This e-mail pertains to users of Logitech's QuickCam Express connected to a usb port. For about a week or so I've been trying to install Mandrake 8.0. I originally attempted an update (from 7.2) and ran into a problem post-install when attempting to boot Mandrake 8. The error didn't make much sense upon first examination. I merely overlooked it in the bad assumption that what I heard people saying about updates must have happened to me. I decided to do a fresh install after backing up my personal files. Well what happened after that was the same problem, processes (daemons such as cron and usb) would load up and then I'd get a kernel error something something: vfd: bad unregister [failed], then my computer would lock up. I'd have to force it to shutdown. I really wanted to figure out the problem on my own. I figured the error was because of some startup service I had going, so I reinstalled 8.0 and selected very few services, ones I knew were running in 7.2...and running fine. Well that didn't work. I reinstalled 8.0 and decided to not have Harddrake run at start time. Still nothing but this time I booted in interactive mode and got the bad unregister error while kudzu was supposed to start up. I figured, great, I'll reinstall again and not run kudzu or Harddrake. Boot attempt number 5 after reinstall number 4, usb daemon starts to load, some errors, some readable (laymen's terms readable :^) errors and BINGO! Plain as daylight I get a message stating something along the lines that the horned daemon of usb's has banished my QuickCam to the light of the trash can side. Well I immediately shut down my computer, unplugged the QuickCam and booted again and presto, I have a working version of 8.0. To wrap things up, usb devices aren't too welcome around these here Linux parts. Hope this helps someone. I have a question but I'll post it in a different e-mail and after some reading. Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N.
