jimdunn

I have a Pentium 4 Mobile 3.06 GHz processor in my laptop. I use cpufreqd to scale processor speed, and it generally runs around 2.2 GHz, which is good, because that stops the fan kicking in too much. I have a superkaramba widget running on my desktop which shows, amongst other things - processor speed, which it gets from /proc/cpuinfo. I noticed today that, all of a sudden, it is reporting 4.45 GHz. Nothing has changed - no software/hardware changes, and it can't really be running at this speed or my fan would be on 100% of the time, and temperature would be up. However, /proc/cpuinfo indeed shows 4.45 GHz However, /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq shows 2.25 GHz and ltpconf (a laptop configuration utility) agrees with 2.25 GHz. So... what would cause /proc/cpuinfo to suddenly start reporting this odd, incorrect, high speed, when it has returned the correct one for months ? It's not a problem, because I know the speed is only 2.25 in reality - but I'd like to know what caused this odd behaviour. Any ideas ? thanks Jim

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Well done If you can bring the tact, diplomacy and compassion that Darkelve the user displayed, to the role of Darkelve the mod, then we will all be richer. Good luck Jim

Even more fun on the Spectrum, with little rubber calculator keys, and about 4 different variants of "Shift"

I'm a Systems Admin for a medium sized company - always had a fascination with all things to do with computers. In order, I've owned: Sinclair spectrum Commodore 64 PC with Dos 5 Win 3.11 - 95 -98 -2000 -XP I even used CP/M back in the early days of my career (with 20 Mb hard disks the size of a car wheel...) Now I administer a whole bunch of Windows servers and workstations, but I guess windows has always frustrated me, and I'm a control freak so I love the flexibility of the CLI. Installed Mandrake (7, I think) a way back, and have stuck with it ever since, through to version 10 - for home use and gradually for a few work boxes too, now.

There's some discussion about that at This Thread (Sorry if that's what you already read...)

:woops: yeah - I'm sure the 9.2 file won't work - silly of me to send it without checking :woops: - blame Butterscotch Schnapps at the moment :unsure: By extracting just the one file gives you the chance to just fix the file you screwed up without reinstalling other initscripts which may have been altered. Though as bvc says - failing that you may have to force install the rpm - hopefully that won't screw anything else - should be ok if you haven't updated. Goes without saying to backup files like this before editing them (20/20 hindsight is wonderful, isn't it ?) Say - talking of backups, you did check that whatever editor you used when you made the original error didn't make a backup (scratch) file ? I know some (kedit, ) do Check for rc.sysinit~ or similar file with backup extension ? You could get lucky Jim

To extract individual files from an RPM To extract an individual file from an rpm package without installing the rpm: 1. Use rpm2cpio or rpm -qpl to list files and full paths in the package: rpm2cpio package | cpio -t You need the full path name of a file to extract it in step 2. 2. Use rpm2cpio to extract a file. Run this command from your home directory or /tmp in order to avoid overwriting any current system files. rpm2cpio package | cpio -iv --make-directories full-path This creates the full path in the current directory and extracts the file you specified.

I pm'd a version from mdk 9.2 to you - you didn't say which version you are running Whichever version, you can get the original script from your install disks (I think its in the initscripts rpm) edit: Oh, I see now - ver 10 so now I'll edit too I haven't got access to mdk 10 from where I am right now

I've had a fair bit to do with Media PCs and I just wanted to reinforce that your specification is fine, but you do need a hardware encoder on your TV card - it takes all the work off your cpu (and 1 Ghz Celeron will struggle otherwise if you want to timeshift or record while you watch TV (or, indeed, do other multimedia tasks while you record TV) Sure you can find a cheap card - but you're likely to regret it. My advice - stick with the PVR250 or 350 - they are proven, reliable stalwarts for a Media PC. Check out the forums at Mythtv or the AVS forums or myHTPC.net and do a search on TV cards or hardware encoders to see what those people who do media PCs as a hobby think about the subject. You'll find almost unanimous support for Hardware encoding cards, and a huge majority of users using and recommending PVR250/350 cards - for good reasons.

The article says: which we all know is unfair, unjust, and an example of MS using its huge corporate muscle to trample challengers etc... etc... etc... But you know what made me smile ??? Type http://www.lindows.com in your browser

This is because Win 2k3 by default requires signing of SMB packets. Windows 2003 requires SMB signing. Client side SMB signing has been implemented in Samba-3.0. Set client use spnego = yes when communicating with a Windows 2003 server. So the best way is to update to Samba 3 and Set client use spnego = yes You can also disable the requirement on the Windows Server if you have the authority, and accept the security implications, by changing this registry key Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters] "requiresecuritysignature"=dword:00000000 Just save that code as a .reg file and run it. (Although you may find that Windows sets it back to enabled from time to time, depending on your other security settings) But the preferred way would be to upgrade Samba There's a pretty good article all about it at: Integrating Samba 3 into a Windows 2003 Domain

