Linux-Misc Digest #675, Volume #24 Thu, 1 Jun 00 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Clustering sparcs? "Pirahna?" ("G. Fenstermacher")
Linux Gurus needed (Julian Ruhe)
Re: Black and white Netscape (Rod Smith)
Re: mounting ide-scsi device (Uwe Malzahn)
Re: libraries philosophy under linux (Paul Kimoto)
Urgent - Problem installing kdebase on Debian Linux system. (Madhusudan Singh)
Re: How to use groups (Steve)
Only one channel in CD Player.... (NTK)
Re: How to make X program remember position & size? (Chris Boyd)
Re: Black and white Netscape (Andreas Kahari)
Changing the color depth Xfree86.conf ("G-admin")
Samba Induced Headache (Neil Middleton)
Need recommendation for linux-based e-mail server. (George Smiley)
Re: Changing the color depth Xfree86.conf ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: gnome 1.2 menu bar (ray)
cannot minimize gnome window ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? (Sak Wathanasin)
Gnome-Sawfish-XMMS stuff (ray)
Re: Configuratio for kernel (Markus Kossmann)
Re: RH vs Slackware (BuDMaN)
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? (Peter Radcliffe)
Kernel configuration (Rafael)
Re: RH vs Slackware (Tim Hockin)
Re: ASUS K7V KX133 motherboard problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "G. Fenstermacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clustering sparcs? "Pirahna?"
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:59:21 -0400
"Prasanth A. Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What kind of clustering are you trying to do? Is it computational or
> redundancy? I think pirahna is for redundancy. The program is written
> by Redhat and can be found in any of their distributions. As to the
> former, I would suggest Beowulf for computational clustering. But let
> me warn you that much of this is do-it-yourself... Having a cluster
> doesn't mean much unless the program is written to make the best use
> of it.
More or less, because its there, but since its not a production machine, its
not for redundancy.
Something I don't understand on clustering, however, is how it actually
works. IE, does it work like a standard SMP machine and send threads to
different machines, or does it only work on programs compiled for cluster,
which spins out subprocesses to each node to complete?
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From: Julian Ruhe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Gurus needed
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:55:50 +0200
Hi,
I have a short but, for me, most important question:
Is it possible under Linux to allocate a 64KB sized block of memory,
that is PHYSICALLY (not virtually) aligned on 32KB!!! boundaries and
hanging together in memory (not split by system paging!).
I need a very clear "yes" or "no" and if possible, "how"!
Thank you very much
Julian
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Black and white Netscape
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 15:59:11 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8h5da9$mr0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I resently change my XF86Config file so as
> to increase the colour depth from 16 to 24.
> But in doing so it has made all the icons
> that are used by netscape (i.e the home, back
> etc.. buttons) black and white)
This is a known bug in Netscape. I hear that XFree86 4.0 was supposed to
include a workaround, but I've seen no actual reports on this issue, so
I don't know if it's really happened. I've also heard that Accelerated-X
includes a similar workaround.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: mounting ide-scsi device
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:18:16 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John) writes:
> I am trying to mount my ide CD-RW. X-Roast is able to use it through
> mkisofs and cdrecord. When I type mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom it gives
> me the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe
> 'insmod driver'?)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
Did you insert the ide-scsi driver?
Cheers
Uwe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: libraries philosophy under linux
Date: 1 Jun 2000 12:12:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8h5tqp$17o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I use RedHat 6.2 (but in this subject others are the same) and I
> am obliged to use programs born specifically for this ditribution.
> I am not only talking of source-distributed software, but also of
> .rpm files.
> Sometime ago I started creating a "library" of softwares I like and I
> put everything in a cdrom.
> Now, with my new distro, I cannot use anything of that wares!
> Some cannot be installed (because of libraries incompatibility or for
> too much a need of a large number of OLD libraries), some can be
> installed but they core-dump and don't run.
> Now I would like to hear how linuxians behave in such situations;
> what I mean is:if I like a program and I change distribution, I have
> always to get an updated version of the same program to continue using
> it after changing/upgrading distro? What about if the program has been
> discontinued and only older versions exists?!
Install the appropriate package containing the old libraries. In Debian,
these can be found at http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/oldlibs/.
> Another point of view is this: I notice that all my linux uses about 450
> Mb.OK.But it's not ok that about 300 Mb are ONLY libraries (I don't even
> know the functionality of all of them!) and only the rest are good
> old linux/unix tools!
> In my new RH ditribution I am OBLIGED to install big packages such as
> python, gawk, or similar because they are used FOR SYSTEM MAINTENANCE!!
