Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
I believe you live in England. Does the BBC, who mainly developed No - next door in Wales Dirac, use Dirac for webcasting? Who are the associates who participated in development. AI couldn't find any after a quick at Google's. The BBC uses flash primarily, and has previously used

Re: help

2010-01-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:40:16 + Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: we at work have some PC's with 256 MB RAM, the graphical mode doesn't load, so we choice the text mode, but in all machines we get the same error, Anaconda 12.47 do you have an idea how to solve it?

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:55:43 -0500 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: However the website (and BBC site) say that it can employ lossless compression: Dirac has the capability of compressing high resolution

Re: Which model raid adapter controll card is good for work with Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-07 Thread Alan Cox
Also, with the right hardware, failed drives can be swapped without shutting the server down. AFAIK it can only be done with SCSI drives, but with SATA hardware being supported by the scsi subsystem, it'll probably work with SATA drives too. SATA supports hot swapping of disks if you have

Re: Does anyone else think yumex is broken?

2010-01-07 Thread Alan Cox
the guts of package management. However, PackageKit is neither unreliable nor barely communicating in my experience, and I use it most of the time in Fedora. Yum also has bits that allow it to communicate with PackageKit when run on the command line. This system works quite well. This one

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-01-06 Thread Alan Cox
If I power down my laptop via the usual KStart-Shutdown means, it can take up to 4 restart attempts before it fully boots. That sounds like wonky hardware It has no problem launching grub and the kernel selection screen. That it does reliably every time. After that, there are issues.

Re: Which model raid adapter controll card is good for work with Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-06 Thread Alan Cox
To be completely fair and honest, I should cop to the fact that I used to be an AMCC 3ware employee: I'm not a 3ware employee and I'd second that recommendation *if* you want to go for something with battery backup and some oompf. If you just want low end raid (ie 'I'm sick of disks dying' raid

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Alan Cox
I did wonder if I could use my son, in Cardiff, to re-send the stream over to me in Dublin (or Italy)? Could I do that without using up all his bandwidth? For low quality probably - or I imagine you could just buy yourself a cheap UK hosting package with cgi and add yourself some kind of

Re: Problems ripping DVDs I legally own to my media server

2010-01-04 Thread Alan Cox
To make clear - I am only doing this with DVDs I legally own. I am not pirating, I am just trying to get all my DVDs onto a media server I am building instead of having them strewn all over the entertainment center. It doesn't matter Specifically, I tried to rip Transformers 2 Revenge of

Re: Fedora 11 network share browsing using Natuilus with Samba - Fixed?

2010-01-03 Thread Alan Cox
way through the user account preferences to turn this feature OFF. Various posts on the 'net claim this violates the documented way DNS look ups work. It is The suggestion is to either turn it off if you can, which may involve a phone call to your ISP, if not then LOUDLY complain about it

Re: Compiz -- Discussion

2009-12-28 Thread Alan Cox
e.g. Open menu, instantly pick choice, versus open menu, wait for effect to subside before you can even read menu, then pick choice. The effects are *NOT* that quick that they add insubstantial delays. For certain things and hardware some of the compositing costs are visible (but it seems

Re: F12 and wi-fi dongles

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:34:27 +0100 Antonio M antonio.montagn...@gmail.com wrote: As I cannot connect by a Huawei dongle in F12 (on two different boxes), I re-installed F11 on a third machine and bam, I was immediately on-line (after some modification on usb_modeswitch.conf file). Digging on

Re: F12 and wi-fi dongles

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Cox
hand load usb-storage. Unfortunately I hit several other showstopper FC12 bugs (random crashes of kvm etc) that I've not debugging it bug gone back to a working release. (Engage brain before posting) I've not debugged it but gone back to .. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:22:09 +0100 Major Péter majorpe...@sch.bme.hu wrote: My Sound card is Intel ICH8, so I guess this means, that my card isn't supported. :( Should be (depends on the actual codec your vendor used) - more likely the problem is pulseaudio.

Re: Advantages of 64-bit on my laptop?

