Re: [Cooker] mem=nopentium and AMD
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Robert Fox wrote: > Bottom line is - my machine crashes HARD without this option - and I > would venture to guess there are several others out there who also have > AMD based machines - and some of these people may not be technical > enough to find and/or install this option in lilo.conf - too hard for a > newbie. True. This is a workaround for the cache consistency problems that occur with AGP video cards and AMD CPUs. It hurts performance, so it shouldn't be used everywhere. At the same time, I haven't heard of a real fix (which is non-trivial) for the problem, so waiting for one in the kernel may not make sense either. --- Stan Seibert
Re: [Cooker] XFS is needet! [Was: AbiWord]
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alexander Skwar wrote: > So sprach »Stefan Siegel« am 2002-01-29 um 11:33:17 +0100 : > > Linux XFS Font server. So it is needet! Maybe not for for everyone out > > there, but there are still lots of users ... > > for the majority of the target audience (home users), XFS is not needed. > So it should be removed. That's actually the same reasoning why ide > stuff and ext2 is in the kernel. So if this holds true for the kernel, > it should also hold true for XFS. I think you have confused "XFS" the journaling file system with "XFS" the X Windows Font Server. :) --- Stan Seibert
Re: [Cooker] What about lirc ?
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, shift wrote: > I have a small question : > When will lirc be included in Mandrake ? > > I don't talk about the IRC soft but about the tool to use Infrared Remote ( > http://www.lirc.org ). It is not difficult to install but I think it will be > usefull for the new user who don't know it. > Moreover it's work with lots of TV card remote and it's very usefull to > transform a computer in TV / mp3 player ;) I would like to second this request. lirc is a very handy program. --- Stan Seibert
