[OT] themes.org
Does anyone know what's up with themes.org? Since they switched the interface, there seem virtually no skins/themes availble any more when you click their items.. It gives me 2 mozilla skins, and 3 gkrellm skins. But if you browse everything together, there are a lot more, only without categories. The 'rover' thing is not doing much either... Is it me? Kind regards Guy ___ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, Fun !!! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
(Hardware) Sensors for SiS 735 chipset (k7s5a board)
Hello everyone Yesterday I installed an ECS K7S5A board running SiS' 735 chipset in my machine. Works beautifully during first tests! Has anyone gotten the hardware sensors running? If yes, could you mail me your sensors.conf file, and which modules you loaded for them? The sensor-chip is an ITE8705F. Thanks in advance. Kind regards Guy ___ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, Fun !!! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Creating RPM package
Hello I want to create RPM packages for programs I've created myself, I've read the howto's and their reasonably clear, however, I do not use a makefile, my programs are in perl. I want to copy some files to different locations, check some paths and run a perl program to generate the config file. Any suggestions on how to handle this? Thanks Guy ___ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, Fun !!! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: ECS Motherboards (again)
Hello to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some (Non-Linux) issues with the board when running an High-speed Athlon (not XP) with SDRAM, look at OC workbench for more details: http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ I have some comments below: On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:10:55 +0100 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: ECS Motherboards (again): MA MA MA Thank you all for your replies. But can I ask again, are there any issues MA using MA this (and the sis chipset) with Linux? MA MA I have a severe and potentially unwarranted distaste for SiS anything. The MA chipsets they develop are the cheepest and nastiest things I've encountered. That's right, they're cheap, but that doesn't mean it's bad. SiS does have a bad reputation, but the this chipset gets great reviews on serious sites like Tom's Hardwareguide! I've ordered my k7s5a today, to prevent my high-priced Asus A7V133 crap motherboard from toasting and damaging my system. The ECS K7s5a is less than 50% of the price of my Asus (less than 60% of the newer Asus'). Except for a problem with some boards, they're rock solid! MA MA *In general* if you dont or can't obtain a specially developed sis driver MA for whatever-it-is, then it is totally and completely incompatible with any MA of the industry standards for that product making it unusuable with MA 'standard' drivers. MA MA One of the classic examples from this company from hell is their laughable MA 'vga''chipsets. It would be accepted by most that the 1st 16 'modes' of vga MA are 'industry standard'. Meaning that they are the modes as defined by IBM MA on the original product and garanteed to work on *any* pc. Until that is, MA this awful SiScrap hit the deck where they decided to save 2 cents and MA simply not have them. Makes booting with a Sis vga card an excercise in MA futility. MA MA Other undocumented features from this shitset are stealing real memory from MA the top of your real memory because again, they don't like the thought of MA paying 0.0002 cents for the drill holes in their pcb's to accomodate on MA board memory. Thus, although SiSshit claims to be 5ns compatible: try it MA some time. MA Well, my Asus mutch worse, it doesn't implement C1 or C2 power savings, leaving my processor running at 58°C, the RAID functions are buggy at least (I don't use them), systems with this board crash often, even with Linux. Updating the BIOS caused me having to reenter the system speed and multipliers every boot-up. Sis can't screw up worse than that, and given the price of the board... I'm 'throwing' my Asus away under warranty (the reseller doesn't do a thing about it). The board cost me 191 EURO, while the ECS 57s5a only costs 84 EURO now. If it's no good, I get my money back within the first week. It's worth the try... BTW, I also have an ECS K7VZA running, that's a great board! MA MA MA MA MA _ MA Do You Yahoo!? MA Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com MA MA ___ MA Linux-users mailing list MA Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users MA ___ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, Fun !!! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Protocol died unexpectedly
Does anyone know what this means, I get this more and more often using kde: Protocol died unexpectedly It sometimes displays that when logging in, and the files on my desktop are not displayed, anything else works. Konqueror gives it most frequently, when viewing websites. The sites that keep getting this are viewable in mozilla. I use KDE 2.2.1 (SuSE 7.3) Thanks for any help. Guy ___ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, Fun !!! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
[OT] Trouble with ECS K7S5A boards!
