On 5 Aug 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: pelleg >> pelleg >Motherboard DFI PA61 ATX (VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset - 693/596b) pelleg >> my current board has that chipset i believe (asus cuv4x) pelleg > pelleg >I think I heard some not so nice things about VIA chipsets... pelleg >Like, poor CPU performance when doing UDMA, and other problems.
100% scsi !@ woohoo. ide is slow in any system. pelleg >Hm, thanks. As far as I could see, mine is not blacklisted pelleg >(yet)... It's a WD153BA. pelleg >I've used it for a few months, and got no problems. But it's good pelleg >toknow that I shouldn't put a Maxtor sharing IRQs with it... ok then its prob not the hdd.. pelleg >But the modules problem was actually a bug in modutils... It's fixed pelleg >now. oh, cool. pelleg >Yes. I'll try a few things: pelleg > pelleg >- switch from xmms to freemp; pelleg >- then, from ps/2 to serial; pelleg >- then, from X 3.3.6 to 4.0.1... thats good, what kind of soundcard? i dont think a program like xmms or freeamp would hang the system but the sound driver may puke and cause such a problem. pelleg >I backed up /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 pelleg >And held all updates of packages that could install anything on pelleg >/usr/X11R6... thats good. pelleg >But I think that if you compile it yourself, you can install it in a pelleg >different directory (/usr/X11R6.4); then you could even keep pelleg >installing stuff under the old /usr/X11R6 and just include pelleg >/usr/X11R6.4 in your PATH... thats good, i remember compiling 3.3.4/3.3.5 from source for slink even tho it worked great i didnt back anything up so it made deb upgrades quite difficult(i just reinstalled w/potato on another drive) nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:11pm up 18 days, 20:39, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.01
