Re: [newbie] Etho0 shutdown lockup

2002-01-15 Per discussione Dan Bingham
Barb wrote: I have 8.0 on a Dell Laptop. Suddenly, on shutdown the computer locks up on this: Shutting down interface eth0: dhcpcd[784]: terminating on signal 1 Try shutting it down manually while you are logged in.. ifconfig eth0 down then check /var/log/messages if it freezes.. and

[newbie] XFREE86 4.x.x and Mandrake 8.1

2002-01-10 Per discussione Dan bingham
I've been farting around with my X setup (Mandrake 8.1).. getting my NVidia TNT2 to work.. I got the driver working, but now I can't find out where to specify which version of XFREE to load.. it's loading into the old 3.x.x version and the Nvidia driver doesn't work.. Does anyone know how to

Re: [newbie] the boot disk problem

2002-01-10 Per discussione Dan bingham
Before you issue 'startx'.. You should run XF86Config (slackware).. xconfigurator (redhat/mandrake?)... or XFDrake (Mandrake).. anyways, you need to configure X before you can run it (properly).. or else you will probably have problems with your mouse/video/etc etc.. /Dan. On Thursday 10