Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.18 with suse 8.0)
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 20:26:04 AKDT
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 19:42, Justin Dieters wrote:
>
> Greg Madden wrote:
> > Justin, I had another thought on the IDE issue & freeze ups. This can be
> > obvious but it has affected me. The dma setting is important in getting
> > any performance out of IDE controllers ..etc. I have found that it is
> > not always enabled during an install. Just in case: hdparm.
>
> Thanks, I'll check it out. I also tried the newest stable kernel
> (2.4.19), but I can't get it to work quite right. The new kernel looks
> gives me an error about 'can't access /dev/pg*' or something like that,
> whereas in 2.4.18 it works fine configured as /dev/scd0.
snip
> Speaking of debian, I was under the impresssion that it was a pretty
> full-featured distro, but my install seemed more like a bare-bones
> install than anything. Hardly any of my hardware was set up by debian,
> and the software included seemed minimal. I had to manually set up X
> and after a while I was able to get a KDE session going. Anyway, I'm
> not whining about it (smile) Just wondering if perhaps there's something
> I should be doing during the install that I didn't...
>
> "And so the CD-RW saga continues.." :)
>
> Justin
>
> P.S. I CC'd the list in case anyone has any insights into the /dev/pg*
> thing.
Run 'tasksel' the 'desktop' choice installs a mix of Gnome & KDE, you
still need to run dselect to pick up tings like 'evolution & gnumeric'
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