WTH DO U ALL THINK YOUR DOING.

OMG i came to this site to learn how to use programs and computer stuff in general, And basicaly i am absolutely FED UP WITH people telling me how i should stick to windows. FOR crying OUT LOUD I KNOW U WERENT ALL BORN WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO WORK PC's (sry if it seems as if im yelling I AM) when i joined this site i fell in love with everyones willing ness to help those who dont know(anything/verry little) about the things they wish to learn.

for the last few days i have been trying to get my feet wet with something new (LINUX in general) and all i have found is how everyone tells me "google it" GOOGLE WHAT I DONT KNOW WHAT THE HELL THAT WAS i have no problem learning tech of any sort. i am absolutly in love with pc's and OS's and anything people can do with em; but for crying out loud people dont F***ing bash me for asking you guys (who are suposed to be here to help) for a few things ok yeah i posted a lot of stuff in the last few days find if u think i should post lss PM ill listen i really will. as for the who reason i dont like SUSE 10.2 its not cuz i (knowingly) find it difficult its cuz every where i go PEOPLE (who im trying to get some kind of help from) tell me they dont like it and/or dont use it so they cant help me.

wouldnt you be absolutly pissed if everywhere u went people told u they cant help beacuse they dont like it nor do they wanna use it. for me it totally pisses me off to have a question and no be able to get help from people i have came to admire about thier computer knowledge. i found this site and thought OMG this is so awsome i can get help and learn anything i want (pc related) from you people who are just so damn smart. i even go out of my way to direct people here for pc questions and tell them u can find /get help for anything u need on your pc they are kind and smart as hell(of corse there are a few who prefer to flame than help but thats life u can deal i try to and am doing good at it atm).

Resently i am just getting mad a few people who keep telling me how dumb i am IM NOT DUMB JUST NEW for crying out load people help me out i cant learn from just reading i need to read-do- and ask for advice from people who i can trust to send me in the right direction.

i do wanna learn but a few of the guides im trying to read (that people on here sent me to) keep asuming that i know scertain stuff well i dont so i come here to ask for advice and find out that people treat me like SH** cuz im "Very New" to linux. well i am tyring to learn. and instead of trying me like crap why not say "ok to learn how to install thinks you need to learn the bash prompt commands" and ids say ohh ok ic ty (then either google it and look for a site i can understand or ask for some recomendations)

all im trying to say is for crying out load yes i have alot of Q's but dont get pissed point me in the right dirrection. and for crying out load lear to be a teacher not a sarcastic know it all who gets pissed if they are inconvienced for helping out a green horn.

i know somones going to bash me for this but i dont give a crap.
id rather learn then waste my time getting shot down bye some of you people (i have only found 2 people willing to help me on this thread)

 

So go and learn then.. instead of asking about every tiny detail.

The world of linux is full of people who are learning. We all have, some of us years ago when help wasn't available.. It meant wading through huge books, with an irate boss getting more and more angry that his production line/stock control/payroll wasn't happening.. and not always finding the answers.

At least we are honest.. I can't help specifically with suse because I DON'T USE IT!! so I don't know how to do things with it.. OK?? Is there something wrong with being honest and telling you I don't know?

As for the RTFM attitude.. TOUGH.. There are only 4 or 5 linux users here.. and only me as a full time user, everybody else uses windows too. It may come as a surprise to somebody who seems to demand 1 to 1 attention constantly. I have a full time job, and a linux project of my own to work on. I don't ask anybody for help with it.. because basically nobody else knows very much about what I'm doing.. anywhere..

Welcome to the world of professional computer op's. we do help, but basics are really not worth our time and effort, especially with linux.. There is an internet full of linux information.. I mean heaps and heaps.. from the most basic to things even professional techs look at and think WTF??? What do you make of this then?

> Matteo Brusa wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>DMA comes disabled by default on the SATA disks, and hdparm -d1 does not work.
>>Lspci returns "0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller (rev 02)".
>>Without DMA the machine crawls, and i cannot revert to kernel 2.4 (which worked well) because of
>>applications constrains.
>>Anyone can help?
>>
>>Matteo
>>
>
>
> What makes you think it comes disabled by default? And is it really
> slower now?

