evil Overlord #8. "After I kidnap the beautiful princess,
we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish
spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan
will be carried out." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Subject: Re: CDs play mono with SB16 and ALSA 0.5.10 -- OSS/Free fine
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:04:23 GMT
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:13:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin) wrote:
> I would also expect a wiring problem EXCEPT for the fact that it
> works fine with OSS drivers. I can't get the left CD audio
> channel to play with ALSA drivers. Every ALSA sound source
> EXCEPT the audio CD is in stereo.
The SB16 has balance control on any source.
Seems like your driver sets this balance on CD-in way to the left
Check mixer settings
DualIP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Step-by step to install Linux RH7 and Win98.
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:04:05 GMT
yah sure, just make sure to install linux at last, it's all taken care
of by lilo.. i suggest RedHat7, it's easy install.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
gataway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But if i want to install more OS like win2000, winNT, can i still use
lilo?
>
> ID wrote:
>
> > 1= install win98
> > 2= install partitionmagic.. but do NOT install bootmagic.
> > 3=resize your existing partition with partitionmagic to create
ampty space
> > for linux. (min. 600mb. 2+GB is good idea)
> > do NOT need to create a partition, just an empty space for linux.
> >
> > than try to install RH7-linux, follow on-screen instructions, you
don't need
> > a boot manager, linux has its own bootmanager called "lilo" that
will take
> > care of your win98 too.
> >
> > good luck
> > ismet
> >
> > "gataway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I'm going to setup a new system with two ATA 100 harddisk, one
for win
> > > 98 the other for Linux RH7.I'm planning to have BootMAgic and
Partition
> > > Magic install .
> > > So which OS do i install first? And what partition is needed for
noth
> > > win98SE and Linux? Can i have and exmaple of how much space for
each
> > > partition? I will
> > > Install most of the application and games on win98SE ,as for
linux i am
> > > a newbie still
> > > need to explore more about it.Kindly give me a senerio on what to
do.
> > >
> > >
>
>
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:40:39 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: 10mbit vs. 100mbit NIC
blix wrote:
>
> I have a W2K and Linux (RH7.0) machine networked together via 10/100mbit
> NICs. I have a network monitor on my W2K machine that shows the speed of
> incoming and outgoing data on that interface.
>** any thoughts as to a 10/100mbit switch? Something small that can be carried
>around?
I see Dlink, Netgear, linksys, etc. Any thoughts as to quality?
--
Norman Levin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: printcap:account name
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:39:30 GMT
Hi,
I am able to print to the hp8100 printer fine but it does not
print the "account name" as the first page or last page. This RH
box is a print server for its own printing jobs. Other print servers
do print "account name" of each user. I read the man pages but not much
got out of it.
J
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3).
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:02:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 02:22:51 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve
Lamb) wrote:
>On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:31:41 GMT, Thaddeus L Olczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>Well, let's experience shows that it takes at least 20 minutes to find
>>something by search engines, many are slow in response and they often
>>have advertisors come up first or something toally unrelated.
>
> Just as an aside, Google. It is what finally got me off my Yahoo! kick.
>I dislike all the others because they provide entirely too many hits. Google
>is normally pretty good with having what I want up top. They also aren't
>trying to be anything other than a search engine.
Google is OK. I think it best to rotate search engines. There are
problems with any though and a good search may take along time.
Worse a bad search takes a long time.
I have some friends who claim to be wizzes at searching. They then
tell me about something they found searching, for example a C+= tool.
I then have to tell them that I looked at that tool and rejected it.
Back when webcrawler and yahoo were the only engines, you could
find things and quickly. Now with all these engines, you not only
can't find stuff, you spend a long time doing so.
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From: Sebastian Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with process switching
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:18:54 +0100
Chip Piller wrote:
>
> I do know of a way that might work for you though. You can use the VNC
> program, or perhaps something similar. The way it works is this, you start
> a vncserver process on your server. The server does not need to be running
> X. Then from another machine you run the vncviewer program which connects
> you to your vncserver. Inside your vncviewer shell/window you start your
> process in the foreground. You can use interact with the process, use your
> mouse, whatever. Then you can log out of the vncviewer, and the process
> continues to run remotely on the vncserver. You can go to another machine,
> log in, check on the running process, make adjustments, log out, etc. The
> address is www.uk.research.att.com/vnc
That strikes me as a rather ressource consuming solution.
Besides, I tried VNC once and it was awfully slow.
Better try 'screen' as one poster pointed out.
seb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Klaus-Guenter Leiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject: Re: Linux on a 64MB flash disk
Date: 11 Jan 2001 07:21:52 GMT
In article <93entu$ugp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Hello!
>
>I'm about to install Linux on a PC/104 card with a 64MB flash disk.
>Most of the Linux distributions I've seen requires a lot more than 64MB, so
>I'm wondering if anyone have suggestions on a Linux distribution I can use.
