Linux stops working
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Mon Aug 27 19:50:09 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:31 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Bruce Byfield wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-27-08 at 12:30 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I have Googled for nVIDIA and found not much. Tried nVIDIA, Linux
> >> and found some things but not what I am looking for. All about nVIDIA
> >> drivers which work on Windows but not Linux. Will try software pointer.
> >>
> >
> > It took me about two minutes to find the reference.
> >
> > The solution is to add the line
> >
> > Option "HWCursor" "false"
> >
> > to the section of xorg.conf that defines the video card.
> >
> > I don't know whether that works, though. I'm just going to test it.
> >
> > Meanwhile, as an extreme kludge, keep moving the mouse as you login. I
> > find that that works.
> >
> >
> It took me about 2 minutes to find the place in xorg.conf which is
> real short in this computer and added the proper words 8-)
>
> Tomorrow I should have the big RAM cards and they will go in with
> this hard drive and with luck it will work. Assuming the best I will
> then be on the new computer with this F7. I will then order a SATA hard
> drive and learn if dd will let me copy this F7 complete to the new hard
> drive. That is the long range plan. Then the new computer will be New :-)
Uh, "dd" won't give you a functional system. It will perform a byte-
for-byte copy and unless the source and target disks are identical, will
absolutely NOT work. You will need to run a "ghost"-like program to do
that or boot the old disk, partition the new disk the way you want and
do something really nasty like "cp -a" from the top level of each
partition of the old disk to the corresponding partition on the new.
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