Linux-Setup Digest #555, Volume #20 Fri, 2 Feb 01 12:13:09 EST
Contents:
HOW ABOUT LINUX ("�p�ʧb")
how about linux.......tell me? ("�p�ʧb")
PLEASE ("�p�ʧb")
Re: Stupid question! ("Duane Healing")
Re: Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023) (Doug Poulin)
How burn wav files to cd audio ? (root)
Asuscom ISDN Card with Mandrake Linux 7.2 ("Luigi")
Re: radius server (Nick Condon)
Re: Lilo boot over cyl 1024 (Ron Gibson)
Mouse does not work on RH 7.0 ("PM")
Re: How burn wav files to cd audio ? (Natanael Copa)
terminfo probs ... ("Paulo")
Re: PLEASE (Eric)
rmcobol and terminfo ("Paulo")
Re: Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023) (Eric)
RH7.0 newbie pump (DHCP) questions (Craig Harpel)
Help: Can't load RHL onto system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Stupid question! (arse)
Diva PCI card on Red Hat 6.2 ? (John Beardmore)
Re: Samba guest share setup? ("Alan Steele")
DMI Pool ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Socket Listener ("Martin Schmidt")
Kernel 2.4.1 won't boot ! ("Ian White")
Re: Stupid question! (JimB)
Re: Installed RH7, Win98 no longer boots (DeAnn)
newbie startx problem ("flipper")
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From: "�p�ʧb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HOW ABOUT LINUX
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:23:59 +0800
PLEASE
ANYBODY CAN TELL ME HOW AOBUT LINUX OS.HOW TO USE.HOW TO SET.HOW TO
SETUP.FOR FIRST USER...........PLEASE............PLEASE.......TELL ME
THANKS. FORM TAIWAN.........
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From: "�p�ʧb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how about linux.......tell me?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:25:02 +0800
PLEASE
ANYBODY CAN TELL ME HOW AOBUT LINUX OS.HOW TO USE.HOW TO SET.HOW TO
SETUP.FOR FIRST USER...........PLEASE............PLEASE.......TELL ME
THANKS. FORM TAIWAN.........
[EMAIL PROTECTED] my mail.........recived..........
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From: "�p�ʧb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PLEASE
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:25:07 +0800
PLEASE
ANYBODY CAN TELL ME HOW AOBUT LINUX OS.HOW TO USE.HOW TO SET.HOW TO
SETUP.FOR FIRST USER...........PLEASE............PLEASE.......TELL ME
THANKS. FORM TAIWAN.........
[EMAIL PROTECTED] my mail.........recived..........
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid question!
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 05:13:25 -0800
Kernel an other system stuff is in C. Some high level apps, particularly
GUI ones, are in C++.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <95ea4i$pic$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "arse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> does that include linux itself. As in kernels and stuff (as u can tell
> im no expert), are they written in c or c++
>
>
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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:51:06 -0500
From: Doug Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023)
My LILO lives WAY beyond that 1023 limitation. And if you're running
the 2.2 kernel (and you installed from a distro with the 2.2 kernel),
you should have the new LILO. Look in /etc/lilo.conf. You may have a
line that says "default", if so change it to "lba32". That's all it
took for me!
Good luck.
Eric wrote:
>
> ON wrote:
> >
> > It is strange, but I just recompiled my 2.2.14 kernel with one extra option
> > ticked and when running LILO I get
> >
> > Cylinder number too big >1023
> >
> > although the Linux partition IS inside the 1023 limit ! It starts at
> > 9hundred something.
>
> Where does it end?
>
> Eric
--
Doug Poulin
MIS Specialist
Net to Net Technologies
603-427-0600
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: How burn wav files to cd audio ?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 14:04:01 GMT
Hi,
I got ecawave 0.3.3 development files with ecasound 1.8.5 and
qtecasound... as needed. I recorded
2 *.wav files. They are 2 sides of a tape. I want to paste them
together. I tried copy and paste in 2 gnoise windows but that did
not do anything.
