[opensuse] Abit BP6 won't install SuSE v9.2 through 10.2

2007-03-26 Thread Larry Stotler
Hello. I've been using SuSE since v5.3. I run it on pretty much everything including my PowerBook Walstreet, etc. I've got an old Abit BP6 Dual Celeron motherboard. I know that at one point in time I had SuSE running on it(v9.1 I think) with 2 Celeron 400Mhz processors. Recently, I dug it out

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-31 Thread Larry Stotler
On 3/31/07, Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A previous message in this thread mentions two machines each with 256Mb! Of course Zen and/or Beagle thrash such a machine. Maybe the sanity of systems with 900MHz/1GHz processors having only 256Mb should be what is in question. I have

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-31 Thread Larry Stotler
On 3/31/07, Rajko M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, you can get something similar with SUSE 9.3 on 250 MHz / 128 MB and some old, slow hard disk if you install full blown KDE. Nope - I installed v10.1 on a PPro 200Mhz with 128MB EDO RAM and a slow 4GB IDE and I had a desktop in about 5 minutes

[opensuse] making mplayer work

2007-04-03 Thread Larry Stotler
-- Forwarded message -- From: Larry Stotler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 3, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work To: dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 4/3/07, dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I get the program to read the dvd? wh

Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work

2007-04-03 Thread Larry Stotler
On 4/4/07, dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't have the video card on this old machine that will really handle full motion video. Maybe one day I'll build a new machine that will have the video card and enough RAM to do such a thing. But for now as long as I can listen to my jazz stations,

Re: [opensuse] adding hard drives and such

2007-04-05 Thread Larry Stotler
On 4/5/07, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With any type of raid, any level? I can understand this working with a mirror set: the kernel can load from any one side. But what about level 5, for instance? There is no single driver from which to load the kernel, you have to read from the thr

Re: [opensuse] adding hard drives and such

2007-04-05 Thread Larry Stotler
On 4/5/07, Larry Stotler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/5/07, dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is way over my head, but I'm trying to wrap my brain around this. > I can set auto detection for the primary drive (or all of the > peripherals for that matter) in th

Re: [opensuse] Some questions about performance evaluation.

2007-04-05 Thread Larry Stotler
On 4/5/07, Magiclouds Magicloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could I make one or more processes run only on certain CPU(s)? And thread? Could I make some of the memory disappear from most of the kernel and user space? So I can evaluate performance on a smaller memory without removing them p

Re: [opensuse] Some questions about performance evaluation.

2007-04-05 Thread Larry Stotler
On 4/6/07, Magiclouds Magicloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear, Maybe I did not descript it correctly. En...I mean, if I have a private java app to be run on openSuSE, and now I have a machine with 2G memory and 2 cpu. But the app seems running slowly. Maybe the app needs more memory, or mor

Re: [opensuse] adding hard drives and such

2007-04-06 Thread Larry Stotler
On 4/6/07, dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pentium 3 450Mhz and the chip set is Intel4408BX AGP Then it's probably an ATA/33 drive controller. It should support the newer drives up to 120GB, but you won't get the full speed out of them. You could try a PCI IDE controller, or look for a SAT

[opensuse] Kword spacing problem

2007-04-06 Thread Larry Stotler
Hi. I'm using KWord v1.6.0 included w/ openSUSE v10.2. I've use KWord over the years and prefer it to OpenOffice. However, this is my first document with this version, and I am having an issue with trying to double-space at the end of a sentence. No matter what I do, it will only allow 1 space