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James Green wrote:
oh before I go on.. I got the voodoo3 and Quake3 working last night.. mmmhhh yum.. it's still a little flakey but it's definatly getting there ;)..
I don't have another machine. Unless you want the amusement of seeing me do it via modem.
er.. I did it once.. via exceed.. took 30 mins to get the nutscrape window up !!!.. never again...
Ah, haven't tried putting jdk back on yet. The main probs I've seen:
Perl doesn't get built against. Known problem apparently in the efnet support groups;
ah I haven't tried perl yet..
/boot/System.map is a symlink to /boot/System[something red hat]. This symlink needs to be rm'ed else modules won't correspond to the correct version number when you install a new kernel;
erm.. System.map is/was symlinked to System.map-2.2.5-15, but I think that lilo points the kernel to /boot/map (or at least mine does.. I can;t remember if I changed it a few years ago)
/usr/include/asm is a symlink to somewhere in /usr/src/[redhat something]. You got to rm /usr/include/asm and mkdir /usr/include/asm and then take out the .h files from the arch-asm in /usr/src/linux/include and bung them in there else almost nothing compiles;
mine looks like this /usr/include/asm -> ../src/linux/include/asm and I have no problems compiling stuff ?? from what you are saying it looks like you are just copying stuff from the src/linux/include/asm directory into /usr/include/asm.. which is strange because this is what the symlink does ??.. I found this link was missing before xmas on redhat 5.1 and I added it to get things to compile then.. so it may have been around for a while (btw my box has been upgraded since redhat 4.2, I have never performed a clean install since a few years ago, and from 5.2-> 6.0 has caused the least amount of problems/hassle)
Leafnode no longer configures (see previous post);
erm don;t use leafnode.. so can't comment there...
Gimp-1.1.5 no longer makes (says it can't find gimptool/something.h but I checked and it is present);
erm.. I have 1.1.4 rpm (suse) installed and it works ok..
A large number of reports of stuff wrong with Gnome/E in the RH6 RPMS - this is understandable, Gnome at least has come a long way since the RH6 build;
yeah Gnome/E is a little flakey as yet, but hopefully it will mature with age.. E certain looks good even if it does crash every few seconds !!..
The glibc2.1 causes grief for bitchx pana1; d/l the pana3 source to compile it;
again don;t use it so I'll pass on that one..
linuxconf doesn't like me manually making changes to /etc/sendmail.cf - in fact it often fails and stops bootup so I had to remove it from the startup sequence;
ah now my pet hate.. linuxconf/yast... I don;t like any of these tools, I prefer to edit files by hand.. call me a nutta, but I perfer to know what is happening, rather than let a proggie do it for me.. the classic one is yast, if you add a NIS domain/server, it automatically adds everybody in the domain to the password file everytime you run it.. which is really anoying cause one of the server here is only supposed to let in a few people !!.. grumble grumble..
RH6 is getting a lot of grief on IRC due to it's inclusion of so many unstable beta releases - X11amp is an alpha build and segfaulted whenever I tried adding anything to the playlist; the newest beta build doesn't.
I found the alpha version more stable than the first beta ??
That's all I can think of for now... :-(