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Article #715Re: Yet another crash!
From: sbd
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:00
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I said this before. Yeah, ok I could be wrong, but he does have xfs installed, he's just cocked it up. I think you've changed the language. Whatever it is, I know you did it through KDE and the Control Center cos I can see the options that you've been on about there. You never said if you tried what I said, running setup and changing the keyboard there (from the console - black screen). What's the other option called that you can get into? I think it's xf86config. Let me just go and have a look... Yeah, it's xf86config - this is how you setup X. You should be able to fix it from there if plain old setup doesn't work. Just type it at the black screen. But I only started with Linux myself a couple of months ago, so I'm no expert. But try it for me baby, you know you want to. sbd On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:26:20 GMT, ian@overhere30.freeserve.co.uk (007***) wrote: >In article <388E03F2.EA9A9682@netscape.net>, Bruce Richardson ><itsbruce@netscape.net> wrote: > >>It's the console (text mode) login. Beyond it lies the command line, a >>bit like DOS only more complex and powerful. Unlike windows, with Linux >>the GUI is just a component - you don't need the graphical interface to >>use the full power of the OS. It's as well to learn how to work in this >>environment - some things in Linux are difficult to configurate from X. >>And if X fails for some reason, you *have* to work at the console to fix >>it. >> >>If you don't know how to run programs from the command line I strongly >>suggest you get an introductory book on Linux and work through the >>chapters. If you can, get a book that matches the distribution (and >>version number) you have - although many Linux books come with a Linux >>installation cd inside the cover. >> >Thanks Bruce. ;o) > >-- >Ian. >http://www.overhere30.freeserve.co.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,b33046ac4fb17395 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: 111053,9e82041a3ad6a90 X-Google-Attributes: gid111053,public From: sbd@nospam.com Subject: Re: Yet another crash! Date: 2000/01/26 Message-ID: <388f2e8f.65436@news.greatxscape.net> X-Deja-AN: 577924570 References: <RJYW3.61$ju1.1566@nnrp4.clara.net> <FL3x5A.E5B@dangl.demon.co.uk> <383728e4@news.jakinternet.co.uk> <81rsh3$khi$1@fantasma.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es> <826a4r$mr5$1@sparky.wolfe.net> <385B6A68.838DAC06@r56o.f9.co.uk> <86fu3t$f29$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk> <86g5dk$c5f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <86io9q$nsv$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk> <388E03F2.EA9A9682@netscape.net> <86lb70$meo$3@news5.svr.pol.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Trace: news6.svr.pol.co.uk 948908188 23977 62.137.35.51 (26 Jan 2000 17:36:28 GMT) Organization: Customer of Planet Online NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jan 2000 17:36:28 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,freeserve.help.unix