hyperthreading on f11 pae kernel?
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
I have an old Dell GX260 with one P4 and 1Gb of ram.
I installed F11 32 bit and updated it yesterday with latest kernel
available.
I noticed that kernel installed was the PAE one, as stated inside release
notes. Also in other documents I see that only i586 is the other available
one kernel.
>From /proc/cpuinfo I see that there is the ht flag, but the system gets only
one cpu.
In bios I see no option for enabling/disabling hyperthreading, so that I
suppose it is enabled by default.... but I could be wrong....
I have to apply in the mean time a bios update but I would like to ask if
using PAE implies no ht and if using i586 I can get ht or not in general.
thanks in advance,
Gianluca
14 years, 8 months
DHCP on Aliase eth0
by Oluwagbenga Shobowale
Hello All,
I need to know if it is possible to run dhcp server on an aliase
interface eth0:0 ?
I have configured a dhcp server for a network that should be on this
interface but I can't get it to work.
Anyone worked on something like this?
Best regards
14 years, 8 months
howto play audio here and hear it there
by Gerhard Magnus
I'm running Fedora 11 with the gnome desktop on a small LAN. I'd like to
run an audio player (say xmms) on box2 and hear it on box1, which is
directly connected to my stereo.
In the past I would connect to box1 from box2 via ssh and then run xmms
from the command line. Now when I try doing this I get this message:
Couldn't open audio. Please check that
Your soundcard is configured properly
You have the correct output plugin selected
No other program is blocking the soundcard.
I can play audio with problems from box1, so the soundcard must be OK.
I have pulseaudio selected as the output plugin in xmms. (The same
problem occurs with alsa and the other plugins.)
It seems likely, then, that the problem is some other program is running
on box1 that is blocking use of the soundcard.
Two related questions:
(1) Does anyone know what other program this might be (gnome?) and how I
might get around the block?
(2) Isn't this the sort of simple application pulseaudio was designed
for? Shouldn't I be able to run xmms on box2 and use pulseaudio to play
the output on box1? Has anyone been able to do anything like this with
pulseaudio and, if so, what settings did you use and where did you set
them?
Thanks for the help!
--Jerry
14 years, 8 months
F11 XKB troubles
by Beartooth
One one machine, I keep getting half a dozen popups that all
say :
Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation
X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
10601901
If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
It doesn't say *where* to send a bug report. So I ran those
commands, and got :
[btth@Hbsk ~]$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "",
"terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105+inet", "us", "",
"terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
[btth@Hbsk ~]$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
layouts = []
options = []
model =
[btth@Hbsk ~]$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
layouts = []
options = []
model =
[btth@Hbsk ~]$
None of that means anything to me.
I tried yum remove xkb, meaning to follow it with yum install
xkb, but yum didn't find it.
I tried googling, and I tried yum whatprovides. That got me to /
usr/share/X11/xkb -- but everything in the readmes is Geek to me.
When I was working, all of us in my section had lots of what we
then called macros such as type Ctrl-b, and the machine would put
"Includes bibliographical references" into the proper field. What little
I can follow seems to say that such tricks are what XKB does; but I don't
use them now, and haven't since I retired.
Should I just remove XKB? If so, how? If not that, what?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
14 years, 8 months
Anyone using Skype on FC11 ?
by jack craig
Hi folks,
After the base sw install, i am getting audio capture & audio playback
errors when i try to make a test call.
however, these are just icon level msgs; i am less clear how to see the
actual failure details.
besides /var/log/messages, is there any error log for Skype use?
tia, jackc...
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14 years, 8 months
volume is erratic in Rhythmbox
by Antonio M
sometimes volume is erratic in Rhythmbox, when I connect to a radio
stream slide goes to zero!!!
and sometimes it doesn't remember volume setting from a session to the next.
anyone experiencing same behaviour???
Latest packages are in use
--
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag
SIP: antoniomontag(a)ekiga.net
14 years, 8 months
Removing Gnome from F11
by John Wendel
I'm happily using LXDE on my F11 system, and I thought I'd remove Gnome,
using "yum remove gnome\*".
Well, it was not to be. Yum decide to remove parts of LXDE, Firefox,
Thunderbird, Java, abiword, most of the "system" admin utilities, and
about 50 other programs that I would think have nothing to do with Gnome.
Am I stupid or what? Why would Fedora's Firefox have a Gnome dependency
when I'm sure that the Mozilla version doesn't? Are these "real"
dependencies or packaging artifacts?
I don't think I like this disto as much as I once did.
John
14 years, 8 months
So, how are the laptops (MBP, W500, XPS 16)?
by Brian Ericson
I'm contemplating a laptop purchase and my current "top three"
candidates are a MBP 17, Lenovo W500 (WUXGA/ATI Mobility FireGL V5700
(512MB)), and a Dell XPS 16 (1080p/ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4670 (1G)). I
get the impression -- were I to go with the Lenovo or Dell -- that I'm
pretty much stuck with the 2D radeon drivers, which seems a shame (I
confess I like Compiz).
Can anyone comment on their experiences with these laptops?
o How well does video work?
o Sound?
o Sleep/resume?
o Fan noise?
My only two data points are the T61p I tried (shortly after Hardy Heron
released; back then, they were using an NVIDIA card) and my wife's MBP.
Hardy Heron wanted to run the T61p's (loud) fan constantly and
sleep/resume, when it worked, took "forever" (over a minute to
re-establish wireless connectivity). I found it unusable next to my
wife's MBP which is generally quiet, resumes instantly, and rarely gets
rebooted (despite both of us being constantly logged onto it).
I'm hoping to hear that Linux has come a long way since my last attempt
and would work well with either the Lenovo or the Dell. But, if ATI is
still to be avoided, does anyone have have any experience with "The
Beast" (Lenovo W700), which ships with an NVIDIA card? Seems too big,
but I'll bet the screen is much nicer than the almost-too-dim W500's.
14 years, 8 months
