info on hibernate in F13
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
having F13 on my Dell XPS M1330 I'm verifying functionality of hibernation.
Configuration:
Actions on battery power
a) put computer to sleep when inactive for: Never
b) When laptop lid is closed: Suspend
c) When battery power is critically low: Hibernate
Display on battery power:
a) Put display to sleep when inactive for: 10 minutes
In gconf-editor I see:
1) use_time_for_policy is checked
This means that time based notifications and actions should be used
In /apps/gnome-power-manager/thresholds/time_action I have:
2) time_action = 120
3) time_critical = 300
I don't understand quite well the relation between 2) and 3)...
Is it correct to suppose that based on c), 2) and 3) I will have
battery considered critical when 5 minutes of battery are remaining,
but the hibernate action will be carried out when 2 minutes are
remaining?
If so, if I want to set time_action = 300, can I only do it from
gconf-editor or are there any other tools?
I leave my laptop powered on without battery and come back when
battery life is already finished and I see pc powered off.
When booting again (with AC), I see these messages when pc is trying
to Hibernate:
Sep 6 10:23:51 ope46 kernel: PM: thaw of devices complete after 342.777 msecs
Sep 6 10:23:51 ope46 kernel: PM: Not enough free swap
Sep 6 10:23:51 ope46 kernel: Restarting tasks ... done.
In fact my current situation is 2GB of ram, with swap configured on
both partition (512Mb) and filesystem
[root@ope46 ~]# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda5 partition 506012 0 -1
/swapfile file 2097148 0 -2
Is there anyway to have this work or to be able to hibernate I have to
create a partition of more than 2Gb?
Can I set the swapfile to priority "-1" and have it used when
hibernating (and when booting again after it)?
Thanks,
Gianluca
13 years, 7 months
wireless networking problem (fixed)
by Gerhard Magnus
Gerhard Magnus wrote:
My old DSL modem doesn't have a wireless interface. It's connected to a
router (the LAN gateway) which then has ethernet connections to my
boxes. All of these computers use static IP addresses. The DSL modem is
assigned a dynamic IP address by my ISP.
I recently added a DIR-615 D-Link wireless router which connects to the
gateway router. I also have a netbook which I first configured with a
static IP address and the IP address of the gateway router. This worked
fine -- but, of course, I mostly use the netbook away from home, so I
reconfigured it to accept a dynamic IP address from whatever Starbucks
wireless network I'm connected to.
So now the netbook works fine, as long as I'm NOT connected to my own
LAN. When I'm at home connected to my LAN on the netbook I can get to
all the local computers fine -- but I can't reach the Internet.
--------------------
Ed.Greshko wrote:
Plug the WAN interface of the D-Link DIR-615 into one of the ports of
your router, just like all of your other hardwired systems, and manually
configure the WAN interface the same as those systems. i.e. Static IP.
Configure the wireless side making sure that the subnet assigned is
different than the one being used on the WAN side. Also, make sure the
wireless side is configured to supply DHCP services to wireless clients.
--------------------
I finally got around to dealing with this....
Here are the details of what worked (possibly of use to someone beside
me with basic networking issues):
(1) connected DIR-615 "Internet" port to Gateway router (192.168.1.1)
(2) on DIR-615 "INTERNET SETUP" page:
Internet Connection: Static IP
IP Address: 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
(3) on DIR-615 "NETWORK SETTINGS SETUP" page:
Router IP Address: 192.168.2.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Enable DHCP Server (checked)
DHCP IP address Range: 192.168.2.11 to 192.168.2.12
13 years, 7 months
Kickstart installations and printer pre-configuration in Fedora 13
by Peter Schwenk
Hello:
In my department, we have a lot of Linux (CentOS and Fedora) workstations. I set them up using Red Hat's kickstart method. With CentOS and earlier versions of Fedora, my kickstart post-install script used a bunch of lpadmin commands to preconfigure the printer queues for my users. With Fedora 13's new "automated" printer setup system, my lpadmin commands no longer work. I believe it's because the printer drivers are not installed by default, so the lpadmin commands fail due to missing drivers.
I was wondering if someone could describe the correct way of preconfiguring network printer queues via a script. I don't want my users to have to set up their own printers. Thanks in advance for your help.
--
Peter Schwenk || Campus IT Associate 3
Mathematical Sciences || University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716-2553 || (302) 831-0437 (v)
schwenk @ math . udel . edu || http://www.math.udel.edu/~schwenk
13 years, 7 months
web server and IP address
by Rafnews
Hi,
i installed Fedora 13 in my virtualBox.
under F13 i installed Apache 2, PHP and MySQL to have a test server for my
Joomla development.
everything works perfectly in local (directly under F13) but if i try to
access to my web page from another computer - my host OS for example - it
does not find the web page.
i can ping without problem my F13 (guest) from my Win7 (host).
it's like the web page is not accessible from outside local computer.
in my local OS (F13) i can use localhost/test.php (for example) as normal IP
(for example: 192.168.1.30/test.php)
any idea why i can not access it from outside using 192.168.1.30/test.php ?
thanks a lot
--
Alain
-----------------------------------------------------------
Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 12
PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MS SQL server 2005
Apache 2.2.14
PHP 5.3.1
C# 2005-2008
13 years, 7 months
Problems around my notebook - I need some debugging around the kernel
by Zoltan Hoppar
Hi Everyone,
I have a little problems with my new laptop HP Probook 4515s with Fedora 13,
and the latest kernel.
