why [permanent] modules on kernel 2.6.11-rc2?

2005-04-08 Thread Maximiliano Rioseco
Hi: I'm playing with kernel 2.6.11-rc2 and see that some kernel modules are marked [permanent] when I make lsmod. This topic was treated in linux-kernel mailing list but I quest if somebody can explain in more detail the reason for permanent modules (is it only for debugging reasons and will be re

Re: auto start WM on second VT

2005-04-08 Thread Peter
Forgot the & after the 2 Hi, I have never used xdm, gdm or kdm. In fact I hate them. If I want to start X I type startx. If I want to start X of another WM in another VT I type in the terminal for example: startx /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :2& or startx /opt/kde/bin/startkde -- :2& or whatever

Re: auto start WM on second VT

2005-04-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:38 PM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote: [...] A standard Debian menu of this sort includes a WindowManagers section that lets you select among the available WMs. Yep, standard Debian unstable, installed starting with a netinst CD. The menu program is installed, and menus are getting updat

Re: auto start WM on second VT

2005-04-08 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: No menus? This is a Debian system, right? The Debian package manager ... the package installation scripts, to be more exact ... should be adding menu choices to the standard X right-click floating menu without your needing to do anything, working ... as t

Re: auto start WM on second VT

2005-04-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 08:27 PM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote: [...] I picked around a bit further in /etc/X11/xdm and /usr/X11R6 trying to figure out how all this works. It's rather mind-boggling trying to puzzle out how all the relevant files relate to one another, not to mention how each is supposed to work

Re: auto start WM on second VT

2005-04-08 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: First, let's clear up a bit of terminology. Thanks for those clarifications. They clarify both how the terminology is used as well as what the computer is doing--much needed gap-filling information for someone like me. You *might* be better served by swi

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Re: How to pick a distro?

2005-04-08 Thread Jeremy Abbott
> > Are you sure of this, Jeremy? > > I just checked the online package repository for SuSE at > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/i586, and there I see > all the usual compiler packages ... for example: gcc (the C compiler), > g++ (the C++ variant of gcc), the *-devel header files for

Re: Card Reader

2005-04-08 Thread smertz
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 22:24 -0400, chuck gelm wrote: > Mounting thumb drive. > > On my two Slackware 9.1 (kernel 2.4.22) systems > each mounted my thumbdrive (Sandisk microcruzer 128 MB) with > > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd > > df -T indicated that it was a 'umsdos' filesystem. > > Slackware v10.0

Re: auto start WM on second VT

2005-04-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 08:24 AM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote: After all those complex problems with sound, let me ask for some help on something that should be much easier to resolve. It should just be a matter of automating something I currently do manually. This refers to the same Debian unstable system I d

Re: samba question

2005-04-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 05:40 AM 4/8/2005 -0600, smertz wrote: I did a install of RH ES4 a week ago and am very new to Linux. I want this box to be a file and print server for a home WORKGROUP, not a DOMAIN. So first problem is I am tying to set up a printer to share with my 2 windows XP boxes. However they can not

Re: Mouse going nuts in RH Linux Enterprise 3 (Taroon)

2005-04-08 Thread Richard Adams
On Friday 08 April 2005 07:01, Rajendra Mishra wrote: > The problem is due to the incompatibility of KVM with > linux. I have been using kvm switches here at home and at work for years, i have never had a problem with any of them. They switch between windows and linux fine, bsd to linux and visa

auto start WM on second VT

2005-04-08 Thread James Miller
After all those complex problems with sound, let me ask for some help on something that should be much easier to resolve. It should just be a matter of automating something I currently do manually. This refers to the same Debian unstable system I discussed in the sound card thread. I've become

samba question

2005-04-08 Thread smertz
I did a install of RH ES4 a week ago and am very new to Linux. I want this box to be a file and print server for a home WORKGROUP, not a DOMAIN. So first problem is I am tying to set up a printer to share with my 2 windows XP boxes. However they can not browse to the printer or see it with the