> It's absurd that such big packages are the only way to administrate a
> system, and I refuse to believe that no smaller utilities exist.
> It's not a problem about small Hard Disk (in fact my HD is about 3 Gb),
> it's about a problem of principle.
The bash executable is ~450 kB. The gawk installation is ~700 kB. The
Debian (potato) stripped-down minimal perl installation is ~1.3 MB, and
the base python installation (Debian potato) is ~2.5 MB. It's not _so_
bad, considering the considerable programming flexibility that these
languages afford, is it?
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Urgent - Problem installing kdebase on Debian Linux system.
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:18:17 +0000
Joohee Kim wrote:
> HI
> I am trying to install kde on a Debian Linux ssytem from the source,
> I succesfully installed Qt-1.44, kdesupport-1.1.2, kdelibs-1.1.2.
> However a make on kdebase leads to the following error (see end of
> posting). Any ideas on what is wrong and how it might be fixed ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joohee Kim
>
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/kdebase-1.1.2/kfm/config'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/kdebase-1.1.2/kfm'
> /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link g++ -O2 -Wall -L/usr/local/kde/lib
>-L/usr/X11/lib -rpath /usr/local/kde/lib -rpath /usr/X11/lib -o kfm kfmgui.o
>kfmview.o kbind.o main.o kfmdlg.o bookmark.o kfmprops.o kfmserver_ipc.o
>kfmserver_ipc2.o kfmserver.o kioserver.o kioserver_ipc.o kioserver_ipc2.o kfmipc.o
>root.o kfmman.o kiojob.o htmlcache.o autostart.o kfmtree.o krenamewin.o
>passworddialog.o kURLcompletion.o debug.o kfmw.o kfmpaths.o kfmjob.o kfmexec.o
>kmimemagic.o kfinder.o utils.o open-with.o finddlg.o kcookiejar.o kcookiewin.o
>popup.o kintlist.o -lkhtmlw -lkimgio -ljpeg -ltiff -ljpeg -lz -lpng -lz -lm -lqt
>-lX11 -lm -ljscript -lkfile -lkfm -lkdecore -lXext -lqt -lX11 -lkdeui -lkdecore
>-lXext -lqt -lX11
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: libjpeg.so.62, needed by /usr/bin/../lib/libtiff.so, may
>conflict with libjpeg.so.6
> kfmgui.o: In function `KfmGui::slotCopy(void)':
> kfmgui.o(.text+0x7ea8): undefined reference to `QLineEdit::copy(void) const'
> kfmgui.o: In function `KfmGui::slotPaste(void)':
> kfmgui.o(.text+0x7f1a): undefined reference to `QLineEdit::paste(void)'
> /usr/local/kde/lib/libkdeui.so: undefined reference to
>`QMultiLineEdit::resizeEvent(QResizeEvent *)'
> /usr/local/kde/lib/libkdeui.so: undefined reference to
>`QLineEdit::setPalette(QPalette const &)'
> /usr/local/kde/lib/libkfile.so: undefined reference to `QListBox::setBottomItem(int)'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [kfm] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/kdebase-1.1.2/kfm'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/kdebase-1.1.2/kfm'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/kdebase-1.1.2'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: How to use groups
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Jun 2000 17:20:31 GMT
On 1 Jun 2000 01:36:44 GMT, ljb wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Marc D Bumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>In UNIX, users can have multiple groups. In the /etc/group file,
>>>user names are simply appended to the end of the group entry, as
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>> do a man on group, groups, and id.
>>
>>Well, I did info rather than man on groups, and I had read about
>>/etc/group. The point I didn't make well is that under NetWare it's
>>possible to create directories in which newly created files may be
>>accessed by members of multiple distinct groups. This doesn't appear to
>>be the case with linux. Files seem to be given the effective GID of the
>>user who creates them, and other groups to which the user belongs would
>>be irrelevant because only the effective GID matters. No?
>
>Not exactly. New files get their group either from the creator's
>primary group, or from the group of the directory where the
>file was created. The latter happens if the directory has the setgid
>bit set, like mode 2775.
>
>You really can't emulate Netware's protection/group models under
>Unix/Linux, at least not with access control list extensions. (And
>yet, I know some Netware admins who still don't understand how it
>works on Netware. In my opinion, the Netware implementation is way
>too complex.)
I loved the way groups worked in Netware, I never quite got on with
NT because of that. Groups on Linux seem to be a lot more like NT
groups from what I've seen, but I don't really know and will have
to research this aspect further myself.
