Re: [expert] aic7xxx module problems.. How can I turn it off?

2000-10-21 Thread BillK

Have you checked lilo.conf or grubs menu.lst (whichever yu are using) -
sounds like the install program detected it and set it up to init the
card before booting.

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Re: [expert] aic7xxx module problems.. How can I turn it off?

2000-10-21 Thread eastie

I've played with a bunch of the settings in the SCSI card bios to no 
avail.. Nothing seems out of place or to be configured incorrectly.. And 
it's weird because, again, it always works fine in windows but only works 
intermittently in Mandrake.

Could someone out there help me work around this problem?  How can I tell 
Mandrake not to load the aic7xxx.o module on startup?  It's doing it REALLY 
early.. like before all the "Starting... [ OK ] " messages it's trying to 
load the SCSI module.  Where is it being told that I want it to load the 
module?  And how can I tell it not to?

Thanks,
 Tom


At 14:12 21/10/00, you wrote:
>there is a way to drop into the adaptec card's BIOS on startup. poke around
>and see if any settings look funny (use your best judgement).  there is a
>tool in there which shows you what it can see on the scsi bus. check for
>termination / device # problems.
>
>Sorry I can't be more specific.
>on 10/20/00 4:40 PM, Tom Eastman  wrote:
> > I have an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card with a hard drive plugged into it.  My
> > problem is that, when booting linux, the SCSI card goes into an infinite
> > reset loop about half the time and I can't boot.
> >
> > What is *weird* about this is if my computer has been turned off for a
> > while and I turn it on, it always fails to boot, whereas if I've been
> > running windows for about half an hour already, it will generally work
> > perfectly.
> >
> > Last time I had Mandrake installed, it didn't try to load the aic7xxx.o
> > module unless I told it to, that way it would always boot and I would only
> > risk crashing the computer with "insmod aic7xxx" if I needed to get
> > something off of that hard drive.  But now it always tries to load the
> > module at boot time.. How can I tell it not to?
> >
> > Or, even better, if someone could tell me what might be causing the card to
> > not work unless it's been in windows for a while, I could fix the problem
> > once and for all.  It would be a major step towards reducing my dependence
> > on windows... I can't think of a more noble cause!!!




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Re: [expert] Gnu Privacy Guard 1.0.3

2000-10-21 Thread Mark Weaver

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

PGP sure is free. I'm running right now on my machine. Both PGPcmndln and
PGP4Pine. Both operate quite well on this Mandrake machine.

- -- 
Mark

/*  I never worry about the to-jams.
 *  Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth
 *  it's already too late...just make sure
 *  you chew them thoroughly before swallowing!
 */ 
Registered Linux user #182496
 *   Pine 4.21   *

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:59am ,Alexander Skwar spake passionately in a message:

> So sprach Michael Powell PhD am Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:24:25AM +:
> > almost all countries. PGP 5.6.8 offeres many different algorithms that
> > are much more
> 
> But PGP is not free, and on a free OS a free crypto application makes much
> more sence.
> 
> PS:  Please stop quoting all the text, and only repeat as much as needed,
> moron.
> 
> Alexander Skwar
> 

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Version: PGP 6.5.2
Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75

iQA/AwUBOfJ6iXul8fsyuUZCEQJEUgCfS2eq83dPx2rPAvqSsicuBvK6Tc4AniBH
iJTJvStWo4uTnzTBSsF7sHk7
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RE: [expert] 7.1 on 486

2000-10-21 Thread Mark Weaver

mandrake 7.1 will install and run on a 486. I've got an IBM sitting in my
dinning room with Mandrake 7.1 on it and it runs like a top. Not a care in
the world. As soon as I put more memory in it I'll be able to run more
than just IceWM as an X-windows desktop too!

-- 
Mark

/*  I never worry about the to-jams.
 *  Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth
 *  it's already too late...just make sure
 *  you chew them thoroughly before swallowing!
 */ 
Registered Linux user #182496
 *   Pine 4.21   *

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 2:48pm ,Bill Shirley spake passionately in a message:

> I far as I know there is only a LM 7.02 iso version for i486.
> Burned a CD with it a couple days ago.
> 
> Bill
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of 
> > Jean-Philippe Gois
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:57 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] 7.1 on 486
> > 
> > 
> > George McConnell wrote:
> > > 
> > > will 7.1 not install on a 486?
> > > 
> > 
> > It will, but you have to download a dedicated iso file.
> > You'll find one at www.linuxiso.org/download and at most ftp mandrake
> > mirrors.
> > 
> > HTH
> > Flupke
> > --
> > << There's no place like ~! >>
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Larry Marshall


> > /dev/hdb6 /mnt/DOS_hdb6 vfat user,exec,umask=0,0,0
> >
> > That should solve your problem.
> 
> Reboot?  Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount
> it again?  I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab
> is read again and that would be that.

