On June 28, 2003 03:43 am, you wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:32:25 -0400 > > "Levi Waldron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an elderly Compaq Presario 1020 P120 laptop running Woody with > > ~~~~~~~ > > Perhaps its time for an upgrade? (without being rude) I just ditched > my 486 laptop because a P166 came available, and no way would I go back.
I'd love to, but I only need this laptop for another few months while I finish my PhD thesis, and I just want to eek that much more time out of this computer before I retire it and don't need a laptop anymore. Besides, my funding has run out, so... > Remove the PC cards, boot memtest for overnight, then run badblocks in > read-only mode (or read-write if you don't care about the files any > more). Sounds like you're having hardware problems more than anything. Thanks - I hadn't heard of the boot memtest before. I used apt-get install memtest86 and let it run 24 hours. No problems. Badblocks test during the install process also showed no problems. Re-configuring step by step, I figured out the problem. Get this, it's weird! Loading the sb module seems to be the cause of the problem! When sb is not in /etc/modules, the computer boots just fine. When sb is in /etc/modules, it crashes during boot every time, at various init scripts. Of course, the sound card used to work. But now it seems that I have a perfectly functional laptop as long as I don't try to load the sb module. Any idea why this would happen? I guess it has something to do with a new bug appearing in the BIOS or soundcard hardware? Whew! Thanks, Levi
