Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread David Benfell
u did. This is not a new argument. I remember hearing it in school 25 years ago (so you know it must be even older than that). -- David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nat

Re: printer problems and more on Re: Screen corruption on startup 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-09 Thread David Benfell
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:56:40AM -0400, James Simmons wrote: > > Yipes!! I have seen this happen when /etc/inittab is messed up. > Why would it only be messed up on a 2.4.0-test kernel and not a 2.2.x kernel? -- David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 59438240 [e-mail first f

Re: [Crash] 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-07 Thread David Benfell
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:59:43PM +0200, Pauline Middelink wrote: > > Anyway, linux-2.4.0-test7 wont boot on a Cyrix computer. > test6 has no problems whatsoever and 7 stops right after > 'Uncompressing kernel...' > > Kernel as always compiled for 586. > > Sounds familiar? Any solutions/tips?

Re: Screen corruption on startup 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-07 Thread David Benfell
rmed. Basically, it came down to noting that it's difficult to move a video card from a laptop and that the problem seemed to have gone away after I rebooted to 2.2.16 (though I recall now seeing some corruption while it was booting, but nothing like the full-scale lockout I had with 2.4.0-t

Re: Screen corruption on startup 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-07 Thread David Benfell
I was a sys admin the first thing > we did was swap hardware into another machine to see if it was a hardware > problem. > This is a laptop. The video chipset is Neomagic 2160. The problem reappeared with a reboot but disappeared when I went back to 2.2.16. I've built 2.2.17 f

printer problems and more on Re: Screen corruption on startup 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-03 Thread David Benfell
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:19:15AM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:52:59AM -0400, James Simmons wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, David Benfell wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I've seen this with ear

Re: Screen corruption on startup 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-03 Thread David Benfell
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:52:59AM -0400, James Simmons wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, David Benfell wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I've seen this with earlier versions, starting on my old laptop, a > > Compaq Presario 1250. But I'm now in the inte

Screen corruption on startup 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-03 Thread David Benfell
y while attempting to sort this out. Just tell me what to do. -- David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 59438240 [e-mail first for access] --- There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a "hottest part" implies a temperature difference, and any marginally compet