Re: Posted Three Times - Thanks
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:32:49PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:41:13AM +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> > Le mercredi 01 juin 2005 à 23:21 +0200, Jochen Schulz a écrit :
> > > Thomas H. George:
> > > >
> > > > The problem: Every time I must shut down the system it locks up when it
> > > > tries to disconnect my Sony USB dvdrw drive.
> > > >
> > > > The Postings: May 17 - USB dvdrw mount point Woes
> > > > May 22 - kernel-2.6.8 USB problem
> > > > May 31 - Oops when Sony USB dvdrw disconnected.
> > > >
> > > > As noted in these postings I am using 2.6.8 kernel complied from the
> > > > latest kernal-source-2.6.8 (so recompiled yesterday after a apt-get
> > > > dist-upgrade).
> > >
> > > If I were you I'd get the most recent kernel source from kernel.org and
> > > compile that. You can treat them exactly the same way as the tar.bz
> > > files from the Debian source packages.
> >
> > Or the latest 2.6.11 kernel from sid (a lot less work).
> >
> Thanks. A good idea and it worked. I had never considered downloading
> anything from Sid but checking the Debian web page I found Sarge already
> had all of the required support packages so I downloaded the gzipped
> kernel-source-2.6.8.
typo. It was 2.6.11 I downloaded.
Running make oldconfig and make menuconfig
> revealed additional support for usb devices and the compile went smooth
> as silk. I had to suffer one more system hang shutting down from the
> 2.6.8 kernel but then booting and shutting down with the 2.6.11 kernel
> worked flawlessly.
>
> Thanks again and that goes for all the replies. I was feeling lonely
> until I received these responses.
>
> Tom George
>
> P.S. This is the third time I have tried to reply with mutt. The first
> two attempts resulted in a child process failure and were postponed. I
> don't know how to recover them but if I find them before they are sent I
> will delete them. I believe I know what went wrong and if I am correct
> this message will be posted.
>
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