>
>-Nils Magne
>
>
I think every distribution can be stripped smaller than that provided
your accumulated assortment of programs that you want to use is not
larger. There are 1 Floppy Distribtions ( 1.4MB .. 1.7 MB ) that provide
enough functionality to restore a linux system. A quite complete list
of distributions is found at http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/. I would
suggest that you start with a distribution for embedded designs. On
http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/magazine/ you will find articles
that describe some of the technologies you could use.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,rec.arts.movies.current-films
Subject: Re: [OT] - AntiTrust comes out this Friday!
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:45:08 GMT
Was Linux ever mentioned in the movie? Open Source was.
Hey...That looks my hometown of Vancouver.
Simon Fraser University looks like NURV headquarters :)
Ken Carriere wrote:
> "tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > http://us.imdb.com/Title?0218817
> >
> > Looks to be a hot movie, especially for Linux afficionados!
>
> I just saw this. It's really good. Not because of the Bill Gates angle,
> which I don't care about either way, but just because it was really well
> done. Thrilling and interesting.
>
> IMHO
>
> --Ken
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From: "Ty Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: iptables masquerading
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:03:36 GMT
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_foward
Port Fowarding is as follows
iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d 1.2.3.4 --dport 8080 -j DNAT --to
192.168.1.1:80
This was taken from the netfilter FAQ it worked for me just fine.
HTH
Ty
"Raoul Zwart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:93iujf$rjd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> can anyone give me the basic iptables rules to make masquerading happen on
> the new 2.4 kernels?
>
> please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> TIA
>
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Animated Gif Viewer
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:35:03 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian & Colleen wrote:
>
> Are any of the graphics programs on the Mandrake 7.1 distribution able
> to display animated gif files?
> Thanks.
>
I'm not sure if ImageMagick is included,
try `display anim.gif`
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Animated Gif Viewer
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:37:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian & Colleen wrote:
>
> Are any of the graphics programs on the Mandrake 7.1 distribution able
> to display animated gif files?
> Thanks.
>
Damn, pressed "send" too soon.
That's `animate` instead of `display`
Eric
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From: Xavier ROCHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: how can i stop a "subject" spam
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:45:20 +0100
Use procmail to bounce all messages:
$ cat >.procmailrc
:0Hw
* ^Subject:.*Super Sex Pill
{
EXITCODE=77
TRAP="echo 'Mail rejected:'; echo; echo 'This mail has been rejected
by the procmail filter'; echo 'Go away!'; echo '';"
:0
/dev/null
}
But this rule has to be in all HOME directories (or maybe in the default
procmailrc?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I keep getting "Super Sex Pill" spams and from different addresses so I
> can't just knock out their domain in my /etc/mail/access list. I want
> to get rid of all email that has a subject header "sex" in it. Does
> anyone know how i can do this? I'm running the latest sendmail on suse
> 6.3 (kernel 2.2.13)
>
> thanks,
> John
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: compiling 2.4.0 modules error
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:01:24 GMT
Could someone maybe help me with what this might mean?
r128_cce.c: In function `r128_cce_init_ring_buffer':
r128_cce.c:339: structure has no member named `agp'
r128_cce.c:333: warning: `ring_start' might be used uninitialized in
this function
r128_cce.c: In function `r128_cce_packet':
r128_cce.c:1023: warning: unused variable `size'
r128_cce.c:1021: warning: unused variable `buffer'
r128_cce.c:1019: warning: unused variable `dev_priv'
make[3]: *** [r128_cce.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/linux/drivers/char/drm'
make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_drm] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/linux/drivers/char'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_char] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
everything went well until i started compiling the modules.
TIA
Burke
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Gabriel)
Crossposted-To: alt.solaris.x86,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: question: deleting/undeleting disk partitions
Date: 11 Jan 2001 08:49:15 GMT
In article <rda76.551$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"cr88192" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>on pc type systems with the dos partition scheme the mbr can only define 4
>partitions and each extended partition (dos format anyways) was restricted
>to 4 additional.
>this would allow up to 16 usable partiotions and 4 extended ("real")
>partitions. this in concept allows 20 partitions with the first 4 allways
>used as extended.
>it would be concievably possible to have extended within extended to get
>more, however I don't know if this is possible.
>
>comment?
Hum, where to start?
You can only have one extended DOS partition, because you
should only have one primary fdisk partition of any given type.
(Linux fdisk didn't seem to know this, but most others do.)
I don't recall any limit on the number of logical DOS partitions
in an Extended DOS partition - the data structures can go on
forever. In DOS, the limit would have been running out of drive
letters.
In what you might refer to as an Extended Solaris partition
(which is just called a Solaris partition as there isn't a
non-extended version), you can have 16 further partitions.
This is generally true of any System V unix (not Solaris sparc
though, as it retains its SunOS VTOC structure, not SVR4).
--
Andrew Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consultant Software Engineer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: duplex printing
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:30:35 GMT
Berend van Wachem wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I am working with Red Hat 7.0 and I can't get our HP 4050 to print in
> Duplex mode. I can't find any options under printtool. Does anyone know
> how I can print either duplex or simplex with red hat 7.0?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Berend.
There was a notice posted on the linux.announce news group this week.
