bvc

I don't know of a HOWTO for that, but I know it has been discussed many times athttp://www.club-nihil.net/mub/index.php, and I know at least once here http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...=380&highlight=

 

If you are root or have the privleges you can start and stop services.

cups (hope cupsd running is not necessary for printing to another cups or lpd server)

I believe it is, so if you don't want it at start up, when you need it

[root@localhost bvc9]# service cups start

Loopback device ('lo', 127.0.0.1) needed by CUPS, starting it ...

Adding loopback device to routing table ...

Loading parallel port printer kernel modules ...

Starting CUPS printing system:                                  [  OK  ]

[root@localhost bvc9]# service cups stop  

Stopping CUPS printing system:                                  [  OK  ]

[root@localhost bvc9]# service --help

Usage: service -[Rfshv] SERVICE ARGUMENTS

       -f|--full-restart:      Do a fullrestart of the service.

       -R|--full-restart-all:  Do a fullrestart of all services currently running.

       -s|--status-all:        Print a status of all services.

       -d|--debug:             Launch with debug.

       -h|--help:              This help.

       -v|--version:           Print version.

 

version 1.12

[root@localhost bvc9]#

 

Also, to find out what they are, most of them have a man page, so if you want to know what lisa is, type

man lisa

How should tux run with this setup now?

Beautifully! If you're reffering to tuxracer. Be sure to check out (I think it's) ~/tuxracer/options, or something like that to make it twice as good. :)

 

This link (starting at the bottom of the first page) shows a few users fps on nvidia;

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...6197&highlight=

killall pppd

Well, try here;

http://gnomesupport.org/forums/

Go to (mcc) Mandrake Control Center>Mount Points>CD Burner, and you have to tell mcc where to mount it. It can be anything ..e.g. /mnt/cdrw or /mnt/dvd.

 

The other way is manually edit /etc/fstab and create a folder in /mnt and give the name from /etc/fstab.

If you install a gtk2 theme why should it change gtk1 apps?

That's the piont, it shouldn't be this way to begin with.

I dk. I remember this thread though. You are not alone.

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...ight=screenshot

 

I think there were other post as well, so you could search the other board????

That is probably because they (the gnome apps) use gtk2

No, I have installed 5 gtk2 themes and 4 aren't changing "all" the apps. The freecurve.rpm from texstar that is the Bluecurve rh theme changes everything. I've even installed metacity-setup from tar and texstar's rpm and out of 7 gtk1 themes only one works. I'm not going to edit these files by hand, I'm tired of that, everyone says they like gnome2 and I can't understand why. IMO it's the worst I've seen, from a customization standpoint, and not just the looks. The control center is split up like rpmdrake got split up, when you click to open the Gnome Control Center it opens in NOTilus (nautilus)hehehe, and NOTilus doesn't have a viewer cappable of opening some of the control features. The best part is that nautilus and gedit require fam>xinetd>and portmap. What idiot thought that up?

With my 30GB Maxtor 7200rpm at udma4 I get 36.57MB/sec.

here http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/faq.shtml I found this

31. Playback is choppy. What can I do?

 

NOTE RedHat 8.0:

In all their wisdom, the people at redhat decided to turn off DMA for CD and DVD devices

in an even "more reliable" way than before.

To be able to turn on DMA _at all_ you have to add the following line in /etc/modules.conf :

options ide-cd dma=1

You can also download and compile your own kernel (not a redhat kernel) to be able to turn on dma.

Keep reading to see what else you need to do to turn on dma.

end NOTE RedHat 8.0

 

Check with hdparm (hdparm -d <device name>) if you have enabled DMA on the DVD drive.

hdparm -d 1 <device name> to turn dma on. The link above will explain n more detail.

If you have enabled DMA and it still is choppy and you have an nVidia card see also FAQ 38.

If you have enabled DMA and it still is choppy or dma keeps turning off and you have a VIA chipset (mostly amd users) try with hdparm -d 1 -X34 <device name> to use another dma mode.

NOTE: In redhat7.3 DMA is default OFF for cd/dvd drives

The official way to turn change this is to create a file named /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdc (the hdc at the end should be replaced with the device name for you DVD). Use the contents of /etc/sysconfig/harddisks as a template. The rc.sysinit script will apply the contents of /etc/sysconfig/harddisks to hard drives only, but if it sees a file for a specific drive, it will apply it to that drive even if it is not a hard drive.

