On Thursday 28 October 2004 09:42, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> On Thursday 28 October 2004 00:21, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > Well H.J. my palm are WET. �I know the feeling of messing
> > around in /boot and lilo !
> >
> > Right now I installed the 2.6.8.1-10 kernel, with no evident
> > errors. But the camera still behaves like in the -12 kernel.
> > �So no go here. �Next, I'll try to install the 2.4 kernel.
> > �Hopefully that'll change things to the better.
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich.
>
> Are you running devfs or udev?
> It should show at bootime if you're running devfs as udev will
> then be disabled.
I tried the 2.4 kernel, which denied me access to the net (eth0
[failed]) and my mouse. Gave it up.
So, now I'm back in 2.6.8.1-12mdk. Disabling udev doesn't improve
the matter, and in lilo I have "devfs=nomount".
However, I can retrieve my photos by booting into runlevel 3, mount
the camera as /dev/sda1 and copy the files over. Then reboot to
cool down the CPU. Circumstantial, I think.....
I've been contemplating switching to another distro, but I really
love Mandrake in spite of this, and I strongly suspect that
whatever distro I choose I will meet another collection of
time-consuming issues to get it working.
So I'll stay with Mandrake and live with it, as is.
That doesn't stop me from wondering, however, why the good folks at
Mandrake don't know the good, ole rule : "if it ain't broke, don't
fix it". In my experience, every new release fixes some bugs,
introduces new "features" , but nevertheless breakes things that
worked well before....
Cheers
Kaj Haulrich.
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