On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:44:57PM -0800, Timothy Swenson wrote:
> On Jan 5, 9:37pm, Tony Firshman wrote:
> > Take the ram out, and clean the contacts.
> > The ram socket is often the weak link.
>
> I don't know if this would prevent the time when xosview is still going, but
> the mouse failed.
>
> Also, I have been having a problem of the system not coming up properly. I
> think I've been zapping it with static electricity. My solution has been to
> remove the ram and put it back in. I'll clean the contacts too. We'll see if
> this helps.
if it was a RAM problem you should see some strange messages in
/var/log/messages, sort of "buffer list corrupted" etc.
Also you can try a forced fsck, we found this a good test for faulty
RAM and other troubles
telinit 1 ## wait until shell prompt comes
mount -o remount,ro /
e2fsck -f /
For emergency exits from X use ALT-CTRL-Backspace, ALT-CTRL-DEL works
only in text mode.
Having a second computer to login remotely is always nice, I think
the QL can do that pretty well with QTPI or similar.
Btw I can email diffs for newest 2.2.17 kernel, will probably upload
it sometime next week.
Bye
Richard
