Just installed 8.5 and I'm nowhere close to an linux expert.. maybe a level 2 beginner.

Reboot, shutdown, logout do not work. It closes my apps, leaves the desktop and I get a hang on a black screen.. a few clicks of the harddrive, then nothing.

I have no idea where to go with this. I did take some recommendations from other threads and try to uncomment some lines in the adduser.conf file that made sure my user was in the dialout, cdrom, etc groups.. Also made sure the sudoers file is good and that shutdown/reboot commands were fine in the preferences file.

What else can I do?

One thing I've noticed (this is an old notebook BTW) is that the monitor is recognized as default and the video card (Ati rage) is using the vesa driver.. not sure if I can do any better here -- although I was able to successfully add the 1440x1050 resolution and it works.

Help?

Try typing sudo reboot or sudo halt in a terminal

Same thing... Tried sudo reboot. -- black screen hang.

Try setting the DefaultDepth to 24 or less in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Or reconfiguring it with either in a terminal

# buildxconfig

or out of X (Ctrl Alt F1 or reboot and add 3 when in boot menu)

Xorg -configure

Or delete the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (make a backup) and see if that works better

Ok.. weird - At the very start, it would not go higher than 800x600.

I was shooting for 1440x1050, which is/was still not showing as an available resolution (I added it next to all the depths in xorg.conf).. but it set itself to 1280x1024, an upgrade, which I do not see declared anywhere. Weird.

Anyway, default depth is 16 bit. Again - where it got 1280x1024? no clue. Tried to do xres=1440x1050, still went to 1280x1024 -- so a new issue.

Ctrl+Alt+F1 also gives me the black screen hang, so I removed xorg.conf (made a backup). Miraculously, on boot, it is now seenig 1440x1050. Maybe some updates I did after installing helped something somewhere?? No idea. It did not remake xorg.conf, which I expected it to.. again, maybe normal. You tell me.

Anyway. It now seems solved, except on reboot, I now get an"antiX1 login: prompt"... and am unable to type anything. It sits there for about 30 seconds, then finally reboots.

Is this correct? Seems slow in the new res. I try to run xorg -Configure, but get a Server is already active for display 0 error. Tried to remove the lock file, but still doesn't work.

Another problem I'm having is that when I drop to Ctrl+Alt+F1 now, the keyboard intermittently does not respond...

Ok the keyboard intermittent issue comes and goes, and I did not get the same Xorg error the last I tried it.. Odd.


Anyway, I think I'm good now.

If you are using antiX-M8.5, the delay when rebooting/halting is due to halevt.

See here for fix.

halevt-and-slow-halt-reboot-and-fix-t2613.html

Ok did that, but shutdown is still fairly slow.. probably about 20 seconds. To be expected on such an old notebook? Pentium 3 600Mhz?