Re: 6.5 : aliases vs postfix/generic
ohh.. it appears that "aliases" is for local users. So if i need to use this file (/etc/aliases) to forward to the "outside world" i need to use "virtual" file as pointed out here <https://pergento.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/postfix-relayhost-and-aliases/> ... actually... the prehistoric times "~/.forward" solution still works great. On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > Gents, > what is the difference between /etc/aliases and /etc/postfix/generic ? > and why aliases is been ignored by postfix despite main.cf having: > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases > alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases > entries enabled? > > i have root:mypreciousem...@xxx.com in aliases, but maillog is clearly > not happy with it > > >
6.5 : aliases vs postfix/generic
Gents, what is the difference between /etc/aliases and /etc/postfix/generic ? and why aliases is been ignored by postfix despite main.cf having: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases entries enabled? i have root:mypreciousem...@xxx.com in aliases, but maillog is clearly not happy with it
6.5 : smartd vs smartmontools
Gents, i'm a bit confused about the usage of smartd and smartmontools. smartmontools bring smartd as part of the package. Smartd can be added to run levels. But smartmontools - can *not* be added to a runlevel and, as such, does NOT control the smartd daemon... i'm right or ...? i'm confused because various blogs seemed to indicate that smatmontools control the smartd's start parameters ( https://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/ ) , but i failed to find any confirmation of this in the current smartmontools documentation ( doesn't mean it is not there). For example the widely referred "#start_smartd=yes" in the /etc/default/smartmontools is not there ( smartmontools-5.43-1.el6.x86_64 ). for now i just did the "old" way - added smartd to run on 235, but just curious what's the deal here. Thank you AZ
Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?
Uninstall. :) On Mar 4, 2016 3:24 PM, "Karel Lang AFD" wrote: > Hi all, > > guys, i think everyone heard already about how windows 10 badly treat its > users privacy. > > I'm now thinking about a way howto stop a windows 10 sending these data > mining results to a microsoft telemetry servers and filter it on our SL 6 > linux gateway. > > I think it could be (maybe?) done via DPI (deep packet inspection). I > similarly filter torrent streams on our gateway - i patched standard SL 6 > kernel with 'xtables' (iptables enhancement) and it is working extremely > well. > > I read (not sure if true) that some DNS resolutions to M$ servers are even > 'hardwired' via some .dll library, so it makes it even harder. > > I'm no windows expert, but i'm and unix administrator concerned about > privacy of windows desktop/laptop users sitting inside my LAN. > > What i'd like to come up is some more general iptables rules, than > blocking specific IP addresses or names, because, apparently they may > change in any incoming windows update ... > > Anyone gave this thought already? Anyone else's concerned the way i am? > > cheers > > > > -- > *Karel Lang* > *Unix/Linux Administration* > l...@afd.cz | +420 731 13 40 40 > AUFEER DESIGN, s.r.o. | www.aufeerdesign.cz >
Re: Anyone want my Wine compile notes?
I usuall post my solutions online, usually on linuxquestions On Nov 12, 2014 3:12 PM, "ToddAndMargo" wrote: > Hi All, > > It about killed me, but I finally managed to get Wine 1.7.30.i686 to > compile on SL 6.5 64 bit. > > Would any of you like my notes on the matter? They will save > you endless hours (Wine's config file is pretty messed up). > > -T > > -- > ~~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~ >
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL: not a good choice as a workstation
Last night yum update pulled 31.xx on sl6.5 Btw, not to steal the conversation, but be aware of ff33 - it wont work wirh rsa certificates less than 512 bytes length. I discovered (hard way) how many those I have on my network... On Nov 7, 2014 6:04 PM, "ToddAndMargo" wrote: > On 11/07/2014 02:49 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote: > >> On 11/07/2014 03:45 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> >>> I can't help >>> but notice that Cent OS 7 is keeping up-to-date now >>> with Firefox, but SL 7 is not >>> >> >> What version differences are you seeing? The latest SL7 firefox is >> firefox-31.2.0-3.el7_0 published as security errata on Nov 3. >> >> Pat >> >> > It was 24 something. The "yum update" did not update > it. > > Seems to me I was looking at it on Nov 4, but I could > be misremembering it. >
Re: SL: not a good choice as a workstation
With all due respect this is not a valid compare. We can compare sl to centos etc. I run both (fedora and sl 6.5) as workstations and cant complain . Sl is solid - wife likes it and cost to maintain it for me is 0. Fedora - depends what I do, if compile various projects - yes easier then sl (because of newer api) but once updates hit... uhhh. I might spend time fixing that. In short - sl is stable as promised and fedora is brand new -as promised. Now, I think going forward, we will see hopefully happier midium in centos versions. On Nov 7, 2014 4:46 PM, "ToddAndMargo" wrote: > Hi All, > > Got my first look at SL 7. Installed it to hard drive > on my shop computer. Eventually the idea was to learn > from my shop computer and migrate the knowledge > to my office computer. > > My office computer is SL 6.5 x64. It is set up with all > the server goodies I use at my customer sites. This so > I can test things etc.. My office computer also serves as > a workstation for my business. > > SL 7 is now 64 bit only. Means no 32 bit Windows applications > under 64 bit only Wine. OUCH! > > SL 7 is also still suffering from the out-of-dates. The base > system is up to date, but the utilities are still sadly > out-of-date: bugs and all. EPEL's Xfce is especially out-of-date > and only includes only a few Xfce plug ins. Most of my favorite > utilties/programs are still sadly out-of-date and include various > old bugs and loss of functionality. > > On my shop computer, it got so bad that I ripped out SL 7 and > installed Fedora Code 21 Beta 4 from an Xfce Live CD. > Oh boy is it nice. Even got VLC installed without a single > tear. All of Xfce's plug-ins are present. Firefox > is -- get this -- actually up-to-date! (I can't help > but notice that Cent OS 7 is keeping up-to-date now > with Firefox, but SL 7 is not.) And Wine32 works too. > Libre Office is even up to date (mostly). > > And I support Fedora too, so a loss of time with the installing, > the ripping, the reinstalling, but a nice amount of knowledge > gained. I had to learn Fedora 21 anyway. > > So the big question on my office computer is > > 1) to leave it on the much more workstation friendly > SL6.x (wine on SL 6.x stinks it is so out-of-date > and Libre-CAD is crash city) > > or > > 2) to upgrade it to FC21 server and relegate SL to a > virtual machine? That way I could have a reasonable > workstation and still test server stuff in SL7. > > Heads up on XFS. SL 7 installs it by default. FC 21 > still installs EXT4 by default. > > Whole hard drive encryption works marvelously on both. > FC 21 can even read encrypted XFS disks from SL 7. > > Wine on FC21 removes a lot of the bugs and loss of functionality > you have to suffer with on SL 6.x when used as a workstation. > And I have to say, Wine is starting to come into its own -- its is still > Beta code though. > > The learning in the field never stops. > > SL 7 seems to have all the goodies for a decent server. > But it has now become a *nightmare* to use as a workstation. > > -T > > -- > ~~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~ >
Re: Scientific Linux 6.6 RC 2 i386/x86_64
Thank you team. Quick question in regards of the upgrade note - any specific to prop. Nvidia drv and x11 problems I should be aware and possible fixes/workarounds? On Nov 6, 2014 12:04 PM, "Pat Riehecky" wrote: > Scientific Linux 6.6 RC 2 i386/x86_64 Nov 6, 2013 > > If no major bugs are reported by Nov 12 this Release Candidate will be > released as Scientific Linux 6.6. > > > > Send comments/issues/test reports to scientific-linux-de...@fnal.gov > during our pre-release period. > > > > DOWNLOAD INFO > > > > Network Install Images: > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/i386/images/boot.iso > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/x86_64/images/boot.iso > > DVD Install Images: > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/i386/iso/ > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/x86_64/iso/ > > > > Major Differences from SL6.5 > > > OpenAFS > OpenAFS has been updated to version 1.6.10 from openafs.org > > xorg-x11-server > Features a new ABI, this was a security errata so it should be > available to earlier releases. > > > > POSSIBLE UPGRADE PROBLEMS > > > Users of proprietary drivers may experience issues with the X server > loading due to changes between Xorg 1.13 and Xorg 1.15. > > Users of the 32bit iscsi utilities on x86_64 systems may experience > multilib complaints. The 32bit iscsi utilities are not provided by > upstream on x86_64 platforms. We have removed them from 6.6 to follow > their behavior. > > > -- > Pat Riehecky > > Scientific Linux developer > http://www.scientificlinux.org/ >
Re: dual layer iso
>...I remember those things. Hated them. Don't mind two DVD's though i second this. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:40 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 09/02/2014 12:30 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 12:23:38PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> >>> >>> I noticed >>> >>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7rolling/ >>> x86_64/iso/SL-7-x86_64-Everything-Dual-Layer-DVD.iso >>> >>> And no more disk 1 and disk 2. >>> >>> Will there be no more two DVD ISO's? >>> >>> >> Finally, distribution of SL on punch cards is discontinued. >> > > > I remember those things. Hated them. Don't mind two > DVD's though. > > Is my above link ready to go, or is it a test build? >
Re: How do you speed up rsync?
Well, if you have a lot of changes in these files maybe its kust easier to either: 1 compare on a faster hd and update only those that needed back to usb 2. Utilize svn/git to keep track of changes and again copy only changes to usb On Jul 11, 2014 4:14 PM, "ToddAndMargo" wrote: > On Jul 11, 2014 3:58 PM, "ToddAndMargo" >> <mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I have a bash script for synchronizing a flashing drive (target) >>> with my hard drive (source) I take to customer sites (with a read >>> only switch so I don't spread viruses). >>> >>> I currently "rsync" 11 different directories. Each sync line >>> looks like this: >>> >>> rsync -rv --delete $MyCDsSource/Linux $MyCDsTarget/.; sync; sync >>> >>> Problem: it is slow -- takes three hours. To help the >>> speed issue, I upgraded from USB 2 to USB 3. Backup went >>> from 3 hr-15 min to 3 hr-5 min. It is almost faster >>> to wipe the stick and rewrite it. >>> >>> Anyone know of a way to speed up rsync? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> -T >>> >>> >> > On 07/11/2014 01:02 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> Tar ball changes and "just copy"? >> >> > Hi Andrew, > > There are at last count there are20957 files I synchronize. > "rsync" has been wonderful in keeping me current > on my stick. I am not sure how tar would help? > > -T >
Re: How do you speed up rsync?
Tar ball changes and "just copy"? On Jul 11, 2014 3:58 PM, "ToddAndMargo" wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a bash script for synchronizing a flashing drive (target) > with my hard drive (source) I take to customer sites (with a read > only switch so I don't spread viruses). > > I currently "rsync" 11 different directories. Each sync line > looks like this: > > rsync -rv --delete $MyCDsSource/Linux $MyCDsTarget/.; sync; sync > > Problem: it is slow -- takes three hours. To help the > speed issue, I upgraded from USB 2 to USB 3. Backup went > from 3 hr-15 min to 3 hr-5 min. It is almost faster > to wipe the stick and rewrite it. > > Anyone know of a way to speed up rsync? > > Many thanks, > -T >
Re: Create 4TB RAID volumes during install?
Whats the error? On Mar 28, 2014 4:43 PM, "CS_DBA" wrote: > Hi All; > > I have a server which we've setup with 2 - 500GB drives and 6 - 4TB drives > > I want to mirror the 2 500GB drives as a RAID 1 volume - works as expected > > However I also want to add all 6 4TB drives to a single RAID 10 RAID device > > I try and create a raid volume, choose one of the 4TB drives and it wont > let me select more than 2TB of space. Can someone give some insight on how > to pull this off? > > Thanks in advance >
Re: iss
Weired, strange, odd.. "But if you think about it.." @George Carlin On Feb 14, 2014 1:24 PM, "ToddAndMargo" wrote: Hi All, Thought you guys might like this: http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/140191/the-16-weirdest-places-youll-find- linux-236279?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2014-02-14#slide11 They didn't say what version though. -T -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~
Re: fc20 changed system logging
And how is this better? On Jan 31, 2014 1:26 AM, "ToddAndMargo" wrote: > Hi All, > > Reference: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_ > Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html > > I just noticed FC20 changed system logging. That is going to > take some getting use to. RHEL 7 perhaps? > > -T > > > 2.8.1. Syslog removed from default installation > syslog is no longer included in default installations. journald > logging serves most use cases as well as, or better than, syslogd. > > Users accustomed to checking /var/log/messages for system logs should > instead use journalctl. > > journalctl command examples: > > newjournalctl | old messages > +- > journalctl | less /var/log/messages > journalctl -f | tail -f /var/log/messages > journalctl --unit named.service | grep named /var/log/messages > journalctl -b | Shows logs from current boot, > | no simple equivalent. > > > -- > ~~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~ >
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] 404 Not Found on updates/security/control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-39.el6.x86_64.rpm
Pat, thank you - now all is good. On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: > Our backing storage device is having issues this morning. The repodata > should be correctly resolved in a few minutes. > > Pat > > > On 12/10/2013 09:27 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > > Hello, > i'm getting the 404 on all mirrors ( see below) for this particular rpm. > All other rpms were downloaded w/o an issue, but this one. If i check the > website - the package is available and i can manually download it. > > Is there something i'm missing? > > Thank you > > - LOG -- > yum update: > Downloading Packages: > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/updates/security/control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-39.el6.x86_64.rpm: > [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not > Found" > Trying other mirror. > > http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/updates/security/control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-39.el6.x86_64.rpm: > [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not > Found" > Trying other mirror. > > http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/updates/security/control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-39.el6.x86_64.rpm: > [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not > Found" > Trying other mirror. > > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/updates/security/control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-39.el6.x86_64.rpm: > [Errno 12] Timeout on > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/updates/security/control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-39.el6.x86_64.rpm: > (28, 'connect() timed out!') > Trying other mirror. > > > Error Downloading Packages: > 1:control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-39.el6.x86_64: failure: > control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-39.el6.x86_64.rpm from sl-security: [Errno > 256] No more mirrors to try. > > > > -- > Pat Riehecky > > Scientific Linux developerhttp://www.scientificlinux.org/ > >
Re: libdvdread 4.1 vs 4.2 backport
Thank you Connie, I have it installed. But I wonder about 4.2? On Aug 8, 2013 4:13 PM, "Connie Sieh" wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Andrew Z wrote: > > --001a1133c3ee9435d204e3753faf >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" >> >> Gentlemen, >> i'm a bit confused here with version numbers for libdvdread. >> >> one i have installed: >> Installed Packages >> Name: libdvdread >> Arch: x86_64 >> Version : 4.1.4 >> Release : 0.3.svn1183.el6 >> Size: 145 k >> Repo: installed >> From repo : sl >> >> At the same time linuxtech has a higher number in BACKPORT? >> http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-**6/linuxtech-backports-x86_64/** >> libdvdread-devel-4.2.0-2.el6.**x86_64.rpm.html<http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/linuxtech-backports-x86_64/libdvdread-devel-4.2.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm.html> >> >> my (mis) understanding that backport is for _older_ versions ? >> >> and another question is there a 4.2 for 6.4? >> > > Version 4.1.4-0.3.svn1183.el6 is in 6.4 . > > -Connie Sieh > >> >> Thank you >> AZ >> >> --001a1133c3ee9435d204e3753faf >> Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> >> **Gentlemen,=A0i'm a bit >> confus= >> ed here with version numbers for libdvdread.one i have >> instal= >> led:Installed PackagesName=A0=A0=A0=A0=**A0=A0=A0 : >> libdvdreadArc= >> h=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 : x86_64 >> >> Version=A0=A0=A0=A0 : 4.1.4Release=A0=A0=A0=A0 : >> 0.3.svn1183.el6Siz= >> e=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 : 145 kRepo=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 : >> installed= >> From repo=A0=A0 : slAt the same time linuxtech has a higher >> n= >> umber in BACKPORT?http://pkgs.org/** >> centos-6-rhel-6/linux= <http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/linux=> >> tech-backports-x86_64/**libdvdread-devel-4.2.0-2.el6.** >> x86_64.rpm.html">http://= >> pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/**linuxtech-backports-x86_64/** >> libdvdread-devel-4.2.0-=<http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/linuxtech-backports-x86_64/libdvdread-devel-4.2.0-=> >> 2.el6.x86_64.rpm.html >> >> my (mis) understanding that backport is for _older_ >> versions= >> ?and another question is there a 4.2 for >> 6.4?Th= >> ank youAZ >> >> --**001a1133c3ee9435d204e3753faf-- >> >>
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] compiling 32 app on 64 machine
Yeah ... Some good knowledgeable soul posted a patch to configure script. Seemed to work. Gentlemen, thank you for all advise and help. AZ On Apr 19, 2013 11:26 PM, "Konstantin Olchanski" wrote: > > > > what a pain... > > > > Please complain to the people who prevent you from running everything in > 64-bit mode. > > There is no excuse for them not providing both the 32-bit and 64-bit > versions > of all their libraries and executables. > > -- > Konstantin Olchanski > Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! > Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca > Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada >
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] compiling 32 app on 64 machine
> .. I'm thinking of maybe getting an older cuda that has 32 version... and there is no CUDA for RH6.X of 32 . niice %) > .. $ yum provides '*/libgcc_s.so*' > Try installing libgcc-4.4.7-3.el6.i686 yup. got that down. ./configure: line 7050: syntax error near unexpected token `,' ./configure: line 7050: `LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG(, 7.10.1, ,' [root@server cudaminer-src-2013.04.14]# rpm -qa | grep curl libcurl-7.19.7-35.el6.x86_64 libcurl-7.19.7-35.el6.i686 curl-7.19.7-35.el6.x86_64 libcurl-devel-7.19.7-35.el6.i686 and finally after patching "configure" file i got it to compile. now need to see if i can actually run it on 86... what a pain... On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > Ups. My ref to ""cuda" means the whole API with drivers and examples > packed into https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads > > I'm thinking of maybe getting an older cuda that has 32 version... > Ehhh. > On Apr 19, 2013 8:19 PM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >> >>> Nico, >>> That's what I did built 32 bit VM guest. But this app requires nvcc >>> which is only64 for rhel6.x >>> Am I missing something in your reply? >>> On Apr 19, 2013 7:42 PM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >>>> >>>>> looks like i'm facing "catch 22" - to compile the app i need 32 libs + >>>>> cuda . Cuda for REHL6.X is only 64, tho they provide 32 bit libs. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Set up a 32-bit VM and do the compilation work there, or use "mock" to >>>> build a 32-bit chroot cage. >>>> >>> >> Ahh. Now you're getting into missing details. So, you only have >> proprietary closed source drivers and libraries for an NVidia GPU? Or so I >> conclude from the references to CUDA? Then I don't have great insights for >> you. But I would see what's going on with CUDA in Fedora: it might be >> feasible to backport to Scienttific Linux 6 or to do what you need in >> Fedora. (See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cuda). >> >>
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] compiling 32 app on 64 machine
Ups. My ref to ""cuda" means the whole API with drivers and examples packed into https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads I'm thinking of maybe getting an older cuda that has 32 version... Ehhh. On Apr 19, 2013 8:19 PM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> Nico, >> That's what I did built 32 bit VM guest. But this app requires nvcc which >> is only64 for rhel6.x >> Am I missing something in your reply? >> On Apr 19, 2013 7:42 PM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >>> >>>> looks like i'm facing "catch 22" - to compile the app i need 32 libs + >>>> cuda . Cuda for REHL6.X is only 64, tho they provide 32 bit libs. >>>> >>> >>> Set up a 32-bit VM and do the compilation work there, or use "mock" to >>> build a 32-bit chroot cage. >>> >> > Ahh. Now you're getting into missing details. So, you only have > proprietary closed source drivers and libraries for an NVidia GPU? Or so I > conclude from the references to CUDA? Then I don't have great insights for > you. But I would see what's going on with CUDA in Fedora: it might be > feasible to backport to Scienttific Linux 6 or to do what you need in > Fedora. (See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cuda). > >
Re: Cannon IR 5055 driver
i was slightly ;) surprised as well - since this Cannon printer is relatively old model ( I think 2009 ). Si today i put a side 4 hours to learn the intricacies of CUPS. http://www.openprinting.org/download/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/VII.cups-help/VII.cups-help.html#Supply http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_printing_problems and ended up with tons of cumbersome debug information ... the solution was simple - i picked the next model in the list of the available models in Print assistant ( or whatever that gui app is called). so instead of selecting 5000 model, i choose IR5570 and it nicely printed the "test page". oh well .. just a click away :) On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > Well vendors often create "X86_64" packages that have i686 dependencies > mostly because the weren't paying attention when the compiled it, so that > happens. > As far as cups just not working that's rare. Often cups may have odd > output because a vendor decided to make a tweak or some other odd reason > which you can usually tinker your way around. That said without seeing the > logs I can't definitively tell you but most likely its a network issue such > as trying to use a NetBIOS name instead of the IP address. > > > > -- Sent from my HP Pre3 > > -- > On Mar 26, 2013 12:17 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > > hello, > i'm trying to hook up a network Cannon IR2055 @ the office. > First i can't seemed to find any drivers to it in the regular gui > choices. the one for IR5000 doesn't seemed to work - displays "connecting > to printer" and hangs. > > Second, i went to cannon.com ( well eu because .com doesn't have anything > for Linux drivers): > http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010428.asp > > got this : > g12bmeng_lindeb64_0204.rpm - CQue 2.0.4 Linux Driver RPM 64-bit > but when installing : > > > Package ArchVersion Repository > Size > > > Installing: > cque-en x86_64 2.0-4 /g12bmeng_lindeb64_0204 > 10 M > Installing for dependencies: > glibc i6862.12-1.80.el6_3.5 sl-security > 4.3 M > nss-softokn-freebl i6863.12.9-11.el6 sl > 115 k > > Transaction Summary > > > > so it needs 686 glibc while been 64? > > Any hints on how to get it added? > > thank you > AZ >
Re: Samba4 rpm
Mark, Nico, i went ahead with the 3rd version. Thank you! AZ On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Mark Stodola > wrote: > > On 02/07/2013 04:17 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> i need to set up samba. and apparently there was a new release 4 > already. > >> so i did yum search, but: > >> > >> samba4-4.0.0-23.alpha11.el6.x86_64 > >> [root@server ~]# rpm -ql samba4 > >> /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0 > >> /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0/COPYING > >> /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0/WHATSNEW4.txt > >> > >> i'm not sure what exactly i need to install here? > >> > >> or should i just let it be and get samba 3 instead? My requirements are > >> very ancient - share printer and direcories. no need for active dir etc. > >> > >> Thank you > >> AZ > >> > > > > I would recommend removing the samba4 packages and install the samba > > packages (3.5.x) from the SL repo. If you need newer in the 3 series, > > sernet (http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/6/x86_64/) provides > > up-to-date builds designed to not conflict with the rest of your > > installation. > > Mine are, frankly, better for Red Hat or Scientific Linux: they're > more consistent with Red Hat structure, and they handle the detection > of native OS considerably more reliable,and in tested combination with > the "mock" tool for building RPM's, and with SL 6.3 and RHEL 6.3. > > Those tools are published at: > > https://github.com/nkadel/samba-3.6.10-srpm >
Samba4 rpm
Hello, i need to set up samba. and apparently there was a new release 4 already. so i did yum search, but: samba4-4.0.0-23.alpha11.el6.x86_64 [root@server ~]# rpm -ql samba4 /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0 /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0/COPYING /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0/WHATSNEW4.txt i'm not sure what exactly i need to install here? or should i just let it be and get samba 3 instead? My requirements are very ancient - share printer and direcories. no need for active dir etc. Thank you AZ
Re: SL-6.3 Install xfce -
Bob I switch some time ago it was a pain to go about all the configuration scripts but it can be done unfortunately I did not keep notes just be patient and good luck. On Jan 29, 2013 4:49 PM, "David Sommerseth" wrote: > On 29/01/13 22:47, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 01/29/2013 03:57 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > >> On 29/01/13 21:42, Alec T. Habig wrote: > >>> Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA writes: > I would like to install xfce but there doesn't seem to be a yum > rpm. > What is the best way to deal with that? > >>> It's there, but in the epel repository. Go get the > >>> epel-release package from here: > >>> > >>>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL > >> Or just do: > >> > >> yum install yum-conf-epel > >> > >> And you'll get all the needed files for EPEL ... no need to go via the > >> Fedora wiki any more :) > >> > >> Then just do: yum groupinstall xfce > >> > >> That should be it. > >> > >> Yes, thanks, that eased the pain a lot! Now if I can figure out > >> how to shange from gnome to xfce. Maybe there's a switchdesk rpm? > > When you log in via the graphical login screen, you should be able to > choose desktop environment directly there. Usually at the bottom of the > screen, iirc. > > > -- > kind regards, > > David Sommerseth >
Re: growisofs and dual disk (+R) failure
Lamar, thank you for your help. Unfortunately the new cdrecord didn't help. [code] mkisofs -version mkisofs 3.01a10 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Eric Youngdale (C) 1997-2012 Joerg Schilling cdrecord -version Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a10 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Joerg Schilling [/code] Here is a full log of the session. [code] cdrecord -v -dev=/dev/dvd -dao ./dvd1.iso Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a10 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Joerg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '/dev/dvd' devname: '/dev/dvd' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'ATAPI ' Identifikation : 'iHAS124 D ' Revision : '8L03' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Current: DVD+R/DL Profile: DVD+R/DL (current) Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-RAM Profile: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD-ROM Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Profile: Removable Disk Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver (mmc_dvdplusr). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP Drive buf size : 1048576 = 1024 KB cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 7551 MB Total size: 7551 MB = 3866211 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 Blocks total: 4173824 Blocks current: 4173824 Blocks remaining: 307613 Reducing transfer size from 64512 to 32768 bytes. Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 2 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 3942 of 7551 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 2.4x.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 1E CD D0 00 00 10 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 71 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, deferred error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s write track data: error after 4134436864 bytes cdrecord: A write error occured. cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 08 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x08 (logical unit not ready, long write in progress) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s Writing time: 1531.188s Average write speed 3.7x. Min drive buffer fill was 95% Fixating... cdrecord: faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out. Fixating time: 172.996s cdrecord: fifo had 126301 puts and 126174 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 60916 times full, min fill was 71%. [/code] At this point i'm out of DL disks and ideas. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 01/03/2013 11:24 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> Lamar, >> i guess i'm missing something, but these are the only binaries in the >> http://nervion.us.es/city-fan/**yum-repo/rhel6/x86_64/** >> cdrecord-3.01-0.1.a10.rhel6.**x86_64.rpm<http://nervion.us.es/city-fan/yum-repo/rhel6/x86_64/cdrecord-3.01-0.1.a10.rhel6.x86_64.rpm> >> : >> /usr/bin/cdrecord >> /usr/bin/readcd >> /usr/bin/scgcheck >> /usr/bin/scgskeleton >> /usr/sbin/rscsi >> >> and there is no cdrtools package there... >> What do i miss? >> > > The cdrtools source package builds multiple binary packages. The source > RPM is at: > http://nervion.us.es/city-fan/**yum-repo/rhel6/source/** > cdrtools-3.01-0.1.a10.rhel6.**src.rpm<http://nervion.us.es/city-fan/yum-repo/rhel6/source/cdrtools-3.01-0.1.a10.rhel6.src.rpm> > > The binary packages are cdrecord, mkisofs, btcflash, and cdda2wav (along > with cdrtools-debuginfo if you build that). From the city-fan source, the > relevant lines of my locally run > rpmbuild --rebuild cdrtools-3.01-0.1.a10.rhel6.**src.rpm > > + > Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files > /home/lowen/rpmbuild/**BUILDROOT/cdrtools-3.01-0.1.**a10.rhel6.x86_64 > Wrote: /home/lowen/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86
