New to Arch couple quick questions

boorishid · 2010-04-21 08:42:38

Hi first let me say i love arch im glad i found it! I havent used linux in about 3 years but ive been on and off with it since 99, the last distro i was on was gentoo.

Im running on a netbook as my primary computer now to be exact an asus eee1001p. I have a couple quick questions some of this stuff are things ive never had to deal with in the past so i just dont know how to solve the problems or where to look..

First thing that bugs me is when i type 'shutdown now', the system throws me into single user mode. Does anyone have any clue why this may be? I have never had an issue with shutdown not acually shutting the system down, reboot works just fine.

I set up some space for linux becuase i like to code and right now i really want to learn assembly, and low level c without librarys. I am very intrested in OS dev and maybe even working on the android or linux kernel a bit! So i need my CLI to be perfect! I acually chose arch so i would force myself to relearn the CLI only way of linux. When i ran pacman -Syu it changed my sceen res in the CLI. As soon as boot up says loading modules the screen res changes. Im pretty sure its 1024x600 its just the type is a bit small for my taste. When i looked in rc.conf ndiswrapper was the only module im loading. So exactly how do i mess with all the vga CLI stuff?

Last question gpm is on my system if i add to rc.conf should my touchpad work in the CLI?

Ber · 2010-04-21 08:48:58

For shutdown, you have to use the -h option to actually halt the system : http://linux.die.net/man/8/shutdown

I guess your framebuffer resolution "issue" is somewhat KMS-related. Do you have an intel or ATI GPU? Look for KMS in the wiki

gpm : I guess, that's pretty easy to try...

Perry3D · 2010-04-21 09:08:41

I think you have an intel card. So KMS is changing your resolution automaticly. If the fonts are too small for you, i propose to change them and not the resolution: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Console_fonts

flamelab · 2010-04-21 09:22:26

For shutting down, prefer "poweroff".

boorishid · 2010-04-21 09:30:13

Thanks wow that was really quick.. I will read up on KMS i have an intel 950 chip.

I tried just running gpm that didnt seem to give me any mousing abilities.

reed9 · 2010-04-21 14:57:03

boorishid wrote:

Thanks wow that was really quick.. I will read up on KMS i have an intel 950 chip.
I tried just running gpm that didnt seem to give me any mousing abilities.

Did you edit /etc/conf.d/gpm appropriately?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … se_Support

archman-cro · 2010-04-21 15:00:30

flamelab wrote:

For shutting down, prefer "poweroff".

What's the difference between poweroff and shutdown -h commands? Why do you prefer it?

flamelab · 2010-04-21 15:05:03

archman-cro wrote:

flamelab wrote:
For shutting down, prefer "poweroff".
What's the difference between poweroff and shutdown -h commands? Why do you prefer it?

It's being used in rc.shutdown script

archman-cro · 2010-04-21 17:46:33

Hmm, so "poweroff" does all the process termination before powering off? Isn't "shutdown -h" doing the same thing?

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