> 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
>> 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
> 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
> 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
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!
>> > 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
> 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
>> 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
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