NOTE: If you run debian, make sure you use the ogle-mmx package if you are running on x86.

Also, this is in ML's /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

# Turn on harddisk optimization

# There is only one file /etc/sysconfig/harddisks for all disks

# after installing the hdparm-RPM. If you need different hdparm parameters

# for each of your disks, copy /etc/sysconfig/harddisks to

# /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda (hdb, hdc...) and modify it.

# Each disk which has no special parameters will use the defaults.

# Each non-disk which has no special parameters will be ignored.

Found the prob!

fam, which needs xinetd, and for some reason portmap. This link tipped me off to fam

http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...hlight=nautilus

 

Nautilus and gedit use fam...can you believe that?.....Who thought up this?...I'll tell you....an idiot. I searched and searched google for an answer and didn't find anything, so I guess everyone uses these services? I have never needed them so I just set up 9.0, gnome2, like usual. I'm still in shock :shock: so I'm going to stop b4 I really start to rant.

Looks like patching is not really interesting, isn't it?

I had fun with the preempt low latency, and 2.5 kernel.

Is there a patch i HAVE to build in, if i am using the default vanilla?

Probably not.

.... i noticed, that they are mostly developper orientated.....thought patches are more basically like adding support for a special hardware.......In real they are just addOns in the development circle of the kernel, towards the next version, am i right?

Looks like it from the link. Usually, hardware support IS the reason for patching, from an end user point of view.

The theme doesn't do anything for me either. After installed, it is called Bluecurve. The rpm was named freecurve because of TM....oh, and there's a XMMS bluecurve skin in the freecurve rpm as well.

I never had freetype1 installed.

1. Is vanilla the original "kernel.org"-kernel?

Yes

2. Is there a page, which gives me an overview of interesting patches for vanilla?

I dk of one.

3. Which patches do you recommend?

None, the mdk kernel is highly optimized with a ton of patches. Using the preempt or low latency isn't going to get you a noticable performance increase, UNLESS, you run a lot of big resource eating apps at the same time and max out your physical RAM. It's my experience anyway.

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...ghlight=latency

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...ghlight=latency

There's a style. and icons as well, as shown in the above screenshot. Works in gnome also.

A kernel is a kernel if from kernel.org, but I dk that sources from another distro's going to work on mdk. Have you looked into this? I've never thought aboput it til now. Diff distro's keep things in diff places, even rh and mdk are slightly diff. I also think the tie between glibc.mdk and kernel-source,?gentoo? for is going to get you into trouble as well. I could be wrong.

man initrd

man mkinitrd

I'd really apreciate if someone told me where i could get the low latency patch and pre-empt one and how to patch the kernel

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...ghlight=preempt

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...ghlight=preempt

And I posted instead of PMing you because maybe someone else will benefit from this.

Yeah, me......thanks :!:

I saw your post on the gnome board as well, and MArks reply. I've searched every way I know how and have not found rpms for gnome2-2.0.2. There are libraries and other gnome pkgs with the 2.0.2 extension, but none for gnome2.

 

To find out what version you have, open a terminal window and type;

rpm -q gnome2

 

the output from this for me was gnome2-2.0.1-1mdk

 

:?: If I may ask, why the hurry? Is your gnome2 as crappy as mine :lol: Hehehe :.....ah...felt good to get that out...

I did this last week for the first time, I used the mount your partitions option (I think that's what it was called) then I used vi instead of vim.

Oh, sorry, I dk anything about the bootsplash stuff. I don't instal or use it, I like the text output. I do recall another user losing their's when they switched to a smp, or enterprise kernel or something.

Did you do make install, or did you copy everything yourself? ...e.g. System.nap, .config., vmlinuz, and make an initrd-x.x.x.img

 

What does your bootloaders config look like?

Here's the defaut .config I had

CONFIG_PM=y

# CONFIG_ACPI is not set

CONFIG_APM=y

# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set

CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y

CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y

# CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set

CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y

# CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set

# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set

 

Only problem is... i have now lost the smart booting backdrop that appears with the standard linux kernel

Do you mean all the text output?