Re: [newbie] Patch
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:39:35 -0500, Steve Philp wrote: Rick Keefer wrote: Hey all, Well here's another newbie question. What is a patch and how is it installed? A patch is a small (or in the case of some kernel patches, rather large) piece of source code that you apply to your current source code. Say I'm developing a piece of software and have a number of people who are using it. I make the source code to my program available for them to download, compile and install. It could be a pretty hefty download to grab it the first time. When I make a fix or add a feature to my program, it's wasteful to ask everyone to download ALL of the code again, so I create a patch. Put simply, a patch file contains the differences between my old version of the code and my new version. My users download the small patch, use the patch program to apply it to my source code, and now we're all working from the updated code. All in all, it's a really useful tool (and comes from the author of another useful tool, Larry Wall of Perl fame). -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Steve for the information. Now what is the patch program you mentioned?? How is it used? Rick
Re: [newbie] Color Depth Problems
Fabio Coatti wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 10:47:12PM -0600, Matt Stegman wrote: Hi, my name is Matt and I recently downloaded Mandrake Linux. I successfully installed it, but now am having problems configuring my X-server. It runs fine, but only in 8-bit color (my video card can support 32-bit). I have run xconf a few times, and finally found how to change the deafult resolution for each color depth, but I cannot seem to find any utility to change color depth. The KDE control panel does not have any modules for this that I can find. Can someone help me? Thanks, A small advice, valid for everyone: when asking for help, please include *all* useful informations. In this case, ve have to know, at least, which is your card. Actually, we probably don't. In the short term, you can use 'startx -- -bpp X', where X is 8, 15, 16, 24, or 32 (most of those should work, it's possible that some won't because of /etc/X11/XF86Config). In the long term, this is covered on the Mandrake Linux homepage under the FAQ section. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Exiting KDE
hey just type in ctrl,alt,backspace at the same time this will shut x down and you can restartx. Ralph -Original Message- From: Don Bonomini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 7:00 PM Subject: [newbie] Exiting KDE Hey all! I recently got a "theme installer", which installs desktop themes on KDE by running one install script. But when I run it, it changes the desktop and everything fine, but the "start bar" type thing, and the "task" bar dissapeer. So I cant shut K down! After i power off, and Linux re-starts, all the menu's are there and are fine. So is there any key command, or anyother way to shut KDE down, without selecting logout from the menu? Thanks, Any help will be appreciated! Linux 4 eVa!
[newbie] Boot up Error Message
Hi Guys, I am having a strange problem. When I boot into Linux, I get a "CRC Error -- System Halted" error when vmlinuz is being loaded. The strange thing is that it only happens sometimes; if I reset the machine 2 or 3 times in a roll, the kernel boots just fine. No error once the kernel got rolling, and no problem running anything including the beautiful KDE. I tried using several different kernel and even compiled the latest 2.2.3 kernel just to test, but the same phenomenon keep happening. What might be the cause here? Could this be hardware related? Here's my setup: Cyrix P150+ 128MB RAM 1.6 GB IDE HD IDE CDROM Logitech Mouse Matrox Mystique and I am running Linux Mandrake 5.3 with 2.2.3 kernel. Please note that this happens with the 2.0.36 kernel that came with mandrake as well. I can live with this error but it is annoying as hell. Any help is greatly appreciated! -JC
Re: [newbie] Book?
The "Idiot" book was a big surprize to me. I saw it today discounted at 12.50. With the KDE, dialup coverage, essential system tasks including basics of customing the kernel I couldn't lose. Running Linux is good. Sam Bill Moshier wrote: I've found the "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh is an excellent book to both learn linux with, and to use as a reference when the usual problems arise. Bill -Original Message- From: Paul A. Bernicchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 6:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Book? I would recommend "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux" -- I don't have a ISBN or anything, but it's a very well-written book. Unfortunately, it concentrates on the Caldera distribution, but there are very few differences between that and Mandrake; and focuses mainly on KDE and basic commandline functions. It is part of the "Complete Idiots" series (a la '... for Dummies'). Even comes with StarOffice (as well as Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, which you can forget about) g Paul - Original Message - From: Shawn M. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pierce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 7:39 PM Subject: [newbie] Book? What book does everybody recommend for running Red Hat/Mandrake, that also is more general to Linux as a whole. I just started learning this, and I need to find a good book. Shawn Pierce
Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, you wrote: Hi Guys, I am having a strange problem. When I boot into Linux, I get a "CRC Error -- System Halted" error when vmlinuz is being loaded. The strange thing is that it only happens sometimes; if I reset the machine 2 or 3 times in a roll, the kernel boots just fine. No error once the kernel got rolling, and no problem running anything including the beautiful KDE. I tried using several different kernel and even compiled the latest 2.2.3 kernel just to test, but the same phenomenon keep happening. What might be the cause here? Could this be hardware related? Here's my setup: Cyrix P150+ 128MB RAM 1.6 GB IDE HD IDE CDROM Logitech Mouse Matrox Mystique and I am running Linux Mandrake 5.3 with 2.2.3 kernel. Please note that this happens with the 2.0.36 kernel that came with mandrake as well. I can live with this error but it is annoying as hell. Any help is greatly appreciated! -JC I was getting the same error, the problem that caused it in my case was a failing HD of the boot section, I fdisked /mbr and did about three installs of Mandrake before I figured it out. I replaced the drive and have not had a problem since.
Re: [newbie] Patch
Rick Keefer wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:39:35 -0500, Steve Philp wrote: Rick Keefer wrote: Hey all, Well here's another newbie question. What is a patch and how is it installed? A patch is a small (or in the case of some kernel patches, rather large) piece of source code that you apply to your current source code. Say I'm developing a piece of software and have a number of people who are using it. I make the source code to my program available for them to download, compile and install. It could be a pretty hefty download to grab it the first time. When I make a fix or add a feature to my program, it's wasteful to ask everyone to download ALL of the code again, so I create a patch. Put simply, a patch file contains the differences between my old version of the code and my new version. My users download the small patch, use the patch program to apply it to my source code, and now we're all working from the updated code. All in all, it's a really useful tool (and comes from the author of another useful tool, Larry Wall of Perl fame). -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Steve for the information. Now what is the patch program you mentioned?? How is it used? Rick Oddly enough, the patch program is called patch. :) If you've got it installed, you can find some information in /usr/doc/patch-2.5. More complete information is available by typing 'man patch'. For the basics, let's say you've got a version of the Linux kernel installed in /usr/src/linux. Linus issues a new patch that provides something that you've really wanted Linux to support. You download the patch file, then type something like this: cd /usr/src/ patch -p0 patch-2.2.3 This will take the information in the patch-2.2.3 file and apply it to the various files in the /usr/src/Whatever directory. The patch files are pure text, so feel free to view them with your favorite editor and see what's inside. Hope this helps! If there's something specific you're looking for, let us know what you're hoping for. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
