<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Thanks to all! It's easy when you know! I know about rebuilding laptops, so I think I'll simply change the card. Life is too short!<br><br></div>It's quite hard for someone like me who learned about computers in the days of ALGOL, FORTRAN and binary/assembler and has only been a user since the PC revolution (I was a handy BBC Microcomputer programmer in the 1980s), to get my head around these things without you guys and I'm hugely grateful you all took the time to answer me.<br><br></div>I love messing about making old laptops do things you wouldn't believe. I have an ancient Toshiba 1710CDS running 12.04 surprisingly well on 288 MB RAM with a 6GB HDD. I'm planning to update it to a Pentium 3 (Celeron right now) and add a 20GB HDD preloaded with 14.04 iso, as soon as I get time, to see if it can run that. Right now its performance compares well with a DELL Vista machine, more modern than this Latitude.<br><br></div>I'll report back, but don't hold your breathe - "Mission-control" has thousands of jobs to remind me of, whenever I "play" computers...<br><br></div>Regards<br><br></div>David<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 September 2014 21:56, George F. Nemeyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tigerwolf@tigerden.com" target="_blank">tigerwolf@tigerden.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, David Walland wrote:<br>
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> Where do I find /var/log/dmesg? I've spent ages looking for it<br>
> without success.<br>
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</span>Dmesg isn't a log file as such. It's a dynamic snapshot of kernel-related<br>
messages that are kept in a limited-memory buffer. For that reason, the<br>
oldest entries eventually disappear.<br>
<br>
Just type 'dmesg' at a prompt to see it.<br>
<br>
Many distros (at least intelligent ones) will save the initial dmesg info<br>
to a file in /var/log in order to keep the bootup messages for later<br>
examination.<br>
<br>
You can also do this manually at a prompt:<br>
dmesg > /path/to/some/filename<br>
which redirects the usual console output to a named file.<br>
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