I have a couple of intermittent problems with wearable that are annoying. Just wondering if others are having these problems. First, IBM Microdrive, I have been using a 1GB microdrive every day since last october. The drive generally works great, and I love the form factor, I'm not going back to laptop hard drives. But my 1GB microdrive regularly has problems on cold start until it warms up, which equates to two to four reboots. By cold start I don't mean cold ambient temperature, I'm talking room temp here, but after wearable has not been running for a while and has cooled off. When cool, sometimes the microdrive just doesn't appear as an IDE drive to the system. Other times its detected as secondary slave, not master (wierd!), and it boots but fails on kernel panic because its supposed to be /dev/hdc not /dev/hdd. In both cases, after several reboots the problem goes away and everything is peachy. I'm not all that concerned about this because my goal is to eventually keep wearable running all the time (after solving the charging problem). But I find it to be annoying and I'm wondering if this is happening to others. I think it was kevin who suggested that it was a cold start problem, saying his friend had problems with cool drives in a camera, which went away after short warm-up period. Is this a common problem with microdrive? The other problem, which really bothers me, is that x-windows often fails to start properly, and freezes my machine. This one is scary because it generally requires a panic response, unplug power and reboot (since ctl-alt-del and ctl-alt-backspace do not recover from the condition. In some cases the screen just goes blank, other times I get a smattering of white dots on black. In both cases the machine freezes. The graphic controller is the MediaGX CS-5530 on PCM-5822. Is anyone else having this problem? I am wondering if its my x-windows configuration or if its a problem with CS-5530 working with the SVGA x-windows server. Has anyone tried the National video drivers for linux? -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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