On 8 Jan 2001, Anand Palaniswamy wrote:
> - printtool is now gone. You should make printool a symlink to
> lprngtool.
Agreed.
> - /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o needs an upgrade. It
> doesn't work with Matrox G450/dual head/16MB. Accepting the license
> agreement at
> http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/linux_04.cfm
> gets you:
> ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2001/beta_1_00_04/mga_drv.o
> which makes the G450 work.
No way. We don't ship anything that is not open source.
What tells you this module does anything other than sending your
/etc/shadow to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? How do you port it to different
architectures? What do you do when you want to update you glibc?
> - To run XFree86-4 (as opposed to the XFree86_SVGA which is 3.3.x), I
> had to
>
> # rm /etc/X11/X
> # ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X
> # chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
You could just have run ./Xconfigurator --preferxf4
Making the X server setuid root is never a good idea.
> Is there a way to use the Xwrapper mechanism to run XFree86-4
> instead of doing the chmod I did?
Xconfigurator --preferxf4 does the job for you.
> - Suprised by IDE drivers always being loaded as modules in the newer
> kernel RPMs.
This was necessary primarily to make it possible to update the IDE drivers
to support odd chipsets on certain hardware.
> Mozilla appears usable now.
And so is konqueror - 7.1 will have at least 4 usable open source browsers
(Mozilla, konqueror, lynx, links).
LLaP
bero
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