On Sunday 12 November 2006 11:20, J Sloan wrote:
LOL, what is going on with all the mentions of rebooting on this list lately?
People are rebooting rather than simply reloading or restarting services. The only reason I can think of is that Linux is starting to pick up a lot of new users who come from microsoft backgrounds, where rebooting is a common fix.
Normally I would agree Joe, but when it comes to tv cards, specifically hauppage cards it is quite necessary. In fact, its often better to take them all the way to power off, in order to get them to accept new firmware. Without that, you have to rmmod a large number of modules in exactly the right order, and then load them all again, and even if you do it all correctly, the card may refuse its firmware load. Its way quicker to reboot. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen