On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:09 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > How did everyone go away from their desktops and favourite OS? Did everyone > get frustrated by the in-law's windows box? > > Anyone have any linux related gems to share? > As the nearest rellie with a Windows box is >10,000 km away, no grief with Windows. All our strife has been with Linux.
Decided to update logcabin from FC 4 to Ubuntu 6.06 to be consistent with our other machines. Result: Ubuntu repartitioned the (SATA) disk but then couldn't recognise any of the partitions. Reinstalled FC 4, which recognised the partitions that the Ubuntu installer had created, but didn't recognise the network (on-board Intel e1000). Much head-scratching as I tried to remember how I had got the e1000 driver installed previously. Decided to stick with RedHat-based systems for the time being. Got a magazine copy of Mandriva 2007. Beautiful, slick installation, until it refused to recognise the mouse (a bog standard Microsoft optical mouse). Tried FC 6, which worked. Then tried reinstalling vlc (the only way to get Concert FM at logcabin's location). After much fiddling with yum and repositories, managed a yum update and installation of vlc from an .rpm from livna. Now FC 6 boots but X doesn't. I have to login as myself, su - to root, rm a lock file, exit to myself, startx and we're happy for a while. The system runs with the vesa generic driver; the graphical display adjustment tool shows the existence of the Intel (on-board 945GM) driver but won't install it (but would, apparently, install it for a second display - ???). Otherwise all's well until shutdown looms - at log-out I just don't get the option of shutting down, and even if I exit to a shell and invoke shutdown now, the power stays on. I miss dpkg, apt-get and synaptic! =====Andrew
