Re: Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.

2002-05-04 Thread Will Aoki
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 11:30:44PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On May 04 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > > IOW at yaboot's boot prompt, where you normally might type 'Linux', > > type instead 'Linux init=/bin/sh'. > > And don't forget to, after you remove all the files/debs, run > the

Re: Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.

2002-05-04 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 04 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > IOW at yaboot's boot prompt, where you normally might type 'Linux', > type instead 'Linux init=/bin/sh'. And don't forget to, after you remove all the files/debs, run the sync command to commit changes that you make to the filesystem

Re: Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.

2002-05-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 07:21:52PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >Okay, so I'm guessing it was really a bad idea to install pmud-utils > >on my desktop machine. ;-( > > > >Can someone offer advice how to clean up my system and de-install > >pmud-utils knowing that I don't even have a com

Battery Life for a 2400c

2002-05-04 Thread Zach Lowry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1     Hello all!     I'm curious about my 2400 that I just got. It seems that the battery doesn't charge all the way, or perhaps it's the software that's reading it (pmud). I haven't done a real thorough test to see how long the book will r

Re: Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.

2002-05-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, This isn't pmud-utils' fault. All the pmud-utils package does is to install itself and it doesn't run anything in post-installation. It sounds like fucked hardware to me. Don't blame pmud-utils for that. Cheers On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 16:57, William C Brennan wrote: > Yikes, > > Until an hou

Re: Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.

2002-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Okay, so I'm guessing it was really a bad idea to install pmud-utils >on my desktop machine. ;-( > >Can someone offer advice how to clean up my system and de-install >pmud-utils knowing that I don't even have a command line? I suppose >I could mount my system under the mini-installation system

Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.

2002-05-04 Thread William C Brennan
Yikes, Until an hour ago, I was a really happy Linux user. But then, my system became unusable -- it won't complete the bootup sequence. Now, at the very end of the messages that scroll by... the screen goes blank and the speaker beeps at me erratically. Every time I boot up. Here's how I

Strange behaviour of an usb printer with cups

2002-05-04 Thread Riccardo Gusso
I have installed the package cups on two computers, a pc and an iMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on both of them I am running Debian/unstable with kernel 2.4.18. My aim is to use the same printer, an Epson StylusColor 580, alternatively on both of them, trough their usb port. On the pc, even if I have made

Strange behaviour of an usb printer with cups

2002-05-04 Thread Riccardo Gusso
I have installed the package cups on two computers, a pc and an iMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on both of them I am running Debian/unstable with kernel 2.4.18. My aim is to use the same printer, an Epson StylusColor 580, alternatively on both of them, trough their usb port. On the pc, even if I have m

Re: usleep and startmol

2002-05-04 Thread Francois Taiani
Hi Nathan, thanks for your usleep command. I had already changed the script to "sleep 0.5" (and apparently it wasn't that important anyway), though I've installed your usleep command since, it certainly will be useful in the future. I've aslo sent your code to the debian shellutils maintain