F7 Freeze: Compiz + Radeon Driver
by Rogue
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Hi All,
I switched from the ATI driver to the radeon driver because I needed
suspend and resume to work (which work now). So I decided to try out
desktop effects again.
It was working fine for a good enough 2~3h, but then I went to the
rather familiar system freeze :-)
This time around, I set up ssh on my laptop and then tried accessing it
via another system. I noticed that the CPU was running at 100%, with
Xorg at ~50 and compiz at ~50%.
Now there is nothing in my messages / gdm logs / xorg logs. So, if I
have to try and debug this, how should I go about doing it?
Secondly, if anyone has any ideas / solutions, I would love to try them out.
thanks,
Rogue
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16 years, 6 months
PC bios confused in which harddrive to boot fedora OS: Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media!
by Excalibur Xcalibur
Hi All,
This is a rather unusual situation. I have a server running fedora
linux OS with a 650 Gb Seagate Barracuda Harddrive. Now I wanted to mirror
the server with an identical harddrive. When I plugged my new harddrive in,
I got the message:
"Reboot and select proper *boot* device or *insert boot media"
*It seems that because it's an identical harddrive (with not OS though), the
PC doesn't *see* which one is the correct boot harddrive. Weird! If a plug a
different harddisk than the one with the linux OS, they system boots up.
Any clues on how to fix this problem? *
*
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Peter "Excalibur"
16 years, 6 months
RE: Best way to backup a specific drive?
by Dan Thurman
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tim
>Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:34 PM
>To: For users of Fedora
>Subject: Re: Best way to backup a specific drive?
>
>
>On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 09:48 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> <snip>
>
>This is a very bad idea:
>
>> No virus found in this outgoing message.
>> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
>> Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.35/1040 - Release
>Date: 9/30/2007 9:01 PM
>
>It encourages people to believe that your mail is safe, when it might
>not be. You could have a virus attached, but they'd believe
>it was safe
>thanks to that writing. It's easily faked (e.g. by something attaching
>viruses to e-mails), people should do their own testing. A far more
>sensible message would be: "If this message came with a file, you
>should test it for viruses."
>
Well fwiw, installing the free AVG prints such messages to both incomming
and outgoing scanned messages/files and cannot be blocked by the user other
than to remove or buy the professional AVG product. I agree that all computer
users should have Anti-S/V programs installed and to secure their systems, as
I do, but don't take my word for it, scan and scan again to your heart's content!
I have yet to find a free product such as AVG from the OpenSource community that
is fully-loaded and fully-automatic such as professional AV/S products provide
and hence the reason for my continued use of AVG.
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.37/1042 - Release Date: 10/1/2007 6:59 PM
16 years, 6 months
netwrk sniffers and localhost
by Aaron Konstam
This may be an off the wall question but here goes. When you bring up
the cups web interface ans choose to administer your printers, you are
asked to login with a username and passwd. Usually it is the name root
and roots passwd that works.
Let us say some one has a network sniffer on another machine on your
LAN. Since the root passwd your type is going to localhost network it
should be handled by the loopback interface.
Is it? And if that is so can a sniffer on the LAN see the passwd
entered?
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Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
16 years, 6 months
Fwd: udev problems
by Daniel Corbe
Sorry for the cross-post guys, but I'm not having much luck on the
redhat-specific mailing lists, so I thought I would try here. It's an issue
specific to udev which is in Fedora Core so it's essentially the same
principle and I would be having the same issue had I installed Fedora
instead of RHEL.
-Daniel
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel Corbe <daniel.junkmail(a)gmail.com>
Date: Oct 1, 2007 10:28 AM
Subject: udev problems
To: redhat-install-list(a)redhat.com
Dear Community,
I recently installed RHEL4 on a brand new Compaq DL380.
Due to the age of the kernel proper support for my cciss RAID card isn't
present (HP put out a new driver in the newer kernels) and by default in
Redhat Kernels the Broadcom NetXtreme II gigabit ethernet drivers are
disabled.
Needless to say this ruled out a conventional system installation.
I wound up booting off of a live CD with a newer kernel and more driver
support. I used this to partition my hard drive and install all the
necessary RPMs by hand. I then installed fresh kernel sources and compiled
a kernel using a redhat .config files with some changes of my own (like the
ethernet card, for example).
Everything went swimmingly well, except for udev which is now causing me
chronic headaches.
There seems to be little documentation about how udev should behave in
RedHat (or maybe I'm using the wrong search terms, or perhaps I just don't
get it)
After running MAKEDEV it seems like there's a LOT of sutff missing. For
example I don't have any /dev/pts or /dev/shm stuff and gnome-terminal is
complaining about it.
(sorry for the length of this post, to ask a simple question)
So my question is: How do I PROPERLY initialize udev after having manually
installed my RHEL4 system without the aide of Anaconda?
Regards,
Daniel
16 years, 6 months
Recommendation for Fedora server?
by Timothy Murphy
I'm planning on getting a home server,
serving httpd, ssh, mysql, dovecot, etc,
and running Fedora 7.
I'd like something using as little energy as possible,
given that I need 200-300GB in disk-space.
But I don't need a monitor (or graphics card).
Is anyone running such a system?
If so, I'd be interested to hear the hardware details.
16 years, 6 months
Unable to resume from suspend.
by Michael Angell
I was hoping this would be as easy as the touchpad fix. After some
searching I'm confused instead of ignorant, no going back now. The
suggestions for fixing this vary pretty good from adding kernel lines to
using only free drivers or even installing programs. Anyone have a good
understanding about what is causing the problem on my fedora 7 with
model laptop-hp pavilion ze4427wm?
16 years, 6 months
keyboard switching between different layouts
by Mohammed El-Afifi
I'm using fedora 7, 64-bit edition with KDE 3.5.7. I'm using two layouts for the keyboard, us(English) and ara(Arabic). I was trying to configure a global shortcut for switching between the two layouts.
Unfortunately, the global shortcuts in KDE doesn't support using alt-shift or ctrl-shift to switch between different layouts. KDE by default has the combination alt-ctrl-k for switching, so this method isn't convenient.
The second alternative was to use kxkb, a KDE front end to xkb, to enable switching between different groups using, the alt-shift for the group shift/lock option, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
The third alternative was to edit xorg.conf, especially the InputDevice section related to the keyboard. I altered two lines in this section as follows:
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ara"
Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
I then restarted the x server, but nothing ever changed. Still pressing alt-shift doesn't switch between layouts.
Is there a certain method to enable switching with the key combination alt-shift, or am I missing something in any of the previous methods?
Appreciating your feedback. Thanks for your support.
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16 years, 6 months