Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-04 Thread Marco Cecconi
Karsten M. Self wrote: Marco Cecconi wrote: It's actually Debian's fault! Every time I install it, it reads and writes the clock wrongly... Dammit! :-) apt-get install ntp apt-get install ntp ntpdate :-) If the clock is very far off when ntp starts up then nt

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Marco Cecconi
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello partition, change your fstab and reinstall your boot loader. The disadvantage is that if /boot is on the root partition, you can't have /boot read-only. Yeah, but Debian doesn't make /boot read-only by default, and also, half of the stuff in there is actually links t

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-03 Thread Marco Cecconi
Rob Weir wrote: Hello, which woody kernel supports Hyper Threading? I've read somewhere that 2.4+ kernels support this feature but how? Is a SMP build sufficient? Yes, thought 2.6 will do smarter things with it. You also require APIC and/or ACPI support, no doubt google has the details. What is

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-03 Thread Marco Cecconi
Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003, at 00:18 +0100, Werner Mahr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 1. Dezember 2003 11:41 schrieb Marco Cecconi: ^ Is my KMail broken? Marco's clock is. ;) His clock is set forward

Hyper Threading

2003-11-02 Thread Marco Cecconi
Hello, which woody kernel supports Hyper Threading? I've read somewhere that 2.4+ kernels support this feature but how? Is a SMP build sufficient? How does linux support HT, dual processor style (like e.g. Win2000) or natively (like e.g. WinXP)? Thank you, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Marco Cecconi
Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in particular under Linux? At work I try to separate different functionalities as much as possible (eg. /boot, /, /var, /home all on different partitions). This makes

Radeon driver on www.apt-get.com

2003-11-02 Thread Marco Cecconi
Hello, I saw that on apt-get.com there's a driver for radeon based videocards. Did anyone try it? Is it just a repackage of the ATI RPM or is it something better? How do you install it (a part from dpkg, is there any other step needed?) Thank you, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Radeon driver on www.apt-get.com

2003-11-02 Thread Marco Cecconi
Hello, I saw that on apt-get.com there's a driver for radeon based videocards. Did anyone try it? Is it just a repackage of the ATI RPM or is it something better? How do you install it (a part from dpkg, is there any other step needed?) Thank you, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Marco Cecconi
Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in particular under Linux? At work I try to separate different functionalities as much as possible (eg. /boot, /, /var, /home all on different partitions). This ma

Hyper Threading

2003-11-02 Thread Marco Cecconi
Hello, which woody kernel supports Hyper Threading? I've read somewhere that 2.4+ kernels support this feature but how? Is a SMP build sufficient? How does linux support HT, dual processor style (like e.g. Win2000) or natively (like e.g. WinXP)? Thank you, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E