On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:18, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: <replies within> > On Thursday 28 October 2004 10:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > 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..... > > doing telint 1 should also resolve that, after which you can > telinit 3 or 5 again. I.e. you shouldn't need to reboot. > Telinit 3 works OK, but the CPU is running like mad, nevertheless. Going back into runlevel 5 doesn't stop it. Only a reboot.
> Installing 2.4 was bound to give you problems, especially in > respect to certain modules 2.6 has. It certainly did. > > Going into mcc and disabling udev as well as enabling devfs "at > boot" in the <system> <services> department is what might resolv > something. well, I don't have devfs. According to some bugzilla reports, quite the opposite is needed. Warly posted something in his notes on 10.1, saying "disable devfs, enable udev"..... Confusing. > > BTW, doesn't the box quiten down when removing the camera? Nope. Keeps running at 99% . And Anne, thanks for your support, I intend to report the bug in bugzilla later today, but I have to pin the problem down a little further in order to avoid too much verbosity. And, for the fun of it, I found another solution that doesn't burn my CPU : Boot into Knoppix, where the camera shows nicely as another harddisk, ftp the photos to my website and - being back in Mandrake, ftp them home again. Where there is a will, there is a way... Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8*
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