One more thing. I figured out the difference between booting the Live CD and the booting off the hard disk and having X work or not.
When the Live CD boots the console user is root. When I boot my hard disk install, I login to the console as an ordinary user. Just for the hell of it, I made myself root, and NOW X starts up OK, as long as I'm root. So there's some major permission problem with X. The file "xorg.conf.new" that I manually edited to have "driver=vesa" is 644, so it's not a problem that it cannot be read by an ordinary user. If we could fix the keyboard, I might actually continue to fool with GoboLinux. Maybe. Is there a way to get "sloppy focus" or "focus follows mouse" behaviour in "Awesome" ? Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 4:08 PM, William Dudley <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I've exhausted my interest in fixing GoboLinux's many problems. > > Here are the results of the latest experiments, as suggested by Lucas: > > 1. Not possible to put computer in UEFI mode, the computer is from 2006 or > so and > that option is not in the BIOS. > > 2. echo -1 > /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend > > had no useful effect, for all values of X from -2 to 2. In other words, > keyboard is still > shutting off after a few seconds. > > dhcpcd eth1 worked, so it is possible to get networking up. > > I looked around for the equivalent of /etc/rc.local, but failed to find a > place to put > that command so that the computer would automatically have networking on > boot. > > Lucas, thanks for your time, and good luck with GoboLinux. > > Bill Dudley > > > This email is free of malware because I run Linux. > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:18 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hugo, >> >> Yes, mate-desktop.org. >> >> Bill Dudley >> >> This email is free of malware because I run Linux. >> >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 4:32 AM, Hugo Barrocas <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> By Mate, do you mean this? >>> >>> http://mate-desktop.org/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cumprimentos, >>> D.er Hugo Barrocas >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gobolinux-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users >>> >>> >> >
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