DVD on Fedora 2
by umberto rossi
What can I do to see and burn DVDs on a Fedora 2 machine?
18 years, 3 months
Dropped packages in FC 4
by Tanish Srivastava
Hi
1>
whether the dropped packages from FC4 are available any where on
the net. If where.
2>
While installing FC3 , i cannot see any thing on my screen and only
coloured lines are visible. If i install in text mode then after
installation then display is not proper.
My graphics card is Intel 810.
Tanish
18 years, 3 months
Re: Can a graphics card kill an LCD display?
by Randy Grimshaw
>>> ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au 1/31/2006 9:53 AM >>>
>>though considering your video card's only going to have the ability to
>>put 5 Volts on a pin, maximum, I'd have thought a monitor wouldn't
>>suffer severe problems if it got 5VDC where it didn't expect it,
I lost a usb device to a motherboard that had been hit by lightning before.
The spike had come in through the onboard network and after I had inserted a NIC
in the PCI slot it seemed to work again... until I also inserted the usb device... zap.
this is only to say that there are things that cause motherboards to deliver unexpected
voltages, and possibly videocards too.
Are you using any other monitor while the LCD is being replaced?
Is the whole system under service warrantee?
<><Randy
<><Randall Grimshaw
Room 203 Machinery Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
315-443-5779
rgrimsha(a)syr.edu
18 years, 3 months
Can a graphics card kill an LCD display?
by Jack Howarth
I have a Fedora Core 4 linux box running the ATI fglrx drivers as packaged by
livna.org. Today for the second time a Viewsonic VP201S LCD display died on
this machine when attached via DVI. The machine is configured to run slightly
below 1600x1200 at 60Hz to avoid sparkling in the graphics when glxgears is
run. This is done with a modeline of...
ModeLine "1592x1194_60.00" 159.6 1592 1696 1872 2152 1194 1195 1198 1236 -hsync +vsync
I have used the same modeline on other linux boxes with ATI cards without
problems. The first time the display died the failure occured while I was
using the machine. The display was fine and then collapsed down into a cloud
of green pixels for a second and then went black. Viewsonic sent back a unit
with a different serial number after repair (so I believe it was a replacement
and not a repair). This unit worked fine for a couple of months until I found
it the display dead yet again. In both failures, the Viewsonic showed a green
LED when attached to the Radeon 9600 XT suggesting that it was getting a signal.
However the monitor remained dark. Also detaching the display from the card
did not bring up the digital signal lost alert on the monitor (however the
LED does go amber indicating it recognizes loss of signal).
Viewsonic will repair this unit again. However i am very concerned that I have
had two identical failures on different units. Is it possible for the Radeon
card to kill a LCD display? I have been told that cards can short and damage
a LCD but that fact that I see a green lit led on the monitor when attached
to the 9600's DVI port suggests the signal is getting through but that the
circuitry that drives the image display of the card is dead. Is it possible
that a card can randomly freak out and overdrive the display circuitry on a
DVI connection damaging the display? I thought LCDs were immune to such damage
since they don't use flyback transformers.I am really wondering if I should
replace this card before I reattach a repaired VP201 again. However the card
doesn't seem to damage a Dell multisync at the same resolution (although it
did take a couple months for the repaired/replacement VP201S to die).
Thanks in advance for any advice on this.
Jack
18 years, 3 months
RE: OT: Email signing
by Styma, Robert E (Robert)
There is a downside to email signatures. My employer
requires me to use Microsoft Outlook to read mail through
an Exchange server. I have not found a combination of
options to make Outlook process the signature correctly.
What I see in the preview window is a blank window with
one attachements. For people, like Alexander, whose posts
are always worth reading, I have to open the attachement
and get a window with 2 attachments. One is the signature
and the other the text of the post. The text then opens
in the text editor.
BTW. I have tried to get Evolution talking to the Exchange
server, but there are some path paramters which the
contracted IT people will not give me since they are not
needed for Outlook and other email interfaces are "unsupported".
(Pain in the rear end).
Bob Styma
18 years, 3 months
gzip -l problem
by Terry Horsnell
I think 'gzip -l' is having trouble reporting statistics
on files whose uncompressed size is > 4Gbytes. Has anyone
else seen this problem? Do I contact Gnu about this?
Cheers,
Terry.
alf1_tsh> gzip -l /scr0/boris/*.gz
compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
2556072487 596983808 -328.1% /scr0/boris/Anopheles_gambiae_FASTAruns.tar
1159485670 4174428160 72.2% /scr0/boris/Apis_mellifera_FASTAruns.tar
2510639403 550125568 -356.3% /scr0/boris/Caenorhabditis_elegans_FASTAruns.tar
2128120566 3518132224 39.5% /scr0/boris/Drosophila_ananassae_FASTAruns.tar
2618523155 506277888 -417.2% /scr0/boris/Drosophila_melanogaster_FASTAruns.tar
2138507079 3865974784 44.6% /scr0/boris/Drosophila_mojavensis_FASTAruns.tar
1699621242 1498527744 -13.4% /scr0/boris/Drosophila_pseudoobscura_FASTAruns.tar
1592022108 1111363584 -43.2% /scr0/boris/Drosophila_simulans_FASTAruns.tar
2059666954 3298607104 37.5% /scr0/boris/Drosophila_virilis_FASTAruns.tar
2363369933 76412928 -2992.9% /scr0/boris/Drosophila_yakuba_FASTAruns.tar
20826028597 19196833792 - 8.4% (totals)
e.g. if I gunzip /scr0/boris/Drosophila_yakuba_FASTAruns.tar,
I get an 8Gbyte uncompressed file.
and I suspect all the negative ratios ars for files
which would have uncompressed to > 4Gbytes.
