huray I am up and running Linux 6.2

[Daniel R. Kilbourne]

I do not want to argue, but I personally think for newbies, especially 
one's running RedHat, that running RedHat's 'setup' is the easiest option, 
although learning XF86Setup is good for any distro.....just my $0.02



At 02:17 PM 9/12/2000 -0400, Alan Garrison wrote:
>1.  X video modes:  I find it easiest to get out of X and
>run "XF86Setup".  I'm not sure if KDE has a resolution changing
>app or not.  You may configure several resolutions here, then
>switch between them in X using a particular keystroke.
>
>2.  See Ben's email
>
>3.  I don't know.  I'm not a big KDE guy.
>
>4.  You created a "swap partition", not a swap file (unless
>you are referring to something else).  64 megs is probably
>fine.  I've seen various rules on how big it should be, but
>I don't think there is one exact rule for everyone.  If
>you are doing real memory intensive things (or just
>running Netscape), you may find that 64+64 may not be
>enough.
>
>
> >>> Travis Austin <travis.austin@acd.net> 09/12/00 01:27PM >>>
>Now for the questions.   How do I change video modes in X?  I am using KDE if
>you know of an easy way from there.  I love it.  It is working just the way it
>is supposed to be.
>
>Also how do u install a tar.gz file????   The RPG ones are really easy but the
>other installs are confusing me.
>
>How do you add stuff to the (forgive me for calling it this) start bar.   Or K
>bar I guess I should say.   I can drag them into the quick launch area but I
>want them to be in the start menu...
>
>I created my swap file at 64 megs.   Is that too small??  I am running 64 megs
>of ram.
>
>Thanks for all our help
>
>Travis
>
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Daniel R. Kilbourne
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Voyager.net Network Engineer