Re: [tlug] Floppy Trouble(?!)

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>>"Botond" == Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com> writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>    >> 1) The floppy drive isn't working.  I get this error message:
>    >> "The process for the *media* protocol died unexpectedly"
> 
>    >> 2) The mouse (running through a KVM switch) isn't working.
>
>    Botond> You know, these sentences are analogous to telling you
>    Botond> doctor "I'm sick".  If you don't provide information,
>    Botond> don't expect to get answers.
>
>Yeah, well that's probably about all the information he's getting.  #1
>on Dave Letterman's "Top 10 Reasons Why GUI Bites The Big One" list.
>
>Lyle: try grepping the logs (most likely /var/log/{syslog,messages,daemons}) 
>for "media" and see if you get anything interesting.
>
>My guess as to why an upgrade killed your mouse is that GPM stole it.
>"ls /dev/mouse* /dev/gpm*" will tell you on a conventional /dev, I'm not
>sure ihow to say that in devfs.  Maybe B0ti can help with that.  :-)
>

Thanks! Yes, I'm sort of standing with water up to my forehead as I 
flounder about, but I'll try seeing what I can do with that on the test 
box, which I specifically set up so I could - fearlessly - try things out.

Lyle