Re: Some guinness mysteries

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

s-luppescu@uchicago.edu wrote:
> 
> Here are a few things I can't understand:
> 
> 1) In my install at home, /etc/X11/X is is link to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. At
> work, it's a link to XF86_SVGA. Why is this? My video card at home is a Voodoo
> Banshee, and at work it's a MGA G200.

I would guess the Voodoo at home is using XFree86-4 while the MGA G200
is using XFree86-3.3.6.

> 2) I can't get the DPMS option on my machine at work to work. I have Option
> "dpms" in the monitor section in XF86Config-4 on both machines. Both monitors
> are dpms compliant. The machine at work only goes into standby mode, never
> suspend or off.

Not really up on DPMS, but if my suspicion above holds true, you aren't
using XFree86-4 on that box. Try running 'Xconfigurator --preferxf4' on
it (while not in X)

> 3) I have openssh server on one machine and the client on another (both from
> Guinness). Since they both use ssh 2 protocol, the default is to use DSA
> authentication. Now, I use ssh-add at the beginning of the session to get my
> pass phrase, but that seems to work only for RSA authentication. When I connect
> to that host, I get asked for my dsa pass phrase every time I connect. How can
> I get the authentication agent to handle DSA authentication as well?

Upgrade or Clean install? You probably want to delete the known-hosts
and authorized_keys files from both machines and start over. Just a
guess.
 
> Thanks in advance for any help in solving these mysteries.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Stuart Luppescu         -=-=-  University of Chicago

Chris Kloiber
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