Re: X not start after dist-upgrade

2005-11-19 Thread Craig Hagerman
On 11/9/05, Ian Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Ian Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Nov 8, 2005 11:12 AM Subject: Re: X not start after dist-upgrade To: Santiago Kci [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same experience this weekend. The problem is

changed ownership of / by mistake...

2005-11-19 Thread Craig Hagerman
Hi all, I am in need of some BIG help. I am an idiot! I did something stupid on my home server. I wanted to change the owner and group of all the files within a folder to myself (craig). I was already in directory /mnt/sda/ (logged in as root) and I entered: # chown -R craig:craig /* instead of

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-19 Thread Tony Power
Hi! Problem solved! It was enough to set: Option IgnoreEDID 1 As suggested by Corey. Thank you all ;)On 11/18/05, Corey Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Power wrote: Hi Lennart! Well, I tried that but my LCD turned very colourful, like it was melting.Heh. My laptop's LCD melts in black and

Re: X86_64 on Shuttle-XPC ST20G5

2005-11-19 Thread Thomas Drillich
Am Samstag, 19. November 2005 07:36 schrieb Cameron Patrick: Andrew Sharp wrote: what a PITA. I've got an ATI X300SE PCIe on my system, came right up with X when I installed etch, it works fast and furious, I didn't have to do anything except answer a couple of questions from debconf (or

Re: changed ownership of / by mistake...

2005-11-19 Thread Gilles
Hello. (logged in as root) and I entered: # chown -R craig:craig /* :-{ Hopefully there is a Debian tool to repair this... But I don't know it. So better first wait for someone more knowledgeable than I, before attempting the brute method: Short of reinstalling the whole system as a

Display changed: LCD off/on problem

2005-11-19 Thread Emmanuel Guiton
Hello, Yes, I solved the problem. It's linked to the kmilo software. Follow these instructions (that I found at http://wingware.com/support/asus_z63a_ubuntu_5.10, but you can find many other sources by googling) to fix it: Having switched to KDE, I got an annoying flashing screen

Re: changed ownership of / by mistake...

2005-11-19 Thread Cameron Patrick
Gilles wrote: dpkg --get-selections | perl -ane 'print $F[0], if $F[1] =~ /^install/' SELECT [...] and press enter... [Note/WARNING: I did not test this!] I've done something very similar to repair a system after filesytem corruption. It worked quite well. But if ownership is screwy,