Re: [newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: q - quit, without writing I thought it was :q! for quit? VIM - Vi IMproved ~ ~version 6.1.165 ~ by Bram Moolenaar et al. ~ Vim is open source and freely distributable

Re: [newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 21 Jun 2003 9:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote: On Friday 20 June 2003 10:05 am, Richard Urwin wrote: quick command ref: i - enter insert mode esc - exit insert mode x - delete character ZZ - save and exit According to running linux by O'reilly

Re: [newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-21 Thread Jan Wilson
* Inhabitant of Zion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030621 07:13]: > vi is great isn't it! I find even having used it a lot I still forget to press i > before I start typing! > > Most annoying thing is when you do a load of changes and then go to save using shift > ZZ and it tells you that it is a read on

Re: [newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-21 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
> q - quit, without writing I thought it was :q! for quit? > > ZZ does work, and since I've never used vi when I didn't have to, I > remember the smallest set of commands I need. > vi is great isn't it! I find even having used it a lot I still forget to press i before I start typing! Most a

Re: [newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 21 Jun 2003 9:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >On Friday 20 June 2003 10:05 am, Richard Urwin wrote: > >>quick command ref: > >>i - enter insert mode > >>esc - exit insert mode > >>x - delete character > >>ZZ - save and exit > > According to running linux by O'reilly > q - qu

Re: [newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-21 Thread John Richard Smith
eric huff wrote: Here is the apend line from mine: append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off" On Friday 20 June 2003 10:05 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 20 Jun 2003 4:06 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Seems ACPI was turned off for a reason... X windows won't boot with it turned on! N

Re: [newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-20 Thread eric huff
Here is the apend line from mine: append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off" On Friday 20 June 2003 10:05 am, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Friday 20 Jun 2003 4:06 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > > Seems ACPI was turned off for a reason... X windows won't boot > > with it turned on! > > > > Now I am

Re: [newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-20 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 20 Jun 2003 4:06 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > Seems ACPI was turned off for a reason... X windows won't boot with it > turned on! > > Now I am stuck how do i turn it off again from the shell prompt? > > Quick reply valued! vi /etc/lilo.conf quick command ref: i - enter insert mode es

[newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-20 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Seems ACPI was turned off for a reason... X windows won't boot with it turned on! Now I am stuck how do i turn it off again from the shell prompt? Quick reply valued! John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com