Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?

Martin Gregorie wrote:

I've since found a couple more snags:
- with SELinux enabled the Network Configuration tool and the taskbar
applet seemed to fight and I was unable to configure or enable ETH0.
Disabling SELinux fixed that.

Aargh! SELinux! I always completely disable it at the first opportunity.

- The default AC power management settings cause a warning that closing
the lid won't stop the machine and it may fry itself.
It doesn't matter whether I set the AC lid closed action to Suspend or
Hibernate - the effect is the same - the machine beeps three times and
fails to shut down, though the screen does lock.

I've never seen it. But i don't really understand how you can see it if the lid's closed, anyway! Unless, of course, you're using an external display.

Has anybody else seen this? If so, has it been bugged?
By the time I found this I'd run a yum update, so this applies to a
fully updated copy of F9. I haven't yet installed anything nonstandard,
e.g. my own stuff and Sun's Java, or switched from sendmail to Postfix.

I occasionally close the lid on my laptop while it's running, but i've never seen anything like that. I just did it then, after i typed that sentence - and no sign of any warning. However, i always have lid closing set to do nothing.

On a different point, you'll may find that screen brightness keys don't work - but you can change screen brightness in the power management dialog.



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