Subject: rsync question Re: kde2 :)
From: Sam Moore (samiwas@macconnect.com)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 20:55:31 MST
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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