Re: growisofs and dual disk (+R) failure
Lamar, i guess i'm missing something, but these are the only binaries in the http://nervion.us.es/city-fan/yum-repo/rhel6/x86_64/cdrecord-3.01-0.1.a10.rhel6.x86_64.rpm : /usr/bin/cdrecord /usr/bin/readcd /usr/bin/scgcheck /usr/bin/scgskeleton /usr/sbin/rscsi and there is no cdrtools package there... What do i miss? Thank you AZ On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 01/02/2013 12:27 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> more details: >> it appears that cdrkit/wodim are pretty old and might not support well >> the DL burning. And indead, the genisoimage is a leftover from wodim. >> >> Would appreciate a (rpm) spec file for cdrtools. The one for suse is >> giving me hard time. >> > > Andrew, > > There is a fully and properly packaged schily cdrtools available for EL6 > from city-fan.org. See: > http://nervion.us.es/city-fan/**yum-repo/<http://nervion.us.es/city-fan/yum-repo/>for > the University of Seville mirror ( > city-fan.org is on a DSL line, and thus rather slow). I've had to > 'cross-grade' more than one machine due to wodim brokenness that works fine > with the schily cdrtools. I don't do the cross-grade unless I need to, > though, since wodim is the upstream-supported solution. The city-fan > packages are properly signed and properly obsolete/upgrade all the wodim > packages, and fully satisfy all the dependencies normally provided by the > cdrkit programs. >
Re: growisofs and dual disk (+R) failure
thank you David! On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:15 AM, David Sommerseth < sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: > On 02/01/13 06:27, Andrew Z wrote: > > more details: > > it appears that cdrkit/wodim are pretty old and might not support well > > the DL burning. And indead, the genisoimage is a leftover from wodim. > > > > Would appreciate a (rpm) spec file for cdrtools. The one for suse is > > giving me hard time. > > As a normal (non-root) user, you can do this: > > $ yumdownloader --source cdrkit > $ rpm -i cdrkit-*.el6.src.rpm > $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS > > And you'll have the cdrkit.spec file there. > > > kind regards, > > David Sommerseth > >
Re: growisofs and dual disk (+R) failure
more details: it appears that cdrkit/wodim are pretty old and might not support well the DL burning. And indead, the genisoimage is a leftover from wodim. Would appreciate a (rpm) spec file for cdrtools. The one for suse is giving me hard time. On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > Happy holidays, > > i experience a problem when burning dual layer DVD. > > When i put an empty dual disk in the /var/log/messages reports: > Dec 30 16:21:51 server kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical > block 0 > Dec 30 16:21:51 server kernel: sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK > driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE > Dec 30 16:21:51 server kernel: sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal > Request [current] > Dec 30 16:21:51 server kernel: sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block > address out of range > Dec 30 16:21:51 server kernel: sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 > Dec 30 16:21:51 server kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical > block 0 > Dec 30 16:47:06 server kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I > recognize! > > execution of > growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R ./* > > attempted over 3 disks returned the same error: > > 52.10% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 30 17:05:41 2012 > :-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=20a250h, keep retrying in 145ms > :-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=20a250h, keep retrying in 145ms > :-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=20a250h, keep retrying in 145ms > :-[ WRITE@LBA=20a250h failed with SK=3h/WRITE ERROR]: Input/output error > :-( write failed: Input/output error > > > where growisofs version reports: > growisofs -version > * growisofs by , version 7.1, > front-ending to mkisofs: mkisofs 2.01 is not what you see here. This > line is only a fake for too clever > GUIs and other frontend applications. In fact, this program is: > genisoimage 1.1.9 (Linux) > > last time i tried to burn dual disk was quite a few years ago. At that > time Robert helped me out by pointing to OSS extensions project - > http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd.html > > any advise is welcomed. > > needless to say that all other disks are been recorded without problems > for years ( R, RW) > > >
Re: XFCE - print manager doesn't detect USB printer
Yeah unfortunately 2006 article is not from the past. My attempt to "just click thru" went nowhere. Oh well I guess I have to do the "old mainframe" thing. That's how my wife referes to Linux. On Dec 10, 2012 9:17 PM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Christopher Tooley > wrote: > > In a browser on the machine, go to: > > > > http://localhost:631 > > > > To see a CUPS interface. This will allow you to install a printer, if it > > isn't already. I am unsure how to get XFCE to recognize that there is a > > printer, perhaps the above interface will yield some useful results > though. > > > > -Chris > > And, before you tear your hair out trying to use that thing, read Eric > Raymond's essay about this tool. > > http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cups-horror.html > > And remember that if you wnat to use that form another host, you'll > need to open up the firewalls on port 631. >
XFCE - print manager doesn't detect USB printer
hello, is there a printer manager for XFCE that shows the USB attached printers? Or is it me doing somethign funky, because that ( http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/15/x86_64/xfprint-4.6.0-6.fc15.x86_64.html) has 3 different apps ( in GUI) - one in Settings two in "Accessories". None shows my USB printer. YEt FF and Office "See" it and print into it w/o issues. Please advise Here is the list of rpm installed if it matters) xfce4-panel-4.8.3-2.el6.x86_64 xfce4-power-manager-1.0.10-1.el6.x86_64 xfce-utils-4.8.3-1.el6.x86_64 xfce4-mixer-4.8.0-1.el6.x86_64 xfce4-settings-4.8.3-1.el6.x86_64 xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.el6.x86_64 libxfcegui4-4.8.1-2.el6.x86_64 xfce4-appfinder-4.8.0-2.el6.x86_64 libxfce4util-4.8.1-2.el6.x86_64 xfce4-doc-4.8.3-1.el6.noarch libxfce4ui-4.8.0-4.el6.x86_64 xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.3-5.el6.noarch Thank you AZ
Re: howto integrate google drive
Short answer - switch to drop box. I gave up on gdrive. On Dec 6, 2012 1:52 AM, "Ibrahim Yurtseven" wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using the google drive service to share documents etc. > google provides a tool for windows and mobiles as well to integrate the > google drive as a virtual drive that you can handle with your file manager. > But google doesn't offer any solution for linux outside the android mobile > os. > can I integrate a remote access to my google drive in my el6 gnome system, > to handle files in nautilus as a normal remote access folder like ssh and > ftp and webdav etc. pp.? > > -- > Ibrahim "Arastirmacilar" Yurtseven >
Re: xfce + dual monitor setup
right you are Paul. me the silly failed to understand the options and how they work on the Nvidia settings panel. So i got away with the "small blood" On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > well its really dependant on what video card and driver you are using. > for example the proprietary nvidia driver has a gui that can adjust > the display mode and resolution without restarting X fairly easily but > there is no such option with the free nvidia driver. > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > > .. not easy, but super easy for simple dual monitor setup. > > And i think it def helped to have one of the monitors to be connected > with > > HDMI. > > here are a few links i found useful: > > https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6738 > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 > > en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/X.Org/Dual_Monitors > > > > i had dsub + DVI originally and i had to specify the resolution. Once i > > switched to HDMI+DVI all i have to do is to issue xrandr blah --auto and > > specify which monitor i want where. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> i want to setup a dual monitor under xfce (4.8) ( and compiz if it > >> matters ). I did a quick search and it seems there are quite a few open > >> bugs. > >> Can you gentlemen, advise on the subject? Maybe point to a good howto? > >> > >> Thank you > >> AZ > > > > >
Re: xfce + dual monitor setup
.. not easy, but super easy for simple dual monitor setup. And i think it def helped to have one of the monitors to be connected with HDMI. here are a few links i found useful: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6738 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/X.Org/Dual_Monitors i had dsub + DVI originally and i had to specify the resolution. Once i switched to HDMI+DVI all i have to do is to issue xrandr blah --auto and specify which monitor i want where. On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > Hello, > i want to setup a dual monitor under xfce (4.8) ( and compiz if it > matters ). I did a quick search and it seems there are quite a few open > bugs. > Can you gentlemen, advise on the subject? Maybe point to a good howto? > > Thank you > AZ >
Re: WG: Black Display Screen Problem & Getting Paraview to work
Well, I just looked at the fan :) But I had a PC not a laptop. Tho you can still pop it open I hope. Another way is to watch the temp changes in BIOS or use whatever the control soft comes with the card. I have nvidia and they supply some "nvidia-settings" soft that displays the temp. On Nov 20, 2012 10:41 AM, "William Shu" wrote: > Peter, Andrew, > Thanks for the suggestions. > > Peter, the machine is an HP ProBook 4720s Laptop that I use as a sort of > "mobile desktop", and I do not have access to its internals. Besides being > the only machine I can work on now, I cannot tinker with its hardware! I've > been using for about a year now with no problem. Could it be that something > has worn out power supply from the PCI bus? (I often charge my phone via > the usb slot.). If so, can one add (or redirect) power externally? > > Andrew, I tried another monitor--a CRT--at the time but it did not display > anything. Since I could not repeat the event, I could only surmise the > screen and/or the keyboard (to switch on multi-display) or the USB Hard > drive might have been compromised. (a fsck proved the USB HD drive clean!) > > How does one test the fan of the GPU? Sorry for dumb question. I noticed > lately that the fan of the machine goes on for much longer than in times > past. Looking back, could briefly using the machine in dusty work > environment sometime back have such an adverse effect? (Machine is supposed > to be a laptop!) > > Another issue I don't understand is why the same paraview program, run via > chroot under the livedvd (6.0), found the same display okay, but does not > find it okay when the system is booted directly! > > Regards, > William. > > -- > *From:* "peter.stauff...@boehringer-ingelheim.com" < > peter.stauff...@boehringer-ingelheim.com> > *To:* ws...@yahoo.com > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:46 PM > *Subject:* WG: Black Display Screen Problem & Getting Paraview to work > > Hi William, > > some high-end graphics cards (our Nvidia Quadro cards) need additional > power, so a special power cable must be connected to the graphics card. > With normal low resolution the graphics cards work fine without this > cable, but with higher resolution the power from PCI bus ist no longer > sufficient and we got a blank screen. > > Peter > > Dr. Peter Stauffert > Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG > > *Von:* owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto: > owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] *Im Auftrag von *Andrew Z > *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 20. November 2012 14:36 > *An:* William Shu > *Cc:* SCIENTIFIC- LINUX- USERS@ FNAL. GOV > *Betreff:* Re: Black Display Screen Problem & Getting Paraview to work > > William > Check if fan on your gpu actually works. > Try another monitor. > I had similar odd behavior a while ago. > On Nov 20, 2012 4:45 AM, "William Shu" wrote: > > Dear All, > > I state the basic problem, then give further explanations below. Any help > appreciated, especially as I'm just groping! > > My basic problems are: > --- > (1) to ascertain the cause of the black screen (blank, not blank) I > sometimes obtain, and I'm forced to switch off power and reboot and how to > solve it. > (2) to get paraview to display on screen, without aborting with the > message: > < ...> > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension:135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > ERROR: In > /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, > line 404 > vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Could not find a decent visual > <...> > ERROR: In > /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, > line 631 > vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting. > > > What I have done so far: > > Googling and fumbling along, I managed to install kmod-fglrx and > fglrx-x11-drv which I seem to need, given an ATI Mobility Radeon graphics > card. > > Before doing this, my screen went black (i.e., black, with no light, not > blank) a couple of times, and resumed on its own, sometimes after touching > the keyboard and mouse. Until now, I put it down to perhaps screen saver > activities.) > > Then disaster struck: the screen went black again, indefinitely, and I had > to force a shutdown (keeping the power button down for a while). Repeated > attempts at booting did not help, and could not do fsck with a rescue disk > because the external USB ha
Re: Black Display Screen Problem & Getting Paraview to work
William
Check if fan on your gpu actually works.
Try another monitor.
I had similar odd behavior a while ago.
On Nov 20, 2012 4:45 AM, "William Shu" wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I state the basic problem, then give further explanations below. Any help
> appreciated, especially as I'm just groping!
>
> My basic problems are:
> ---
> (1) to ascertain the cause of the black screen (blank, not blank) I
> sometimes obtain, and I'm forced to switch off power and reboot and how to
> solve it.
> (2) to get paraview to display on screen, without aborting with the
> message:
> < ...>
> X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
> Extension:135 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request)
> Resource id: 0x480022b
> ERROR: In
> /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
> line 404
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Could not find a decent visual
> <...>
> ERROR: In
> /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
> line 631
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting.
>
>
> What I have done so far:
>
> Googling and fumbling along, I managed to install kmod-fglrx and
> fglrx-x11-drv which I seem to need, given an ATI Mobility Radeon graphics
> card.
>
> Before doing this, my screen went black (i.e., black, with no light, not
> blank) a couple of times, and resumed on its own, sometimes after touching
> the keyboard and mouse. Until now, I put it down to perhaps screen saver
> activities.)
>
> Then disaster struck: the screen went black again, indefinitely, and I had
> to force a shutdown (keeping the power button down for a while). Repeated
> attempts at booting did not help, and could not do fsck with a rescue disk
> because the external USB hard drive was encrypted. I finally ran a livecd
> (6.0) where I used cryptsetup to open drive, and
>
> chroot $NEWROOT bash -i -l
>
> to mount the partition. I also had to create
> /dev/{random,urandom,null,zero} in the new root, programs like yum could
> run. After this, I succeffully rebooted the machine!
>
> Surprisingly, paraview could open, though it gave a message along the
> lines of "all authentication could not be done" (sorry, I did not
> successfully copy the message).
>
> Unfortunately, paraview cannot work with error messages as given below.
>
> I will be grateful for any assistance, and possible solutions.
>
>
>
>
>
> Details:
> --
> [wss@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa 'fglrx*'
> fglrx-x11-drv-12.4-1.el6.elrepo.i686
> [wss@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa 'kmod-fglrx*'
> kmod-fglrx-12.4-1.el6.elrepo.i686
> [wss@localhost ~]$ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6
> 11:21:36 CST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> [wss@localhost ~]$
> [wss@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci -nn | grep -i VGA
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device
> [1002:68e4]
> [wss@localhost ~]$ grep -i 1002 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i
> 68e4/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias
> pci:v1002d68E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* radeon
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias
> pci:v1002d68E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* fglrx
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias
> pci:v1002d68E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* radeon
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias
> pci:v1002d68E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* fglrx
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias
> pci:v1002d68E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* radeon
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias
> pci:v1002d68E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* fglrx
> [wss@localhost ~]$
>
> paraview error message:
>
> [wss@localhost ~]$ paraview
> X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
> Extension:135 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request)
> Resource id: 0x14d
> X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
> Extension:135 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request)
> Resource id: 0x4800229
> X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
> Extension:135 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request)
> Resource id: 0x480022b
> X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
> Extension:135 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request)
> Resource id: 0x480022b
> X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
> Extension:135 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request)
> Resource id: 0x480022b
> X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
> Extension:135 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request)
> Resource id: 0x480022b
> X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
> Extension:135 (Uknown extension)
> Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request)
>
Re: which module for NTFS?
Rudi, I'm pretty sure it is in one of the regular repositories like epel etc . Because I don't remember myself doing anything "fancy". I'll get back to you in a few hours once I get to PC with details. On Nov 17, 2012 8:56 AM, "Rudi Ahlers" wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > > Rudi, > > Ntfs-3g worked for me last week. > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > Sorry, I should have said, I couldn't find any ntfs modules through yum: > > > > root@master:[~]$ yum install ntfs-3g > Loaded plugins: security > Setting up Install Process > No package ntfs-3g available. > Error: Nothing to do > > root@master:[~]$ yum search ntfs3-g > Loaded plugins: security > Warning: No matches found for: ntfs3-g > No Matches found > > root@master:[~]$ yum provides ntfs-3g > Loaded plugins: security > Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erroneously match against filenames. > You can use "*/ntfs-3g" and/or "*bin/ntfs-3g" to get that behaviour > No Matches found > > root@master:[~]$ yum provides "*/ntfs-3g" > Loaded plugins: security > No Matches found > > > > How did you install ntfs-3g on Scientific Linux 6.3? >
Re: which module for NTFS?
