[CS-FSLUG] How to resolve anapparent - It Works!

[linux at rmf.mailshell.com]

Hey, Praise God, it worked! It works!
While I want to give glory to God, I must thank you, Eduardo, for your little trick. I tried it last night, and had to do it over about 4-5 times until I figured out how to choose the right Graphics card my computer has. Found one close to it under "Other" Then everything came back. Haven't even lost any files or emails!

I do see some problems to work out though. Just haven't got to that yet, as Saturday is my domestic day, and I've been working on a quilt for my Great-nephew too.

But my window space in Mandrake does not use all of my screen real estate. It did that too when I first installed it, but I can't recall how I fixed it. The monitor buttons don't seem to help.

Also, the brower window (Mozilla) that was open when the crash happened is still there, and will NOT close. The error message made off in a hurry and I hope it's gone for good. It said, "The connection was refused when attempting to contact 64.241... etc." I had to click OK 2 x to get rid of it each time.

It was getting late enough so my eyes were beginning to swell shut, but I went to bed singing under my breath, "It works! It works!"

My next agenda item is to see how to ease my transition so I can do all my work there. Has anybody who's done this before got some advice?

I did fine out back in May that from within Mandrake/Linux, I can reach down to my other Windows Drive and files, and pull up/convert whatever I need to work
on. So my writing time should move easily enough.

I'm concerned about email and web design though. I will really miss my Pegasus!
Though I've begun to use Thunderbird for the emails from one domain, and am
getting the hang of it. - However, Mandrake doesn't let me download/install anything but what it has cached  on the original CDs. So how do I do that?

As for Web design, I've used Star Office in the past, but in recent years done it all in 1st Page 2000. Back in May I explored the HTML programs in Mandrake, but they all made my web pages look strange. I think I'm going to need a huge period for a learning curve here! No?

Okay, I'm talkin' too much. Time to wait for answers..

But with Blessings & Thanks,
Ruth


>From Eduardo Sanchez <lists at sombragris.org> on 25 Aug 2004:
 
> Then, you know you're on the console. Just a hypothetical question: do 
> you have any valuable information on KDE? I might suggest you a quick 
> and dirty trick to reconfigure KDE, but then you would have to 
> re-configure it again (i.e., set up your KMail email accounts, desktop 
> icons, wallpapers, all over again). Would it be OK with you?
> 
> Meanwhile, I have some tricks to show you.
> 
> First of all, you need to go to the console. Type Ctrl-Alt and a 
> function key between F1 and F6 to get you the console prompt.
> 
> You will see something like:
> 
> Mandrake Linux Release 9.1 (Whatever)
> Linux 2.4.19-25mdk
> 
> login:
> 
> There, supply your username and password.
> 
> Then you will see your console prompt, something like:
> 
> [ruth at localhost ruth] $
> 
> Now, get the root prompt. Type the 'su' command. When the command asks 
> you for a password, supply your *root* password.
> 
> Then, your console prompt should look like:
> 
> [root at localhost ruth] #
> 
> The '#' prompt means you're root now.
> 
> Then kill the X Window System (it is necessary for our manipulation) by 
> typing the command 'telinit 3'. This kills X Window and leaves you with 
> a bare console (no graphical mode at all).
> 
> Once you killed the graphical mode, clear the screen typing Ctrl-L 
> because we would like to get rid of those funny messages which appeared 
> when you typed 'telinit 3'. Now, get into the Mandrake Control Center, 
> console version, by typing 'drakconf'.
> 
> At this time, I don't remember it clearly, but you will have a menu. Go 
> look for an item named "X Configuration", "Video Configuration", or 
> "Graphical mode configuration". You get the idea. Follow the 
> instructions to re-configure the X window system.
> 
> When you're finished, exit the Mandrake Control Center. In the root 
> prompt, type now 'telinit 5'. You should get the graphical login screen 
> all over again.
> 
> Is it all OK now? I'm awaiting your answer...
> 
> Eduardo
> 

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