On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 16:53, Menaka Lashitha Bandara wrote: > Here's the output of my dmesg. I finally got it go to, i needed > modules-init-tools. :) > > But, the gdm problem is still there. It fails to load gdm completely. > Also it bombs out on vt switching. When I try to switch from X to VT, it > completely kills the system, and because no one knows the key > combination for magic-sys-rq on ibooks, I can't get through to finding > the real problem. I have CONFIG_VT=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y. > > With the IDE problem, this gives a problem: > hdparm -c1 -m16 -d1 /dev/hda > > However, this seems to be ok: > hdparm -m16 -d1 /dev/hda > hdparm -c1 /dev/hda
I don't understand what is your IDE problem What happens when you run the "problematic" command ? What message do you see ? Ben.