1. Somehow, I couldn't activate the broadcom PHY - wifi module, I have
followed many advices - linuxwireless.org and after many tries I have given
up. In result I got only an broken network manager.
2. After I have installed the newest stable kernel (2.6.34.6-47.fc13.i686)
as update, the sleep function has been messed up. The machine instead of
full sleep, it kills my notebook with overheating the still alive notebook
with no fan, or when shuts down, except the fan what is getting ready to fly
and never stops with closed lid.
3. Official Ati grfx driver doesn't work, but I have found that in even F14
too. Tried the workaround, but I have decided after the screen keeps died, I
stick with the default.
4. There are several problems with PCI (pci 0000:00:01.0: MSI quirk
detected; subordinate MSI disabled, PCI: CLS mismatch (64 != 32), using 64
bytes pci 0000:01:05.0: Boot video device) If I good know that there is an
kernel swith what could correct CLS, but I couldn't find the correct params.
5. When the system boots, then I could catch several PCI collosions as
message, but steps further in boot where you could follow in graphical mode
the bootscreen.
Somebody could help to what kind of files re needed, and what took for in
order?
--
PGP: 06853DF7
13 years, 7 months
RE: Fedora-13 lastest update kills upper case text entry (UPDATE)
by KC8LDO
Well I found by holding down the shift key I can enter upper case text but
the system continues to totally ignore the "Caps Lock" key state. I also
found that connecting using a terminal with ssh the state of the caps lock
key seems to work. The only thing I noticed that got updated that MAY have
something to do with this is the VNC client, which I think is used in the
back ground by Xrdp, but I'm not sure. Again any ideas how to fix this,
permanently?
73's
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO
13 years, 7 months
Fedora-13 lastest update kills upper case text entry
by KC8LDO
I just updated my Fedora-13 64 bit box to the latest versions of the
installed packages. Now I find I can't enter any upper case characters!
Selecting upper case or lower case on the remote terminal makes no
difference, everything is entered as lower case text. It worked just fine
before the update. I connect using Xrdp remotely to a Gnome GUI desktop.
Without being able to enter upper case text I'm screwed since various
passwords I have use upper case. The system is almost totally useless right
now. What the heck happened and how do I fix it!
73's
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO
13 years, 7 months
problems with catalyst driver
by Eric Doutreleau
hi
i m using dell optiplex 780 with a ATI Radeon HD 3470 with fedora 13
i have installed the 10.7 catalyst driver from rpmfusion and i have some
problem with the display
indeed when i scroll for example in firefox the display is not refreshed
and i have some grey line on the screen
if i hit reload the windows is refreshed
does someone already had this kind of problem?
thanks in advance for any answer
13 years, 7 months
hibernate, then start Windows [SOLVED]
by Greg Woods
This is in regard to the issue that, when Linux is hibernated, upon
reboot the thaw starts immediately and the grub menu is not presented.
I am now absolutely convinced this is not a BIOS issue, it is a kernel
or boot loader issue.
I worked around it by adding a level of indirection to the boot process.
To do this requires that you have at least one Linux partition that is
not / or /boot.
The basic idea is that Linux is booted with a chainloader, same as
Windows. So the main grub menu gives you a choice of Linux or Windows,
and both are implemented with "chainloader +1" stanzas. It works, but I
don't recommend trying this unless you are fairly familiar with how the
boot loader works, and are comfortable reinstalling the boot loader from
a rescue CD/DVD if something goes wrong.
The high-level instructions go like this:
1) In your extra Linux partition, create "boot" and "boot/grub"
directories.
2) Copy the contents of /boot/grub to this new grub directory.
3) Edit the boot/grub/grub.conf file in this new directory so that
Windows and Linux are presented as "chainloader +1" stanzas.
4) Install grub in the master boot record, pointing to this partition
5) Install grub in the first sector of your root partition, with the
usual kernel choices.
When this is done, at boot time you get a choice of Linux or Windows. If
you select Linux, the second boot loader comes up with the usual choice
of kernels. If Linux is hibernated, you can then boot and run Windows
just fine (my Windows install doesn't have a hibernate option so I
wasn't able to test hibernating Windows in this scenario). If you boot
again and select Linux, instead of getting the choice of kernels, it
immediately resumes the hibernated image. This is how I *want* it to
work, so I have left it this way.
Suppose you have this:
/dev/sda1 Windows
/dev/sda2 Linux root
/dev/sda3 Linux /local
Then /boot/grub gets copied to /local/boot/grub, then
edit /local/boot/grub/grub.conf so that you have something like this:
title Linux
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Then run:
# grub
[...]
grub> root (hd0,2)
grub> setup (hd0)
This loads the master boot record that points to /dev/sda2, the
chainloader configuration.
Now edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove the Windows stanza (you don't
need it here any more). Then run:
# grub
[...]
grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0,1)
This loads grub into the first sector of the Linux root partition,
pointing at that partition and presenting the usual choice of kernels.
This has worked great for me. I can now hibernate Linux, boot into
Windows, and later resume from the hibernated Linux image.
--Greg
13 years, 7 months
Missing symbol in libatk-bridge.so
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Quite a few apps on my machine are refusing to work as there is a symbol
missing in libatk-bridge : g_module_make_resident
What do I need to install to resolve this problem?
TTFN
Paul
13 years, 7 months