> Do you have your time set correctly in bios? Do you run ntpd ? > I have no time issues with 9.2 over two differnet sets of hardware > (motherboard clock RTC chipsets). http://www.ntp.org/ has a list of
That's all done and running properly. 'date', xclock, what have you, all show the correct time. There was one time recently when the time was about 20 minutes off but I fixed it. It's the *KDE* clock display that's wrong. Right now it's fine but give it a while and it'll spontaneously change. Or maybe it won't. We'll see. I just did a urpmi --auto-select earlier this morning and I notice 160 new / changed packages. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# service ntpd status ntpd (pid 1112) is running... [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# date Sun Aug 24 11:43:38 PDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ntptrace localhost.localdomain: stratum 3, offset 0.000026, synch distance 0.12144 time.nrc.ca: stratum 2, offset -0.016175, synch distance 0.04117 tac.nrc.ca: stratum 1, offset -0.018553, synch distance 0.00172, refid 'PPS' Seems close enough for government work. (Something my junior high school science teacher used to say.) > [root /tom] $ service ntpd status How often does this thing sync? > I don't have a printer. No problems here ;) FWIW that got squashed; printing is back to normal. > They work fine here. Onboard AC97 5.1 surround sound, uses alsa. > I did recently havt'a start usin aRts to play QT (Sorenson) .mov's emu10k1 here, sblive. arts doesn't seem to want to get loaded. Near as I can tell, it's complaining that it can't connect to a socket in /tmp/mcop-dfox/. Yet there are files therein and they are recent. > (mplayer -ao arts <file.mov>). That's a latest mplayer issue tho. > The latest alsa in cooker works fine for everything else. MOF, I'm > impressed. Well, since arts couldn't get loaded, no sound. But without the -ao mplayer is happy. Funny thing is that no sound drivers seem to be loaded (apart from those modules in the kernel, of course) and the system plays sounds just fine. Dunno wny one needs an extra complication above what is already there. I want to try some mov files again but traler park wants the flash plugin. I get it, install it, and still it thinks it's not there. I've had that problem for some time now. > I wouldn't touch k3b with a ten foot pole. 'Sides, the CL is > quicker an easier for burnin CDr's than any GUI app. No problems Agreed up to a point, and depends on to what extent this can be automated. At some point one might have a bunch of files, and some processing may be needed on some files. For a lot of things cdrecord is better - if you like saying 'cdrecord -dev 1,0,0 -speed 4 -audio -pad ' and then typing in filename after filename that contain spaces and underscores in the most obscene places. At some point you'll want some GUI, if only to feed cdrecord a list of files. I was messing around the other day and burned an avi via 'cdrecord -dev 1,0,0 -data johnq.avi'. To view it, I have to dd /dev/cdrom because there ain't no filesystem. But the other day when I burn a number of mp3s (this time using gcombust) I can mount the CD, or play it in my mp3 player(s). Is it that in case a) I am dealing with only 1 file? I also was futzing around with making an ISO image that I can loopback mount & hang off somewhere in /tmp. The idea is that I can then open konqueror, copy files to the "ISO" to my heart's content, and then burn the image with cdrecord when I'm done. The closest I got was that I made a file of approximately 650 megabytes using dd, then mkisofs that file - it appeared to do something, but the ISO is still just a file of zero bytes. And at one point I had a ISO containing its own self-image (again full of zeros) with no way to remove that file to put other files inside. And if we want to make VCD's ... well let's just not go there now. > Sig11's point as much to hardware (ram) as anything else. So > eliminate that first. Memtest86 is OK, but not a ram test. It uses I did all that (mprime, memtest, cpuburn) - no problems at all, this box is solid. > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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