Generally speaking what can you do when stuff goes wrong in Linux? Can anyone offer some suggestions for more efficiently dealing with problems than what I have listed below? Any dumb ass friendly websites on the subject? Eg. after exiting a game the mouse freezes on KDE desktop. Machine is alive and well (even responding to left mouse clicks, but cursor will not move). My bag of tricks learnt in the last few days includes: 1. CTRL + ALT + ESC (gives skull to terminate applications) 2. Alt + F1 ...
OK, thanks guys problem seems solved. After someone told me I needed to login as root (or similar) to change the config file (I was unable to save changes until someone pointed this out). Maelstrom runs fine now.
Hi, How the heck can I edit a file (in this case XF86config in the etc/X11 directory). I do not have write access to this file (despite creating an account with root privelidges)???
When I installed Suse I selected my graphics card from the list. I am pretty sure it downloaded THE Nvidia driver (becuase i had to accept a license agreement I think). Can I double check without reinstalling? (The installation procedure looks complicated to me http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-532
How do I change file permissions so that I can edit this file? Is it usig a command called chmod?
Quoted Thanks tuxnet, Is there an easy way to resubmit to the graphics forum (including threads so far)? The graphics config does appear to be the problem, but I am unable to fix it. The specs for my monitor are Horiz freq: 30-70 and Vert freq: 50-110 My monitor is not listed so I have chosen Vesa 1024x768 @ 60Hz (the resolution that I like to work at and what my monitor is capable of) But... in Sax2 the Horiz freq displays at 28-70 rather than 30-70. I think that's my problem (because this is ...
Hi, How can I recover from a system lockup? According to the KDE Help center: 1. From the locked up screen: CTRL + Alt + Esc (to bring up a login screen) 2. ps -aux | more (to list running processes) 3. kill -9 pid 4. CTRL + ALt F7 (to switch back to the locked up desktop to see if it has been fixed) Although the instructions mention several likely programs to try "killing" I have yet to successfully recover... I have: * Suse 9 with YOU updates (whatever these are) * Athlon 600 with .5Gb RAM * A...
