A Few Problems I Have

1. My battery monitor, and power saving options don't work. Do i need to install kpowersave? If it helps, in order to boot, i had to add amp=off acpi=off to the commands.

2. I think this is a consequence of apm/acpi being off, but when i shutdown, it simply goes to runlevel 1 and i have to hit the power button to shut off. How is this fixed?

3. my screen saver kinda doesn't work. i set it to go on after 30 mins, but it goes on after 3, and instead of the one i set, it just does a blank screen.

4. i can't see my windows partition. there is a folder called /mnt/winxp, but nothing there. Help!!!

Thanks all, I am really close to getting my first linux experience working all correct!!!

Concerning the screen saver, I suspect that you have DPMS turned on. If you are using KDE, open the Control Center, Peripherals, Display, and see the tab named "Power Control". If "Enable display power management" is checked, this will probably be applied before the ordinary screen saver comes into operation.

And about that Windows partition: In a standard SUSE installation, I'd expect there to be a folder called "/windows/C" that shows the contents of your main windows partition. As this does not seem to be present, try

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp

from a console. You'll have to enter your root password, and then /mnt/winxp will hopefully contain that partition. I assume that it is the first partition on your first hard disk, otherwise you'll have to replace "/dev/hda1" accordingly.

If this works, we'll add a line to your /etc/fstab so that the partition will automatically be mounted at bootup.

And about that Windows partition: In a standard SUSE installation, I'd expect there to be a folder called "/windows/C" that shows the contents of your main windows partition. As this does not seem to be present, try

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp

from a console. You'll have to enter your root password, and then /mnt/winxp will hopefully contain that partition. I assume that it is the first partition on your first hard disk, otherwise you'll have to replace "/dev/hda1" accordingly.

If this works, we'll add a line to your /etc/fstab so that the partition will automatically be mounted at bootup.
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OK, I ran the code with no errors, but now the file is locked, how do i open it and leave it unlocked? I am the only one who uses that computer, so i don't need it locked.

I am testing the monitor thing, but i think that is fixed.

OK, I ran the code with no errors, but now the file is locked, how do i open it and leave it unlocked? I am the only one who uses that computer, so i don't need it locked.[/b]

My guess is it is locked for your own protection. Unlocking could cause problems. NTFS and Linux do not get along very well. ....

Can you access the files on the NTFS partion when using Linux with root permissions?

My guess is it is locked for your own protection. Unlocking could cause problems. NTFS and Linux do not get along very well. ....

Can you access the files on the NTFS partion when using Linux with root permissions?
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I can't open the file as any user, even root. I would like to be able to see my files so that I can have them in linux without having to resort to booting into windows, copying what i need onto a memory stick and then rebooting into linux. plus it would be helpful if i got a virus on the windows partition so that i could move what i need without a problem.

Anyone have any thoughts on problems 1 and 2? I am going to install a few things (kpowersave,powersave,yast2power...) and see if that helps.

Can you post the result of:

cat /etc/fstab

?

Besides, try with kpowersave and see what's going on. Powersave is still a bit tricky. And I do think that your problem #2 is a consequence of apm/acpi.
Let's see!

I can't open the file as any user, even root. [/b]

Make certain you look in the correct place. Typically windows directorys are under /windows/c or /windows/d

I have no /windows folder. i am pretty sure I need to get into /mnt/winxp

I can change the mount location and see what happens i suppose.

I will post the results of cat /etc/fstab tomorrow. I lent my disc out to a friend and i need ndiswrapper off it in order to install my wireless driver. its a bit of a pain to post that stuff from this computer.

One other thing...if i install kpowersave and get it working properly, will I be able to remove apm=off acpi=off from the commands that boot up?

So i guess kpowersave has always been there, but how do i make it work so that my battery info shows up in the systray?

because when i go into yast to edit stuff, i am greeted with a bunch of APM/ACPI messages and i can't do anything.

and here is the results of cat /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocha rset=utf8 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0

hope that helps!!!

OK, I ran the code with no errors, but now the file is locked, how do i open it and leave it unlocked?
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Sorry about that, I just realized that this is the default behaviour. Try this instead:

mount -t ntfs -o ro,gid=users,umask=0002 /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp

Now all users should be able to read it. But note that it will be mounted read-only, as write access to ntfs partitions is experimental (and only exists in a rudimentary form if I recall correctly).

If this works, you may want to add the following line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1************/mnt/winxp********** ntfs****** ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002**** 0****** 0

Then the filesystem will be mounted during boot up. I recommend that you create a new directory (like /winxp) and use it as your mount point instead, so that /mnt will still be available if you need to temporarily mount something else in the future.