Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO -2

2003-09-02 Thread Scott Long
Scott Long wrote: Doug Barton wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicole wrote: In my 5.1 system I see this in my .hints file. So I assume I edit it there or do I treat it like a defaults file and import and change in in my config file? I didn't say anything about your hints file. You need to edit your

Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO -2

2003-09-02 Thread Scott Long
Doug Barton wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicole wrote: In my 5.1 system I see this in my .hints file. So I assume I edit it there or do I treat it like a defaults file and import and change in in my config file? I didn't say anything about your hints file. You need to edit your kernel config file,

Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO -2

2003-09-02 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicole wrote: > Sorry I didn't mean to be so "testy" I guess would discribe it. It's > an old issue for me. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I've seen numerous posts from you, on several topics, all of them berating people for not giving you what you want, when you want

Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO -2

2003-09-02 Thread Nicole
On 02-Sep-03 Unnamed Administration sources reported Doug Barton said : > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicole wrote: > >> It just drives me crazy when important things get broken and people >> act like.. What the big deal. I don't need it why should you? > > You're certainly free to draw that conclusio

Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO -2

2003-09-02 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicole wrote: > It just drives me crazy when important things get broken and people > act like.. What the big deal. I don't need it why should you? You're certainly free to draw that conclusion, however you'd be mistaken. There are times when adding new features means that t

Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO -2

2003-09-01 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Scott Long wrote: > Device flags are not specified in the kernel config anymore unless you > try really, really hard. /etc/device.hints is the correct place to > adjust this flag. Yeah, I was looking at the kernel config on the wrong box. This flag did used to be in GENERIC,

Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO -2

2003-09-01 Thread Nicole
BTW - I do thank you Marc for your advice. I know you were trying to assist. It just drives me crazy when important things get broken and people act like.. What the big deal. I don't need it why should you? I still have not solved the going to comsonsole mode if there is no keyboard detecte