[Novalug] Ubuntu: new motherboard

[Bryan J. Smith]

Oh yeah, good catch.  Is this an UPS plugged into a USB port?

I guess that could generate some sort of ACPI message, although I'm
inclined to think it might be the on-mainboard battery for the CMOS.
At least that would explain the issue when you changed mainboards,
whereas the new SiS chipset mainboard with its various sensors doesn't
support the old driver from the old mainboard (likely different chipset).


----- Original Message ----
From: jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com>

dumb question on the battery,
are you running an UPS?

I'm getting on icon on the fedora login
screen now, on a DESKTOP
machine, so depends on how they
define battery?

hth, but probably doesn't just another
way of looking at it...


On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> I was under the assumption that X wasn't coming up for him with the
> old driver.  ;)  So Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't work there.
>
> Typically when X won't start, you're either ...
>
> 1)  Not running X at all (hence X, startx, etc... is used), or
>
> 2)  The Display Manager failed, but is still running
>   (hence killall -1 gdm-binary to reload GDM config and force respawn)
>
>
> P.S.  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and even Ctrl-Alt-Del are also being trapped by
> more and more distros out-of-the-box for various reasons.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Megan Larko <larkoc at iges.org>
>
> There is also CTL-ALT-Backspace to back out of X window mode.
> One may also just change init levels i.e.  "init 3".>
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