Enabling DMA for atapi cd/dvd/rw
by JD
# hdparm -d1 /dev/sr0
/dev/sr0:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
So, could someone please advise how to enable DMA
for the cd/dvd/rw drive?
It would sure help my aging laptop to play high quality
1080p HD movies.
PS: Keep in mind that ide-scsi emulation is used on all
modern linux kernels since way back ????
11 years, 6 months
NetworkManager causin problems with DNS settings.
by Mickey
Fedora 17
NetworkManager is changing Nameserver in resolv.conf to 192.168.1.1 my
Router gateway and my setting in /etc/sysconfig/network-
scripts/cfg-p128p1 (eth0) are as such.
UUID="e676da02-6018-4567-8c0f-ab849ac673cb"
NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
HWADDR="78:E3:B5:95:98:2C"
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
DEVICE="p128p1"
ONBOOT="yes"
PEERDNS=yes
DNS1=8.8.8.8
DNS2=8.8.0.0
How do I get NM to accept the above settings ?
11 years, 6 months
keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware
by Paul Allen Newell
Hello:
I am doing my first F17 install on i686 Xfce and, for the most part,
everything is coming up nicely. However, I am noticing that sometimes
the keyboard becomes unresponsive. I can't seem to find a reason, it
just happens. My first sense was that it was a hardware problem.
However, one time I decided to let the session time out so that when I
had moved the mouse, I got the "re-enter passwd" dialog box to get back
to my session. As could be expected, I couldn't type my password in. So
I tried selecting new user login and, lo and behold, if I clicked on
myself, it let me enter a password. However, it then immediately went
back to the "re-enter passwd" from the session time out and the keyboard
was dead.
Net result is I find it hard to believe that the hardware is the
problem. But I can't figure out what would be locking up the keyboard so
that it would appear dead. I also note that I had multiple windows open
plus firefox and the keyboard wouldn't work in any of them, so it isn't
shell based. One time I ran a tail of /var/log/messages and nothing
showed up in it once the keyboard died and it did give me other standard
messages when I waited about a half hour to new messages to be flushed
to the file.
Any ideas about where to start? Everything I spotted online didn't seem
to relate ... and I am having a hard time figuring out what a good set
of search terms for this problem is.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
11 years, 6 months
CFT: A Puppet module generator
by Renich Bon Ciric
Ok, I need some help, from the #Fedora or #Redhat Communities.
There is a really neat project called cft: http://cft.et.redhat.com/
The maintainer said he hasn't had time to develop it further. So, we
need some ruby wiz to take over and adopt the project. So, +David
Lutterkort told me he would be happy if somebody could help out with
it.
So, do you like #Ruby and you're willing to take on a #FOSS project?
Here's your chance.
One way to help is to move this message around so, please, re-share,
re-send or re-whateveryouneedtodo so the message is delivered.
I am willing to maintain/co-maintain the package(s) on the Fedora
repos. So, anyone?
Thanks!
--
It's hard to be free... but I love to struggle. Love isn't asked for;
it's just given. Respect isn't asked for; it's earned!
Renich Bon Ciric
http://www.woralelandia.com/
http://www.introbella.com/
11 years, 6 months
X hangs when screen blanks on docked laptop
by Matthew Saltzman
I have a Dell Latitude E6410 with nVidia graphics, using the nouveau
driver in F17 and gnome-shell.
When the machine is docked and using the remote display, all is well
until the screen blanker times out. After that, I'm unable to wake the
screen up. Opening the lid doesn't help (not too surprising, given that
the main screen is set to be off when the remote is attached); switching
to a VC doesn't help (which is surprising). The keyboard still works,
so I can blindly switch to a VC and reboot, but it's not workable to
have to reboot after every 10 minutes of idle time.
I created a second userid and tried working with that, and the problem
does not recur there, so it apparently has something to do with the
configuration of my main userid. I had at one point installed the
weather extension and the system monitor extension, but they were
problematic so I deleted them (before I tried the experiment with the
other userid). That fixed a problem where the screen wouldn't wake up
even when undocked, but hasn't fixed this.
So any idea what I should look for in my userid's configuration files to
fix this?
TIA.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
11 years, 6 months
Re: Switch eth0 and eth1, how?
by JD
On 10/19/2012 07:53 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I recently changed a machine using this method with no problem.
> The disk had been moved after a motherboard failed, and the nic
> was coming up as eth2 instead of eth0. Had two previous nics
> listed, and just removed those lines from the file, and manually
> changed the eth2 to eth0. Did you make sure the edit-out
> numbers were exactly the same, if they are off at all, it goes to
> creating a name.
>
>
Yes, they indeed are the same, but the latest post
about using ifrename did the trick for me.
11 years, 6 months
Re: spam reasons to strip content
by Ian Malone
On 19 October 2012 23:47, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 03:01 PM, David wrote:
>>
>> I had this 'fixed' about two weeks ago and then you Newbies opened the
>> sluice gate. Can't fix*your* email? At least please don't re-swan it
>>
>> for those of us that can.
>
>
> Who are you calling a "newbie?" I quoted it back to make sure it was clear
> what I was referring to.
For anyone with access to the archives it's going to be clear what
you're talking about as threading is based on the references and in
reply to headers in addition to the (empty this time) subject.
Reposting it on the other hand helps get it past people's own filters
and also creates more copies of the link out on the net for search
engines to pick up.
--
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
11 years, 6 months
Switch eth0 and eth1, how?
by Fernando Cassia
In my server I have eth0 and eth1 (previously were em16, em17, but I
hated it so I changed to the traditional approach).
Each NIC port is connected to a different ISP. However, more often
than not while moving things around I get the cables reversed so ETH0
goes to ISP2 and ETH0 goes to ISP2, or vice versa, ie the cables are
interchanged.
So... is there a way, in such situation, to manually (say, from a bash
script) bring down both eth ports, and re-arrange those? (so that eth1
becomes eth0), and do so without a reboot?.
I´d like to make eth0 and eth1 consistent regardless of mixed cabling
so every time I bring down eth0 I know what isp I´m bringing down.
What IP each port is connected to I can figure out via a query to
www.whatismyip.com, but the question remains if it´s possible to
change the naming of two ethernet ports without a reboot.
What would be the best way? ethtool?
TIA
FC
11 years, 6 months