I totally agree with that - especially since new versions of rpm have been known to cause problems (such as the menu bug in 9.2, I think...) But since the discussion was how to upgrade the entire distro, you'd get those new versions at some point in the process anyway, with a clean reinstall, or, presumably, the installer program's upgrade option. So I thought I'd show the poster an alternative from the distribution release notes which he might not have seen. Personally - I'd clean reinstall, but to each his own...

and then running 'urpmi urpmi' ????? :o :o ok? :unsure: I don't recall seeing that in the man or --help :huh: No, I've never come across that till I saw it on the developers release notes page which I referenced, http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...x10ReleaseNotes That's why I thought it was worth posting here. Sort of makes sense though, to update the updating tool to the new version first, doesn't it ? I mean, if you're going to make massive changes to your system with 'urpmi --auto-select', then wouldn't it be better to use the most up to date version of urpmi to do it ?

Are you sure ? I just played with this for a while, and dcop kicker Panel setPanelSize 0,0 invariably makes kicker disappear completely on my system (in KDE as well as XFce4) If you are sure you only have one instance of kicker running (check with top or kpm) then issue the command above in a terminal and see if it works. It's case sensitive, obviously, and I've tried it as root and as a user - works without fail. Are you describing the thin line that's left when you use the hide button when you say it leaves a thin line ? If so then it isn't working, because it makes that go away for me. Only other thing I can think is you may have some applets loaded in kicker which can't resize - I have the hide button on the left turned off in properties - also I have hide automatically turned OFF. If none of that helps - you got me !!!

This is from the release notes for Mandrake 10 - could be an alternative way to "ATTEMPT TO UPGRADE" ? It won't give you the "Spring Clean" that a fresh install will though - and could possibly be prone to errors if you've installed non mdk rpms, or compiled stuff from source. Whatever you do, take the earlier advice and back up anything you've customised, like /etc stuff - and any downloaded stuff you'll want to reinstall - and obviously preserve your /home The rest of this post is quoted from the release notes: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...x10ReleaseNotes

It's almost certainly a DNS problem, from what you describe. A quick, dirty solution could be just to create /etc/hosts files on all the machines, containing all the 6 IP addresses and names. Since you only have 5 or 6 machines this could be a "quick fix" while you troubleshoot the problem. I think the names are getting resolved by broadcasts, which is taking an age. As already suggested, using dig will let you see if BIND knows about these local machines, and is resolving them for you. I think it may not be. You could make your server machine a dhcp server, and set the others to dynamic addresses to see if this solves it. This may help BIND to get updated. If they always need to get the same address you can make dhcp always give them a specific address, by setting reservations based on their adapter MAC addresses. (see the dhcpd docs). I think you will need to set up a reverse look up zone for your domain in BIND if you want to carry on using static IPs - the trouble is you'll need to update it if things change, whereas is you use a dhcp server this can be done dynamically.- this link has some good info on setting up BIND for reverse lookups: http://www.crazysquirrel.com/linux/dns.php That's about all I can stab at based on what you said - hope some of it is of some use to you...

You can load kicker and "send it invisible" by setting its size to 0 x 0 by using a line of code like this: kicker && dcop kicker Panel setPanelSize 0,0 I use it in a shell script to open the K-menu in XFce4, like this: kicker && dcop kicker Panel setPanelSize 0,0 dcop kicker kicker firstOpenPopupKMenu which will open the menu and leave kicker running "invisible" or just open the menu if kicker has already been invoked.

It's perfectly normal, and does not mean you need extra memory. Linux will keep parts of the kernel, recent programs and libraries in memory until you need that memory for something else - such as running a new program. The kernel will then free up the memory you need. As long as your system is still responsive, and no excessive disk swapping (thrashing) is occurring there is no need for concern

Oh, I'm using Firebird 0.6.1, and TabBrowser Extensions 1.10.2003120902, by the way...

That's odd - I'm running as non-root user, and as far as I can tell, they (almost) all work once "Use expert preferences is checked", although some of them are dependent on each other - for instance - in "Startup" - you don't get access to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th options unless you check the 1st one, because they depend on it. (And none of the Tab-Group options work unless Tab-Groups are activated on last page) But I guess that's not helping you, because it obviously isn't working for you. The only one I don't seem to be able to "un-grey" is the Middle/Control click" option on the TABS page... I do remember when I installed the extension there was an option to install for the current user or for all users, and I chose all users. Sorry I don't seem to be helping you much.

Have you ticked "Use Expert Preferences" on the first menu ? That seems to make most options accessible for me...

AussieJohn: Many Thanks !!!! I had tried several fixes for this problem, yours was the only one which fixed it. I've taken the liberty of passing it onto some other sufferers at the thread below:- Cheers, Mate... http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op...rum=11&start=30