Linux-Setup Digest #949, Volume #19 Tue, 31 Oct 00 22:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Boot failure with large disk (Tux)
Re: How to configure Apache Web Server! ("Ivan")
modules (HamburgPrecision)
Linux user admin the Windows way. (Nick Porter)
RH6.2 and Linuxconf and sysctl.conf ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux user admin the Windows way. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
modules (Brian)
Re: modules ("David ..")
What is the format of /dev/audio ? (David B. Lawson)
Resource for beginner?? (venusdick)
Re: RH6.2 and Linuxconf and sysctl.conf ("David ..")
Re: HELP FORGOT TO INSTALL BOOTLOADER!!! ("CEPi")
Another disk bootable ("Daniel G�linas")
Re: "Branded" machines and linux ("Ron Hauptfleisch")
Red Hat Mail Server Help (Robert Gasiorowski)
Re: Resource for beginner?? ("pl")
Experts Help!!! max SCSI devices. (Peter from Melbourne, Australia)
Re: Can't install Redhat 7.0 ("Michael J. Johnston")
ftp upload & CUI printer setup (Henry W Meyerding)
Re: redhat: Out of Range (Jerry L Kreps)
DualMonitor Matrox (Milan Kratka)
Help with cyrillic fonts (Cheryl Bender)
Re: I'm stuck on DST ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI Xpert2000 video card and RH 6.0 ("Frank Goffena")
Re: DualMonitor Matrox (Monte Richardson)
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From: Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Boot failure with large disk
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:10:42 +0100
I know the problem of lilo stopping with 'L' instead of starting the
system.
Try to reinstall lilo (do you start from the boot sector you have
installed lilo in?). Then it should work.
Have a nice day
Tux
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From: "Ivan" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to configure Apache Web Server!
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:08:12 +0100
sorry ...... you *can*
Ivan
> Ivan wrote:
> >
> > "low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio
> > >
> >
> > You must use Linuxconf or Webmin - go into the apache section and insert
the
> > name of your server in Server Name .....
> >
>
> You... *must*...???
>
> --
> SALUD,
> Jes�s
> ***
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ***
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HamburgPrecision)
Subject: modules
Date: 31 Oct 2000 21:52:20 GMT
After one has a kernel configured for modules, is it possible to add in a
module without recompiling the kernel? Ex.) I have a 2.2.16-2 kernel for RH
7.0 (I changed the Makefile to kgcc) with modules enabled. Now if I want to
have the kernel load a sound module at boot time what do I do from scratch??
Just use gcc to compile the sound.c file, move that file (sound.o) to
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc, then add a line to my /etc/modules.conf file???
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From: Nick Porter <>
Subject: Linux user admin the Windows way.
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:21:49 +0000
Is it possible to centralise the administration of user information on
multiple Linux boxes the way NT does ?
Also, is it possible to sync the two systems together so that a user
can be authenticated on both networks with the same logon/password.
Thanks.
--
NP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH6.2 and Linuxconf and sysctl.conf
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:19:43 GMT
Hi,
In RedHat 6.2 it appears that enabling IP forwarding from Linuxconf
simply doesn't work. That is, it actually changes FORWARD_IPV4 in
/etc/sysconfig/network, but the system seems to simply ignore that
file... I read the "New Features" section in RH6.2's reference guide
and, sure enough, it says that /etc/sysconfig was replaced by
sysctl.conf.
So my questions is: Do I understand correctly that things that I used
to configure via Linuxconf (such as IP forwarding) I can no longer
configure via Linuxconf? Do I have to edit sysctl.conf by hand? (not a
big problem for me, but I need to make sure that my hand-written
configuration changes do not compete with some real-settings configured
via a different GUI tool)
TIA,
Swengtoo
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux user admin the Windows way.
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:44:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nick Porter <> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to centralise the administration of user information on
> multiple Linux boxes the way NT does ?
>
> Also, is it possible to sync the two systems together so that a user
> can be authenticated on both networks with the same logon/password.
You may want to take a look at LDAP.
G
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Before you buy.
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modules
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:18:34 GMT
After I have configured and compiled my kernel, and enabled modules,
what do I need to do to add a module to the kernel, and have it loaded
at boot time. For example let's say I wanted to add a soundblaster
module. Is it necessary to recompile the kernel, or may I just compile
the necessary soundblaster file (awe-wave) then place that awe-wave.o
file in /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc then add a line in /etc/modules.conf
to get it to load at boot time??
brian
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modules
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:38:39 -0600
HamburgPrecision wrote:
>
> After one has a kernel configured for modules, is it possible to add in a
> module without recompiling the kernel? Ex.) I have a 2.2.16-2 kernel for RH
> 7.0 (I changed the Makefile to kgcc) with modules enabled. Now if I want to
> have the kernel load a sound module at boot time what do I do from scratch??
