Re: [expert] Mdk Update Locking!

i was trying to update my machine from 8.0 to 8.2 but both update and update packages only fail. it complains about fsck error. which is weird since 8.0 boots fine. fsck runs if i don't shutdown properly and fixes whatever shows up without error. any thoughts? i am loathe to do a clean instal

Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

am i correct in seeing that you have two harddrives on ide0? one new, one old? the new one supports dma while the other does not? if so, doesn't mixing dma and pio drives on the same channel require the channel to reduce speed? i could be wrong about this. moose btw, what transfer rates are y

Re: dual proc intel 840--was [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

i don't suppose that you have a vanilla agp or even a pci card to swap the radeon out with. as you mentioned, to me it reeks of video card driver issues. i have been thinking of buying an 8500 but was holding off until i figured it would work without too many heachaches, anyways, i just recent

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

COOL!! i have a dual p2 and love it. quad would be even cooler! just think how many mp3/ogg files you can encode simultaneously.. not preemptively-task switching, but simultaneously. cool. maybe that isn't really a big deal to most people, but for some reason i get a real charge out o

Re: [expert] High CPU usage... not online

open a console window and use 'top' to find out who is consuming the cycles. my guess is probably slocate or one of the other security related cron tasks. mine usually gets totally loaded somewhere between 4 and 6am both cpus up to 80-90% moose. Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

X-RebelTech Is Here: http://www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit but typically, schools (k-12) don't teach how to think. they teach how to regurgitate. it's easier, and the teacher doesn't have to respond constructively to differing

Re: [expert] 2 bad K7T266 mobos?

X-RebelTech Is Here: http://www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit just thought i would chime in my two cents worth... two bad mobos is very odd. are you certain that your power supply is ok? i had one die on me and it started to put o

[expert] problem compiling driver for RealTek 8139C

X-RebelTech Is Here: http://www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hi all, i currently have a 10/100 ethernet card which uses the rtl8139C chipset. i have it mostly working on the 8139too driver, but it is somewhat flaky. the card came

[expert] wine & serial port config

X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit the one app that i use which needs serial port access, i had to change the owner of the port from uucp to my user group. i don't know if there are any bad implications of this

[expert] installing lm_sensors

X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hi all, no one on the newbie list was able to answer this for me and someone suggested to ask here i have an abit bp6 motherboard running LM8 (2.4.3-20smp) with the smp ke

Re: FW: [expert] Mandrake Freq: Aurora Prevents Boot

X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit i don't know what the solution is to what you were experiencing, but i was having the same problem. my solution was to simply turn the fool thing off. now everything boots fine