prolly dumb questions?

[Net Llama!]

  On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 14:28 -0700, Bob Hemus wrote:
>> Folks, when I turn on and boot into any distro and the program loads on
>> the screen, how do I get it to slow down or even stop and restart so's
>> I can see what's wrong?  Same thing when I log off.  Also, when I
>> shutdown with the GUI, right click -> log out "bob" on my SuSE 10.1 it
>> is SLOW.   When I go to a su - terminal and <shutdown-h now> it goes
>> down quickly.  This doesn't cause any harm, I hope?

no.  a shutdown is a shutdown, it doesn't matter from where.  Its not 
slow, its just that Suse is mildly retarded, and masks the shutdown 
process if performed from within X, so it seems like nothing is happening 
for a while.

>>
>> Next ones;  When I was goofing around with the Xserver I some how
>> screwed something up so I get these two messages on my first open
>> window.

SuSE-10.1 has XGL turned on by default, i believe.  As a result you must 
have the composite extension available to X or all hell breaks lose.  I'd 
suggest using yast, or wtf tool suse is using these days to configure X to 
fix the mess.  SuSE manages to produce some of the ugliest, most 
convoluted xorg.conf files i've ever sen.

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