pci=nommconf
by Frank Cox
What does pci=nommconf actually do and/or change? What is "lost" when you use
pci=nommconf?
All I've been able to dig up about this tells me that mmconf is used for memory
mapped space, and pci=nommconf disables that for pci.
Which doesn't really leave me feeling any better informed......
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14 years, 9 months
Re: microsoft natural keyboard 4000 F10/Spell
by Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 03 August 2009 22:06:01 you wrote:
> > First of all, is it a PS/2 or USB keyboard? They are handled differently
> > at the kernel level.
>
> USB. I had to buy a USB keyboard because this motherboard conveniently has
> no keyboard plug and my old keyboard didn't appear to work through one of
> those PS/2-to-USB adapters. The marvels of modern technology.
Tell me about it... :-@
> "showkey -s" gives me no output at all when I press F10/Spell.
This is because it's USB. From man showkey:
"The raw scan codes are available only on AT and PS/2 keyboards"
>From man setkeycodes:
"USB keyboards have standardized keycodes and setkeycodes doesn’t affect them
at all."
The "THEORY" section of man setkeycodes is a good read, btw.
> "showkey" alone gives me keycode 432.
Ok, so then the button does have a keycode, after all. One more reason not to
trust xev... <sigh> :-) Did you try to put it into xmodmaprc and see if that
works?
If it does, problem solved, if not, further digging is required, this time at
the level of X. And X adds a whole new layer of complexity to keyboard
handling. If it doesn't accept keycode 432 for whatever reason, someone more
knowledgeable might be able to help, but I wouldn't bet on it too much.
> It appears that I have a keycode but no scancode. I don't know enough
> about this to understand the implications.
It's ok, since the keyboard is USB. The kernel seems to have something like a
reverse lookup table for keycode-to-scancodes queries if it uses a USB
keyboard. It seems the table is not complete, but it shouldn't be used by
anything anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem.
The problem, if present, is with X, ignoring or swallowing this particular
keycode.
> The keyboard seems to remember the last state it was in between reboots,
> i.e. if F-lock is on and I reboot the computer, it's still on afterward.
> So that's one good thing.
Indeed. :-) If there was a way to control it from software (like num-lock
status can be controlled), it would be even better. Did you happen to try that
button in showkey? Does that produce a keycode? /* Somehow I doubt it does. */
> This keyboard actually does have a little indicator light down at the
> bottom along with the caps-lock, num-lock and scroll-lock indicators.
Consider yourself lucky. One of my keyborads doesn't have it, and I'm
completely blind as to what will happen when I press F4 or such. As I am not
the only one using the system, refraining from touching F-lock key doesn't
help much.
Best, :-)
Marko
14 years, 9 months
Joomla passwords
by Uno Engborg
Hi, I'm trying to switch from an old joomla + courier+ postfix
installation to a new joomla + cyrus-imapd + postfix. Authentication in
thee done by saslauthd backed by pam_mysql.
The passwords in the old system was crypt paswords using md5 as
encryption algorithm.
E.g: they looked something like:
$1$salt$md5hash
I can create such passwords in mysql by the command:
select encrypt('secret','$1$salt$');
On the new joomla installation passwords look like this
MD5hash:salt
E.g: 66a6f5c07e03913bf0a695ca26192c7a:1LdDgyM92OmPhsABdoHpik9uQzKYUfNeG
but as my mysql database contains passwords of the form $1$salt$md5hash
this will not work, in the pam_mysql, mail system.
My idea is to create an extra column called saslpassword in the joomla
jos_users table that contain a converted version of the new joomla
password that could work with my mail system that wants passwords of the
old $1$salt$md5hash form.
I tried to rearrange the MD5hash:salt and add $1$ to the beginning of
the salt and yet another $ to the end of the salt, finally I appended
the MD5hash. In other words, my example joumla password example from
above would turn into:
$1$1LdDgyM92OmPhsABdoHpik9uQzKYUfNeG$66a6f5c07e03913bf0a695ca26192c7a
But that did not work. Some posts on the net gives me the
impression that the new joomla passwords are created as MD5('secret
clear text password').
Is there some way to convert between these two forms of passwords,
preferably both ways.
If I could do it both ways, I could add triggers to change the joomla
standard password, if sombody if sombody modifies my new saslpassword
column and vice versa.
Any ideas?
Thanks
/Uno Engborg
14 years, 9 months
Sun Type 5 (USB) keyboards and the Cut/Copy/Paste keys...
by Fernando Cassia
The best keyboard I've ever used (due to size, keys feel, and overall
cuteness) is the Sun Type 5 (USB) keyboard that came with my w1100z
AMD Opteron "Java Workstation".
These huge keyboards (yes, size does matter :-P) have custom keys
labeled "Cut" "copy" and "paste". However, I haven't found any way on
Linux to have these keys operate as "cut" "copy" and Paste. I mean,
emulate a Ctrl-C for Copy, a Ctrl-V for Paste, and Ctrl-X for Cut.
Is there any EASY way to repgrogram keyboards under Linux so that
these keys work seamlessly under Linux?. The problem I remember was
that under Linux the terminal uses its own config to get/send
keystrokes, X uses its own, and then Gnome added another layer of
complexity on top. So in the end to make one keyboard layout change
one had to change Gnome's keyboard-handler, then X's config, and then
something else to make the change work on text mode terminals as well.
