From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Fri Mar 10 08:40:55 2000 Received: from yogi.pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de (yogi.pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de [134.99.152.44]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA24801 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:40:55 -0500 Received: (from jochen@localhost) by yogi.pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA04805; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:41:04 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <14536.64358.615773.866549@yogi.pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:40:54 +0100 (CET) From: Jochen Küpper To: Ulrike Salzner Cc: ccl Subject: CCL:linux In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" XEmacs Lucid Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by server.ccl.net id IAA24802 Ulrike Salzner writes: Hi Uli, > I am experimenting with linux in Pentium computers. The main goal is > using Gaussian. But I am running into various problems. I have installed > Red Hat 6.1 on one computer and WinLinux on another. In both cases Linux > does not seem to have a driver for my VGA card: S3 Trio 3D/2X. Has > anybody found a driver for this card? What's the chip on it ? Is that one of the 128's ? IIRC, these are not supported by XFree86. I haven't checked lately. You might wanna look at the commmercial X Servers, but it might be cheaper too buy a different card ( $30 should be enough :-) > WinLinux (from www.winlinux.net) boots with the above card but gives the > error "PCI ..... at IRQ 0, which is unlikely to work". So I could not > connect to the net. Next I tried a "cold boot" which is in the trouble > shooting utility. This forces a configuration for an unkown card. > Afterwards networking is possible but the display is very bad (uni color > in netscape). Sounds like it's getting more similar to Windoze ;-( > Having reached this this point, I installed compilers and libraries for > G98. Unfortunately "bldg98" is written for the C-shell and WinLinux comes > only with "bash". I am afraid that rewriting the skripts will create > problems without end. Therefore I would like to find out whether the > C-shell can be added to WinLinux. Install tcsh, if it really isn't yet. Jochen -- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Institut für Physikalische Chemie I Jochen Küpper Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 26.43 Raum 02.29 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany phone ++49-211-8113681, fax ++49-211-8115195 http://www.Jochen-Kuepper.de