RE: hdparm / DMA problems - options

ing the card -Original Message- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 6:26 PM To: Nyc0n Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: hdparm / DMA problems - options hi ya On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Nyc0n wrote: -- if you dont know hwo to use hdparm ... you stand to c

hdparm / DMA problems

To use hdparm to boost DMA speed, does DMA have to be enabled in the kernel?  i have the DMA enabled in the kernel, but some of my drives that should use it don’t, so I used hdparm to help that out, before hdparm I was getting 3megs a second after hdparm I was getting 30megs a second, I was

RE: /dev/dsp

I normally do a chmod 777 /dev/dsp and it works fine, might be a security violation though...not sure... -Original Message- From: mustafa taha al-shawaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 6:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /dev/dsp Thanks for the help I got

RE: hdparm / DMA problems

-Original Message- From: Nyc0n [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 11:25 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: hdparm / DMA problems Well, here is my script file, the first two drives are connected to the MB, which doesn't support DMA so I l

NFS Question

Im going to attempt to set up an NFS, I have done so in the past and failed, ive read all the howtos and everything, but I had one question, I already have the drives I want to make into the NFS, they are currently reiserfs and already have stuff on them, do they have to be blank? Or can I

RE: Who owns /dev/dsp?

Just do a chmod 777 on /dev/dsp and it should start working it's a permission problem, that got mine going -Original Message- From: Ross Boylan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ross Boylan Subject: Who owns /dev/dsp? I can't ge

Re: linux cluster

file transfers? They are mostly win to lin not lin to lin transfersusing samba   -Original Message- From: Rus Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 2:54 AM To: Nyc0n Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linux cluster   On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Nyc0n wrote

where to change WM manually

Where does debian and or linux select the window manager at boot? I installed enlightenment and would like to use that instead of the default WM and would like to change it manually   TIA

linux cluster

What is a linux cluster and what does it do? I have 3 linux servers that I could cluster together, but what is the benefit? What would I actually gain by clustering?  I mean technically speaking they are in a cluster right now, they are clustered all over my room..lol  

hdparm startup

Once you get hdparm working the way you want it to with your drives what is the best way to make it start up at boot? Put something in the /etc/rc.S file and make it executable? Can someone post a script they have written so I can see what it looks like etc?   TIA   nick

downgrading from testing to woody

I normally run testing on both my machines, but I have been having some issues and wanted to try to go back down to stable or woody, when I upgraded to testing it took about 45 mins to download and install all the packages, via apt-get dist-upgrade, I changed my sources.list file back to wo

RE: Change font?

h"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice -Original Message- From: Jerome Acks Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Change font? On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:50:20PM -0400, The Nyc0n wrote: > I just upgraded my stable