Posts by xiphux

i meant SMT, Symmetric Multi Threading. it's the technology behind the buzzword 'hyperthreading.' SMB is the protocol that the samba package and windows networking use to communicate with each other. i've been running the testing...

SMT is fairly new, and the stable kernel's (2.4) scheduling really isn't optimized for it. i think this kind of drop in performance is actually quite common with HT and 2.4. the 2.6 testing kernels have a lot better scheduling code,...

it's just a serial. you can set up vmware to use the os on a native partition. i don't know if you mean that you only want to run linux through vmware, but if you mean that you want to be able to boot linux natively as well as...

you can do 'lsmod'. i didn't realize that the 8890 had a gigabit ethernet card. i don't remember if the 2.4 series has support for gigabit, but it should be under the Ethernet (1000 Mbit) menu, as opposed to the 10 or 100 mbit menu. i...

you need the realtek rtl-8139 pci fast ethernet adapter support, and add support for uncommon revision K's and older rtl boards. /etc/conf.d/net is not that hard, just uncomment the iface_eth0 at the top with the example ip settings,...

i have radeonfb and ati drivers working together without problems.

i'm using the mm patches. (Andrew Morton's patchset)

i'm using the normal "pc101" keyboard model.

i don't think i have anything out of the ordinary set... # # Input Device Drivers # CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set #...

it works fine for me with lineakd.