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Dances With Crows available, though. Yeah, I know. Most of what I know has come from MAN and newsgroups. Thing is, I don't know that I didn't know something until I find out I didn't know it. So, I didn't know to look for it. =) Make sense? Like the hdparm and uname and lsmod...I had no idea whose commands existed until I was asked what they output. How would I have known to find out about their existance just on my own. Which is why some intensive clbutt, or good book, is really useful. Something I can go through and learn all the basics I should know.
Oh, someone else simply said "And overdriving PCM on this box causes a lot of distortion." That's all, so I was wondering what that meant.
Hi, I have some servers and I would like to use AMANDA to backup files on this systems. But there seems to be a problem because I backup...
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:59:24 +0100, Levente KOVACS Don't know why you are so sensitive. I gave you a better way to administer your system which is to use the...
Ah OK. Good point. That's one I should have known. # hdparm -idev-hda
dev-hda:
Model=Maxtor 6Y120P0, FwRev=YAR41VW0, SerialNo=Y40T38DE Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383-16-63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7936kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383-16-63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=240121728 IORDY=on-off, tPIO={min:120,w-IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: (null):
* signifies the current active mode
Hmm. OK, I can't quite decipher this. (*sigh* and I need to take an A+ course as well.) I buttume that DMA IS on since there's a min-rec values...but then, there's no asterik next to one of the mdma modes. Which doesn't matter since UDMA is being used, right?
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Fascinating! I read the man on this. I had no idea about these options. I look forward to improved general performance. =) Every time I discover yet another mysterious method of more detailed control Linux grants I get the increased feeling that there is a magical combination of settings and switches that is properly set will turn my PC into a Beowulf cluster. =) It's just a matter of learning all the arcane secrets. fnord
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Yeah, I know. Again, work PC. # uname -a Linux WEBDEV01 2.6.10-1.760FC3 #1 Wed Feb 2 00:14:23 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU-Linux
Is that right? i686 CPU? Is that what a Pentium-4 reads as? (Again, this is my work PC. I prefer AMD myself. *g*)
output one Well, I SUPPOSE I'm using ALSA...at least that what this means, yes? # catproc-asound-oss-sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.6 emulation code) Kernel: Linux WEBDEV01 2.6.10-1.760FC3 #1 Wed Feb 2 00:14:23 EST 2005 i686 Config options: 0
Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config: Intel ICH5 with AD1980 at 0xfeb7fa00, irq 3
Audio devices: 0: Intel ICH5 (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Timers: 7: system timer
Black Sun and said: Sorry about the delay--dangit, too many other things going on. with a bunch of new...
Mixers: 0: Analog Devices AD1980
So, I should just stick with ALSA and fiddle with that. Interesting, when ALSA is my selected output in XMMS, all tasks occur immediately. That is, pause, changing slider, volume, everything happens immediately. When I use aRts there's a couple second pause before anything takes effect. I buttume, knowing now that KDE uses aRts, that it's because it's sharing processing with KDE...which is also why while XMMS is running with aRts selected none of the desktop sounds run, while with ALSA I can still hear KDE sounds at the same time.
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I'll check it out and play with that. Thanks for all the advice! Liam