resized partitions

just resized partitions so now linux gets 10gb more at 25gb and windows has 13gb. this must mean that i have almost made the leap completely over to linux. i still may need to go into windows to check visual basic stuff and mdb files so for now will need to keep it.

usb problem

in modprobe.conf i had:

alias usb-controller ehci_hcd

alias usb-controller1 ohci_hcd

i found out that it is now:

alias usb-controller usb-uhci

alias usb-controller1 usb-ehci

aumix

went into aumix and turned up pcm2 and now it seems to work ok. what is pcm2????

intel 8x0 soundcard problem

got my soundcard working earlier but now it seems to have developed a crackle. it was playing fine earlier. under FC1 the sound was fine but it used OSS rather than ALSA. i heard ALSA is the way to go so i will have to crack on and try and solve this.

mouse working

got mouse working by doing modprobe usb-uhci which was in my modprobe.conf file as alias usb-controller usb-uhci. wonder why it didn't initialise?

usb problem

USB Controller Intel Corp 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI

lists it in /sbin/lspci, but kudzu does not see it

upgraded to fedora core 2

thank god! at last i have managed to upgrade to FC2 via yum. however i now have a few problems...

i am back on to a synaptics touchpad mouse because the kernel has failed to recognise my intel usb (hub?) controller. stupidly i deleted the configuration from kudzu so that i am finding it hard to go back and fix it.

i have an inspiron 5150 and was told somewhere that the 2.6 kernel was going to fix the problem with the ACPI events not firing. it doesn't seem to have yet, needs more investigation but i think a mouse is more important right now.

problem with £ sign

trying to track down a strange problem in either mysql, java or torque. on my development machine my website pulls out pound signs (£) ok. on the server it pulls out a question mark (?). the strings are stored in a longblob.

this must mean there is a problem with the character sets in either java or mysql. however i am having trouble tracking this problem down on google.

on local machine i have mysql-3.23.58-4 and j2sdk1.4.2_03, on remote machine i have mysql-3.23.58_1.74 and j2sdk1.4.2_01 so i suppose the first thing to do is upgrade the remote machine to have the exact same versions.

how irritating!

sftp

still haven't fixed my sftp problem. it seems math::gmp doesn't work with redhat 9 very well. have tried changing the cipher but it makes no difference it still need the perl gmp stuff. gmp is installed on the system fine, i guess perl just can't interface with it.

frozen bubble

wow! frozen bubble is really addictive. thought i had been playing for ten minutes but when i finally stopped it was 52 minutes. sheeeiit!!