Hello I've been researching the K7S5A boards from ECS because I wanted to buy one. And I stumbled accross the text below. It seems that the board has problems running at CPU 133/RAM 133Mhz. Especially the T-bird 1400 seems a likely victim. Has anyone seen this behavior? Is it stable with Linux? Thanks Guy Member Rated: http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/user_ratings_1.gif http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/icons/icon2.gif posted 06 November 2001 16:10 [Profile for MrAthlon] [Edit/Delete Post][Reply With Quote] FAQ 1.41 on K7S5A (M830) Data Corruption CONTENTS: PART 1: Overview PART 2: First things to check PART 3: The (suspected) cause and ?non-causes? of the problem PART 4: The (best-known) solution PART 5: Summary of testing and research PART 6: Revision History PART 1: Overview Problem: Some K7S5A (and M830) motherboards suffer from what appears to be a data corruption problem when used with certain CPU?s. The problem is common with Athlon 1.4 GHz processors, and is occasional with various Athlon CPU?s above 1GHz. The problem is much less common with Athlon XP processors. The problem has been reported (but has not been confirmed) at speeds under 1GHz. The problem appears to be limited to motherboards with the number 4 or higher on a small sticker by the PCI slots. Symptoms: Memtest86 Errors, 133/133 failures and problems, Crashes, Blue Screens, Windows Protection Errors, OS installation failures, corrupted CD burns, Windows Registry corruption, general data corruption, etc. (Note: It now appears that the CONFIGMG and ?Lost CMOS? problems are largely unrelated to this problem.) The Manufacturer?s statement on the problem: Please read here. PART 2: First things to check Q: How do I know if I?m effected by this problem? A: You may have system stability problems as outlined above. These can be hard to pin down, so download and run the Memtest86 program. (www.memtest86.com ) If you can run through all tests without any memory errors, you should not have the problem and you most likely have a rock-solid setup. When the K7S5A is working, it works great. (In rare cases, problems can still exist when Memtest86 does not report them. It is not yet known if these other problems are caused by a bad motherboard, or by some other cause.) Q: Memtest86 reports errors, but I still think my system is ?stable.? Do I really have a problem? A: It depends: A suggestion has been made that Memtest86 may not correctly report errors. This may be the case, or it may be that Memtest86 is just very good at finding errors. This is still under investigation. Most reports indicate that yes, this is a real problem if you have data on your hard drive, or process data on your computer that must be 100% correct. This pretty much includes anyone using the computer for serious work. Still, some users have Memtest86 errors and don't find it to be a problem. So, no, maybe it?s not much of a problem if you don?t have any data that is super important to you, and don?t mind the possible risk of crashes or data corruption. Also, if you only have a few errors (100) your chances of data corruption may be very small. For some users, this may be acceptable. For others, a system with no known hardware errors is very desirable. Q: Explain exactly how the system can seem so stable when data corruption is occurring? A: The data corruption appears to be ?pattern sensitive? which means that only certain patterns of data result in corruption, and usually cause a single bit of bad data. The patterns that cause corruption may or may not be written frequently by the OS or applications. Even when they are written and corrupted, the corruption may not crash your OS or application. Most applications are ?bit-error tolerant? which means that a few bits of error in memory will not be detected right away. This is why it is possible to have a computer that seems to be stable, and why it may be possible to pass many typical system and memory tests. The reason most OS and application software is ?bit-error tolerant? is because programmers expect that the hardware will work 100% correctly and will not corrupt the data. When data corruption is expected, methods such as CRC, Parity, ECC and Verification are used to check and even correct the data. This does not typically occur in normal OS and applications running in system memory. Most popular CD writing software are good examples of ?bit-error tolerant? programs. They will write a CD, but will not take the extra time to read back the entire CD to verify that each file was written 100% correctly. They skip the verification this because it can take as long to verify the CD as to write it, and on most systems it will always verify correctly. (The problem was originally discovered by CD writing software that would automatically verify the entire CD, and would fail every time.) The BIOS for these motherboards does not have an option to turn on/off the CPU Cache ECC, so its
ECS Motherboards (again)
I'm sorry for my earlier post about this, I made a mistake. The board I'm thinking of buying is an ECS K7S5A, the one with the Sis chipset. (not the K7VZA which I already bought for my wife). Thank you all for your replies. But can I ask again, are there any issues using this (and the sis chipset) with Linux? Again sorry, and thanks. Guy __ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, Fun !!! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DMA on CDWriter
Do you mean a real SCSI drive? or an emulated one? hdparm can set some options on a SCSI device, but things like DMA etc. are reserved for IDE only. This means you can't set DMA (or PIO etc.) on an IDE drive with SCSI emulation. And you need DMA enabled to burn at 16X or higher. (I read this in an article, and I can't write above 12X on my writer, it seems the drive receives insufficient data to sustain the write, while the 20MB buffer in memory is 100% full). Thanks Guy On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:26:24 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: DMA on CDWriter: NL NL --- David Aikema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NL On Thursday 22 November 2001 11:14 am, Net Llama wrote: snip NL What version of hdparm do you have? My v3.9 has no problems working NL with the SCSI drive in my box. NL NL = NL NL Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] NL NL Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com NL NL . NL NL __ NL Do You Yahoo!? NL Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. NL http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 NL ___ NL Linux-users mailing list NL Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users NL __ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, Fun !!! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Need help to set up IMAP-server
Hello I've been trying to get imap working on my SuSE 7.1 (home)mailserver, without success. I've tried the 'general (University of Washington)' imap daemon that came with SuSE and Cyrus-IMAP. Neither of them worked. The Cyrus package also had a pop3 daemon which doesn't work either. I can telnet to localhost 110 and 443 and I see the Cyrus greeting. When I say (to the POP3) USER gvs PASS [password] I get login failed. The IMAPD doesn't work either, I used . LOGIN gvs [password] It seems unable to authenticate any user. The qpopper daemon works fine. I read the HOWTO about Cyrus-IMAP, but I can't find what I'm doing wrong. I hope someone can help me. Kind regards Guy __ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, Fun !!! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
DMA on CDWriter
Hello How can I enable DMA on an IDE writer in Linux? I need SCSI-emulation to use the writer, but that disables DMA. It seems that my 16X CDWriter cannot write at that speed without DMA. It only works at 12X, and uses up a lot of CPU resources. Is there any way to switch DMA back on? hdparm refuses because it sees a SCSI device. Thanks for any help. Kind regards Guy __ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, Fun !!! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
