RE: Partitioning problem with windows vs. linux
by Shawn Iverson
On Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:45 PM, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>
>So somehow w2k is getting seriously confused on my system ...
>turning on /bootlog and /sos in w2k boot.ini and removing
>/fastdetect was not illuminating. I took dd snapshots at each
>step with Knoppix. Does anyone know of a good hexeditor that I
>could view them in or ideally compare two binary files? My
>next step is to experiment with hidden partition types. If
>that works I will file an RFE against anaconda to write more
>failsafe grub rules by hiding the linux partitions.
>Preliminary experiments would indicate that changing the
>partition to a hidden type doesn't help. I am not sure if that
>is all the "hide" command does in grub.
>
Are you using LVM? W2k might mistake it for a Windows volume due to the
partition filesystem type. W2k could be performing a sanity check and
whacking out at the presence of the foreign partition. Try partitioning
the second one type ext3 or Reiser to see if that helps.
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18 years, 8 months
how smart will wireless be in FC5?
by Jack Howarth
Does anyone know if the following will be possible in FC5? I
am interested in being able to set up a portable Linux box such
that if the ethernet interface is available the internet access
will be used through eth0 otherwise the wireless interface will be used.
Currently in Fedora Core 4, it seems that I am stuck with either
automatically enabling both interfaces at startup or manually
starting one or the other. What I am trying to avoid is having
both interfaces in use if the ethernet interface comes up at startup.
Thanks in advance for any information.
Jack
18 years, 8 months
selinux again, and x forwarding
by Walter Petrel
I just solved one selinux problem only to find another.
The old problem: httpd wouldn't serve up userdir files after upgrading to FC 4 with selinux. Changing the httpd config and the context of the user directories didn't help. The solution, provided here, was to relabel.
The new problem: X forwarding no longer works. This machine is not tied into our system's NIS system, never has been, but X forwarding always worked before. I don't know if the problem could be there. The ssh and X configs are the default for FC 4. The machines I'm connecting to are mostly RH machines -- like v 3.x. The message I get on the terminal is about not being able to open the display.
I've tried ssh -X and ssh -Y. And ForwardX11Trusted is set, but ForwardX11 is not, both in /etc/ssh/ssh_config
One complication: prior to rebooting, I upgraded the system. This was on Monday, so it included the kernel upgrade.
Thanks.
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Programming the shutdown time
by Paul Smith
Dear All
I am looking for the best way of programming the (automatic) shutdown
time of my computer. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
18 years, 8 months
evolution
by roland
Hello everybody,
Like everybody, I receive emails with docs in attachment.
When I click on them, they do not open.
How can I tell evolution to open with swrite?
Thanks for your help
Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba
Antwerp-Belgium
roland(a)cat.be
18 years, 8 months
Slow page rendering with Firefox
by Raman Gupta
The firefox on my fully updated Fedora Core 4 box renders many larger
pages very slowly. During the page rendering, Firefox "hangs"
completely. A good test page is:
http://scragz.com/tech/mozilla/test-rendering-time.php
Rendering the scragz page, and others, on the same hardware and OS,
various other browsers are over 4 times faster, including Firefox for
windows:
Linux Firefox 1.06 42.23
Linux Konqueror 3.4.2-0.fc4.1 13.27
Linux Opera 8.02 build 1272 7.08
Windows (via VMWare) Firefox 1.06 8.18
Windows (via VMWare) IE 6 7.12
All of the above times are without any extensions *or* plugins installed
(in fact, with Greasemonkey installed, Linux Firefox took over 100
seconds to render).
Running an strace on the Firefox process while loading occurred shows a
lot of time being spent in brk() calls (usually one brk call was over
20s). Here is output from "vmstat 5" while the page rendering is occurring:
procs -----------memory---------- -swap- ---io--- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
[...]
0 0 620600 76896 7292 432368 0 0 1 4 2212 4947 7 5 88 0
1 0 620600 76896 7316 432372 0 0 0 18 2213 4963 9 6 85 0
[page load starts]
5 0 620600 76772 7348 432624 0 0 6 66 2282 4882 64 10 25 1
1 0 620600 76672 7364 432640 0 0 1 6 2205 4909 94 6 0 0
3 0 620600 76648 7388 432652 0 0 2 20 2228 4943 92 7 0 0
1 0 620600 76416 7412 432668 0 0 1 67 2217 4910 94 6 0 0
2 0 620600 76408 7428 432684 0 0 1 18 2224 4889 93 7 0 0
2 0 620600 76276 7436 432696 0 0 1 2 2210 4889 93 7 0 0
1 0 620596 76260 7452 432712 1 0 2 18 2213 4871 91 9 0 0
1 0 620596 76292 7468 432728 0 0 1 11 2213 4868 90 10 0 0
[page load ends]
3 0 620596 75384 7524 432756 0 0 6 26 2258 5537 69 12 19 0
0 0 620596 75308 7540 432768 0 0 1 14 2215 4885 16 7 77 0
0 0 620596 75144 7680 432840 0 0 12 161 2232 4957 10 8 81 1
0 0 620596 75176 7696 432856 0 0 1 50 2213 4926 7 6 87 0
So swapping is not an issue. Lots of memory is available if cache is
included. Not much disk activity is happening, but the CPU is getting
hammered.