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:32:25 -0600 Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: I just noticed that the CPU in my Lenovo laptop is 64-bit capable. It came with a 32-bit OS installed, so I never bothered to check. Is there any real advantage to running the 64-bit version of Fedora on a

Another preupgrade update mess up

2009-12-01 Thread Alan Cox
Only this time I know what happened. A word of warning. Pre-upgrade has a fun failure mode which occurs because it doesn't lock out updates from occurring behind its back. An update while preupgrade was sitting waiting a couple of hours for me to ok the reboot pulled in some new packages for the

Re: Activating wireless channels 12 and 13

2009-11-25 Thread Alan Cox
Finally, I am curious --- if I live in Europe, have wireless channels 12 and 13 active by default on my laptop, and then decide to travel to USA for a week, am I breaking some law? I mean *unintentionally*, since I might not be aware of the details of my computer setup? I guess one could

Re: F12 on a P4

2009-11-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:21:57 -0500 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: Pentium Pro is the original i686 system. And since it was introduced in 1995, if your computer is less than 14 years old, you'll be doing

Re: Fedora 12 upgrade sucks

2009-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
I appreciate the amount of work people put in for new releases, but I would rather new releases were delayed, rather than be broken with regard what most users require. The problem you have is that it's probably a single card, or a single variant of a single card in a specific combination

Re: Auto CAD drawings

2009-11-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:58:23 +0530 RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.kopp...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any software available for fedora to open Auto CAD drawings? For DXF you can usually open them in qcad and in inkscape. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Auto CAD drawings

2009-11-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:22:54 +0100 Antonio M antonio.montagn...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/16 Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:58:23 +0530 RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.kopp...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any software available for fedora to open Auto CAD drawings

Re: help

2009-11-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:16:28 -0800 (PST) Ralph Gorrill music_al...@att.net wrote: I yhave a DELL lap top that one of my employess loaded FEDORA on with out telling anyone...I need to remove it...he is gone and I have no password...can anyone help me please. Set the BIOS to boot off CD first

Re: Upgrades driving me crazy....

2009-11-12 Thread Alan Cox
That's a remarkable upgrade feat, I managed Fedora 7 to 8 and then 10 to 11, but all the way from Fedora 1, respect. Just curious did you upgrade The early ones were a bit fun but doable. ftp.linux.org.uk started with a late Red Hat (RH9 I think) and has done the same but live updated each

Re: Upgrades driving me crazy....

2009-11-11 Thread Alan Cox
To make things more difficult, our servers need to be up 24/7. Is FC simply a bad choice for enterprise production. It depends on your environment but probably - yes I'm starting to want to try CentOS soon. Unfortunately this will mean not always being able to take advantage of the

Re: should I go for 64bit version of Fedora 11 ?

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:22:22 +1100 Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 04Nov2009 14:01, I wrote: | On 03Nov2009 23:45, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: | | Such as the kernel ... which is much happier in 64bit mode with over 1GB | | of RAM. | | Is there some URL I could visit

Re: should I go for 64bit version of Fedora 11 ?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Cox
Any software that can make use of more than 3 GB of virtual memory space will benefit from a 64 bit install. This could be something like the Such as the kernel ... which is much happier in 64bit mode with over 1GB of RAM. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread Alan Cox
Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: res 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) F Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC } That is the drive reporting a bad block yes. Whether it is a one off

Re: VIA Rhine II Compatible Fast Ethernet Adapter

2009-10-31 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:24:54 +0100 Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:20 PM, BrainStorm alberto_ch...@hotmail.com wrote: Sorry my english. I've tried many distros: ubuntu, debian, backtrack and Fedora. And when i try to configure/use my wireless internet 

Re: two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else

2009-10-29 Thread Alan Cox
waits till you install new software to break. I've seen it happen way too often over the years in our lab at work for it to be a coincidence :-). Powercycles do shake down hardware so there is more than an element of truth to the belief. It's particularly visible for disks. (How do you get a

Re: compiling modules - HighPoint RAID controller

2009-10-26 Thread Alan Cox
The module rr232x.ko exists after an attempted compile, but after chmod +x, modprobe rr232x.ko has FATAL errors stating that it is not a module. ? - anyone I would suggest you ask the vendor for support presumably they can make the stuff they shipped work. You can build modules out of tree

Re: sound recording with Fedora 11

2009-10-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:34:19 -0600 Kevin Kempter kev...@consistentstate.com wrote: Hi all; my son (the musician) has Fedora 11 installed on an HP HDX-16 laptop. He wants to record some of his band sessions, we tried using 'sound recorder' and plugging the output of his mixer into the mic

Re: Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

2009-10-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:42:27 -0600 Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:34 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: How is it working for you ? Thanks Do the netbooks (Atoms, AMDs et al) just

Re: Advice for crossgrading from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-30 Thread Alan Cox
1) force-install a 64-bit kernel, 64 bit glibc, and 64 bit init. I'm pretty sure that the 32 bit mkinitrd will barf when it tries to assemble an initrd for the 64 bit kernel. You'll have to unpack your current mkinitrd, look inside, enumerate all the modules that it loads, than manually

Re: hde: lost interrupt

2009-09-30 Thread Alan Cox
The drive is a 500GB EIDE drive, connected via a Promise Ultra 100TX2 controller to some ancient motherboard. (This is a 300MHz Pentium II, acting as a server, including a media server.) The controller is needed because the old mobo bios won't deal with such large drives. There's another

The joy of Reply-To (was Re: Setup of DNS caching name server for home server)

2009-09-25 Thread Alan Cox
header. It IS the case that in the absence of a reply-to header it uses the from header, but where the reply-to header exists it should ONLY reply to the reply-to header address(es). Do more reading about how e-mail works... If you mean RFC 8.2.2 section 4.4.4 then remember This

Re: Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

2009-09-15 Thread Alan Cox
There are two very distinct types of Linux Admins: Those who prefer BSD, and those who prefer SYSV5. I smell manure Those who prefer BSD enjoy working on Debian or Debian based distros (Like Ubuntu) and provide base level tools and administration likely to please the BSD centric crowd.

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2009-09-11 Thread Alan Cox
CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the tra- ditional way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this assumption. The following are examples of

Re: In the news: Soon to be published, Skype back-door trojan code?

2009-08-31 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:28:58 +0100 Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 30 August 2009 09:20:59 Tim wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 14:09 -0700, Joel Gomberg wrote: I thought Skype was P2P application Supposedly it is, but with closed source, you've no real idea what it's

Re: Updating methods

2009-08-16 Thread Alan Cox
Would somebody please explain to me, again, in words of one syllable, why we're putting up with all the un-Linux-like rebooting? What am I gaining on my machines, or losing on hers?? Updated libraries for apps that are running. Basically if you know what you are doing you can look at

Re: low-level formatter for linux

2009-08-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:33:25 + g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: Markus Kesaromous wrote: Is there a low-level HD formatter for linux? linux-google search low-level+format, will give 97k hits. mainly, for a truly oem *low-level format* you need an oem format program. they are

Re: low-level formatter for linux

2009-08-05 Thread Alan Cox
In the bad old days, we used to do low lever format of a disk using a dos asm command and hand enter a set of instructions. I do not recall what those instructions were, and I am not certain they would work on a 500GB drive. Now that all I have is linux, and my HD has developed many bad

Re: [Slightly OT] Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-27 Thread Alan Cox
MPlayer, the code is open, Totem can borrow it. A US software company is bound by US law. That tends to cause problems with all sorts of things particularly media software. Now, I see even Alan Cox is following this discussion... at least when you intervene :) I'm sure you and him have better

Re: Three kinds of packages

2009-07-26 Thread Alan Cox
of the closed source kernel modules are of questionable legality (and not just in the US), because they may be derived works of the Linux kernel. A derived work of the kernel must be GPLv2, which can't be closed source. Why aren't they then being prosecuted? Too costly? Various

Re: Three kinds of packages

2009-07-26 Thread Alan Cox
I mention this because vendor drivers, while not open source, are free and legal to use and redistribute. That depends if they are derivative works of a GPL work such as the kernel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: [Slightly OT] Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:13:59 +0530 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 07/26/2009 12:28 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote: If bugzilla had any effect don't you think that users would stop doing the let's see if this other application works dance all the time? My feeling is

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Alan Cox
on a 5 years old hardware with raid1 system and boot partition anaconda crash with dmraid error while i don't use dmraid just mdraid:-( and since preupgrade also crash with the same error there is no way to properly upgrade from the latest release to the next release! not even with nodmraid

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Alan Cox
on a 5 years old hardware with raid1 system and boot partition anaconda crash with dmraid error while i don't use dmraid just mdraid:-( and since preupgrade also crash with the same error there is no way to properly upgrade from the latest release to the next release! not even with nodmraid

Re: F11: kill -9 doesn't work

2009-07-25 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:24:57 +0100 Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: On 07/25/2009 09:03 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:57:14 +0100 Terry Barnaby wrote: In my eyes as an old Unix developer standards are slipping ... I dunno. Perhaps the oldest code in Unix is

Re: What is this .gvfs directory?

2009-07-22 Thread Alan Cox
If you are using rsync then simply excluding .gvfs should do the trick nicely. Does rsync's '-x' option work in this case? I don't seem to have a mount handy to try. Yes.. the rsync case is fixed by excluding .gvfs as I said. Not tried the same with other apps that break eg tar. It

Re: What is this .gvfs directory?

2009-07-22 Thread Alan Cox
I see a message when I use rsync of tar to make backups, but I interpreted this message as: this directory is inaccessible, so it won't be backed up but I don't think that the backup is interrupted for other directories. Is it? For me this directory is empty, so If other directories are

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-20 Thread Alan Cox
So my problem seems to be that firefox wants to take direct control of the sound devices, even to the point of stopping system-config-soundcard. Is it possible to configure Firefox to talk to pulseaudio? Firefox should be using pulseaudio - do you have various plugins and the like loaded

Re: Linux NULL pointer dereferece in the News...

2009-07-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:59:20 -0400 Tom Horsley tom.hors...@att.net wrote: I do love that it only happens on systems with selinux or pulseaudio, both of which I eradicate to the fullest extent possible as soon as I finish the initial install :-). Actually it happens whether you have SELinux

Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-17 Thread Alan Cox
In short, regarding your problems: Gnome desktop - nothing listed as a handler application for CDDA Nautilus - Not interfacing to your chosen CDDA handler. Is Rhythmbox installed ? I would expect that to own CD playing (as it does normally when in use) -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-17 Thread Alan Cox
Just a question - does anyone know which modules need to be loaded for Audio CDs to play None - the audio cd handling is part of the standard ATA driver. Everything else is in user space. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Installing Fc11 on a 250gb Sata drive.

2009-07-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:15:32 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: Geoffrey Leach wrote: There are none. I have both F10 and F11 on SATAs. The only difference is that the SATA drives show up as /dev/sda, etc. Please excuse my ignorance - what hard drives do NOT

Re: Installing Fc11 on a 250gb Sata drive.

2009-07-15 Thread Alan Cox
I had no issues. Check your system board and use Sata port 1 for the system disk. So the fact that my system disk is running on the 2nd SATA port is wrong? Generally speaking the BIOS doesn't care about such things any more. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: Suddenly I can't mount DVD

2009-07-14 Thread Alan Cox
I tried three separate music cds and get the exact same problem including the failure on block 0. Even the original music cd after a How are you trying to play them ? That error sounds like something is feeding the drive the wrong sort of commands (music ones for data etc) -- fedora-list

Re: where's my memory?

2009-07-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:43:06 -0400 Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I have a argument with another user about memory. He claims that on running linux on his 4G Dell machine, top only reports 3.something memory, he says the missing space is for pci bus. I think this is only because

Re: Upgrade from FC6 to FC11

2009-07-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:30:05 +0200 Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: Well, you could try upgrading it step by step, like FC6-F8-F10 and then to F12 when it comes out. Skipping more than one release at a time isn't really tested or supported, so it

Re: any known working USB/serial converters?

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:10:01 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: a while back, i was whining about the lack of functionality of a particular USB/serial converter: http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-test-list/2009-05/msg00398.html does anyone have such a converter that

Re: any known working USB/serial converters?

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:30:01 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:10:01 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: a while back, i was whining about the lack of functionality of a particular USB

Re: One or more disks are failing ?

2009-07-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:07:18 -0700 Scott Beamer geek...@angrykeyboarder.com wrote: On 07/04/2009 10:25 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Drives typcially won't reallocate bad sectors if they can't get a good read or the operation is a write. This is to give you a chance to recover the data

Re: fingerprint login - some issues

2009-07-05 Thread Alan Cox
If the login screen (gdm) behaves similarly to screen lock it too should have a password as alternate oetherwise you'd be locked out until your finger healed! You can always make a copy of your fingerprint to use with scanners before you cut your finger. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: fingerprint login - some issues

2009-07-05 Thread Alan Cox
But seriously, I've read about all sorts of things people have done to fool fingerprint scanners, and seen some of them demonstrated. I put no faith in them to protect you when you need it. And I put no faith in them to stuff you around when you need access. The other problem with them for

Re: Files corrupt on copy

2009-06-27 Thread Alan Cox
I've turned AHCI on in BIOS recently as I've install a WD Raptor, and re-installed F10 - would that affect filesystems on other drives - is AHCI buggy ? That would show up very very fast for lots of people I'm using Fedora 10 64bit, Asus P5Q-E Motherboard, Q9950 ( stock speed ), 8Gb

Re: Files corrupt on copy

2009-06-27 Thread Alan Cox
Try booting with mem=4G as a first experiment. Still got the problem. I had already tried physically removing 4Gb, I assume you've also tried using just the other 4GB stick already [trantor] /proc $cat cmdline ro root=/dev/VelociRaptor/F10root mem=4G Failed on the 4th attempt ...

Re: i want to deny the access to facebook in my machine

2009-06-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:22:40 +0100 Adel ESSAFI adeless...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks, But actually, it does not work [r...@localhost ~]# iptables -I OUTPUT -d 69.63.178.11 -j DROP [r...@localhost ~]# iptables -I OUTPUT -d 69.63.184.142 -j DROP [r...@localhost ~]# iptables -I OUTPUT -d

Re: Warning against preupgrade

2009-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:07:07 -0700 Kevin Bowling kev...@analograils.com wrote: 2 out of 5 failures. F10-F11 is completely unusable for any kind of uncommon setup, i.e. LDAP login, Linux RAID, Xen DomU. Anything other than one IDE hard disk with default layout really. 2 out of 5 ? - I got

Re: Warning against preupgrade

2009-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:08:58 -0700 Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Alan Coxa...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:07:07 -0700 Kevin Bowling kev...@analograils.com wrote: 2 out of 5 failures.  F10-F11 is completely unusable for any kind

Re: Graphics card recommendation?

2009-06-24 Thread Alan Cox
Actually, your post is bullshit. Have you ever tried playing HD video on an Intel chipset? It just works if your definition of works is looks like glitchy shit. Works for me. I could believe it would struggle on the older processor/memory setups where they probably don't have enough

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
(Single-core Pentium III, 750MHz, 384MB RAM, Blah video hardware.) All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. Mine is dual in the sense of having Yes. two CPUs, including heatsink. You know, good ole SMP before the multicore craze started. Good to know F11 runs OK. I wasn´t even sure it

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
F11 is -march=i586 -mtune=generic, F12 is going to be -march=i686 -mtune=atom. Everything from PPro up is i686, so everything should work just fine. VIA processors such as the C3 are PPro compatible *but* the GNU C compiler definition of i686 is (was ?) broken and incorrectly used cmov without

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
I have a friend with an even older box that I'm working hard to rescue. That one has a 4 Gb SCSI hard drive and a Pentium II. It is old, old, old, equipment. It runs OpenServer 5.0.4 which is another migraine headache for me. That's my opinion of old hardware. Old ??? I have a 386

Re: SCSI Controller Card Compatible With RHEL and Fedora

2009-06-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:12:53 -0400 Robert L Cochran cochr...@speakeasy.net wrote: My question is, what's a cheap, reliable SCSI controller card that I can buy for this hard drive and will be recognized out of the box by RHEL and Fedora? SYMBIOS SYM53Cxxx PCI cards can usually be picked up

Re: Problem with Livecd and i586

2009-06-17 Thread Alan Cox
IO APIC resources could not be allocated Kernel Panic - not syncinging: attempted to kill init Thats a kernel bug I believe you need i686 or better to run f11. I suppose you could recompile everything for [345]86 processor, but I don't think it comes that way. And there may be some

Re: Problem with Livecd and i586

2009-06-17 Thread Alan Cox
Any idea if there are any switches to get round this or is it a case of custom kernel agai Hard to guess - you'd need to boot with verbose so you can see what is going on and if anything else peculiar spews forth. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

2009-06-13 Thread Alan Cox
work-related projects. I think the reality is, most people still do have a real and pressing need (think paycheck and promotion) for the Sun Java version. And hobby ones - such as JMRI as it still seems to be impossible to get the Fedora one to support serial I/O via java.commx --

Re: F11 dvd media errors

2009-06-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:41:21 -0700 Dave Close d...@compata.com wrote: I see a problem which may be identical to the original report, but the solution discovered does not fit. Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso has precisely the correct checksum after download. Burn to DVD, boot, fails media test. In a

Re: F11 dvd media errors

2009-06-12 Thread Alan Cox
you from painful experience that media errors late in the install process are Not Fun--especially if you don't have an alternative system, with everything you need to burn a new disk image. Somewhere around Red Hat 9 I filed an RFE that any package it couldn't read off CD/DVD it would let

Re: F11 dvd media errors

2009-06-12 Thread Alan Cox
What Alan is talking about is a little more difficult, because you'd have to have the network as a fall-back for the local media. I believe Other way up I think. If you do the install so that the view is that the DVD or other media is a cache of packages you can also do things like install

Re: Fedora 10 and plotters? - OT

2009-06-11 Thread Alan Cox
I'm wondering if anyone out there has any experience running an HP plotter via Linux, are there any gotcha's? do I have to tweak anything to tell the printer (and Linux) that I'm printing to 36 paper as opposed to 24? Will the automatic roll feed and cutter just work? etc.. I run a

Re: /dev/sr0 disappeared after upgrade f9-f10

2009-06-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:12:43 +0200 Olivier Robert robb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm facing a weird issue with /dev/sr0. It disappeared after the upgrade from f9 to f10. To quote The Prisoner We need information The relevant bits from dmesg after boot, the type of controllers and CD-ROM

Re: Boot fails, disk not recognized.

2009-06-09 Thread Alan Cox
`scsi_wait_scan' because I also noticed previously long stalls during boot, I am not sure how to resolve this. Does anybody have an idea? Its very very odd that the FC10 live cd works but not the install one. Are they both using the same kernel ? The stall sounds suspicious - remove the

Re: /dev/sr0 disappeared after upgrade f9-f10

2009-06-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:43:59 -0500 Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 18:04:52 +0100, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:12:43 +0200 Olivier Robert robb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm facing a weird issue with /dev/sr0

Re: Fedora version supporting Poulsbo

2009-06-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:21:15 -0600 Rao, Meghana S meghana.s@intel.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to boot Fedora 10 on Poulsbo chipset but am unsuccessful. Can anyone suggest what version of Fedora supports the Poulsbo chipset? Poulsbo is a bit of a winputer chipset. You might get it to kind

Re: Skype under Fedora-10

2009-06-07 Thread Alan Cox
I don't understand why there is not a similar Linux system. Surely developing a VoIP protocol can't be brain surgery? And what exactly is the advantage or using SIP? Almost everything else on the planet except Skype uses SIP and they all interwork. You can inspect your SIP code and be sure it

Re: Skype under Fedora-10

2009-06-07 Thread Alan Cox
there is a lot of computers which cannot act as a server and no-one will want to host voip server for free (in large scale) Skype users all appear to be very happy to do so -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Skype under Fedora-10

2009-06-07 Thread Alan Cox
but it was very interesting to see how something useful like Skype is/maybe financed. I was surprised to learn from the article that S belongs to eBay They paid big money for it, although now the rumour is it's for sale - and ebay just pulled all the skype icons from the auction site,

Re: Graphics card recommendation?

2009-06-05 Thread Alan Cox
I'm wondering if I install the card I've been given in the AGP slot, can I disable the built-in card, (a) in Linux, and (b) in Windows? I guess I'd better ask about (b) elsewhere! The priority is usually set in the BIOS, although some boxes simply disable onboard video if an AGP card is

Re: Upgrade FC3 to FC10

2009-06-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:31:35 -0400 Moessbauer, David dmoessba...@progeny.net wrote: Yes, we need applications to work in new OS too. Would CentOS4 address following security concerns: 1. Disable Executive Stack - IE: kernel must support NX feature Centos has it if I remember (assuming your

Re: Are you using LXDE?

2009-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:21:36 +0200 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: John Aldrich wrote: I don't know why KDE is so slow on my machine Well... NVidia graphics card ... that's why. Crap drivers. Nouveau accelerates 2D and render for most stuff so even if using the open

Re: Are you using LXDE?

2009-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
Can you supply a package name? I tried yum install noveau and didn't find squat. :-( On the T61 I have: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.11-1.20090106git133c1a5.fc10.x86_64 and in /etc/X11/xorg.conf set Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nouveau EndSection if it

Re: Graphics card recommendation?

2009-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
Actually I only want it to work in graphics mode, my needs are minimal. In which case you are probably ok with the typical onboard video (for most boards). Even though the Nvidia reverse engineered 2D driver has no 3D support and is a bit patchy for render and fancy effects but quite solid

Re: Blocking an IP for one user

2009-05-30 Thread Alan Cox
For example, I want to block the BBC websites wholesale or anything with the words Microsoft, MSN or Hotmail in the URL - you get the idea - but also an IP range such as 172.168.*.* squidguard can sort of do it but there is so much iffy content on the net that you will need good block lists

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 28 May 2009 22:29:23 -0400 Robert L Cochran cochr...@speakeasy.net wrote: I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most dependable way to do this? Thermite ? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or some other filesystem effectively destroy the

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Cox
/dev/zero is not the right device to use. Better is /dev/random or /dev/urandom But they are not speed It makes no real difference - use the drives own secure erase feature if you want to be sure, otherwise you've got no guarantee that everything will be cleared - only the drive knows enough

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Cox
O is done by the host computer. There are things the printer can do that will break the printer. We are talking about things like how long to heat the little wire to flash-steam the ink etc. Do it for too long and you damage the wire. On the mickysoft driver, this is all buried in a binary

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Cox
'shred' is part of coreutils (i.e. installed by default). Doing something like shred /dev/sdX as root will write various bit patterns 25 times over the entire drive (see the man page for more options). Whoopeeedoo. Thats still not the correct way to erase a disk. Use security erase,

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Cox
We use HP and Xerox at work and I would love to get a Xerox Phaser for home but that is out of my price range. :) I hear that! There seems to be a major fee attached to the use of the word Xerox. More DRM I seem to remember - funny things with print rollers. In the end I bought a Dell

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Alan Cox
This package comes without pornographic content, but it help you to get this content. So its no different to the origins of pan ;) which we do ship. The problem is (for me) that it is definitly pornographic, because it helps you to get this stuff. You know that a instigator for a murder is

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