Re: Linux stops working

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On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:31 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Bruce Byfield wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-27-08 at 12:30 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> >   
> >>     I have Googled for nVIDIA and found not much. Tried nVIDIA, Linux 
> >> and found some things but not what I am looking for. All about nVIDIA 
> >> drivers which work on Windows but not Linux. Will try software pointer.
> >>     
> >
> > It took me about two minutes to find the reference. 
> >
> > The solution is to add the line
> >
> > Option "HWCursor" "false"
> >
> > to the section of xorg.conf that defines the video card.
> >
> > I don't know whether that works, though. I'm just going to test it.
> >
> > Meanwhile, as an extreme kludge, keep moving the mouse as you login. I
> > find that that works.
> >
> >   
>     It took me about 2 minutes to find the place in xorg.conf which is 
> real short in this computer and added the proper words 8-)
> 
>     Tomorrow I should have the big RAM cards and they will go in with 
> this hard drive and with luck it will work. Assuming the best I will 
> then be on the new computer with this F7. I will then order a SATA hard 
> drive and learn if dd will let me copy this F7 complete to the new hard 
> drive. That is the long range plan. Then the new computer will be New :-)

Uh, "dd" won't give you a functional system.  It will perform a byte-
for-byte copy and unless the source and target disks are identical, will
absolutely NOT work.  You will need to run a "ghost"-like program to do
that or boot the old disk, partition the new disk the way you want and
do something really nasty like "cp -a" from the top level of each
partition of the old disk to the corresponding partition on the new.

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