This was also tested using a completely new profile (no ~/.mozilla
directory present), with the same result.
Can anyone else duplicate these results? Does anybody have any other
debugging/setup/configuration suggestions?
Cheers,
Raman Gupta
18 years, 8 months
Implementing networked /home
by Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello,
I have several linux (FC and Redhat) workstations. I am thinking of
implementing a centralized /home for this workstations,using NFS.
Authentication is done using NIS.
I have several questions about how to implement this, and what's the best way.
Here are the options I'm considering:
1. On the server: export /home. On the clients: mount /home. I know how to do
this. This should be the simplest.
2. On the server, export /home/user1, /home/user2, etc, thus for each user
there is a "export line" for that user home directory. On the clients:
mount /home/username whenever username login to that workstation.
What is the advantages or disadvantages of (1) and (2) ? I have seen (2) being
used on some network (that I don't administer), so I am wondering if this is
the usual best practice. Furthermore I'm not sure I know how to do (2). Is
there a PAM module that do this ? I have also read that a lot of mount points
can put heavy load on the server, so I am not sure if (2) is better.
Any suggestions, or pointers is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
RDB
18 years, 8 months
It seems mplayer doesn't use 3d-hardware...
by Strong
I'm in dout if my mplayer*pre7 uses 3d-harware.
Is there a way how to check/fix it?
I made it out of src.rpm.
I tried to turn on gl and gl2 - it blinks!
Currently i use xv, xvidix - refuses to work at all.
I have ATI9250Sapphire128Mb video card.
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Best regards,
Strong.
18 years, 8 months
ATI propriety driver: no 3D
by A.J. Bonnema
Hi all,
I've just installed the 64 kernel FC4 on my AMD Athlon 64 X2 with a Asus
AX800XL (which is a Radeon X800 card).
For a driver I used the propriety one from ATI so I could play
freedroidRPG (it needs 3D acceleration).
What happens is, the /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows the following messages:
(II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
(II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.a
(II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
compiled for 6.8.0, module version = 8.16.20
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) fglrx(0): Depth moves disabled by default
(**) fglrx(0): Capabilities: 0x02008000
(**) fglrx(0): CapabilitiesEx: 0x00000400
(**) fglrx(0): cpuFlags: 0x4000001f
(**) fglrx(0): cpuSpeedMHz: 0x000003ed
(==) fglrx(0): OpenGL ClientDriverName: "fglrx_dri.so"
(**) fglrx(0): UseFastTLS=0
(**) fglrx(0): BlockSignalsOnLock=0
(==) fglrx(0): EnablePrivateBackZ = NO
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
<snip>
(II) fglrx(0): UMM Bus area: 0xc0701000 (size=0x078ef000)
(II) fglrx(0): UMM area: 0xc0701000 (size=0x078ef000)
(II) fglrx(0): driver needs X.org 6.8.x.y with x.y >= 0.0
(II) fglrx(0): detected X.org 6.8.2.0
(II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
(II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
So, bottom line is, I have no 3D accelleration because the
/dev/dri/card0 is missing?
Or, is 3D hardware acceleration just not available for Radeon X800 cards?
If I start freedroidRPG anyway, it ends my X-session immediately
(really: a fraction of a second) and I am presented a logon screen......
Does anyone know what is wrong here?
Guus.
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18 years, 8 months
Re: Setting Up Linksys Wireless Internet with Fadora
by mindwave@cfl.rr.com
dont know anything about a key.
but i used this:
https://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/downloads-installer.php
in my laptop and it works like a charm.
its $20 but WELL worthwhile.
the ndiswrapper would load but i could never get it connected to my
network by manually configuring.
my time is worth a little more than $20.
j
Hello All,
I am trying to set up a wireless network in my house and one of the computers is running Fadora. I know absolutly nothing about the operating system and any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to know where exactly I enter the key so that the adapter can connect to the network.
Thanks in Advance
-John
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