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FC4 on Compaq Evo N1000v
by Tarjei Knapstad 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Having a bit of a struggle here getting X up and running on the above mentioned laptop. I've added a comment to this bugzilla entry: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159927 but thought I'd try to reach a broader audience here. Does anyone know what I need to do to xorg.conf to get this up and running in the "native" 1400x1050 resolution? (Well, any resolution for that matter...) Thanks in advance, -- Tarjei

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Re: Computer on a PCI card
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

> Good morning! > > Remember the SunPCI cards? A whole computer on a PCI card sans the disk > subsystem which was provided by the host??? > > Well, I'm looking for the same thing but something I can drop into an > Intel machine (Dell 1800/850) and run a second OS on. I know I'm into > blade technology now but I need to put this in a tower box. > > Can anyone point me off in a direction where I might find such a > creature? Brian, All such cards have had limited capabilities and questionable compatibility in many hosts. The problem is one of real estate (or lack thereof): you simply can't cram everything from an ATX motherboard onto a PCI card. You would probably have far better luck running your guest OS in a VMware virtual machine. To get decent performance in the guest you'll need a first rate host: premium CPU, lots of RAM, and a fast drive with about 20 GB for the guest's virtual disk. VMware5 supports a wide range of x86-based guest OS's including Windows, MS-DOS, Solaris x86, NetWare, Linux, ... See http://www.vmware.com. Xen might be an alternative, but it's still developmental, is limited to Linux guests, and requires the same additional resources as VMware. --Doc Savage Fairview Hts, IL

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Sudden problem with LAN access to some of the net
by Claude Jones 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

This problem has so stumped me I don't know if I can fairly describe it, but I post what I can here to see if it strikes a chord with anyone else. My scenario is an FC4 machine that is right on the net - I use this as my home machine and it is mostly for experimentation and email. I use FWBuilder to protect it. It serves as dhcp server to several pc's in my home all running Windows. All has been working well for months. Two nights ago, I was trying to get bittorrent to work and was experimenting with opening various ports. That same night I did some updates. That's a poor description, I realize, but it is just to set the stage. The next morning, two of the pc's on my Lan had lost some of their connectivity. My wife's laptop, for example, couldn't get email or run messenger - just returned 'couldn't connect' messages. However, she could still browse websites. Similar problems with a second pc that I don't have much access to, so I can't be specific but, he couldn't get mail. Two other pc's continued to function normally. I fired up an old laptop I keep here for testing, and it connected and all functions worked. So -- dhcp is working - the problem machines are getting valid addresses - they continue to have some functionality I suspect an issue with DNS - I had set up a DNS server on my FC4 box months ago, and it has been working well - dhcp gives out 127.0.0.1 as the dns server to the lan machines - what I did to fix the problem was to change that entry in dhcp to my isp's DNS server - presto, things started working... So, any ideas on what I could have broken with my DNS configuration? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA

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Monitoring file integrity with FC4 - Tripwire??
by Hahnel William J (CI) 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

I'm looking for a mechanism to monitor the integrity of critical files on my FC4 servers. I understand Tripwire is the application to do it but I am having no success getting it set up. I downloaded the source from SourceForge but can not follow how to set it up. I could not locate an RPM for the application. Any help getting something set up would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Bill Hahnel CI National Operations Center

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Radeon x.org driver - does it need kernel module?
by Toralf Lund 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

What exactly is the deal with the radeon x.org driver and kernel module on FC3/4? Do I have to install the module for the X driver to work? If I do, what's the correct modprobe.conf entry? - T

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Computer on a PCI card
by Brian D. McGrew 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Good morning! Remember the SunPCI cards? A whole computer on a PCI card sans the disk subsystem which was provided by the host??? Well, I'm looking for the same thing but something I can drop into an Intel machine (Dell 1800/850) and run a second OS on. I know I'm into blade technology now but I need to put this in a tower box. Can anyone point me off in a direction where I might find such a creature? Thanks! -brian Brian D. McGrew { brian(a)visionpro.com || brian(a)doubledimension.com } --- > Those of you who think you know it all, really annoy those of us who do!

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strange characters in terminalmode
by roland 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hello everybody, Normally I use Alt-Ctrl-F1FX to make a telnet session to the fedora-server Using offcourse LTSP To get nicer screens I use frames with the standaard graphic characterset. Everything works well with LTSP but when I do the same in a terminalsession of the linux graphical console all the graphicchar change into some exotic characters. How can I fix this? Thanks Roland Brouwers C.A.T. bvba BELGIUM Email roland(a)cat.be

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Re: PCI error on x86_64 2.6.13 kernel
by Jack Howarth 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

I can confirm that I don't get this mem allocation kernel error on the Sun dual Opteron when using the 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4smp kernel rpms instead of the 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4smp rpms. Of course these are the x86_64 rpms. Jack

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Re: removing nvidia drivers for livna rpm
by Jack Howarth 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

I figured out that I needed to rerun the installer NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7667-pkg2.run with the --uninstall flag. After deinstalling and reinstalling the nvidia kernel rpms from livna using yum everything works fine now. Jack

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PCI error on x86_64 2.6.13 kernel
by Jack Howarth 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Using the latest 2.6.13 kernels in FC4 on a Sun dual opteron workstation, I am seeing an error at boot time that doesn't happen under older kernels. Oct 3 11:21:48 diego kernel: MEM window: d0200000-d02fffff Oct 3 11:21:48 diego kernel: PREFETCH window: disabled. Oct 3 11:21:48 diego kernel: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@f0000000 for 0000:09:00.0 This appears to be a non-fatal error at first glance but is worrisome. Has anyone else seen this problem and is there a fix of any sort? Jack

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