Re: [CentOS] unix2dos did NOT fix line wrap problem on PC
On Thursday 28 August 2008 18:05:26 Stephen Moccio wrote: On the pc - open the file using wordpad. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:13 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] unix2dos did NOT fix line wrap problem on PC On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:57 AM, mcclnx mcc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have log files will mail from LINUX to my PC (MS exchange and outlook). When I look the E-MAIL, the log file line is unwrap. My script did use unix2dos to convert format. anyone know why? == script = tail -30 /var/log/messages /tmp/diskmsg.log unix2dos /tmp/diskmsg.log mail -s Check log [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/diskmsg.log unix2dos has nothing to do with the length of a line. It only changes the line-end characters that occur when a new line is specifically indicated (i.e. at the end of each log entry). Wrapping is entirely a function of the program in which you are viewing the text. So tweak your Outlook to wrap or not-wrap as you see fit. Do a google search for pfe.exe (Programmers File Editor). Its a freeware windoz text editor that handles linux / Unix or dos / windows end of line characters with out any problems. If you can't find it e mail me off list and I can attach it to my reply, its only a 2/3mb file. Regards John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?
On Monday 07 July 2008 10:50:11 William L. Maltby wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:48 +1000, hce wrote:
On 7/4/08, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 12:41 +1000, hce wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:18 AM, William L. Maltby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
After this, I'll pop in Mark Knoppfler's Shangri-La and diff the
two files.
# cd /proc/asound
# find . -type f -exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \; /tmp/asound
I guess alsa and /proc are all fine on my machine, but I've got a
blank result on /proc/asound running following find, no sure if that
was significant:
If all files below /proc/asound are empty after trying to play a sound
are empty, things can't be alright and that is significant. What it
implies, I haven't a clue.
Blank result? I'm skeptical about that. *scratching head*
[asound]$ find . -type f -exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \;
/tmp/asound
The /tmp/asound file should contain at least the file names that it
s/file/files found under asound and its sub-dirs/
found. And I can't believe that trying to play something would remove
the contents of those files. 1) It would have to be root and 2) IIRC,
we can't remove stuff in /proc as it is from the kernel and not a real
file system and 3) We could only change the contents of *some* things.
I tested the above command with a CP and it worked. Maybe you had a
typo or the frustration is getting to you and you examined the wrong
file?
I used above command with a CP as well. I've also verified the
command to my another FC7 box which has sound worked well, it also
shown a blank result as well.
That puts me at a total loss. If every file below the /proc/asound tree
is empty after trying to play a file/CD is empty, then all the driver
modules would be gone. Then an lsmod should show no drivers loaded. If
drivers appear in lsmod, some files under asound and its sub-directories
have to be non-empty.
Remember that an ls -lR /proc/asound will show 0-length files even
though there is something in those files. If you depended on ls to
determine if a file was empty, that's a mistake.
$ rpm -qa | grep -i alsaalsa-utils-1.0.14-3.rc4.el5
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5
alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5
]$ rpm --verify alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5.i386
alsa-utils-1.0.14-3.rc4.el5.i386 | echo $?
0
The above command s/b rpm --verify ; echo $?
|
If you meant ||, it would still be logically incorrect as we want to
see the return value, regardless.
Actually, I tried without echo $? first, it display lots of
parameters, seems file. I can try the echo $? again, what is the
correct command for it? Is following command correct?
rpm --verify alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5.i386
lsa-utils-1.0.14-3.rc4.el5.i386; echo $?
If that is all on one line or the first line ends with a \, yes. But
the form with -v --verify is useful too. It will let you know if
something is scrogged. The man page for rpm will tell the meaning of the
output. If you put a redirect to a temporary file, you can look at the
results. Something like this
rpm -v --verify ... ... /tmp/rpm.lst; echo $?
