Re: mouse and keyboard lockup w/ RedHat 8.0

2003-01-28 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> I could use some pointers on diagnosing an intermittent lockup problem I am > having with RedHat 8.0. I originally thought it was caused by the umax-pp > backend I am using with XSane, but the last two times my scanner was never > powered on. The last time it happened it finally occurred to

Re: kernel building question

2002-11-26 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> > Oh good. I'll be able to strip my kernel source down considerably then! The bulk of the kernel source is in the drivers directory (80mb of the 160 mb on an untarred tree - based on 2.4.19). While the arch directory is 30mb, I would recommend NOT eliminating the arch dirs. We did this w/ one

Re: shared NFS root filesystems

2002-09-25 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> Anybody know how I can serve the same filesystem to > multiple NFS clients as their root? The problem I'm The NFS root HOWTO describes how you can do it. I believe they even provide some scripts to help. They play games with symbolic links so the clients have private areas of needed directo

Re: Linux support for SMT (HyperThreading)

2002-08-31 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> Linux now has explicit support for this, in prototype form, as detailed > here: It should probably also be mentioned that this is based on the O(1) scheduler which is in 2.5 as well as Redhat's version of 2.4.18 and their Advanced Server edition (so perhaps next time you update your RH kerne

Re: Speaking of wireless

2002-08-28 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> server, etc. will remain hard wired. Thoughts, comments, suggestions > welcome I've had good luck with Agere's (aka Lucent) Orinoco Silver cards on RH 7.3. I am also using RG-1000 access point. I say RH7.3 because on RH 7.2 I was able to get it working w/ the driver off their web site on