Ubuntu 8.04 live CD refuses to cooperate
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| Author | Content |
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| Steven_Rosenber Apr 25, 2008 2:03 PM EDT |
OK ... I thought it was crashing ... but the screen just STOPS MOVING for five minutes or so. It needs a message like "Ubuntu (a friendly guy/gal/entity) is examining your system ... please wait." File the topic of this thread under "false alarm" X is starting now ... ... it's reformatting my partition -- aside from the five-minute screen freeze, things are going smoother than when I used the 8.04 beta. When windows open, they kind of "zap" in -- that's a new one for me, and I don't know otherwise how to describe it. ... now installing. ... install done ... /etc/rc.local giving me trouble (won't run a line I need to manage the cpu fan) ... I think I've got it now (system created a backup of rc.local that's confusing the startup scripts) ... doing a suspend/resume test now. If this works ... ... it appears that suspend/resume is working. That's a first for this laptop (Gateway Solo 1450). ... OK, so it doesn't exactly resume ... and I still can't figure out why rc.local isn't doing what I want it to do ... but it's a start. |
| Scott_Ruecker Apr 25, 2008 4:12 PM EDT |
Steve? I want you to take a deep breath.. Slow down.. Relax.. ;-) |
| Steven_Rosenber Apr 25, 2008 5:13 PM EDT |
I had to write a script to get ACPI managing the fan. First time I had to do that. The line I had in /etc/rc.local is: echo 3 > /proc/acpi/fan/FAN0/state the system refused to execute it from rc.local ... so I wrote a script called "fan" (made it executable and all that) that included the very same line of code and replaced it in /etc/rc.local with: /usr/local/bin/fan That worked ... Now I'm wondering why the Ubuntu repositories don't include the Childsplay game. A 4-year-old's wrath will be upon me if I don't get it on the box. |
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