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Any ideas on how to do this? I tried installing the Flash plugin from Firefox, and it told me it doesn't support x86_64 yet.

I googled for it, and found a forum that claimed you could do it, but I didn't understand the instructions - it was something about compiling from source but it didn't sound as simple as that.

Before I try and decipher their post, can anyone save me time by telling me a much easier way to do it? Any advice would be gladly appreciated.

It's one of the few things I haven't got working yet. I've got TV Card, sound card, printer, bluetooth dongle, MP3 player, gAIM, and a few other things working.

mmm, is that all? That's odd that it would fail like that, there is no error there, only a warning. Could you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

X Window System Version 6.8.1
Release Date: 17 September 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.1
Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE
Current Operating System: Linux host-172-17-2-190 2.6.8-24.10-default #1 Wed Dec 22 11:54:27 UTC 2004 x86_64
Build Date: 17 December 2004
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Mar 10 15:07:57 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from list!

waiting for X server to shut down

You need to get to a console prompt without the X-server running. There are three methods I can think of that you might be able to use.

1. Some kind of boot option. Do you get a grub/lilo screen before Linux boots that lets you select what Operating System to load? If so, does this have an option to boot to text-mode only?

2. At the login screen, there is often an Options/Menu/Sessions button that lets you select what Session to run. Does this have any kind of option to login to a text prompt only?

3. Make sure you've got no unsaved work open, then press ctrl+alt+backspace to nuke your X-server. Does it restart? If it does drop you back at the graphical login, press ctrl + alt + F2 - this should switch you to another login prompt, this time text-based. Login to this as root, then type the following:

ps aux | grep X

This will produce a couple of lines of output (if it produces more than a couple of lines, look for something that vaguelly resembles the line below) - what you have searched for here is any running process with "X" in the name, ps being the Linux text-based equivalent of Windows task-manager. One of these lines will be the grep process (look at the end of the line for the process name), the other should be the X server. Look on the X-server line - the first item in the line is the process owner (root), the second is the process id. This is my X-server line from "ps aux | grep X"

root 7669 0.7 6.9 45340 35732 ? SL Mar08 16:28 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-U53oj0 vt7

My x-server is running with process id 7669. Once you have isolated the process id, kill it. I'd type this:

kill 7669

Hopefully your x-server won't restart itself. If it does, I'm not sure what to do :0/








Right, so assuming you've got to a text-based login without an x-server running in the background, login as your normal user (not root), and type:

startx > ~/x-output.txt

Hopefully, this will start the X server, which will crash and dump all it's output in x-output.txt in your user's home directory. In the unlikely event that you get this far without something going catastrophically wrong, post it in a reply here :0) If it's too big to be posted here, you can email it to [email protected]

EDIT: two more points - you will probably need to write some of these instructions down before trying to follow them (or print them out)! Also I doubt this is the best way to go about trying to fix your problems, so if someone else has another idea you will probably want to try that first :]

I haven't installed the Flash plugin. This is the output I get:

linux:~ # ls -al /var/log
total 4809
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1120 Mar 10 09:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 424 Mar 8 14:43 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55626 Mar 2 11:49 SaX.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 26 16:40 XFree86.0.log -> Xorg.0.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 26 16:40 XFree86.0.log.old -> Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39091 Mar 10 10:33 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38787 Mar 10 09:10 Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47387 Feb 27 14:09 Xorg.1.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38799 Mar 10 09:02 Xorg.1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38799 Mar 10 09:01 Xorg.1.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53294 Feb 26 21:11 Xorg.99.log
drwx------ 2 root root 512 Mar 9 11:34 YaST2
-rw-r----- 1 root root 6552 Mar 10 09:10 acpid
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 144 Dec 7 12:39 apache2
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Feb 26 16:47 boot.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27708 Mar 10 09:10 boot.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31028 Mar 10 09:08 boot.omsg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 592 Feb 26 16:47 convert_for_getconfig.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 136 Mar 2 12:13 cups
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 592057 Feb 26 22:21 evms-engine.1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 589530 Feb 26 22:22 evms-engine.log
-rw------- 1 root root 2400 Feb 27 08:54 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76842 Mar 10 10:33 kdm.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root tty 292292 Mar 10 09:12 lastlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194 Mar 9 11:36 localmessages
-rw-r----- 1 root root 49499 Mar 10 09:10 mail
-rw-r----- 1 root root 569 Mar 2 14:37 mail.err
-rw-r----- 1 root root 49499 Mar 10 09:10 mail.info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 35375 Mar 10 09:10 mail.warn
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 26 21:15 mcelog
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1716688 Mar 10 10:37 messages
drwxr-x--- 2 news news 136 Feb 26 16:47 news
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 26 17:17 ntp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Dec 20 16:20 samba
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26880 Mar 9 17:59 scpm
drwxr-x--- 2 root dialout 48 Dec 7 12:05 smpppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1231237 Mar 10 10:37 warn
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root tty 73728 Mar 10 10:37 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13683 Mar 9 11:30 wtmp-20050309.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Feb 27 14:09 xvt

So did this problem only start happening after you installed the flash plugin? If you do "ls -al /var/log", what is the output?

It's a graphics based login, but with no indication of errors.

I'm logged in as root at the moment, so I can dump any file you need.

Also, I found something on the KDE web site about replacing a file with a link to another one: [URL]http://dot.kde.org/1029735436/1030123520/1032278454/[/URL]

I renamed the file in question to .bak and created a link. This gave me some kind of error messages at bootup regarding a USB2 device, something network related, a poweroff error, and a few more - loads of lines of messages though.

It sounds like the X-server is crashing - is there any kind of error message produced? Is the login screen you're being dumped at text-based or graphics-based?

EDIT: how are you managing to post on the internet, from your root login or from another PC? (so if I were to ask you to paste the content of a file, would you be able to do so?)

OK, this isn't Flash related but I didn't want to start another thread about Linux.

It won't work. I shutdown the computer last night, turned it on this morning, and it asked me to login. I have it set to autologin so that seemed odd. But I put my normal username+password in, hit Login, the screen went black for a second or so, then it brought me back to the login screen again.

I can log in to root fine. I tried logging in to root and switching users, nothing. Any thoughts? I need this PC today - a lot of work due in this afternoon!!!

I thought Linux was meant to be more stable, but this isn't the first time something has crashed.

Nimco wrote:
> 1) When I install programs and it asks for an installation path,
> where should I choose. It was easy on Windows - C:\Program
> Files\\

Hm, this is something of a philosophical question where linux is concerned. :) Typically /usr/local/ is where you're meant to install most stuff. If you're really interested in such things, [URL]http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/index.html[/URL] tells you about what the various directories should be used for.

> 2) Is there a shortcut to switch desktops by number rather than just
> Ctrl+Tab - e.g. Win+5 to go to Desktop 5 or something. I have 6
> desktops and it takes a while flicking between with Ctrl+Tab and I
> don't like using the mouse.

You're using KDE? ctrl + f1-f12. You should try googling for kde keyboard shortcuts, theres alot, eg [URL]http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/2289.html[/URL]

I'll give that a try at some stage.

Two quickies:

1) When I install programs and it asks for an installation path, where should I choose. It was easy on Windows - C:\Program Files\\

2) Is there a shortcut to switch desktops by number rather than just Ctrl+Tab - e.g. Win+5 to go to Desktop 5 or something. I have 6 desktops and it takes a while flicking between with Ctrl+Tab and I don't like using the mouse.