Rudi, Ntfs-3g worked for me last week. On Nov 17, 2012 6:50 AM, "Rudi Ahlers" wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone please tell me which module to install, in order to mount > an NTFS formatter HDD on Scientific Linux? > I found some stuff online for CentOS but don't know if it will work on > Scientific Linux. > > Thank you. > > -- > Kind Regards > Rudi Ahlers > SoftDux > > Website: http://www.SoftDux.com > Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com > Cell: 082 554 7532 > Fax: 086 268 8492 >
Re: flash replacement
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Todd And Margo Chester < toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Andrew Z > <mailto:form...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> David, >> i'm using the one from adobe. See here: >> yum repolist >> >> repo idrepo >> name status >> DropboxDropbox >> Repository 4 >> adobe-linux-x86_64 Adobe Systems >> Incorporated 2 >> >> installing: >> flash-pluginx86_6411.2.202.251-release >> adobe-linux-x86_646.9 M >> >> and it's the one i'm bi%% heartlessly about. >> can you try this one >> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&** >> list=PLB7667BC178F2658F<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&list=PLB7667BC178F2658F> >> ) >> in HD full screen for say 15 minutes? Works fine when in anything >> but full screen for me. >> >> AZ >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:23 AM, David Sommerseth >> >> >> <mailto:sl+users@lists.**topphemmelig.net>> >> wrote: >> >> On 14/11/12 10:58, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: >> > On 11/13/2012 08:57 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >> >> hello, >> >> is there an alternative for ( lots of grumpy swearing >> omitted ) flash >> >> plugin in FF? with the latest 11.2.202.251 x86 release the >> HD videos in >> >> full-screen a crashing. >> >> [bitching on] >> >> first i deal with an invasion of Avatars - "the blue >> people" and now >> >> $$$ thing won't even play for longer than 4 minutes in full >> screen >> >> [bitching off] >> > >> > >> > Hi Andrew, >> > >> >Oh good. I get to help someone for a change. >> > >> >The recent Flash player is a DISASTER. Can't seem to get >> > anyone to fix it either. >> > >> >Back off to flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.** >> el6.rf.x86_64.rpm >> > (or 32 bit, if that's what you are running) and turn off auto >> > updates. >> > >> > >> http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/**en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/flash-** >> plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.**x86_64.rpm<http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm> >> > >> > >> > # rpm -e flash-plugin >> > # rpm -ivh flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.**el6.rf.x86_64.rpm >> > >> > > > On 11/14/2012 05:50 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > > > Todd, > > same thing for me with 11.1 version - crashed in full screen after > > maybe 1 minute. Audio continued tho %) > > AZ > > Try backing off a few more revisions. 11.1.102.63 was my sweet spot. > > http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/**en/x86_64/dag/RPMS<http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS> > > My symptoms are reversed colors (blue people) and artifacts of the > flash item all over the screen. I have to kill Firefox to get them to > go away. > > -T > Todd, you are having Avatar moments because you ( probably) have "hardware optimization flag set. Try right-clicking on the video and remove that flag. at least that was the cure for me. I bit the bullet and installed Chrome... well, i say - unorthodox interface but the videos work HD full screen. And it even has "hardware acceleration" flag on. But looking at 100% usage of CPU i , for some reason, skeptical.. I'll try to move down the revisions as you suggest. Thank you AZ
Re: flash replacement
right - in full screen - "kill -9" is the new pink. but in "large viewer" - everything works fine (for me). > .. I'll try to see if can gather some more info and get a bugzilla report submitted to the Mozilla team. I'm skeptical due to adobe sending all dev work to google folks.(Pepper). On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:55 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 14/11/12 20:32, Andrew Z wrote: > > David, > > we are running the same mozilla/adobe setup. Unlike you i don't have > > anything captured in xsession-errors file. > > If you run the same HD (720p) in the "large player" mode in youtube - it > > (probably) won't crash. > > That's correct! But I don't have a crash, I have a hard freeze, and I > can not even escape the fullscreen mode normally and have to kill the > xulrunner/plugin-container. And this freeze only happens in full screen. > > > .. //frustration > > Yep! Agreed. I'll try to see if can gather some more info and get a > bugzilla report submitted to the Mozilla team. > > > kind regards, > > David Sommerseth > > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM, David Sommerseth > > mailto:da...@sommerseths.net>> wrote: > > > > On 14/11/12 14:44, Andrew Z wrote: > > > > David, > > i'm using the one from adobe. See here: > > yum repolist > > > > repo idrepo name > > status > > DropboxDropbox Repository > >4 > > adobe-linux-x86_64 Adobe Systems Incorporated > >2 > > > > installing: > > flash-pluginx86_6411.2.202.251-release > > adobe-linux-x86_646.9 M > > > > and it's the one i'm bi%% heartlessly about. > > can you try this one > > ( > http://www.youtube.com/watch?__v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&__list=PLB7667BC178F2658F > > < > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&list=PLB7667BC178F2658F > > > > < > http://www.youtube.com/watch?__v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&__list=PLB7667BC178F2658F > > < > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&list=PLB7667BC178F2658F > >>) > > > > in HD full screen for say 15 minutes? Works fine when in > > anything but full > > screen for me. > > > > > > I'm using these packages: > > > > flash-plugin-11.2.202.251-__release.x86_64 > > firefox-10.0.10-1.el6_3.x86_64 > > > > This is an up-to-date SL6.3 x86_64 system with sl and sl6x repos > > enabled. > > > > I tested that youtube video in fullscreen and it ran without any > > issues for about 30 minutes in 480p mode with 1920x1200 resolution. > > But with 720p mode, it halts completely (audio and video) on my > > laptop within 5 minutes - but only with certain circumstances. I > > then found this error in > > ~/.xsession-errors: > > > > WARNING: pipe error (67): Connection reset by peer: file > > > /builddir/build/BUILD/__xulrunner-10.0.10/mozilla-__esr10/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/__common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, > > line 419 > > > > Checking it with gdb, attaching to the xulrunner-2/plugin-container > > process, I see something which looks like a locking issue - probably > > caused buffer underflows due to network issues. > > > > (gdb) bt > > #0 __lll_lock_wait () at > > ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/__linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S:__136 > > #1 0x7fcebdc463be in _L_lock_995 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 > > #2 0x7fcebdc46326 in __pthread_mutex_lock > > (mutex=0x7fcebcc0dd70) at pthread_mutex_lock.c:101 > > #3 0x003761c23f79 in PR_Lock (lock=0x7fcebcc0dd70) at > > ../../../mozilla/nsprpub/pr/__src/pthreads/ptsynch.c:174 > > #4 0x003e12982f56 in Lock (this=0x7fcebcc1b840) at > > ../../dist/include/mozilla/__Mutex.h:106 > > #5 Lock (this=0x7fcebcc1b840) at > > ../../dist/include/mozilla/__Monitor.h:70 > > #6 MonitorAutoLock (this=0x7fcebcc1b840) at > > ../../dist/include/mozilla/__Monitor.h:125 > > #7 mozilla::ipc::RPCChannel::__OnMaybeDequeueOne > > (this=0x7fcebcc1b840) at > > > /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.__10/mozilla-esr10/ipc/glue/__RPCChannel.cpp:402 > > #8 0x003e12a308b2 in MessageLoop::RunTask (t
Re: flash replacement
David, we are running the same mozilla/adobe setup. Unlike you i don't have anything captured in xsession-errors file. If you run the same HD (720p) in the "large player" mode in youtube - it (probably) won't crash. .. //frustration On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 14/11/12 14:44, Andrew Z wrote: > >> David, >> i'm using the one from adobe. See here: >> yum repolist >> >> repo idrepo name >> status >> DropboxDropbox Repository >> 4 >> adobe-linux-x86_64 Adobe Systems Incorporated >> 2 >> >> installing: >> flash-pluginx86_6411.2.202.251-release adobe-linux-x86_64 >>6.9 M >> >> and it's the one i'm bi%% heartlessly about. >> can you try this one >> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&** >> list=PLB7667BC178F2658F<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&list=PLB7667BC178F2658F> >> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&** >> list=PLB7667BC178F2658F<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&list=PLB7667BC178F2658F> >> >) >> >> in HD full screen for say 15 minutes? Works fine when in anything but full >> screen for me. >> > > I'm using these packages: > > flash-plugin-11.2.202.251-**release.x86_64 > firefox-10.0.10-1.el6_3.x86_64 > > This is an up-to-date SL6.3 x86_64 system with sl and sl6x repos enabled. > > I tested that youtube video in fullscreen and it ran without any issues > for about 30 minutes in 480p mode with 1920x1200 resolution. But with 720p > mode, it halts completely (audio and video) on my laptop within 5 minutes - > but only with certain circumstances. I then found this error in > ~/.xsession-errors: > > WARNING: pipe error (67): Connection reset by peer: file > /builddir/build/BUILD/**xulrunner-10.0.10/mozilla-** > esr10/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/**common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 419 > > Checking it with gdb, attaching to the xulrunner-2/plugin-container > process, I see something which looks like a locking issue - probably caused > buffer underflows due to network issues. > > (gdb) bt > #0 __lll_lock_wait () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/** > linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S:**136 > #1 0x7fcebdc463be in _L_lock_995 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 > #2 0x7fcebdc46326 in __pthread_mutex_lock (mutex=0x7fcebcc0dd70) at > pthread_mutex_lock.c:101 > #3 0x003761c23f79 in PR_Lock (lock=0x7fcebcc0dd70) at > ../../../mozilla/nsprpub/pr/**src/pthreads/ptsynch.c:174 > #4 0x003e12982f56 in Lock (this=0x7fcebcc1b840) at > ../../dist/include/mozilla/**Mutex.h:106 > #5 Lock (this=0x7fcebcc1b840) at ../../dist/include/mozilla/** > Monitor.h:70 > #6 MonitorAutoLock (this=0x7fcebcc1b840) at ../../dist/include/mozilla/** > Monitor.h:125 > #7 mozilla::ipc::RPCChannel::**OnMaybeDequeueOne (this=0x7fcebcc1b840) > at /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.**10/mozilla-esr10/ipc/glue/** > RPCChannel.cpp:402 > #8 0x003e12a308b2 in MessageLoop::RunTask (this=0x7fffb048c200, > task=0x7fceaefae6d0) at /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.** > 10/mozilla-esr10/ipc/chromium/**src/base/message_loop.cc:318 > #9 0x003e12a32bd6 in MessageLoop::**DeferOrRunPendingTask > (this=, pending_task=) > at /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.**10/mozilla-esr10/ipc/chromium/** > src/base/message_loop.cc:326 > #10 0x003e12a32fa7 in MessageLoop::DoWork (this=0x7fffb048c200) at > /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.**10/mozilla-esr10/ipc/chromium/** > src/base/message_loop.cc:426 > #11 0x003e12a4352a in base::MessagePumpForUI::**RunWithDispatcher > (this=0x7fcebcc300a0, delegate=, dispatcher= optimized out>) > at /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.**10/mozilla-esr10/ipc/chromium/** > src/base/message_pump_glib.cc:**199 > #12 0x003e12a30852 in RunHandler (this=) at > /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.**10/mozilla-esr10/ipc/chromium/** > src/base/message_loop.cc:201 > #13 MessageLoop::Run (this=) at > /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.**10/mozilla-esr10/ipc/chromium/** > src/base/message_loop.cc:175 > #14 0x003e11ff90fd in XRE_InitChildProcess (aArgc=6, aArgv= optimized out>, aProcess=) > at /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.**10/mozilla-esr10/toolkit/xre/** > nsEmbedFunctions.cpp:524 > #15 0x00401314 in main (argc=7, argv=) at > /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-10.0.**10/mozilla-esr10/ipc/app/** > MozillaRuntimeMain.cpp:81 > (gdb) > > I also noticed that if youtube could cache up more data (you know the grey > shading in front of the red progress marker) ... This issue did not happen. > So
Re: flash replacement
Todd, same thing for me with 11.1 version - crashed in full screen after maybe 1 minute. Audio continued tho %) AZ On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > David, > i'm using the one from adobe. See here: > yum repolist > > repo idrepo name > status > DropboxDropbox > Repository 4 > adobe-linux-x86_64 Adobe Systems > Incorporated 2 > > installing: > flash-pluginx86_6411.2.202.251-release adobe-linux-x86_64 > 6.9 M > > and it's the one i'm bi%% heartlessly about. > can you try this one ( > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&list=PLB7667BC178F2658F) > in HD full screen for say 15 minutes? Works fine when in anything but full > screen for me. > > AZ > > > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:23 AM, David Sommerseth < > sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: > >> On 14/11/12 10:58, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: >> > On 11/13/2012 08:57 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >> >> hello, >> >> is there an alternative for ( lots of grumpy swearing omitted ) flash >> >> plugin in FF? with the latest 11.2.202.251 x86 release the HD videos in >> >> full-screen a crashing. >> >> [bitching on] >> >> first i deal with an invasion of Avatars - "the blue people" and now >> >> $$$ thing won't even play for longer than 4 minutes in full screen >> >> [bitching off] >> > >> > >> > Hi Andrew, >> > >> >Oh good. I get to help someone for a change. >> > >> >The recent Flash player is a DISASTER. Can't seem to get >> > anyone to fix it either. >> > >> >Back off to flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm >> > (or 32 bit, if that's what you are running) and turn off auto >> > updates. >> > >> > >> http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm >> > >> > >> > # rpm -e flash-plugin >> > # rpm -ivh flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm >> > >> >> Seriously, what's wrong with using the official Adobe Flash player? I >> see you're using one from the rpmforge/fusion repo. >> >> 1. Go here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ >> 2. Select "YUM for Linux" and click download. >> 3. Install that RPM >> 4. as root: yum erase flash-* >> 5. Disable all those extra elrepo, atrpms, rpmfusion/rpmforge >> repositories (look inside the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ ) >> 5. as root: yum install flash-plugin >> 6. Enjoy a more reliable flash. >> >> This way you get no 32bit nonsense on 64bit installations. And you get >> something which works quite more reliable. I'm using the Adobe Flash >> player (64bit) on a couple of my private laptops. And I'm watching >> fullscreen TV broadcasts in hi quality resolution (3.5Mbit/s streams) >> scaled up to my 1920x1200 display ... and if there are issues, that's >> been related to not getting the needed bandwidth. >> >> I've mostly had just troubles with those additional repos, so I only >> enable them when it's needed. Otherwise, SL repos + EPEL repos gives a >> really stable and reliable systems At least, that's been my experience. >> >> >> kind regards, >> >> David Sommerseth >> > >
Re: flash replacement
David, i'm using the one from adobe. See here: yum repolist repo idrepo name status DropboxDropbox Repository 4 adobe-linux-x86_64 Adobe Systems Incorporated 2 installing: flash-pluginx86_6411.2.202.251-release adobe-linux-x86_64 6.9 M and it's the one i'm bi%% heartlessly about. can you try this one ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO9z4Hy9rI&feature=share&list=PLB7667BC178F2658F) in HD full screen for say 15 minutes? Works fine when in anything but full screen for me. AZ On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:23 AM, David Sommerseth < sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: > On 14/11/12 10:58, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > > On 11/13/2012 08:57 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> hello, > >> is there an alternative for ( lots of grumpy swearing omitted ) flash > >> plugin in FF? with the latest 11.2.202.251 x86 release the HD videos in > >> full-screen a crashing. > >> [bitching on] > >> first i deal with an invasion of Avatars - "the blue people" and now > >> $$$ thing won't even play for longer than 4 minutes in full screen > >> [bitching off] > > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > >Oh good. I get to help someone for a change. > > > >The recent Flash player is a DISASTER. Can't seem to get > > anyone to fix it either. > > > >Back off to flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm > > (or 32 bit, if that's what you are running) and turn off auto > > updates. > > > > > http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm > > > > > > # rpm -e flash-plugin > > # rpm -ivh flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm > > > > Seriously, what's wrong with using the official Adobe Flash player? I > see you're using one from the rpmforge/fusion repo. > > 1. Go here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ > 2. Select "YUM for Linux" and click download. > 3. Install that RPM > 4. as root: yum erase flash-* > 5. Disable all those extra elrepo, atrpms, rpmfusion/rpmforge > repositories (look inside the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ ) > 5. as root: yum install flash-plugin > 6. Enjoy a more reliable flash. > > This way you get no 32bit nonsense on 64bit installations. And you get > something which works quite more reliable. I'm using the Adobe Flash > player (64bit) on a couple of my private laptops. And I'm watching > fullscreen TV broadcasts in hi quality resolution (3.5Mbit/s streams) > scaled up to my 1920x1200 display ... and if there are issues, that's > been related to not getting the needed bandwidth. > > I've mostly had just troubles with those additional repos, so I only > enable them when it's needed. Otherwise, SL repos + EPEL repos gives a > really stable and reliable systems At least, that's been my experience. > > > kind regards, > > David Sommerseth >
Re: flash replacement
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 13 November 2012 21:57, Andrew Z wrote: > > hello, > > is there an alternative for ( lots of grumpy swearing omitted ) flash > > plugin in FF? with the latest 11.2.202.251 x86 release the HD videos in > > full-screen a crashing. > > [bitching on] > > first i deal with an invasion of Avatars - "the blue people" and now $$$ > > thing won't even play for longer than 4 minutes in full screen > > [bitching off] > > The adobe flash plugin is about the only one that runs "reliably". The > alternatives gnash and one other I can't remember only cover some of > the features. Beyond that since Adobe has dropped developing it for > Linux, the alternative is to run Google Chrome with a built > in/"up-to-date" one. > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." > Linus Torvalds > "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh > so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I > recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd > and the seemed to be no plugin to play mp4, right?
flash replacement
hello, is there an alternative for ( lots of grumpy swearing omitted ) flash plugin in FF? with the latest 11.2.202.251 x86 release the HD videos in full-screen a crashing. [bitching on] first i deal with an invasion of Avatars - "the blue people" and now $$$ thing won't even play for longer than 4 minutes in full screen [bitching off]
xfce + dual monitor setup
Hello, i want to setup a dual monitor under xfce (4.8) ( and compiz if it matters ). I did a quick search and it seems there are quite a few open bugs. Can you gentlemen, advise on the subject? Maybe point to a good howto? Thank you AZ
Re: usb
Todd and Margo, That's what I wanted to do first. But I considered more fun to try to use USB stick. I did precisely the same command on the sda but for reasons of security (read as -fear of unknown). since I'm on of 1.1mil without the electricity now, I haven't had a chance to try any other option yet. Thank you AZ On Oct 31, 2012 2:55 PM, "Todd And Margo Chester" wrote: > On 10/29/2012 02:41 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> since the weather is perfect t for drinking and catching up on all the >> little things that ive been procrastinated to do, i decided to revive >> the virus ridden laptop. >> That's some "alienware" from Dell . it doesn't have a cd/dvd . So the >> only option is to boot from usb stick. >> >> i have win7 iso and followed http://reboot.pro/8381/. >> yet the only result on the screen i see is "SYSLINUX 4.02 20120 " >> and black screen. >> >> Anything i need to be aware of ? >> >> Any feedback is welcomed. >> AZ >> >> > Hi Andrew, > > I do not know about the usb stick thing, but have > you thought of borrowing someone's USB external > DVD drive? > > Also, if you have a boot sector virus and you intend > to wipe anyway, this always works for me: > > THIS WILL RUIN YOUR PARTITION TABLE and all your data! > > Boot off a live CD: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=100 > > I have had to do this just to get the Windows Installer > (XP and W7) to recognize a hard drive that had a boot > sector virus several times. (Live CD rescues Windows yet > again!) > > -T >
Re: multiple viewers
Sorry I'm a bit lost - can I or can I not use konqUeror under xfce without dragging along half of kde? Thank you AZ On Oct 29, 2012 4:10 PM, "zxq9" wrote: > On 10/30/2012 01:53 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> Probably docs and pics are a bit of stretch. But would be nice to have >> one viewer for documents. Say PDF and djv would be very useful. I'll >> give a try to evidence. >> > > Along the same lines, Konqueror displays nearly everything. Images, PDF, > PS, vector formats, directory contents, HTML pages (rendering is slower > than other browser engines if you use JavaScript -- but if you turn off JS > and use it as an HTML document viewer its awesome), some XML formats, > directory contents, FTP mount points, etc. It can even be made to display > OpenDocument files (either by embedding LO/OO or by using Ocular's ODT > (currently somewhat limited) rendering engine). It is designed to be a > universal data surfer, not primarily a "Web 2.0" type web browser. > > It is a KDE core application, but it isn't necessary to use KDE to use > Konqueror. Default PDF display is through Ocular -- a document viewer I > find to have a slightly happier interface than Evince. > > If you run into a type that Konqueror isn't displaying internally you can > almost always find a way to configure it to do so if there is a KDE-style > program that can display what you want (and there nearly always is). After > getting familiar with it, I've found it to be hugely comfortable, > especially since it doubles as a file browser. > > My $0.02 >
usb
since the weather is perfect t for drinking and catching up on all the little things that ive been procrastinated to do, i decided to revive the virus ridden laptop. That's some "alienware" from Dell . it doesn't have a cd/dvd . So the only option is to boot from usb stick. i have win7 iso and followed http://reboot.pro/8381/. yet the only result on the screen i see is "SYSLINUX 4.02 20120 " and black screen. Anything i need to be aware of ? Any feedback is welcomed. AZ
Re: multiple viewers
Thank you Robin and Alic. Probably docs and pics are a bit of stretch. But would be nice to have one viewer for documents. Say PDF and djv would be very useful. I'll give a try to evidence. Thank you AZ On Oct 29, 2012 12:36 PM, "Robin Long" wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > I am not sure about one viewer that can do documents and pictures, but in > my experience evince will handle most documents (although you may need a > "yum install evince-djvu") and Eye Of GNOME (eog) will handle most pictures. > > Regards, > > Robin. > > On 29/10/12 14:45, Andrew Z wrote: > > Hello, > is there a product I can use to view as many document formats as possible > ? > I have epdfviwer for pdf, djviewer for djvu, geeqie fo pictures... I > thought it would be nice to have "that unite them all"@ :) > > thank you > AZ > > > >
multiple viewers
Hello, is there a product I can use to view as many document formats as possible ? I have epdfviwer for pdf, djviewer for djvu, geeqie fo pictures... I thought it would be nice to have "that unite them all"@ :) thank you AZ
Re: CD recording nowadays
Yes. And (from very quick Google search) appears to be part of cdrtools, which seemed to be (or used to be?) In some kind of infringement of patent law... But at the same time search for (rpm ) cdrtools didn't bring anything but search for wodim did. I'm guessing that the last has been blessed by redhat lawyers. Anyway. Thank you for the tip! this wodim looks like very old cdrrecord from users perspective but did it's job. Thank you AZ On Oct 21, 2012 12:36 PM, "Stephen John Smoogen" wrote: > On 21 October 2012 07:17, Andrew Z wrote: > > Gents, > > i'm a bit ;) confused as of the current state of CD burning on our > > platform. Back in the days it was cdrecord, now ... i'm not sure... I see > > there is cdrtools and cdrkit... but neither(?) seemed to be included in > the > > main repo.. > > Please advise. > > Thank you > > AZ > > I believe the version shipped these days is called wodim for reasons I > don't know exactly. > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." > Linus Torvalds > "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh > so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I > recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd >
CD recording nowadays
Gents, i'm a bit ;) confused as of the current state of CD burning on our platform. Back in the days it was cdrecord, now ... i'm not sure... I see there is cdrtools and cdrkit... but neither(?) seemed to be included in the main repo.. Please advise. Thank you AZ
boot,iso and proxy
Hello, will i be able to install the SL using the network install iso ( http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/x86_64/iso/SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-boot.iso) if i have to go thru the corporate proxy? I vaguely remember it used to be a problem some time back ( few years ago?).. thank you AZ
Re: slow usb
Different usb modules? On Jun 24, 2012 5:17 PM, "Todd And Margo Chester" wrote: > On 06/23/2012 10:41 PM, zxq9 wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what speeds are you seeing, specifically? Like average >> Mb/s on SL vs average Mb/s on Fedora. >> > > > It "seems" (note "weasel" word) like things go 20 times faster on > Fedora. I haven't actually measured it. > > Typically what I am trying to copy is contents of a data > DVD I am creating for a customer from my hard drive -- about > 3 GB. From SL it takes about four hours to copy. From > Fedora, it takes about 15 minutes. > > It acts as if SL is on USB 1 and Fedora in on USB 2. > > -T >
Re: X session hangs
great it appears to be the problem with compiz... On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > Thank you for reply. > nope, nothing unique - one hard drive and, i think, i just let installer > to partition it they default way. > i started moving dot files, but boy that's sooo slow - move the file - > login- nothing - reboot. > I think ill try your suggestion about new user. > thank you! > Andrew > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:58 AM, zxq9 wrote: > >> On 06/22/2012 08:58 AM, Andrew Z wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> i have the sl 6.2 on Toshiba satellite that worked fine. Last week when >>> i tried to boot it my x session hanged and i could never see my desktop. >>> Messages xlog and sessions files have nothing that gave me any clues. I >>> removed xorg.conf. No change. >>> Here is current situation. >>> If i login as root - all works. If i login as regular user the following >>> series of the events happens. >>> Login prompt -> some window pops up asking if i want to load default or >>> old config. Then all goes black and the only thing that responses is >>> mouse. >>> Switching to tty takes good 3 -4 minutes . Yet top indicates no high >>> cpu usage . >>> >> >> Some X managers can get crazy if they can't find the settings data they >> are looking for. It looks like your old settings aren't being found. >> >> Are you on a networked file system, or are there any unique storage >> things happening at all? As in, do you have the root file system on one >> partition and /home on another drive or something? >> >> The easiest way to test whether its access to /home or not (whether >> network, hardware issue, whatever) would be to login as root and create a >> new user, then see if you can log in as that user. If you can log in with >> no problem, then probably just a config file is corrupted and you can fix >> the problem by removing that one file and letting the X manager regenerate >> it. >> >> Of course, "which file?" is a fun question, so the slow-going way is to >> move things like ~/.kde/ ~/.gnome2/ ~/.gnome2_private/ ~/.nautilus/ and >> other things like that (maybe even ~/.ICEauthority) one at a time and test >> to see if the situation changes any with each move. You'll move one at some >> point that makes everything suddenly better. My guess is moving ~/.gnome2/ >> will probably be that file -- but you'll have to re-do whatever custom >> settings you've done, which is annnoying but better than nothing. >> >> Alternatively you could just create a new user, migrate the data you >> actually want to keep from your old home directory >> >> The nuclear option is, of course, to just remove all dotfiles at once and >> log in the GUI to force it to recreate everything. But if you have anything >> special or any other programs than the desktop are storing stuff it would >> probably get wiped too, so this probably isn't wise (I'd be pissed if I >> lost my Ekiga phonebook, my bookmarks, everything in ~/.wine/, not to >> mention my KBreakout high scores!). >> > >
Re: X session hangs
Thank you for reply. nope, nothing unique - one hard drive and, i think, i just let installer to partition it they default way. i started moving dot files, but boy that's sooo slow - move the file - login- nothing - reboot. I think ill try your suggestion about new user. thank you! Andrew On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:58 AM, zxq9 wrote: > On 06/22/2012 08:58 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> Hello, >> i have the sl 6.2 on Toshiba satellite that worked fine. Last week when >> i tried to boot it my x session hanged and i could never see my desktop. >> Messages xlog and sessions files have nothing that gave me any clues. I >> removed xorg.conf. No change. >> Here is current situation. >> If i login as root - all works. If i login as regular user the following >> series of the events happens. >> Login prompt -> some window pops up asking if i want to load default or >> old config. Then all goes black and the only thing that responses is >> mouse. >> Switching to tty takes good 3 -4 minutes . Yet top indicates no high >> cpu usage . >> > > Some X managers can get crazy if they can't find the settings data they > are looking for. It looks like your old settings aren't being found. > > Are you on a networked file system, or are there any unique storage things > happening at all? As in, do you have the root file system on one partition > and /home on another drive or something? > > The easiest way to test whether its access to /home or not (whether > network, hardware issue, whatever) would be to login as root and create a > new user, then see if you can log in as that user. If you can log in with > no problem, then probably just a config file is corrupted and you can fix > the problem by removing that one file and letting the X manager regenerate > it. > > Of course, "which file?" is a fun question, so the slow-going way is to > move things like ~/.kde/ ~/.gnome2/ ~/.gnome2_private/ ~/.nautilus/ and > other things like that (maybe even ~/.ICEauthority) one at a time and test > to see if the situation changes any with each move. You'll move one at some > point that makes everything suddenly better. My guess is moving ~/.gnome2/ > will probably be that file -- but you'll have to re-do whatever custom > settings you've done, which is annnoying but better than nothing. > > Alternatively you could just create a new user, migrate the data you > actually want to keep from your old home directory > > The nuclear option is, of course, to just remove all dotfiles at once and > log in the GUI to force it to recreate everything. But if you have anything > special or any other programs than the desktop are storing stuff it would > probably get wiped too, so this probably isn't wise (I'd be pissed if I > lost my Ekiga phonebook, my bookmarks, everything in ~/.wine/, not to > mention my KBreakout high scores!). >
X session hangs
Hello, i have the sl 6.2 on Toshiba satellite that worked fine. Last week when i tried to boot it my x session hanged and i could never see my desktop. Messages xlog and sessions files have nothing that gave me any clues. I removed xorg.conf. No change. Here is current situation. If i login as root - all works. If i login as regular user the following series of the events happens. Login prompt -> some window pops up asking if i want to load default or old config. Then all goes black and the only thing that responses is mouse. Switching to tty takes good 3 -4 minutes . Yet top indicates no high cpu usage . Please advise. Andrew
Re: yum update / python
Ld_library should not be set to oracle location for root. Oracle group needs it and any user that uses oci calls. AZ On Jun 19, 2012 11:38 AM, "Akemi Yagi" wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Andras Horvath wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:44:18 -0700 > > Akemi Yagi wrote: > > >> Apparently you are not alone. Someone else reported a similar problem: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833271 > >> > >> Akemi > > > > Thanks for the link to the bug report, I'll follow it. > > > > Also I can confirm, that on several other server systems without X or > > GUI the update has been successful. I'm having problems on desktop only. > > > > Andras > > The submitter of the above bugzilla found the source of trouble: > > "It turned out to be LD_LIBRARY_PATH which on some of our servers is > set for Oracle. It points to $ORACLE_HOME/lib. Unsetting this > environment variable makes yum working again." > > Akemi >
Re: dvdauthor seg fault
ersion 0."..., 157DVDAuthor::dvdauthor,
version 0.7.0.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
Send bug reports to
) = 157
write(2, "INFO: default video format is NT"..., 35INFO: default video
format is NTSC
) = 35
write(2, "INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS\n", 29INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
) = 29
mkdir("dvd_ready", 0777)= 0
mkdir("dvd_ready/VIDEO_TS", 0777) = 0
mkdir("dvd_ready/AUDIO_TS", 0777) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Segmentation fault
- code end
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Corey Quinn wrote:
> Could strace / ltrace it and see what it's failing on?
