Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread Chris Abbey
At 10:42 3/16/00 -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: >Arright. Take this "who whizzed in whose wheaties" somewhere else. >Neither of you are making your respective companies look any better >doing this, and I'm getting personally embarrased to say I'm a RH >user. agreed. >But the question still stand

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2beta/i386/RedHat/ and couldn't > find anything related to LFS. Thanks for your patience and sorry to ask so > many questions but I haven't been able to find any info so I can figure it > out for myself. They are in the kernel srpm but commented out by d

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread terry barnum
>> So are you saying that installing the LFS patches into RH6.1 running on an >> Intel P2 box will enable a new 64bit version of ext2 (ext3?) filesystem >> that can handle large files? > >Yes. The ext2 fs can already handle large files, its the infrastructure around >it you need to get. The patche

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
> So are you saying that installing the LFS patches into RH6.1 running on an > Intel P2 box will enable a new 64bit version of ext2 (ext3?) filesystem > that can handle large files? Yes. The ext2 fs can already handle large files, its the infrastructure around it you need to get. The patches add

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread terry barnum
>> I know that while evaluating Reiser FS for use on SourceForge we've >> created files up to 4gb in size. > >Some versions of reiserfs had a hack for this. Its not a good idea and Im >told its now been removed. If you grab the LFS patches for 2.2 from the >RH 6.2beta kernel rpms you'll be able to

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
> I know that while evaluating Reiser FS for use on SourceForge we've > created files up to 4gb in size. Some versions of reiserfs had a hack for this. Its not a good idea and Im told its now been removed. If you grab the LFS patches for 2.2 from the RH 6.2beta kernel rpms you'll be able to build

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Tony Guntharp \(fusion94\)
I know that while evaluating Reiser FS for use on SourceForge we've created files up to 4gb in size. -t -- Tony Guntharp -- Project Manager SourceForge -- -- ___VA Linux Systems___

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread John Summerfield
> know the rules as well as I do. These are *MY* opinions and are > therefore seperate from Red Hat. Did I post from a Red Hat account? No, Settle down folks. You DID sound like a Red Hat person, and you DID claim Red Hat allegiance. I've seen people clearly representing another company doing

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
Reiserfs is also 2Gig. If you wish to go past 2Gig you need a set of kernel patches or the 2.3.99/2.4pre kernel series -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Tony Guntharp \(fusion94\)
There is a 2gb file limit when using the ext2 file system. I've gotten around this by using the Reiser file system. IIRC it supports 4gb file limits. Here is a link to the main Reiser site http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/ Here is a link to a quick and dirty HOWTO http://kurt.andover.net/Re

2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread terry barnum
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, so I apologize if it isn't. Running intel RH6.1 with 18 gigs of drive space striped as RAID 0. Is there a way to work with files larger than 2 gigs? I understand there is an issue with 32 bit architecture, but I believe there are other OSes doing th

binutils in 6.1

2000-03-16 Thread Rod Stewart
True, the changes from binutils 2.9.1.0.23 to 2.9.1.0.24 were not all that great, but it would be nice if Red Hat would be consistent. This relates to Red Hat 6.1. [stewart@dystopia pub]$ rpm -q binutils binutils-2.9.1.0.23-6 [stewart@dystopia pub]$ ld -v GNU ld

Re: Can't reopen pipe

2000-03-16 Thread Michael Ju. Tokarev
Hi! The same is here, but I never post it to list. 400mhz Celeron, ECC ram, modern HDD from IBM (but ide, not scsi). This is just with kernel, but very rarely, about 20 compiles and 1 failed. I just hit Enter on this... Or do "rpm -bb ... > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread David D.W. Downey
Vandoorselaere Yoann wrote: > > Ohh, Unreal Tournament run fine on many machine that i know including > debian and mandrake, i suppose it run fine on redhat too. > It's been installed on 3 PII 400 to 450s with 128MB Of RAM, and 2 AMD k6-2 333 and 400s They all puke with "Segmenation Fault (co

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread David D.W. Downey
I apologize. I forgot to give the URL. http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ -- David D.W. Downey - Red Hat Technical Engineer Assistant Site Manager - http://www.linuxnewbie.com Resume - http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=96113 -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread David D.W. Downey
Brian Patterson wrote: > > Whats DJGPP? DJGPP is the DOS port of GCC. It aslso has G++, Fortran, LISP, and Pascal IIRC. Also, there is B20 (now B21 I believe) for writing Windows apps using GCC) -- David D.W. Downey - Red Hat Technical Engineer Assistant Site Manager -

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread Vandoorselaere Yoann
"David D.W. Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is my last mail on this topic. > > Yes, it is out of line. I run a hybrid network here consisting of > Win98SE clients, Windows 2000 clients and Red Hat Linux 6.1 servers > handling mail, LDAP, NIS, NFS, Sybase, mysql, and PostgreSQL. The wi

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread David D.W. Downey
> Ohh and is this also out of line ? > > This is your sent mail headers : > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Yes, it is out of line. I run a hybrid network here consisting of Win98SE clients, Windows 2000 c

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread Mark Komarinski
Arright. Take this "who whizzed in whose wheaties" somewhere else. Neither of you are making your respective companies look any better doing this, and I'm getting personally embarrased to say I'm a RH user. But the question still stands - what's the timeline for 4.0? I downloaded the non-packag

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread Vandoorselaere Yoann
"David D.W. Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Wooa, > > for a Microsoft certified person i think you say more than you know : > > > > It's just a cert. Just a cert. Do I work for microsoft? No. Therefore > THIS comment is out of line as well. And you claim, *I'M* fighting the > co

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread David D.W. Downey
> That's you who started the debate... > feel free to continue mailling me in private. > OK, let us continue this in private. > A statement of experience ? > Are you kidding ? I'll ignore that. > > I think you have not so many mandrake experience to say such a thing. > (quoting you : mandr

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread Vandoorselaere Yoann
"David D.W. Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > First, > > > So, we do far more than compiling them. > > > I will not address the first, since this will lend to a long and drawn > out debate covering many different issues that are better served outside > of a public forum. That's you who

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread David D.W. Downey
Frederic Lepied wrote: > > "David D.W. Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Most likely not. Mandrake doesn't thoroughly test everything before > > releasing it. If it compiles that's all they care about. > > > > What makes you said that ? Every release of XFree86 that I have done > has

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread David D.W. Downey
> First, > So, we do far more than compiling them. > I will not address the first, since this will lend to a long and drawn out debate covering many different issues that are better served outside of a public forum. > Second, > we do not insult redhat on our list, please be polite and do so.

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread Vandoorselaere Yoann
"David D.W. Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most likely not. Mandrake doesn't thoroughly test everything before > releasing it. If it compiles that's all they care about. First, we have 2 dedicated XFree developper doing our X package and one of them is working full time on X. They are

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread Frederic Lepied
"David D.W. Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most likely not. Mandrake doesn't thoroughly test everything before > releasing it. If it compiles that's all they care about. > What makes you said that ? Every release of XFree86 that I have done has been tested. > I know for a fact that Red

Re: Xfree86 4.0

2000-03-16 Thread David D.W. Downey
Most likely not. Mandrake doesn't thoroughly test everything before releasing it. If it compiles that's all they care about. I know for a fact that Red Hat tests their RPMs before releasing them. If they come in for contrib, then you are usually on your own as to whether they work or not. [EMA