On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 23:19 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > The initial, commented /dev/sdb is correct, /dev/sda is the master drive on > this mobo's only PATA interface, and is not normally mounted. /dev/sdb is the > first SATA drive, and is selected as the first bootable hard disk in the bios. > So I assume then that my command line to install grub again would then be: > grub-install /dev/sdb ? ---- it seems odd that you would have it set to /dev/sdb and grub as (hd0,0). It shouldn't hurt I would think if you did grub-install to both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Most modern BIOS allows you to pick the boot order of the various drive types. ---- > >> 2. Yum wants to update 435 packages, but many dependencies stop it. What > >> is the f10 procedure to bring that up to speed now? > > > >---- > >you probably have some packages that have to be manually removed that > >are blocking the update. > > I will probably hit a package that does this eventually, I have it processing > the updates displayed about 1 yumex screen full at a time, and so far that > hasn't triggered a dependency storm. That knocking sound, yeah, you know what > it is. ---- package-cleanup --orphans will give you a lot of guidance on packages that it can't update. ---- > I have tons of self compiled stuff here, and will again shortly. The radeonhd > driver supplied with the dvd is so slow I can repaint the screen with a 2" > wide paint brush faster. ---- in theory, that shouldn't have any impact on upgrades IF you put the compiled stuff in /usr/local ---- > [root@coyote ~]# glxgears > 1628 frames in 5.0 seconds = 325.495 FPS > 1636 frames in 5.0 seconds = 327.036 FPS > 1635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 326.821 FPS > 1573 frames in 5.0 seconds = 314.521 FPS > 1455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 290.819 FPS > 1521 frames in 5.0 seconds = 304.192 FPS > > Which surprises me, it feels a heck of a lot slower. Moving firefox an inch > to the left takes about 10 seconds as it redraws the whole screen about 50 > times doing it. > > It was doing about 900 before I broke it. And I could move a screen as fast > as the mouse moved. Sigh. ---- get the updates installed first. You might find that the rpmfusion fglrx package is more to your liking though I wouldn't think that there would much of a performance difference between F9 and F10 w/r/t radeonhd but then again, I'm not using it. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