Apsfilter 6.0 now supports duplex printing. Just do a web search on
apsfilter.
jamess
--
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it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Compiling ghostscript
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:51:26 GMT
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Can anyone tell me how to compile ghostscript on my pentium pro, gcc
>
> I assume you mean gs6.50
>
> : 2.95.3, Mandrake 7.2?
>
> : After a mass of warnings, I get an error:
> : /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXt
> : collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> : make: *** [obj/gs] Error 1
>
> I edited src/unix-gcc.mak (which I copied to src/../Makefile)
> and changed /usr/X11/lib to /usr/X11R6/lib. Then make clean, make.
> It has to go through the (somewhat strange) ghostscript echogs
> stuff to rewrite gsconfig.h such.
>
> Also copy the ghopstscript-jpeg.tgz, zlib, libpng stuff to the
> source tree and create links
>
> jpeg -> jpeg-6b
> libpng -> libpng-1.0.8
> zlib -> zlib-1.1.3
>
>
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to point out that after you make the link to your Makefile
you have to move the Makefile out of the src directory, and run make
from the top level directory. I just compiled ghostscript 6.50 yesterday
and got hung up on this point; can't remember seeing it mentioned in the
docs.
jamess
--
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it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:54:09 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Subject: Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions?
>
> Lee Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Gee, doesn't the subject say it all?
>
> Answer: No
>
> At least under Mandrake 7.1 on my machines. I do like it though
> (unlike many people on Usenet and Slashdot). I'm hoping for a more
> stable 6.01
I'll second the "no." I've even found the still-unfinished Mozilla to be
more stable (and more likeable, but that's a separate issue).
Mostly I use Konquerer, but I switch to Netscape when I need to access Java
or plugin based content.
Matt O.
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "reiserfsck" is needed ... got it !
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:20:22 +0100
Hello,
thank you. I tested it, but no success:
Will read-only check consistency of the partition
Will replay just like mounting would
Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes):Yes
Replaying journal..ok
uread_super_block: neither new nor old reiserfs format found on dev
0x3:0x6
reiserfsck: no reiserfs found
This reiserfs-partition is totally destroyed. I reinstall.
I can warn you with reiserfs:
1. reiserfs was destroyed two days bevore when hardware upgrading
I forgot to turn off hdparm-setting. The new Ali V-Chipset
did not like hdparm-settings from Ali IV-Chipset (bevore).
After reiserfs-Partition produced suspicious errors while
booting ... an linux was always deadlocked.
2. ..now current ws torn off slowly an reiserfs is destroyed
totally, see above. Perhaps my BIOS setting concerning
DRAM to "fast" was too fast, that the current accident
has caused a total destruction.
Ekkard
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From: Teet Tarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing window managers & .Xclients
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:33:38 +0200
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:01:49 GMT, Steve Connet
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi... I am new to linux and really do not know what I am doing.
>
>In order to change window managers, before I run startX, I edit my
>.Xclients file and uncomment the one I want. It looks like this:
>
># always start these
>xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
>Eterm --geometry 80x50-50+150 -O &
>ymessenger&
>aim&
>Esetroot -scale /usr/share/Eterm/pix/wasteland.jpg
>
># various window managers and desktops
># exec startkde
># exec startxfce
># exec blackbox
># exec sawfish
>exec twm
># exec vtwm
># exec blackbox
>
>Is this the *right* way to do it? It works.. but not sure if it is
>"appropriate." Should these be in another file? .xinitrc perhaps? I do
>not have an .xinitrc.
>
>Please tell me if I am on track or way off here.
This could be the wrong advice for You, but I'll try anyway...
*If* You can have a .xinitrc and just don't have one at the moment,
then You might be interested..
I found 2 quite useful toys :
sdx - "Start Different X-window manager" (or something like that...)
It's command line, You run it and tell it the name of the WM, and it
writes the .xinitrc for You.
Supports ~dozen WM's
selectx - It's a cute little X proggie, put it in .xinitrc ( last
entry, instead of WM name ) , and it comes up and asks You nicely:
"Which one do Ya want ?", has a timeout-feature and a few other
things.
Now I *could* have gotten the names slightly wrong - haven't been in
the Good Operating System in a while.
Sorry, can't give the URL's, You'd have to do a search - should be
reasonably easy to find.
Just My 2 cents - Trying to be useful...
TeeT
When Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, it's a vacuum
cleaner
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From: "Ralf Render" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: L2-Cache of Pentium2 with Linux
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:58:19 +0100
Thanks Henrik,
I think that is the point. My program does not have the cache for itself
because of the multitasking.
Ralf.
Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ralf Render wrote:
> > Yes, my bios is set up to use the L2 Cache.
> > I wrote a small program that runs through an array (512k) and do some
> > calculations. A second version does the same with a loop of 100
> > times.
>
> Your cache is only 512k and some of it is probably also needed for
> instructions. Also remember that Linux is a multitasking OS, a process
> might not have all the cache for itself during the whole loop.
>
> Try to make a new testprogram which uses an array which is much smaller
> but still bigger than your L1 cache. What kind of result do you get
> then?
>
> regards Henrik
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