>
> On Jun 9, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Andrew Z wrote:
>
> hello,
> for years i had a simple script that was using to create DVDs.
> part of it is the command below. about 2 months ago it started failing for
> no obvious reason. today i've got this:
>
> dvdauthor -o dvd_ready --menu ./out.mpg
> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0.
> Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
> Send bug reports to
>
> INFO: default video format is NTSC
> INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
> Segmentation fault
>
>
> Any suggestions are welcomed.
> AZ
>
>
>
dvdauthor seg fault
hello, for years i had a simple script that was using to create DVDs. part of it is the command below. about 2 months ago it started failing for no obvious reason. today i've got this: dvdauthor -o dvd_ready --menu ./out.mpg DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0. Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig Send bug reports to INFO: default video format is NTSC INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS Segmentation fault Any suggestions are welcomed. AZ
Re: SL on ARM
This sounds very interesting for my project.thank you!!! -- Please excuse my brevity. Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: 9 months ago it would have been a big undertaking. Today it would not be a big undertaking at all. All the hard work has already been done in RedSleeve (http://www.redsleeve.org). So you could just treat RS as the upstream until PNAELV pull their figure out and release their own. Or (my personal preference for obvious reasons (hint - I'm one of the three people behind RS) you could just use RS - let's face it, it's all the same thing. Color me *impressed*. That's a big chunk of work. Go, you and your comrades! And what a win for the freeware and open source communities. Have you called our favorite upstream vendor about a job doing this? You could refute my original idea that they wouldn't bother, and get paid for it!!!
XFCE 4.10
Hello, just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in packaged form :) ? Thank you AZ
Re: G Drive
nope. looks interesting. I'm a bit put off by the statement "The only thing missing is to upload new files from local directory." but i guess i'm misunderstanding it. What's your experience? On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Henrique Junior wrote: > Em Sex, 2012-05-18 Ã s 00:17 -0400, Andrew Z escreveu: > > hello, > > just wonder if anyone had a chance to mount (rw) the Google Drive and > > if you can please share the experiences. > > > > thank you > > Andrew > > Sorry for the late response, but, did you know this project? > http://match065.github.com/grive/ > > > -- > Henrique Junior > >
Re: G Drive
Zxq, i pretty much agree with all points you mentioned . Re : privacy - my employer actively utilizes amazon as a distribution layer only. >From consumer perspective , i was thinking to use it for 2 reasons To have a single and easily accessible destination for junk files. And as a backup for important files. I do agree that Google as a backup is far from ideal (exactly for reasons you stated). Yet been an gmail and android user already it seems convenient. On May 18, 2012 4:24 AM, "zxq9" wrote: > On 05/18/2012 04:46 PM, zxq9 wrote: > >> On 05/18/2012 01:17 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >> >>> ...a chance to mount (rw) the Google Drive ... >>> >> > Also, I didn't mention this because I thought it was obvious, but you > don't exactly "mount" the Google Drive. Its basically like a > feature-deprived version of Dropbox with an even worse privacy policy that > only integrates with Google products. It is absolutely not available > offline -- and actual syncing has to be a deliberate choice, every time, so > actually saving to a local drive you own for real is not automatic or even > reasonably hassle-free. So this sort of sucks. > > If you've got no experience whatever with this sort of thing these are > probably the points you are curious about from a consumer's point of view. >
G Drive
hello, just wonder if anyone had a chance to mount (rw) the Google Drive and if you can please share the experiences. thank you Andrew
Re: how to change stty resolution
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM, zxq9 wrote: > On 05/16/2012 02:04 AM, zxq9 wrote: > >> On 05/16/2012 12:54 AM, Andrew Z wrote: >> >>> hello, >>> for whatever reason virtual box doesn't properly detect the 1440x900 >>> resolution (probably i didn't install valid extensions). So i have to >>> manually select the correct resolution each time linux boots. Which lead >>> me to the following question - is there a way to change the stty >>> resolution without restarting the system? >>> >> >> By default /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist and is generated each time >> X starts (for most people this is the same as once per boot). You can >> have Xorg output its generated configuration in a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf >> file with the command "Xorg -configure" (you might need to get more >> specific and do "Xorg:[display number] -configure"). You can then edit >> this file and change the display resolution to whatever you need and it >> should be loaded every time X starts from then on. >> >> But I might be completely misunderstanding where your problem lies and >> giving you wrong advice; I am not very familiar with virtual box. >> Anyway, its painless to try and see. If that doesn't work you might try >> editing/adding to the arguments in /boot/grub/grub.conf to pass explicit >> screen size info automatically there as well. >> > > Duh... I forgot something important. > > In any virtual environment there is almost always a machine/env instance > parameter that declares what the screen size is (along with every other > aspect of the environment, of course). I'm sure there is a (really easy?) > way to change the screen size value virtual box, but I don't know what it > is. > > Deciding which way is more kludgy -- adjusting the virtual box > environment, generating an xorg.conf or passing boot parameters -- is your > own business, but I think adjusting the virtual box environment is the most > "correct" solution; it is also the method I don't know anything about. (O.o) > right, right agree. but i'm curios if the stty ( for non graphical console ) can be changed without rebooting the system. Now thinking, i 'm pretty sure that stty doesn't support resolutions over certain limit (120 ? ) so there is no way to make it 1440x900. after some extra session of google, i came out with this http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/cool_unix/stty.html:"; If it seems like the program you're running thinks your screen is bigger than it is, maybe it does. You can probably fix it. Most terminal programs display text in 24 rows of 80 characters. Using stty's rows and columnsoptions let you reset these manually: stty rows 24 columns 80 Or X (when configured right) will do it automatically eval `resize` (Remember the backquotes!!) " I'll try it later today to see if it works. Andrew
how to change stty resolution
hello, for whatever reason virtual box doesn't properly detect the 1440x900 resolution (probably i didn't install valid extensions). So i have to manually select the correct resolution each time linux boots. Which lead me to the following question - is there a way to change the stty resolution without restarting the system? Thank you Andrew
Re: usb device "cannot reset port" error
Bill, I used to reload usb modules to get all these nasty errors out. Bit it was on sl5. On sl6, they seemed to be part of kernel and modprobe and company did not work for me. AZ -- Please excuse my brevity. William Lutter wrote: Friday, on a desktop running SL 6.1, I tried mounting an external USB hard drive and got hub port status errors. External USB HD is a Cavalry CAXM3701T0 Series 1 TB USB 2.0 / eSATA device. It worked fine with older linux SL (4.9) immediately after the SL6.0 error. It has worked in past on SL5.3 SL5.7. It worked on SL6 (same machine a week earlier). I automounted it, unmounted it, added a line to fstab and mounted at /mnt/usbhd. /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhd ext3noauto,user,rw 0 0 This time (on SL6.1) when I get the messages, I had the fstab line uncommented and would have mounted it at /mnt/usbhd except I got the hub port messages below and sdb didn't show up at all via fdisk. (from /var/log/messages) Apr 13 12:55:08 mu2 kernel: usb 2-1.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 Apr 13 12:55:13 mu2 kernel: usb 2-1.3: device descriptor read/all, error -110 Apr 13 12:55:14 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: cannot disable port 3 (err = -110) ... Apr 13 12:55:31 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: cannot reset port 3 (err = -110) Apr 13 12:55:31 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: Cannot enable port 3. Maybe the USB cable is bad? Apr 13 12:55:32 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: cannot disable port 3 (err = -110) Apr 13 12:55:32 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3 Apr 13 12:55:33 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: cannot disable port 3 (err = -110) Apr 13 12:56:54 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -110) ... Apr 16 10:19:37 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -110) Apr 16 10:19:42 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -110) Apr 16 10:19:47 mu2 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -110) I've not had trouble with USB external hard drives before. Any advice on how to get this working without having to reboot, which I've not tried yet. Bill Lutter
Re: can't burn dvd
ran the same command on the same disk now - working as expected. the moral of the story is the same - do not work late, stupid. On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > Hello, > i'm not sure what got updated, sincei didn't run yum, but something did > :). > all of the sudden i can't burn the dvd+rw: > a. if i reboot the system i _can_ burn the DVD, once i reload it - can't. > b. i can't mount the dvd. > > I suspect i'm missing a module. here is some log information that i hope > may help: > > messages: > > > Apr 2 22:38:15 server kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 94x/48x writer > dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > Apr 2 22:38:15 server kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > > > > lsmod > > Module Size Used by > vboxpci14094 0 > vboxnetadp 5742 0 > vboxnetflt 16551 0 > vboxdrv 1869684 3 vboxpci,vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt > cpufreq_ondemand 10382 4 > powernow_k816298 0 > freq_table 4847 2 cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8 > ipt_ULOG 10731 3 > xt_multiport2666 2 > xt_owner1218 1 > iptable_filter 2759 1 > iptable_nat 6124 0 > nf_nat 22788 1 iptable_nat > nf_conntrack_ipv4 9440 49 iptable_nat,nf_nat > nf_defrag_ipv4 1449 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4 > iptable_mangle 3283 0 > iptable_raw 2198 0 > ip_tables 17765 4 > iptable_filter,iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_raw > ip6t_REJECT 4562 2 > nf_conntrack_ipv6 8650 2 > nf_defrag_ipv6 12148 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6 > xt_state1458 48 > nf_conntrack 79611 5 > iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state > ip6table_filter 2855 1 > ip6_tables 19424 1 ip6table_filter > ipv6 322259 35 > ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6 > usblp 12116 0 > sg 30090 0 > serio_raw 4816 0 > k10temp 3479 0 > hwmon 2464 1 k10temp > edac_core 46533 0 > edac_mce_amd9045 0 > r8169 39934 0 > mii 5205 1 r8169 > nvidia 12291391 40 > snd_hda_codec_hdmi 24750 4 > snd_hda_intel 25261 2 > snd_hda_codec 86617 2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel > snd_hwdep 6714 1 snd_hda_codec > snd_seq56557 0 > snd_seq_device 6626 1 snd_seq > snd_pcm84668 3 > snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec > snd_timer 23087 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > snd70053 12 > snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer > soundcore 8052 1 snd > snd_page_alloc 8628 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > i2c_nforce2 6870 0 > i2c_core 31274 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2 > ext4 360232 4 > mbcache 7918 1 ext4 > jbd2 88768 1 ext4 > sr_mod 16194 0 > cdrom 39769 1 sr_mod > usb_storage49418 0 > sd_mod 38196 6 > crc_t10dif 1507 1 sd_mod > pata_amd 11930 0 > pata_acpi 3667 0 > ata_generic 3611 0 > sata_nv23757 4 > dm_mod 75539 13 > > mount -v -t udf /dev/dvd /media/dvd > mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again > mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again > mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again > mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again > mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again > mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 > > dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd > INQUIRY:[HL-DT-ST][DVD-RAM GH22NP20][1.00] > GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: > :-( no media mounted, exiting... > > thank you > Andrew > >
can't burn dvd
Hello, i'm not sure what got updated, sincei didn't run yum, but something did :). all of the sudden i can't burn the dvd+rw: a. if i reboot the system i _can_ burn the DVD, once i reload it - can't. b. i can't mount the dvd. I suspect i'm missing a module. here is some log information that i hope may help: messages: Apr 2 22:38:15 server kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 94x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Apr 2 22:38:15 server kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 lsmod Module Size Used by vboxpci14094 0 vboxnetadp 5742 0 vboxnetflt 16551 0 vboxdrv 1869684 3 vboxpci,vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt cpufreq_ondemand 10382 4 powernow_k816298 0 freq_table 4847 2 cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8 ipt_ULOG 10731 3 xt_multiport2666 2 xt_owner1218 1 iptable_filter 2759 1 iptable_nat 6124 0 nf_nat 22788 1 iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 9440 49 iptable_nat,nf_nat nf_defrag_ipv4 1449 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4 iptable_mangle 3283 0 iptable_raw 2198 0 ip_tables 17765 4 iptable_filter,iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_raw ip6t_REJECT 4562 2 nf_conntrack_ipv6 8650 2 nf_defrag_ipv6 12148 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6 xt_state1458 48 nf_conntrack 79611 5 iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state ip6table_filter 2855 1 ip6_tables 19424 1 ip6table_filter ipv6 322259 35 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6 usblp 12116 0 sg 30090 0 serio_raw 4816 0 k10temp 3479 0 hwmon 2464 1 k10temp edac_core 46533 0 edac_mce_amd9045 0 r8169 39934 0 mii 5205 1 r8169 nvidia 12291391 40 snd_hda_codec_hdmi 24750 4 snd_hda_intel 25261 2 snd_hda_codec 86617 2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 6714 1 snd_hda_codec snd_seq56557 0 snd_seq_device 6626 1 snd_seq snd_pcm84668 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 23087 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd70053 12 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 8052 1 snd snd_page_alloc 8628 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm i2c_nforce2 6870 0 i2c_core 31274 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2 ext4 360232 4 mbcache 7918 1 ext4 jbd2 88768 1 ext4 sr_mod 16194 0 cdrom 39769 1 sr_mod usb_storage49418 0 sd_mod 38196 6 crc_t10dif 1507 1 sd_mod pata_amd 11930 0 pata_acpi 3667 0 ata_generic 3611 0 sata_nv23757 4 dm_mod 75539 13 mount -v -t udf /dev/dvd /media/dvd mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd INQUIRY:[HL-DT-ST][DVD-RAM GH22NP20][1.00] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: :-( no media mounted, exiting... thank you Andrew
Re: SLIM is obsolete by libixman
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
> Mixing EPEL and Repoforge, at the same time, can cause precisely these
> sorts of problems due to changes in packaging layouts. EPEL tries very
> strictly to *never* replace system packages. Repoforge is a bit more
> flexible: both work well with Scientific Linux, but don't necessarily play
> nicely with each other.
>
> The result is that one can have a more recent version of one package, and
> an older version of another package, and both repos simultaneously have
> conflicting packages. Sounds like what happened here, so try disabling the
> "rpmforge" repositories in yum temporarily.
>
> yum --disablerepo=rpmforge* install slim
>
Nico,
thank you for the feedback. i tried just that and now enjoying a new
"picture" where the package requires perl(File::DesktopEntry)
---> Package slim.x86_64 0:1.3.2-8.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(File::DesktopEntry) for package:
slim-1.3.2-8.el6.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: slim-1.3.2-8.el6.x86_64 (/slim-1.3.2-8.el6.x86_64)
Requires: perl(File::DesktopEntry)
I'm bedazzled with this because i can't find any references to this package
in the spec file:
Name: slim
Version:1.3.2
Release:8%{?dist}
Summary:Simple Login Manager
BuildRequires: libXmu-devel libXft-devel libXrender-devel
BuildRequires: libpng-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel fontconfig-devel
BuildRequires: pkgconfig gettext libselinux-devel pam-devel
BuildRequires: xwd xterm /sbin/shutdown
Requires: xwd xterm /sbin/shutdown
Requires: %{_sysconfdir}/pam.d
# we use 'include' in the pam file, so
Requires: pam >= 0.80
# reuse the images
Requires: desktop-backgrounds-basic
# for anaconda yum
Provides: service(graphical-login)
Any input is appreciated.