I then found ecawave and tried that. It might load a little slower
than gnoise, but it looks nice and I like the box that shows its
loading. I then tried to open one and copy it. One improvement I
saw that would help is having buttons that would go to the beginning
and end of the sound. I had to manually try to get as close as possible
to the beginning as I could and I doubt I could get the beginning and
would lose something.
Anyway, from what I remember from the other day, ecawave did better
in that it looked like it did let me paste the one sound into the
other one which was good. But when I saved it and played it, it just
played the first sound and not the second.
Actually I just tried it again now, and it looks like the paste does
not really work. It basically does the same as open. It just puts the
second file there in place of the first.
I tried cat file1.wav file2.wav > file3.wav before and that did not
work. It just played the file1.wav I think. I am guessing their must
be markers so it won't work that easy??
Anyway, does ecawave's paste not work? and do you know of something
else that will let me do this? I would like to be able to see and
edit it though like in your program so I could get rid of the dead
space.
Also since you are into sound, do you know what format I need to burn
a wav file onto a cd with so a regular cd player can use it? And do
you know of linux software that will do this? I have used xcdroast for
data, but I don't think it will let me do what I need.
Last night I tried getting cdrdao/gcdmaster. Cdrdao is obviously harder
to use being command line so I tried gcdmaster. But when I tried to
pick
a wav file and hit OK it just sat there. It would not let me hit OK. I
think
I then tried 'Import' and clicked on a 217mb wav file and it did nothing
and
in the morning the window was obviously froze up. Actually maybe that
was
gtoaster that I killed this morning.
I did not try any of the few KDE programs because KDE 2.0(?) was too
buggy
and I finally tried to upgrade it to the 2.01 and it complained of
dependencies
and I never got it installed all the way.
Will this work? What should I use to save *.wav to cd audio of whatever
format?
Should I convert wav to something else first? If I need to use cdrdao
can someone
give me an example?
Thanks.
Stan Towianski
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From: "Luigi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Asuscom ISDN Card with Mandrake Linux 7.2
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:02:23 +0100
Reply-To: "Luigi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
I performed a personal class installation of Mandrake Linux 7.2 wich went
flawlessly. I have an Asuscom ISDN Card but the OS did not recognise it
correctly.
Anyone can help me?
Luigi C.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Condon)
Subject: Re: radius server
Date: 2 Feb 2001 14:37:24 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (fail006) wrote in <95e69p$9tl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hi,
>Is there a radius server that runs on linux?
>where can i get this?
A search on Freshmeat reveal 34 projects containing the word "radius"
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=radius
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Subject: Re: Lilo boot over cyl 1024
Date: 2 Feb 2001 14:46:56 GMT
Manuel Stesycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated:
> I am trying to install linux on my athlon-pc.I have several partition:
> 1 GB for Win98 + 6 GB for Win data (dont't blame me :-) )
> 6 GB for Linux( last on the drive)
> The installation was successful (Suse 7.0) but lilo returns an
> error-message that my root-partition(the Kernel) is located over the
> 1024 cylinder and not bootable.
> So what can i do? buy an new HDD ?
Absolutely. I have two 540MB Western Digitals, 1995 vintage that will
do the job :)
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home Page: http://home.netcom.com/~rgibson/index.htm
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From: "PM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Mouse does not work on RH 7.0
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 14:42:24 GMT
I installed a RedHat7.0 on a Dell Latitude CP
using all the defaults. However my touchpad
or an external Microsoft PS/2 compatible mouse
would not work.
I can see the pointer, but it would not move.
I asked a friend more knowledgeable about RH
and he suggested that I need to kill gdm which
I did with his help - I also removed links that kick
off gdm. But even after this, no luck.
Has anybody faced this ? Help would be much
appreciated. Help emailed to me would me
more appreciated.
Thanks.
