if you have a laptop running, you may see linuxonlaptops http://www.linux-laptop.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:49 PM Subject: RE: XFree86 4.0.1a > | From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 15 11:38:31 2001 > | Date: 14 May 2001 22:31:03 -0600 > | > | Thank you for the insight. I did a little searching @ > | redhat.com and found a couple of nice > | write-ups for linux on laptops (which is what I'm running).... XF86Conf > | ig did > | ot get the > | video timings correct, and I have a very badly misconfigured X. > | > | Thanks... > | > | P.S. Do you know of any books on writing startx scripts? > | Thank you again... > | > | (M) > | > startx is simply a shell script, as is ~/.xinitrc if you care to supply > one. I use man bash for reference; after scanning throught it 1057 > times it is starting to make sense. You might find [p]info bash less > forbidding (I like pinfo to read info pages): > > http://aptiva.caltech.edu/links/rpm/redhat-6.0/RPMS/i386/pinfo-0.5.9-1.i386. rpm > > Considerations specific to startx & .xinitrc are discussed in man > startx. > > I am too tightfisted to buy manuals. If you read them carefully, the > man pages are really quite excellent doco. > > Lawson > ---cut here > > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
