Newbie revitalised - here we go
Many thanks to All who replied with advice as a result of my vent about linux a few days ago. I have decided not to give up and use the list as a resource to aid my understanding and hopefully get something running. A number of people commented that I should get XFree up to date as well as KDE, in order for me to configure my video card matrox g450 So this is to be my first task. I was advised to go to ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86/ from this site I can see XFree86-4.0.3-SUSE XFree86-4.1.0-SUSE I was advised to go for the 4.0.3 version to update what I installed from the 7.1 cd's. Below I have copied the first steps from the read me file along with my first, of many questions I will post here. Please bear with I may be asking stupid questions :-) 1) Installation --------------- To install XFree86 4.0.3 download the appropriate files, i.e. the files located in * suse70 (SuSE Linux 7.0 / glibc 2.1.3) from the suse site I attempted to download the suse70 folder to my local drive. During the copy I recieved the following error message /pub/suse/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.0.3-SUSE/SUSE70/sax2 could not read (I skipped this and continued with the download). Sax2 is what I would use to configure my hardware for X. Without this file should I continue???? I was using the KDE GUI. To select the files to copy from the FTP site. After downloading approx 1% of the first folder suse7.0 the KDE crash guard window was displayed informing me that Konq had crashed. File transhfer has now stopped. Have now decided to use raw ftp from the terminal. Advised by suse to use the site ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ having tried to fpt to a mirror site I get the messge that the site is unknown. Will now use ftp.suse.com Logging is as ftp or anonymous and email as the pwd. Using FTP I try to get the file, when trying to ftp a directory I get the message not a plain file. Do I have to ftp each individual file to my local machine separately? The directories and files that I see are DRI netscape sax2 xdevel..... xextra.... xf86-4.0..3.-40 (is this just the file I need ?) xf86tools... (do I need this) xfnt100.... xfntscl... xloader... xman.. xmodules.... xshared.... xxprt...quit Do I need to ftp all of the above or just certain rpm files ? Regards Neil
On Monday 18 June 2001 14:18, Briggs, N. - Neil - wrote: [...]
Do I need to ftp all of the above or just certain rpm files ?
Regards Neil
Hello Neil! Observe that if you got 7.1 installed you go here for the files: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/suse/suse/i386/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.1.0-SuSE/suse71/ I just upgraded to XFree4.1 wich is the latest, and it went very well. I can give you a detailed description within an hour or so, just got to try and remember what I did (been awake for a couple of days...Bo} Cheers, ei -- @~~~ EagleIce ~~~~ eagleice@telia.com ~~~@ @~~~~ Running SuSE Linux 7.1 at home ~~~~@ @~~~~ Caldera OL eDesktop 2.4 at work ~~~@
Hi Neil Welcome back to the list! First a disclaimer - I'm pretty new to all this myself, so don't take any of this as gospel. I think you've got the right idea ftp-ing the files, but it's annoying only being able to do one file at a time. One fairly easy way to update your system is to use Yast. This will download and install the required packages for you. As root, run the 'yast' command, and select 'Choose/Install Packages' from the menu. From the next menu, choose 'Install Packages'. In the next screen, select 'FTP' as the Source. The address ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0 will come up by default. Change this to ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86 and press enter. Yast will connect to the ftp server and show the contents of that directory. To change directories, move down to the one you want and press enter. To download and install a package, select it with the space bar, then press F10. You can download and install multiple packages at the same time, as long as they're in the same directory. If you've got a good internet connection and plenty of disk space, you may as well install everything in XFree86-4.0.3-SuSE/suse70, and in Sax2. Once you've done that, you can quit yast, and restart the X Server (or just reboot your machine. Hopefully, X should start without any problems. Check the X version number to make sure the upgrade worked (can't remember how to do this - I think it's something like 'xdpyinfo | grep -i release'). If it's all worked, then you can go back to Yast and start upgrading KDE! Hope that helps.
On Monday 18 June 2001 14:54, Oliver Maunder wrote:
Hi Neil [...] One fairly easy way to update your system is to use Yast. This will download and install the required packages for you.
That's YaST1 you are talking about! I took it for granted that you meant YaST2 (it's upgrade program has never worked for me), I've never used YaST1 to do this. I must check that out once before it's too late...:-)
If you've got a good internet connection and plenty of disk space, you may as well install everything in XFree86-4.0.3-SuSE/suse70, and in Sax2.
Don't forget: *configure* X with SaX2, you can do that even though you are logged in as user by doing: ei~>xhost +localhost localhost being added to access control list ei:~>su - root Password: theboss~>sax2
Once you've done that, you can quit yast, and restart the X Server (or just reboot your machine. Hopefully, X should start without any problems. Check the X version number to make sure the upgrade worked (can't remember how to do this - I think it's something like 'xdpyinfo
| grep -i release').
Or like this: ei:~>X -version XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 2 June 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE Module Loader present ei:~> Cheers, ei -- @~~~ EagleIce ~~~~ eagleice@telia.com ~~~@ @~~~~ Running SuSE Linux 7.1 at home ~~~~@ @~~~~ Caldera OL eDesktop 2.4 at work ~~~@
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