From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5097 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: linux question Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:27:27 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <204253540.20010717132727@bigfoot.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20010717104534.02096e08@server-1> Reply-To: Giuseppe Bilotta NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395711 31241 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:55:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5097 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5097 Hi, Tuesday, July 17, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote: HH> I spoiled a couple of days installing linux [on this third HH> laptop again my video chipset is not supported; in this HH> respect linux is way behind windows]. Since Windows is (still) more widespread than Linux, manufacturers are more interested in developing Windows drivers rather than Linux'. HH> I updated to Xfree 4 and now seem to have problems with HH> starting the window manager. Does anyone know if window HH> managers are supposed to run on newer drivers? They are supposed to. Anyway, you might want to try a more recent of the same wm. HH> [I use suse7.1 but am slowly getting sick of the enourmous HH> bunch of window stuff installed/loaded and getting rid of it HH> seems impossible, so i wonder if i should continue with suse HH> anyway. Are the otherw linux's leaner?] You might want to give Mandrake 8.0 a chance. If you have an NVidia video chipset, you need to download the latest drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html and follow the instructions for "generic RPM distributions" HH> In any case i want a running linux/x for testing context on HH> linux. What do you need X for? You just need teTeX, Perl and an a shell ... If you feel confused by the command line, give Midnight Commander (mc) a chance. HH> [if i can get my old dos-extender stuff working on win200 i HH> will stick to windows anyway since graphics are better there] (What do you mean "graphics are better"? Are you talking about the cute icons?) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta