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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > Odd about X.  I will check BL3 with my 2.4.31 kernel.
>
> Pretty sure it has to do with the configuration of my kernel,
> rather than anything inherent in it.
>
> Here are the error messages. I couldn't get them into a file
> using redirection and remembered a 'trick' a Unix guru showed
> me a long time ago: A screenshot taken by opening another tty
> and from there executing 'cat /dev/vcs1 > file'. It was all one
> long line with ^G (bell/alert) between every character. Ran it
> through sed to remove the ^G and fold to replace the newlines
> (more-or-less).

Clever.

> Nothing stops a real Linux Runner! No X? No screen? No GPM?
> No problem. :-)

> <#>startx
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k net-pf-1, errno =
> 2                   _XSERVTransSocketOpen: socket() failed for local

BL has no modprobe, unless you want to symlink it to insmod.
Is kmod some way to load kernel modules?
> That makes sense. Thanks. It's a new mode of operation for me.

> Time to fire up the
> 4-wheeled-planet-killing-slave-financed-war-machine and report to
> Korporate Amerika for a few hours. Got to pretend that I am actually
> earning the incredible material over-abundance that owns me, like
> all the rest of the world's Middle-Class elite.
>
> Lee

Can't you run a home programming business?  You seem to know enough.
I work at home using a DOS wordprocessor and linux for the scanner and to 
do other things that I no longer need Windows for.

Sindi