Raid1 post installation
by tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
Hello
They sent off a linux machine (installed with some software) to a customer.
Normally, when we install Linux (Cent OS 4.5) we do software Raid Level 1 during the
installation (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). This machine went out without them doing it.
The machine that went out should already a /dev/sda and /dev/sdb (anyway to verify, if
/dev/sdb is not mounted?) and we need to perform Raid 1 on it, but we can't reinstall
Linux on it because it will overwrite evrything that is there.
Is there anyway to Raid a machine that already has linux installed on it without reinstalling
Linux over it?
Thanks
16 years, 2 months
Trouble with Microphone
by Art Giles
Dear everyone,
How do you unmute the microphone and turn up the volume for the
microphone? I am using Xlite Sip phone and I receive no audio from the
microphone. I am using Xlite for the SIP phone and using Fedora 8.
Art Giles (Oltimer)
16 years, 2 months
re: Nautilus annoyances - can configuration change these, if so how?
by spmirowski
> Message: 4 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:20:46 +0000
> From: Chris G <cl(a)isbd.net>
> Subject: Nautilus annoyances - can configuration change these, if so how?
> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID:
> <20080131102046.GA1665(a)th-shell-1.gradwell.net> Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset=us-ascii I tend to use the command line most of
> the time but I occasionally use Nautilus when, for example, I'm
> housekeeping image files and it's useful to be able to see the images.
> However, for me, nautilus has some very annoying defaults and I'm
> wondering if they can be changed, i.e. :- Nautilus opens a new window
> for every directory, this rapidly gets annoying with deep hierarchies.
> Is the
Install Gnome Configuration Editor
Configuration Editor > / > apps > nautilus > preferences :
Check "always_use_browser"
done.
> re an option to get Nautilus to open a new directory/folder in the
> *same* window? (Windows can do it, when using XP I always have this
> option set) When using the File - Open Location option nautilus
> defaults the location to the home directory *and* selects it so that
> it overwrites what's in the clipboard. This is *intensely* annoying if
> you have just carefully selected the directory you want to go to (in
> another window) and have put it in the copy buffer already. Can I turn
> off the auto-entry of the home directory and/or the automatic
> selection of the text?
> -- Chris Green
Not sure, check the preferences in Config editor
Stephen
16 years, 2 months
Where's ext2online?
by Kirk Lowery
I'm adding a 500GB drive to my (Fedora 8) desktop and want to extend
the root file system (journaled ext3) to use the new drive.
I've been reading all the FAQs and HOWTOs, and they mention the
program ext2online for the final step in the process. But I can't find
it anywhere. Is there a package that needs installing?
TIA!
Kirk
16 years, 2 months
loopback network device
by Jordi Prats
Hi all,
It's possible to create an alias of a device? Something like a device
loN that all it's traffic is send to ethN, so ethN and loN are equivalent.
It's for a bridged setup, i'm not trying to setup another IP on a device.
Thanks!
Jordi
16 years, 2 months
fedora5->fedora8: cdrecord no longer works
by Richard Emberson
With fedora 5, cdrecord worked. Since installing fedora 8, no luck.
# ls
audio.wav
# cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus1:
wodim: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
1,0,0 100) 'Lite-On ' 'LTN483S 48x Max ' 'PD02' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
# cdrecord -dao -v speed=2 dev=1,0,0 -audio *.wav
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
WARNING: the deprecated pseudo SCSI syntax found as device specification.
Support for that may cease in the future versions of wodim. For now,
the device will be mapped to a block device file where possible.
Run "wodim --devices" for details.
<following repeated until process killed>
Trying to map to old ATA syntax.This workaround will disappear in the near
future. Fix your configuration.Unable to open this SCSI ID.
# wodim --devices
wodim: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) :
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'Lite-On' 'LTN483S 48x Max'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# cdrecord -dao -v speed=2 dev=/dev/scd0 -audio *.wav
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
scsidev: '/dev/scd0'
devname: '/dev/scd0'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.6
SCSI buffer size: 64512
wodim: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'Lite-On '
Identification : 'LTN483S 48x Max '
Revision : 'PD02'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-ROM.
wodim: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
wodim: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
wodim: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
wodim: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on
this ta
rget.
wodim: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
So, what is the "CD capabilities page"?
How do I determine what the right size is?
Thanks.
Richard
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16 years, 2 months
Kernel Tainting Video Installer *almost* finished
by Michael A. Peters
I built my new box a few days ago (x2 5200+) and put F8 on one of the
partitions - so I got to actually test and *somewhat* finish that shell
script for automated livna installation of closed source video drivers.
http://www.pennywasted.info/video.sh.txt
I looked and looked for a published pci id list for supported ati cards
but couldn't find one - so it's detection of ati cards is extremely weak.
It's detection of nvidia cards though is pretty good, at least as good
as nvidia's published list.
It looks for ati first - and even if found, continues to look for nvidia
- and goes for legacy then 96xx then current.
There may be a better way (IE detect only the video card main display is
attached to) but I figured if someone has more than one card, it's
probably and onboard and a expansion card, and the expansion is more
likely to have the display attached and be newer chipset and maybe need
newer driver. So for nvidia drivers, if newer is found, that's what the
radio list selection defaults to. User can still change it though.
Anyway - I think I'm done with it, if anyone wants to fix ati detection,
have at it.
16 years, 2 months
Re: Good bye
by Chris Jones
>
> negative, Bill Notting runs this show and has done for many many years
>
For sure there must be someone at redhat who is officially tagged as the
owner of this list, or something like that.
What I meant was I have never seen anyone step in as an 'official'
moderator and filter out any ones posts, or tell they to stop doing
something. The list has far too high a volume for that to be practical
for one or even a few people... In practise it is left for ourself to
moderate it.
Chris
16 years, 2 months
Re: Good bye
by Joe Feely
>
> We don't want stable interfaces (not quite yet, maybe in time). Windows
> may have more stability in this regard, but the down side is you end up
> stuck with bad interfaces that you cannot change due to 'compatibility'
> issues. Users of these interfaces then start writing there own kludgy
> workarounds. A mess.
>
> Linux IMHO, has a different view. If an interface is broken don't try
> and live with it but fix it. If this breaks things downstream so be it,
> in the OSS world fixing things is not so hard. The problems are with
> closed sourced entities where those changing the interface cannot fix
> the closed source.
>
> Lets be specifc - Most of the issues you refer to (nivida, vmware)
> relate to the kernel. Here developers may change some interface, but
> such changes are internal to the kernel, like drivers. In this case
> those changing the interface fix the driver so the end shot is all is
> still OK. They cannot do this for closed source stuff, which is why such
> things are disliked and distros like Fedora do not support them. A quote
> from Linus I recently read
>
> "Asked by Zemlin why the Linux kernel does not have a stable device
> driver application binary interface, Torvalds said, "We really,
> really, really don't want one. The main reason most people want a
> stable ABI [application binary interface] is so that they can have
> their binary drivers and not have to give out source. They don't want
> to merge that source into the stable kernel or the standard kernel.""
>
> I for one agree and do not want the kernel developers to stop changing
> (improving) things just to provide a more stable interface to external
> closed source stuff drivers etc. If those closed source providers want
> to support linux, they either keep up with the kernel developers (which
> they could if they wanted, kernel release candidates are always
> available before release) or they allow their drivers to be OSS'ed and
> placed in the kernel, where they will be maintained 'for free'.
>
> One day kernel development might slow down, but I don't want that to
> happen prematurely and for us to end up with bad interfaces.
>
> Chris
>
>
Thanks for your comments, Chris. Personally, I haven't much enjoyed many
of the comments made in this thread, but I appreciate it coming round to
something sensible (again, just my personal view, and just in case I
missed anything I haven't read all the thread).
--
Joe Feely
16 years, 2 months
Re: Good bye
by Chris Jones
> your just another fuckwit stretching words, even a 10 yo kid knows what
> i meant, noone can tell anyone how to post except a list moderator,
> thats a real moderator not those that think they are.
As far as I am aware, this list has no official moderators. It is, and
always has been, self moderated by it's own members.
( If we did have one you would likely have been barred by now for using
offensive language )
Chris
16 years, 2 months