Manipulators
Eventually Bit Torrent sped up some and I finished getting Core 4, but it still took most of the day…
Installed it, and it seemed to run faster plus up2date worked.
Didn’t try nvidia drivers yet. In fact I’m having trouble finding the graphical control panel that told me the IP of eth0 or the one that let me pick which generic graphics card I’m using, in KDE at least.
Was still looking when it crashed… I may have some bad RAM (came up w/half the amount on reset… grr… not too surprising given it’s scrounged RAM from at least 3 different vendors, though it worked fine in Win2k and the last Linux install…). Even with my driver fiddling that was the first I’d seen a crash, especially a hard-lock.
I’ll play with it more tomorrow. Sleep now, though Ram Stress Test (I should probably switch to memX86 or whatever it’s called) will probably wake me up beeping the PC speaker in the next room to tell me stick #3 has problems…