Re: [expert] I think it's safe to say the 2.4.22 kernel series is screwed

2003-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
used for a long time, many kernels. I'll probly try 2.4.23-1mdk that is on the mirrors today. FWIW, the onboard NIC is a 3C-940, and I read so many bad reports, problems with the drivers that are used for it (3c2000, sk98lin) I just disabled it in bios an use an old D-Link NIC I had (8139too). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] I think it's safe to say the 2.4.22 kernel series is screwed

2003-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
move all it's sliders to 100%, then do the same in kmix. I'm now running 10.0, but the sound worked with a 9.2 fresh install (after I installed aumix) and 9.2's default kernel (2.4.22-10). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 and BootDisk

2003-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
, [snoyes] a écrit : For those interested, you can make an iso image of a boot disk if you are using LILO with the following command: /sbin/mkrescue --iso then just cdrecord it ... -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
rprise kernels use imposes a performance hit. This has been mentioned off and on on the cooker and lkml lists. It's also been my experience. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
s Settings | Configure Toolbars, and add the "Reply to Mailing-List" button to the toolbar. Should work in older versions also, with no need for separate folders. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: MDK 9.2 ISOs Released (was:Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members)

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
#x27;s, 40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso e07fe7b1474eb3ba35cac3dfd479777e Mandrake92-cd2-ext.i586.iso 2b6ffc5957533c927f14197ec99a0372 Mandrake92-cd3-i18n.i586.iso -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
; kernel-source-2.4.22-25mdk Even ones you may have in your /etc/urpmi/skip.list (I have kernel-source in my skiplist). Suggestion, use 'synthesis.hdlist's for your sources, otherwise the list will also include changelog, and could be very long. I get " Cannot output changelog."

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
9.1. > > eric Google 'acpi=ht', that'll explain it better than I can. I searched it when Mandrake started usin it instead of =off. Basically it still disables acpi, but allows for cpu enumeration. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to b

Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?

2003-10-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
boot/config-2.4.22-21mdk /usr/src/linux/.config -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK9.1 to MDK9.2 Update Issues - Hope that this is not a Final ISO!

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
ase-konsole' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
zip file, expanded to about 500mb in a Windoze fat32 directory, C:\Mandrake. I was dual bootin Red Hat and Winblows at the time. I played around with phat for a short time, liked KDE, so I got 'real' Mandrake CD's and replaced RH ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi,

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
aying y every 3 or 4 > rpms. urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v The no verify part get around the signature deal. I prefer wget as it retries better than curl. Unless you're positive the mirror you're usin is absolutely in order and up to date, --force could be

Re: [expert] source of rpm contrib

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
choices of current kernels, and then 'urpmi kernel-source' will get the appropriate source and upgrade it too. No problemo (anymore, it's been so for quite a while) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
o unavailable for d/l till after release would be impossible. Install RC2 now, update to current cooker, and by Monday you'll have 9.2 final. The same is possible by adding cooker sources to 9.1 an updating to current 9.2. Whether the iso's (or bittorrent) are available or not. -- Tom B

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 16 2003 01:50 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:28:30 -0500 > > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What does this say? > > > > tom # cat /proc/cpuinfo > > Just curious, what's the full output from th

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
mhz faster than an XP 3200+ (...so it's a 3300+ ?). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
wanna fool with/test fast ram timings in bios. Ram (and cpu caches) is gonna be a big part of what you want to use the system for. As will be kernel choice. And as always, avoid Windoze reviews, 'don't take just one person's advice' (you're the one that'll have to live with what you buy ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
s are acceptable. Those three producers are probly 90% of the CDr's out there. At least in the USA. OTOH, production CD's have problems too. IIRC, many reported bad CD's for 9.1 were sent out in boxed sets by Mandrake's distributor. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
ing they're burned CDr's. Specially with a CDrom, tho booting from my burner would often work well enough to get me thru the install after a few tries. In any event, I believe your system is just havin trouble with the CD's you were sent. -- Tom Brinkman Cor

