Need Support For Latest Hardware?
by Navdeep Singh Sidhu
As i wrote my problem some weeks ago, that Fedora 15 or any other linux
version didn't run on my Laptop.I got two problems:-
1. My screen goes Black on booting Linux.
2.I got Intel error with following message
> - Dropping to debug shell.
> sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
> dracut:/#
>
I can run any game or softwares on my system using windows. I'm possessed
with Linux,but i can't use Linux on my system.
I have contacted Dell technical support for help regarding this problem.
They told me that there will be no option in BIOS to disable one of my
graphics card. So the problem remains same. They told me that nVIDIA is
primary graphics card in my laptop & Intel HD3000 is secondary graphics
card. And also as i'm using i-7 processor that support's some kind of
architecture that has to use both of graphics card & i can't disable any of
them. in short, they said that my laptop's hardware architecture supports
only both card option & i can't disable any of them. But i don't believe
them, there is no such architecture in which we can't disable one of the
graphics card. Hardware manu. companies designs motherboard in such way that
if one of graphics card fails (like let nVidia fails in most of the
cases)then automatically it switches to inbuilt VGA (Intel HD 3000) or
secondry vga. I'm not sure about my statement but i think so.
But if they are true, then this means any of linux distro can't support my
hardware. So we have to design such kernel that supports all the hardwares &
architectures. Can we design this kind of kernel? it doesn't matters what
the problem is, may be it is nvidia's optimus drivers that they have not
given to add in Linux kernel or any architecture problem that is not
supported by Linux. the main thing is that Linux Doesn't have solution for
both problem. It applies to all Distros. So can open source programmers
design such kernel or not ? Or i haave to wait for next 10 years to use
Linux on my Laptop.
Regards,
Navdeep Singh
12 years, 9 months
HowTo install network without gui or tui available?
by Thomas Schweikle
Hi!
Since I could not find a working Howto for Fedora 15:
How do I install networking without having gui or tui tools
available? Even without having the ability to use them (if they
where installed)?
I could not find any description not using gui setup tools ... :-(
--
Thomas
12 years, 9 months
New Boinc 6.12.33 doesn't work with Fedora?
by Michael D. Setzer II
There is a new version of Boinc 6.12.33, but neither the client or
manager seems to work with Fedora.
The previous 6.12.28 client would work, but the manager failed.
The new client thou does work with the older manager.
The issue seems to be libraries.
I backed up the Boinc directory before doing the upgrade, so it
was easy to restore it.
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12 years, 9 months
Hang up when starting Plymouth-daemon in F15
by ganu MailList
How to resolve it
There are three systems in my ThinkadPad R400.
Windows 7, CentOS5.3 Fedora 15
But now it cannot enter system. Hang up when starting Plymouth daemon
Can anyone know how to resolved it?
12 years, 9 months
gnu linux update question
by Peter G.
It is common knowledge that one does not need to reboot for updates to take
effect in GNU Linux.
However, in actual practice, this is not so. I could cite many examples, but
this should suffice:
On Sunday evening, I installed a new updates-testing version of mesa and then I
suspended the machine for the night. The following Monday morning (yesterday),
I resumed the machine and suspended it again around noon. I again resumed the
machine at about suppertime and _powered_ _it_ _down_ about 2 hours later. An
hour or two after that, I powered it back up and the mesa testing update turned
out to be bad and I was not able to log in. I did not know which program was at
fault, because the bad program had been installed over 24 hours prior, but was
only showing itself to be bad after a power off.
Could someone explain how reboots are not needed in Linux for updates to
_take_, given the evidence to the contrary.
12 years, 9 months
A comment on yum-updatesd
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I just installed the above, thinking it would be useful, but it turns
out it doesn't seem to do the one thing I want it for: update metadata
periodically (without downloading the actual packages). I haven't
altered any of the config defaults, nor any of those in yum.conf, yet
when I use yum after a few hours of inactivity it visits the repos (and
if I do it again it doesn't, so the cache is working).
What am I doing wrong? Or do I misunderstand what y-u-d is all about?
poc
12 years, 9 months
tftp from home dir running under xinetd
by Gene Smith
I can manually run a tftp server that allows access to files in a
directory under ~ with no problem. But when I try to run the server
under xinetd using the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp configuration file a
"permission denied" error shows up in /var/log/message with no
indication it is selinux related. But if I make selinux permissive for
tftpd it then works.
Is there a quick way to configure selinux to allow this type of tftp
access (just read-only) w/o resorting to a "permissive" setting?
Thanks,
-gene
12 years, 9 months