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To: =?gb2312?q?x=20li?= <xli987@yahoo.com.cn> From: <bear@pagansexcult.org> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] changing lilo.conf in SuseLinux8.0 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:08:17 -0700 (PDT) On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, [gb2312] x li wrote: > Hi, > > I had a problem that Suse8.0 always goes to text mode > after installation. So I changed, in lilo.conf vga=773 > and next time it boots into KDE3.0 graphic window. But > when I use Control center trying to change the display > settings, next time reboot, it goes back to text mode > again and no matter what value in lilo.conf's vga= > lie, any suggestions on how to go back to graphic mode > ? Your basic problem is that SuSE's setup tools are too obtrusive. You are changing lilo.conf directly, rather than doing it through their tools, and your preferences aren't being recorded in whatever setup file their tools use. Therefore, whenever you do something through control center that causes the SuSE setup tools to touch lilo.conf, they regenerate it - without your hand changes. I don't know your exact problem in terms of which tool or what file, because I don't use lilo on my system. But I've observed this "obtrusive" property with the SuSE setup tools in many many places. I wound up uninstalling most of SuSE's setup and control center stuff in order to get them to leave my damn config files alone! In your case, I'd read the man page on the "attrib" command and then use it on lilo.conf in the appropriate way to prevent anything from overwriting it. Of course, that means you will not be able to make lilo changes through the control center, nor through anything else for that matter, without first unprotecting that file. Otherwise, your choices are digging through the HTML/PHP/Apache "Help" system, SuSEhilf, to try to find out what tool or file you need to change so that the overeager SuSE tools are aware that you *want* that line in lilo.conf and don't overwrite it next time. Don't get me wrong, I like SuSE. I like its completeness and integration, and the setup tools are helpful when you're first installing and setting up. But once you start tweaking and tuning, or if they're fundamentally wrong about something and you can't convince them to just go with the config you want, they just have to go. SuSE created a nice help facility too, but they didn't have the decency to write it as man pages. Instead, they set it up in HTML/PHP, so "man" and "apropos" can't see it. But whatever. That's a rant for a different day. Good luck.... Bear ===