account of Red Hat 5.1 - Inspiron 3200 installation

1999-02-02 Thread simon
Hi everyone, I recently installed RH51 on my Inspiron 3200 and it's now running almost perfectly. I have documented the experience at http://www.nzgames.com/inspiron It may be of use to some of you, or to a future reader of the list archives. S :-) -- Simon H. Garlick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Smart CPU mode.. huh?

1999-02-02 Thread Peter Bailey
I have my bogomips listed on my login screen and I was about to log in, and I noticed it was at 131.07. I thought, no way. Normally it's at 264.60. I remembered I turned on Smart CPU mode, which is supposed to slow the cpu down when it's not being used. I'm just wondering what is up.

APM problem?

1999-02-02 Thread Paul M.N Feehan
I recently decided to recompile my kernel (2.0.35, slackware 3.6 on an i3000) and enable APM, essentially following Tomasz Barszczak's tips from his i3000 page. I backup my old /vmlinuz, do a make zdisk to write the kernel to a floppy and a zImage, and then copy the new zImage to /vmlinuz, exacty

Re: power-off on shutdown -- halt -p?

1999-02-02 Thread Travis Bauer
What are the latest SysVinit tools? TB -Original Message- From: Shing-Gene Yung [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 9:48 PM Subject: Re: power-off on shutdown -- halt -p? The kernel guys recommend getting the latest SysVinit

Re: APM problem?

1999-02-02 Thread Peter Bailey
did you reinitialize lilo? go type lilo at a prompt as root. if that's not it, make sure you are using the new kernel. also, it's a good idea NOT to overwrite your old kernel unless you are sure it's working 100 percent. if you have a lack of hd space, remove it.. whatever, but if you have