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David Relson wrote: |
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> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:18 -0600 |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>> On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: |
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>>>> For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, |
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>>>> lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. |
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>>> Good God. I hope you don't do that more than once a decade. Just |
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>>> how long can a life be? |
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>> Unless he changes hardware while it is shutdown. I don't think the |
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>> drivers have ever changed on my system since I built it. I have had |
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>> to add a couple, ethernet card and a SATA card, but other than that, |
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>> it should be the same. |
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>> I have to say tho, booting a CD and doing lspci -k or -v is the best |
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>> way to get the right drivers. That is providing the hardware works |
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>> when that is done. |
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>> Dale |
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> Changing kernels can have undesired side effects. The log files help |
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> to figure out what went wrong. |
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That's odd. I update my kernel fairly regular. It's always the same |
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drivers for the same old hardware. I don't think the drivers has |
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changed for my hardware since I built this system. My ethernet card |
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used dmfe way back when I bought them and after many many kernel |
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upgrades, it still uses dmfe. Same for the other hardware. |
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I guess your mileage varies a lot. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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