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
be warned... memtest86 is the least effective way to find memory errors. Another thought ... after you boot the install CD, at the splash screen hit , try booting with 'linux noapic acpi=off' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Serv

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
bed38b237d8a MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD3.i586.iso If the md5sums don't check, or you suspect your CD drive is the cause, d/l the hd.img, dd it to a floppy, copy the CD's you have to HDD, an try'n install that way. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
hurricane season though! > > Good luck (and night), > HarM HarM, post the link you posted to the 'other' list ;) No damn boat, pretty good size ship! Maybe you could contract some dredging as an affiliate venture? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texa

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
hin about bittorcrap, but after ten minutes it tol' me I only had 246+ hours to go ;) The RC2 iso's were already burned 7 hours ago from an ftp d/l. Suppose I could start bittsh!+ before goin to bed, but that'd only be contributing to the mistaken delinquency and delusion of others

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > September 9, 2003 03:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Tuesday September 9 2003 01:34 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > From NL it should be at your adress on Thur

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
ad of updates since RC2. Just update RC1, probly easier than re-getting RC2. urpmi.update -a -f --wget && urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v, on the main mirrors. At least they didn't play bittorrent games this time. Best way to turn broadband into a 14,4K d

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
red to replace it. When I did use superformat some time ago, it would only make oversize DOS floppy's by varying amounts of sectors (21 IIRC) an tracks. I was never able to over format an ext2 floppy with any utility. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
hat the 'rescue' option was added to the 1st and 2nd install CD's. So who needs a boot floppy anyhow? ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 1 2003 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > >Anne, 'dmidecode' (as root) will tell you what voltage the > > AGP slot has, among other bios settings. EG (excerpt from > > mine), > > > &g

Re: [expert] 9.2-RC1 VT8233 sound

2003-09-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
player -ao arts filename.mov'. That did just begin shortly before cooker reached RC1. Alsa works for everything else. Try runnin 'draksound' from a console as root. Make sure both aumix and kmix aren't muted, or have sound levels set to 0. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
at voltage the AGP slot has, among other bios settings. EG (excerpt from mine), Handle 0x001B DMI type 9, 13 bytes. Card Slot Slot: AGP Type: 32bit Long AGP Status: In use. Slot Features: 3.3v -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 & Pentium 4

2003-08-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
ourself the grief. OTOH, I already had/have a tried an true Sparkle (AMD app'vd PSU). Don't blame Soyo, you could very well have a substandard power supply. You do monitor voltages for accuracy an steadiness, right? An coolin? Fancy cpu coolers are for the kiddies, jus keep the case at room temp an a generic cpu hs/fan will do jus' fine. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave

2003-08-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
gives the total time down on the bottom of the window. Very useful for jugglin 'em around to fit on an 80 minute CDr. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] dev/sound

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
how if it's running As to virtual files and what they do, Google 'linux pretend files' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi force

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
ingly and with caution ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
cation you choose. I like to use d4x tho. Then I can d/l all 3 iso's simultaneously. Bandwidth can also be throttled, and it will resume broken d/l's. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dumb URPMI question

2003-07-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
dea. That will often fail, and could even lead to urpmi uninstalling most of your system. Many times it's necessary to try several mirrors as some files may be missing on some mirrors, or the hdlist is incorrect. SSM (edit-urpm-sources.pl) makes this quick an easy. Just check or u

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
as doing it from a shell. :-) > > I haven't tried Gcombust. I'll have a play with it when I have > time > > Anne You might try simplecdrx-1.3.1-1mdk.i586.rpm Tho it's even simpler with a few aliases an the CL ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Ch

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
elieve the 67° is likely bogus. hda is no hotter to the touch than hdb. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] perl(Authen::Smb::Smb)

