... My dvd player stopped working properly (both xine and mplayer). It'd play one dvd, but not most others. It'd been fine the day before,
so i was guessing the optical drive was failing. But the funny thing was, the kernel (Fedora7 with custom 2.6.27rc8) wasn't initing /dev/dvd properly either.
Anyway , tried out Windows and my backup (cloned) linux OS, and it was working fine on both.. So doing a "diff -r /mnt/backupOS/etc /etc"
i noticed /etc/sysconfig/hwconf had been overwritten with a heap of entries related to my old K8M800 mobo (not good for a PT880 mobo!).
This is extremely weird as
1. I haven't got this mobo out of the cupboard in ages
2. I hadn't done any sys admin stuff
3. I don't even run kudzu (hwconf is used by the kudzu system service)
I copied over "cp /mnt/backupOS/etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf",
rebooted, problem fixed ... Very weird.
so i was guessing the optical drive was failing. But the funny thing was, the kernel (Fedora7 with custom 2.6.27rc8) wasn't initing /dev/dvd properly either.
Anyway , tried out Windows and my backup (cloned) linux OS, and it was working fine on both.. So doing a "diff -r /mnt/backupOS/etc /etc"
i noticed /etc/sysconfig/hwconf had been overwritten with a heap of entries related to my old K8M800 mobo (not good for a PT880 mobo!).
This is extremely weird as
1. I haven't got this mobo out of the cupboard in ages
2. I hadn't done any sys admin stuff
3. I don't even run kudzu (hwconf is used by the kudzu system service)
I copied over "cp /mnt/backupOS/etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf",
rebooted, problem fixed ... Very weird.
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