Re: yum question: downloaded headers but no updates
by Robert P. J. Day
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Searle <mail(a)stevesearle.com>
Sent: Mar 22, 2004 6:53 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: yum question: downloaded headers but no updates
> Didn't Dean send a following post afterwards with a sensible answer (I
> think he did but I have deleted them now). If so, just a bit of
> premature sending, nothing to get wound up about.
yeah, there's nothing more annoying than premature edification.
or so i've heard.
rday
8 years, 11 months
Problems with 3COM 3C900Combo
by Christian Moller
Hi all Fedora users,
I have just joined this list. I am running the latest Fedora but I can't get
my 3C900Combo networking card to work. I can see that the card is installed
but no IP-address is asigned to it and I can't set it. So I think that there
is a bug in that driver. Any other user out there who have a solution for
this?
Best regards and thanks,
Christian
8 years, 11 months
[SOT] On-Line Resources Describing PCI Set-up Under Fedora?
by 7mgte
Slightly Off Topic .......
Are there any good online resources that describe in detail how Fedora [or Linux in general] probes the PCI bus for cards and bridges, then sets them up for use? From the references I have found, it is not clear to me if the motherboard BIOS does the probing (i.e. identifying what cards/functions are on what bus) then configuring the base address registers; or, if some, or all, of this is done under Linux.
Any references will be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!
Don
8 years, 11 months
Re: UDMA4
by Jeff Ratliff
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Arsenault <barsenault(a)gto.net>
Sent: Feb 26, 2004 10:27 PM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: UDMA4
>Hello,
>
>Just wondering if anyone has any tips for enabling UDMA5.
Don't really have tips, but I can share my experiences
I've tried extensively with hdparm on a couple drives and the conclusion I came to is that unless you really know what you're doing, you should probably leave the defaults. When I've been able to get a drive to work in UDMA5, I tend to get lockups and crashes. Testing with hdparm -Tt I see minimal improvement (if any) in the higher modes.
My new Hitachi 80 Gig drive will do about 33 Megs/second sustained transfer rate (under Windows and Linux). This means UltraATA 66 is nearly double the bandwidth this drive needs. The only time you want or need performance beyond UDMA 66 is if you've got 2 fast drives that are often transmitting over the bus at the same time, and maxing out that 66 megs a second. This generally only happens in servers, and you'd be using RAID or SCSI drives for that anyway.
In short: you're probably not missing anything except performance you will never use anyway. Save yourself the headaches, and use the defaults.
8 years, 11 months
Re: Platforms running Fedora
by Jeff Ratliff
-----Original Message-----
From: Vink <vinksoft(a)xs4all.nl>
Sent: Feb 20, 2004 7:40 AM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Platforms running Fedora
Jeff Ratliff wrote:
>>My other Fedora system is a Athlon 2600+ (overclocked to 3000+ speeds) with
>>a Geforce FX 5600 Ultra and 512 megs RAM.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>I have an Athlon 1600+ cpu, can I overclock that also? And how do you do
>that?
It really depends on hardware (motherboard mostly). You can up the frontside bus speed in the BIOS little by little until the system will no longer boot, then back it off a few steps to get it stable. You need a motherboard that's designed for it, though. Also realize that you will get lots more heat, may have to upgrade your cooling fan, and may cause components to fail prematurely. I'd guess you may be able to get a few 100 more MHz out of that chip, but it may not work at all. The reason I bought a 2600+ is I knew it had lots of headroom since the same core is now doing close to 3000 MHz.
It's a complicated topic, too involved to discuss in detail here, and may not even be worth the trouble. I'd suggest looking at www.dansdata.com for starters, and searching his articles for "overclock". If nothing else, you'll get a good laugh as Dan is quite entertaining.
8 years, 11 months
Re: Slow performence
by Jeff Ratliff
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Henderson <rhenderson(a)gadtek.com>
>Sent: Feb 16, 2004 10:38 PM
>To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>Subject: Slow performence
>
>Hello all,
>
>I am pretty new to Linux, I have installed and got Fedora core 1 up and
>running, and have just about everything working. I do have a few issues
>however.
>
>1.) while running X I am using about 300mb of memory. This would be ok,
>but I only have 320mb. Needless to say when I try to run a game, or any
>application, performance is very slow. How can I lower my memory use?
As mentioned before, this is how virtual memory works. This is normal,
and will increase performance, not hurt it.
What graphics chipset are you using? Are you using the correct graphics driver?
If you're using nVidia graphics, the standard driver in FC1 is quite slow.
>3.) During setup, I selected a package that supposedly installed a
>remote control client that allowed me to access both Windows Terminal
>Servers, and VNC hosts. I have looked, but can not find it anywhere. Any
>help here>?
You may be talking about Samba. It allows you to connect to Windows file shares.
Maybe someone with more experience can comment, or you can search the archives.
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8 years, 11 months
Re: Settings for /etc/yum.conf
by Jeff Ratliff
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Shorie <jshorie(a)medinaco.org>
Sent: Feb 10, 2004 8:20 AM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Settings for /etc/yum.conf
I am looking for some good repositories for keeping fedora boxes up to date
using yum. Does anyone have any suggestions. Here is my current yum.conf:
<yum.conf>
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=fedora-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever
[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-$releasever
For [base] and [updates-released], you probably want to add a couple mirrors that are closer to you (and faster), and move the Redhat servers to the end of the list. You'll get better speeds and less problems that way. Add a line "failovermethod=priority" to the end of these 2 sections, and yum will check the first server, then move down the list if it has problems. Look at "man yum.conf" for more details.
8 years, 11 months
Re: [OT-RH9] INIT Respawning Problem
by 7mgte
Mike,
I had found the same thread and tried working through the solutions there. Unfortunately, no luck!
Thanks anyway!!!
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Klinke <lsomike(a)futzin.com>
Sent: Feb 5, 2004 11:41 PM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [OT-RH9] INIT Respawning Problem
On Thursday 05 February 2004 21:39, Don wrote:
> Any suggestions on where to look for a complete debugging
> guide/solution to this problem will be greatly appreciated!!
>
Perhaps some of the discussion in this thread will help....
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&m=106993619223087&w=2
Regards, Mike Klinke
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linksys etherfast 10/100 cardbus pc card on inspiron?
by Robert P. J. Day
i'm still wrestling with trying to get my inspiron 8100 running
FC1 to recognize a new PCMCIA net card i just got.
the card is an etherfast 10/100 cardbus pc card (PCMPC200),
which i'm sure i verified is supported. from a HW list i saw, the
module for this card is supposed to be tulip_cb.o. while there is
no such module under the current kernel, someone else pointed
out the existence of xircom_tulip_cb.o (despite the fact that it's
not a xircom, perhaps it will still work).
when i plug the card in, i get
"pcnet_cs device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying
initialization."
i've checked that "cardctl ident" sees the card fine, with
manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02
until now, i've used an older linksys ethercard that just worked
out of the box, so i've been lucky and never had to mess with
pcmcia configuration (translation: i've been blissfully ignorant
of what i might eventually might have to do).
is anyone else using this card? care to share the recipe?
rday
8 years, 11 months
Subject: Re: RPM Database Errors
by Jonathon Carter
Prakash: Thank fixed it - thanks so much for your help :)
--------------------------------
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:51:49 -0500
From: Prakash Rao <pxwiz(a)optonline.net>
Subject: Re: RPM Database Errors
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Reply-To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
#rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
#db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
#rpm --rebuilddb
This should fix your RPM database.
HTH,
Prakash
8 years, 11 months
