Hi Steve,
In answer to a couple of your questions:-
Steven Hatfield wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I just finished installing Beta3, and I wanted to go over some stuff that
> happened and that I saw in the installation.
>
> First, my setup:
> Tyan Thunder 100 (Dual processor- 440GX chipset)
> This mobo has built in Adaptec AIC-7895 SCSI and Intel Ethernet 10/100
> Dual PII/450 with 256MB PC100 SDRAM
I have the same mobo, but I only have a single P3 (Katmai) CPU in it
currently.
> Question: How safe is it to go with "Hard Drive Optimizations"? I have a
> fairly recent mobo and a VERY new HDD (2 months old at most) -- do you think
> it would be safe to use those optimizations? And if so, how can I turn them
> on after installation of the system?
I currently use "hdparm -q -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hda" for a hard disk and
"hdparm -q -c1 -d1 -u1 /dev/hdc" for my IDE CDROM. "hdparm -i /dev/hda" will
tell you how high you can go with the "-m" command. My hard drives are
recent models from Quantum.
These flags work fine for me, although my system is not under a heavy load -
to be able to stress test.
> LICQ didn't work properly -- I turned the dock icon on, and clicked "apply"
> and it seg faulted (same thing happened after restarting it 2 or 3 more times
> and trying again). To test whether this was Mandrake specific, or a problem
> with the app, I went out to www.licq.org, and downloaded the latest source
> file. I removed all of the licq rpm packages and installed the source file,
> and ran that one -- it didn't have a problem at all with the dock icon (it's
> running right now). Also, you might want to take a look at the qt-gui plugin
> configure option "--with-kde" -- since this distribution is KDE2 based, you
> might want to turn that on, if you haven't already.
I actually use the "gtk+licq" plugin from cooker for all my LICQ gui needs.
Works well.
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