[Lazarus] TurboPower OnGuard changes

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:

>> In the past days I had to replace my old CRT, and now I have left no 
>> working Linux, only Vista made the change without problems. SuSE 10.3 
>> has lost its X configuration, 11.2 probably caused more damage to all 
>> Linux drives with disk "checks" (and repairs), now doesn't find its 
>> kernel any more, Ubuntu cannot use the second monitor any more, and 
>> Kubuntu looses the desktop configuration on every new boot :-(
> 
> 
> All that by replacing your monitor???  Wow, that must be some special
> monitor. :-)

I turned out to be a combined me-monitor-driver-X11 problem. The new 
screen is bigger than the old one, so that the system fell back into 
single-monitor mode. Afterwards I managed to damage my xorg.conf, 
supported by the nVidia driver, and on [K]Ubuntu by "parsing" errors 
before writing back the config. The latter problems make [K]Ubuntu 
useless for now, though these work better with the rest of my hardware, 
and have much faster application management than SuSE has.


> The workstations, I prefer not to "upgrade", but rather reinstall when a
> new stable Ubuntu is releases. For Ubuntu desktop, I normally use every
> second release (every six months is to quick for me). I always split my
> hard drive into 4 partitions (/, /home, /opt, swap) and when I reinstall I
> backup the 'etc' directory first, then format the '/' partition and
> reinstall. So all my custom installed software like FPC, Lazarus, MSEide
> etc live in /opt so they are not affected at all. All my custom settings,
> data, source code etc are in /home, and is not affected either. So a
> reinstall is a 30 minute job and I'm up and running like I was before with
> all my previous applications intact. Config settings are restored very
> easily from my backed-up 'etc', if the new Ubuntu install did not detect
> them automatically.

Nice, but I also have a problem in identifying all my partitions. Having 
5 systems on my machine, and several shared partitions, I'm looking for 
giving them unique names, visible from every (Linux) system, but don't 
know how to do that :-(

DoDi