Re: Solved: Re: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 07:35 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well sort of. Looks like I have to hold down for a > > handful or so seconds and there is X. Guess the other times I tried > > this I was too impatient. > > Incidentally, the cn

Re: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Lanny Marcus wrote: Message: 11 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:34:13 -0400 From: "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < I tried to change it and although I am told the update to I will give that a try, switching drives here shortly... Not a good idea to log in as root! Best to use su

Re: Solved: Re: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Bart Schaefer wrote: On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well sort of. Looks like I have to hold down for a handful or so seconds and there is X. Guess the other times I tried this I was too impatient. Incidentally, the cntrl key shouldn't be necessary to switch among te

RE: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-14 Thread Lanny Marcus
>Message: 11 >Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:34:13 -0400 >From: "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < I tried to change it and although I am told the update to http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: Solved: Re: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-14 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well sort of. Looks like I have to hold down for a handful or so seconds and there is X. Guess the other times I tried this I was too impatient. Incidentally, the cntrl key shouldn't be necessary to switch among text-mode virtual consol

Solved: Re: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well sort of. Looks like I have to hold down for a handful or so seconds and there is X. Guess the other times I tried this I was too impatient. Some sort of timing problem that I end up in the wrong display Robert Moskowitz wrote: Bart Schaefer wrote: On 6/13/07, Robert Moskowitz <[E

Re: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Bart Schaefer wrote: On 6/13/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems to be a timing problem. And I do not know what else. This sounds similar to something I encountered after first installing CentOS5.0 on my pavilion laptop. See thread "CentOS 5: GDM starts, but console does

Re: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 6/13/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems to be a timing problem. And I do not know what else. This sounds similar to something I encountered after first installing CentOS5.0 on my pavilion laptop. See thread "CentOS 5: GDM starts, but console doesn't switch VTs" (which

Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
It seems to be a timing problem. And I do not know what else. Perhaps I need to do more tresting, but each test takes around 10 min. I have to boot, see it fail to go into X, try something reboot I have noticed that if I run pm-suspend and power back up, watch the system hang, pull the

[CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

2007-06-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just installed Centos 5 for my notebook (HP compaq nc4010) on a separate drive (than this one that has Centos 4.5). When I first booted after all the setup, X did not start. hmm. Rebooted, and X came up fine. I did a bunch of customizing and upgraded the kernel Rebooted, X did not start.