2003-07-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
our post also shows as multi-part, as I'm sure my reply will. I believe the Mandrake footer that sympa adds is responsible. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
/dev/hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0: 34°C > > Hmm. Interesting that your temp on the same drive is half what mine reports. H ;) FWIW, I've got good case cooling, a fan on my HDD's to boot -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
: 67°C /dev/hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2: 47°C I don't know whether to believe this output or not. They're good performing HDD's, not a hint of problem. Jeez, I could proly use the 80gig for cookin breakfast too (?) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 15 2003 01:11 pm, Thomas K. Gamble wrote: > Anyone know which mbs have the core temp sensors? From reading, not experience a few Asus, Gigabyte and a coupl'a others for new AMD XP's. IIRC, I read it to Tom's Hardware Guide. Check there or Google. --

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
MD diode, don't do it very well. I believe that's why Intels are the preferred cpu's for servers. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
cpu's since 6/10/02. On those boards the reported temp is the core temp. With either accurate diode, or approximate/adjusted probe reporting, you can expect the temps to go up as the cpu ages. Say about 5C after around 18 months. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
.part01.rar'. It'll find the rest of the rar's. Or use file-roller. Bring up the rar's in a file manager, click on the first part, then OK. Both the CL and the GUI for it will stop if one of the parts is missing. Both display progress while the movie is being extracted. --

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
audio images. I often burn way over 800 mb's of wav's to a CDr, but the time needs to be just under 80 minutes of playing time to make the CDr stable on cheap junk CD players. Movies OTOH don't go by minutes, they need to fit 'data wise' in MB's on a CDr. Guess I

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 02:32 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 11:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > It's an IDE burner, not SCSI. I'm not interested in burnin > > at over 8x. Most of the time I burn at 4x. Other than the > > quality drives (Plextor and Y

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 12:15 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 07 July 2003 11:51 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > copying anyhow, and burners are better readers than cdrom's ;) > > I can testify to that - my younger brother made some 800 meg CDs > one time for me...only thing

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
ap burner might be a better alternative than keepin my old cd-rw and even older CDrom. Just use the burner for everything in my next system. I'm not a fan of direct CD to CDr copying anyhow, and burners are better readers than cdrom's ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
, and are updates available (or have been)? I went to their site to look for myself, but got an 'under construction' message. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
e on your CD's or available from Mandrake mirrors. Next step if your hardware passes uninstall nvidia and use Xfree's 'nv' driver. You'll also need to replace the nvidia tainted kernel. Uninstall any other closed source proprietary unknown apps or drivers. At

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
RAW/R96P RAW/R96R > > HTH > richard > > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). > > Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO > > Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 > > RAW/R96P RAW/R96R It helps, I'm mainly int

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday July 6 2003 08:25 am, ed tharp wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 08:56, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). > > Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO > > Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 > > RAW/R9

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
' Revision : '1.09' Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
e great to know. As it stands I am reluctant to use > them, but maybe I'm missing out on a great product. As I answered before, it's still an issue. For your own take search recent lkml archives. I've seen various posts about WD's lack of proper CRC checking in just

Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
disable udma altogether for WD drives. This will not alleviate the data corruption problems WD's inflict when placed on the same ide channel with certain other brand drives tho. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
bios) mb/sec in the upper left corner so you can see what is achevied by changing bios timing options. 'Cept for ram with SPD onboard the stick, and SPD enabled in bios (which IMO it never should be), ram doesn't dictate what speed it runs at, the motherboard and bios timings do. The

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
IO voltage (+5 to 10%), and a decent high quality PSU with very steady output. Most quality mobo's furnish over spec IOv by default, usually 105%. Corsair XMS, probly te best ram currently available, won't run worth a damn on a PC Chips motherboard, with substandard caps, fed by a wobbl

Re: [expert] Compiling kernel from .src.rpm

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
m Still it's easier to just to rpm -Uvh the kernel-source rpm and compile the kernel. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Multimedia-Kernel

2003-06-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
rying to get a multimedia > tool called (IIRC) Jack. > > James Doesn't require any more cpu power than other kernels. It's mostly for professional audio, but for other users it does have the low latency and preempt patches, plus a new and improved supermount. --

Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
as with any other > release. > > Miark ...and less bugs the more people use and test cooker, monitor the cooker list, and submit usable bug reports to bugzilla. Mandrake is for all practical purposes, a community based distro. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Co

Re: [expert] cooker installation

2003-06-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 22 2003 11:08 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:39 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/CookerHOWTO.html > > This was the beginning of a document that has become part of the > cooker TWiki. You can find the much more complete vers

Re: [expert] cooker installation

2003-06-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
okay > to use with Cooker? Or should I start over with my /home > partition too. > > Thanks! > John Drouhard http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2003-06/msg01423.php (the mirrors are still not fixed) http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/CookerHOWTO.html http://www.mandrakelinu

Re: [expert] No Sound (again)

2003-06-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
I've been usin 9.2 all along with no problems. I've got onboard AC97 sound. I don't remember any complaints or bug reports for 9.2 SB live! When the mirrors finally do get straight there should be a new 2.4.21 marcelo kernel. Maybe it would straighten out your problem. Or try

Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 15 2003 04:47 pm, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: > Does urpmi --update kernel do anything different? Look in /etc/urpmi/inst.list ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Running "updatedb" crashes my comp!

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 15 2003 07:52 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > 'locate -u' == 'updatedb'Sorry I must'a missed the part > > where you've had this problem even after a fresh install. You > &g

Re: [expert] Running "updatedb" crashes my comp!

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday June 14 2003 10:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2003 09:43 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > That means you've got no problems with cpu/cache/ram and > > that your cooling is adequate under extreme load. I suspect > > your problem involves s

Re: [expert] Running "updatedb" crashes my comp!

2003-06-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
ll these hard lockups and resets you've had. Tho I really don't know what slocate uses to build the db, I suspect it doesn't do it all by itself. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New Con Kolivas 2.4.21-rc7 kernel patch

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 10 2003 06:32 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 15:00, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Tuesday June 10 2003 11:49 am, Robert Crawford wrote: > > > For those interested, there's a brand new Con Kolivas -ck1 > > > patch against kerne

Re: [expert] New Con Kolivas 2.4.21-rc7 kernel patch

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
.18mm-mdk with low latency, preempt, and improved supermount ? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Linux Flash Player trouble.

2003-06-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
crawl... Question is... Is it just my > > box or can others duplicate this problem. > > My cpu usage hovers around 50% on that page using konq with > libflashplayer working. I have an AMD 2400+ Mine is about 50% too, I use Mandrake's flash rpm (FlashPlayer-6.0-3mdk) with

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
best implementation of supermount is found in the mm kernels, currently 2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
file making sure that the continence is correct, > if the continence of your /etc/hosts file is not correct that > will cause lockups.. > > Cheers > Mark For tmdns, I just went to MCC, System Services and stopped it from running. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus C

Re: [expert] Radeon: Anyone using: Option "AGPFastWrite" "true" with VIA KT400 ??

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday May 27 2003 03:59 am, John Vickers wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > [...] > > > Try puttin 'mem=nopentium' > > in your lilo or grub append line. Don't forget to run 'lilo'. > > Since it's a kernel parameter, you'll need to r

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.2 (login problem SOLVED)

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
the time before ;( I often suck like that ;) NBD, the 3 months of testing for 9.2 is fixin to begin in June with a release of ISO's**. I'll do a re-install then, and in the meantime I use GDM. I only need it for log-out/ins after (mostly kde, XFree) cooker updates anyhow. ** ht

