On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:36:10AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > Sid works fine on my inspiron 8200, with the free nv driver. > > Did the upgrade install a new kernel? Have you tried booting your > previous kernel? > > Try booting single-user, then running the /etc/init.d/rc2 scripts one > by one in order to find where things are messing up. > > Knoppix makes a good rescue disk. I've had to repair my laptop a > couple of times when /lib was corrupted by a disk crash.
Thanks for the help. I haven't ungraded the kernel, but I will try single-user mode and burn a knoppix disk before I head home today. Hopefully I will be able to see what is causing the problem, and maybe what to do about it. Chris -- Christopher H. De Vries Phone: (617) 496-7636 Postdoctoral Fellow FAX: (617) 495-7345 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60 Garden Street MS-42 Cambridge, MA 02138 cfa-www.harvard.edu/~cdevries/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
