On Friday 04 February 2005 10:26, Admin wrote:...to work I installed Gnome. It was very slow and to my surprise
I could not jump to console mode (jut typically alt+ctrl+Fn
didn't work)
Add this to Section "ServerFlags": Option "HandleSpecialKeys" "Always"
No, it doesn't work too. Maybe it is really good idea to install xfree86?
Thanks,
Arek
Not necessarily, but it may well be an idea to strip some "extras" out of X.org (such as composite, if you're trying to use it).
A Google search for the model number of your laptop gave me this hit:
http://www.kevinboone.com/linux_toshiba.html
Which is a how-to/tips and tricks for installing Linux (an old version of Mandrake) on this exact same laptop.
The relevant information I noticed on the page was:
"The Satellite 4080 has a Trident Cyber 9525 video chipset with 2 Mb of video RAM"
This is a very tiny amount of video RAM, and it also suggests that you don't have very much main RAM either. So no "full-featured desktop" like GNOME (no flames about just how "full-featured" GNOME is or is not, please) is going to be very fast at all. There's not really very much to be done about that, but of course this also depends on what your standards for speed are. I would definitely be considering fluxbox, icewm, WindowMaker, or (for an even lighter, but steeper learning curve desktop), Openbox or Waimea or Pekwm or something.
As for the lack of consoles, I would wonder two things:
1) why was it suggested to comment
# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><Fn> VT switch sequence # (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key # events.
# Option "DontVTSwitch" ---------------------------------end
out? It would seem that if you actually want this functionality, you should *un*comment it. Am I missing something?
2) What is the status of these lines in /etc/inittab
# TERMINALS c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
Do you actually even have consoles available (i.e., do you have a getty installed, and are these lines which configure them uncommented)?
HTH, Holly
make shure there is a comment in front of this option.
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