Subject: RE: XFree86 4.1 bad & re-intsall & "man yup"
From: Jason Gan (jasong@documenta.com.au)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 17:47:32 MDT
I have a Rage128 VR card. XF86config-4 is installed with r128fp as the video
card...
I've managed to install everything back to the state where I was a couple of
days ago.
Multimedia does not work out of the box. This is a clean install of YDL
2.0!!
Yellow Dog needs to fix this maybe in YDL 2.1
Strangely, Tux Racer plays very slowly on my machine. My screen resolution
is 1600x1200...
Aktion doesn't work at all, even after installing xanim. And apparently the
config file for Aktion is not even there.
Why does KDE come with Aktion if it doesn't work?
K Media Player doesn't work because the video doesn't fit inside the overlay
window.
Xine doesn't work because it only plays half the video in the overlay
window.
VideoLanClient doesn't work because it doesn't work.
smpeg actually works from the command line, but the GUI front ends to smpeg
don't work. With pixel doubling, smpeg plays slowly and it feels
unaccelerated.
-----Original Message-----
From: perry [mailto:pm_perry@pacbell.net]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:39 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1 bad & re-intsall & "man yup"
Hi Jason,
On the "everything" re-install, you should be aware that you must start over
from scratch. That is, you must delete old partitions and create new ones,
otherwise the install will crash in the end everytime. (That goes for any
re-install--home, workstation, whatever.)
As for yup, you can type "man yup" at a terminal window to get the syntax
and
options.
Should be something like "yup update" to update everything, but when I tried
days ago, the server was busy and the mirror network wasn't set up yet.
Anyone
know the current status?
What video card do you have?
[As for documentation, I agree, TS/YDL doesn't do hardcopy. But what would
it
be? 1000+ pages? If Terrasoft prospers, perhaps they could do what Redhat
does and offer a 150 page Installation Guide, and 300 page "Getting Started
Guide"? As it stands, they've succeeded in making it easier than ever to
install Linux on a Mac. In the meantime, when you do get things running, you
can print out manuals....]
regards,
perry phillips
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Jason Gan wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Iain Stevenson wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe you should build the latest XFree86 4.1 - it's better for me
> > (9600/200, Rage Orion) than earlier versions. First check whether your
> > video card is supported on the XFree86 web site here:
> >
> > http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status.html
> >
> > The build is fairly straightforward but you need to make sure X is
> > configured to build the device driver you need. I posted my experience
to
> > the list.
> >
> > Iain
> >
>
> The build is not very straightforward. I attempted to install it over my
> system and when trying to xconfig (last step), it dumped the core. Yellow
> Dog Linux does not have libncurses.so.4, so I suppose I shouldn't have
tried
> to install something that I knew would fail.
> Unfortunately I don't have a backup, and since I don't have a user manual
> (Yellow Dog only provided an installation guide), I don't know how to use
> the system from the console.
> So I have been trying to reinstall Linux from the original CD, and now I
> have to try to download all the software to get it back to the state where
I
> want it. Turns out that the Everything installation takes about 1hr on my
> 400MHz G4. (The installation crashed twice, and I thought it was taking
more
> than 3hrs to install but Linux was actually frozen.)
> I have yet to figure out how yup update works, as there is no user manual
or
> web site to show me how it works. There is not much confidence in the
> system, is there.
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