To be precise, it's not the disk that's slow, but the CPU gets really unresponsive when the disk is
intensively accessed.
I made this test with kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and 2.6.8-2-686 from the debian stable repository(sarge):
time dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=1024 count=9000000
the execution time on the otherwise idle machine is almost the same; however under 2.4 i get an
average load of 2.5, and under 2.6 i get a sky high load of 10 at the end of the process.

One note: my SATA drive is called /dev/hdc under 2.4, and /dev/sda under 2.6; i guess that's because
of ata_piix?


> Can you post the output of 'grep -i ata /var/log/dmesg'? If you can do
> it easily, the output of 'hdparm -tT /dev/sda' with both 2.4 and 2.6
> would also be helpful so we can see the slowdown.

Here you go, kernel 2.6:

# grep -i ata /var/log/dmesg
BIOS-e820: 000000003ffc0000 - 000000003ffcfc00 (ACPI data)
Memory: 1031108k/1048320k available (1551k kernel code, 16284k reserved, 690k data, 148k init,
130816k highmem)
libata version 1.02 loaded.
ata_piix version 1.02
ata_piix: combined mode detected
ata1: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 14
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:0000 83:0000 84:0000 85:0000 86:0000 87:0000 88:0407
ata1: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
scsi0 : ata_piix
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 15
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:207f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156250000 sectors:
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : ata_piix
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Rev: YAR5
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 3628 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1814.28 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 172 MB in 3.03 seconds = 56.85 MB/sec



And here you have kernel 2.4:

# grep -i ata /var/log/dmesg
BIOS-e820: 000000003ffc0000 - 000000003ffcfc00 (ACPI data)
Memory: 1029452k/1048320k available (1197k kernel code, 18484k reserved, 452k data, 116k init,
130816k highmem)
hda: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8082N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: Maxtor 6Y080M0, ATA DISK drive
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

# hdparm -tT /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
Timing cached reads: 4060 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2030.00 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 172 MB in 3.01 seconds = 57.14 MB/sec


>
> As far as I can tell, DMA is *ENABLED* by default on all SATA drives
> with libata and the 2.6 kernels. You can enable hdparm for sata with a
> kernel patch (if 'hdparm -I /dev/sda' doesn't already work - search for:
> ata passthru patch), but the -d flag is not supported anyway, so this
> won't allow hdparm to set dma mode.

hdparm -I /dev/sda does not work, i'll look for the patch.

>
> Just a blind guess, check your kernel config and make sure
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA (Drivers - ATA/ATAPI support - Support for SATA)
> is disabled and libata (Drivers - SCSI - low-level - Serial ATA) is
> enabled in scsi drivers. This will make sure that the newer libata
> driver is used and should enable the highest supported dma mode.

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set, and i have CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y, if that's what you meant.


Could the problem be that under 2.6 ata_piix is running in combined mode? I've seen similar problems
around:
http://groups.google.com/group/linu...q=intel+ich5+dma+linux&hl=en#794d28aec55350cc
Too bad there's no BIOS switch in theP PE 750 for combined mode...

????????????????????????/

I know what it's on about, and probably some of the other *nix users could explain it all too.

As for what I do... http://afterdark13.11.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=75&sid=f28277514bf9b67d9e86392297e61040

So it's not we are being particularly unpleasant.. but please learn to look and think and try to solve your own problems, because we are quite nice compared to a large majority of the linux world who will often just say.. READ THE F***ING MANUAL!....

 

you refuse to learn how to use a forum effectively, so how can anyone expect you to learn to do anything else?

 

Good post Jan but yea i havent used Gentoo in quite a while i just got Vista and i dont like it

 

what a shock, eh?

 

lol... I never would of guessed.

 

Ohh PAN5Y.. poor dude, stuck with vista sucks..

Where did you get gentoo from? That block of puzzlement is from the kernel group chewing over why DMA isn't working with the 2.6.12 version.
It is still giving us problems.. I'm getting very slow burns for some reason too. It was available because it's what I happened to be reading when I was making the post.. LMAO!!