Piyush
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From: Natanael Copa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How burn wav files to cd audio ?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:54:15 +0100
> Will this work? What should I use to save *.wav to cd audio of whatever
> format?
cdrecord is pretty good.
first convert to *.cdr
sox song.wav song.cdr
then burn it:
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,1,0 -audio song.cdr song2.cdr ...
or why not mp3?
for I in *.mp3
do
mpg123 ---cdr - "$I" | cdrecord -audio -pad -nofix -
done
cdrecord -fix
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From: "Paulo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: terminfo probs ...
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:59:10 -0000
Hi !
Using the 'linux' terminfo i do have my special caracters (portuguese and
other special ones), but only on X11 (Kde2 and Konsole w/kb in linux mode),
because on the real console i have graphic caracters in the place of my
special caracters ... any idea why ? terminfo is the same ? X11
configuration ? even BACKSPACE key has diferent beaviour ...
Any Suggestion ?
Thanks in advance
Paulo
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PLEASE
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:01:10 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
�p�ʧb wrote:
>
> PLEASE
> ANYBODY CAN TELL ME HOW AOBUT LINUX OS.HOW TO USE.HOW TO SET.HOW TO
> SETUP.FOR FIRST USER...........PLEASE............PLEASE.......TELL ME
> THANKS. FORM TAIWAN.........
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] my mail.........recived..........
a) It's really really really annoying when you post more than one
message with exactly the same question.
b) It's also a waste of bandwith and storage space.
c) It's also very annoying when you only use capitols.
It's considered shouting, AND I DON'T LIKE THAT.
d) go read a book on the subject.
Eric
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From: "Paulo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rmcobol and terminfo
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:59:49 -0000
Hi !
Using the 'linux' terminfo i do have my special caracters (portuguese and
other special ones), but only on X11 (Kde2 and Konsole w/kb in linux mode),
because on the real console i have graphic caracters in the place of my
special caracters ... any idea why ? terminfo is the same ? X11
configuration ? even BACKSPACE key has diferent beaviour ...
Any Suggestion ?
Thanks in advance
Any special terminfo for rmcobol, out there ? :)
Paulo
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:04:25 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doug Poulin wrote:
>
> My LILO lives WAY beyond that 1023 limitation.
I doubt that.
Unless you use another bootloader that can access that location.
You're kernel can be WAY beyond it though.
> And if you're running
> the 2.2 kernel (and you installed from a distro with the 2.2 kernel),
> you should have the new LILO.
No you should not.
version 21.4.3 or above is needed
> Look in /etc/lilo.conf. You may have a
> line that says "default", if so change it to "lba32". That's all it
> took for me!
Then you had a new version of lilo
Eric
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From: Craig Harpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7.0 newbie pump (DHCP) questions
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:05:57 -0500
Does pump automatically renew a lease? I typically get
a 6 hour lease, but I want my connection to always be up.
Do I have to do something other than setting up my eth0 to
use DHCP? My connection is fine right after I boot, but by
the next day its gone. Do I have to set up a cron to keep
running pump periodically?
Thanks.
Craig
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help: Can't load RHL onto system
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 15:02:53 GMT
Last night I tried to load RHL7 onto an old system so I could configure
it as a mail server. For some reason the 'puter doesn't want to read
the CDROM drive and I don't know why. I went into the CMOS and
disabled the hd as a boot device and the 'puter finally booted off the
CD. When it came time to have it read from the CD again it just hung.
I see four ways of approaching this:
1. Find a floppy-based distribution. However I think these are few and
far-between.
2. Hook my 'puter up to my network at home and install using that. A
question I've got here is has anyone used the 3c509 EtherLink3 card
successfully? If it works fine and it won't take a whole lot of
tweaking I'm going to return the Linksys PCI card I had bought
previously.
3. Take the hd and install the system onto it using another computer.
But I'm not sure if there are any hardware-sensitive stuff installed
and whether or not it's worth the risk of damaging the pins and cables.
