Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect ... Sell me on Linux
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 02/20/04
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Date: 20 Feb 2004 14:43:39 GMT
On 19 Feb 2004 21:59:45 -0800, John Campbell staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@usa.net> wrote:
>>John Campbell staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>>> Along with the cheap distros, I have some cheap books. The most
>>> recent pickup is Red Hat Linux 6 Fast and Easy.
>> Redhat 6.0 is of roughly 2000 vintage. 6.2 came out near early 2001.
>> The general rule is "use a distro that's at least 6 months newer than
>> your laptop for maximum ease-of-configuration". How old is your
> Older than the distros, I'm pretty sure. Probably came into the house
> around 2000 and it was a secondhand machine even then.
>
>> What's its make and model#?
> Gateway Solo 2000 (I have seen postings about 2100, but not 2000)
There's little information about the Gateway Solo 2000; linux-laptop.net
doesn't even have a page for it. I did find out some things by Googling
for "linux 'solo 2000' gateway" though. The thing has a Chips and
Technologies video chipset, chipset# is 65555. Under X 3.n, it uses
the SVGA X server, under X 4.n, the chips X server.
>> What's the name and version of the distro you're trying to install?
>> *Always* post that information; it makes it much easier to help.
> Latest try was with RH 6.1 Before that it was SuSe 6.1
Both of those came out before X 4.0 was released. X 3.n was a pain in
the arse in many ways; you had to generate your own Modelines and there
wasn't any automatic configuration. SuSE 6.1 came with X 3.3.3.1, which
might not even support your graphics chipset! Documentation for X
versions less than 3.3.6 isn't even accessible from xfree86.org, so I
can't tell for sure.
>>there's a Linux User Group in your area.
> I work nights. They meet nights.
Most LUGs have a mailing list that you can join. Many LUG members
(especially those who are in college) will solve problems for you--even
to the extent of making house calls--in exchange for beer and pizza.
>> Interactive? This is Usenet.
> You answered me. I answered you. That's interactive as far as I'm
> concerned.
OK. People usually mean "real-time interactive" when they say
"interactive".
>> (heard of Knoppix?).
> Only from reading the newsgroups just before my initial post. If I
> missed it so far, that must mean it's not on the shelf at CompUSA or
> in the $5 bin at my local computer fair. On earlier forays, I passed
> on free-for-the-download distributions, as they always put me in the
> circular position of having to download the means of downloading.
Er. Ask for a Knoppix CD on your local LUG's mailing list, and someone
will give you one. A number of dead-tree magazines have shipped with
Knoppix CDs. I don't understand what you mean by "download the means of
downloading". You can take any machine with Net access, download the
Knoppix ISO, then use any CD-burning program to make a Knoppix CD from
that ISO. Then boot any x86 computer (preferably a PII-300 with 128M or
better, just so it'll run with a reasonable speed) with your Knoppix CD.
>> Tried vim yet? More features, standard on every distro.
> Nope. Unless I'm using it and don't know it (have to check for vi -->
> ... /vim)
Many distros make /bin/vi a symlink to /usr/bin/vim . The program
behaves differently if you call it as "vi", turning off most of the
advanced features and such.
> For the record, it's a Cirrus CL-GD7548 card. It was listed as a
> choice by one of the configuration programs but not the other. I
> *think* that xf86config from the Suse distro listed it, while
> XF86Setup did not. But I can't be 100% certain.
S'allright. You probably want to use the SVGA X server. For maximum
ease of configuration, get a newer distro, so you can just run "X
-config" as root and generate a barebones /etc/XF86Config that you can
tweak with vim later on.
> And besides, as noted, I've sworn off both tools. If it can't be done
> in vi, I'm not interested.
You don't want to write an XF86Config file just using vim. There are
too many keywords and too many ways to mess up, especially with older X
versions where Modelines must be explicitly specified. You want to
write the config file using X itself (X 4.n) or an automated utility
(YaST, Xconfigurator, xf86config) and then edit it to make it work
better.
> The original poster was admonished for repeating such a vague and
> common error message when what was really needed was a log. The more
> expert poster did not say however where or under what name the log
> could be found, or how to generate it if this particular invocation of
> startx did not produce one.
X always writes a log file matching /var/log/XFree86*.log . Look there
the next time you startx and post the first line that contains (EE) and
the 5 or 6 lines before that.
> So yes, I know to look for the log, and no I don't know where to look.
Lots of things write to /var/log when things go wrong. That directory
(and its subdirectories, like mail and samba) and the output from dmesg
are the first places to check when weird things happen.
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