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- Hi,
-
- First I'd like to say how happy I am with my new purchase.
- It is definitely money well spent (and ARDI even gracefully told me I had
- accidentally overpaid by $20...)
-
- Now -
-
- I use a CDROM via an NFS mount.
- The CD is actually mounted on my SPARC, and I access the CDROM by
- exporting it to Linux, so it looks just like a regular directory.
-
- My problem is that I can see there is the HFV volume there on the CD,
- but I can't access it. It just looks like a regular file.
- If I try to open it by double clicking on it, my text editor just coughs.
-
- How do I access the HFV volume on the CD from Executor?
-
- Also with regard to special users etc:
-
- I wondered how I could allow a user to access executor under linux, but be
- able to add or delete files without having to be Super User.
-
- Should I create a special group or user?
- Perhaps a special login, with a home directory that just does mac stuff?
-
- Currently, I installed executor as root, but run it as a regular user,
- and it works fine except when I want to write to the area on my
- disk set aside for mac bits and pieces.
- I am not using a HFV volume for this - just regular EXT2 files.
-
- What strategy have others put in place to allow transparent usage of executor
- without having to be root everytime I want to remove or add a file?
- A special account maybe?
-
- Finally, the SVGAlib version under linux does not work for me at all.
- When I run it, the video mode changes to I don't know what and it is
- unrecoverable.
-
- I get what looks like 4 screens on the display and it is in some unfathomable
- video mode. How do I restore my regular text mode after this accident?
-
- A reboot was the only thing that fixed this problem.
-
- Matter of fact - I tried the SVGAlib command "restoretextmode" and it
- crashed my system - froze it up completely.
- The silly SVGA game "abuse" works OK, but executor and other SVGA apps don't.
-
- I am using kernel 1.2.13 and SVGAlib 1.2.27??
- My display card is Trident TVGA9400cxi - pretty standard stuff, that
- runs X well in 1024x768x256...
-
- I can't find any decent documentation on SVGAlib anywhere, and no answers
- on USENET from people who have seen this problem before.
-
- TIA
-
- Rachel
-
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- Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia
- grove@zeta.org.au http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html
- r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/library/
- "When the revolution comes, I will be shot by both sides"
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