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IRC Help
by Daniel Simpleman 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

Hello Everyone I have a big question. I would like to come to these IRC meetings but Im using on a different server at the same time. I was just told I could connect to two different servers at the same time but I cant seem to find out how to do it, So Im wondering if anyone knows how to do it without downloading any special script programs... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Re: [Alug] drive seek error....
by Ricardo Campos 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

> Anything that cools down a component (HDD, CPU, etc) will help with long term > reliability. Therefor, I would check with other users to see if heat build up > is common, and install a fan to cool things down. > You can purchase fan units that screw on to HDDs for a few pounds.. Yeah, this could be a consideration. I'll leave it for now, however... time might tell but I may eat my words: I used www.memtest86.com (well, memtest86) on my RAM. I have 2 modules. 3 Slots. Due to rather bad design of the mobo, I had them in slots 2 and 3. It hasn't been a problem... Interestingly, in Windows (which was my only usable OS at one point), the computer would simply reboot, much as Ian described. I just put it down to W98 being crap. I still think it's crap, though. ;-) I ran the test on each module in slot 3 and they worked fine, no errors. I tried them in their original configuration. The test got stuck.(actually test 7 did). Presently, I have them in slots 1 and 3. The difference in speed is amazing. Like, it feels like the difference between my old amd k6-2 400 Mhz 64mb machine compared to this one (Duron 750, 512 MB). I am actually truly amazed at the difference.The mobo manual doesn't mention anything about a slot 1 and slot 3 requirement. Did I say how much difference it made? I'm amazed. So I'll see how stable this is. This is my first boot. I had to do a manually fsck on one partition, but I'm hoping/guessing this is just from the previous time I booted and it just fscked it all up. Time will tell, I guess. Thanks to all who helped. ALUG rocks. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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drive seek error....
by Ricardo Campos 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

OK, looks like it wasn't my hard drive that was the problem... Yesterday, after hours of use installing on a new HD (hours due to net install), I booted up and it worked OK. I then rebooted at one point and LILO gave me:- ERR=2 Unrecognised compression format. Halting. Another reboot booted the kernel, but it had millions of Drive Seek Ready errors and DMA errors, then halted at INIT. I checked the cables (in fact put new ones in), and noticed that the hard drive was SUPER-hot). Leaving it for 30 mins, it booted OK. Does anyone think it may be overheating? Or poss a RAM error? (So the kernel doesn't load up properly). Any ideas? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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RE: [Alug] drive seek error....
by Ricardo Campos 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

> > Does anyone know of software to test physical memory? > > memtest86 is good, I've got it as a boot option from lilo now. > http://www.memtest86.com/ Seems to fit the bill exactly. Many thanks. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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RE: [Alug] drive seek error....
by Jonathan Dye 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

> > Eventually I started getting BIOS boot memory errors. > > New RAM module fixed it. > > Does anyone know of software to test physical memory? memtest86 is good, I've got it as a boot option from lilo now. http://www.memtest86.com/ > I have 2 RAM modules, 1 new, 1 older. I guess 1 might be > giving problems. I've borrowed some RAM from work to see > if that fixes it. JD _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service

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Re: [Alug] drive seek error....
by Ricardo Campos 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

> Eventually I started getting BIOS boot memory errors. > New RAM module fixed it. Does anyone know of software to test physical memory? I have 2 RAM modules, 1 new, 1 older. I guess 1 might be giving problems. I've borrowed some RAM from work to see if that fixes it. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug] DVD Playing
by Ricardo Campos 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

> I remember a discussion at the last meet about playing DVDs and someone > recommending Xine as a player. I have had a go at setting this up and it > complains saying it won't play encrypted DVDs even with libdvdcss > installed. > > Has anyone else got this working? If so what did you have do do? I found xine hokey, personally. I found OGLE to be far more reliable in it's support for DVD's, menus, etc. But then again it doesn't play mpegs or avi's. Maybe try an older version of libdvdcss- for some reason the newest one doesn't work for me, but the old one does! Also, your DVD might need to be set rw, I can't play encrypted DVD's without it being rw for the user in question. Hope that helps. Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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DMA and Bus Hogging?
by Steve Fosdick 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

Thanks for the info on DVD playing. I now have another issue for people to ponder... I have a SCSI CD-Writer and if I run digital audio extraction on that at the same time as trying to do something with the hard disk, programs trying to use the hard disk seem to be made to wait for the CD Writer, i.e wait until the end of the track being extracted, and in syslog I get a series of messages like this: Jul 21 23:04:29 pelvoux kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Jul 21 23:04:34 pelvoux kernel: ide0: reset: success My initial guess as to what is happening is that the SCSI card is hogging the PCI bus and preventing any commucication withe IDE controller. This is the second time I have come accross problems with things getting in each other's way - the other one was with video capture. In that case I thought turning on DMA so hard disk writes would be faster wold improve vide capture but actually resulted in many more lost frames than driving the hard disk in PIO mode. So, can anyone confirm from the little information I have here that this indeed a PCI bus sharing problem or suggest what it might be instead. Either way can anyone think of a software solution to it? Steve.

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Re: [Alug] DVD Playing
by Ricardo Campos 21 Jul '02

21 Jul '02

> So in your opinion ogle is a better alternative? Or are there other players I > should be looking at? For DVD playing, I think Ogle is best. I personally use xine, but just for divx, avi and mpeg. (you could also check out mplayer too) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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