> Just use gcc to compile the sound.c file, move that file (sound.o) to
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc, then add a line to my /etc/modules.conf file???
I don't use RH 7 but that would work in 6.2
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David B. Lawson)
Subject: What is the format of /dev/audio ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:53:49 GMT
I have captured some audio using the command
dd if=/dev/audio of=filename bs=11k
and can very successfully play it back but my
dilema is now that I want to clip the sound
apart and use it, I have no idea what format
the sound is in? I assumed some sort of raw
byte stream so I tried to convert with sox
and tried both unsigned and signed byte
streams to .au and just got horrible garbage.
I also tried sox on auto and it was maybe even
worse garbage. Any clues?
Dave
PS
Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: venusdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resource for beginner??
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:50:35 +0000
Another have good links or resource on the net for Linux beginners???
Thx
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 and Linuxconf and sysctl.conf
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:42:07 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> In RedHat 6.2 it appears that enabling IP forwarding from Linuxconf
> simply doesn't work. That is, it actually changes FORWARD_IPV4 in
> /etc/sysconfig/network, but the system seems to simply ignore that
> file... I read the "New Features" section in RH6.2's reference guide
> and, sure enough, it says that /etc/sysconfig was replaced by
> sysctl.conf.
>
> So my questions is: Do I understand correctly that things that I used
> to configure via Linuxconf (such as IP forwarding) I can no longer
> configure via Linuxconf? Do I have to edit sysctl.conf by hand? (not a
> big problem for me, but I need to make sure that my hand-written
> configuration changes do not compete with some real-settings configured
> via a different GUI tool)
>
> TIA,
> Swengtoo
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I always rpm -e linuxconf and do it by hand.
Just add a line like this to /etc/sysctl.conf and then restart the
network.
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
Then: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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Reply-To: "CEPi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "CEPi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP FORGOT TO INSTALL BOOTLOADER!!!
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:57:28 -0000
There must be some other smart way to do this but I rebooted from CD again
and done a Upgrade which took some 10 min searching for new packages and
then Lilo installer should come up so i can actually install it.
Hope it works
CEPi
"{[ZenmasteR]}" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:_cAL5.3701$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> ARRRGH
> just installed 7.2 and since i dual boot 98 and 2k and thought I was
> supposed to skip boat loader
> now I remember installing it with 7.0 (when I had it )
> I have 1 16 meg boot partition right at the beginning and 3 gig linux
> partition within a logical drive
> How do I install bootloader after I installed everthing else?
> and which partition was it supposed to go on?
> TIA
>
> --
>
>
> Remove XS. to reply
>
>
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From: "Daniel G�linas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Another disk bootable
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:55:55 GMT
Hi!
I want to know what's the best method
to make a copie of a root disk to another
disk and make it bootable.
Actually, I use cpio with scsi disks and lilo.
When I trie to boot from the disk copied
with cpio, I have the message:
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fd on 08:02"
Please help...!
Thank you
Daniel Gelinas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ron Hauptfleisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Branded" machines and linux
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:32:31 -0500
I have a CompaQ Presario 5900Z (Athlon). I am currently running a triple
boot system (Win98, Win2K, RH7.0). I just put it up and still don't have
the proxy, dhcp server and firewall working and my Windows printer doesn't
work, but everything else does. (I am still booting from floppy). My
expectation is that I will get everything working eventually (except maybe
the printer).
BTW, CompaQ does NOT support this configuration
ron
"Coredump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:34:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Richter)
wrote:
>
>
> >
> >Compaq, BTW, scores NO points in my book for "quiet". Their machines, in
my
> >experience, tend to throw a large amount of noise pollution (the newer,
the
> >worse. Go figure!)
>
> Makes perfect sense. The newer, faster chips throw a LOT more heat and
take
> a LOT more air moving to keep cool. More air means more fan. More fan
means
> more noise. You can only make those fans 'so' quiet :-) and no matter how
> quiet, double the fan means double the noise. (That and the fact that
Comapq
> doesn't have the quietest fans in the industry).
>
> Core
>
>
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From: Robert Gasiorowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Red Hat Mail Server Help
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:04:02 GMT
My company asked me to install redundant mail server.
I want to use RH Linux, but:
can I configure sendmail to spool mail to shared RAID drive?
what RAID systems RHL supports, if any?
is there a program/deamon that will keep some important files in sync on
two RHL boxes?
Thanks.
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From: "pl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Resource for beginner??
