> I'm not sure how to get to a console in ubuntu When I first started running (K)ubuntu, I tried mightily to kill off Splashy, have all that glorious boot text scroll down the screen, then fire up X with my very own fingers. I failed miserably and concluded that, while such things may still be possible, they're no longer trivial.
Like, for example, everything I thought I knew about runlevels has become inoperative... > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/ Yup, I used that to good effect with my Picture Frame dingus, but it's not obvious how it would interact with a USB-to-serial converter; the E1405 lacks both serial & parallel ports. Poorly, I think, as all the kernel huffing & puffing happens well before udev wakes up and smells the bitstream. Why is it that everything we think we know is obsolete, even when we know everything changes every two years? > All of that should work if you just Crtl+Alt+F1 to get to > your console. [Sound of one hand clapping forehead] Which, of course, makes the pile o' code far more stable; it took half an hour of constant snapping to get the thing to seize up. But when it jams it's consistent; EIP always points into module "wireless_seq_ops" and the panic is "not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt". So I ditched the binary-blob firmware, rmmod-ed bcm43xx, and started snapping again. Half an hour later it seized up at the same point. Evidently wireless_seq_ops exists even without bcm43xx. It seems to jam faster when running from a terminal in X than on a bare console, but who knows? I'm sure that the two dozen lines remaining on the screen aren't the whole story. The top has long since scrolled away and, with a dead keyboard, there's not much user interface left. I could send a screen shot (made with a camera!) if that would help. Anything else come to mind? -- Ed _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 3 - Security and Privacy Nov 7 - Django Python Application Framework