4. Figure out why the 'puter won't read the CD. You would think a
system that's got Win95 on it with CD support would allow for CD
support under Linux. But I wouldn't have the first clue as to how to
approach this.
I would be grateful for useful suggestions.
The system in question:
Packard Bell Platinum I
Pentium 133
81MB RAM
1.2GG & 3.5GB HD
3Com 3c509B EtherLink III ISA NIC
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From: arse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid question!
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 15:05:35 GMT
what is the difference between c and c++? is c++ just like a newer
version or is it a graphical version?
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: demon.service.isdn
Subject: Diva PCI card on Red Hat 6.2 ?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:29:30 +0000
Has anybody got a PCI Diva card to talk to an ISP, especially Demon from
a RedHat 6.2 Linux box ?
Or for that matter, an ISA Digi Datafire card ?
What did you have to add to 'out of the box' Linux to get it going ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "Alan Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba guest share setup?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:52:21 -0000
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:956ndr$65a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <xHAd6.556$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED](spam)> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got the following samba share in smb.conf that I'd like to be
> read
> > accessible to everyone on a windows network without them having to
> specify a
> > username and password (that is, a simple "net use"). I tried "guest ok
> =
> > true" but I am still prompted for username & password. Any suggestions
> > anyone?
> >
> > [nmonitor]
> > available = 1
> > comment = share
> > valid users = admin guest any
> > create mask = 664
> > directory mask = 775
> > path = /home/users
> > writeable = no
> > public = yes
> > guest ok = true
> > ;
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Al.
> >
> >
> Your alomost there, you need to set SHARE level security, it defaults to
> USER level. Also make sure Browsable = Yes is selected. Are you using
> SWAT to set this up, or editing the smb.conf file by hand? If your not
> try using SWAT, it simplifies things quite a bit. Here is a copy of my
> smb.conf, the "/scotty" directory is share level security and
> browsable/writable by everyone.
<snip>
I'd like to keep using user level security if pos. I'm still asked for a
password as well, and I'd like to be able to connect without specifying
anything. Here's what I have now. Any ideas?
[global]
workgroup = MYDOMAIN
domain logons = no
wins support = no
max connections = 25
guest account = gaccount
map to guest = bad password
server string = SERVERTYPE
os level = 1
short preserve case = yes
preserve case = yes
local master = yes
lock directory = /var/lock/samba
locking = yes
strict locking = yes
share modes = yes
security = user
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
log file = /var/log/samba
max log size = 5000
veto files = /Network Trash Folder/.AppleDouble/.AppleDesktop/Icon^M/
encrypt passwords = yes
dead time = 5
debug level = 0
dns proxy = no
domain master = no
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
alternate permissions = no
browseable = yes
case sensitive = no
default case = upper
delete readonly = yes
follow symlinks = yes
locking = yes
mangle case = no
map hidden = yes
map system = yes
oplocks = yes
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
strict locking = yes
delete veto files = yes
wide links = yes
security mask = 777
directory security mask = 777
null passwords = yes
;
[nmonitor]
available = 1
comment = share
valid users = guest nmonitor
create mask = 664
directory mask = 775
path = /home/users
writeable = no
public = yes
guest ok = true
guest account = gaccount
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DMI Pool
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 15:48:54 GMT
I was trying to install a dual boot machine, Win 98, and SUSE 7.0
Linux. After finishing installing SUSE and rebooting my computer to the
c: it hung at the verifying DMI Pool for a second and then I get a
scrolling binary matrix. Can anyone please help.
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From: "Martin Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Socket Listener
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:49:24 +0100
arse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
95eafk$pps$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> i have suse 7. which installed pretty much ok. But when i run a Konsole
> on kde, i get loads of errors about socketlisteners. Can anyone tell me
> more about socketes / socket listeners. or point me in a helpfull
> direction.
