Re: [expert] kde startup wizard

2002-07-24 Thread Richie de Almeida
On July 24, 2002 07:29 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I finally managed to download enough of KDE 3.0.2 to install and run it in replacement of 3.0.1. The konsole-noxft nonsense is, thankfully, eliminated so it seems. What isn't corrected is the initial startup wizard which insists on coming up

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread Richie de Almeida
On July 21, 2002 06:36 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello. I'm thinking about buying a Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk. I remember that there were some problems back in the days with WD hard disks. Do these problems still exist? Thanks, Alexander Skwar WD's are awful, awful drives.

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread Richie de Almeida
On July 2, 2002 10:44 am, Darren King wrote: I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust the swap? I have 256MB. Darren I'm using 512Mb with 256Mb swap at the moment and precisely zero of my swap is being used at the moment and this is the typical state of

[expert] Diskdrake has a mind of it's own?

2002-07-02 Thread Richie de Almeida
OK, what sort of voodoo must I do to get DiskDrake to make two new ReiserFS partitions? I have tried three times now, each time I set the partition sizes and select ReiserFS as the type, DiskDrake tells me to reset the computer-- being an ex-Windows user, I don't blink twice at this...! The

Re: [expert] Here they come again...

2002-06-29 Thread Richie de Almeida
On June 28, 2002 10:09 pm, PlugHead wrote: On Friday 28 June 2002 13:08, James wrote: Read Linus' book? In it he predicts that in 10 years, nobody will care about operating systems, instead they'll all be using appliances. You think Bill read that book? Blue skies...

Re: [expert] Here they come again...

2002-06-27 Thread Richie de Almeida
On June 27, 2002 03:23 pm, James wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:37:37 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority daRcmaTTeR wrote: Good grief! they don't honestly believe that this is going to work, do they? Yes, I think they do! And it can. pass the k-y

Re: [expert] IDE bus speed boot parameter

2002-05-31 Thread Richie de Almeida
On May 31, 2002 09:17 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:48 pm, Richie de Almeida wrote: On May 30, 2002 11:00 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: As to hdparm, I found that with 8.2 and the default 2.4.18-6 kernel, any hdparm settings were ignored. ata/100 drives still ran

Re: [expert] IDE bus speed boot parameter

2002-05-31 Thread Richie de Almeida
On May 31, 2002 06:44 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: sneep I did a 'urpmi hdparm' and it installed the packages 'pciutils' and 'powertweak'. But still I get 'bash: hdparm: command not found' when I try to start it. slocate does not find hdparm (yes, I did updatedb). # slocate hdparm

Re: [expert] IDE bus speed boot parameter

2002-05-30 Thread Richie de Almeida
On May 30, 2002 12:13 am, Hoyt wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:56 pm, Richie de Almeida wrote: I got a new mobo and cpu and loaded on Mandrake 8.2 and since the ide has UltraDMA 100 I set the boot parameter to idebus=100 but the kernel turns this down saying its a bad bus speed. I did

Re: [expert] IDE bus speed boot parameter

2002-05-30 Thread Richie de Almeida
On May 30, 2002 11:00 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:48 am, Rui Maia wrote: I donĀ“t know if this will help you (but i think yes..) ...see the hdparm man page. From: Richie de Almeida I got a new mobo and cpu and loaded on Mandrake 8.2 and since the ide has UltraDMA

[expert] IDE bus speed boot parameter

2002-05-29 Thread Richie de Almeida
I got a new mobo and cpu and loaded on Mandrake 8.2 and since the ide has UltraDMA 100 I set the boot parameter to idebus=100 but the kernel turns this down saying its a bad bus speed. I did a dmesg | grep 'ide' and got this: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Kernel command line: auto

Re: [expert] CD databases

2002-05-27 Thread Richie de Almeida
On May 27, 2002 09:19 am, Raider wrote: Hello! I have quite a large collection of CDs. And I really need a database for their contents (lots of backups and archives too). I haven't tried it, but I saw a CD database app on offer at apps.kde.com, sorry I don't recall the name but you can

Re: [expert] Can't locate module

2002-05-26 Thread Richie de Almeida
Have you tried doing a 'make clean' before doing the 'make install'? Sometimes i find the cleanup script (when there is one) helps get things in sync with the kernel I'm running... Richie On May 26, 2002 11:52 am, Jason Guidry wrote: I'm still trying to get my Linksys WPC11 PCI Card to act