On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:18 -0600 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: > > > > > >> For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, > >> lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. > >> > > > > Good God. I hope you don't do that more than once a decade. Just > > how long can a life be? > > > > > > Unless he changes hardware while it is shutdown. I don't think the > drivers have ever changed on my system since I built it. I have had > to add a couple, ethernet card and a SATA card, but other than that, > it should be the same. > > I have to say tho, booting a CD and doing lspci -k or -v is the best > way to get the right drivers. That is providing the hardware works > when that is done. > > Dale
Changing kernels can have undesired side effects. The log files help to figure out what went wrong.