Andrew
Re: XFCE: user switching
but now i'm looking @ the proposed solution in the last answer here ( http://askubuntu.com/questions/79318/how-can-i-switch-users-from-within-xfce) and i think it maybe a better alternative to the fxswitch.. On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > another session of google gave me > http://askubuntu.com/questions/79318/how-can-i-switch-users-from-within-xfce > quote: > "Note: The next version of XFCE, 4.10, will include a Switch User button > in the Actions plugin, and deprecate the session > menu<https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8358#c1> > ." > Guys haven't updated the schedule on the wiki tho. but in their blog ( > http://blog.xfce.org/) they did, so 4.10 ( or rather 4010) will be > released @ the end of April. If this holds true, than i guess that it will > hit us in a month in the form of rpms. > > at the same time, according to > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524413 > "Fedora Update System 2009-10-06 06:11:16 EDT > > xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable > repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug > report." > > but when i search in the current repos nothing comes up... Why ? > > > Solution: > got the source from > http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/source/SRPMS/xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-3.fc15.src.rpm > > > > recompiled it - no issues. > added a new item to the panel -"User switching". > > I just observed that when i switch the user, the original session remains > open. From one perspective it's odd, but if i think about it - it's awesome. > > > > thank you > Andrew > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> Todd And Margo Chester wrote: >> >>> On 03/03/2012 08:51 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >>> > Hello, >>> > how do i add "switch user" capability to XFCE? >>> > it seemed that in 4.8 (at least ubuntu team) had to add it. But i >>> >>> >>> >>> > can't find any solution for RH. >>> > it seemed that i need to have xfswitch, but found nothing in the regular >>> > repos. >>> > The closest i found is this one - >>> > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm >>> >>> >>> >>> > >>> > Please advise. >>> > thank you >>> > Andrew >>> >>> Hi Andrew, >>> >>> I have never seen a Switch User utility in Xfce. Does not >>> mean it was not there. I have always pressed the little >>> green running man >>> and then pressed "Log Out", then selected >>> a different user. >>> >>> -T >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Todd, >> That's what I've been using for quite a while too. But now, my boss (aka >> wife) wants to have her session(she has her own os user) running in >> parallel with mine. >> >> Andrew >> > >
Re: XFCE: user switching
another session of google gave me http://askubuntu.com/questions/79318/how-can-i-switch-users-from-within-xfce quote: "Note: The next version of XFCE, 4.10, will include a Switch User button in the Actions plugin, and deprecate the session menu<https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8358#c1> ." Guys haven't updated the schedule on the wiki tho. but in their blog ( http://blog.xfce.org/) they did, so 4.10 ( or rather 4010) will be released @ the end of April. If this holds true, than i guess that it will hit us in a month in the form of rpms. at the same time, according to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524413 "Fedora Update System 2009-10-06 06:11:16 EDT xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report." but when i search in the current repos nothing comes up... Why ? Solution: got the source from http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/source/SRPMS/xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-3.fc15.src.rpm recompiled it - no issues. added a new item to the panel -"User switching". I just observed that when i switch the user, the original session remains open. From one perspective it's odd, but if i think about it - it's awesome. thank you Andrew On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > >> On 03/03/2012 08:51 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >> > Hello, >> > how do i add "switch user" capability to XFCE? >> > it seemed that in 4.8 (at least ubuntu team) had to add it. But i >> >> >> > can't find any solution for RH. >> > it seemed that i need to have xfswitch, but found nothing in the regular >> > repos. >> > The closest i found is this one - >> > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm >> >> >> > >> > Please advise. >> > thank you >> > Andrew >> >> Hi Andrew, >> >> I have never seen a Switch User utility in Xfce. Does not >> mean it was not there. I have always pressed the little >> green running man >> and then pressed "Log Out", then selected >> a different user. >> >> -T >> >> > > -- > Todd, > That's what I've been using for quite a while too. But now, my boss (aka > wife) wants to have her session(she has her own os user) running in > parallel with mine. > > Andrew >
Re: XFCE: user switching
Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 03/03/2012 08:51 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > Hello, > how do i add "switch user" capability to XFCE? > it seemed that in 4.8 (at least ubuntu team) had to add it. But i > can't find any solution for RH. > it seemed that i need to have xfswitch, but found nothing in the regular > repos. > The closest i found is this one - > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm > > Please advise. > thank you > Andrew Hi Andrew, I have never seen a Switch User utility in Xfce. Does not mean it was not there. I have always pressed the little green running man and then pressed "Log Out", then selected a different user. -T -- Todd, That's what I've been using for quite a while too. But now, my boss (aka wife) wants to have her session(she has her own os user) running in parallel with mine. Andrew
XFCE: user switching
Hello, how do i add "switch user" capability to XFCE? it seemed that in 4.8 (at least ubuntu team) had to add it. But i can't find any solution for RH. it seemed that i need to have xfswitch, but found nothing in the regular repos. The closest i found is this one - ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm Please advise. thank you Andrew
Re: 20 Firefox processes
I guess multithreading is likely the answer - there is an article on kb. I was suprised I did not notice this earlier, since it was implemeted in ff4. Thank you Jason.m -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Jason Bronner wrote: bwahahahahaahahahahah. i have a cat. is it FF multithreading in a new process for each window or plugin to compartmentalize against crashes or exploits in any one particular window like Chrome?
Re: 20 Firefox processes
Its winter. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Andrew Z wrote: > i guess i just woke up, but i'm not sure i have seen ~20 firefox ( > /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) proceeses together with 7 > /usr/lib64/xulrunner-8/plugin-container > /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashpagin ... ) running on my machine. > > I have 4 core Phenom if it matters. but basic question is - why ? Do you have a cat ? -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
20 Firefox processes
i guess i just woke up, but i'm not sure i have seen ~20 firefox ( /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) proceeses together with 7 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-8/plugin-container /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashpagin ... ) running on my machine. I have 4 core Phenom if it matters. but basic question is - why ? andrew
Re: XFCE - panel 2 (lower panel) keeps on disappearing
it appears to be compiz related. But now it's working again. No error messages in /var/log of xlog observed. On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > Hello, > i'm not sure what i changed ( as far as i remember - nothing), but since > about 3 days ago, the lower panel ( panel 2) started dissappearing from the > screen upon startup. In order to get it back i had to un-check " Show and > hide panel" in panel preferences. that would make it appear . Subsequent > setting of the "Show and hide panel" flag will make it hide - as expected. > > It's quite annoying, but i'm not sure where to look. > > thank you > Andrew >
XFCE - panel 2 (lower panel) keeps on disappearing
Hello, i'm not sure what i changed ( as far as i remember - nothing), but since about 3 days ago, the lower panel ( panel 2) started dissappearing from the screen upon startup. In order to get it back i had to un-check " Show and hide panel" in panel preferences. that would make it appear . Subsequent setting of the "Show and hide panel" flag will make it hide - as expected. It's quite annoying, but i'm not sure where to look. thank you Andrew
Re: (XFCE) PDF viewer
-- OT now i can finally print out the insurance card and avoid getting $200 fee :) On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > doesn't look like it does. > > But i just recompiled the epdfview from src package i found > here<http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/17374860/dir/fedora_16/com/epdfview-0.1.8-5.fc16.x86_64.rpm.html>. > and it looks very good. > > thank you all! > > Andrew > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Mored Lopes Berdat > wrote: > >> Does Foxit Reader have a 64bit version? >> >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 18:43, Kevin Wood wrote: >> > You can try Foxit Reader... >> > http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/download.html >> > >> > >> > From: Andrew Z >> > To: ">" >> > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:15 PM >> > Subject: (XFCE) PDF viewer >> > >> > Hello, >> > i'm not sure how to get the xpdf to print pdf documents in user >> firendly ( >> > aka menu driven ) way. So i looked into alternative. My attempt to get >> MUPDF >> > were not successful - apparently the needed libs are too new for us. >> and to >> > install Okular i have to install KDE. Old friend Acrobat seemed to be >> only >> > 686... >> > >> > any help, please? >> > andrew >> > >> > >> > >
Re: (XFCE) PDF viewer
doesn't look like it does. But i just recompiled the epdfview from src package i found here<http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/17374860/dir/fedora_16/com/epdfview-0.1.8-5.fc16.x86_64.rpm.html>. and it looks very good. thank you all! Andrew On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Mored Lopes Berdat wrote: > Does Foxit Reader have a 64bit version? > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 18:43, Kevin Wood wrote: > > You can try Foxit Reader... > > http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/download.html > > > > ____ > > From: Andrew Z > > To: ">" > > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:15 PM > > Subject: (XFCE) PDF viewer > > > > Hello, > > i'm not sure how to get the xpdf to print pdf documents in user > firendly ( > > aka menu driven ) way. So i looked into alternative. My attempt to get > MUPDF > > were not successful - apparently the needed libs are too new for us. and > to > > install Okular i have to install KDE. Old friend Acrobat seemed to be > only > > 686... > > > > any help, please? > > andrew > > > > >
(XFCE) PDF viewer
Hello, i'm not sure how to get the xpdf to print pdf documents in user firendly ( aka menu driven ) way. So i looked into alternative. My attempt to get MUPDF were not successful - apparently the needed libs are too new for us. and to install Okular i have to install KDE. Old friend Acrobat seemed to be only 686... any help, please? andrew
why wine 64 pulls tons of 686 deps
Hello, i was thinking of installing Teamviwer, but it seemed to require either tons of 86 libs to satisfy it's rpm's dependecies or wine. my naive yum install wine.x86-64 generated: --- start log copy Dependencies Resolved == Package Arch Version Repository Size == Installing: wine x86_64 1.2.3-1.el6 epel 31 k Installing for dependencies: alsa-lib i686 1.0.21-3.el6 sl365 k cyrus-sasl-libi686 2.1.23-8.el6 sl134 k db4 i686 4.7.25-16.el6 sl579 k dbus-libs i686 1:1.2.24-5.el6_1 sl-security 127 k expat i686 2.0.1-9.1.el6 sl 77 k freetype i686 2.3.11-6.el6_1.8 sl-security 361 k glibc i686 2.12-1.47.el6_2.5 sl-security 4.3 M gnutlsi686 2.8.5-4.el6 sl335 k lcms-libs i686 1.19-1.el6sl100 k < chopped> end log copy I'm curious why would it need 686 deps? uname -a Linux server.home 2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 17:19:54 CDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux thank you Andrew
what's the status of the HW acceleration with nvidia and flash?
hello, from what i could find it seemed to -not_ been working on 64 machines for flash 10 and 11. Is this still holds true or i'm behind? thank you Andrew
Re: XFCE: how to clean up the trash
I'm running XFCE 4.8.0 On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > Hello, > i'm not sure how to add "trash" icon to the desktop in xfce and how to > clean-up the trash? > right now i had to revert to barbarian sudo rm -rf .Trash , but from > user's perspective it's just not acceptable. I'm sure there is an elegant > solution, but i seemed to not be able to locate it. > Please adivse. > anderw >
XFCE: how to clean up the trash
Hello, i'm not sure how to add "trash" icon to the desktop in xfce and how to clean-up the trash? right now i had to revert to barbarian sudo rm -rf .Trash , but from user's perspective it's just not acceptable. I'm sure there is an elegant solution, but i seemed to not be able to locate it. Please adivse. anderw
sound recording from usb camera not working in 6?
Happy New Year! i've beenhaving problems recording from the mic on webcam in the winxp virtual guest. Since i could not igure out what's wrong with it ( mic), i went one level down and decided to run a test in the host. when i ran this: [code start] messages: Dec 31 21:07:42 server kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 Dec 31 21:07:42 server kernel: usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=04f2, idProduct=a143 Dec 31 21:07:42 server kernel: usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=1, SerialNumber=0 Dec 31 21:07:42 server kernel: usb 1-5: Product: USB2.0 2MP UVC AF Camera Dec 31 21:07:42 server kernel: usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Dec 31 21:07:42 server kernel: usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Dec 31 21:07:42 server kernel: uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 2MP UVC AF Camera (04f2:a143) Dec 31 21:07:42 server kernel: input: USB2.0 2MP UVC AF Camera as /devices/pci:00/:00:02.1/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/input/input17 Dec 31 21:07:42 server kernel: 10:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84 lsmod | grep snd snd_usb_audio 91367 0 snd_usb_lib18687 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi23373 1 snd_usb_lib snd_hda_codec_hdmi 24750 4 snd_hda_codec_realtek 324264 1 snd_hda_intel 25261 5 snd_hda_codec 86617 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 6714 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec snd_seq56557 0 snd_seq_device 6626 2 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd_pcm84668 5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 23087 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd70053 19 snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 8052 1 snd snd_page_alloc 8628 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xdde78000 irq 23 1 [NVidia_1 ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xdfff8000 irq 19 2 [Camera ]: USB-Audio - USB2.0 2MP UVC AF Camera USB2.0 2MP UVC AF Camera at usb-:00:02.1-5, high speed [oracle@server ~]$ mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:alsa:forceaudio:adevice=hw.2,0 -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts fast:preset=standard -o webcam.avi MEncoder SVN-r31628-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team success: format: 9 data: 0x0 - 0x0 TV file format detected. Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski comment: first try, more to come ;-) v4l2: your device driver does not support VIDIOC_G_STD ioctl, VIDIOC_G_PARM was used instead. Selected device: USB2.0 2MP UVC AF Camera Capabilites: video capture streaming supported norms: inputs: 0 = Camera 1; Current input: 0 Current format: YUYV v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument tv.c: norm_from_string(pal): Bogus norm parameter, setting default. v4l2: ioctl enum norm failed: Invalid argument Error: Cannot set norm! Selected input hasn't got a tuner! ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1433:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card Error opening audio: Permission denied ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1433:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card Error opening audio: Permission denied ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1433:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card Error opening audio: Permission denied v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Invalid argument v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported = === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! === Cannot open demuxer. Exiting... [/code end] my attempt to user alsamiser or alsactl went nowhere - yum search brought up only alsamixergui. What happened to these utilitise, they were present in Centos 5.x?? all i'm trying to do is to record sound from usb camera. Thank you for your advise. Andrew
Re: looking for ULOD conf or srpm
Gentlemen,
i got ZXq9's srpm and after 29 seconds the ulogd was happily generating
the log files.
Thank you all for your help and advice. Happy holidays to all of you
Andrew
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
> ZXq9,
> the only mentioning of ulogd for SL6 i found here (
> http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?act=ST&f=18&t=1100&st=0#entry9180),
> after posting to this group.
>
> ALL:
> i'll try all suggestions and will report back.
> Thank you!
