On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 17:11 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 21 January 2007 14:36, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > >On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 01:14 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > >> David Boles wrote: > [and I snipped, we have enough trolls under this bridge already] > > Also, to add a bit of fuel to the fire, I just rebuilt my 2.6.20-rc4 again > after having found some more selinux stuff in the previous build that I > am now running without. Good grief! More? Are you able to keep up with all those mods without a scorecard? > > 1: Now my logs are clean again. > > 2: It took me 27 minutes to build that selinux free kernel. Now check > this, after having added quite a few usb network related modules as I'm > trying to get into a wap11 via the usb port, which will allow me to do a > reset to factory, something I cannot do from the snmp interface because > that interface requires the old password, something I've forgotten in the > 8 months since I last used this device. > > #> time ./makeit > [snip about 200k of make output] > All done! Edit grub.conf, reboot and chose your kernel at the grub prompt > > real 8m42.183s > user 4m21.606s > sys 1m11.805s > [root@coyote linux-2.6.20-rc4]# > > Now, I could have done something to speed this system up that's not > related to selinux, but the only things I've done is to rip out the livna > versions of mplayer and mplayerplugin with --nodeps, and put them back in > from dries before they were missed, and then restart firefox from its own > file menu pulldown, (normal quits and re-runs didn't seem to do it) and > now both foxnews and cnn video's now play, although cnn's videos act like > the server is in need of quite a bit more iron in its diet. I had to do the exact same thing for this FC5 install, to get all video's working. > > Now, somebody, preferably Dr. Smalley, please explain to me why I should > run something that takes a 9 minute compile and makes it take 27 minutes > to do it. And the rest of the system just plain feels snappier. > > Go ahead, I'm waiting... In the meantime I'm gonna reboot and see if > dmesg says it found that wap11 on the end of a usb cable plugged into the > front panel. Have you kept a copy of your kernel config file, and if so would you be willing to email me a copy of it offlist? LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Off Topic or Political Discussions: http://mandrakeot.mdw1982.com/ http://www.mdw1982.com/mailman/listinfo/mandrakeot "Character is what you do when nobody's looking." - J.C. Watts °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
