On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:40:30 +0100
"Wynne, Conor" <Conor.Wynne at compaq.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>>This is not exactly related to linux - YET, maybe some of ye programmers out
>there could make some additions/alterations to your next projects. I laughed
>out loud, which was needed.
>>Personally I have already laughed at some real errors in linux, takes the
>sting right out if you ask me.
>For example, here is one I came across with regards to a hardware fault....
>"kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue "
>>I have seen other bizarre ones but I can't remember off hand...
>>Best regards,
>CW
>
One of the best I seen was when the driver for my BT878 card borked.
A quick grep and here it is
drivers/media/video/msp3400.c: printk(KERN_ERR "msp3400: chip reset failed, penguin on i2c bus?\n");
Theres a "Parallel Port on fire?" error in there somewhere aswell :)
Colin Fowler
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