 

@nghtpnshr,
Did our forefathers complain about the lack of roads and stores in the new world? Did they bitch and moan because their cell phones wasn't invented yet? Fast food meant that the critter could outrun you and your horse. Did they sit down and cry at the first "uncrossable" river? Hell no, they got up off their fat arsses and went out and learned how to do it themselves, (without the internet I may add, the only Googling they did was at all the spectacular scenery never before seen by western mankind) Face it, if you are a main stream mutton, stick with windoze, if you have a sense of adventure, are a pioneer at heart, and love a challenge, go with Linux, otherwise, just stick with AOL.

 

First off, we are not "supposed" to do a damn thing.
this is a forum, not your own private "help, i'm an illiterate idiot who doesn't know how to use software specific forums and google, please spoonfeed me" helpdesk.
We have better things to do than babysit you through your first steps.

Linux is hard. don't like that ?
TOO BAD.
You know how i learned linux ? TRIAL AND ERROR, and i READ THE F**KING MANUAL.
No google to help me, no forums, no other people.
All there was was example code snippets on BBS's, nothing more.

Linux has to be the most documented OS replacement ever, it even comes WITH BUILT IN MANUALS, and yet you have to ask how to install drivers ?
Hell, you wouldn't even go and look for them yourself.
You needed us to do that, because you didn't "know which ones i need".
Riiight.
You know what your system looks like, what hardware you have, don't you ?
Then you know what drivers you need.
Then again, if you don't even know what your computer is made of, then you have no business with linux whatsoever.

You complain about guides assuming a certain knowledge.
Well then if you don't know what something means, google the f***ing term you moron.
And for that matter, never heard of wikipedia either ?
The problem isn't you being a linux newbie, the problem is you're a dimwit who doesn't even have enough common sense to realise that if you don't know something, you should LOOK IT UP.
And for the love of god, LEARN SOME ENGLISH AND DROP THE BLOODY TEXTSPEAK ALREADY... FFS

I'm done, nothing more to see here, carry on now boys and girls.

 

keeping making flawless arguments like this, dan, and i'll start believing you can't be anything but a woman. ^.~

 

If you want specific linux help, most distros have their own forums to help you out. You should try out ubuntu, it has the most built in hardware recognition out of all the linux distros I have tried out. You might have to install some other stuff to get certain file formats to work but you will at least have your hardware recognized. Ubuntu's community is also very good so you might have a better experience asking for help there. Hope this helps.

 

List of missing stuff in ubuntu..

No c++ compiler (vital)
No make (also vital)
No i2c tools modules..(well not the important ones anyway) not that vital but very important for detecting unusual hardware..

Incompatabilities.. Lots and lots.. works ok out of the box, just don't try adding anything to it.

Ohh.. I forgot to say.. security issues.. *cough* I'll repeat that.. SECURITY ISSUES.. ** waves red rag under Dan's nose**

Seriously.. look at the other threads in this section before making stoopid suggestions.. We're the n00buntu bashers club.. Giving it a good ragging since 2006..

 

Suse Forums:
http://www.suseforums.net/

http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/

http://opensuse.us/phpBB2/index.php?sid=e656c233129c5d0e8991743a9d8b05c3

 

hey janrocks what distro do u use? and are there any other reasons that u dint like ubuntu? also nghtpnshr, just google the words linux and how to and you will get every thing you need

 

It should be obvious from my sig that I'm a debian user.

 

Well you all seemed to have given him what he deserved.LOL The only thing I should add is he's just plain LAZY. Probably doesn't/didn't do homework in school, English comes to mind. Start with the basic stuff and build on it. You didn't learn to do square roots until AFTER you learned to multiply!

 

And there I was thinking you did square roots after learning long division and factors.. We learned to do them with pencil and paper.. nightmare.. Hang on.. What am I talking about?.. it's go for a button on a calculator (whatever one of those is) or so I'm told by the children, who can't work out how much change they are supposed to get in the shop without looking at the till.

I had to add

Being a$$holes.. seeing as we are very good at it. Stuff helping people, being an a$$hole is much more fun...

 

I wonder how many of theses muffets would starve without fast food and microwaves? I'm sure Darwin is rolling in his grave at our excellence in De-Evolution today (De-Evolution, survival of the most unfit)

 

Actually, most folks seem to be yelling "revolution! revolution!" when they should be yelling "Evolution! Evolution! WE WANT MORE BRAINS! AND OPPOSABLE THUMBS !"