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From: NTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Only one channel in CD Player....
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:30:07 GMT
With Helix Gnome 1.2 and MKD 7.1 beta3, I only hear one channel when I
play a music CD. But, all EVENT SOUNDS are played on both channels. Is
this something to do with the actual hardware? But seems to me it is
more of a software problem. I tried a couple of differenct CD Player,
but same result. Any ideas?
THanks
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From: Chris Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make X program remember position & size?
Date: 1 Jun 2000 16:31:47 GMT
Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:> I don't think you can make X programs remember their position and size,
:> but you can make them start where you want and have the size you want.
:> You must use -geometry. Do a man X. For instance,
:>
:> xdvi -geometry 702x790-25+3
:>
:> Once you figure out the right size and position, stick the command in
:> some rc file (in ~/.bashrc if you want the change only for yourself, or
:> in /etc/bashrc if you want it for any user). For instance, in my
:> /etc/bashrc I have
:>
:> alias xdvi='xdvi -geometry 702x790-25+3'
: You can also put this in your .Xdefaults file (some distributions may use
: .Xresources, I'm not sure). It will look just like
: xdvi.geometry: 702x790-25+3
See also man xwininfo for how to find out useful things about an
existing window.
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Subject: Re: Black and white Netscape
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 1 Jun 2000 18:36:11 +0100
In article <jLvZ4.154540$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rod Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>In article <8h5da9$mr0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> I resently change my XF86Config file so as
>> to increase the colour depth from 16 to 24.
>> But in doing so it has made all the icons
>> that are used by netscape (i.e the home, back
>> etc.. buttons) black and white)
>
>This is a known bug in Netscape. I hear that XFree86 4.0 was supposed to
>include a workaround, but I've seen no actual reports on this issue, so
>I don't know if it's really happened. I've also heard that Accelerated-X
>includes a similar workaround.
Would the X-server include a workaround for a specific application?!
How absurd!
That's almost like saying "let's build an OS around this browser"...
Eh..
/A
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# appropriate authorities, no exceptions.
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From: "G-admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing the color depth Xfree86.conf
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:42:17 -0400
Is there way to change the only the color depth and nothing else. I've tried
XF86Setup (you have specify everthing or it gives you defaults), and
Xconfigurator.
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From: Neil Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba Induced Headache
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:52:20 +0100
Can it really be so hard to set up samba?
I have a LAN at home using four machines, my main one which is RH6.2,
and three others, two Win95, one NTWS4.
Now, I can get to the drives on the Win95 boxes using smbmount (like it
says in the manual) but when it comes to accessing the NT box I have big
problems, like nmblookup not coming up with an answer.
But this is just the start of the problem, although I can do things a
little one way I can get nothing going the other way. sometimes my
linux box will appear in Network Neighbourhood breifly but five minutes
later they are gone...plus when you try to access the box it asks for a
password for //machine_name/IPC$ (where is this set or where can I find
it out???)
As I am quite new to Linux I may be doing something stupid. If anyone
has any good ideas on why any of these various things doesn't work they
would be helpful, then again if anyone has any sample /etc/smb.conf
files I could try out all the better :-)
Cheers
Neil
PS If you could reply to my mailbox direct as well as posting ;-)
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From: George Smiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need recommendation for linux-based e-mail server.
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:35:50 GMT
Hi,
I would appreciate any feedback to help me with this problem.
Our company is trying to set up an e-mail/web infrastructure.
We need a box that can sit between the WAN router and our
local LAN. The following are the requirements.
1) OK to be commercial and/or expensive.
2) Should distribute internal e-mail and route
mail externally. Should provide POP3 and IMAP
mailboxes.
3) Should support the internet and and intranet (different websites
etc.)
4) Should provide a firewall.
5) Should provide VPN functionality so that traveling employees
can access their e-mail securely. (Ideally, the VPN client
should work from a browser, or at least be cross-platform,
windows and linux). But we can live without the cross-platform
in a pinch.
6) Should be scaleable to several hundred users.
7) SHOULD BE EASILY ADMINISTRABLE. A piece of cheese should be
able to administer it (my boss's own words).
8) A DHCP server built in.
9) Commercial support should be available.
My boss wants to use NT with a big-ass server from Dell, but he said
he is willing to consider linux if I can find a solution that
supports the above criteria.
I looked into the Cobalt Qube, but it does not support VPNs and
does not scale beyond 150 users. (Am I wrong?) Does anyone sell some
software that puts together all the free linux tools into an easily
useable form? We would be willing to pay fairly serious money.