18 years, 3 months
snmp on fedora
by Dan Track
Hi,
I hope someone can help me please.
I trying to get mrtg to monitor cpu and memory on a server, but its
not working. In my mrtg.cfg file I have the following:
Target[server.cpu]:.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.9.0&.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.10.0:string@server
Title[server.cpu]: Server CPU Load
Directory[server.cpu]: ruby
PageTop[server.cpu]: <H1>CPU Load - System, User and Nice Processes</H1>
MaxBytes[server.cpu]: 100
ShortLegend[server.cpu]: %
YLegend[server.cpu]: CPU Utilization
Legend1[server.cpu]: Current CPU percentage load
LegendI[server.cpu]: Used
LegendO[server.cpu]:
Options[server.cpu]: growright,nopercent
Unscaled[server.cpu]: ymwd
The problem is that the graphs aren't updating, does anyone know why?
Thanks
Dan
18 years, 3 months
tracking down failed logins
by Andrew Lennon
Hi,
While going through my daily logs I have noticed that pam is
complaining about bad logins. I have had 7000 over the last 24hrs:
--------------------- pam_unix Begin ------------------------
login:
Authentication Failures:
unknown (): 7728 Time(s)
unknown ( ): 3638 Time(s)
Invalid Users:
Unknown Account: 11365 Time(s)
Bad User: : 4086 Time(s)
Bad User: XXXX XX XX XX XXXx: 1 Time(s)
I Know its not ssh as the numbers don't add up. While checking
/var/log/messages I am getting a continual stream of messages along
the line of :
Jan 31 10:28:06 ned login(pam_unix)[20441]: check pass; user unknown
Jan 31 10:28:06 ned login(pam_unix)[20441]: authentication failure;
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tt
y=ttyS0 ruser= rhost=
Jan 31 10:28:08 ned login[20441]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR
Username: Ned, Authentication failure
Jan 31 10:28:11 ned login(pam_unix)[20441]: check pass; user unknown
Jan 31 10:28:11 ned login(pam_unix)[20441]: authentication failure;
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ttyS0 ruser= rhost=
Jan 31 10:28:13 ned login[20441]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM (null) FOR C,
Authentication failure
Jan 31 10:28:14 ned login(pam_unix)[20441]: bad username []
Jan 31 10:28:16 ned login[20441]: FAILED LOGIN 3 FROM (null) FOR ,
Authentication failure
Jan 31 10:28:22 ned login(pam_unix)[20441]: check pass; user unknown
Jan 31 10:28:24 ned login[20441]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM (null) FOR
C, Authentication fai
lure
Jan 31 10:28:24 ned login(pam_unix)[20441]: 1 more authentication
failure; logname= uid=0 eu
id=0 tty=ttyS0 ruser= rhost=
Any ideas how I can trace them down/tie the to a process etc.
Thanks,
Andy
18 years, 3 months
gdm user does not exist
by anupama 2004
--
sir/madam
I am a linux student.
yesterday i removed and reinstalled the setup packages using rpm -ivh
command after using rpm -e setup
after rebooting the system the graphics is not starting and system says
gdm user does not exist. configure your /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf..
pls tell me how to fix the problem.
Thanks/Regards
Mallikarjun Mudumali
9880023898
18 years, 3 months
Re: can't install vlc via yum
by Roberto Alfonso
>
> Subject:
> Re: can't install vlc via yum
> From:
> James Pifer <jep(a)obrien-pifer.com>
> Date:
> Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:03:48 -0500
>
> To:
> Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
>
>
>>> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>>> ---> Package vlc.i386 0:0.8.4-0.lvn.3.a.4 set to be updated
>>> --> Running transaction check
>>> --> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 for package: vlc
>>> --> Processing Dependency: libpostproc.so.51.0.0 for package: vlc
>>> --> Processing Dependency: libavformat.so.50 for package: vlc
>>> --> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0(WXGTK2_2.4) for package:
>>> vlc
>>> --> Processing Dependency: libavcodec.so.51 for package: vlc
>>> --> Processing Dependency: libavutil.so.49 for package: vlc
>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 is needed by package vlc
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libpostproc.so.51.0.0 is needed by package
>>> vlc
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libavformat.so.50 is needed by package vlc
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0(WXGTK2_2.4) is needed by
>>> package vlc
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libavcodec.so.51 is needed by package vlc
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libavutil.so.49 is needed by package vlc
>>>
>>
>>
>
>Anyone know how to install vlc with the latest yum updates on FC4? Have
>lots of missing dependencies. So far I've been unable to find them.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>James
>
>
Do you have the dries repository set up in Yum?
I installed VLC following this
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html#VLC
Hope it helps
Roberto
18 years, 3 months