OT [lug] Vim and wine, or w[h]ining about vim

Thu Jun 6 23:52:49 MDT 2002

what did hdparm say, are you useing ata100 udma5 and 7200 rpm drive?

hust wondering,
jd

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>Thanks for the note Dan.
>
>   Actually, I think that I found the problem.  Certainly the wine issue
>is fixed, the vim probably as well.  ( In fact I'm surprised that
>anything worked at all. )
>
>   I was also testing software DVD playback on this box and to improve
>transfers from the DVD drive, I'd called hdparam on hdb in rc.local as
>the last start-up operation.  Later, I added another hard drive and
>recabled the drives.  It turns out that I was booting from hdb after
>adding the other drive.  I'm probably lucky that my hard drive is useful
>for more than playing hockey now. :-(
>
>Scott
>
>D. Stimits wrote:
>>"Scott A. Herod" wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I have a new box using a Via-built motherboard that I am playing with.
>>>
>>>(BTW, this is an amazingly inexpensive piece of hardware.  I got
>>>http://www.casetronic.com/Product/PCcase/CheckerCube/checkercube.html
>>>which isn't even the cheapest version.  I'd be happy to bring it to the
>>>meeting on Thursday to show it off for a 10 min. demo.)
>>>
>>>I'm playing with getting linux (RH 7.3) to fully support all of the
>>>hardware I've stuck in the box and have noticed a couple of oddities.
>>>In particular, vim seems to lock-up rather often.  Have others hard
>>>problems with vim?  On my other RH 7.3 box I always use that other,
>>>immensely superior editor from GNU. ;-)
>>>
>>>Also, since I shoved all of 7.3 onto the box, wine runs an init script.
>>>  Occasionally it seems to lock at boot time.  Anyone else had problems
>>>with it?  I was wondering if it's hardware related.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Scott
>>
>>
>>I wouldn't know whether it is hardware related, but if it locks up on
>>one app, I'd always be tempted to rebuild it from source rpm or source
>>tarball. If it still locks up, I'd rebuild it with optimizing off and -g
>>symbols and attach to it with gdb after lockup just to see where it is
>>locking (but more importantly, sometimes optimizing is related to the
>>lockup on particular hardware, changing optimization by removing it
>>might fix it, especially on 2.95.x compilers).
>>
>>D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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