Thanks,
George.
--
George Smiley
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing the color depth Xfree86.conf
Date: 1 Jun 2000 16:49:24 GMT
G-admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is there way to change the only the color depth and nothing else. I've tried
: XF86Setup (you have specify everthing or it gives you defaults), and
: Xconfigurator.
Man XF86Config.
You can't change color depth dynamically in the 3.3 architechture.
You'll have to restart the server with a different -bpp option. Or
change the DefaultColorDepth setting in the config file.
Peter
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gnome 1.2 menu bar
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:04:10 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Now I've got the menu bar up.
> How do I configure it?
>
> <snip>
I'll assume you are working with the Mac-like full screen top-bar, as that
was the subject leading to this. Right click anywhere blank, there will be
a drop-down, choose applets, and add what you want. NOTE: Also, if you
come down further to "panel" -> "Add to Panel" there will be a lot more
choices than just applets. Have fun!
--
Ray R. Jones
The Computer Shop
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cannot minimize gnome window
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:59:24 GMT
hi,
Thanks for your response. When I try to make configurations through
window manager, it says that 'sawmill is not running' how can I fix
this probnlem
> > Hi,
> > I am using RedHat 6.2 and when I open GNOME the window comes too big
> > and I can not see the lower parts. I have tried some other setting
> > types for my monitor using xf86config but it didnt work, does anyone
> > know the solution to this kind of problem?
> >>
> At a guess, I'd say it sounds like you have the virtual desktop
setting
> turned on. That's a hold-over from the early days of Linux GUI, where
> bumping the side of the screen with your pointer would move the whole
> view over to another part of a desktop bigger than the screen. You
may
> be able to turn it off using /usr/X11R6/share/Xconfigurator, the GUI
> version.
>
> Ed
>
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Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
From: Sak Wathanasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:39:26 +0100
In article <8h2bdf$7rk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Radcliffe
<26$10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe Casper was talking about the scsi bus speed on the older
> sparcs. I get nontrivial disk bandwidth with just Wide 7200rpm disks
> on my SS20s.
That's good 'cos I got one of those in the SS20: a Barracuda 7200 RPM
(ST-15150WC Fast wide) with a 1 MB cache.
OK, let's do some bonnie timings. In the blue corner, we have the SS20
with afore-mentioned 'cuda (cost me about UKP 200 a couple of years
back). In the red corner, we have the PIII/500 with el cheapo Seagate
ST34311A, 5400 RPM (I think) that cost me about UKP 60 a year or so
back; not sure what size cache it has maybe 0.5 M? Bonnie sez:
SS20:
File './Bonnie.285', size: 104857600
...etc...
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
/sec %CPU
100 1842 75.9 4698 39.6 3691 41.9 2359 98.5 13488 73.0
509.8 55.2
PIII:
File './Bonnie.28707', size: 104857600
...etc...
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
/sec %CPU
100 7482 98.1 14061 21.3 5368 13.8 6468 76.2 10366 7.5
110.8 1.3
That's probably been mangled by line-wraps, so to summarize:
SS20:
block write = 4698 K/s; block read = 13488 K/s
PIII:
block write = 14061 K/s; block read = 10366 K/s
In wall-clock time, the PIII finished well before the SS20. Even more
interesting is when I ran 2 copies of bonnie at the same time. The raw
results are:
SS20:
File './Bonnie.297', size: 104857600
...etc...
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
/sec %CPU
100 1121 46.9 2494 22.2 1591 20.4 1097 46.6 2976 21.0
42.1 7.5
File './Bonnie.298', size: 104857600
...etc...
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
/sec %CPU
100 1106 46.3 2736 24.9 1504 19.6 1267 54.1 5277 34.5
37.4 6.7
PIII:
File './Bonnie.28721', size: 104857600
...etc...
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
/sec %CPU
100 3879 51.0 11961 15.8 2418 6.5 2245 26.4 10446 6.7
42.8 0.9
File './Bonnie.28722', size: 104857600
..etc...
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
/sec %CPU
100 4014 53.0 10546 13.8 2233 6.5 2462 29.4 10987 7.5
47.3 0.8
Again to summarize, we have
SS20:
writes= 2494, 2736; reads = 2976, 5277
PIII:
writes= 11961, 10546; reads = 10446, 10987
> There is far more to usable speed than the rpm or the bus speed of a
> disk - scsi supports tagged command queuing, disconnected operation,
> etc, etc, all things which benifit a multiuser[1] machine considerably.