[asound]$ ls
card0 cards devices Intel modules oss pcm seq timers
version
[asound]$ pwd cat modules cat cards /proc/asound
0 snd_hda_intel
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xf050 irq 66
I've also tried to ls in /proc/asound/Intel:
$ ls
codec#0 codec#1 id oss_mixer pcm0c pcm0p pcm2c
Seems, all drivers there, is there any command such as cat to verify
low level drivers by playing a sound?
You need an application to do that. I've only used various Gnome
desktop facilities. The file manager (Nautilus?) should do that when
you double click a sound file. I'll test ... BRB
Yep. I went to /usr/share/sounds/alsa, using file manager, and it
opened totem and played the sounds. This means that you could open
totem directly, or any other sound playing application and try it.
Unfortunately, unless we suspect broken applications are the problem,
this really only is the same as what you tried to do originally, less
the CD.
I can use vlc to play the *.wav or other audio files, but I tried to
figure out where is the block or missing link with the audio. Right
now, no sound when I run vlc to play audio files. If I could check and
play in some means with low level driver first, I guess I could find
if the problem is high level applications or low lever drivers. Seems
that the drivers all there, but don't know if them are working or not.
ISTR that long ago there were CLI sound/CD players. I don't know if
there are any left. I suggest a Google.
Thank
Re: [CentOS] Torrent sharing question
On Friday 27 June 2008 16:00:44 Karanbir Singh wrote: John Bowden wrote: Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John We normally drop the torrents from the tracker around the time a new version is released so you should as well. Do you even see any traffic on these older torrents ? By the way, I think we ( as a community ) should strongly discurage people from installing older software specially since the older stuff now has known and published widely bug's and potentially remote security issues. Ofcourse there are people who will, due to whatever reason, still want to get out there and install an older version - they are welcome to use the vault.centos.org machines. - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Ok I will archive them in the morning and save some space. John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.2 upgrade mostly good (so far)
On Wednesday 25 June 2008 19:02:28 fred smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:47:10PM -0500, Robert wrote: Olaf Mueller wrote: fred smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:46:53PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: fred smith wrote: 1. shutdown -h now goes all the way down but does not power down the box like it always has before. Same when shutting down via the GUI shutdown dialog. I know this from systems with older processors. For me a 'apm=power-off' in the /etc/grub.conf kernel-line does the trick. would your older include an Athlon XP 2600+ ? No, of course not. My older processors are pII, pIII and athlon, from 266MHz to 800MHz. regards Olaf As an added data point, since the OP seems concerned about Athlon XP2600+, I am running that processor in an ASUS A7N8X2.0 Deluxe m/b ACPI BIOS Rev 1008 and it powered down just fine following the CentOS 5.2 upgrade. Here's the first stanza of grub.conf: #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.img and here's mine (including Olaf's suggested change): #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.1.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet apm=power-off initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.img I have to say that adding the apm=power-off didn't change a thing, it still doesn't shut off the power. Now, I can't say with certainty when I last saw it do that, because i rarely shut down the box. It runs my mail server for the household, so it runs for months at a time, but I know that it has in the past always worked whenever I've watched it go down. I just booted the prevous kernel and noticed that it doesn't power off either. Strange. I know it used to work (I've been using Centos, and formerly Tao Linux on this board since it was new.) This is a gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 board, nvidia chipset, nvidia graphics card (old GeForce 4). Any other advice you can come up with (while I go do some googling) would be appreciated. I have one of those mother boards with an 2.4 Athlon XP CPU, it had 5.1 on it, ( I was experimenting with software / hardware raid). Hope to find the time to put some more hard drives into it this weekend and put 5.2 on it and set it up as my central home file storage server. It never had a problem with shutting down with 5.1, I will report any problems / success after I have installed. It has had a few bios updates since I got it a few years ago. I also have an older AMD K6 550 MHz machine running Mandriva Linux and that had a problem shutting down with the latest version of Mandriva installed. John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Torrent sharing question
Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re:OT [CentOS] Re: 5.1 Anaconda Install Error SOLVED
On Thursday 05 June 2008 17:55:23 Kirk Bocek wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: It's not truly any relationship like that. It's just (in the old days) a device ID selected on the cable by jumpers on the drive. The control is nothing more than the IDE controller selecting either 0 or 1 device ID for commands and data. The drive with the matching ID responds while the other ignores. In todays world, cable select might provide the ID assignment. I'm not sure how master and slave came to be used in this scenario, unless it had to do with BIOS boot processes back in the old days. Well, right you are. Scroll down to Master and Slave Clarification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Drive_Electronics I had been laboring under the impression that the 'master' drive controlled both drives on a single cable. Now I've learned the truth just in time for SATA to take over. :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi kirk Better late than never ;-) I got a draw full of old 10 - 40 Gb IDE hard drives and 4 old boxes with 333 - 550mhz cpu's. I'm never board. Got one with an old scsi sheet feed scanner. and isa modem set up as a fax / answer machine connected to my phone line at home. All bits begged or borrowed! John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 16:04:54 Scott Silva wrote: on 6-3-2008 2:22 AM Peter Arremann spake the following: On Tuesday 03 June 2008 02:07:12 am Christopher Chan wrote: Victor Padro wrote: Hello all, I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions? Use acpi=off or noapic to deal with broken Asus bioses. Next time, buy MSI or A-bit. Doesn't MSI require you to have windows for bios updates? Peter. Most boards I have had usually had a floppy image available on the website for bioses. Only live update is the windows only software. Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. john -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] External USB Hard Drive mount problems
Hi Folks I have a number of external USB enclosures with hard drives in. Some are IDE and others are SATA drives. I'm running CentOS 5 + all updates. Recently when I plug in an external drive I get the message Invalid filesystem type. I have install the NTFS-3G bits stuff and reformatted the hard drives with FAT32 but still get the same error message. This started after an update (not shore which one,) as I had been able to copy files to / from these disks before. I have turned off selinux and had a look at my fstab file, but can't see any thing obvious. Can some one point me in the right direction to debug this please? Regards John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Chip set support
Hi folks. I,m thinking of purchasing an ASUS mother board with this chip set in it. NVIDIA® nForce® 430 MCP Lan= NVIDIA® nForce® 430 MCP built-in Gigabit MAC with external Attansic PHY. Any one know how well the chip set is supported. Any comments? Thanks John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] f/oss routing solution?
On Sunday 27 April 2008 18:23:18 Rogelio wrote: I'm looking for an open source router solution, and someone from the list recently recommended zebra (www.zebra.org). I haven't yet identified all my needs, but I'm guessing that it will do all my routing needs for a, say, class C set of IP addresses, particularly if I ever have to do anything BGP-related. Anyone have any pointers before I delve in? Or possibly a recommendation for another open source routing solution? Yeah, I know about Cisco stuff, but I'm hoping to limp along on a shoestring budget until I get a few more things in place, then I'll rethink everything. Hi Rogelio There is / was a project called something like the CD router project. It would turn an old PC with all the PCI slots filled with NIC's and a CD ROM drive into a router. Don't know if its still around and I'm not on line at the moment to have a look. I'm almost sure I have a copy on CD at home some where, if you want let me know and I will have a look for it. John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum
On Monday 24 March 2008 18:59:59 Les Mikesell wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: One is from the kbs repo, and one is from rpmforge. Mostly, you're mixing similar packages from different repositories. This is a bad thing, and the reason for the existence of priorities, and protectbase plugins, as well as include/exclude statements on a per repository basis. Thanks for pointing that out. I had not even noticed the differences. When I installed clamav and everything, I let yum do it, so I just assumed it would pull in all the right pieces. I know not to mix repositories, so I'm at a loss how this happened. I assume now I have to install the correct clamav package and clamav-db? What would best practices do - remove the earlier version and start over? It's been quite a while since I did any stuff on the machine, as it just runs and works as it's supposed to do, but I see now I need to start playing catch-up. I'd make sure all the 3rd party repos are disabled in their /etc/yum.repos.d files, do an 'rpm -e ...' of any questionable packages, then do a 'yum --enablerepo=reponame install package1 package2...' so you can group the specific sets together from the same repo. That doesn't guarantee it will come out right but at least it gives a hint about what you want to happen. I would also back to a separate directory up any configuration files for the software you are about to re-install especially if they are not default configuration files. That way you can always compare before and after settings. Regards John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 06:21:43 Yu-Hui Jin wrote: Hi, Jason, Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter, but it was extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing media page and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I forced shutdown my box. That's because you are using the drive in IDE mode with a general work with most controllers driver. Might be worth giving it time to finish the installation and let CentOS go online and find the correct driver. I also tried to download and install the AHCI driver following this article: http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865 Not on line at the moment so can't follow the link at the moment But the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing this software. Sounds like the installation is not finding the correct controller chip, is it the correct driver? It seemed that no trick has worked yet... any new suggestion or advice? Thanks, -Hui On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot with linux all-generic-ide or try to change your bios sata emulation to ahci Yu-Hui Jin wrote: Hi, there, I tried to install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just bought, but failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize either the DVD nor the hard disk. Joseph from the community said it is likely that Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel SATA controller (cmiiw). Did anyone solve this problem before? How did you do it? Here's the related configuration for my box: Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core Technology and 8MB cache SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ(500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM)) SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S (16X DVD+/-RW Drive) Many thanks! regards, -Hui --- - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Was there an operating system (M$?) on the machine before you tried to upgrade the O/S to CentOS and if so did the controller have access to both drives? What is the controller that the drives are connected to? Regards John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cpu type
On Sunday 03 February 2008 12:12:49 Steve Searle wrote: Around 12:06pm on Sunday, February 03, 2008 (UK time), Jimmy Bradley scrawled: and open it up to find out. Is there a command entered by way of the terminal window that will tell me what kind of cpu I have? I want to say that it's an AMD sempron 3000+, but I'm not sure. cat /proc/cpuinfo Steve This command tells you what CPU you are running, but not what CPU the motherboard is capable of tacking. That depends on the type of CPU socket is on the motherboard and sometimes the BIOS revision. When the machine boots up and displays the bios screen it should display a longish line of letters and text at the bottom or top of the screen, (in between the memory / hard drive info). Make a note of it and do a Google search on it will give you the motherboards manufacturer and bios revision. If the board is out of a HP, Del or other branded manufacturer then you can use software to interrogate the motherboard and bios to get this info. I don't know of any Linux commands to do this though. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DVD support on CentOS 5.1
On Friday 01 February 2008 21:08:51 MHR wrote: On Feb 1, 2008 2:17 AM, Ross Cavanagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package that you want to install from rpmforge is: gstreamer-ugly-plugins It should make gstreamer (and totem on centos5) be able to play dvds. I am not sure if it works, as I use mplayer on my personal workstation :D Thanks, Johnny Hughes Also, you may require libdvd, this is available from the rpmforge repo. -Ross- Actually, you need several libdvd libraries - libdvdplay, libdvdcss, libdvdnav, libdvdread and maybe something else (I still can't get Totem to play my DVDs - I use mplayer, too, and xine when it works ~40% of the time). mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Is Kaffeine in the repos? I'm on my Mandriva notebook at the moment,(still setting up my first CentOS box). I use it to watch DVD and TV and most other media files. It does a check the first time you start it and lets you know whats missing. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Modem USB 3G
On Saturday 26 January 2008 21:23:30 Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH / WQFK-894 wrote: have you tried /sbin/modprobe -r usbserial ??? EFM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mário Gamito Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 2:44 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Modem USB 3G Hi, I'm trying to install a USB 3G modem, a HUAWEI E220, but when I run # comgt -d /dev/ttyUSB0 I get the error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] files]# comgt -d /dev/ttyUSB0 comgt 19:12:30 - -- Error Report -- comgt 19:12:30 - ^ comgt 19:12:30 - Error @74, line 4, Could not write to COM device. (1) I've google about it, but find anything useful. Any ideas ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I been thinking of getting one of these, so I will watch this thread. i haven't purchased one yet as I was not sure if they were Linux compatible. I did find this on Google when I was trying to find out if it was compatible. http://oozie.fm.interia.pl/pro/huawei-e220/ Hope it helps John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How can i share my WAN ip to my LAN?
