Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

2003-10-21 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Thanks for the suggestions; I ended up downloading Mandrake Cooker 2.4.22 from rpmfind.net , and confuguring it to death.After removing all the modules that I'll never need, the startup time of the machine has halved. (understandably, Mandrake installs almost everything, and whenever possible, as

[expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup; hdparms just says operation not permitted or something. I was wondering what is the best way to upgrade to a newer kernel, say 2.4.22 ? Does Mandrake use a patched the

Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

2003-10-20 Thread ef2
I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup; hdparms just says operation not permitted or something. I was wondering what is the best way to upgrade to a newer kernel, say 2.4.22 ? Does Mandrake use a patched

Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 October 2003 10:29 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup; hdparms just says operation not permitted or something. I was wondering what is the best way to upgrade to

Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:43, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 10:29 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup; hdparms just says operation not permitted or something.

Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 October 2003 09:20 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:43, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 10:29 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup;