RE: Partitioning problem with windows vs. linux
by Michael Wiktowy
>
>
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 01:13:09 -0400 From: Tony Nelson
> <tonynelson(a)georgeanelson.com> At 9:13 PM -0400 8/31/05, Michael
> Wiktowy wrote:
>
>>>I am not formating the partition in any way. I am just adding a new
>>>empty one using fdisk and no matter what "partition type" I choose, w2k
>>>hates it ... even if I choose type 07 which is NTFS. When I first
>>>encountered the problem while installing Fedora, I had manually made
>>>several partitions and had them formatted ext3. Fedora would boot and
>>>run fine but then w2k would not. I have stripped away little by little
>>>to see where the problem is located and it appears that it is having
>>>issues when just an empty partition is added. This is really unusual
>>>since w2k shouldn't care how the rest of the drive is partitioned so
>>>long as it was the first partition.
>>
>>
> ...
>
>Well, if you're just partitioning, then the old data is still at the same
>place it was, so conceivably Windows might be confused by it. I don't
>think that's actually the problem, tho.
>
>Have you rooted around in Microsoft's Knowledge Base for anything about
>such problems (Win2K, large disks, new partitions, won't boot)?
>
>
I have stumbled upon a few MSKB articles in my Googling about this
problem but nothing that was terribly helpful.
There is no doubt that there is nothing but junk inside the newly
created second partition but, AKAIK, w2k shouldn't be looking inside
there at al and it would interpret a valid ext3fs as junk too.
I took a look at the partition information with a hex editor last night
with reference to this website:
http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwtab.htm
The partition table looked clean in that there was no extra junk
floating around and the partitions were clearly defined. Adding of the
second partition information did not affect the first partition info at all.
However, the fields annoted as: "Starting/Ending CHS in INT 13 call
format" seemed to max out such that the first partition started at 01 01
00 as it should and ended at FE FF FF. The second partition both started
and ended at FE FF FF. Now I suspect that Linux just ignores these
values and uses the LBA ones later on in the record (which were sane)
but w2k might be having a bit of trauma over this. According to
everything I have read, it shouldn't have any problems with big
partitions like this though.
Still looking for ways to get w2k over its psychological barrier ...
/Mike
18 years, 9 months
evolution
by roland
Hello everybody,
Like everybody, I receive emails with docs in attachment.
When I click on them, they do not open.
How can I tell evolution to open with swrite?
Thanks for your help
Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba
Antwerp-Belgium
roland(a)cat.be
18 years, 9 months
RE: Radius servers : off topic
by Mike McGrath
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> >
> > I've used FreeRADIUS in the past, its a very powerful and flexible
> > radius server. We had it set up to do accounting and
> authentication
> > against MySQL and Microsoft's SQL server (as well as some proxied
> > requests to other radius servers). Also if you're looking for help
> > check out the FreeRADIUS list serves.
> > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
>
> Thanks Mike, where did you find the docs for Freeradius??
>
Much is included with the source (/usr/share/doc/freeradius-1.0.1/) but
for
the most part I just followed the comments in the config files found in
/etc/raddb (if you install via rpm) Also there is a RADIUS O'Reilly
book. I
seem to remember it being very helpful.
-Mike
18 years, 9 months
How to strip kernel module
by Dario Lesca
After a:
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
make
make modules_install
make install
How to strip all kernel modules ?
there is a specific command or I must use a:
'find -some-options... | xargs strip'
command?
Many thanks for reply
--
Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>
18 years, 9 months
RE: Radius servers : off topic
by Mike McGrath
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of ricklim(a)telus.net
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:17 AM
> To: Fedora List
> Subject: Radius servers : off topic
>
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> Which radius server (open source) would you pick and why?
>
> - Freeradius
> - Openradius
> - others........
>
> I am looking for one that is easy to maintain and has
> documentation, I find Freeradius lacking in docs.
>
> Also any pointers to info on how to use radius with
> accounting or backend programs etc.
>
> TIA
>
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>
>
I've used FreeRADIUS in the past, its a very powerful and flexible
radius server. We had it set up to do accounting and authentication
against MySQL and Microsoft's SQL server (as well as some proxied
requests to other radius servers). Also if you're looking for help
check out the FreeRADIUS list serves.
http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
-Mike
18 years, 9 months
Slow page rendering with Firefox
by Raman Gupta
The firefox on my fully updated Fedora Core 4 box renders many larger
pages very slowly. During the page rendering, Firefox "hangs"
completely. A good test page is:
http://scragz.com/tech/mozilla/test-rendering-time.php
Rendering the scragz page, and others, on the same hardware and OS,
various other browsers are over 4 times faster, including Firefox for
windows:
Linux Firefox 1.06 42.23
Linux Konqueror 3.4.2-0.fc4.1 13.27
Linux Opera 8.02 build 1272 7.08
Windows (via VMWare) Firefox 1.06 8.18
Windows (via VMWare) IE 6 7.12
All of the above times are without any extensions *or* plugins installed
(in fact, with Greasemonkey installed, Linux Firefox took over 100
seconds to render).
Running an strace on the Firefox process while loading occurred shows a
lot of time being spent in brk() calls (usually one brk call was over
20s). Here is output from "vmstat 5" while the page rendering is occurring:
procs -----------memory---------- -swap- ---io--- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
[...]
0 0 620600 76896 7292 432368 0 0 1 4 2212 4947 7 5 88 0
1 0 620600 76896 7316 432372 0 0 0 18 2213 4963 9 6 85 0
[page load starts]
5 0 620600 76772 7348 432624 0 0 6 66 2282 4882 64 10 25 1
1 0 620600 76672 7364 432640 0 0 1 6 2205 4909 94 6 0 0
3 0 620600 76648 7388 432652 0 0 2 20 2228 4943 92 7 0 0
1 0 620600 76416 7412 432668 0 0 1 67 2217 4910 94 6 0 0
2 0 620600 76408 7428 432684 0 0 1 18 2224 4889 93 7 0 0
2 0 620600 76276 7436 432696 0 0 1 2 2210 4889 93 7 0 0
1 0 620596 76260 7452 432712 1 0 2 18 2213 4871 91 9 0 0
1 0 620596 76292 7468 432728 0 0 1 11 2213 4868 90 10 0 0
[page load ends]
3 0 620596 75384 7524 432756 0 0 6 26 2258 5537 69 12 19 0
0 0 620596 75308 7540 432768 0 0 1 14 2215 4885 16 7 77 0
0 0 620596 75144 7680 432840 0 0 12 161 2232 4957 10 8 81 1
0 0 620596 75176 7696 432856 0 0 1 50 2213 4926 7 6 87 0
So swapping is not an issue. Lots of memory is available if cache is
included. Not much disk activity is happening, but the CPU is getting
hammered.
This was also tested using a completely new profile (no ~/.mozilla
directory present), with the same result.
Can anyone else duplicate these results? Does anybody have any other
debugging/setup/configuration suggestions?
Cheers,
Raman Gupta
18 years, 9 months
Implementing networked /home
by Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello,
I have several linux (FC and Redhat) workstations. I am thinking of
implementing a centralized /home for this workstations,using NFS.
Authentication is done using NIS.
I have several questions about how to implement this, and what's the best way.
Here are the options I'm considering:
1. On the server: export /home. On the clients: mount /home. I know how to do
this. This should be the simplest.
2. On the server, export /home/user1, /home/user2, etc, thus for each user
there is a "export line" for that user home directory. On the clients:
mount /home/username whenever username login to that workstation.
What is the advantages or disadvantages of (1) and (2) ? I have seen (2) being
used on some network (that I don't administer), so I am wondering if this is
the usual best practice. Furthermore I'm not sure I know how to do (2). Is
there a PAM module that do this ? I have also read that a lot of mount points
can put heavy load on the server, so I am not sure if (2) is better.
Any suggestions, or pointers is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
RDB
18 years, 9 months
It seems mplayer doesn't use 3d-hardware...
by Strong
I'm in dout if my mplayer*pre7 uses 3d-harware.
Is there a way how to check/fix it?
I made it out of src.rpm.
I tried to turn on gl and gl2 - it blinks!
Currently i use xv, xvidix - refuses to work at all.
I have ATI9250Sapphire128Mb video card.
--
Best regards,
Strong.
18 years, 9 months
ATI propriety driver: no 3D
by A.J. Bonnema
Hi all,
I've just installed the 64 kernel FC4 on my AMD Athlon 64 X2 with a Asus
AX800XL (which is a Radeon X800 card).
For a driver I used the propriety one from ATI so I could play
freedroidRPG (it needs 3D acceleration).
What happens is, the /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows the following messages:
(II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
(II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.a
(II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
compiled for 6.8.0, module version = 8.16.20
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) fglrx(0): Depth moves disabled by default
(**) fglrx(0): Capabilities: 0x02008000
(**) fglrx(0): CapabilitiesEx: 0x00000400
(**) fglrx(0): cpuFlags: 0x4000001f
(**) fglrx(0): cpuSpeedMHz: 0x000003ed
(==) fglrx(0): OpenGL ClientDriverName: "fglrx_dri.so"
(**) fglrx(0): UseFastTLS=0
(**) fglrx(0): BlockSignalsOnLock=0
(==) fglrx(0): EnablePrivateBackZ = NO
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
<snip>
(II) fglrx(0): UMM Bus area: 0xc0701000 (size=0x078ef000)
(II) fglrx(0): UMM area: 0xc0701000 (size=0x078ef000)
(II) fglrx(0): driver needs X.org 6.8.x.y with x.y >= 0.0
(II) fglrx(0): detected X.org 6.8.2.0
(II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
(II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
So, bottom line is, I have no 3D accelleration because the
/dev/dri/card0 is missing?
Or, is 3D hardware acceleration just not available for Radeon X800 cards?
If I start freedroidRPG anyway, it ends my X-session immediately
(really: a fraction of a second) and I am presented a logon screen......
Does anyone know what is wrong here?
Guus.
--
A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
18 years, 9 months
How to unrar an archive
by Antonio Montagnani
With the standard file-roller I cannot extract a rar archive.
I installed rar and unrar from freshrpms but when I extract it I get an
error saying that cannot volume xxxx appending a 0 in front of the
correct volume.
Any hint?
--
Antonio
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