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
ke's internal server (snafu), or they were being held on purpose. I suspect the latter reason this time. Could be it's still frozen, tho I don't see why since the CHRPM list is so active. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
#x27;. IIRC, it was also weekly in 9.0. A switch from daily, since so many users were complaining about HDD trashing at start up (anacron). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
ready. BUT, the mirrors are stagnant, and nothings showin up yet. The "why not?, and "how come?" has been asked on the cooker list, but nobody in the know at Mandrake has said anything. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
discernable improvement seen here, but I use it anyhow ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-04-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
other Crucial sticks. All at cas2, 4 bank-interleaving at 135mhz. Won't do 137 tho, without errors :) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
> > Apologies... didn't realize it had been that long. Submit a bug > report through Bugzilla... This is a definite problem. > > James An inconvience, not a bug or a problem. It happens from time to time. I expect it to resolve Monday when whoever's maintaining the

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
IW, my glxgears fps (1024x768x24) drop some when using the multimedia kernel, compared to Mdk's 'stock' kernel. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Search the recent cooker ML archive for the discussion. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
prietary drivers. Now that I'm back to using the XFree driver, and the nvidia taints are gone, the system's zippy again ;) But to tell the truth, the MM kernel doesn't add any noticible zip. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
and a few other patches. That info comes from my understanding of cooker ML discussions. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > On Friday 28 March 2003 09:09 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Thursday March 27 2003 10:53 pm, flacycads wrote: > > > I found

Re: [expert] 9.1 says "No DISK drive!"

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday March 28 2003 09:34 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:36:11 -0600 > > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Seems simple to me, avoid buying Win-motherboards with built > > in fake raid. Add on a real controller on a motherboard su

Re: [expert] 9.1 says "No DISK drive!"

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
you need so many ide's. Keep in mind tho, no matter how many ide ports you add, or are built in, they all have to work at taking their turn, thru your one 33mhz pci bus. YMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services fro

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
user processes to run with realtime priority." -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
;ve revealed this, On the bright side, if you update to current cooker this weekend, you'll have 9.1 final ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
membership card which is also bootable Linux CD ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] anyone know of a good hardware diagnostics tool for linux?

2003-03-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
ur case and cpu cooling is adequate, take the diag's in the above order. Otherwise go right to cpuburn. The acid test for cpu/cache/ram/PSU/motherboards. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
hatever) so I can reset the whole mess with > > an "rpm --rebuild"? rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* (^^, that's two underscores) rpm --rebuilddb -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ML9.0 installation fails on step 'Hard drive detection' (WDC WD800AB-00CBA1)

2003-03-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
acpi=force -- This parameter activates ACPI even when the computer's BIOS is prior to 2000. This parameter overwrites acpi=off. pci=noacpi -- This parameter disables the PCI IRQ routing of the new ACPI system. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
x27;t be available until the box versions are, with the exception of Club members. 'Course the easy work around is to get the RC2 iso's and update from any cooker mirror. By mid March, you'll have 9.1 final. ... or join the Club ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Some weird problem with pppoe

2003-03-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
onfig files, this used to be called USEPEERDNS. Changed to # PEERDNS for better Red Hat compatibility PEERDNS=yes DNS1= DNS2= -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
om line is tho, the "Welcome to the [Mandrake} mailing list" email that automatically is sent to each new subscriber specifically requests that all posts be as plain text, and that HTML should not be sent. So to do so is arrogant, inconsiderate, and rude, or just plain ignorance of ne

Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification

2003-02-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
had this, but I think they did (I've never used it). Settings | Configure notifications, New mail arrived, there's settings to play a sound, popup a mesg window, log to a file, etc. But I doubt there's any use for this unless you also configure kmail to check for mail at regul

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
as2, 4 bank-interleaving), and using slighty over spec voltages for Vcore (cpu) and I/O (ram), does show measurable preformance increases in the range of 5 to 10%. Y'allsMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
There's also the P4's with their poor FPU capability, and that still don't have decent motherboard chipsets to run on. If ya just gotta squeeze out a little more zip ... overclock ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Serious problem with files system/hardware use in 9.0

2003-02-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
'Course this is with 9.1, which probly makes a difference. I'd think tho that a current 2.4.21 cooker kernel should not be a problem on a 9.0 system. (kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.8mdk-1-1mdk). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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