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 14:52:19 Alain Spineux wrote: On Jan 22, 2008 3:17 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 14:49 +0100, Alain Spineux wrote: On Jan 22, 2008 8:46 AM, Tolun ARDAHANLI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody... How can I share my WAN ip to my LAN? How can I do that I really dont know...:( I am using linux long time ago but this kind I would like to do newly... Buy a small router/modem, ask your ISP for suggestions. This is cheap (100$), no need to keep your computer always turned on, very easy to configure if you nead more features (port forwarding for skype, games, p2p, ), have some builtint feature (dhcp, DNS proxy). Also think about wireless .. This is probably more secure, not because centos/linux is not, but because you dont know what you are doing. Of course this is less fun Well, I wasn't going to suggest, but since the topic of alternatives is open... :-) Of course the main idea is to avoid to have a non firewall dedicated linux (like centos is) configured by someone without to much network knowledge be in front of Internet. If you have an older available computer laying around, check out IPCop http://www.ipcop.org/ free, has lots of features, runs reliably, I've been on it for years, as have others on this list. Biggest gripe I have is docs could be a little better - they tend to not get updated to stay up with the software. Regards. Can anybody help me about IP sharing in Centos? thanks alot... -- Tolun ARDAHANLI Bilgisayar Muhendisi E-posta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 - --- Tolun ARDAHANLI Computer Engineer E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 snip sig stuff HTH -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Have a look at Smoothwall. Once its set up just keep an eye on the updates, via a web browser. www.smoothwall.org or .com if you want to put your hand inn your pocket. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD
On Saturday 05 January 2008 21:19:28 MHR wrote: On Jan 5, 2008 12:07 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, from the kernel documentation -- The driver currently supports read-only mode (with no fault-tolerance, encryption or journalling) and very limited, but safe, write support and The biggest limitation at present is that files/directories cannot be created or deleted. Also, AIUI, permissions are nowhere near the *nix way. Good point. I was using the NTFS module, with write support, in CentOS 4.4, before I converted all my drives to ext3, but I don't recall if I ever tried to create a directory on the NTFS partitions. mhr Have a look at NTFS-3G. I have been using it for about two years now on my MDV boxes, without any problems reading and writing to a 60Gb laptop drive in a usb external enclosure. I will be installing it on my CentOS 5.0 box when I get the time to finish setting it up. Soon I hope ! -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems
On Sunday 06 January 2008 08:35:13 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more memory, etc than my old HP nc4010. Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the OS is XP). The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking. Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map /etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive (16Gb are available and I was just sent a PR on a 32Gb, maybe I can get an eval device :) ). If you can boot from USB, why not get one of the laptop-drive based external units that are available up to 250 gigs now and do a full install on it? Duh.. I would have to get one that can be powered from that one USB port (fairly rare, the few that I have require external power or the power from a 2nd USB port). I would also have to be able to strap it to the bottom of the unit for easy management on a plane. Though if I can get that 32Gb USB flash drive that might almost be enough And too bad not a larger Compact Flash MicroDrive. Hey, wait. I run my Libretto's DSL off of one I can put one in a PCMCIA holder and map the swap drive to it and Now I am cooking. Maybe. But still down to can XEN run the content of the encrypted drive. How do I find out? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I have a external USB HD enclosure that takes its power from the one USB socket. Its only failed to do so on one oldish tower that a friend of mine has, on that machine it needed the second power connection. Got it from Ebay. You might find that mounting /swap on a solid state device brings about its early demise. They can't be written to indefinitely. Looking at my two external HD enclosures the one in question has an IDE hard drive in it and the other which quite often need a double connection, (though not when connected to this note book HP 510), has the original SATA hard drive that was in this note book when I first purchased it. Note book runs Mandriva 2008. (puts tin helmet on !) -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Program like Virtual DJ ???????
