Hello all,

I'd like to start this off by saying I apologize for making my first post such a cry for help, but that is really what it is. This being "linux-noob", I hope you are used to it to the extent of helping.. haha.

I'm currently working on a laptop, booted into a live linux cd (slackware based distrib).

I have a NTFS drive mounted as /mnt/mswin, and my goal is to bring a file local to that file system into my home folder so I can email it, put it on a USB key, whatever. I am convinced this hard drive is about to crap the bed, and who's laptop it is needs this one file - thats it.

I know I formatted the mv command wrong, but here is what I did =



(The file I need to get is 'george\ washington.wps')




(The file is gone. Where is it!? I typed in that command wrong!)

And I can't find the right file through any relevant search I can try:



Please help me out... =\

I have a 32-bit game that I run (circle-mud). I want to upgrade to 64-bit distro but in the past when I have I haven't been able to compile and run the game. What changes would I need to make in order to do this? Here is the first part of my Makefile file:

# C compiler to use
CC = gcc

# Path to cxref utility
CXREF = cxref

# Any special flags you want to pass to the compiler
MYFLAGS = -Wall

#flags for profiling (see hacker.doc for more information)
PROFILE =


##############################################################################
# Do Not Modify Anything Below This Line (unless you know what you're doing) #
##############################################################################

BINDIR = ../bin

CFLAGS = -g $(MYFLAGS) $(PROFILE)

LIBS = -lcrypt -lgd


I have a 64-bit AMD and 4GB of RAM (only 3.2 shows with 3-bit distro). Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you need any other info.

I have a 32-bit game that I run (circle-mud). I want to upgrade to 64-bit distro but in the past when I have I haven't been able to compile and run the game. What changes would I need to make in order to do this? Here is the first part of my Makefile file:

# C compiler to use
CC = gcc

# Path to cxref utility
CXREF = cxref

# Any special flags you want to pass to the compiler
MYFLAGS = -Wall

#flags for profiling (see hacker.doc for more information)
PROFILE =


##############################################################################
# Do Not Modify Anything Below This Line (unless you know what you're doing) #
##############################################################################

BINDIR = ../bin

CFLAGS = -g $(MYFLAGS) $(PROFILE)

LIBS = -lcrypt -lgd


I have a 64-bit AMD and 4GB of RAM (only 3.2 shows with 3-bit distro). Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you need any other info.

Dear All,
Hello, I am still not a heavy user of linux so please pardon my sillyness in asking this.
I recently installed CentOS-5.2-i386 and started working on it little bit. I also recently installed a program VMD (www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/) which though worked, but not fully, i.e. When i run vmd it says
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Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 1508MB (84%)
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.3.0 r300 (screen 0)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 5, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 5
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
unknown chip id 0x7183, can't guess.
libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.
libGL error: InitDriver failed
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
Info) OpenGL renderer: Mesa GLX Indirect
Info) Features: STENCIL MDE MTX NPOT PP PS
Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (2048x2048), Multitexture (8)
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my system is
uname -a
Linux dhcp5XnX1.XXX.edu 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Nov 12 10:35:03 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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glxgears
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.3.0 r300 (screen 0)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
unknown chip id 0x7183, can't guess.
libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.
libGL error: InitDriver failed
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
1613 frames in 5.0 seconds = 319.589 FPS
1582 frames in 5.1 seconds = 313.140 FPS
1582 frames in 5.1 seconds = 311.108 FPS
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glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.3.0 r300 (screen 0)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
unknown chip id 0x7183, can't guess.
libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.
libGL error: InitDriver failed
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,
GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shadow,
GL_ARB_shadow_ambient, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra,
GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_logic_op,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint,
GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_subtexture,
GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,
GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels,
GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once,
GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture,
GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap,
GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture, GL_SGIX_shadow,
GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
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0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2b 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2c 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2d 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2e 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2f 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x32 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x4a 32 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ncon
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dmesg | grep radeon
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524 on minor 0
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Now i googled and found that i should install correct driver. So I downloaded "ati-driver-installer-8-11-x86.x86_64.run" (this was the only option available for my ATI radeon X1300 series)
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sh ./ati-driver-installer-8-11-x86.x86_64.run
Created directory fglrx-install.Z23219
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.552......................
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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
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Detected configuration:
Architecture: i686 (32-bit)
X Server: X.Org 7.1 7.2 7.3
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.Z23219
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After this i did:
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aticonfig --initial
aticonfig: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
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also glxinfo, and glxgears gives the same error
and "ls -lh /usr/lib | grep GL" gives (just to give more information)
# ls -lh /usr/lib | grep GL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 432K Nov 10 2007 FGL.renamed.libGL.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 3 10:58 libGL.so -> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 3 10:58 libGL.so.1 -> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 463K Dec 3 10:58 libGL.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 26 10:20 libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 26 10:14 libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.060501
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 515K Nov 10 2007 libGLU.so.1.3.060501

Please suggest how to correct this. Any input would be greatly appreciated (Also sorry for the long post)
Thank you

Please suggest how to correct this. Any input would be greatly appreciated (Also sorry for the long post)
Thank you

I'm very much a noob to linux, installing DSL because I had nothing better to do. However, I now have a need to get it off of my machine, yet I can't figure out how.

Basically, what I'm asking is, how can I format my hard drive to the point of which I can install a new OS? I've heard about the "cfdisk" command, but it doesn't show any hard drives when I enter it.

Thank you!.