From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA11533 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 13:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA30377 for linux-list; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:59:20 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA89429 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:59:14 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) Received: from mailhost.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.64.1] (may be forged)) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id MAA02256 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:59:12 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) Received: from lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de (cacc-24.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.131.24]) by mailhost.uni-koblenz.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA02016 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 21:59:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from ralf@localhost) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA04090; Thu, 27 May 1999 21:37:11 +0200 Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:37:11 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Pete Young Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: X server update, observations on a successful installation Message-ID: <19990527213711.D4058@uni-koblenz.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: ; from Pete Young on Thu, May 27, 1999 at 11:55:32AM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 11:55:32AM +0100, Pete Young wrote: > Something I note is that two routes were set up to the local subnet: > (at least according to the output of netstat -r) > Apparently you no longer need to do this by hand with kernels version 2.2.* > - this appears to happen in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup . This happens because we use an old version of net-tools in HardHat but use a current kernel. It's harmless however. The solution is to upgrade net-tools. > Also, the default installation for portmap and ypbind starts them up in > the wrong order: I gather this is a standard RedHat error? Yes, should be. > Anyway, these are minor gripes not related to the HardHat distribution, > and the box rocks. However, not having an X-server is a bit painful. > I'm a bit confused about what is actually available: there seem to be > lots of x applications, XFree86 and so on in the RPMS directory, so > what's missing? A frame buffer? The Indy hardware doesn't have a frame buffer which makes writing an X server more difficult. The X clients are working fine however. Ralf