[486] in RedHat Linux List
updating to colgate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Craft)
Tue Oct 22 21:34:24 1996
From: Brian Craft <bcboy@dorothy.ccs.brandeis.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:35:53 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi. I just attempted to update from 3.0.3 to Colgate. So far, it's been pretty
rocky (I've installed several new systems, and they all went smoothly.)
So far, here are my troubles:
- XFree was installed, though I specifically unselected it from the rpm list.
When it complained about other modules needing it, I unselected the
"resolve dependencies" box, again, to prevent it being installed. My
video board requires the latest beta, so I didn't want it overwritten.
It was overwritten, however, and the XF86Config file was rewritten, too.
I've reinstalled the beta binary and config files, which allows it to
start the server ok, but the mouse no longer works. I thought gpm might
be causing problems, so I tried stopping it, and then removing it from
the init sequence and rebooting. It still doesn't work, however. I'm
not getting anything from /dev/cua0, where the mouse is hooked up.
Before I removed gpm, I was getting data, but it wasn't correct.
(it's usually in mousesystems mode, but i wasn't getting mousesystems
data. I know the mouse has some weird other mode, but it would never go
to that mode unless I specifically messed with the modem control lines).
It does seem weird that with the same XFree binary, and the same config
file that it would behave differently. Is the serial mouse handled
differently in the 2.0 kernel?
- i can't execute tcsh scripts. For example, this file:
#!/bin/tcsh
echo fudge
doesn't run, while this one does:
#!/bin/sh
echo fudge
- tcsh doesn't accept the up and down arrows to look at the history list.
(some termcap thing maybe? TERM was set to vt100, and i switched it
to linux w/o effect).
- lilo's default boot image was switched. previously, it would default to
linux, and would optionally boot to windows. the colgate update switched it
so it defaults to windows, and optionally boots to linux.
Anyone had any of these problems?
(btw, i don't currently get this mailing list)
b.c.
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