RE: XServer and RMP

["James Kyd" <james kyd UnitedAdvertising co uk>]

I have manages to sort out the probs I had with StarOffice, but the problem
I explained bellow with my graphics card still exists, any comments would be
welcomed.

James Kyd

Hello all,
	I have some problems when I startX. I had a spare S3 Trio64V+ Aurora 4MB
pci graphics card that I am using instead of the S3 Vision864 2MB
 on board graphics card. Both Xconfigurator and XF86setup tell me they can
successfully start Xserver (using the S3 server). However when I startx it
seems to start the xserver successfully but at the point when my desktop is
loaded something causes the monitor turns itself onto standby and I have a
blank screen. I can quite back to using the command prompt and if I use the
onboard graphics card I can successfully startx and play around. I have used
this graphics card on another linux box with the same monitor with no
problems, the only difference was that this machine didn't have an onboard
graphics card. When I have run Xconfigurator it does probe the onboard
graphics card instead of the pci graphics card unless I choose everything
manually.  Does anyone know why this might be?

Additional when I was installing StarOffice on this machine I got the error
messages the I needed 71MB on / partition which I had so I forced the
installation and it filled up my root partition and then failed. I couldn't
use rpm to remove what it had installed so I removed the directory
/opt/Office51 that it created on my root partition. I have read the man rpm
and know how to relocate the installation of a package when I install it
next time, but I am left with the problem that there is still about 80Mb of
files that it installed left on my root partition. Every time I queried the
uninstalled package with the argument -p or --specfile to find info about
where it wants to install everything I get the error message 'unexpected
source'. Here is what I tried typing

'rpm -p /mnt/cdrom/linux/StarOffice/StarOffice-version-no.rpm'
'rpm -specfile /mnt/cdrom/linux/StarOffice/StarOffice-version-no.rpm'

I also tried...

'rpm -p file://mnt/cdrom/linux/StarOffice/StarOffice-version-no.rpm'
'rpm --specfile file://mnt/cdrom/linux/StarOffice/StarOffice-version-no.rpm'

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or suggest how I can find all the
other stuff it installed. Also is the rpm argument --relocate the best
option to use if I want the package installed under /usr and not under root
(/opt).

Sorry for all the questions, thanks for any help!!!

James Kyd
United Advertising Publications Plc



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