Subject: Re: rsync question Re: kde2 :)
From: Sam Moore (samiwas@macconnect.com)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 21:28:44 MST
Scratch that, going with a complete build of the whole tree instead.
Still would be curious to know what I was doing wrong though...
On 11/9/00 at 10:55 PM, samiwas@macconnect.com (Sam Moore) wrote:
> OK, upgrading to XFree86-4.x seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately not so
> simple, mostly becuse I don't have a Rage 128...
> I downloaded the binaries from linuxppc.org , installed them and edited
> /etc/X11/XF86Config, reacquainting myself with vi along the way ;-)
> startx failed, reporting it couldn't find a device. At this point I realized I
> needed a driver for the Mach64, according to the instrux at
> http://linuxppc.org/usr/xf4/
> Unfortunately I'm having trouble with rsync, to wit:
> I've created a directory xfree86 into which to rsync the source tree, per
> instructions. However when I do
> rsync -arvz penguinppc.org::xfree86-pmac
> it downloads a list of files, but no actual files.
> #ls shows xfree86 to be empty, whereas there should be a whole bunch of source
> code there, no?
> Am I missing something obvious?
> Any advice much appreciated...
>
> On 11/9/00 at 2:26 PM, pl@tintin.smbh.univ-paris13.fr (Patrick Ladam) wrote:
>
> >
> > Woaa that's a lot of questions....
> >
> > Well lesstif was a public domain substitute for Motif which is basically
> > the 2D graphics manager for unix systems (there are others too).
Unfortunately
> > Motif was not public domain until a few month so we had to stick with
lesstif
> > that did a nice job anyway but you could get a few bugs in certain cases
> > (zero sized windows...) using lesstif with software which were baiscally
> > written for Motif.
> > Now that Motif is public domain it will probably make lesstif useless and
> > you can bet lesstif might disappear in futur linux releases.
> >
> > Xfree takes care of the hardware side of the graphics and getting the
> > latest version installed is rather a good idea, in one word: upgrade
> > to 4.0 or 4.0.1.
> >
> > You will have to choose between lesstif and motif though as they can't
> > co-exist.
> >
> > Bye
> >
> >
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