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 04:52:30 Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano wrote: Thanks a lot when I get the programs an tested I'll tell you about thanks again El lun, 17-12-2007 a las 20:38 -0800, James A. Peltier escribió: Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano wrote: El lun, 17-12-2007 a las 20:25 -0800, James A. Peltier escribió: Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano wrote: Is there any programs like Virtual Dj on linux, I mean a software that allow me to mix music like a Dj - --- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos http://www.linux-audio.org http://www.linuxsound.org __ Thanks but I can check out those pages now, my internet access is very limitated, so I need a name of a good program, after that I thinks is easier for me to get what I need. Could you please tell me some programs names _ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- -- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I have no idea what you are looking for. I've never used any of this software The Linux Digital DJ * BeatForce http://www.beatforce.org a computer DJ system for two players with independent playlists, song databases, mixers, samplers, et cetera * BpmDj http://bpmdj.sourceforge.net/ very interesting set of programs for the Linux DJ * DBMix http://DBMix.sourceforge.net/ software DJ digital audio mixing system * DJ Krazy http://svn.digium.com/view/djkrazy/ a neat MP3/CD mixer for the Linux DJ in us all... * DJPlay http://djplay.sourceforge.net/ aims to be a high-class live DJing application for Linux * Final Scratch http://www.finalscratch.com pro-audio computerized DJ system from *Stanton Magnetics* * GDAM http://www.ffem.org/gdam/ /Geoff Dave's Audio Mixer/, a new mixer for the Linux digital DJ * Jay'O'Rama http://www.openjay.org/jayorama/ cool DJ tool for PCM/MP3/OGG playback and manipulation * Mixxx http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/ a cool DJ mixer from the Andersen brothers * MP3Mixer http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/%7Espm/mp3mixer.html a system for mixing multiple MPEG audio streams in realtime * Oolaboola http://www.hyperreal.org/%7Eest/oolaboola/ virtual turntable fun with Eric Tiedemann's open-source cyber-shamanic noise-maker * OpenJay http://www.openjay.org dedicated site for open-source DJs * OpenJay Development Krew Forum http://www.openjay.org/ojdk/ a site dedicated to discussing ...problems, code, techniques, tips tricks and all issues related to the computer DJing world * UltraMixer http://www.ultramixer.com very cool virtual DJ mixing software, requires *Java* * terminatorX http://terminatorx.org enables hip-hop style scratching of WAV files ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos There is also a Linux distro that will set up you pc as a sound studio. I can't remember what its called off hand and I'm at work without an in ternet connection. Go to the Distro watch web site and you should find it. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] multi-boot drive partitioning
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 14:39:42 Johnny Hughes wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: Frank Cox wrote on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:55:49 -0600: A spare computer that can be swapped in to replace any of 4 other computers without requiring a lot of setup between the main machine died and the spare is now online. But what about the data? What is a web sevrer or a file server worth without the current data? This was to be my point exactly ... what good does a machine that can boot up into a file server with last months data or a web server with last months data be if the current server just died? If you have a backup system in place with the ability to push certain directories onto this machine, then maybe. Otherwise, this seems fairly pointless. A live solution with Virtual Machines and something like DRBD might work ... though the machine would by fairly heavily loaded just keeping everything updated if live for 4 other machines. Thanks, Johnny Hughes Here is an idea. Put removable hard drive enclosures into each machine. The 4 working machines have a spare hard drive in and has a disk back up (hard drive mirror) run nightly. A working machine goes down just take out backup drive put into spare machine and go. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:05:52 Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Dec 17, 2007 5:16 PM, Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, December 17, 2007 4:58 PM -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. Sounds like something is throttling your torrent connection. Start by using a non-standard torrent port to escape traffic shaping by naive throttles. I think the EFF was accusing Comcast of doing this. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071128-eff-study-reveals-evidence-of -comcasts-bittorrent-interference.html Over here in the UK most if not all the ISP's will throttle people that they think are file sharing. Try changing the port that the bittorrent software is using. Remember to do it for UDP and TCP packets on the same port and open and / or open the same port on your firewall. With places such as utah.edu [I am in North America] I got 320Kb/sec steady. It took me 3hr and a bit to download the 5.1 dvd. As far as I understand it, Utah and the other mirrors donated the bandwidth to the community. Torrents have the benefit of sharing the cost over many community contributors. Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwidth. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!
