From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) Subject: Re: HELP! Newcomer with X11v2.0 Date: 1 Oct 1992 15:45:05 +0800
runefr@ifi.uio.no (Rune Fr|ysa) writes:
: Having used Unix here at the Institute of Informatics,
: Univesity in Oslo for about one month, I decided to install
: Linux and X11 on my system which is:
: 486DX-33, 4MB RAM, 212 MB HD, Trident 9000 VGA card.
Hmmm. Don't know if the 9000 is supported. Looking thru X386 it says
that only the 8900C is supported.
Is the 9000 compatable???
: 1) I have downloaded all the X11v2.0 files on tsx-11.mit.edu, and untared
: them from my root directory. I changed the path by setting
: PATH=/usr/X386/bin:$PATH;
: in the file /.prefs.
: Now, when i type startx, nothing happends, and all other files in the
: directory results in a core dump. Whats wrong?
: I know that I should use a file called .Xconfig, but I cannot find it.
The file you want is /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig.
You need to set the chipset.
Have a line like.....
chipset "tvga8900"
Put this just before the vga256 line in Xconfig. (there is a sample in
Xconfig.sample. Copy this to Xconfig before you modify it).
: 2) Next, I tried to recompile my kernel, using GCC2.2.2d. Running make from
: the directory with the source files the following happened:
: tty_io.c:(line)Warning `tty_write_flush` declarations disagree about `inline`.
: And in the file console.c, I got (after about 1 hour):
: out of swap memory
: out of memory.
Make a swap partition or swap file. GCC uses a LOT of memory. A swap file will
improve performance even on a large machine. 8 megs should be good enough.
: 3) I have read all the FAQ files/Introduction to Linux files that I could find,
: but none describes how to handle the different setup files in Linux.
: Could anyone with a good please e-mail me a copy of their setup files,
: and perhaps also a `find >files.txt` file? Or at least some information
: about where to get some more info on Linux? Information on the `must-have`
: files for linux, such as grep, man, file, zip.... would also be apreciated.
You want the man pages. The man pages are around at various ftp sites.
: Any help greatly appreciated.
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: runefr@ifi.uio.no
Michael