On Monday 23 June 2003 07:59, Peter Evans wrote:
NB: I'm a clueless newbie.
OK, if you press ctrl-alt-F10, you'll see a text screen with some messages on it.
So I can. Wow!
(You can press alt-F7 to get back you your desktop.) Can you switch to that screen, plug in the flash drive, and tell us what the messages are?
All very reassuring: it decided that SCSI device sda1 was there. Sho' 'nuff, Alt-F7 got me to the desktop and I could then mount, use, and unmount the device. It's working. (I'll give thanks or pay penance by providing freedb.org with the details of at least one more Latvian CD.)
Just remember to unmount before pulling it out, or data-loss can occur.
I don't know what went wrong yesterday: I don't think that an icon appeared for sda1.
In the 'Behaviour' part of the desktop settings you can configure whether KDE shows these icons or not.
On the other hand, yesterday was so full of SuSEgnUlinuxKDE frustrations that I was becoming slightly deranged.
Is there a name for the condition the system's in after I've pressed Ctrl-Alt-F10? (Is it perhaps in something-or-other "mode"?) If I know what it's called, I can attempt to read a bit about it.
It's one of the 'consoles'. F1-F6 will each give you a text console to use, F7 is the graphical desktop, F10 is the message log. You need to use ctrl-alt-Fx to get from KDE to any other, but only alt-Fx to switch from a text console. HTH Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg