Linux-Misc Digest #585, Volume #20 Fri, 11 Jun 99 06:13:19 EDT
Contents:
Re: time nightmare ("TwoSheds")
Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. (Tim Sutherland)
Re: Epson stylus color 740: HELP! (Finlay Welsh)
Re: Web/Internet Phone (Marc Mutz)
Re: & sign in filename on Joliet CD ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: lost+found? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ipchains and MS Netmeeting ("Robert Cicconetti")
Re: Telnet monitor (nlucent)
UMAX SCSI Support ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Eggdrop v1.3.27... any good tutorials on the web? ("Shayne")
Re: PLEASE Help - kernel/module questions (detailed) ("John M Wright")
PPP ("DJ Mike")
Question for vi expert ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ipchains and MS Netmeeting (Nigel Metheringham)
Anyone tried... (Cornix)
Re: DOESEMU runtime error! (Reinhard Karcher)
Re: How can I test my modem? (Marc Mutz)
Re: display , and after step? ("Larry Clark")
Re: Linux on a 486? (Dr Paul Kinsler)
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From: "TwoSheds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: time nightmare
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:11:37 +0100
Now I'm confused - I can't find my original posting and I can't find the
original posting of the helpful fella who'd had the same problem. Anyway:
> I would check your RTC battery. Maybe its out of power? But, it wouldn't
> surprise me, that Windows has one more bug, YAWB! (= Yet Another Windows
> Bug).
Well, I've never had a problem with the clock before. I won't consider this
option just yet. I'm not even sure it's a Windows bug, either, but that
wouldn't surprise me.
> >my tips for a modicum of time sanity on a dual boot system:
> >* set cmos time to gmt.
> >* configure linux use gmt and display time offsets.
> >* let nt think it's gmt. microsoft is such a lose. you can't fix it
> > so just accept it and let it lose.
> >
> >it isn't perfect but at least time doesn't jump around all over the
> >place.
> >
What do you mean by "let NT think it's GMT". I *want* NT, as well as Linux,
to both think it's GMT, cos it is where I am.
Someone mentioned Network Time Servers - could this be the solution. How do
I tell if this is configured in NT or Linux, and if not, how do I configure
it.
I need to be reasonably accurate with time cos I'll be running a web server.
-kev
"Time is an illusion - lunchtime doubly so" - Douglas Adams (but then you
knew that :)
mj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7jodrn$236$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
>
> bye.
>
> kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Hi! I have an NT/Linux dual boot system, and am trying to get the right
> >> time in both.
> >
> >ok.
> >
> >> At first I tried 'date -s ' command to set the time in Linux. This
> >> seemed to work, but the next time I booted Linux, the time was wrong
> >> again.
> >
> >yes. i had this.
> >
> >> So I tried Control=>Date&Time in linuxconf, and checked the option to
> >> set the CMOS time to GMT, and set the time to the current time. When I
> >> next booted NT, NT's clock was 4 hours ahead. To confus things further,
> >> next time I booted Linux the clock was *half an hour* ahead.
> >
> >microsoft is incapable of understanding how to configure time for a
> >dual boot machine or dealing with multiple time zones. this also
> >gives rise to the h24 reboot bug (you can have some sort of minor
> >disaster while rebooting during the seconds around midnight since
> >microsoft wants to fiddle with your clock).
> >
> >after struggling through daylight savings time adjust-o-rama (windows
> >would boot and say, hey i need to adjust for daylight savings time
> >conveniently forgetting that it had done so a little while ago), i
> >gave up trying to fix windows.
> >
> >> I'm looking forward to the day when everything is configured and
working
> >> in Linux, with your help this may happen this millenium! Please tell me
> >> what's going on!
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sutherland)
Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
Date: 11 Jun 1999 08:31:41 GMT
In article <CG4B5TdGX1EG-pn2-fdtsD8kYwNvE@localhost>, Barry Samuels wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 07:49:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray) wrote:
>The screen goes blank from time to time, for about 1 second, when the
>mouse is moved or a button is pressed, and then the image returns
>normally. This was happening before the kernel was recompiled and is
>still happening.
man setterm
Try putting `setterm -blank 0` in a rc file (try /etc/profile)
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when well oiled.
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From: Finlay Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson stylus color 740: HELP!
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:58:55 +0000
"John E. Garrott" wrote:
> Finlay Welsh wrote:
> >
> > I recently upgraded to SuSE 6.1 from 6.0. Prior to upgrade my printer
> > worked just fine. Now however, I can't get it to work at all. I have
> > configured it using YAST (the setup prog) as stcolor using lp0 at
> > 720x720. I have installed parallel port printing support, Ihave run
> > lsmod and lp.o is there. What am I doing wrong? I hit print and get no
> > response from the printer. It works fine under windoze.
> >
> > Fin
>
> Sounds similar to the problem I'm having. I upgraded to gs5.50 and now
> have to use uniprint with stcany.upp to drive my Stylus II printer.
>
> Stcolor does not work, nor do any of the others that are supposed to
> work
> for the Stylus II. I have asked for reasons for this, but none have
> been
> forthcoming. Guess its not a common problem.
>
> Do a search on "Stylus 740" on http://www.deja.com
>
> There were some newsgroup articles a short time back that may help you.
>
> Good luck,
>
> John
Many thanks, John,
I have now got it working but more by alchemy than logic. God knows what I
did! I'll follow the link you suggested though.
Fin
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:02:07 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web/Internet Phone
Ram Ramgopal wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am looking for products that provide web/internet phone capability. Does
> anyone know of such products for Linux?
>
Speak freely: www.speakfreely.org
erikyyyphone: ask your favorite search engine.
Marc
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: & sign in filename on Joliet CD
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 03:39:17 -0500
Actually...
Depending on the format structure of the CD and it's contents... (See CDROM
Writing HOWTO, etc.), you may have written yourself a "coaster"...
There are a specific set of commands under mkisofs and the like with
relation to the ext2 file system naming and all vs Windows 95 with the
Joliet and other extentions. If they get mixed up and all, then like me,
coasters are inevidable.
Hence the reason for buying the 5 packs at Compusa for $5 and using them for
tests and all rather than spending the money on the good quality CD's and
waisting them....
Jeff
Paul Sullivan wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I've done rather a stupid thing.. I've written a CD under Win95 with
>Joliet extensions, and placed an & sign in one of the file names. The
>CD mounts under linux, but I'm having all sorts of troubles with it.
>None of my other Joliet CDs do this (and they don't have & signs in -
>hence I'm assuming it's this).
>
>I have found the iocharset=name option reffered to in the kernel
>documentation, and assume that I can somehow tell Linux to swap the &
>for (say) an _. Does anyone perhaps know any more about how to use
>iocharset=name? I can't find anyother references to it in manuals,
>DocProj etc.
>
>Thanks to anyone who can help...
>Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: lost+found?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 16:42:02 GMT
In his obvious haste, Joe Pelkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: Does anyone know what the "lost+found" directory found on newly
: formatted ext2fs partitions is?
If the system ever crashes, or the machine gets uncleanly reset, this can
corrupt the file system.
When fsck is doing it's job, any blocks or files that it thinks shouldn't
been there are removed, but rather than just delete them, it puts them into
lost+found because the blocks may contain usefull or vital information...
I think...
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From: "Robert Cicconetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: ipchains and MS Netmeeting
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:18:27 -0400
> Somebody asked and someone else answered this one already.
>
> You're stuck with Netmeeting and some of these because they *initiate*
> connections to the receiver's IP address. IP chains work because the
> sender is behind the firewall. The routing mechanism remembers the
> outgoing connection and expects a *response* on the same port or set of
> ports for the same protocol. In the case of Netmeeting and FTP and the
> like, there isn't anything to tell the firewall that incoming requests
> are meant for the specific machine; it thinks they're going to itself.
> (Excepting ftp--I do remember seeing firewall modules for it...)
>
> I believe the answer for now is: No go. ...Unless someone else has
> written some new stuff. I've tried NetMeeting and VIRC's video chat
> stuff too. Can't get anywhere yet.
Please READ the link instead of assuming I don't know what I'm talking
about. PhonePatch is an H.323 gateway server for Linux/Win32/Solaris that
sits on the firewall box and arbitrates between internal NetMeeting clients
and external. Hopefully the OpenH323 project eventually will get this far,
but currently PhonePatch or opening huge amounts of ports are your two
options for getting NetMeeting to work (IRC).
Robert Cicconetti
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From: nlucent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Telnet monitor
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:38:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quick question. I'm looking for some sort of script (I'm sure it
> would be easy enough to write but I'm not a programmer) that would
> monitor who is telnetting into my server and from what domain that are
> coming from. Maybe by doing a "who" and checking either their IP
> address or domain name. If it falls outside an acceptable range, as
> determined by a flat file or something similiar, then I could either
be
> notified immediately by a write to my terminal. This can either be a
> cron job that runs every 5 minutes or so or a daemon that runs in the
> background.
> Also, perhaps this script could be modified to also monitor ftp
> processes. If anyone knows of a script that might do this or
something
> similiar that I could then modify, I would be much appreciative.
> Thanks.
> KJ
>
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>
You would probably be able to do something like this pretty easily with
tcp wrappers, the format for wrappers is daemon : host : action, in
action you can spawn processes or whatever you want to do (play "here
comes the judge" mp3 if your boss telnets in ). So you could basically
find a script that does what you want, then every time someone connects
that script will be run, and if its someone that you know will telnet in
often, or matches the good guys category just have it exit cleanly, if
its someone from the bad file, or a domain in the bad file then have it
mail you, page you, send a message to the console, or whatever you want.
just use
in.telnetd : .goodguys.com : spawn "/usr/local/bin/letusin.sh"
try man hosts_access (I think), or apropos hosts.allow, or apropos tcpd.
You can also do the same thing w/ ftp using in.ftpd as the daemon
(btw the mp3 suggestion gets pretty annoying hering a 3+ min mp3
whenever someone connects)
Hope it helps
Nick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: UMAX SCSI Support ?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:40:14 GMT
I have a UMAX 6e vista scanner with a "cheat-scsi" isa card that came
with it. Is there any chance that this card might be supported in Linux
now or in the future ?
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From: "Shayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.irc.bots.eggdrop
Subject: Re: Eggdrop v1.3.27... any good tutorials on the web?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:37:16 +1000
> Are there any good Eggdrop tutorials on the web for setting up a bot?
Try http://www.egghelp.org. It has a tutorial, it's good, and it's on the
web, too!
Shayne
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From: "John M Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PLEASE Help - kernel/module questions (detailed)
Date: 10 Jun 1999 17:19:19 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7jm36p$nfv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| Could someone please answer these questions I have re: the linux kernel
| and modules. I'm going nuts (many hours) trying to find this info by
| other means (note, I use RH 5.2):
|
i can be of some help, but can't answer all of your questions... yet..
| 1. I've rebuilt my kernel with a number of different version numbers
| and in some cases (in particular, the one I want to work is 2.5.5 from
| linux-2.5.5.tar.gz) I get module dependency errors on boot. I'm using
| the exact same process to rebuild my kernel and modules each time.
| That is:
|
| Starting in /usr/src/linux/, I: make menuconfig and pick my choices,
| then make dep, then make clean, then make bzImage, then make modules,
| then make modules_install, then I copy the new bzImage to /boot/ with a
| new name and reconfigure my lilo.conf, then run lilo, then reboot.
|
| Why would I get module dependency errors? They seem to be for things
| that I chose to not include in this kernel at all (like Appletalk and
| IPX as I don't even want them as modules) but that were part of my
| original distribution's kernel (RH 5.2)?
|
well, kent.. i believe your problem is that you have stale .o files from
previous compiles that are being added into your current compile... there is
a really easy way to fix this... before you do any of the steps listed
above, from the /usr/src/linux/ do
$ make mrproper
this will clean-out all your stale files and make things ready for a new
compile.. NOTE: this will delete your .config so if you want to $make
oldconfig you will need to save it somewhere else first...
here is a list of commands i use when i recompile..
$ cd /usr/src/linux
$ make mrproper
$ make xconfig
[ ...or menuconfig or config or oldconfig ]
$ make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install
$ cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9
[ ...symlinked to from /boot/vmlinuz ]
$ cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.9
[ ...symlinked to from /boot/System.map ]
$ depmod -v -a 2.2.9
$ mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.2.9.img 2.2.9
[ ...edit your /etc/lilo.conf file as needed ]
$ lilo -v
$ shutdown -r now
|
| 4. After a rebuild of the kernel, do I need to copy the System.map from
| /usr/src/linux/ into /boot/?
if that is where /etc/lilo.config looks for it, then yes..!!!!
| 2. How EXACTLY do depmode, modprobe, kerneld, and conf.modules work? I
| realize that by specifying certain things in conf.modules I can create
| aliases to modules or turn modules off by telling the alias to go off,
| but what happens to all those other modules I built during the kernel
| build (besides them sitting in /lib/modules/. waiting for me to insmod
| them) and how do I control which modules I want to load at boot? (In
| particular, how would I tell kerneld to load the ppp.o module and the
| modules it depends on at boot?)
|
| 5. What is 'modules.info' in my /boot/ directory and do I need to do
| something with it after I rebuild my kernel? (The current modules.info
| in my /boot/ is a link to /boot/modules.info-2.0.36-0.7 which looks
| like it's version specific, so why have I not read anything about
| 'modules.info' in any of the literature I've found about rebuilding
| kernels?)
to answer parts of both questions....
/boot/modules.info is created by depmod -a and is a mapout of all the
modules and their dependencies...
the kernel literature (more so for the older stuff) doesn't talk about
modules, so they leave out this part...
if you use kerneld or it's newer replacements, when a module is needed (as
determined by the kernel) it checks the modules.info file as well as the
config.modules and loads the needed module (no need for you to insmod
anything... ) the config.modules, i believe, allows you to say "when you
load this module, i want you to also load this other stuff" as well as
allowing you to give command-line arguments for modules that are loaded by
the autoloader...
telling kerneld to load ppp.o at boot is self-defeating. if you wanted it
loaded at boot, then don't use a module.. kerneld will load it when you
needed it and unload it when you are done, that saves system resources....
hope this helps you a bit... if you need more info/better literature, check
the Linux Documetation Project (LDP) and some of the other sources (you can
link to them from www.linuxberg.com)
good luck
~jmw
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From: "DJ Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:21:52 +0200
Hi all
I am having problem connecting to my ISP by trying to dial into it.
I tried doing it through the console (btw im using RH6) by opening Minicom
and connecting through there, then starting PPP on my ISP, and THEN quitting
without reset and starting pppd on my box by typing:
pppd -detach /dev/ttyS1 57600 &
This used to work when I was using Slackware on a UMSDOS kernel but it
doesn't now.
When I tried using KPPP in X it connected and everything but when it tried
to "log onto the server" it told me that the PPP Daemon "died unexpectedly".
I know that PPP support is compiled into my kernel because otherwise KPPP
would give me an error message when I start it.
I've read the PPP-HOWTO, NAG and the RH PPP-TIP back to front and I can't
find anything that can solve my problem. Can someone please help me? I'm
kinda desperate!
Thanks alot
Michael Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question for vi expert
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:55:58 GMT
Hi all
In vi I'd like to delete column 1-10 or 5-30 orso. I know this is
possible in vi but I don't know how to do this.
furthermore is it also possible to delete column 1-10 on lines 5-7?
tia
Andre Seesink
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nigel Metheringham)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: ipchains and MS Netmeeting
Date: 11 Jun 1999 08:56:01 GMT
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 04:23:06 +0000, Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You're stuck with Netmeeting and some of these because they *initiate*
>connections to the receiver's IP address. IP chains work because the
>sender is behind the firewall. The routing mechanism remembers the
>outgoing connection and expects a *response* on the same port or set of
>ports for the same protocol. In the case of Netmeeting and FTP and the
>like, there isn't anything to tell the firewall that incoming requests
>are meant for the specific machine; it thinks they're going to itself.
