DFS wrote:

> "My HP Pavilion DV6305US worked great, for a while, with the internal hard
> drive removed and MiniMe installed on an external 160g HD via USB....But
> now it won't."
>
> http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?o...&topic=49803.0

That's funny. In my experience once a Linux system is up and running, it
stays that way. It is Windows and that POS called the Registry that causes
spontaneous failures in a working system.

Ian

Ian Hilliard wrote:
> DFS wrote:
>
>> "My HP Pavilion DV6305US worked great, for a while, with the
>> internal hard drive removed and MiniMe installed on an external 160g
>> HD via USB....But now it won't."
>>
>> http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?o...&topic=49803.0
>
> That's funny. In my experience once a Linux system is up and running,
> it stays that way. It is Windows and that POS called the Registry
> that causes spontaneous failures in a working system.




ml2mst: "I've been working with SUSE since 1998, but for some mysterious
reason, it simply stopped working a couple of months ago."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....78b83a1137b1f5

Samba just quits working: "Then some of this suddenly stopped working."
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-49548.html


Samba just quits working: "My computer just stopped sharing its folder
(which had worked perfectly) one day"
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-49548.html


keyboard just quits working: "While entering data in Krecipes package
keyboard quit inputing characters"
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6617_102...sageID=2615582


keyboard just quits working: "..the keyboard would work for awhile and then
just quit."
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/..._this_notebook


yum just quits working: "this has worked for about four months and today it
has stopped working."
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archiv.../t-119325.html


network just quits working: "I noticed some times my network will just quit
working and won't reconnect even if i plug it into a cable nothing works and
I have to reboot."
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/152456


wireless just quits working: "Wireless connection just quits working.
Windows will connect just fine."
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lo...hp/t33604.html


DNS just quits working: "...DNS has just quit working."
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=243482


printing just quits working: "...printnig would just quit working for all
apps..."
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...underbird.html


audio player just quits working: "... the Audio Player program just quit
working one day and hasn't worked since."
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14453


PCMCIA card just quits working: "...one day, the connection simply quit
working."..."The card works fine in win98se, and I have no problems
connecting to our router, which is a USR8054."
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=26032


graphics just quit working: "When the WU restarted the graphics window did
not come back."
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=468


sound just quits working: "I was watching a movie in movie player and the
right sound channel cut out. Then about 10 seconds later, the left cut out.
I rebooted and still no sound. My sound is turned up all the way too. I'm
not sure what I will do. Reinstall something I guess."
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=342041


Linuxconf just quits working: "Does Linuxconf actually work? When I use it,
it tends to mess up my config files (at least for Apache) and always tell me
some process is taking too long. Sometimes it seems to just quit on me."
http://rasterweb.net/raster/computers/linux.html



Mandriva 2006 just quits working: "My Mandriva2006 just quit working !"
http://dunedin.lug.net.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=42838




"I installed openSUSE with KDE 4. Then I installed Gnome. Then it was
working fine. When I restarted my laptop, I found that my touchpad was not
working and I have to use USB mouse."

http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/...ing-gnome.html


>
> Ian

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:24:25 -0400, DFS wrote:


> sound just quits working: "I was watching a movie in movie player and the
> right sound channel cut out. Then about 10 seconds later, the left cut out.
> I rebooted and still no sound. My sound is turned up all the way too. I'm
> not sure what I will do. Reinstall something I guess."
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=342041

I've seen that one before, but not under Ubuntu.
Re-running alsaconf fixed it.



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