On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Zoki wrote:
> Okay, so I have installed RedHat 5 (kernel 2.0.31) and XFree86 because it
If you are often online, I'd suggest upgrading to kernel 2.0.33. (This
fixes the teardrop vulnerability.) You can either upgrade it the RH way,
or manually, it's not that complicated.
> is the only X server I know that supports Xinput which I need for the Wacom
> graphic pad.
>
> The questions:
> - Does anybody use the Wacom pad? If yes what is your experience with it!?
> I can't make it work. When I add the Xinput commands into XF86Config the X
> server doesn't start.
> - Can I delete the lines in XF86Config - under Screen - refering to other
> resolution in order to have only the one I want to run?
Yep you can. Just be sure to get the right Screen section for you Xserver.
(Basically it's driver "accel" for practically all servers except
XF86_SVGA)
> - When I am "as root" I can change the look of the windows into Afterstep.
> When I am in Linux "as user" the FVWM starts automatically and I can't
> change anything once the windows are on the screen! What am I doing wrong?
Do a ls -la ~user | less, and look for permission problems :(
> - When I am as root I change the configuration of the mouse speed etc. I
> record the changes aldo I have the feeling the command doesn't do
> anything. Which is probably true because the next time I am in X-Windows
> the custom configuration is lost. Again, what is wrong?
You have to insert the configuration commands into your .xsession file.
>
> - What is the magic command to read DOS partitions? I would like to copy
> files from Windows to Linux. Or am I saying things that make you all laugh
> because it is not possible!??
Find out which is your drive, and do a mount -t vfat <partition device>
/mnt/point.
So if you want to mount it below /mnt/dos, and it's your first partition
on the first IDE disc, do:
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
(Don't know if the standard RH kernel includes vfat support, it should for
sure include msdos filesystem support, but then you loose the long
Win95 filenames.)
> - What would be the Linux equivalent for the DOS command "dir /p" which
> shows one screen of data at the time?
ls -l | less
You can add |less to almost any command. (Actually, if you want to
paginate stderror output, than this becomes command 2>&1 | less )
Pipes are quite useful for example:
ls -l | wc -l
gives number of files. (Actually this one is off by one, because wc -l
counts also the first total N line.)
ls -l | head -20
first 20 files.
ls -l --sort=size | head -20
biggest 20 files.
ls -l --sort=size | tail -10
smallest 10 files.
ls -l --sort=time | head -10
newest 10 files.
Andreas
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