Re: Inspiron Questions

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft net>]

Hi Steve, thanks for the reply. I do have X installed as per your
directions. The problems I am having with saving your file from the
website and then overwriting me existing one is that when I save your
XF86Config file as a .txt, when I open it in Linux it looks kind of
scrambled. Its just not a good clean looking file anymore. Am I doing
something wrong in the way I am saving it in windows which is causing it
to look bad in linux? OK, now that I know libc6 is what I need should I
just untar it in the same dir as the current one. So the current one
gets overwritten? Or should I untar it in a different dir and then copy
it to the right dir to overwrite the existing one?

Thanks for your patience as I am very new to this. Oh, is there a way to
make hidden files show up when doing an ls? I was looking for the
.bashrc file and couldn't find it at first. So I just used vi to open it
directly from where I thought it should be and that worked.

Thanks,

Aaron

Steve Hsieh wrote:
> 
> > now. But how do I get a usable file from windows to linux that I can use
> > to overwrite XF86Config?
> 
> The XF86Config file you need is on my web site.  Download that, and then
> copy it to the right place (wherever that is for Redhat).  If you don't
> know where the right place is, you can search for the existing one on your
> system by doing
> 
> find / -name XF86Config -print
> 
> on linux.  If one doesn't exist, that means that you haven't set up X on
> redhat yet (go through the X config process for redhat first before trying
> to do this)
> 
> > The only thing I could really think to do is
> > write the whole thing from scratch. I printed out the file so I could
> > write it if needed.
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean here.  If you have the file
> that you need, why do you need to write the whole thing from scratch?
> 
> > I also don't know if I need to be using libc5 or 6
> > of the XF86_Mach64 binary? I am using Redhat 5.2 if that helps. I am
> > somewhat of a beginner here.
> 
> redhat 5.2 needs the libc6 binary.
> 
> Steve

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