On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
->On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:56 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
->> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 03:11, eric jackson wrote:
->> > Hi,
->> >
->> > I'm getting an error from my soundcard when I boot up. I'll post
->> > another message about that in a few minutes.
->> >
->> > Is there a way to access the information that scrolls by as you boot
->> > up after booting is finished? If so, please tell me how? I rebooted
->> > several times trying to copy the error message I mentioned. There must
->> > be a better way to access that information.
->> >
->> > Thanks in advance!
->> >
->> > Eric Jackson
->> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
->>
->> Open a terminal and type:
->>
->> dmesg | more
->>
->> stephen kuhn - proprietor
->
->Sorry, Stephen, but as others have posted, dmesg | less is preferable. less
->allows you to page up or page down -- more allows only page down. No big
deal ->on small files, but very nice on large files when you realize that
you need ->to go back a ways. Even man more says that less is better, while
man less ->makes even more grandiose claims. (None of this has anything to
do with Les ->Moore of Funky Winkerbean fame.)
->
->Eric, take a log at some of the other files in /var/log -- as root.
boot.log ->and messages can be very useful , as they show time and date.
BTW, you can ->list those files using less boot.log (or less messages)
rather than the pipe. ->-- cmg
->
->
->
Or just do a "dmesg > dmesg.txt" so you can save it for examination at your
leisure. :-)
--
/\
Dark< >Lord
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