On Sunday 10 August 2003 7:30 pm, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: [...] > > Oh dear, found it. Missed a module at configure time when installing > > the Knoppix: > > $ /sbin/insmod ide-scsi > > insmod: ide-scsi: no module by that name found [...] > It depends. Where did you get your kernel from? If you compiled it > yourself, then it's time for a new compilation cycle. Include SCSI > support, the SCSI CD-ROM driver, the SCSI generic device and IDE-SCSI > emulation. If it's a precompiled Debian kernel, you might be lucky. IMHO > all Debian kernels have ide-scsi either as a module _OR_ compiled in.
Okay - it is the Knoppix precompiled kernel 2.4.21-xfs. It was really just the reboot that I needed. Now both CD and CDRW are mountable. Thanks. I had a hard time getting there though, some mysterious freeze-up when restarting KDE (Konqueror looking for a now-not-mounted partition that I had been looking at in the previous session) meant that I had to close down KDE (should that be 'Klose down'?) by logging on from another machine and killing stuff until it klosed. I made many attempts, trying to find the right thing to remove to prevent the old session being reconstructed, and having to kill a stack of processes remotely each time. I even rebooted a couple of times, but, although I managed to get rid of Konqueror, the mouse remained frozen in KDE. I idly tried a reboot into the old RedHat system, and it worked to my surprise. Of course, sharing the /home partition was never a great idea... It did get rid of the session data that caused the mouse to freeze up, but it got rid of a lot else too: most of the menus, and the taskbar. Now when I reboot into Debian, KDE starts, the CD and CDRW are mountable, but most of the kde configuration is screwed, and I have no tasks in the taskbar. Minimise anything and it is gone!. Anyone know how to re-constitute the KDE setup? It's the kombined kalamity effect: break one thing and everything else breaks itself. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
