Well sort of. Looks like I have to hold down <cntrl-Alt-F7> for a handful or so seconds and there is X. Guess the other times I tried this I was too impatient. Some sort of timing problem that I end up in the wrong display.... Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Bart Schaefer wrote: >> On 6/13/07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >>> It seems to be a timing problem. And I do not know what else. >> >> This sounds similar to something I encountered after first installing >> CentOS5.0 on my pavilion laptop. See thread "CentOS 5: GDM starts, >> but console doesn't switch VTs" (which isn't really a thread, as no >> one replied to me either). It rarely happens now that I've installed >> all the updates, but does still happen occasionally. > I will look for it. I am all current on updates other than for BIND > and OpenOffice (that I want to grab 2.1 from their site, not the 2.0 > update from the repo). >> Have you tried pressing Alt-F7 after you get the text console prompt? > Didn't do anything. When I run top, I don't see X. I am pretty sure > it crashed and burned. >> I'm also a tad puzzled by why you keep resorting to pulling out the >> battery. Holding the power button down for 6-10 seconds doesn't get >> you powered off so that on the next power-on it does a full restart? >> I've never had to remove a laptop battery except when it needed >> replacing because it wouldn't hold a charge. > Not on my HP Compaq NC4010. No matter what I do with the settings, If > I get wedged, the power button is just a pretty decoration. >> In your earlier post you said: >> >>> > I have tried to mount that drive via a USB connector, but >>> automount is >>> > not handling it, and I don't know how to start working out >>> mounting it >>> > manually. >> >> Does that mean that some part of your CentOS install is on an external >> USB drive? In my not-very-extensive experience with running CentOS on >> laptops, suspend and especially hibernate does not work unless all the >> essential components (/etc, /boot, and so on) are on the internal hard >> drive. Perhaps that's just a RedHat shortcoming, or perhaps someone >> else can explain workarounds. (May need a new thread to get anyone's >> attention.) > No. I did the Centos 5 on a new drive. This way I could make sure > everything worked before messing with my production environment. I > was careful to name all the LVM units something different from my 4.5 > drive, but when I put the drive in the USB interface thing, other that > the drive spinning up, I could not see anything to indicate a USB > drive available. And I have done the kernel change to support > multiple drives in a USB device. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >