xorg.conf for HDMI
by lokesh kumar
I want to have a display on tv from a customize board via HDMI port,
what modifications i need to make in xorg.conf and other configuration files
regards
12 years, 1 month
A bit OT: git - ridiculous memory requirements
by Vaclav Mocek
Hi all,
I have a cloned GCC git repository, on PC with 1.5GB of RAM and 3GB swap.
When I run "$git gc --aggressive", I will get after few hours an error:
$ git gc --aggressive
Counting objects: 1332887, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 4838335 bytes)
error: failed to run repack
$
4.5GB of memory is not enough, what is that?
I wonder what git is internally doing, it seems to me as a pretty
non-optimal implementation. It is the first application I have which has
been killed by OOM killer.
The size of .git directory is >900MB.
BR
Vaclav M.
12 years, 1 month
openbox not fully logging out
by Joel Rees
I have openbox (from the F16 security live image via live USB install)
on a lenovo s100 and, sometime in the last couple of kernel updates,
it likes to hang up on logging out.
Switch to a virtual console and do a ps, and openbox is there's a
leftover process that won't die. I've been able to do telinit 2 and
then log back in and telinit 5 to bring it back, but the next time I
tried that without re-booting, it just hung. (Not sure what target I
would be specifying for systemctl
Not sure what to look for in /var/log.
--
Joel Rees
12 years, 1 month
Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?
by Timothy Murphy
I wonder if I am alone in finding some of the developments in Fedora-16
actually make life harder for the user?
I'd take grub2 and systemctl as two examples.
In each case I've read the documentation and understand the motivation
behind these developments.
But I remain unconvinced that the gains outweigh the disadvantages
of methods that are much harder to configure and use.
I don't think this is just a matter of unfamiliarity.
I think one can say objectively that the new methods
are more complicated than those they replace.
As a crude measure of complication the new commands
take longer to type than the old,
eg "systemctl start openvpn(a)client.service"
compared with "start service openvpn".
And the output of the new commands seems much more verbose than the old:
eg compare the output of "systemctl -a" or "systemctl list-units"
with that of "chkconfig --list".
Could anyone bringing in these changes have honestly answered "Yes"
if asked whether the new method would simplify life for the user?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin
12 years, 1 month
Various Sound Backend - Why?
by Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Hello,
This one is general Linux question. Up until Fedora 15, there was xine
and then there was gstreamer (Which contains good,bad & ugly) . Then
there was fluendo. Except xine, the later ones still exist.
I mean, they all are sound backend / codec, right? Then why having many
of them?
--
Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Core Developer Intern, Diaspora <http://joindiaspora.com>
Twitter - @Nirjhor <http://twitter.com/nirjhor>
12 years, 1 month
F16 Desktop Vanished
by Jonathan Allen
Dear List,
I recently installed F16/XFCE-spin on my daughter's laptop (as its hardware
can't cope with Gnome 3). The desktop was set up fine, with the usual
folders, a few of her documents and a background picture as wallpaper.
All of a sudden, the screen desktop is clean, no folder and no wallpaper.
The files/documents still exist and can be accessed in ~/Desktop but they
are not displayed any more. Changing the wallpaper using the XFCE display
settings has no effect.
Can anyone tell me what happened or how to fix it?
Jonathan
12 years, 1 month
grub2 prompt vs LVM
by Braden McDaniel
I've had an rpm upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 go slightly sideways and
I've wound up with a grub prompt upon boot. I found
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2>; alas, it seems to be missing
information about what one does when one's root partition is on an LVM
volume.
Do I need a Live CD to recover at this point?
--
Braden McDaniel e-mail: <braden(a)endoframe.com>
<http://endoframe.com> Jabber: <braden(a)jabber.org>
12 years, 1 month
Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition
by Jackson Byers
>>Michael,
>>did you follow the Andras->Tom Horsley link?
>Yes. See my previous reply.
> done some experimenting since.
>My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation disk.
>I let it get as far as offering to test the media. I can't find my F14 disk.
>I copied FC13's vmlinuz to a hard drive and
>tried again with the grub command line.
>The kernel command segfaulted again.
>I even did a yum reinstall grub, but it didn't help.
>The kernel command still segfaulted.
I don't follow you at all; You are evidently even having trouble
on your existing F!3 (or F14), exactly how I don't understand.
You do need a working linux to do the hdinstall.
--you are evidently not using a grub.conf
but rather running grub from the cmdline,
which in my opinion just further makes it likely to make errors.
--you are evidently using a kickstart ks.cfg,
about which I know nothing,
but ks.cfg is not used in the Horsley prescription
--why are you using the 'find' cmd in grub?
You should know _exactly_ where you put the vmlinuz,initrd.img files
extracted from the iso.
And that info should be easily placed into a grub.conf stanza.
You can also rename those files to vmlinuz-install, initrd.img-install
which is recommended in the fedora project info,
and which makes clear that they are intended for an "install" stanza,
not to be confused with normal vmlinuz,....
Jack
12 years, 1 month
Samba service with Windows and dual boot...
by R. Welsh
Howdy,
Have a couple of open items in forum that I haven't been able to resolve
and am looking for guidance.
Item 1:
I have F16 installed on a system with Samba server 3.x. I have
configured both directory shares and a printer share through Samba. I
can access these shares from Win7, I can access the directory shares
from WinVista but not the printer share, and I can't access these shares
at all from WinXP. Any hints?
Item 2:
The Bootloader Configuration utility in F16 is looking for a grub.conf
file under the /boot/grub directory instead of looking for grub.cfg
under /boot/grub2. In spite of this, I am trying to setup dual boot on
this system where I have the F16 on the primary hard drive and Win7 on
the second hard drive. I've tried a few different menu entries based on
example text in the grub documentation. Any guidance on where I can
look for info on configuring dual boot Linux/Win7?
Thanks.
Bob W.
12 years, 1 month
