On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:28:28AM -0800, alan brown wrote: > So my question is, How can I use the keyboard to kill X-Windows (as my > mouse is dead)? ctrl-alt-backspace should kill X and return you to the command line. > And while I'm at it, how can I truly shut down linux. Because I am not > offered that option from the login page. Isn't there some simple set of > keystrokes that will tell linux to shutdown from anywhere like > ctrl-alt-delete does in Windows? Run 'shutdown -h now' as root. > Help is appreciated as I'm a recent windows convert and I'm struggling > to process the linux functionality through my expectation of windows > functionality. Linux is more complicated, but it does have a weird sort of logic (usually). Once you get into the 'linux' way of things, it'll get a lot easier. F'r instance, whenever I want to configure some package on my machine, I go poking around in the /etc/packagename directory, and read through the documentation in /usr/share/doc/packagename/. On windows, however, I'm lost. You should have seen me try to increase the PPP dialup timeout today... On a more general note, 'apt-get install discover read-edid mdetect', followed by a 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86' _should_ get X working for you. The discover package should sniff out your video card successfully (if it's recent-ish, anyhow) and mdetect and read-edid should be able to figure out your mouse and monitor, respectively. -rob
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