Shutdown trouble Slackware 12
If I don't startx I can switch to virtual consoles and reboot or shutdown my Slackware 12 laptop without a hitch. After starting X I cannot shutdown, logoff, reboot, or swap to another virtual console. I am currently using KDE and if I select 'log out' via the menu
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'ctlr-alt-backspace' or 'shutdown -r now', or 'shutdown -h now' I don't know if the virtual consoles is related or not but I thought I should mention it. I am currently using vesa driver. Thanks for you time. |
What chipset have you got, does your fullscreen console use
framebuffer? Cheers, Tink |
This is a junker laptop I mess around with it's an old Compaq Presario 700.
The motherboard chipset is a VIA VT8364(A) Apollo KL133(a) / BT8365(A) ProSavage KM133, with a S3 Graphics Twister K Compaq (16MB). edit/ Sorry, how do I tell if I am using 'fullscreen console framebuffer'. I did a search but I still don't know how to tell. |
Do you get a little tux in the top left corner when you boot? :)
Cheers, Tink |
No little tux a boot.
Thanks, |
When you set-up lilo, did you explicitly choose not to
have frame-buffer mode enabled? Cheers, Tink |
I like grub better so that is what I am using.
/edit Here are the commands that were auto configured: Code:
title Slackware 12 (/dev/hda7) |
Is there some basic method to help track down the problem I am having here I don't even know where to begin.
I looked in /var/log/syslog: and found a few things that look amiss but couldn't find out how to fix them. Code:
kernel: vt596+smbus 0000:000"07.4: smbus: error: host smbus controller not enabled: upgrade BIOS or use force-l I believe I am using the latest BIOS but I will double check. "...-EEXIST..." Sounds like Kde is not quite configured correctly? Also, because of the black screen lockup I always have to press and hold the power button to get a reboot. I am worried that one of these times it will hose my system! Maybe I should go back to 10.2 because I don't remember any of these issues with that version. Also, I think Slackware 10.2 was quite a bit more responsive on this old clunker, but I havent done any testing to prove it. Thanks for you help so far. |
All those -EEXIST messages are from using the huge-smp kernel. After installation it's recommended that you change to the generic-smp kernel.
See the README.initrd in /boot. |
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