the simple command of HALT also brings down the system nicely
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$Subject: Re: sense & sensibility
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$On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Arandir wrote:
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$> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$> > Here's my question....I've gotten XWindows up and running
$before..probably
$> > pure dumb luck. Now, I've increased my Linux Native and Linux Swap
$space
$> > so I could add in the 19 mb of KDE...so I reinstalled everything
$again a
$> > few times and for some reason or other...the mouse is dead when I try
$to
$> > get it running in the graphical installation XF86Setup. Don't know
$why.
$>
$> XF86Setup is usually pretty good about mice. You might want to try
$XF86Config
$> or another X setup program.
$
$I think you mean xf86config. XF86Config is the file. :-).
$>
$> > Maybe you do. It also says when I abort it something about: I should
$be on
$> > another virtual terminal. Where. I dunno.
$>
$> Type typing ctrl+alt+F1 (F1 through F6 are the default consoles).
$>
$> > My XF86_SVGA was installed into
$> > my root directory. Why it wants to be there, I dunno. Maybe, it's
$shy and
$> > doesn't want to play with all it's little friends in
$> > X11R6. Is it suppose to be there? I'm I making sense?
$>
$> No, it shouldn't be there. How did you install it? Through a package
$manager?
$> Try uninstalling it the same way, then reinstalling.
$>
$> > Also
$> > I'm getting a message about a forced /dev/hda4 at startup
$time...this is
$> > where linux resides.
$>
$> Forced check? Are you getting any errors from the check? If there are
$no
$> errors, you're fine except for the increased boot time. Otherwise, this
$could
$> be indicative of a bigger problem.
$>
$If it happens once in a while, it is preventive maintenance. If it
$happens every startup, you are shutting down wrong, say with the on-off
$switch. Try (as root) shutdown -h now, and wait the ten seconds or so
$until you get "system halted". Usually, it does o great harm to power
$off a system that isn't expecting it, but it makes the system nervous.
$:-). Later, we can get into letting selected non-privileged users shut
$down the system.
$
$Lawson
$ >< Microsoft free environment
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$> --
$> Arandir...
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