Posts by xiphux

Some time ago, I tried this sort of thing, and used it to try and rescue a reiserfs linux install that I broke. I copied some files from reiserfs to windows, and all the files ended up corrupt - not only the files copied onto the ntfs...

The option I was referring to is a kernel config option. I don't really know exactly what redhat configures their kernels with, but you may be able to force dma with hdparm. if you do 'hdparm /dev/hdc' (or whatever your cdrom is),...

If you really want to see improvements with hyperthreading, use a 2.6 kernel and either: Use Con Kolivas's kernel patches for interactivity (O21 is the current, I think), as well as his HT patches and HT-enabled batch scheduling...

Those lines are just a more complicated way of enabling scsi emulation for a drive. It's telling the ide-cd driver not to probe hdc and to pre-install the ide-scsi driver instead. Passing hdc=ide-scsi automatically forces the drive to...

Try changing the ide module you use to access the drive. So if you're using SCSI emulation for burning, try switching to the normal ide cd driver and burning with ATAPI, and vice versa. If your drive is hdb, pass either the...

Try disabling the framebuffer.

Both of the OSes have to reference the hardware clock when they start up to sync the system clock, and set the hardware clock again as they shut down - you can't really get around that too easily. However, both should be setting the...

i'm not quite sure exactly what you're trying to do... are you running as a normal user and having trouble accessing a root-mounted ntfs partition? there's not a whole lot you can do about it, because ntfs doesn't have good write...

I found a way to turn off the lcd's backlight, if anyone's interested in saving power. First, you need the radeontool program, at: http://fdd.com/software/radeon/ compile it and put it in /sbin. You also need acpid, which is...

While college life (read: college classwork) has me busy and not really able to hang around here all the time like I used to, I decided to post a small project of mine that I started: A custom kernel patchset. It was inspired by the...