Sure you can unmount the drive and then issue a mount -a.  I never
know how to answer questions in this conference as when people ask
basic stuff like this I don't really know what they know or don't know
and so often take the path of least resistance.  

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Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Anton Graham

Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus:

> Reboot?  Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount
> it again?  I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab
> is read again and that would be that.

Indeed you can :)

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Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Praedor Tempus

Larry Marshall wrote:
> 
> Praedor Tempus wrote:
> >
> > I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat.
> > It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can
> > be played with wine).
> 
> > I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the
> 
> chmod changes permissions for the files but these don't exist in vfat
> so you get the error.

Thank you.

I hadn't realized it was all directly associated with the filesystem -
that it was more of a "how linux handles this or that".  


> In your /etc/fstab file change the relevant line to be:
> 
> /dev/hdb6 /mnt/DOS_hdb6 vfat user,exec,umask=0,0,0
> 
> That should solve your problem.

Reboot?  Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount
it again?  I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab
is read again and that would be that.

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Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Larry Marshall

Praedor Tempus wrote:
> 
> I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat.
> It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can
> be played with wine).

> I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the

chmod changes permissions for the files but these don't exist in vfat
so you get the error.

> permitted" messages.  Excuse me?  As root I can do anything I
> want.  I can wipe any and all drives, partitions, mountpoints
> off the face of the earth.   I can delete the system by running

In your /etc/fstab file change the relevant line to be:

/dev/hdb6 /mnt/DOS_hdb6 vfat user,exec,umask=0,0,0

That should solve your problem.

You'll need to reboot for it to take affect.

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[expert] losing mouse on exit

2000-10-21 Thread Jeff Malka

I am running mandrake 7.1 and a MS scroll mouse.

It is configured properly and works fine.  Every now and then, after I exit
from kde or xfce, when I get to the graphic login screen, the mouse goes
dead.  No pointer.  I have to use tab and space to exit.  If I restart
xwindows, the mouse comes back.

It is interittent.  What could it be?

Thanks.


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Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Anton Graham

Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus:

> I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the
> drive as writeable to all, but I keep getting "operation not 
> permitted" messages.  Excuse me?  As root I can do anything I
> want. 

You can't change permissions on individual files/directories on a file
system that doesn't support permissions.  There's no place to store the
information.

> messages but I am not permitted to change one lousy mount, or
> portions thereof, to be world-writeable?  

You need to mount it with appropriate permissions.  Specifically a umask.
What I did on a dual boot machine was added all users I wanted to have write
access to the partition to a new group called "fatusers" (group number 527
here) then editted the /etc/fstab entry for the partition to include
gid=527,umask=007.  What this does is gives full read/write privileges to
root and members of that group, and nobody else can even cd into the mount
point.

> What do I have to do AS ROOT to do this?  I cannot do "chmod 777"
> on it, let alone ANY other variation of chmod on /mnt/DOS_hdb6 
> OR any subdirectory on it.  Why not?

See above.

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Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Kevin R. Bulgrien


The /etc/fstab entry for this drive is probably set to ro (read-only)
and may need to be set to rw (read-write).  A RO mount would override
any permissions issues, and would be expressly supposed to do so.

Kevin

At 04:07 PM 10/21/00, you wrote:

>I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat.
>It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can
>be played with wine).
>
>I want to make it, or at least directories on it, writeable to
>users but I cannot do it, which confuses me somewhat.
>
>I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the
>drive as writeable to all, but I keep getting "operation not 
>permitted" messages.  Excuse me?  As root I can do anything I
>want.  I can wipe any and all drives, partitions, mountpoints
>off the face of the earth.   I can delete the system by running
>"rm -rf /*" and I wont be stopped with "operation not permitted" 
>messages but I am not permitted to change one lousy mount, or
>portions thereof, to be world-writeable?  
>
>What do I have to do AS ROOT to do this?  I cannot do "chmod 777"
>on it, let alone ANY other variation of chmod on /mnt/DOS_hdb6 
>OR any subdirectory on it.  Why not?
>
>praedor
>
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[expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Praedor Tempus

I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat.
It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can
be played with wine).

