On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 13:33 -0700, Visakh wrote: > Just in case you want to know the health of your Hard drive, you can > use SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). In > Gnu/Linux, it is made available using smartmontools package. I can > give more details if you are interested.
I am interested. I think my laptop has started showing problems that may be possibly traced to the hard disk. My X has irrecoverably crashed on a couple of occasions, and I had to reboot. I normally don't shutdown, only suspend the computer. And I normally have several documents and several tabs in Iceweasel open at any moment. So a crash becomes rather irritating. The error message says (from memory) that X is not properly configured. I can't imagine what problem other than a hard disk error can cause such an error. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India Please visit http://swatantryam.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---