-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Carlson wrote: > On 11/10/08, Dan Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello all. I was the newbie to the meeting last Wednesday. Thanx >> for welcoming me and for all the info. I appreciate it. >> >> I have a couple of quick questions on 2 of my laptops. >> >> #1. Hp Pavilion 533 MHz running kubuntu. All runs great except for >> shutdown. It shuts down but the logo stay's on the screen and I >> still need to press and hold the on/off button to get it to power >> off. What might be missing from the script and how do I change it. >> > > This happens on some hardware for me. There is no harm to the system > by just holding down the power button to shut it off. If it is > really bugging you, there are a few things you can try. > > Last post here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=776036&page=3 "I had the > same problem with Kubuntu 8.10, In the System Settings, Go to > advanced->login manager, in that go to the ShutDown tab. > > For Halt, give the command :/sbin/shutdown -P This will enable > shutdown." > > This may also be an issue with APM (the issue being it may not be > enabled since your hardware is so much older than the OS, and I think > new hardware uses ACPI.) > >> #2 question I was told that gustin might be able to answer…. I >> hacked my eeepc and installed a sd card in the bottom. Its plugged >> into a usb port that is soldered into the bottom of the >> motherboard. All is great with the computer finding and mounting it >> but the only things that I can do with it is read from it. The info >> that was on it is readable but I cant write to it. Im thinking that >> there is something there with the read write portion. Any thoughts >> and suggestion on how to fix?? >> > > Is it the kind of card that could have a hardware write lock (the > little slider) on it? If so, the lock may have been accidentally > enabled. > This was the first thing I was going to ask.
> Alternately, you may have caused it to be read-only if you made an > /etc/fstab entry for it that has "ro" in the mount options. What does /etc/mtab say about this mount? An example from my Acer: /dev/mmcblk0p1 /opt/mmc ext3 rw 0 0 The /dev/mmcblk0p1 is the SD/MMC device /opt/mmc is the mount point rw tells me that it is read write 0 0 you can ignore. Also what file system is this? df -Th will tell you. If it is not a FAT variant you may just need to give your user permission to write to the drive. What is the purpose of this card? What sorts of things do you want to store on it? For simple file storage the following may be of use: A simple fix sudo chmod 777 /path/to/mount/point/* -R Will recursively give everyone full access A more elegant fix sudo chown username /path/to/mount/point/* -R will cause the specified user to own that mount point and everything underneath it. If you are putting home directories or system folders on this card, then do *NOT* do any of the above, at least not with the -R option. > A third possibility is that card is not supported properly by the SD > card reader. > This is the least likely scenario, but certainly possible. Hth, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJGMfcwRXgH3rKGfMRAo4VAJ98DSJtJJjBZDtUaxt1A+nYw8cJAgCfX+Fb lYg54VP4X6hPKc21TDV65E0= =pU4h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
