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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> walt wrote: |
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>>> [...] |
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>>> HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself |
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>>> is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. |
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>> Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the past |
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>> where GUIs were discussed to make these things automagic, but most |
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>> Gentoo users here prefer that Gentoo should not offer such GUIs so |
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>> that the user can learn and not become clueless. |
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>> So congratulations. You've learned. It's funny though how the users |
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>> that were against introducing GUIs to Gentoo now complain about HAL :P |
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> My complaint was about having a system with basically no keyboard. I |
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> had to unplug mine without a proper shutdown. That is my complaint. It |
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> should at least have a fall back or something. Heck, running xorgconfig |
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> again would have been better than this mess. I wonder if that would |
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> work? I do recall at one time that the GUI would not start if no mouse |
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> was found. Wonder what happened there? |
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> No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a |
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> working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. Nether is a |
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> good option. I bought a nice UPS to prevent this sort of mess. |
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> Dale |
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I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it |
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when my keyboard became dead. |
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