November Chat Thread
Modular motor junkie
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well I know the seal is bad also, but there is a leak on the pan itself. i can wipe the whole pan down, degrease it, and less than half a day later it will be covered in fresh oil.
The leak from the seal isn't all that bad actually, it seemed to have been worse when i got the truck, it's slowed down over time though.
The leak from the seal isn't all that bad actually, it seemed to have been worse when i got the truck, it's slowed down over time though.
I have done several, but all well the motor was out for something else.
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Well to solve the oil pan gasket leak- The most important thing is to make sure both surfaces are squeaky clean. To guarantee a seal apply some silicone to the pan, apply the gasket and put a bead on top. If the bottom of the block and the lip of the pan are both clean, it's virtually impossible to have a leak.
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Well to solve the oil pan gasket leak- The most important thing is to make sure both surfaces are squeaky clean. To guarantee a seal apply some silicone to the pan, apply the gasket and put a bead on top. If the bottom of the block and the lip of the pan are both clean, it's virtually impossible to have a leak.
Modular motor junkie
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From: Texas
stalker-ish emails? WTF.
I call a TTB " 4wd twin I beam " once and stosh exsplaned it to me.
I call a TTB " 4wd twin I beam " once and stosh exsplaned it to me.
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$ /usr/bin/lspci -nn | grep VGA
$ /sbin/lsmod | grep i915
EDIT: Just for grins, show me the first, say, 10 lines of the output from /usr/bin/glxgears
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Posting Guru
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lspci -nn:
lsmod:
glxgears:
I have an older ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card that I was using in my previous computer, but this computer doesn't have an AGP slot. Just PCI... 
Code:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2572] (rev 02)
lsmod:
Code:
i915 221064 2 drm 159584 2 i915 i2c_algo_bit 5760 1 i915 intel_agp 27484 2 i915 video 19380 1 i915
glxgears:
Code:
785 frames in 5.0 seconds 806 frames in 5.0 seconds 816 frames in 5.0 seconds 844 frames in 5.0 seconds 845 frames in 5.0 seconds 835 frames in 5.0 seconds 800 frames in 5.0 seconds 762 frames in 5.0 seconds 816 frames in 5.0 seconds 832 frames in 5.0 seconds 778 frames in 5.0 seconds
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Ya know, I first went down the path that you had suggested - poor
performance due to swapping things into & out of memory. But, it soon
occurred to me that that shouldn't be your problem and I turned my attention
to video, an area that can be problematic because video card manufacturers
can't or won't release their code to the open source world, resulting in things
getting reverse-engineered (another alternative sometimes is to use
commercially-provided, closed-source drivers from the manufacturers).
I have an Ubuntu 9.10 box at work, I upgraded it from 9.04; although that
upgrade was a serious improvement, it still has problems. Others I work with
have it, too, and are also saying the same thing. More than just the video.
The Ubuntu 9.x release(s) has/have been far from smooth, so much so that I
won't upgrade any of my home boxes to it (I run 8.04 on my primary desktop at
home).
I've got VERY limited experience with any of the Intel video chipsets (only 2-3
machines in the last 4 years) most of my experience is with NVIDIA & ATI
cards.
Despite that, there is plenty o' information out there about this Intel chipset
and its driver problems. Here's some of the stuff I've been reading:
HOWTO: Jaunty Intel Graphics Performance Guide - Ubuntu Forums
[HowTo] Fix Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) Intel Graphics Problem | Ivan Kristianto Blog
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troublesho...telPerformance
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTart...telDriverTo2.4
[ubuntu] Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics Fix (Jaunty) - Ubuntu Forums
Although much of what I've been reading pertains to 9.04 (you're at 9.10) you
seem to have the problematic hardware & driver and are experiencing the
same issues that other people are complaining about, so you might try some of
the things people claim to have worked for them if you want to experiment and
perhaps learn some stuff.
Alternatively, you could install 8.04, it's FAR more stable.
I didn't read any of those things very closely but you should pay attention, you
could get yourself into a world of hurt (but only with the Linux installation, you
shouldn't hurt 'doze unless you seriously mess up and, say, wipe out your
partition table or somethin' similar). Even if you hose yourself up, some of
those docs out there walk you through recovering....
Modular motor junkie
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From: Texas
The fan went out, the vid card got to hot and shorted.
The power supply died.
$325 later ( doing the work myself) I have it running better than ever, but I now have no sound.
I had to pull the mother board and I think I put the sound wire back on wrong.