Re: something odd

2005-05-12 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:07, c m wrote: > if you forgot to change your bootloader (LILO) config > for using the new kernel image then it still loads the > old kernel. > Even if you reinstall LILO after the compile. He's on an Alpha platform, so his bootloader is something other than LILO and g

Re: something odd

2005-05-12 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 12 May 2005 18:34, Marc Jackson wrote: > I downloaded the software 2.4.20 to build a new kernel on an alpha machine. > > It compiled and I have a working kernel. > > Oddly enough, after booting on the new kernel ... uname -a returned 2.2.20. > > Can anyone think of why this would happen

Re: something odd

2005-05-12 Thread c m
> > Oddly enough, after booting on the new kernel ... > uname -a returned 2.2.20. > > Can anyone think of why this would happen? > One idea of a possibility. if you forgot to change your bootloader (LILO) config for using the new kernel image then it still loads the old kernel. Even if you r

Re: Something odd in XFree86 (unstable)

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:30:23PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:08:51PM +0100, David Goodenough said > > Just recently the Alt+ shortcut to get to KDE menu entries > > stopped working. I commented on this on the debian-kde list and got the > > reply that someone had cured it

Re: Something odd in XFree86 (unstable)

2004-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:08:51PM +0100, David Goodenough said > Just recently the Alt+ shortcut to get to KDE menu entries > stopped working. I commented on this on the debian-kde list and got the > reply that someone had cured it by backout from 4.3.0dfsg.1-5_all to > 4.3.0-7_all. I am unsure