So explain why the SCSI system was so affected by running 2 copies
while the ugh! IDE system took it in its stride.
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Network Analysis Limited
178 Wainbody Ave South, Coventry CV3 6BX, UK
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (+44) 24 76 419996 Fax: (+44) 24 76 690690
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome-Sawfish-XMMS stuff
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:16:54 GMT
I have the little VU-meters configured into the panel, and they flop
around very realistically when XMMS plays MP3's. Nice. OK, it's a toy,
but I like it. Now, why won't they do that when I am playing a local CD?
They are still there, but motionless, although XMMS plays the CD, sound
works normally, all controls seem sane, but no needles. and I AM using
the esound plugin. huh?
--
Ray R. Jones
The Computer Shop
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configuratio for kernel
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:33:26 +0200
Juergen Flosbach wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> I use the default kernel from the SuSE6.4 distribution and would like to
> know how this kernel is configured. The only thing I know is that I can
> not trust the config file that comes with the distribution.
>
> How can I figure out how my current kernel got compiled ?
>
SuSE ships with the cloneconfig patch. So you will find a file
/proc/config.gz , which contains a current kernel configuration .
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Markus Kossmann
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From: BuDMaN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH vs Slackware
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:21:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2000 02:10:33 GMT, BuDMaN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm using RH 6.2 on a K6 450 64 MB and I was with the same OS on a
> >Pentium 150 32MB but I was unhappy with the speed on this computer so
> >I decided to remove RH and install Slackware. I'm still downloading
> >the files I want off a FTP server but I still didn't get X. That was
> >the main reason I removed RH - X was really slow.
> > I'm wondering if I did the right thing. So far, Slackware is working
> >pretty good but will X run faster on it?
>
> X is X. If it does run faster, it is due to configuration (smarter
> installer?), or more recent XFree with better card support. Was all
your
> RAM recognized? Also, RH probably sticks you with Gnome or KDE -- both
> of which are optional components and will slow you down in low memory
> situations. Not sure what default Slack does, but would try it without
> either of these.
Yeah, I followed your suggestions and I reinstalled RH without GNOME
and KDE. It's working way different from before, a lot faster!
Also, I reduced the number of VT to 3. I read each VT takes 4 MB off
your RAM, is that right?
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From: 26$10$[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Radcliffe)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
Date: 1 Jun 2000 17:33:30 GMT
Sak Wathanasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably said:
>OK, let's do some bonnie timings. In the blue corner, we have the SS20
>with afore-mentioned 'cuda (cost me about UKP 200 a couple of years
>back). In the red corner, we have the PIII/500 with el cheapo Seagate
>ST34311A, 5400 RPM (I think) that cost me about UKP 60 a year or so
>back; not sure what size cache it has maybe 0.5 M? Bonnie sez:
The internal bus on a sparc 20 only does 10mb/sec.
You're comparing modern IDE with ancient SCSI. Come back when
you're comparing apples to apples and not apples to oranges.
P.
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Kernel configuration
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 19:49:44 -0400
I would like to add pcmcia support to the kernel and instead loading
module for net card I would like to compile it to the kernel.
I can't change this running "make config" or "make xconfig", there is
not such option.
I need have such kernel to be able to boot from floppy od diskless
workstation.
I read howtos about net, diskless worstation and thinclients but I cound
not find information how to compile this modules to the kernel.
Please send me proper links or give me advice how I can do this.
Rafael
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH vs Slackware
Date: 1 Jun 2000 17:50:22 GMT
BuDMaN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Also, I reduced the number of VT to 3. I read each VT takes 4 MB off
: your RAM, is that right?
4KB, not MB -- 80 columns x 25 rows x 2 bytes per character
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ASUS K7V KX133 motherboard problems
Date: 01 Jun 2000 10:58:16 -0700
Ryan Sackenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just recently bought an ASUS K7V motherboard, and I've had problems with
> hard drive accessing in Linux. First of all I moved my hard drive over
...<snip>...
Just yesterday on Slashdot there was a posting about athlon capable
motherboards/chipsets and linux. For some reason I could not follow the
link just now, but the slashdot page is at:
http://slashdot.org/index.pl?section=&mode=thread&issue=730636
Mostly people reported no problems, and some of them had the
K7V motherboard. I'm interested because I'm seriously thinking about
getting one of these. Toms Hardware rated them the best of the Slot A
Athlon Via KX133 chipset boards. From what you describe, I would look
closely at my kernel configuration, maybe try to build a new kernel, even
if I have to do it on old hardware, look closely at the general setup
section and block devices section.
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