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in case the net connection drops, openntpd gets a chance to start up again, and the hwclock gets a chance to sync. | in case the net connection drops, openntpd gets a chance to start up again, and the hwclock gets a chance to sync. | ||
Seems related to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16838 and http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17438 | Seems related to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16838 and http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17438 | ||
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| + | Using ALSA, works fine in everything [http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=730036#p730036 except for Wine], which makes sound not work in any apps until I log out of KDE and in again. | ||
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====TODO==== | ====TODO==== | ||
Maybe try this stuff: | Maybe try this stuff: | ||
Revision as of 09:19, 23 March 2010
Contents
My setup
Mainboard: ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO, Socket-AM3 AMD 785G+SB710, DDR3, Firewire, GbLAN, m-ATX, HDMI, DVI, PCI-Ex(2.0)x16
Processor: Phenom II X3 720 Black
Power supply: Silver Power SP-400P2C 400W
Wifi:
CNet CWP-854 RT2561T D-Link G-520
Graphics
The card is an integrated Radeon HD4200.
I tried the proprietary catalyst drivers from AUR, worked OK. Neverball was fast and xvinfo showed a buncha stuff wot I don't understand so that seemed to work too. I had to set TerminateServer=True to get kdm to not freeze on logout, as described in the wiki on ATI.
I switched to the free drivers, here xvinfo and glxinfo say "Error: unable to open display", but I can select OpenGL for compositing and get the wobbly windows etc. I'm not running KMS yet. I get 3D in SuperTuxKart etc.
Wireless
The CNet card was problematic, but my new D-Link G-520 works great so far with ath_pci (putting !ath5k in MODULES in /etc/rc.conf) and netcfg2/net-profiles (net-auto-wireless).
Fan control
Had a bit of trouble at first, but it seems to work now. Unfortunately I have to reconfigure it on each update :-/
Time
For some reason, time has been my most persistent problem… When I was having network problems, and openntpd had no chance of updating time on the web, the hwclock seemed to be set to whatever it was last boot, creating lots of "last mount date in the future" errors on startup, meaning I had to e2fsck 800GB on each boot if I wasn't careful about setting the hwclock manually. Not very user-friendly. At least with a better network, openntpd has a chance to keep the time up-to-date, but I still sometimes have to do that startup disk-check. I've put the following into the root crontab:
30 * * * * /etc/rc.d/openntpd restart 45 * * * * rm -f /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime && hwclock --systohc
in case the net connection drops, openntpd gets a chance to start up again, and the hwclock gets a chance to sync. Seems related to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16838 and http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17438
Sound
Using ALSA, works fine in everything except for Wine, which makes sound not work in any apps until I log out of KDE and in again.
TODO
Maybe try this stuff:
- Disable lengthy ext3 boot-time-checks
- http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87530 / use /etc/e2fsck.conf to ignore future mount dates