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Can't run X on remote monitor

Posted: 21 May 2004 06:22 AM PDT

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:12:47 -0400, Mike Oliver staggered into the Black
Sun and said: 

Look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Make sure you're using the
radeon X server, not the VESA one. Try putting the line
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT"
in ("man radeon" for info on what that does), restarting X, and trying
again. Many laptops have a switch somewhere on the keyboard for
selecting whether the LCD, the VGA-out, or both are active--push that
switch a couple of times so that both are active. Look in
/var/log/XFree86.0.log for anything weird, or if you can't find anything
weird, post that file on your webspace and follow up to this message
with a URL.

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How to determine Linux real CPUs vs hyperthreaded (ht) virtual CPUs?

Posted: 20 May 2004 10:47 PM PDT

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In comp.os.linux.setup Jean-David Beyer <com> suggested: 
[..] 

Hi Jean-David!
 

Yep, that was a joke.;)

[..] 

How does this work out with 8GB? There are three options for
high-memory support on x86:

( ) off
(X) 4GB
( ) 64GB

None of them with 8GB?

I'd simply run a self compiled kernel, if this isn't a production
system, where you need the support. That should speed up things.

[..]
 

Interesting, I saw some benchmarks stating that raw devices are
(under Linux) slower then using some fs which should be preferred.
But I haven't done any tests concerning raw devices. Reiserfs and
xfs are among the few fs you can online resize, due to some
problems with reiser, I'd use xfs.

[..] 

Sounds like you would need some AC cooling soon...

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debian boot problems

Posted: 20 May 2004 10:34 PM PDT


"Andreas Janssen" <com> wrote in message
news:c8kefe$81p$04$t-online.com... 

I would do that but the computers CD drive is busted. I installed debian on
it by slipping the drive into a working computer. I believe i did create a
boot partition during installation and mounted it but im not sure if the
kernal installed there or not. Also, just to clarify the problem more, it
seems like if i hold down shift during the boot up i do get the different
options. In my case, pushing "a" gives me 1234F. When i press 1, i get the
repeating 01 01 01. Partition 2 should be my swap file and 3 should be my
root directory. I've tried pressing 3 at this time but nothing happens.

Failed dependencies? how come?

Posted: 20 May 2004 10:30 PM PDT

On 5/21/2004 2:26 AM, I believe that Gaétan Martineau wrote:
 

Verify that the squirrelmail package you're trying to install is for RHL
7.2. The RPM you're installing seems to want apache to be installed as
httpd.

Or just try it with --nodeps and hope it works...

HTH,
Tim

Dual booting from xp's NTFS partition using LILO?

Posted: 20 May 2004 02:02 PM PDT

On Fri, 21 May 2004 01:45:29 -0400, "Brian Lockwood" <gatech.edu>
wrote:
 

The windows boot loader is still on the NTFS partition. If this partition is
marked active:

lilo -A /dev/hda 1

and a Master Boot loader is installed on sector 0,

lilo -M /dev/hda

then windows boots with no intervention from grub or lilo.

--John
 

Dual-Boot of WinXP/Fedora-Core 2 - can't boot WinXP after install

Posted: 20 May 2004 06:07 AM PDT

Hi mjt:

Thank you for responding.

I'm not sure if that change would have any effect or not but I did find a
solution.

There is a 'bug' in the FC2 (from what I have read now it seems that FC1 had
this too, but I don't recall any issue(s) when I did this with RH9)
installation process that changes the number of 'virtual' heads (hard-drive
configuration) reported to the operating system (WinXP can't deal with it).
I found a solution after a bit of searching and a few iterations of playing
with the settings using sfdisk. The information I used is located at
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg02114.html and
replies to that message. The bottom line is that you have to boot from a CD
(I used the fedora rescue disk) and then I 'chroot /mnt/sysimage'. I saved
the boot image as indicated in the message above (I would highly recommend
that anyone attempting this does that). Once you get to that point you need
to type: 'sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread --force -H255 /dev/hda'
(no ' ', of course). This works if you need to tell the opsys that you have
255 heads. The number after -H may have to be something else for other
configurations (the message says that on some laptops it needs to be 240,
but I'm clueless how one figures out that number) and I'm not sure exactly
what this does besides changing the reported head number (if anything). The
final result was that WinXP once again booted and all worked fine.

After doing all of this I made another partition to share between Linux and
WinXP using 'parted'. This created the same problem again and I had to use
the fix above to get access to WinXP again. This would lead me to believe
that 'parted' is making this modification (which is not all that
surprising), as it is the same utility that the install program uses to
setup the partitions.

-Peter

"mjt" <ru> wrote in message
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NFS help requested please

Posted: 19 May 2004 07:04 PM PDT

On Thu, 20 May 2004 02:04:53 +0000, jDeGraw wrote:
 

I found it!
I got the problem licked!

This was stupid. I changed the permissions on the directory
/home/coffee/public to 755 and owner root. As soon as I did this the whole
nfs filesystem was r/w available to the normal user coffee.

I do believe its the execute bit that has to be set on all the files.

chmod -R 755 /home/coffee/public


I can now export with no problems.


jDeGraw

Auto-starting fetchmail on startup

Posted: 19 May 2004 05:40 PM PDT

And I think I can also use:

cron < textfile

where textfile is a file contains the line '@reboot /usr/bin/fetchmail
-d 1800'. Am I right?

Antonio

Tim Van Wassenhove <be> wrote in message news:<de>... 

New Redhat 9.0 install, No internet

Posted: 19 May 2004 04:55 PM PDT


"tim wunder" <net> wrote in message
news:Qxnrc.7$abs.net... 
the 
router 
what 
eth0 
eth0 
lo 
eth0 

Can't ping the google ip address, gives me a destination unreachable. I
don't remember if i said this or not but my internet does work in Windows
just in case there is any confusion. So im pretty sure there is nothing
physically wrong with the cables or the card itself. It could still be a
support issue. How would i go about downloading and installing new drivers
for the card?

--
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gatech.edu
Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Tech

create 4GB tmpfs on RHEL 3

Posted: 19 May 2004 12:37 PM PDT

On Thu, 20 May 2004 09:37:10 -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
 
No - he means how does he create a 4gb tmpfs filesystem (memory/swap
resident). Must have a lot of memory on the box....

mount -t tmpfs -o size=4G .........

Making NTFS writeable without recompiling kernel

Posted: 18 May 2004 09:19 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup, Markus uttered these immortal words:
 

I doubt that you'll be able to add NTFS write support without re-compiling
the kernel. It's almost trivial with Debian though.

BTW I found this in the help for kernel 2.6.6:

<quote>
NTFS write support (NTFS_RW)

This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.

The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
be written to.

While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
so far not received a single report where the driver would have
damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.

Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
is not safe.

This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
need its own partition. For more information see
<http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>

It is perfectly safe to say N here.
</quote>

I believe there are other NTFS drivers available. Try Google.

--
Andy.

Reusing mozilla instance on Fedora

Posted: 18 May 2004 01:41 AM PDT

> ## mozilla -remote "openURL($1, new-tab)" <-- Didn`t work. Why ?

For me it works (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5)
Gecko/20031007).

Digging around I found that there's also a 'ping' command that tests
for the presence of mozilla.

However, I'd like the KDE icon to open a new, empty mozilla; iow I
have no URL to give it. I can think of two ways of doing that: pass a
special URL (but which one? I tried 'blank:' wu=ithout success); or
send the event for File!New!Navigator Window, according to
http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html (but I can't find the
resource name for that action)...
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