Re: DELL Inspiron and some problems

2003-03-03 Thread Harald Staub
>> clock is loosing around 5 Minutes an hour. :-( > > My inspiron 8200 was so poor at keeping time ntp refused to sync the > clock. I eventually found "tickadj 10270" made it close enough that > ntp would work. On my Inspiron 4100, the hardware clock is much better than the system clock. And the

Re: DELL Inspiron and some problems

2003-03-02 Thread Harald Staub
>> clock is loosing around 5 Minutes an hour. :-( > > My inspiron 8200 was so poor at keeping time ntp refused to sync the > clock. I eventually found "tickadj 10270" made it close enough that > ntp would work. On my Inspiron 4100, the hardware clock is much better than the system clock. And the

Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking

2002-10-15 Thread Harald Staub
In recent kernel (2.4.20pre...), an option (commit) is available. have crashes only when experimenting with the kernel, I think this is not as bad as it might look at first glance. But, you know, no guarantees of mine, your filesystem might become garbled, your hard disk might become fried!

Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking

2002-10-14 Thread Harald Staub
> In recent kernel (2.4.20pre...), an option (commit) is available. > >> have crashes only when experimenting with the kernel, I think this is >> not as bad as it might look at first glance. But, you know, no >> guarantees of mine, your filesystem might become garbled, your hard >> disk might be

Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking

2002-10-14 Thread Harald Staub
> I've also experimented on this for quite a while and found that only > ext2 (or other non journalling fs) will allow the disk to spin down > with the help of noflushd and setting noatime. > I found no journalling fs which works. If you do please let me know > how. XFS turned out to allow spin d

Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking

2002-10-13 Thread Harald Staub
>> > I've also experimented on this for quite a while and found that only >> > ext2 (or other non journalling fs) will allow the disk to spin down >> > with the help of noflushd and setting noatime. >> > I found no journalling fs which works. If you do please let me know >> > how. >> >> XFS turned

Re: Ati Rage Mobilty: X on wrong positon

2001-11-14 Thread Harald Staub
> I have a new Sharp PC-AX40 notebook with an ATI Rage Mobility Graphic > Chip. I´m using XFree 4.1 from woody and everything is working ok except > one thing: The screen ist some lines to high. This means, the upper ca. > 10 lines are not visible and the last lines are mirrored or something > (the

Re: Ati Rage Mobilty: X on wrong positon

2001-11-14 Thread Harald Staub
> I have a new Sharp PC-AX40 notebook with an ATI Rage Mobility Graphic > Chip. I´m using XFree 4.1 from woody and everything is working ok except > one thing: The screen ist some lines to high. This means, the upper ca. > 10 lines are not visible and the last lines are mirrored or something > (th