On Tue, Jul 29, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 28 July 2014, Barry sent:
> You were right. I booted with a rescue disk and fsck found many errors
> on the root partition. many Anyway they seemed to be fixable, and on
> rebooting, I was able to reinstall yum and then other stuff.
>
> The only problem is that now I lost my top and bottom panels. This is
> an XFCE spin, and I wanted to take a look at it. I liked what I saw,
> but I don't really trust the drive. it's an old laptop, and probably
> not worth a lot more time.
To have a look, without wasting money on a new hard drive, you could try
making an install that runs off a USB flash drive. They're cheap, and
immediately re-useable, if you don't thrash it to death with your test.
Sure, a live DVD could give you a trial look, too. But it's such a
painfully slow medium.
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Thanks, that makes sense, but I managed to fix the two things that were
bothering me and I'm liking XFCE.
I had to fix the panel after fixing many disk problems with fsck and
updating.
I weirdly lost my panels. Rather the shortcuts in the panels, not the
panels themselves. Once I figured out how to repopulate them, all that
seemed fine.
I also wanted to get multimedia playback working -- with nonfree
formats. I installed all the codecs but neither Parole or VLC worked
right. Mostly the video was frozen or went to black. That turned out to
be a driver problem solved with installing akmod-nvidia.
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