hi all
i just finished upgrading my machine to the stable 2.2.18 kernel and
everything seems to be working fine. i just have a bunch of little
questions someone could shed light on.
1) CMD640 & RZ1000 IDE CHIPSET?
when configuring the kernel, one has the option to include
work arounds for the CMD640 and RZ1000 ide controller. i have
an FIC PA-2013 motherboard using the VIA APOLLO MVP3
chipset. am i susceptible to this problem? i compiled them
in anyways since it was the suggested thing to do.
2) hwclock and ntp
i run ntp to keep my system time correct. i didn't even know
that i update my hardware clock until i came across
/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, which update the hw clock during
shutdown and updates the system clock during boot-up. i
hardly ever shutdown my system - should i even bother updating
my hw clock? i can see the advantage of saving the system to
the hw during shutdown, but i probably should not set the
system time from hw during boot-up since ntp will do this for
me. also i read somewhere that the hw clock is updated from
the system clock every 11 minutes. is this really necessary?
if not how do i stop this?
3) update-modules /lib/modules/2.2.18
i've updated my modules.conf by turning off the following
network protocols:
alias net-pf-3 off # Amateur Radio AX.25
alias net-pf-4 off # IPX
alias net-pf-5 off # DDP / appletalk
alias net-pf-6 off # Amateur Radio NET/ROM
alias net-pf-9 off # X.25
alias net-pf-11 off # ROSE / Amateur RadioX.25 PLP
alias net-pf-19 off # Acorn Econet
chances are i don't need these modules. i then ran
update-modules but now i get this message during start-up:
Dec 31 16:59:52 yakko modprobe: Note:
/etc/modules.conf is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.2.18/modules.dep
is this normal? should i touch modules.dep to get rid of this
warning or did i do something wrong.
thanks
pd
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