I want to make it, or at least directories on it, writeable to
users but I cannot do it, which confuses me somewhat.

I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the
drive as writeable to all, but I keep getting "operation not 
permitted" messages.  Excuse me?  As root I can do anything I
want.  I can wipe any and all drives, partitions, mountpoints
off the face of the earth.   I can delete the system by running
"rm -rf /*" and I wont be stopped with "operation not permitted" 
messages but I am not permitted to change one lousy mount, or
portions thereof, to be world-writeable?  

What do I have to do AS ROOT to do this?  I cannot do "chmod 777"
on it, let alone ANY other variation of chmod on /mnt/DOS_hdb6 
OR any subdirectory on it.  Why not?

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[expert] POP3 Server Outgoing mail

2000-10-21 Thread --mike




I am having a problem with my POP3 mail 
server.  I am able to send and receive mail from my Linux box just 
fine.  The problem is when I am at another location using a client such as 
Outlook express I am able to Recieve mail OK but when I try to send mail I get 
an error message saying "User 'mike' rejected by the server".  I am sure 
Outlook is configured correctly.  I also tried netscape and got a very 
similar error message.  To me it seems like the problem is a configuration 
with the mail server.
 
Here is some info:  I have a domain name 
registered to my IP.  I am running mandrake 7.1.  I am using Postfix 
for SMTP and Qpopper for POP3.  
 
You people have been really great in the 
past.  If anyone can help me or give me some advice I would greatly 
appreciate it.
 
Thanks in advance,
Mike


Re: [expert] wireless networking

2000-10-21 Thread Kevin Scott

Lucent makes a product that our local school district has used for routers
and I think that D-Link also has a compatable product

Kevin

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Vincent Danen wrote:

> Does anyone know anything about wireless networking under Linux?  I'm
> looking to find a brand that works with Linux and provides support for
> my laptop (ie. pcmcia card).  I don't know the first thing about
> wireless, so I'd appreciate any horror stories you may have.  =)  It's
> for an article I've been asked to write.  Thanks.
> 
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> Current Linux uptime: 3 days 11 hours 26 minutes.
> 
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[expert] POP3 Server Problem

2000-10-21 Thread --mike



 


[expert] Customizing Aurora

2000-10-21 Thread Shawn Hafen

Is anyone using Aurora? 

Im trying to figure out how to configure it (i want to change the way it looks)

there is a /etc/aurora/.gtkrc that seems to be the "theme" of aurora but there is a 
comment at the top that says its autowritten and not to edit...

anyone have any info on this?

BTW im running MD7.2 beta3

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Re: [expert] ./configure problem

2000-10-21 Thread Jon

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote:

> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > > > Currently running Mandrake7.2rc1 with everything installed that I can
> > > > think of.
> > >
> > > Some developpement libraries are on the second CD.. did you install
> > > them as
> > > well ?
> >
> > Yes, ALL kde rpms have been installed and I still get this error during
> > ./configure.
>
> which version of KDE do you have installed?  can you provide a list of the
> kde packages you have installed (rpm -qa | grep kde > output ... or the
> like :)?

These packages are installed:

kdesupport-1.99-1mdk
kdelibs-1.99-5mdk
kdelibs-sound-1.99-5mdk
kde1-compat-1.1.2-7mdk
kdebase-1.99-17mdk
kdepim-1.99-2mdk
kdegraphics-1.99-2mdk
kdeaddutils-1.99-3mdk
kdenetwork-1.99-2mdk
kdeutils-1.99-3mdk
kdemultimedia-1.99-3mdk
kdetoys-1.99-1mdk
kde-i18n-British-1.99-4mdk
kdeadmin-1.99-5mdk
kdegames-1.99-2mdk
kde1-compat-devel-1.1.2-7mdk
kdesupport-devel-1.99-1mdk
kdelibs-devel-1.99-5mdk
kdesdk-1.99-2mdk
kdegraphics-devel-1.99-2mdk
kdemultimedia-devel-1.99-3mdk
kdebase-devel-1.99-17mdk
kdelibs-sound-devel-1.99-5mdk
kdenetwork-devel-1.99-2mdk
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Re: [expert] rtl8139

2000-10-21 Thread Cecil Watson

Have you tried editing the file and removing one?

guran remberg wrote:

> Hi
>
> I know that this should be posted to Cooker, but I left that list, as I
> felt that I don't have the knowledge to add anything.
>
> I have just started a new computer with "Linux-Mandrake Odyssey-rc1-i586
> 20001020 14:14" and had serious problems with my ethernet card.
>
> The card was a Planet 10/100 PCI with a rtl8139 chip.
>
> In modules.conf there was two cards automatically installed although I
> only had one => eth0= 8139too and eth1=rtl8139. I can understand that
> the system got confused.
>
> I tried debian potato, but it refused to go on as it could not resolve
> or reach my LAN.
>
> The machine is a:
> PentiumII, coppermine, 933 MHz.
> ASUS p3v4x, VIA &c
> 256 ECC 133 MHz Compaque
> Creative 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 VANTA 32 MB
> now ISA NE2000 10MB
> was sound Soundblaster 64
> IBM 30 GB 7200
>
> regards
> guran
>
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[expert] Re: 7.2 -rc

2000-10-21 Thread root

I downloaded the 2 iso's for LM7.2-rc and the install went well, until I

got to the setting of the time zome. Everyttime I click to window, I get

hd access and a errror finding zone info. and I can't get past this
point HELP!expert





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[expert] rtl8139

2000-10-21 Thread guran remberg

Hi

I know that this should be posted to Cooker, but I left that list, as I
felt that I don't have the knowledge to add anything.

I have just started a new computer with "Linux-Mandrake Odyssey-rc1-i586
20001020 14:14" and had serious problems with my ethernet card.

The card was a Planet 10/100 PCI with a rtl8139 chip.

In modules.conf there was two cards automatically installed although I
only had one => eth0= 8139too and eth1=rtl8139. I can understand that
the system got confused.

I tried debian potato, but it refused to go on as it could not resolve
or reach my LAN.

The machine is a:
PentiumII, coppermine, 933 MHz.
ASUS p3v4x, VIA &c
256 ECC 133 MHz Compaque
Creative 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 VANTA 32 MB
now ISA NE2000 10MB
was sound Soundblaster 64
IBM 30 GB 7200

regards
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Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-21 Thread Larry Marshall


> The different users would look like (and the most likely percentage of
> current computer users):  *** This is my Gut feeling.
> .5% Guru - If the guru does not know the answer, normally, nobody
> does.
> 2%  Advanced user - Can handle all day to day issues, plan, build
> and develop systems.  Rarely needs reference material anymore.
> 5%  Intermediate user - Can handle day to day issues, plan simple
> builds, but not ready to develop systems.
> 10% Beginning user - Can get into most "normal" applications and get
> their own work done.  Has almost no idea about how it all works.
> 83.5%   Newbie - Just installed Linux.  Has no idea what to do next.
> Clicks on things and gets lost.

I have no ideas if your numbers are correct but I will make this
comment.  The notion that you're going to hand Linux of any kind to a
true newcomer to a computer and expect that they're going to actually
install and run it is beyond reason.  The same is almost as true for
Windows.  This is what keeps Apple afloat and makes the iMac popular. 
I'm not saying this to be perjorative towards Apple or you Bill but I
think it's reasonable to make distinctions between true computer users
(who can do things independently) and the vast masses who use
computers at work with tech support.

> The Guru level would basically get the option on everything, and be able to
> see all packages, whereas the Newbie would get only the most uncomplicated
> stuff (read GUI or very simple shell.)

The problem with tiered installations is that the Linux world is
dependent upon the Internet for its support and for software access. 
I agree with you that lots of stuff needs to be eliminated and tied up
for newbies but the minute they download a program from freshmeat
they're in trouble with such a system. 

At this point, I think the best that a company like Mandrake can hope
for is to provide products that will make gurus, gurus supporting
application users, and your intermediate categories.  My wife uses
computers every day and yet couldn't get a modem or network card
functioning if her life depended upon it even with Windows.  My dad
won't install W'95 or '98 on his system because it's "too complicated"
to learn a new desktop from his 3.1 desktop.  

Linux is not designed for those people unless they have tech support. 
The popularity of Windows didn't come by it expanding outward from the
home to business; it went the other way around.  People with tech
support learned enough about it (by using apps running on it) to want
it at home.  By the time it hit their desktop at home they already
knew the basics of the operating system and probably still had access
to someone who could answer questions for them.  So it will be with
Linux but we have to be patient.