Under Sun's OpenSolaris I guess it's all fine and surely Sun has
tweaked things everywhere or just included a "Sun Type 5" keyboard
setting that modifed things at all levels needed. At least, I remember
reading somewhere that under Sun's "JDS Linux" (released in 2003 and
based on Novell's NLD) they tweaked Xfree86's config and hacked in
support for Sun's keyboards. However, I'm not sure those changes were
incorporated upstream (and even if those were, Linux switched from
Xfree86 to X.org shortly after that).
Finally, to futher complicate things, I don't think that the
copy/paste/cut keys were ever intended to send Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-X
keystrokes, I'm sure those keys send their own particular scancodes...
Come on... I guess I'm not the only one whom loves the Sun Type 5
keyboards and would love to get full seamless functionality out of
those keys..
Thoughts? Comments? Expletives? ;-) (pleaase refrain from saying "yes,
press Ctrl and then C for copy.... etc") ;-)
FC
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14 years, 9 months
dellsysidplugin2??
by Beartooth
What is dellsysidplugin2 -- and why do I have it on a machine
that, afaik, has never been near Dell??
[root@Msgv2 ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
fedora/metalink | 16 kB
00:00
fedora
[....]
Google Linux gets lots of hits on it, but the ones I've looked at
seem to be just people asking what it is and why ...
--
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I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
14 years, 9 months
Speaking of language support...
by Tom Horsley
When I install fedora, the final group of packages in the
installation customization is language support. I never
select any additional languages in there.
Despite that, as we see in another thread, firefox has
a gazillion languages anyway, my font selection menus
are cluttered with thousands of fonts supporting glyphs
I can't recognize, my /usr/share/locale/ directory is
filled with millions of entries, etc.
Which leads to the question: What the heck does the
language support group in anaconda actually install?
For a system with no additional languages installed
on it, I sure seem to have an awful lot of different
language related stuff on my system. (And fonts are
the most irritating - I wish apps came with better
font selection interfaces that could filter out
things for languages I'm not looking for so I could
maybe see the thing I am looking for in the smaller
haystack left over :-).
14 years, 9 months
Re: Speaking of language support...
by Hiisi
> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:18:57 -0500
> From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel(a)infinity-ltd.com>
> Subject: Re: Speaking of language support...
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
> Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <4A76F1D1.60207(a)infinity-ltd.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> It is setting the default language. The user has the option of
> changing it for his/her login. I am not sure if it changes the
> language the logs are in - I have never checked.
>
> Mikkel
> --
No, it won't. I'm running finnish interface. CUPS logs are in pure
english. But many other things in terminal or in boot stage are in
finnsh.
--
Hiisi.
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14 years, 9 months
DVD-ROM thinks every disk is a blank disc
by Andrig T. Miller
I had an older PC lying around that had a bad memory chip in it, and I
decided to get it up and running again. I installed Fedora 11 (with
the bad memory chip removed) on it, and everything seems to work
great, except my DVD-ROM.
There are no errors in dmesg or messages, and the drive is detected
properly as well.
When I insert any DVD, it basically shows a "Blank DVD" icon on the
desktop, and prompts to open the CD/DVD Creator.
It worked fine to boot of the DVD installation media, so the drive
seems okay, and I know the discs I have tried are good because I'm
able to successfully use them on another Fedora 11 laptop that I have.
Has anyone seen this kind of behavior before? If so, if someone could
point me in the right direction to determine what's wrong, I would
appreciate it.
Thanks.
Andy
14 years, 9 months
Fedora 11 does display suspend work for you: CRT vs. LCD
by Tony Nelson
On Fedora 11, does your display suspend after the screensaver activates
(assuming that you have asked it to suspend)? If you know whether it
does or doesn't, please reply, and say whether your display is a CRT or
LCD. I'm trying to get more information before filing a bug.
(I did create a new test user and try from there, without success.)
I think that LCD / Laptop users mostly care about dimming / blanking
and not about suspending the display, but as a CRT user, I'd like to
save the power.
On Fedora 9, the screensaver (and gnome-power-manager) blanked my
screen and then put it in the low-power suspend mode. Fedora 11 dims
my screen, but does not put the display into suspend mode, so it still
draws full power. Diff'ing the code for F9 and F11, and viewing
output from `gnome-power-manager --verbose`, I see no way for the
current G-P-M to suspend the display, as the code that called DPMS to
do so has been removed. G-P-M seems oriented to LCD displays and
Laptops now, so this may not have been noticed.
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14 years, 9 months
microsoft natural keyboard 4000 F10/Spell
by Frank Cox
I have a Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard on this computer.
If anyone is looking for a nice keyboard, I can recommend this one with one
caveat: The space bar is not up to the standard of the rest of the keys --
everything else has a very nice feel but the space bar is stiff and bangs
when you use it. If it wasn't for the space bar issue, this would be a perfect
keyboard to type on.
It does, however, have those horrible dual-function F-keys where the F-keys work
normally (F1, F2, etc) when the F-lock key is on, but have different functions
(Help, Undo, etc) when the F-lock key is off.
I would like to reprogram these keys so F-lock state becomes irrelevant and I
always have F1, F2 available. I don't need or want Help, Undo, etc.
I figure the fix is to fire up xev, get the keycodes for each of the function
keys when F-lock is off, then write a little xmodmaprc file to reprogram those
keys to act "normal".
Unfortunately, F10/Spell doesn't have a keycode according to xev. In fact, xev
doesn't register any event at all when I press F10 with F-lock off. (Of course,
I get keycode 76 when F-lock is on.)
So it appears that F10/Spell isn't recognized by the keyboard driver (or
something). All the rest of the F-keys are recognized and have a keycode when
F-lock is off, with the single exception of F10/Spell.
Am I just outta-luck here?
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14 years, 9 months
