Hi, Ernest. On Jan 06 2006, Ernest Demaret wrote: > Op 6-jan-2006, om 3:46 heeft Rogério Brito het volgende geschreven: > >Humm? That's quite strange, I'd say. Which expansion cards do you > >actually have (if you do have one)? > > None whatsoever. It's an original.
Ok. So, you only have a video card in one of the slots? Would you like to experiment with the kernel that I've been using? > I read somewhere that there was a slight change in the 2.4 kernel in > opposite to the 2.2 kernel that caused this machine to crash. That's > all I know. Really funny, because, AFAIK, the machines we have are quite similar and mine works well. > >The only two problems that I have with this PowerMac that I inherited > >are: > > > >1 - its disk is quite slow (with a maximum rate of about 2MB/s); > > Fast enough for his tasks. It's just generating html out of a GeneWeb > database. I didn't say that your box had problems. I just said that it was slow for some of my tasks (like encoding MPEG 2 files for DVDs). > >2 - it doesn't have much memory and even Linux programs are getting > > bigger all the time. :-( > > It's dedicated to one task only so it doesn't need so much memory. Right. > I'd like to run a higher kernel though. It's more secure... Indeed. Vulnerabilities are being found all the time in the latest kernels and using a really ancient one is a bad thing, especially depending on the circumstances how the computer is installed. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
