Monitor woes (was: Installfest was great)

[Christopher Reid Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999 bob@math.umn.edu wrote:

> > Have you done a search on dejanews.com yet?
> 
> Yesterday, and "creatively."  This gave me a good modeline and eventually a 
> good set of frequencies.  Now it shows KDE and the tube has not exploded 
> yet.  I'm sure some of you would expect the CRT to fry just from seeing
> KDE ...

Hey, that's great!!


> > > Thanks for everyone's help.  It's a real thrill to have my home machine 
> > > under linux even without X.  
> > 
> > yay! :)
> 
> Now on to the modem, PPP/SLIP, and all that.

That's always exciting stuff. You're running SuSE, right? YaST can do that
stuff pretty easily, no fuss.


> BTW, I thought I would run fsck.  It however gave a frightening message
> about it being a bad idea to do fsck -A on a drive which already has a
> fs.  This never used to happen in SunOS4.1.3u, and is a bit alarming.
> Clearly I am missing something.  The manpages do not warn against this.
> Should this message be ignored like so many others?

Why do you want to run fsck? It's usually only run after something bad
happens to your filesystem, never just for fun.

> Ferventer Vestite

heh


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