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- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: KDSETMODE error?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.100805.16158@sfu.ca>
- Sender: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 10:08:05 GMT
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- Ok. Firstly, I would like to thank you ALL who have helped me
- get my linux system up. It's finally working properly, well, at least
- 95% of it, I think. Special thanks to those who have been VERY
- patient with me.
-
- Anyway, two minor stuff, I'd like to get cleared up.
-
- 1) What is a "KDSETMODE KD_GRAPHICS failed" error? I decided
- to run 'startx' tonight and like it choked and gave me the
- following error:-
-
- ..
- .
- Fatal server error:
- KDSETMODE KD_GRAPHICS failed.
-
- What does this mean?
-
- 2) This isn't actually a problem. Wow, what a change eh?
- But like, for the command 'compress', right. Well,
- what's the minimum filesize that it would actually compress?
- I was fiddling with compress last night and like I made
- a test file of 16 bytes.. And ran compress on it. Nothing
- happened. So can I make an assumption that compress won't
- compress anything under, just say, 100 bytes? This is only
- an inquiry. It's not mentioned in the FAQ and I'm just
- curious about it, because 'compress' and 'uncompress' failed
- to run in Linux 0.98pl5. Compress choked and core dumped.
-
- PS: Planning to install LILO, so probably, there might be a few
- questions coming up from me....
-
- PPS: I'M just joking..sheesh... please.. no flames.. just a
- slight humor.. :)
-
-
- --
- InterNet: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca | "Fail not; Learn Not.
- | It is with failing, that one learns,
- | So by Learning, one must fail." - Edmund Wong
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