> basic stuff i mean, like what they actually are and what they do.
>
> --
> [][][]{}{}~~';:.<<//?|1�!"�$$%^^&*(())__+/*+
> oooh random characters i must be coool!
>
>
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Sockets are an interface to the network , with the right
libraries included you may write relatively easy programs which
exange data over the net using sockets . So to find out more
about sockets search a newsgroup with network topics and
post your question again .
Martin
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From: "Ian White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel 2.4.1 won't boot !
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:28:17 -0000
Hi,
I have Mandrake 7.2 and just built Kernel 2.4.1. All went well and created
a bzImage file.
I copied this to /boot and also to my windows disk for use with loadlin. I
have 2 disks first is win98 second is linux.
When I try to boot the new Kernel (about 1.1Mb) with either grub, or loadlin
from my C: drive it fails with the following message :
'uncompressing Kernel
invalid compressed format (err=1)
--system halted'
What am I doing wrong ? I tried to install LILO in case the other methods
were causing problem but I must have screwed up as I could only get LI.
I can boot the old Kernel with loadlin - but no the new one.
I can't find the error message anywhere
Can anybody help please ?
Ta
Ian
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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:45:17 +0000
From: JimB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid question!
arse wrote:
>
> what is the difference between c and c++? is c++ just like a newer
> version or is it a graphical version?
>
good job you're not asking that in one of the C NGs ... you'd start a
holy war.
I'm no expert, but AFAIK C is another block structured programming
language that is particularly suitable for OS type programming, wheras
C++ is an object oriented language that is derived from C.
--
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn)
Subject: Re: Installed RH7, Win98 no longer boots
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:55:38 GMT
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 06:30:03 -0000, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>This sucks. I have/had a dual-boot system with Windows 98 and Red Hat
>6.1, using LILO to boot. I performed a workstation-class install of Red
>Hat 7, which went flawlessly. It even detected that I wanted to dual-boot
>with a DOS partition. However, when I opt to boot into DOS the screen
>says:
>
>Verifying DMI pool data
>
>...and then the cursor stops and blinks on the next line. It does not
>boot. I have tried the following:
>
>1. lilo -u (this causes my system to stop at "LI")
>2. booting with a Windows boot disk (get to the "verifying..." line and
>stops, and I made sure BIOS boots from A drive first)
>
>I think that if I could just get back into Windows I could "fdisk /mbr",
>and restore the MBR, but I can't even get in with a boot floppy! Any
>ideas on how I can get back into Windows?
>
>thanks,
>brian
>
>
I have gotten these symptoms on a dual boot (just as you
describe, freezing at the verifying pool data). The cause was adding
a hard disk that had zero windows or DOS partitions on it. Windows
goes into a mode seeking its base information on the disk, fails to
find it, and seeks forever. Sheesh! this has been going on for
years. When is someone going to add a patch to the OS and submit it
to Bill for inclusion in the main kernel!!!!! (I would, but I seem to
have misplaced the copy of the source code that gets distributed with
the install disks.) In my case, the fix was simple: Add a tiny DOS
partition to the new disk. Then windows finds something it owns on
the disk and is happy. (Note, windows seems to be happy with an
entirely raw disk, but not with a disk that has stuff on it but no
DOSWIN stuff.)
Hope that helps.
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From: "flipper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie startx problem
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:59:46 -0000
Hi - hope you can help me...
I have recently installed RedHat 6.1 (first-time Linux user) and cannot get
startx to work. (I've only got v6.1 because I got it a while ago and
couldn't get it to install on my old computer and have been hanging on to it
until I upgraded ;-))
I suspect that it's because when I went through the custom install and it
got to the X configuration page it correctly identifies my monitor but says
no video card found. It's a S3 Trio3D/2x Rev C.
When installation is complete and I log in as root, I type startx and get a
message that "execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errorno 2)"
Pls can someone tell me how I can get startx to work.
Cheers
Andy
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