>(Excepting ftp--I do remember seeing firewall modules for it...)
This is sort of right although the explanation is screwy....
Basically with FTP (non passive mode), the server opens up data
channels *to* the client - ie coming back in through the firewall.
You can't generally do this, so you need something on the firewall
that reads the information going over the control channel and sees
that a data connection is about to be opened up, and both rewrites
that info so that each side sees the address sets they expect to see
and pokes a hole in your firewall to let the connection through.
Netmeeting is much the same but much much more complex. Connections
fly all over the place, there are several control connections, some of
which are set up dynamically themselves, and the protocol content is
complicated. It would be possible to write a masq helper to do this
in the way that the ip_masq_ftp module does, although the complexity
makes it much easier and safer to do as a user mode program which uses
transparent proxying rather than masquerading.
However despite many good intentions no-one has produced code for this
yet - apart from anything else your first need is to go off and buy
copies of the H.323 and related specs from the standards orgs. Its a
hard problem to fix.
Nigel.
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From: Cornix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone tried...
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:27:40 +0200
To play Starcraft 1.05 on Linux RedHat 6.0 (using kernel 2.2.9 and the
latest wine, 990523) on Battle.net?
And has anyone actually played Starcraft on a linux machine on
battle.net?
I'm just wondering. Please let me know experiences with this if you have
tried.
Cornix
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reinhard Karcher)
Date: 10 Jun 99 13:48:08 GMT
Subject: Re: DOESEMU runtime error!
Mike Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey guys.
>I'm running DOSEMU within RH 5.1 xwindows. I'm trying to use the
>dos-based setup software for my 3Com 3c509b NIC in order to disable plug
>and play.
>When I try to run the 3c5x9cfg.exe program, however, I get the error:
>run-time error R6003
>- integer devide by 0
Hi Mike,
you didn't tell your cpu-speed. Some programs try to setup timeing loops,
and if the cpu is quicker than the programmer expected, you could get
that error.
You could try to change the options tmonoton and newint in the
file compiletime-settings from on to off and run default-configure and then
make and make install. But I don't know, if that will help you.
Reinhard
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:07:52 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I test my modem?
TwoSheds wrote:
>
> I want to connect to my ISP with RH6. I have a SupraMax modem. I think I've
> configured my PPP interface, etc, but I don't get any sort of sound out of
> my modem when I try to connect, although no error messages are reported
> (I've already told it which port my modem's on in the Control Panel).
>
> How do I test my modem. I have tried to use minicom, but to be honest, don't
> understand what I'm supposed to do with it. If I could just send some AT
> commands to my modem, or anything else someone can suggest then it'd be a
That's exactly what minicom will let you do. Press ALT-Z to get a list
of commands. Configure port and speed and handshaking and ... then type
some AT commands and you should see the modem's OK's when you got the
right port and speed and ....)
> Is kermit the key to this? I don't seem to have it on my system, and I can't
> download it from the net, cos my modem's not working :)
>
kermit is a file-transfer protocol (not FTP) for use with mailboxes
(i.e. the ones you dial in and download sw and chat and...)
Marc
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From: "Larry Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: display , and after step?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:06:18 GMT
ok I got it back to xwindows...but how do I change my resolution? please
help.....
Larry Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<01beb37d$a99a53e0$039cd8cc@discflo>...
> ok first I want to get back to the way xwindows looked before I changed
it
> to afterstep. yes first timer.......then tell me more about what it is I
> can't find how to change it back to regular xwindows. then I can't get
the
> resolution back to what I had it before I locked the consloe....help and
> thanks
> Larry
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 486?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:18:17 +0100 (BST)
Jon Sundquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used to run fvwm95 which was acceptably fast. I now have KDE with kwm
> on it which is slower, but I like it enough to stick with it. Lately, I
> just use it mainly for e-mail and some web browsing, especially when I'm
> on the road.
Try using snice (as root), and change the priority (to -10 say).
On my (similar) system it's made a noticeable difference.
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