Re: Anyone re-compile the kernel?

2002-10-01 Thread Chris Ricker
On 1 Oct 2002, Dax Kelson wrote: > Whoops. > > I'm not sure if CyrptoAPI compiles or not, but nothing in the > drivers/addon directory compiles. > > Neither does block/loop.c, some ATM driver, xd.c, and lots of other > stuff. > > To reproduce: > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4 make mrproper > cp co

Re: Kernel Compiles

2002-10-01 Thread Chris Ricker
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Matt Wilson wrote: > Why do you need to recompile the kernel? Red Hat Linux comes with > tested binary kernels, ya know. That don't include IPSec later, chris

Re: GNOME2 issues

2002-10-01 Thread Chris Ricker
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Emanuel Mair wrote: > Hi all! > > So, with RH8 I'm finally able to try GNOME 2 without having to mess with > tarballs, GARNOMEs and stuff. > > I don't know what to think. > > I love the speed. Nautilus is actually quite usable (i.e. on a killer SMP > Athlon box it runs as fa

Re: rhn_register

2002-10-02 Thread Chris Ricker
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > M A Young wrote: > > Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > > >>Was /usr/sbin/rhn_register moved to a different package? It used to be > >>part of a standalone rhn_register RPM... > > > > No it was dropped altogether. I believe up2date automatically registers >

Re: Mozilla crashes with Sun's Java Plugin

2002-10-02 Thread Chris Ricker
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Andrew Smith wrote: > Hi, > anyone got Mozilla (psyche full install) to work with any of Sun's > java plugins? > I've tried j2sdk 1.3.1_04 and 1.4.1 > With 1.3.1_04 the ns600 plugin crashes > With 1.4.1 both ns600 and ns610 plugin crashes > In both cases the ns4 plugin did noth

Re: icewm working?

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Ricker
On 5 Oct 2002, Jim Hubbard wrote: > I've tried building an rpm from the fluxbox src rpm, but I got some > error about didn't have a gcc compiler? Whatever it was, it looked > strange, so I stopped. As you can tell, I haven't really found a window > manager I'm crazy about yet. Kde is nice, but

Re: Browser Selection

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Ricker
On 5 Oct 2002, Sean Bossinger wrote: > While I'm certain that I hacked this band-aid together at least > marginally correctly (otherwise it wouldn't be working), I'm still > curious as to whether this is, in fact, the "correct" way to do this? The "correct" way, IMHO, is to download the RPMs of 1

Re: where to find remaining docs on /etc/sysconfig files?

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Ricker
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > but my point was that that file is noticeably lacking in documentation > for a *number* of possible files that might appear in /etc/sysconfig. > the example i gave was /etc/sysconfig/nfs, which is sourced from the > startup file /etc/init.d/nfs, but is

Re: RAM

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Ricker
On 5 Oct 2002, Evan Read wrote: > My understanding is that it is a good idea ;) > > Even a little swap is handy, otherwise Linux kernel code exhibits bad > performance. Though bad is relative. There is a document on the web > discussing Linux vs FreeBSD database performance with 0 swap space. >

Re: Frustrated at a higher level with RH 8.0

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Ricker
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 2. The login display is dull and boring. Why would one want the options > such as SYSTEM and SESSIONS floating in mid screen at the bottom of the > screen. More importantly, it's much more awkward to use with that stuff at the bottom of the screen. You