From: mike@batpad.org (mike batchelor) Subject: Up and running - few problems, some questions Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 22:37:43 PDT
I've been using 99p9 at work for the past two days now, after having
scammed a 5Mb PC for a DOS application server. :) Running Xfree on my
workstation, and DVX on the little PC, I have the best of both worlds.
The little PC is logged into a Novell network, and also runs TCP/IP,
and I had no trouble getting set up with all my rsh'ed applications on
the twm menus - they actually reside on the Novell file server. I can
rsh DVX's file manager to bring files off the Novell server into my
Linux machine, and even from the server to another non-DOS machine. I
am having a little trouble sometimes, though, remembering which
machine I am connected to with what protocol. :) It's very cool,
though, to have MS Windows and Lotus cc:Mail at hand via X (anyone
wanna see the xwd of this? :).
Couple of questions:
I thought libm.so.4.3.3 was part of SLS 1.01 and .99 pl9. But awk or
xcolormap and other applications complain of the missing library. In
/lib there is a link for libc.so.4 to libc.so.4.3.3, and the 4.3.3
file exists, but the link for libm.so.4 goes to the non-existent
libm.so.4.3.3. I find libm.so.4.0, though, and when I cp'ed it to
libm.so.4.3.3 (I was a bit skittish about altering the link), the
complaints went away. I presume this is an earlier version of 4.3.3,
but where is this library anyway? When I get it, can I just cp it
into place in /lib?
I'm having some trouble with color xterm resources for the extra color
definitions. I can get what I want with command line switches, but
modifying ~/app-defaults/XTerm has some of the desired effects, and
some that don't seem to work. I think I may have misunderstood the
sysntax and what each resource controls. Could somebody send me an
example? I also think I may be having xterm read ~/app-defaults at
some times, and no resource file, or some other resource file at other
times. I start up X while logged in as root, and as far as I can
tell, I ought to be using ~/app-defaults/* resource files for X apps
started locally. I know there is xrdb there, too, but haven't gotten
to the man pages for that (which is probably the permanent solution -
either that, or log in as a user to start X, and use
$HOME/.Xdefaults). Is root's home in / anyway?
Scrolling in joe is slow under xterm. I hit pgdn and the text moves
up half a page right away, with the bottom half blank, until the
scroll completes, then the blank bottom half is filled in line by
line. Elvis is quick - ^D jumps down one page in one step (to the
eye). Why the difference? I have an ET4000 video card, and am again
a bit confused as to how to set the ET4000 fast-scroll option. The switch
for it is -ns if I understand the man page right. I've tried it with and
without the jump-scroll enabled, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
How is the ET4000 scrolling turned on? Is joe's slowness because of
some setting in joerc?
I am this >< close to getting 1024x768i to display centered on the
screen. It's just a bit too far to the right, and wraps a bit. I can
center it with the knob on the back of the monitor, but I can't figure
out the ModeDB settings to do this. I have altered all 8 numbers
without affecting the problem. Which of the 8 sync values is the one
that needs to be tweaked, and should it go up or down to move the
display left about 1/4"? If I understand the readme correctly, I need
a pre- or post-sync delay adjustment to center the display, but I
can't figure out which value is the one I want. Help?
I have a MS Mouse compatible trakball, that also does a three button
PC Mouse. How can I get X to use all three buttons? I have
uncommented the MS Mouse entry in Xconfig, because I can't seem to
get the other mouse types to work. It's a Truedox trakball on COM1.
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