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:26:34 GMT
> Another have good links or resource on the net for Linux beginners??? Thx
www.linuxdoc.org (HOWTOs guides, etc)
www.linuxnewbie.org
www.linuxstart.com
the homepage of whatever distro you're using
www.google.com (does a great job with linux related searches, as well as any
other search for that matter)
www.deja.com (find the answer to those linux questions that have been asked a
million times before)
www.linuxnewbie.com
www.linux.com
www.linux.org (the official home)
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From: Peter from Melbourne, Australia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Experts Help!!! max SCSI devices.
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:21:18 GMT
Hi,
I want to connect my linux box to 32 disks via Fibre Channel.
My understanding - limited as it might be - is that it is only possible
to have 16 devices (/dev/sda, sdb, sdc,..., sdp).
Can this be increased or is this the limitation of the current kernel?
If yes, how?
If no, when will it be available?
regards
Peter
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From: "Michael J. Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can't install Redhat 7.0
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:43:13 -0700
I turns out that just 4 megs short of having the complete dowload my
connection was cut off and I didn't know it. I re-downloaded the file and
it works great! Thanks for all you help!
Mike
"Michael J. Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8tkjkv$b8n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I've downloaded 7.0-i386-disk1.iso for Redhat 7.0 (From twocows) and
Adaptec
> burned it to a CD correctly it appears. When I put the CD in the machine,
> it boots up to the CD and starts the install. After is askes to use
> English, I get an error saying "I could not find a Redhat CDROM in and of
> the CDROM drives. Please insert the Redhat CD and press OK to try again."
> I throught that I did have the Redhat CD rom. I've burned 3 CD and I get
> the same problem everytime. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> I also went to a mirror and downloaded the whole i386 english version, but
> it's over a gig so I can't put it on a CD. Any help would be great!
>
> Mike Johnston
>
>
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From: Henry W Meyerding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftp upload & CUI printer setup
Date: 31 Oct 2000 17:41:36 -0800
OK, so I read the upload section on the man page. I inserted this into
the ftpaccess file. I want to allow ftp uploads to the pub directory.
It still says permission denied on server. So I have to reboot (or shut
down the ftp service and restart it - and how exactly do you do that?).
Also, how do you configure a remote printer from the command line. The
redhat help files are less than easy. I set this computer up as a
server, so i don't have any GUI access. I copied the printcap file and
some others from a machine I configured with printtol, but this didn't
work.
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From: Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: redhat: Out of Range
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:09:17 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lily Fu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to linux administration and I need urgent help!
>
> RedHat 6.2 was installed on a machine as 'server' type.
> Today, I tried to upgrade it by adding X-Window
> packages. After chose 'upgrade' and selected
> the XFree86 and other packages, (using the customerize option)
> it went ok, but it said 'mouse' couldn't be found.
>
> So, I went to 'upgrade' procedure again,
> this time, I though I didn't need to install any packages,
> I clicked 'upgrade' and 'custoerize' but didn't
> check any packages. Strange enough, the system
> went to update all 214 packages from CD-ROM
>
> Then, it rebooted, but gave me the following error:
>
> "OUT OF RANGE
> Hz: 30kHz - 130 kHz
> Vz: 50Hz - 160Hz
>
> CURRENT FREQUENCY
> Hz: 27.8kHz Vz: 62Hz"
>
> What does this mean?
>
> I need to get the system back as soon as possible,
> please help!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Lily
That means it deselected your monitor. You will have to run XF86config, or
sox, or what every RH uses, to again configure your monitor.
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From: Milan Kratka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: DualMonitor Matrox
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:03:19 -0600
Does anybody have a positive experience installing a Matrox
G100/G200/G400 dual monitor video cards on a linux system? I have been
having some difficulties... Any comments appreciated.
Milan Kratka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Cheryl Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with cyrillic fonts
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 02:22:35 GMT
I am trying to set up my Mandrake 7.1/KDE installation to display
cyrillic fonts, particularly for web browsing. It appears that the
fonts are installed (I installed the XFree86-Cyrillic-fonts package and
the fonts all appear in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/
directory), but when I open Netscape and go to the fonts, there is no
option to select a cyrillic font. I am unable to use the KFM to browse
cyrillic pages. I would also like to install the keyboard drivers so
that I can perform searches in Russian. But when I add Russian as a
second default language locale (with English as the first), the next
time I login all of the text is scrambled, as if it was trying to
display Russian but can't get the right font. Thank you for your time.
Cheryl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: I'm stuck on DST
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 02:30:02 GMT
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8tlhfb$sq4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm running Redhat 6.0, and when we changed to standard time from
> > daylight savings time last Sunday, my machine didn't make the
change.
