[Comm-en] Re: WindowMaker Resolutions and Dual Processor compat.

[Comm-en] Re: WindowMaker Resolutions and Dual Processor compat.

[D&J Bouley]

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Hello, Mike.  Oh yes, the changing of the XF86Config-4 setting worked.  
Thanks.

I'm not too clear about the installing of SMP manually.  Well, quite frankly, 
I just don't know enough about it.  Without making you write an entire 
instruction manual, are there some steps I sould be aware of if I was to try 
and help my co-worker install Compact 2.3 on his system?

Thanks for the help.  WindowMaker looks much better now.  :o)

David.


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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:02:33 +0300
From: Michael Shigorin <mike@osdn.org.ua>
Subject: Re: [Comm-en] WindowMaker Resolutions and Dual Processor
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:51:14PM -0600, D&J Bouley wrote:
> Is there a setting to increase the number of colours WM will display?

grep DefaultColorDepth /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
?

> 2) A co-worker wishes to move over to Linux.  I'd like to
> install Compact 2.3 for him.  Is Compact 2.3 set up to
> recognize, install under, and utilize motherboards with dual
> processors?

Theoretically yes (it has SMP kernel) but practically I've seen
problems like you had to install SMP kernel and module packages
manually.  *sigh* since it's obviously a bug.

> Any advice would be appreciated.

Regarding colours, you can try to modify the aforementioned
setting and restart X (sorry for being so config-oriented, I'm
just too dumb regarding the rest of the tools that's available
and when I know the config, it's more reliable to work out an
"edit this"-like advice rather than figuring out what's working
and what's broken).

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Re: [Comm-en] Re: WindowMaker Resolutions and Dual Processor compat.

[Michael Shigorin]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:03:04PM -0600, D&J Bouley wrote:
> I'm not too clear about the installing of SMP manually.  Well,
> quite frankly, I just don't know enough about it.

It's about installing appropriate kernel packages.

The current package set for uniprocessor can be determined by:

rpm -qa | grep kernel.*std-up

Then we can either install every corresponding std-smp package
(with e.g. synaptic) or think whether we have that particular
softmodem or SCSI controller. :)

The safe side is installing kernel-*-std-smp*.rpm, that should be
done by installing kernel-complete-std-smp which pulls them in
via dependencies.

> Without making you write an entire instruction manual, are
> there some steps I sould be aware of if I was to try and help
> my co-worker install Compact 2.3 on his system?

Well it should install anyways, but driving a single processor on
a multiprocessor system is a shame so probably after UP install
we get back there with SMP details.

Again -- sorry, this just shouldn't have been. *sigh*

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