On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:21, Rob Wood wrote: > Chris, > I am causing some confusion here. I have Ubuntu on my laptop, What sort of machinery?
> which > although I have some problems with it, just installed like a dream, less > problems than with XP, but Ubuntu doesn't like the laptop hardware. It > fails to boot often with Fatal Error messages. Linux is often far from easy to install and get going properly on Lappies. The more recent, but not absolutely brand new, ThinkPads are an exception. > The machine on which I'm trying to install Xserver is just a 486 with Tiny > Linux. How fast is it? In any case you might care to look into the distcc system. It allows you to set up a 'farm', i.e. your nice fast lappie, of machines to compile your programs. > I'm using it to teach myself a command line installation, from > scratch. I think this is the only way to learn; having done the same thing > with DOS. I only came to computers in the days of Win95 and it was obvious > to me that I had missed out on all the basics so I got hold of scrapped > 386, put DOS 5 on it and taught myself. If you really want to learn Linux warts and all it's Linux from Scratch and many months of learning. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ An somewhat easier alternative is Gentoo. Like LFS it's something of a baptism of fire, but provided you have the time available, can convert written information on paper ( screen ) into knowledge in the head without difficulty, then imho it's 'The distribution of choice for the discerning user'. http://www.gentoo.org/ There is an exceptionally helpful irc channel with experts available 24/7 > So I have 2 separate machines with Linux on them (3 if you count my > Smoothwall firewall), each with separate problems. > > Your stab in the dark was correct as I have now corrected the PATH problem > and I have now got a basic XF86 configuration saved but when I did startx I > got the message: xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' I could not find > this on my system using the locate command. Did you run the command updatedb before using locate? If it's still missing you have not installed the Xserver libraries. If you find it, you will need to edit the file /etc/ld.so.conf and run the command ldconfig to make the shared libraries available to the applications. Refer to the RUTE book for an outline of the details. http://berty.dyndns.org/rute/node26.html#SECTION002630000000000000000 > So maybe your other idea that I don't have X-11server itself installed is > correct. Any idea where I could get this? To install the X-11 server for Tiny Linux you need all the files in:- http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/tinylinux/tinyX/ with the possible exception of the Xmono.tar.gz, I suspect / guess that's intended for mono screens. Use that one if you have a monochrome screen. Take care to read the readme.tinyX carefully. Do please note that this kit is of 1999 vintage. i.e. _old_. Therefore it's buggy and slow when compared to a recent offerings. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
