On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 23:23, David Charles McCarty wrote:
> 1. I am under the impression that Red Hat 8.0 doesn't come with the gcc296,
> g++296 compilers.  I'm in 345 right now and we are using QT which needs the
> g++296 compiler, but it gives me the error that it doesn't know what "g++296" is
> when I compile on my machine.  I tried looking for it online, but without
> success.  Can I just download it somewhere?  if not...

I'm in 345, use Mandrake 9 (gcc-3.2-1) downloaded the qt stuff from the
web site, the qt rpms (libqt3-3.0.5-7, libqt3-devel,
libqt3-devel-3.0.5-7) and everything works ok.  I can't run the TA
binary on my machine, but I can ssh to a cs machine for that.
> 
> 2. I am also in 455 so I also need to use openGL.  It says that 8.0 comes with
> the GLUT library installed, but when I try and compile with
> #include <GL/glut.h> 
> OR
> #include <GL/glut>
> I get the error that it couldn't find it, so of course nothing else works
> either.  I tried downloading an RPM for GLUT for 8.0 and I installed it, but it
> didn't change anything.  This used to work for me when I had 7.3, so perhaps its
> just the new compiler again?
> 
> 3.  Both of these problems could be solved by my putting Red Hat 7.3 back on my
> system, but for some reason, it won't recognize my mouse.  This is the weird
> part - I HAD 7.3 on this computer and was using this mouse before, and all was
> fine.  I had to tell it that it was the "Logitech MouseMan Wheel (USB)", but
> after I did, it was OK.  Now it won't recognize it at all.  The light (it's
> optical) doesn't even come on.  I've tried other options like "Generic 2 button"
> "Generic 3 button" "Microsoft Intellimouse", etc.  I've also tried plugging it
> into the PS/2 (it's USB, but has an adapter) port.  When I did that, the light
> would come on in the mouse, but I still couldn't get it to move around at all. 
> I even tried using a different mouse (IBM), but it wouldn't recongize that
> either.
> 
> In summary:  It works with 8.0
>              It used to work with 7.3
>              It won't recognize a thing now
> ANY IDEAS WHY?
> 
> 4. Assuming I do get it to recognize the mouse again, I will need to partition
> my drive to put both 7.3 and 8.0 on (I like 8.0 and don't want to get rid of it,
> I just want both) but I don't know how.  This is actually what I came to the
> installfest to do, but we ran out of time and I couldn't do both, I could only
> upgrade what I had.  Once I enter the disk partitioning program that comes with
> the installer, what settings should I use if I want to keep the 40 GB partition
> I have, allocate another 30GB for 7.3, and be able to boot to either one either
> through GRUB or seperate disks (Remember - because of my RAID, I have to use a
> boot disk to boot Linux.  I don't care if I have to use 2 seperate floppies (1
> for 8.0, one for 7.3) or if I use one floppy that will take me to GRUB to choose
> which version, but I don't know how that will work.)
> 
> 5. (LASTLY) Tyler took my home directory and put it on to some other partition,
> and then deleted the original partition (it was taking up the entire drive and
> couldn't be split).  He said we could mount that other partition and then copy
> it over, but I don't know how to do that at all.  How would I go about looking
> to see what to mount?
> 
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