On Fri, December 31, 2004 12:13 pm, Rob Wood said: > Thanks to Chris, Nick, Matthew, Steve, David and Glyn, > > OK a bit more progress. Further adjusting > xf86config has got background, > cursor and bash$ prompt up the whole time. > > The SecurityProfile is still being ignored and I still can't find the X > log. > I'm reasonably sure now that it does not exist on this setup for some > reason. > > The X version is 3.3 june 1997, protocol 11. I will have a look for a > later > version as I have a massive 430 MB of disk space available. On the Free86 > site I have found a download which if I understand it correctly will > actually run an inspection program on your hardware and recommend a > version > to use, > http://www.xfree86.org/current/Install2.html for any other newbies not > already aware of it! > > Chris, you suggested in your last posting that Windows gets full of > spyware, > viruses etc. That is true as there is spyware detection, virus scanning > programs and all sorts running on my XP setup. This reminded me that since > loading Ubuntu on my lappie, I haven't put any sort of virus protection on > it and I use it every day. This could not happen under Windows as you > would > be lucky to last 10minutes without protection. Can you (or anyone) suggest > a > suitable virus > scanner? I am fairly confident that my Smoothwall firewall is doing an > effective job as port scans seem to have virtually stopped since I > employed > it. > > I will have to stop work on this (TinyX) project for now as we are packing > up for a move to Auckland in early January. I am quietly satisfied that I > have learned a lot and that I have a working X server (sort of!) on > this primitive setup. > > When I started this project, there was a long debate about flaming and > newbies etc. The occasional posting suggesting that newbies should not be > allowed to post to the group as they might be wasting peoples time and > asking silly questions. I hope this will not happen because I have learned > more from this episode than all previous attempts at using Linux combined. > When you work > from manuals, the author assumes that what he instructs the reader to do > will actually work. When it doesn't, the newbie has fallen at the first > hurdle and may not bother with Linux again. I realise that it must be > frustrating for more experienced users to keep reading about elementary > problems but maybe today's newbie is tomorrow's guru? >
indeed we were all newbies at some time. the difference between you and the flame generators is that your questions were intelligent, you did your own homework, you actuallly read and tried to implement the answers and you didn't accuse those who put you wrong as being incompetent or part of the conspiracy against you. in other words your experience has probably reflected the pleasure we have had from your company. don't feel the need to unsub when you move to auckland. > Cheers - Woodsey > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/2004 > >
