I would like to remind people that we all benefit greatly whenever our
users send copies of their systems's boot messages to our archive.
Please do not send MIME encoded mail. Please do not send messages
which have been line-wrapped. Messages which are in plain-text are
easier for our developers to grep and search through.
The best way to send the messages is by doing this directly on the
machine in question:
dmesg | mail -s "old p5 rescued from the dump" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A clear subject helps us know what the machine is (as developers we
continue to try to include more detailed BIOS information in the dmesg
output, but you as users can help us even more by providing other
details).
If at all possible, it is best if the dmesg is from a standard project
compiled GENERIC, GENERIC.MP, or RAMDISK kernel of some kind, perhaps
with subsystems like acpi enabled if need be. This is just so that we
have less variables to deal with.
If you feel like it, you can also include other information before the
dmesg, such as sensor output, or a commentary on things that work or
don't work on the machine.
The archive is only ever read by developers, so the secrets about your
hardware are safe. We don't promise that your submission will improve
our support, but it definately gives us a feeling as to what types of
hardware are more urgently needing support in our community.
Thanks a lot.
