On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote:
The next thing on my list is to try MemTest86+ with SMP.
5 hours in SMP mode, no errors.
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
First, check the memory - MemTest86+ is the tool most people use for
this. Run it on your system and it will highlight memory problems. It
can be found at www.memtest.org - the precompiled versions are tiny and
will fit on a floppy (or memory stick or CD).
On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
(Yes I know the relationship).
I'm told I couldn't install Fedora on a machine because a
A machine, a now-defuct DakTech machine that I bought new.
My current machine is an HP that I bought used.
Did not mean to confuse.
kernel bug affected precisely on
> > I don't necessarily mean the video - kernel panics are rarely to do
> > with something that far removed from the CPU. I mean test the hardware
> > of your computer.
>
> I'll do the testing suggested. The machine is rather old.
> HP Compaq dc5800 sff (small form factor)
> I would not be surp
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 10:10 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
Check your hardware - all these things might well be symptomatic of an
hardware issue.
I'm not at all sure how.
If it means opening the case,
hardware iss
Le 10/07/2018 à 08:26, Michael Hennebry a écrit :
> KDE is not doing so well either.
Here's what KDE on CentOS looks like here:
https://i1.wp.com/blog.microlinux.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/centos-7-kde.png?ssl=1
Cheers,
Niki
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On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 10:10 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
>
> > Check your hardware - all these things might well be symptomatic of an
> > hardware issue.
>
> I'm not at all sure how.
> If it means opening the case,
> hardware issues are likely to occur.
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
Check your hardware - all these things might well be symptomatic of an
hardware issue.
I'm not at all sure how.
If it means opening the case,
hardware issues are likely to occur.
Is there a way to tell whether the video
player is even using video acceler
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
>> On Sun, 2018-07-15 at 09:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>
>>> I've been looking.
>>> I keep finding claims that Fedora live CD's exist,
>>> but not actual images.
>>
>> https://getfedora.org/
>>
>> specifically
>>
>> https://ge
> > What it actually does is to download Fedora Media Writer which when run
> > downloads the correct image and writes it to a memory stick.
>
> Won't boot for me.
> I keep getting kernel panics and am real tired of the power button.
> I have to boot C6 with acpi=off, but that did not help.
>
>
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
On Sun, 2018-07-15 at 09:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I've been looking.
I keep finding claims that Fedora live CD's exist,
but not actual images.
https://getfedora.org/
specifically
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
What it actually
On Sun, 2018-07-15 at 09:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
>
> > > I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7.
> >
> > I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had
> > differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or othe
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7.
I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had
differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or otherwise)
the drivers from CentOS 7.
I've been looking.
I keep finding claims t
>
> I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7.
I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had
differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or otherwise)
the drivers from CentOS 7.
> It would not do videos at all.
> It claimed it did not have mp4 codecs.
> It
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues
(they use the same video driver)?
No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic.
The black tape h
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues
(they use the same video driver)?
No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic.
The black tape has gone away for KDE also.
Apparently logging o
On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 09:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
>
> > For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues
> > (they use the same video driver)?
>
> No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic.
> One of them, I think it was gnome-clas
> > A long shot is the theme. Are you using some non-standard theme on your
> > desktop?
>
> What is a theme?
It's how the desktop looks - colours, icons, widgets that sort of
thing. Complex themes have a "theme engine" underneath that does a lot
of the hard work of drawing things on the scree
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues
(they use the same video driver)?
No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic.
One of them, I think it was gnome-classic,
did videos badly.
It was a bit like a shutter came about a
quarter wa
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
The i915 driver is fairly rock solid - virtually all desktop machines
these days have on-board Intel video, it's the lowest common
denominator. And your chipset is not exactly cutting edge stuff.
I bought it used.
Are there any errors in the logs - eith
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, George Labuschagne wrote:
If it is to just get better font rendering (infinality freetype rendering);
have a look at this gist:
No. It is to replace the 'black tape'
that covers a lot of text.
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, it is impossible to work on a RHEL 7 type system without
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7
> >
> > Kernel driver in use: i915
> > Kernel modules: i915
>
The i915 driver is fairly rock solid - virtually all desktop machines
these days have on-board Intel video, it's the lowest common
denominator. And your chipset is not exactly cutting edge stuff.
Are there any erro
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, mark wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 01:29:52 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
Suggestions on how to dignose this?
Sounds like a video driver issue.
In other words, a video driver that almost works.
I expec
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Frank Cox wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 01:29:52 -0500 (CDT)
>> Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> Suggestions on how to dignose this?
>>
>> Sounds like a video driver issue.
>
> In other words, a video driver that almost works.
> I expect the first things t
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 01:29:52 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
Suggestions on how to dignose this?
Sounds like a video driver issue.
In other words, a video driver that almost works.
I expect the first things to do are discover
what video card and vi
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 01:29:52 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Suggestions on how to dignose this?
Sounds like a video driver issue.
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I recently installed C7 from a C7+gnome CD.
Gnome was awful enough that I promptly installed KDE.
KDE is not doing so well either.
Text in text editors invoked by "opening" a file is flakey at best.
E.g. pieces disappear and duplicate.
Terminals seem
I recently installed C7 from a C7+gnome CD.
Gnome was awful enough that I promptly installed KDE.
KDE is not doing so well either.
Text in text editors invoked by "opening" a file is flakey at best.
E.g. pieces disappear and duplicate.
Terminals seem ok, including vim invoked from the terminal.
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