Hi all,

I have a few questions that should be pretty simple and one that may not be. I am running SUSE E.S. 9 on a Dell Poweredge server

1) How in the world do I get my clock off military time? I have it set to local and the correct time zone but nowhere do I see a way to change it off military.

2) I have the screen resolution at 8x6 and the colors at 16. Icons set to normal. However all the program and sub option menus (for example where start>programs would be in a Windows box) are sooooo tiny that you can hardly read them. Is this a font thing?

3) I plan to build a new server and would like to run Western Digital SATA drives in a RAID1 array on the new Intel 915 or 925 chipset. Does anyone have any experience running SATA RAID with SUSE E.S. on these boards?

and the mystery issue...

4) A VNC connection between a Windows machine and the server is slow and I mean uselessly slow. The odd part is that it is not just the VNC viewer that is slow, the SUSE machine itself slows down to a near stop. These machines are side by side and I can reach over and open YaST for example in under 5 seconds from the terminal but it takes like 45 seconds from a VNC session on the Windows machine. However this pokey performance also takes place on the Linux machine, it's not just the viewer lagging behind. File transfers between the two scream and are as fast if not faster than any two Windows machines on the LAN.

I have tried the usual suspects like dropping the color depth and removing the background image to no avail.

Thanks in advance,

Jimi_l

2) Presuming you're running either KDE or Gnome, you need to go to KDE/Gnome Control and change your font settings.

Thanks for the reply,

Any ideas on the other issues??

Jimi_l

1) depends on where you're viewing the time. Try right clicking on the clock. In KDE I believe it is "Time & Date Format"-> Time and Dates-> Time Format.

2) ditto

3) no

4) from the console (or konsole as the case may be ) on the linux box, run "top" and tell it to sort by cpu usage. You may need to hit 'x' to highlight the column it's sorting by, and '<' and '>' to switch columns. This should give you a decent idea about which process is eating the system.

I have tried all the obvious settings but it remains on military time. I looked in the BIOS and it to is on military time with no option to change it. I suspect I will have to live with it.

Thanks for the tip on the CPU useage, I'll check it out and post back.

Jim

The time on your computer isn't actually stored in military time. It's being displayed in military time. The way you see it displayed in BIOS is not related to the way you see it displayed in Linux. I still don't know what display manager you're using (guessing KDE). In KDE, follow the steps above and change "time format" from "HH:MM:SS" to "pH:MM:SS AMPM". I did this last night and it is no longer displaying military.