Jason Guidry wrote: > Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yup. works great.
Thanks! > > When I do press <ctrl><alt>1 (thru 6), the screen blanks momentarily, > > then whatever was displayed on the X window appears, but as a dead > > screen -- mouse won't move, can't type. If I then press <ctrl><alt>7, I > > get back to the real X window (with a working mouse and keyboard). > why don't you send some of your hardware info and let us hava look Well, sure: * Matsonic 8308EP motherboard, on board SiS 730 chipset, SiS 630 video, also sound and NIC but I can't recite the numbers offhand -- not using the NIC, using another board to get 10T2(?? -- i.e., coax) Ethernet, sound never works for me in Linux, I don't really care, and don't really try anymore (maybe someday). (I know I have the NIC disabled in the Bios, I probably left the sound enabled on the off chance it might work -- don't have speakers connected.) Using XFree 3.3.6 as that is the only option presented. (I have the choice of with or without "experimental" 3D acceleration and chose without. If I test video during installation system hangs, so I do not.) * AMD Duron 700 MHz. processor, 256 MB RAM, 8 Gig harddrive * Internet connection via a gateway, i.e., no modem. * NIC is a 3Com 3C590. Recognized automatically during install and networking works fine. * Mouse and keyboard connected through a mechanical KVM switch (AT style) that works fine with three other computers. Keyboard is PS/2 style, and I use adapters into and out of the KVM. Mouse is serial, and I use a serial port for the mouse on this computer, as a serial to PS/2 adapter at the input of this computer did not work (mouse was not recognized). (I don't believe any of this is relevant, but I'm trying to be comprehensive.) My first installation was with CD1 only, then downloaded CD2 and upgraded, now have completed download of CD3, so that I can either upgrade, or do a reinstallation with all three CDs. (At first I thought that the installation with only one CD might have caused this problem -- the upgrade with the second CD did not change the situation.) Randy Kramer
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