> > Actually, I rebooted the machine to make a hardware change on Sunday
> > afternoon, and I didn't notice whether the date command was
reporting
> > DST or not. But since rebooting, it is stuck on DST. I tried
running
> > /usr/sbin/setup to set my timezone, but this didn't help.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
>
> What is the clock in the bios set to? If you want your system to
> automatically adjust for time changes, ensure that the bios clock is
set
> to UTC and allow the local clock to be your timezone. There is a good
> clock/time howto on the web. If you have a fulltime box like a dsl or
> cable modem, using ntp as a timeserver for your home network is pretty
> nice.
>
> Make the change in the bios to UTC and then read the hwclock howto or
> refer on how to set linux to localtime so it adjusts for time changes.
> My laptop roams all over and it has the time set to UTC in the bios
and
> the localtime always changes as we go from PDT to PST and reverse.
>
> --
> Michael Perry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ------------------
>
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm actually doing all that including
using ntp (it's great). But you did prompt me to discover that I set TZ
to be "EDT+4" 6 months ago in frustration. Now I changed it to
"EST5EDT" and everything is working fine.
Thanks again for getting me to dig deeper and find that.
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Before you buy.
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From: "Frank Goffena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert2000 video card and RH 6.0
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:54:21 -0500
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your response. I read some of the documentation on the
XFree86-3.3.6 and it doesn't show that it supports the ATI Xxpert2000, but I
am willing to try it if this doesn't work. The Linux-ix86-glibc21 will
update XFree86 to 4.0.1, plus, when I run "sh xinstall.sh -check", it
detected my video card and specified what libraries that I need. So I would
prefer to use this method if possible.
I believe that I found the problem with installing the Linux-ix86-glibc21,
but don't know what to do about it. I'll go into some details and maybe you
can tell me where I am going wrong. First, I downloaded the
Linux-ix86-glibc21 files in Win98 to a FAT16 partition. Then I booted into
Linux, and created a /dos directory. I then mounted the FAT16 partition by
using the command "mount -t msdos /dev/hdb5 /dos". I created a /root/temp
directory and copied the files to it. I verified that all of the files were
copied. I then go to the /root/temp directory and run the xinstall.sh script
by using the command "sh xinstall.sh". The script starts to run and I answer
a prompt to continue with the installation. I then get a message saying that
the extract utility needs (and lists all of the .tgz files) in the current
directory to run. At this point, the script has terminated. I have verified
that all of the files listed are indeed there.
The install documentation warns that some browsers will not download the
xinstall.sh and extract files properly because it will download them in text
mode, so they also provide a xinstall.bin and extract.exe that can be
renamed after downloading. I don't believe that this is a problem because
the script is running, and the extract utility is trying to run. I also
believe that the .tgz files are downloading properly because I can view the
contents of them with Winzip in Windows. I believe the problem is that the
.tgz files are not copying properly from the FAT16 partition. I tried to
view one of the files with pkunzip while in Linux, and it said that it
wasn't a valid archive.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated
Frank Goffena
Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Frank Goffena wrote:
> >
> > I am new to Linux, so please bear with me.
> > During the installation, XConfigurator did not list any rage 128 drivers
for
> > this card. I followed the link from ATI's website and to make a long
story
> > short, found that I need to install the Linux-ix86-glibc21 package.
> > Hopefully I am on the right track so far. I downloaded this package in
> > Windows to a FAT16 drive, then copied the files to my Linux partition in
the
> > /root/installs/xfree86/ directory in which I created. When I run the
> > ...
> > Am I on the right track to get X to work with my video card, and why
might I
> > be getting this error.
>
> You've picked a fairly difficult path for a "new to Linux" person. I'd
> probably have upgraded with RedHat packages for XFree 3.3.6. RH 6.0 was
> way back there. You need five rpm's to upgrade: XFree86-3.3.6,
> XFree86-libs,
> XFree86-75dpi, XFree86-SVGA, and XFree86-xfs. Download those (or find
> them
> on a RH 6.2 cd), and do a rpm -Uv.
>
> I'd probably be able to do it the way you've started, but I've been
> using Linux
> for years. As long as you've chosen RH, why not use rpm. It's about
> the only
> reason to use RedHat.
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From: Monte Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: DualMonitor Matrox
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 03:09:35 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 10/31/00, 6:03:19 PM, Milan Kratka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regardin=
g=20
DualMonitor Matrox:
> Does anybody have a positive experience installing a Matrox
> G100/G200/G400 dual monitor video cards on a linux system? I have bee=
n
> having some difficulties... Any comments appreciated.
> Milan Kratka
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's my understanding that Xfree doesn't support dual monitor set ups,=20
yet. There are plans to include that in the next major release. All is=
=20
according to my recollection after reading the Xfree FAQ.
Hope this helps,=20
Monte Richardson=20
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