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hi, i want to write platform independent programs and i am having trouble figuring out how to effectively carry out console input-output functions that would work both for win32 and linux\unix. i dont need any fancy gui api's, just something like ncurses (is ncurses platform independent?). PLEASE HELP! thanks!

Ok, i have one more question. One thing i'm not clear on concerning kernel configuration is when to make something into a module and when to compile it directly into the kernel. If I understand correctly, it's a trade off between the amount of disk space that the kernel uses versus how fast it is. In other words, if I make a crapload of modules the kernel will take up less disk space, but will be much slower because of the runtime overhead that modules create through dynamic linking. Am I right or is this a bunch of crap?

A while back I recompiled my kernel for the first time to use ACPI for my laptop. But this kernel ran much much slower than the one that came with my distro! (redhat 9). Is there a good web site that has info on re configuring the kernel so it runs much faster? Because when i did make menuconfig i was pretty much guessing on alot of stuff about what i did and didn't need, and i want to make a kernel that runs much faster, than the distro kernel if possible. Thanks in advance for any advice!

do you know if this driver is publicly available yet? AFAIK it isn't because i cant find it anywhere

hi i'm running red hat 9 and just compiled a new kernel... now I have two kernels I can boot from at GRUB boot loader, my new kernel works just fine, so my question is how do i get rid of the old kernel? i don't just want to remove it as a boot option from the grub.conf file, so should i just delete the old kernel image from /boot? thx in advance!

Hi, I'm trying to recompile my kernel (2.4.20-8) on RedHat 9, and when I do 'make xconfig', i get the following: ####################################################################### [root@localhost linux-2.4.20-8]# make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/scripts' cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk KERNTYPE=`sed -n 's_^/\* Kernel type \(.*\) \*/_\1_p' /boot/kernel.h 2>/dev/null`; \ if [ -f configs/*-ERNTYPE.config ]; then \ conf=`echo configs/*-ERNELTYPE.config`; \ echo "set defaults \"\"" >> kconfig.tk; \ else \ echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk; \ fi echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk chmod 755 kconfig.tk make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk make: wish: Command not found make: *** [xconfig] Error 127 ######################################################################## and it won't start after that. what should i do?

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ok, thanks for the help guys this is what I did that finally worked: 1. opened /etc/inittab with vi 2. changed the line 'id:5:initdefault:' to 'id:3:initdefault' 3. rebooted the computer and it booted to the text login so I wouldn't have to figure out how to kill gdm. Then I was able to install the new version of Xfree86 but if anybody can give me some insight about what i'm doing wrong concerning killing gdm without editing inittab I'm still curious

hi again, ok, I tried "service xdm stop," and i got "bash: service: command not found" i tried the debian one even though i'm running rh 9 and it told me that the directory doesn't exist. is there a service manager or something that i'm supposed to have installed somewhere?

Hi, I want to upgrade the latest version of Xfree86 and the install script (Xinstall.sh) says I should end my x session before I continue with installation. But how do I do that? Help I can't find anything that shows me how ;( thanks for any help!!

Hi, I'm trying to patch my kernel to get acpi to work on my comaq notebook and i had to download three kernel patch files. one was in tar.gz format and two were in diff.gz I know how to work the tarballs, But after I unzip the diff.gz, what do I do with the diff? Is this a different type of compression? :x thanx for any help i get from all you smart peeps!!!

I'm getting the same error message when I try to run wine from cvs in RH 9. But when I ran wine from the rpm the terminal just sat there and did nothing; all i could do was ctrl+C out of it. But I'm going to try out the Xwine from transgaming, and if I find out anything else about the chdir error in regular wine Ill post it here PEACE FO SHIZZY YO