When I type the letters vi at root@Administartor # vi to start the vi
editor to edit the Xorg config file the whole system crashes giving me
a page of '~' symbols. How do you get to the $ prompt when you are at
the root@Administartor # prompt?

On 2005-05-06, utechmech <hgatley@emeryenergy.com> wrote:
> When I type the letters vi at root@Administartor # vi to start the vi
> editor to edit the Xorg config file the whole system crashes giving me
> a page of '~' symbols. How do you get to the $ prompt when you are at
> the root@Administartor # prompt?

That's vi. I mean, all that '~' in fact are vi's "prompt". :-)
Why do you want to get $ prompt if you are root?
Bash prompt is a # when you are root and a $ when you are a normal user.

It's better for you to start with nano or pico to edit files, or to read
something about vi.

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Le Fri, 06 May 2005 10:39:41 -0700, utechmech a écrit*:

> When I type the letters vi at root@Administartor # vi to start the vi
> editor to edit the Xorg config file the whole system crashes giving me
> a page of '~' symbols. How do you get to the $ prompt when you are at
> the root@Administartor # prompt?

Would you please calm down now or you're going to hurt someone !-)

While singing some Ôôm now, calmly type :

ls -lL $(which vi)

And please do not login as root@Administartor unless you can
cure this fingercrossing case ;-)

What happens now if you try :
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

as a normal user ?

and also :
free -m && w && df -h

utechmech wrote :

> When I type the letters vi at root@Administartor # vi to start the vi
> editor to edit the Xorg config file the whole system crashes giving me
> a page of '~' symbols.

The ~ symbols shows your in vi. To get out type :q and hit enter. If you
want to learn about vi read chapter 15 in the "Good Book":
<URL: http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=c3621.html>

Or maybe its a better idea for you to use 'mcedit' instead of 'vi'.

> How do you get to the $ prompt when you are at the root@Administartor
> # prompt?
>
Create a user, logout and login as this user. Again check the "Good
Book":
<URL: http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=c2773.html#USERSANDGROUPS>
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> The ~ symbols shows your in vi. To get out type :q and hit enter. If you
> want to learn about vi read chapter 15 in the "Good Book":
><URL: http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=c3621.html>
>
> Or maybe its a better idea for you to use 'mcedit' instead of 'vi'.

Good advice. I would also recommend pico over vi for some one new to
text editing in unix, just to get them started. I use vi and love, and
I recommend that every *nix user learn enough of it to make quick edits
with it, even if they don't wish to use it as their daily editor.

Note to the OP: mcedit is part of the Midnight Commander (mc) package,
while pico is part of pine.

> Create a user, logout and login as this user. Again check the "Good
> Book":
><URL: http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=c2773.html#USERSANDGROUPS>

Again, good advice. He who plays in root, kills tree.

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utechmech wrote:
> When I type the letters vi at root@Administartor # vi to start the vi
> editor to edit the Xorg config file the whole system crashes giving me
> a page of '~' symbols. How do you get to the $ prompt when you are at
> the root@Administartor # prompt?
>

use vim instead.
cp /usr/share/vim/vim6?/gvimrc_example.vim ~/.vimrc
vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf

nabis wrote:
>
> use vim instead.
> cp /usr/share/vim/vim6?/gvimrc_example.vim ~/.vimrc
> vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>

Made a mistake.
cp /usr/share/vim/vim6?/vimrc_example.vim ~/.vimrc

Alan Hicks wrote :

> Note to the OP: mcedit is part of the Midnight Commander (mc) package,
>
Yeah! Good ole Midnight Commander. While back when I still was dual
booting Linux and DOS/Win3.11 one of my greatest moments was when I
discovered Midnight Commander.

It had the look and feel that I knew from DOS programs like DOSSHELL and
EDIT, and from here I was more likely to choose Linux when I booted the
computer. Suddenly the usability of Linux was boosted, and still today
Midnight Commander is my preferred file manager.
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Thank you all but there seems to be a bigger problem. Irrespective of
the efforts it still locks up the mouse and keyboard as soon as i try
vim, mcedit, and anything else. I believe that I have received good
advice in all these forums but I must have a hardware problem. The
latest error E 353, Nothing in Register error message is quite
disappointing. On the first go-around all was workign well execpt fot
the mouse when i used x with kde, with GNOME it locked out the keyboard
and the mouse in X despite all the best efforts to create good config
files with all the parts from the computer dually noted.

The problem may be that the video card NVIDIA RIVA is not on the list
and neither is the keyboard MITSUMI 104 key, the mouse is a mo\icrofoft
3 button (wheel) optical one. Nevertheless it was working with X and
KDE but no mouse. I had to hit the interrupt button on the tower to
reboot from X in GNOME as it had no keyboard nor mouse functions. This
damaged the files and I suppose I am back to square 1 with reformatting
the partitions. I installed the system carefully and left out gpm as I
was warned it could lock up the mouse. It didn't really help.

Is there a LUG in Salt Lake City? We really need some help as this is
a Federal Research Grant we are under and must get this working fast!

On 7 May 2005 17:07:23 -0700, utechmech <hgatley@emeryenergy.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a LUG in Salt Lake City? We really need some help as this is
> a Federal Research Grant we are under and must get this working fast!
>
Try the mailing list.

http://www.sllug.org/

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