Stapper
02-17-2005, 06:53 PM
Hey Folks,
I don't want to insult anybody, but I had a very weird experience just now. I'm running Knoppix (3.7?) and was listening to some cds on XMMS. CD x finished playing, so I inserted X+1, added the tracks to the playlist and clicked on play - business as usual thus far. Well, some seconds later I discovered that the mouse pointer was frozen. And so was everything else. I tried Ctl-Tab to change desktops. Nothing. I tried Ctl-Alt-F1 to go to console login. Nothing. In the meantime the 1st track on the cd (Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, if you wanted to know) was playing. But when it ended, that was it. Track 2 did not play. Btw, while track 1 was playing, the XMMS display was not being updated (you know, time left, track name, etc.).
Anyhoo, I realised that this problem was beyond my limited capabilitiesd and, like a good ol' windows (what's the ASCII code for that trademark thingy?) user, I hit the reset button and sat back, waiting for the problem to "disappear". Well I usually boot into the graphical login, but this time it took me to the console login. No sweat, GRUB offers me three options (Linux, Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.6), so I picked another option and booted. But, lo, I ended at the text login once again. No sweat, got one option left, reboot time (good ol' windows, eh)!
Except that this option didn't boot. Started booting and, about two seconds later, started hanging. Ain't nothing happening here, move along folks.
So I rebooted again and waddayaknow? Booted right into the graphical login... Go figure...
So, if anybody has had a similar experience or if anybody can state categorically that this is "an undocumented feature", please post something to that effect, because it's got me worried - if I wanted this kind of behaviour, I would have stuck with windows.
Cheers
Joe
I don't want to insult anybody, but I had a very weird experience just now. I'm running Knoppix (3.7?) and was listening to some cds on XMMS. CD x finished playing, so I inserted X+1, added the tracks to the playlist and clicked on play - business as usual thus far. Well, some seconds later I discovered that the mouse pointer was frozen. And so was everything else. I tried Ctl-Tab to change desktops. Nothing. I tried Ctl-Alt-F1 to go to console login. Nothing. In the meantime the 1st track on the cd (Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, if you wanted to know) was playing. But when it ended, that was it. Track 2 did not play. Btw, while track 1 was playing, the XMMS display was not being updated (you know, time left, track name, etc.).
Anyhoo, I realised that this problem was beyond my limited capabilitiesd and, like a good ol' windows (what's the ASCII code for that trademark thingy?) user, I hit the reset button and sat back, waiting for the problem to "disappear". Well I usually boot into the graphical login, but this time it took me to the console login. No sweat, GRUB offers me three options (Linux, Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.6), so I picked another option and booted. But, lo, I ended at the text login once again. No sweat, got one option left, reboot time (good ol' windows, eh)!
Except that this option didn't boot. Started booting and, about two seconds later, started hanging. Ain't nothing happening here, move along folks.
So I rebooted again and waddayaknow? Booted right into the graphical login... Go figure...
So, if anybody has had a similar experience or if anybody can state categorically that this is "an undocumented feature", please post something to that effect, because it's got me worried - if I wanted this kind of behaviour, I would have stuck with windows.
Cheers
Joe