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Re: [expert] Wordperfect Office 2000 on 7.2beta3?

2000-10-21 Thread Larry Marshall


> xfstt is afaik the 1st or one of the 1st free true type rasterisers
> available, GPL. Sort of a 1 man project, and handles fonts a bit differently
> than XFree. I've heard it helps Netscape, especially with larger sizes.

What is it that makes you think WPO is looking for this on your
system?  I've seen no evidence of that at all on my installation.  As
I've said, WPO works fine on my 7.1 installation and yet xfstt doesn't
exist anywhere on the disk.

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Re: [expert] Troubles with ISDN and CD-Writing (fwd)

2000-10-21 Thread Charles A Edwards


- Original Message -
From: "Chang F.K.K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Troubles with ISDN and CD-Writing (fwd)


> > Even on a fast system cd buring programs will use every cpu they can get
> > their hands on.
>
> I should be able to tweak that shouldn't I? I find that cdrecord uses
> quite little resources indeed (10% CPU on average).
>
> > My system set up is such that I share a DSL connection on 3 machines. To
> > elininate the problem you are having I installed my cdrw on a machine
other
> > than the one I use to connect to the internet ( basicly I using it as an
> > internet server) and do all mem and cpu intent activities on 1 of my
other
> > system so that they do not affect my connection speed.
> >
> >Charles
> >
>
> Well, the problem is, all clients are laptops :(
>
> Felix
>
>

 Even though cdrecord is showing only 10% cpu usage it will still hijack all
the cpus it can and hold them in reserve moreover it will take up most of
your System Resourses which is a combination of cpu, memory, cashe, etc.
This is why all other running processes slow down.
 The only "tweak" that might help you to maintain your internet speed is if
you would run cdrecord from the command line rather than from X because kde
and ,to a lessor extent, gnome are also both themselves resourse hogs.

   Charles.




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[expert] modprobe error

2000-10-21 Thread BillK

In /var/log/messages:

"Oct 21 19:12:22 Ralph modprobe: modprobe: insmod Inter-| failed "

I have started getting this error every 60secs the last few days - does
anyone know what program is calling modprobe for module "Inter-|", or
how do I go about finding it other than killing processes one by one.

BillK



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Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-21 Thread BillK

kpackage and similar offer a graphic inetrface that is similar to
add/remove programs - they just havent gone the step further and
integrated extra module control, you have to do it.  And as for tryng to
add say, gxedit and having extra packages installed, thats called
dependencies in linux - if you want it to work - you must install them! 
In short, linux does have the equivalent, working in a similar way, but
it is quite primative in user facilities and operation compared to the
microsoft product!  I would dearly be able to look at a display and see
what I need to install a package, before I download it, not after like
linux does.  Mandrake Update is also a form of auto-installation.  And
there are the debian folks who script apt-get so it runs in the
background and keeps their system up to date - automatically.  What
Linux does give is more low level control, but paradoxicly what it needs
is better high level control such as a better uninstall, be able to
preview changes with little work and handhold those with little
experiance, whilst keeping low level control.

So whats the distinction - control (Linux), usability (MS).  And food
for thought, the more control you give someone, without the help or
knowlege to control it, the more damage they can do.  Dont confuse the
design decisions made by MS with being unsophisticated, it is often VERY
sohpisticated under the hood, particularly in gui design, where kde
(which I use) and gnome (urk) are playing catchup.

BillK




> I think you're missing one very basic distinction between the Windoze
> world and the Linux world (and thus the breadth of the problem of
> auto-installation).
>



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Re: [expert] Troubles with ISDN and CD-Writing (fwd)

2000-10-21 Thread Chang F.K.K.

> Even on a fast system cd buring programs will use every cpu they can get
> their hands on.

I should be able to tweak that shouldn't I? I find that cdrecord uses
quite little resources indeed (10% CPU on average).

> My system set up is such that I share a DSL connection on 3 machines. To
> elininate the problem you are having I installed my cdrw on a machine other
> than the one I use to connect to the internet ( basicly I using it as an
> internet server) and do all mem and cpu intent activities on 1 of my other
> system so that they do not affect my connection speed.
> 
>Charles
> 

Well, the problem is, all clients are laptops :(

Felix



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