Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Thomas
I'll try to pull this later tonight and post it. On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Andrew Z wrote: Kevin, I'm sure you went over this. Already, but maybe you can tell us what last (relevant ) lines are in messages are and what X.log has? -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please

Cups Changes

2011-09-12 Thread Larry Linder
Has Cups had any recent updates? Several of our cad programs have developed a print problem in the last two weeks. No matter which way you print - landscape or portrait it prints it as portrait. Eagle - a PWB layout system has developed this problem - where the user can print a one page file

Re: Cups Changes

2011-09-12 Thread Urs Beyerle
On 09/12/2011 03:00 PM, Larry Linder wrote: Has Cups had any recent updates? That really depends on how and when you update your systems and which SL release you are using. I would suggest that you ask your rpm database. For example rpm -qa --last | grep cups rpm -q cups --changelog | less

Re: Installing SL6 behind a proxy

2011-09-12 Thread Connie Sieh
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Steven Haigh wrote: On 10/09/2011 1:46 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, madm...@comsoft.de wrote: Set up a local mirror. Use *that* as the URL for your installation: the packages are GPG signed and thus authenticated, which helps I do exactly that.

Re: Xfce 4.6 / 4.8 for SL 6

2011-09-12 Thread Andrew Z
Jean-Paul, envy about your vacations. :) Thank you for the doc and reply. AZ On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Jean-Paul Chaput jean-paul.cha...@lip6.fr wrote: Hello Mr Z, Sorry for the response delay, I was in vacations. Yes, my repo can be used alongside with EPEL. In fact, packages

Re: Graphical login + ldap (+ NFS?) problems :)

2011-09-12 Thread Christopher Tooley
I don't think that's the issue here: - [root@borky ~]# diff /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac /etc/pam.d/password-auth-ac [root@borky ~]# - I'll look into the authconfig stuff a bit more... -Chris On 2011-09-09, at 6:18 AM, Rob O'Neale wrote: I fixed a

Re: Graphical login + ldap (+ NFS?) problems :)

2011-09-12 Thread Steve Jahl
I know I have successfully set up LDAP *and* NFS, because I can log in remotely with SSH as well as on a terminal. However, when I try to log in with GDM or XDM, it will accept my password, black out the screen, and then return to either GDM or XDM. I *can*, however, log in with a local

Re: Installing SL6 behind a proxy

2011-09-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Steven Haigh wrote: On 10/09/2011 1:46 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, madm...@comsoft.de  wrote: Set up a local mirror. Use *that* as the URL for your installation: the packages are GPG

Re: Scientific Linux 5.7 RC 2 Release i386/x86_64

2011-09-12 Thread Connie Sieh
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Connie Sieh wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Connie Sieh wrote: The second release candidate for Scientific Linux 5.7 has been released. This release has all the new updated packages from The Upstream Vendors Update 7, as well as the security and fastbugs up to today except

KVM errors when starting or restarting guests

2011-09-12 Thread James Kelly
Hello SL users, When I install sl5.6 and sl5.7 64 bit guests on a KVM sl6.1 64 bit host I am seeing the following errors (when the virtual machine starts or restarts): Sep 11 20:00:34 kvm-sl6x kernel: kvm: 2022: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr wrmsr: 0xc0010005 data 0x0 Sep 11 20:00:34 kvm-sl6x

Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Thomas
I tried the i915.disable=1 trick but It didn't work. Kevin On Monday, September 12, 2011, Phil Perry p...@pendre.co.uk wrote: On 12/09/11 04:18, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Kevin Thomasaxel2...@gmail.com wrote: You are correct that when you install the kmod-nvidia

Re: Graphical login + ldap (+ NFS?) problems :)

2011-09-12 Thread Christopher Tooley
On 2011-09-12, at 12:51 PM, Steve Jahl wrote: I know I have successfully set up LDAP *and* NFS, because I can log in remotely with SSH as well as on a terminal. However, when I try to log in with GDM or XDM, it will accept my password, black out the screen, and then return to either GDM

Re: Graphical login + ldap (+ NFS?) problems :)

2011-09-12 Thread Christopher Tooley
On 2011-09-12, at 12:51 PM, Steve Jahl wrote: I know I have successfully set up LDAP *and* NFS, because I can log in remotely with SSH as well as on a terminal. However, when I try to log in with GDM or XDM, it will accept my password, black out the screen, and then return to either GDM

Re: KVM errors when starting or restarting guests

2011-09-12 Thread Steven Timm
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, James Kelly wrote: Hello SL users, When I install sl5.6 and sl5.7 64 bit guests on a KVM sl6.1 64 bit host I am seeing the following errors (when the virtual machine starts or restarts): Sep 11 20:00:34 kvm-sl6x kernel: kvm: 2022: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr wrmsr:

xfce - panel animation

2011-09-12 Thread Andrew Z
i understand that this question should belong to XFCE list group, but it's very simple and i hope i won't get killed over it :) Q: is there a way to make the panel 2 ( the panel on the bottom of the screen which acts like a launcher for favorite apps ) hide and rise like it's done in Apple OS?

Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop

2011-09-12 Thread Andrew Z
h. Did you see this : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124918? (silly question, but i'll still try) - are you sure you have the latest and greatest driver? get rid of xorg.conf and see if you get anything. On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Kevin Thomas axel2...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Thomas
I just read over that, but I didn't get much out of it other than the intel stuff worked (there wasn't really any explanation on that) and that bumblee is the proclaimed solution, unless I'm missing something. I don't know what you mean by the latest and greatest driver. Are you referring to