OT: Have Netvision installed some new proxy?
Hi, Within the last few days, trying to watch any video (not just in YouTube), doesn't show any video for quite a long time (even minutes) and then it catches up and quickly fills the buffers, which is very annoying. Again, it's not only youtube, it's some other web sites which shows quicktime video for example. Did you also noticed this behavior? Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: can the BIOS be changed from Linux? - failed overclocking with new computer
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 07:28 +0200, lior wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:44:17 +0200, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought a new computer, install Ubuntu 9.10 beta (not the RC as it was not out yet) and after I try to reboot, the computer does not even reach the BIOS boot sequence. (blank screen). After letting it rest for some time I can turn it on, then it gets to the BIOS boot and displays the following error: Warning!!! The previous overclocking had failed, and system will restore its default setting. Press any key to continue... Pressing a key makes it boot but the happens again after one or two bootings. Oh, an *I* have not touched the BIOS and *I* did not configure overclocking. I already took the computer back once and they told me about some rare thing that happens only once every 2 years that the BIOS is flips. I think they just either did not configure it well or for some reason it gets broken after the first boot. Or something is broken or incompatible in the hardware. The question if Linux might change the BIOS or cause this problem? If not, what do you think could be the reason and the fix? Here are the details of the computer (from the order form) just in case someone can see some parts that do not work well with Linux or with each other. CPU: Q8200 2.33 Gh 4MB Core 2 Quad mother board: G41M-E43 DDR3 HDMI MSI screen card: Nvidia GeForce 9400Gt 512MB P.P.View HD: 500 Gb SATA2 16 Mb Hitachi Memory: CL7 DBT GEIL 2x2Gb (4Gb) DDR3 1066 Mhz DVD: GH22NS SATA LG DVDX22 DL power: 350W FAN 12 CM Power man I think you might be underpowered. I input the above specification in the newegg PSU calculator and got ~390W. http://educations.newegg.com/tool/psucalc/index.html The boot sequence is one point in time where you might notice this. Lior I second the above. You need at -least- a 450w PSU for this machine. (In your case, the CPU + GPU alone can eat more than 250w...) - Gilboa Interesting. I took back the computer again. They called me 3 days later and told me they tried to reboot it 100 times and it worked fine. They also told me to look at the power calculator of MSI http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=power and that one shows that I need less than 300 W. Very strange and I am not sure what to do with this whole situation. Gabor ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
how to disable PolicyKit?
Hi, I suspect that some package update is to blame, but my home Fedora 10 (too busy - or lazy - to upgrade to 11) has recently acquired something called PolicyKit, probably as a dependency of something else. It seems to be a complicated and cumbersome authentication/security framework that so far has not done me much harm (I think), but I blame it for popping up annoying and meaningless (to me) authorization dialog forms requiring username and password for all kinds of weird things, URLs, etc. http://scripts.felloweb.com comes to mind as one of the recent ones, I tried to check what it is but the site requires a password from a browser as well, I still don't know what it is). I tried to google, to read the docs, and to poke around the system. I added result=yes to the config file for my user to tell it I can do anything I want on my computer. What I really want to do is to kill the beast once and for all. It looks incredibly complicated, I can't make sense of the documentation (and I am pretty good at parsing manuals, if I say so myself), and for the life of me I can't figure out why, on top of sudo, pam, SElinux, and everything else I need this thing from the fscking Gnome (pardon my French - I don't even use Gnome, but there is PolicyKit-kde as well). Does anyone know how I can disable the bloody thing globally so that it shuts up once and for all? I am wary of uninstalling it bluntly after I tried to trace the RPM dependencies and got lost in the forest - the dependency net is cast widely indeed. Is it safe to rpm -e --nodeps? Will anything serious break? Thanks in advance, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
