On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 18:37:01 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb, 2022 at 9:11 PM, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > wrote: > On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 19:48:40 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> > That presents a detail that's not clear on Gene's case. Is the > > computer just stopping and standing at that screen, > > Exactly — and if it does, what's printed, and are you aware of > anything that might be missing. Or does it reboot. Or is it still > running, but writing to one of the many serial connections? > > > or is it shutting > > off? Mine shuts off. > > And mine stops, period. Adding "period" is no help. "Stop", on its own, is just so ambiguous. What exactly stops, the process — or the computer. In real life, we use the circumstances to decide on the meaning. If I reported that I "stopped the car" because I saw a ball rolling into the road, you'd assume I didn't cut the engine. If I said it was because I saw a dust-devil barrelling down the road, you'd assume I stopped both the car and engine. > keyboard dead after reporting its there if I touch a key. once. Again, I have no idea what this means. None of my keyboards has ever reported anything, to my knowledge. > No further response to anything but the reset button on the front of this > huge tower. > > Theory is its looking for brltty and will not proceed without it. So until > that linkage is found and removed, I can't reboot w/o doing yet another > install right now. > > It has to be removed entirely before I can reboot again. Ah, is this because you nuked it (whatever we understand by the term "nuked")? If your machine is utterly unable to avoid installing it, perhaps you'll have to read its documentation in a little more depth and learn how to prevent it from finding a device to talk to. Or can you blacklist the snd modules? What do you use sound for on this computer? Is it essential for its task, which I assume is something to do with a lathe? Or are you still playing videos, logging in to your bank, and machining stuff, all on the same computer? (I realise that's a loaded question.) Cheers, David.
