Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread ken
On 10/04/2014 07:19 PM Valeri Galtsev wrote: Many curse AMD video chips (for laptop) in this thread. Are these only shared memory chips that people have reason not to like? Or real discrete AMD (former ATI) chips are bad on laptops as well? If there are any. (Are there any with their own

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/5/2014 12:48 AM, ken wrote: I sincerely *hope* that it isn't some kind of trend that video cards are using shared memory instead of dedicated memory on the card itself. All machines I've bought or built since the late '90s have had video cards with a .5G of dedicated memory. This is

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread ken
On 10/05/2014 04:02 AM John R Pierce wrote: On 10/5/2014 12:48 AM, ken wrote: I sincerely *hope* that it isn't some kind of trend that video cards are using shared memory instead of dedicated memory on the card itself. All machines I've bought or built since the late '90s have had video

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/5/2014 1:58 AM, ken wrote: Perhaps you're intimately familiar with each and every video card manufactured since the early '80s except for the ones I bought with my machines, because I've always insisted on video cards with static RAM. Or perhaps your understanding of static RAM is

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread ken
On 10/05/2014 04:58 AM ken wrote: On 10/05/2014 04:02 AM John R Pierce wrote: On 10/5/2014 12:48 AM, ken wrote: I sincerely *hope* that it isn't some kind of trend that video cards are using shared memory instead of dedicated memory on the card itself. All machines I've bought or built

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread jwyeth . arch
... Ken, please provide links to prove your claims that SRAM is still being used as opposed to asking for links for the opposition. I see no proof that SRAM is still used at all except for in Xbox One and CPU's L3 cache, etc. I also see that its much more expensive and when I attempt to find a

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, October 5, 2014 3:02 am, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/5/2014 12:48 AM, ken wrote: I sincerely *hope* that it isn't some kind of trend that video cards are using shared memory instead of dedicated memory on the card itself. All machines I've bought or built since the late '90s have

Re: [CentOS] [exim] how to check a message header for being empty

2014-10-05 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 12:51 +0100, Dennis Davis wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, lee wrote: Is the Subject: header required by some RFC? If it is, I'll also deny messages that don't have one. Not as far as I'm aware. RFC5322, Internet Message Format, contains: The only required

Re: [CentOS] Renaming NIC name in CentOS 7

2014-10-05 Thread George Kontostanos
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 10/03/2014 03:11 PM, Richer, Mark (CIV) wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded. This led to some interesting reading and learning, but it hasn’t avoided the reboot. I found this page on udev: How to reload

Re: [CentOS] Renaming NIC name in CentOS 7

2014-10-05 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Mark, You can use ip tools to do the trick. For Ubuntu I wrote this upstart script that helps with it without touching udev. You can see it here: http://www1.ngtech.co.il/paste/1175/ You can run this function at runtime and it will change the

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, October 5, 2014 4:57 am, ken wrote: On 10/05/2014 04:58 AM ken wrote: On 10/05/2014 04:02 AM John R Pierce wrote: On 10/5/2014 12:48 AM, ken wrote: I sincerely *hope* that it isn't some kind of trend that video cards are using shared memory instead of dedicated memory on the card

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, October 5, 2014 6:34 am, jwyeth.a...@gmail.com wrote: ... Ken, please provide links to prove your claims that SRAM is still being used as opposed to asking for links for the opposition. I see no proof that SRAM is still used at all except for in Xbox One and CPU's L3 cache, etc. I

[CentOS] VMWare Workstation Guest Keep Crashing

2014-10-05 Thread Igal @ getRailo.org
hi all, I've inherited a CentOS 6.4 machine that runs VMWare Workstation 9 which in turn hosts a Windows SBS 2011 guest. the problem is that the Windows guest keeps crashing, and I have no idea why. it was working fine for a while but recently started crashing after a day or two of operation.

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/5/2014 6:17 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: John, I would respectfully disagree. The bad thing about shared memory video cards is fundamental in the architecture. They use as video RAM a portion of main RAM, that means they place the video traffic (30, or 60, 50 25 frames per second multiplied

[CentOS] CentOS 7 - Have 2 disks, each with a biosboot partition, can only boot off one of them

2014-10-05 Thread Digimer
Hi all, I used a kickstart script to setup a new machine of mine with RAID 1 (I couldn't get anaconda to create matching partition schemes). So I've now got /dev/sdg1 and /dev/sdh1 as 'bios_grub' (/dev/sd{a-f} are a separate array). 0 root@an-nas02:~# parted /dev/sdg print free Model:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 - Have 2 disks, each with a biosboot partition, can only boot off one of them

2014-10-05 Thread Digimer
On 05/10/14 02:37 PM, Digimer wrote: Hi all, I used a kickstart script to setup a new machine of mine with RAID 1 (I couldn't get anaconda to create matching partition schemes). So I've now got /dev/sdg1 and /dev/sdh1 as 'bios_grub' (/dev/sd{a-f} are a separate array). 0 root@an-nas02:~#

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 - Installing on software RAID 1

2014-10-05 Thread Digimer
This is a follow-up to my thread on only being able to boot off of one disk when CentOS 7 is installed on software RAID level 1 disks. I had two problems; Anaconda wouldn't allow a biosboot partition on both disks, so the partition geometry didn't match the two disks. When I dropped to shell

Re: [CentOS] Renaming NIC name in CentOS 7

2014-10-05 Thread George Kontostanos
I really don't get it. Why get into so much fuss just to rename your interfaces On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Eliezer Croitoru elie...@ngtech.co.il wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Mark, You can use ip tools to do the trick. For Ubuntu I wrote this upstart

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-10-04, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:34:14 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote: The best way to achieve your end is to delete the unused desktop installations from your machine. Software not installed is the best defence against attack directed at that

Re: [CentOS] Renaming NIC name in CentOS 7

2014-10-05 Thread Digimer
To answer this question using my use-case; I build HA clusters, and I want to make sure that physical port X on all nodes have the same device name. Biosdevname tries to address this, but doesn't work all the time. Further, in my case, I've got a minimum of six interfaces in each node,

[CentOS] lvcreate error

2014-10-05 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am unable create a new logical volume, I receive the following error when using lvcreate # lvcreate -L 1g -n system3_root hm device-mapper: resume ioctl on failed: Invalid argument Unable to resume hm-system3_root (253:7) Failed to activate new LV.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 20:17:45 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote: You could find out what packages the .desktop files belong to (when they are back in their original location): rpm -qf /usr/share/xsessions/gnome* Then remove the corresponding package(s) using yum. Obviously, check for

[CentOS] Dell Dimension 2400 W/Intel 845-G Video

2014-10-05 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey Y'all, I've been Googeling and experimenting for two days trying to find a way to deal with the Intel 845-G video chipset in this Dell Dimension 2400. First, it doesn't have a DVD drive so I have to install from a CD. When I try to boot into the Live CD I get a video error something like,

Re: [CentOS] Dell Dimension 2400 W/Intel 845-G Video

2014-10-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/5/2014 7:47 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: I've been Googeling and experimenting for two days trying to find a way to deal with the Intel 845-G video chipset in this Dell Dimension 2400. thats a Pentium 4 chipset from 2002, with 2nd generation intel embedded graphics ?thats some seriously