Re: ooops

["Zachary Florian" <icthusianz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

so i typed in 'less /.xsession-errors' and it showed what was kinda going
on... yeah it does appear that i 'hosed X' :) and i'm glad it's not hard to
do... don't even really know what i did... i think it was the RH
Installer... maybe not though, i could just be nuts... anyhow i'm gonna
vanquish the glutonous beast (rm .xsession-errors) and see if i can't
reconfigure X... oh yeah a question again... if i have a VooDoo2 3dfx
acclerator card will that through some "added fun" into the mix?

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>>eeek - use a pager to look at files that huge!  Usually 'less' (if
>>available) is more than sufficient.  I am presuming you are new so I
>>won't attempt inflicting 'vi' bindings on you yet, but it also works
>><well on big files.  On some systems, you might not find less, but
>>'more' will usually be on most unixes nowadays.
>
>One thing worth noting is that pagers and vi often require disk space~
>to create temporary files,  so they will not work on a single~
>partition Linux system that has "overflowed".~
>
>I recommend "cat /dev/null > .xsession-errors",  It is pretty obvious you~
>hosed the X config (not a hard thing to do).  So clear the file and~
>reconfigure X,  and restart in runlevel 5 again,  or check with the~
>startx command and see if X starts.cc
>