Re: Newbie Questions
Hi Chuck,
--- "C. Brewer" <cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> wrote:
>
> I found the a few site on setting up te true-type
> windows fonts, but this
> covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon
> fonts?
>
> Anti-aliasing fonts and icons (through KDE), do I
> need it? What is the
> purpose? And if it's a good thing,where to find
> simple info? The technical
> advice on many subjects often leaves me bewildered:(
>
> Also noted that my system does not power down on
> halt. I changed my prefs in
> KDE to use /sbin/poweroff instead of /sbin/halt.
> After reading the man pages
> on poweroff, halt and reboot, I am left even more
> confused. The man pages say
> that when halt or poweroff is called from other than
> runlevels 0 or 6, it
> invokes shutdown instead. I have tried,as root and
> user to /sbin/halt -p,
> /sbin/poweroff and just plain poweroff, all ending
> with the system going
> through the halt process and stopping with the
> message : Power Down, without
> actually killing the power. Looking in my
> /etc/init.d/ I see the halt and
> reboot scripts, but I am lacking the equivalent for
> poweroff. Is this the
> problem, and if so, how do I remedy this?
In your etc/lilo.conf you need to add to the
append="apm=on" After you make that entry you need to
type lilo in the terminal to maje sure that you update
the lilo.conf file. Then when you power down your
system it should turn off. I always use as su
'shutdown -h now'
HTH
Don
>
> I know this is probably basic for the list, but i'm
> trying:(
> - --
> Chuck Brewer
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