> andrew
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Jos Vos wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:05:19PM -0500, Andrew Z wrote:
>>
>> > i can't get my old version of the ulogd-1.24-2.src.rpm to compile. I'm
>> > getting "No build ID note found in ulogd_LOCAL.so" google didn't want to
>> > help me. Apparently i'm doing smth very silly.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > *** ERROR: No build ID note found in
>> >
>> /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/usr/lib64/ulogd/ulogd_LOCAL.so
>>
>> Try adding
>>
>> %define debug_package %{nil}
>>
>> to your spec file.
>>
>> --
>> --Jos Vos
>> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364
>> --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Fax: +31 20 6948204
>>
>
>
Re: looking for ULOD conf or srpm
ZXq9,
the only mentioning of ulogd for SL6 i found here (
http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?act=ST&f=18&t=1100&st=0#entry9180),
after posting to this group.
ALL:
i'll try all suggestions and will report back.
Thank you!
andrew
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:05:19PM -0500, Andrew Z wrote:
>
> > i can't get my old version of the ulogd-1.24-2.src.rpm to compile. I'm
> > getting "No build ID note found in ulogd_LOCAL.so" google didn't want to
> > help me. Apparently i'm doing smth very silly.
>
> [...]
>
> > *** ERROR: No build ID note found in
> >
> /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/usr/lib64/ulogd/ulogd_LOCAL.so
>
> Try adding
>
> %define debug_package %{nil}
>
> to your spec file.
>
> --
> --Jos Vos
> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364
> --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Fax: +31 20 6948204
>
looking for ULOD conf or srpm
Happy holidays! i can't get my old version of the ulogd-1.24-2.src.rpm to compile. I'm getting "No build ID note found in ulogd_LOCAL.so" google didn't want to help me. Apparently i'm doing smth very silly. I did changed on line in the original spec: %build #configure --with-mysql --with-pgsql %configure --with-pgsql LOG: + mkdir -p /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/var/log/ulogd + mkdir -p /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/etc/logrotate.d + install -m644 /builddir/build/SOURCES/ulogd.logrotate /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/etc/logrotate.d/ulogd + mkdir -p /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/usr/share/man/man8 + sed -e s/@VERSION@/1.24/g /builddir/build/SOURCES/ulogd.8 + gzip /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/usr/share/man/man8/ulogd.8 + /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh --strict-build-id /builddir/build/BUILD/ulogd-1.24 extracting debug info from /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/usr/sbin/ulogd extracting debug info from /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/usr/lib64/ulogd/ulogd_LOCAL.so *** ERROR: No build ID note found in /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ulogd-1.24-2.el6.x86_64/usr/lib64/ulogd/ulogd_LOCAL.so LOG END I wonder if you can share the spec file for ulogd srpm or, please, point to my mistake. thank you Andrew
output of var/log/messages on the terminal
gys, how can i send the /var/log/messages on a designated terminal? i remember some many years ago i saw on of SAs having messages file to 11 or 10 terminal from the moment machine booted. The gain - they just switch to it instead of typing "tail ". Hope makes sence and thank you in advance. Andrew
Re: unable to cut a DVD from iso
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Todd And Margo Chester < toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Todd And Margo Chester >>> mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com**>> wrote: >>> >>>Hi All, >>> >>>For some reason, I am unable to cut a DVD from an ISO. >>>Specifically, I am trying to cut DVDs of the SL61 DVD. >>> >>>I get bad md5sums when using from both growisofs and k3b. >>> >>>Just for kicks, I tried to boot off of DVD#1 and my BIOS >>>won't even recognize it as bootable. >>> >>>Would kvm have anything to do with this? >>> >> > > On 12/06/2011 12:54 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > > are you trying to burn a dvd from SL6.1 iso or you are creating > > an iso ? > > > The iso's are already make. Just trying to cut them. > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0 ./SL-61-x86_64-2011-07-27-** > Everything-DVD2.iso > mind to post the exact log ?
Re: unable to cut a DVD from iso
are you trying to burn a dvd from SL6.1 iso or you are creating an iso ? On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Todd And Margo Chester < toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > For some reason, I am unable to cut a DVD from an ISO. > Specifically, I am trying to cut DVDs of the SL61 DVD. > > I get bad md5sums when using from both growisofs and k3b. > > Just for kicks, I tried to boot off of DVD#1 and my BIOS > won't even recognize it as bootable. > > Would kvm have anything to do with this? > > Many thanks, > -T >
Re: hardware upgrade
Thank you YAsha. Indeed good point. Luckely, I have srpms for all of rpmses I modified. Andrew -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Yasha Karant wrote: On 11/21/2011 02:00 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: > Hi Andrew Z! > > On 2011.11.21 at 01:07:44 -0500, Andrew Z wrote next: > >> all this brings me to a simple question - how do i move from i686 SL 6.1 >> that was running on Sempron to Phenom ( which is 64 and 4 cores ) system? > > There isn't a good way to move from i686 system to x86-64 with upgrade. > Sure, it can be performed as a big hack, but really it's not something > one should do, and it's not supported in any way. > > If you are fine with using i686 system, then you usually don't need to > do anything on such hardware upgrade - the only typical minor problem > can be with ide controller detection (driver for new controller is not > present in old initrd). It can be fixed in various ways - for example, I > prefer booting rescue mode, going to console, mounting old system, > chrooting into it and running mkinitrd or reinstalling kernel. > > If you want to move to x86-64, then you have to reinstall system, as in > real reinstall, not upgrade; depending on your partition scheme /home > might be preserved, or you might need full backup, clean reinstall and > then restore of parts you need. Or, if your VG has enough free space, > you can just create new LVs during installation, install there then copy > data you need from old LVs. > > Installing from usb should be no problem, be that usb flash drive or usb > cdrom. > > -- > > Vladimir One small caution about moving from an i686 (IA-32) to X86-64 environment. If you have any binary no-source applications that are not available in a X86-64 version, you must install sufficient compatibility libraries (and support software) so that the platform can execute the IA-32 applications under the X86-64 environment. Note that in almost all cases, a .so for a X86-64 instruction set is not compatible with the "same" .so for an IA-32 application. Yasha Karant
Re: hardware upgrade
Vladimir, Thank you for reply. I like things clean , so ill ill do just that - backup and wipe out. Andrew -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: Hi Andrew Z! On 2011.11.21 at 01:07:44 -0500, Andrew Z wrote next: > all this brings me to a simple question - how do i move from i686 SL 6.1 > that was running on Sempron to Phenom ( which is 64 and 4 cores ) system? There isn't a good way to move from i686 system to x86-64 with upgrade. Sure, it can be performed as a big hack, but really it's not something one should do, and it's not supported in any way. If you are fine with using i686 system, then you usually don't need to do anything on such hardware upgrade - the only typical minor problem can be with ide controller detection (driver for new controller is not present in old initrd). It can be fixed in various ways - for example, I prefer booting rescue mode, going to console, mounting old system, chrooting into it and running mkinitrd or reinstalling kernel. If you want to move to x86-64, then you have to reinstall system, as in real reinstall, not upgrade; depending on your partition scheme /home might be preserved, or you might need full backup, clean reinstall and then restore of parts you need. Or, if your VG has enough free space, you can just create new LVs during installation, install there then copy data you need from old LVs. Installing from usb should be no problem, be that usb flash drive or usb cdrom. -- Vladimir
hardware upgrade
-- useless story on as yet another attempt to get my not working usb to work, i decided to dust of the internals of my Sempron based PC. Despite 2 kids running around and trying to get into the PC. I managed to carefully take it apart. Take a CPU fan off and clean it all out. after all these operations i became very proud of myself - i managed not to brake anything and didn't let 2 and 1 yo to get their hands on the parts. AND they have not been screaming at me for that %). anyhow , i started to put all parts back together... and then i dropped a damn CPU with the sink on the table. Just like that - just dropped it. anyway, my wife's tweezers became handy to straighten out the dozen of bended pins. And another 40 minutes later, when i' was proudly observing meticulously fixed pins, I made another retarded attempt to put the CPU in.. I ended up with a broken out pin. Needless to describe the rainbow of the emotions I went thru ... Next 3 hours i spent on fatwallet. the results are pretty cool - i wasted $106 for Phenom X4 + MSI NF725GM motherboard, $15 for the 4Gb of DDR3 RAM and ~$6 for a fan with a sink. Since i'm old "dude" and still remember i386 ringing ~$1400 the idea of holding 4 core CPU for $49.99 make me "philosophical". another amazing thing - all parts fitted nicely in my 7 yo box and i managed not to drop, bent, destroy anything. --useless story off all this brings me to a simple question - how do i move from i686 SL 6.1 that was running on Sempron to Phenom ( which is 64 and 4 cores ) system? another trick - the new motherboard has only one IDE controller, so i can't run CD/DVD and 2 IDEs at the same time. The root is on LV which resides on these two IDE drives. BIOS has an option to boot from USB. I figured that if i can place image on usb then i can probably painlessly upgrade am i missing smth in my overloaded with tequila mind? Thank you guys! Andrew
Re: odd permissions on mounted disk
Akemi, thank you for response, but I'm mounting udf, not nfs. Not sure where to look next... -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > i think it's sort of stupid question, but after the latest kernel update i > observed the following behavior. > total 2 > dr-xr-xr-x 4 4294967295 4294967295 136 Oct 29 23:43 dvd > > I'm not sure i ever saw the permissions set like this. > > Any ideas are welcome. This is due to the difference between NFSv3 and NFSv4. NFSv3 uses UID/GID whereas NFSv4 uses user@domainname. For more details, see for example, http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7005060&sliceId=1 http://serverfault.com/questions/98741/files-mounted-over-nfsv4-are-owned-by-4294967294-uids-and-gids-match Akemi
odd permissions on mounted disk
i think it's sort of stupid question, but after the latest kernel update i observed the following behavior. i don't imply that the said update is to blame. It's quite possible that i don't know what i'm talking about. so: 1. usera mounts the DVD 2. usera issues "vobcopy" 3. vobcopy failes with no obvious error. 4. root remounts the dvd 5. issues same vobcopy 6. disk gets copied I do know that i copied a dozen or so of my DVDs ( kids just love to use them as flying disks ) and i used "usera", not root for this purposes. I also know that i didn't make any configuration changes between "then" and "now" = [az@server media]$ cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab /dev/cardreader/CF /media/cardreader/CFauto defaults,users,noauto,rw0 0 /dev/cardreader/MS /media/cardreader/MSauto defaults,users,noauto,rw0 0 /dev/cardreader/SM /media/cardreader/SMauto defaults,users,noauto,rw0 0 /dev/dvd/media/dvd auto defaults,users,noauto,rw0 0 [az@server media]$ cd /media/ [az@server media]$ ls -l total 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 3 19:24 dvd [az@server media]$ mount /dev/dvd [az@server media]$ mount /dev/sr0 on /media/dvd type udf (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) [az@server media]$ ls -l ./ total 2 dr-xr-xr-x 4 4294967295 4294967295 136 Oct 29 23:43 dvd = I'm not sure i ever saw the permissions set like this. Any ideas are welcome. Oh, and i almost forgot, (still "blaming" the latest kernel update) out of nowhere a regular user now can _write_ to dvd... ha?
Re: Re: Red Hat engineer renews attack on Windows 8-certified secure boot
these two emails are interesting. Thank you Yasha and Nico. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > Any idea how to get persons such as Victor Helsing to understand the issue > here? -- this is NOT a rant. If we ignore it, we shall all be in the soup. It's a rant. By continuing to rant, you discourage people from paying attention to such issues where and when they *are* relevant, such as (hopefully) the material below. A discussion of the UEFI technology and its direct effects on Linux or Scientific Linux based hardware management might be useful. What are our favorite upstream vendor's plans? And ave you actually laid hands on the technology or attempted to use it, to see the implications of it. For example, it avoids the "63 block" DOS compatiliby chunk of space at the beginning of your available disk space, avoiding the 4096 byte block alignment problem for both real and virtualized hardware on more modern hard drives. And boot loaders have suffered from a great deal of awkwardness in backwards compatiblity requirements, for example with the 8 1023 cylinder limitation with earlier versions of LILO and motherboards, and with various other complex schema to work around legacy requirements. So a new, well defined boot loader architecture can make eminent sense. The problem is the lockdown features. It's completely understandable that people who buy computers, and maintain them, do *not* want arbitrary script kiddies or laptop thieves to be able to boot a live CD or USB stick and read everything off their drive. My Windows and other friends are *shocked* when I walk in with a live CD, including ones very like Scientific Linux's, and help them recover lost data or change relevant passwords. In general, if I can access your hardware, I own your data. The need for freedom and access to our own tools conflicts with this. Being able to change a kernel or OS freely is vital to developers, students, and people who need their tools modified for reasons software vendors don't agree with. It's also *vital* for anonymity. Too many systems record too much data. But this conflicts with desires for security. We've seen things like this play out with SELinux. The toolkit is powerful, flexible, and so unpredictable and poorly integrated and complex that most developers would actively *fire* me if I tried to make them work with it. I'll be very curious to see if UEFI's vaunted security features suffer from the same flaws in the long term. Support for UEFI *is* built into recent releases of grub and various virtualization technologies, so I don't anticipate it being too much of a Linux issue unless the lock down features are enforced.
Re: stand-alone SL 6.1 DVD for laptop evaluation
Sorry to hear Yasha about the trouble with lappy. May i suggest to look into tablets? Another idea maybe to look at fatwallet, I just saw a few deals for smth around $300 or so. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Yasha Karant wrote: My wife's laptop recently was stolen, and the university will NOT replace it because her Department has no money and she currently has no open grants. I routinely install EL on all machines over which I have any say; we need to replace her laptop as soon as possible so that we do not have to share laptops. She only needs a browser, office suite, PDF manipulation, and Thunderbird/Lightning -- she does not need a heavy duty graphics/visualisation or development unit. (Firefox, OpenOffice, Thunderbird/Lightning, VirtualBox running MS Win for MS Win specific applications, etc., suffice for her needs.) We have seen several discounted/sale/close-out laptops with dual layer DVD burners, etc., of a size she will accept (smallish screen, low mass unit). I insist on at least a battery that can be replaced without disassembling the laptop, and a mains supply power plug that is supported by iGo. I have made a bootable DVD from the current standalone (no install) bootable SL 6.1 IA-32 image (a bit larger than 2 Gbyte -- I do not recall the exact file name but there were only two choices -- a smaller one and the "full" one -- I chose full). On none of the test machines did the 802.11 interface activate, nor is there any sign of Gnome NetworkManager (I prefer NetworkManager for end-user machines that must go to the field). My intention was to use the SL 6.1 stand alone IA-32 as a way of testing that all needed drivers are present in the "stock" image, as I know that other than in those nations in which Microsoft has been found to be a monopoly and meaningful remedies enforced, some IA-32 hardware only has a MS Win driver, forcing the unpleasant use of NDIS (that I plan to avoid). I could go back to the inventory of what is supplied on the image file that I burned, but to save me time, does anyone know if the 802.11 drivers are part of that image? Is NetworkManager? Is the image configured to connect automatically (including activating the 802.11 interface)? The DVD did boot, Gnome did come up, and the sound test indicated that the sound interface was recognized -- but no 802.11 and thus no Internet (via DHCP). Any information or suggestions would be helpful. Yasha Karant
