unneeded pccardd daemon running

2006-06-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
I don't own any PCMCIA cards, but I notice a pccardd daemon running. I don't see anything in /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.16/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.gz to use at boot to tell the kernel not to bother with this process. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: unneeded pccardd daemon running

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
> I don't own any PCMCIA cards < Maybe you can just deinstall pcmcia / pcmciautils then ? But none of those are installed < You may look for any further obsolete pcmcia stuff, < like related kernel-modules by keyword search. lsmod seems to show some wasted stuff... what would be the standard proced

70 seconds to load kernel on Thinkpad R50e normal?

2005-08-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Say, it only takes 5 seconds to load the kernel on my desktop(Duron), but 70 seconds on my laptop(Celeron). Both have 256Mb memory. That is at boot I see Loading 2.6.12-1-686 And then it takes 70 whole seconds before the dots end and I see: Bios Data Check OK or whatever. Does that sound

trapping desktop boot messages on a laptop

2005-08-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Say I am not satisfied with the ability of dmesg and bootlogd etc. to catch console messages as they flit by while booting my desktop computer. On a laptop I can run script(1) to catch everything, but how can I hook it up to be /dev/tty1 of the desktop? It only has a ethernet connector, no serial