Continuous Error Code in TTY consoles

[Larry Hartman]

Add this to the puzzle, I commented out the fstab line for the cdrom and the 
error still occurred.  Something more than just a mount issue, maybe my 
friend at church was right, device driver error of sorts.

On Sunday 12 November 2006 16:22, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:13:45 -0500
>
> Larry Hartman <larryhartman50 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Good idea, but no joy.  The error starts during the Kubuntu startup at
> > the Hardware Abstraction Layer prior to xstart.  Someone at church this
> > morning made the remark that maybe I dont have the proper driver.  I will
> > be looking in this direction for a while.  Its frustrating/annoying, but
> > doesnt make my system inoperable, my CPU speed is still pretty low.  I
> > just can not use my TTYs...wondering though if it causes needless wear on
> > my cd/dvd drive.
>
> Well, if you're the only user on the laptop you could just remove the
> /etc/fstab entry. That way you would be required to mount the DVD
> 'manually' with "mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" ..... I'm not sure if you could
> mount to  '/media/cdrom" i.e if the mountpoint would be there.
>
> That would clear the errors of the TTY's until you find the solution.
>
> --
>
> Good luck,
> HarM.