[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) CMD640 & RZ1000 IDE CHIPSET?
it's safe to disable for MVP3 chipset i believe those bugs are only on REALLY REALLY REALLY old machines. i have done many MVP3-based linux boxes and always turned it off, never had a problem. > the system clock every 11 minutes. is this really necessary? > if not how do i stop this? i just leave my machine at the defaults, never had a problem. if you almost never reboot it is not needed to upgrade the hardware clock at all(one of my machines had it's hardware clock off by more then 12 hours for almost a year, but since the system was using the software clock and it never rebooted there was no problems. just for the hell of it i never manually updated the hardware clock(hwclock --systohc) > > 3) update-modules /lib/modules/2.2.18 > i've updated my modules.conf by turning off the following > network protocols: i can't remember a time when i ever used modules.conf, i don't like using the kernel module loader(fills my log files with useless crap like not being able to find XXXX when i know i don't need whatever it's trying to find. and when i use modules i usually specify the settings when i load. so i can't really comment on what you do here. > > Dec 31 16:59:52 yakko modprobe: Note: > /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.2.18/modules.dep > > is this normal? should i touch modules.dep to get rid of this > warning or did i do something wrong. you can but as the message implies its just a timestamp thing i usually leave it alone. doesn't hurt anything(in my cases) this message will self destruct in 5 seconds. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
