Linux stops working

[Karl Larsen]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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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>   
    Thanks. I have used cp -a many times before and it always worked. I 
will forget dd and keep using cp -a.

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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