On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:48:47 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
>> >> > As an update to this.... > > I just did an apt-get upgrade this morning and a new hotplug package > version was installed. I was booted into the 2.6.8 kernel at the time and > decided to do an "/etc/init.d/hotplug restart". Wonder of wonders! With > the new version of hotplug it restarted successfully and loaded both my > printer and scanner. > > I thought that was great so I rebooted to see if this would work from at > boot time and my system hung again. After I had to hit the manual reset > switch to get out of that I couldn't restart hotplug at all after booting > into the system. I figured it got corrupted because of just having to > power off the system so I uninstalled it, rebooted to completely reset the > system environment, reinstalled hotplug, and once again my printer and > scanner are working under the 2.6.8 kernel. Sure wish I could boot up > with them installed but at least I can use them with this kernel now. > encouraging, but I'll wait till it Just Works(r) <g>. In a similar vein, I have to restart cups if my parallel printer is turned on before boot; my camera (Canon A75), which worked perfectly a week ago, is MIA- lsusb sees it, ghoto2 feigns ignorance. Thank goodness for weekends... BTW, are you using a usb keyboard? the "send message" key seems to be stuck <ducking> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
