Hi, When trying to debug a system, you should consider the simplest things first. Is your keyboard faulty? Is the keyboard cable plugged in properly. Checking the simple things first can go a long way to solving the problem. t. On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 05:58, MeMySelf&I wrote: > Greetings from the land of the lost within Red Hat v8.0. I recently > purchased a copy of "Red Hat Linux® 8 for Dummies" by Jon Hall and Paul > Sery published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. The CD's that came with the > book would NOT work, could NOT boot from them because the IMG file was > NOT there. Requested info from Wiley and they said it would be e-mailed > to me, well it never arrived. I contacted Red Hat by telephone and they > gave me a location on the web to find the data needed to create a boot > disc. I did and now am having trouble with the system NOT wanting to > display messages in Ximian Evolution because I have changed the Font for > my system. The print was too small so I increased the size and changed > to Century Bookmark 11, 12, 14, and then back to 8, 9, and then 10. > Finally set Luxi San 8 and my messages would show again but the Headers > are NOT showing. Plus my root access works but when I use Terminal for > command line access the 'Space Bar' will NOT move the cursor so am > unable to move around, then finally the letters stopped appearing, so I > reinstalled from my CD's. Was able to do some work as root but later my > 'Space Bar' again stopped working. I can get some things done from my > user access and then doing the 'su' access. Some times my clicking > on the RedHat icon to logout or select another function will NOT give me > a drop down menu, the keyboard will NOT even work using 'Ctrl+Alt+Bksp' > nor 'Crtl+Alt+Dlt', cannot even logout nor shut down the system. The > only thing that would work is the UGH!! 'Reset Button' on the chassis. > Have NOT been able to find any 'User Groups' for NEWBYS or Dumbies like > myself. Enough of this, should I just remove the system and go back to > UGH!!! WindBlows? I hate MicroBarf. Any guidance would be of great > assistance. I am NOT a programmer, but do like working with this > system. > > I know most of the subscribers to this list are much farther advanced > than myself, but; what is a NEWBY to do? > > 'd' -- Chism's Law of Completion: The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
