Anyone got three monitors working?
by thomas cameron
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Howdy All -
I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16
slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've
got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital
video port. It works well, I get accelerated X and wobbly windows and
all that silliness. Guilty pleasure: I like eye candy.
I'd *really* love to do triple head - the monitor in front of me for my
main work, and the two side screens for supporting stuff.
I am wondering, since my motherboard has a four PCI Express x1 ports and
I see PCI Express x1 video cards for decent prices, if I can either
replace my single card with two identical two-port X1 cards, or just add
a single X1 video card to what I already have and get triple head.
Has anyone done this?
Thomas
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11 years, 10 months
oovoo.com
by Gregory P. Ennis
Dear List,
I was asked to assist connecting a Fedora linux system for video
conferencing with oovoo.com. It is apparent that they support Mac and
Windows.
Does anyone have any experience in using the Mac installation for oovoo
for Fedora? Can anyone make recommendations for connections that allow
video conferencing with Fedora.
Thanks much
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PoMec Corporation
www.PoMec.net
11 years, 11 months
Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing
I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It
originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted,
and then as root ran
shred -vz /dev/sdd
The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding"
about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default
number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days.
The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing
the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs
would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running
something like:
shred -vz /dev/sdd1
shred -vz /dev/sdd2
shred -vz /dev/sdd3
shred -vz /dev/sdd4
in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure?
Thanks
Dean
12 years, 2 months
After I sent a private message to the WOT forum, my screen switched to this page..?
by Linda McLeod
After I sent a private message to the WOT forum, my screen switched to
this page..
Please tell, What is this page all about..?
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12 years, 2 months
No wireless (waiting for authorization) after awake from suspend
by Gene Smith
F15 on new HP dv7-6195 (i7/sandy bridge) cannot regain wireless
connection after awake from suspend. In KDE, I see notification "waiting
for authorization" and then a "key" icon appears over the wireless icon
in tray. In gnome, a dialog pops up with my wireless key (correctly
filled in) for me to confirm. After confirming, it keeps popping back up
every 30 seconds or so. Never asks for my password, just wireless key.
It is set to be stored in encrypted file.
Wired ethernet connection works fine before and after suspend and
wireless works fine only before suspend.
I have tried rmmod / modprobe to remove / add back the wireless driver.
Also, set selinux to permissive thinking it might be that type of problem.
Only reboot, so far, brings wireless back.
Any ideas?
-gene
12 years, 2 months
What determines mdraid minor device numbers
by Sam Varshavchik
I have existing mdraid arrays. They get mounted as /dev/md0 through /dev/md2.
After some sweat and tears, I reduces the size of one of them, and used the
free disk space to assemble a new array (all arrays we're talking here are
raid 1, with two disks). I formatted the new md device as ext3.
I added "UUID=<uuid> /mountpoint" to /etc/fstab.
At bootup, the new array gets automounted on /dev/md127 for some reason.
Everything's fine, I see no issues except for the unexpected device minor
number.
Anyone care to enlighten me, how mdraid minor numbers get handed out, and
why the one I manually created comes up as a high number, even though the
next free minor device is, obviously, /dev/md3.
12 years, 3 months
OT: gather hardware information over network
by Hiisi
Hi list!
This maybe is a little off-topic on this list hence the 'OT' in the
subject line. Sorry for that.
I need to gather hardware information from computers on a local
network and store it on a server. The server runs F16, clients run
different ubuntu versions (11.04 mostly). The information should
include such things as monitor serial numbers and other details for
definite identification. The main purpose is inventarisation of all
the hardware we have in the office. There's about 40 workstations.
Google suggests use combination of OCS Inventory NG with GLPI [1]. The
other idea is to write a set of bash scripts and put them on cron on
workstations (the information should be updated weekly) and main
script on the server would store information in the database. However
if there's ready solution I would be happy to use it.
Any tips?
REFERENCES
1. http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/about/features/ocsng-glpi.html
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12 years, 3 months
Configuring samba printer on Fedora 14
by Paolo Galtieri
When I had F12 installed on my system I was able to configure a printer
attached to my dad's windows system without issues.
I'm now running F14 and I'm having problems. When I bring up
system-config-printer and add a printer via samba I provide just the
workgroup name and select browse. After a bit a dialog pops up showing the
share name and then another dialog pops up that says that I need to login
to the windows host. Since no such security requirement has been
configured on the windows side I am unable to configure a printer. The
same thing happens when I use my mother's F13 system to configure a samba
printer. I can run
smbclient -L 192.168.1.110
which prompts for a password but hitting return allows it to go ahead and
display the available services
[root@peglaptopw mplayer]# smbclient -L 192.168.1.110
Enter root's password:
Domain=[TALOFA01] OS=[Windows 7 Ultimate 7601 Service Pack 1]
Server=[Windows 7 Ultimate 6.1]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
C$ Disk Default share
D$ Disk Default share
E$ Disk Default share
Epson Stylus Photo 1270 ESCP 2 Printer Epson Stylus Photo 1270 ESC/P 2
EPSON Stylus Photo RX595 Series Printer EPSON Stylus Photo RX595
Series
F$ Disk Default share
G$ Disk Default share
H$ Disk Default share
<rest deleted>
However, if instead of providing just
WORKGROUP/
in the SMB printer config dialog I enter
WORKGROUP/192.168.1.110/
where 192.168.1.110 is the IP address of TALOFA01 then it finds the list of
available printers and I can go ahead and configure them.
This workaround does not work on F13. I'm still prompted for username and
password for system 192.168.1.110.
It seems wrong to me that I need to provide the actual IP address to make
it work. If I provide TALOFA01 instead of the IP address I get prompted
again for username and password.
So what do I need to configure on F14 to make printer configuration via
samba work right?
On another note there is one thing I find really annoying regarding adding
a printer, and that's the number of times I'm asked for the root password.
I'm asked the root password first when I select add printer. After
providing it (correctly) I am asked it again to get privileges to access
network printers. I am asked the root password a third time when I go to
apply the printer configuration. After I enter the password I am again
prompted for the root password to get additional privileges. So in total I
was asked for the root password 4 times - this seems excessive.
Paolo
12 years, 3 months
Problem booting under F16
by Joe Zeff
Recently I upgraded my laptop to F16 using preupgrade. This morning, at
a convention, I did a system update that included (I thought) a new
kernel. The next time I booted, the system hung, with no output. I had
to power-cycle to try again, this time getting error messages: it
couldn't find libcrypt.so.1 and there were a number of failures of
systemd-remount-api-vfs. I power-cycled again, and hit the space bar to
enter the GRUB menu. There was one F16 kernel, the upgrade, and the
latest F14 kernel, which worked.
After several experiments, I found that libcrypt.so.1 is provided by
glibc-devel, so I told yum to install it, which brought along some other
things I'd thought I'd had. Alas, it didn't fix the boot failure.
Although this isn't my main box, I'd like to keep it working as well as
I can, and would prefer to be using an F16 kernel if I'm running F16, as
I appear to be.
Also, as a side note, I'd tried using the fedorautils and made the
mistake of adding the color terminal, finding that I don't like it. How
do I reverse this?
12 years, 3 months
Recomend a colour laser printer
by Steve Searle
After battling for a couple of years with my cheap Dell 1320c printer
I have decided to throw in the towel as I can't get a 64bit Linux driver
for it.
Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced network colour laser printer
that works well with Fedora 16 x64? Let me know what you have if it
works well.
Thanks
Steve
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