On Monday 17 December 2007 23:24:01 Johnny Hughes wrote: Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Monday, December 17, 2007 5:10 PM -0500 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the DVD. My normal dnld from a mirror travels appx. 600Mb/sec. I'll wait until most of the U.S. goes home before I give up and use the normal download though. Is there an issue with the tracker? I just restarted my CentOS 5.0 DVD torrent (I updated to 5.1 via yum) and am getting connection refused from the tracker. torrentinfo-console shows this as the tracker URL: http://torrent.centos.org:6969/announce The 5.0 DVD torrent can be found here: http://mirrors.easynews.com//linux/centos/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386- bin-DVD.torrent We only have the latest (5.1, 4.6) isos on the tracker now. I can up load a .torrent file to the thepiratebay if that helps. I'm sharing both 5 and as of Sunday night 5.1. I still see a few people dl 5 off me and will keep sharing it as long as its being down loaded. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative
On Friday 14 December 2007 12:36:41 Ralph Angenendt wrote: John Bowden wrote: I have a HP510 notebook. I run Mandriva Linux on it. Would it be worth me down loading the live version of CentOS and adding my experience to the wiki? We only have ze5377 and zv6015 at the moment, so yes, why not? Cheers, Ralph Ok I will download it in the morning when I get home from work and have a play with it early next week. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:55:18 Ralph Angenendt wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: I hope that everyone think back about the experience on their existing laptop and add it to the wiki, and document everything when doing future laptop installations. I created a Template (no, David G. Miller did) at http://wiki.centos.org/LaptopTemplate. Standard procedure for adding your content goes like this: a) create yourself a wiki account b) shout at me to give you editing rights under http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops c) Navigate to the page http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Manufacturer/Model (replacing Manufacturer and Model with your Laptop info, for example Acer/T8674587G) d) You are now prompted to create a new page: Please choose LaptopTemplate from the list you are presented. e) Fill out the information f) Link to the page from the main Laptops page Thanks, David! Cheers, Ralph I have a HP510 notebook. I run Mandriva Linux on it. Would it be worth me down loading the live version of CentOS and adding my experience to the wiki? -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Adobe products under Linux?
On Monday 26 November 2007 03:18:23 Chris Mauritz wrote: Scott Silva wrote: I think you should go for windows XP, as support for these apps is much better than in centos IMO and 4 gigs should be fine for a desktop I'm not sure if Windows XP will do 8 cpu's. I don't think it will. I was under the impression that the non-server incarnations were limited to two physical cpus. (Which could theoretically get you to 8 cores with quad-core processors). Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I think it sees each core as a cpu. so it will not use quad core or two dual cores on one board efficiently. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Partioning Error: Dual Boot, WinXP CentOS5, 27 GB Free space; my error is?
On Sunday 25 November 2007 16:51:31 Lanny Marcus wrote: Hello: Starting Friday afternoon, I blew away the installations on the three (3) boxes we use as Desktops. On two (2) of them (my Dell Dimension 2400 and my wife's Compaq Evo D300v), I have MS Windows XP and CentOS5 running. :-) On my daughters box (Dell Dimension 4300) I am having problems with the partitioning. Probably this is due to some mistake I have made, with regard to Active or Primary partitions? The HD has four (4) NTFS partitions on dev/hda. hda1 hda4. According to the partition table shown in the CentOS5 installation, there is 27925 MB of Free Space on the HD. If I try to create a /boot partition (100 MB) or an LVM, I get: Error partitioning - Could not allocate requested partitions. Partitioning failed. Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions. Not enough space left to create partition for /bootMore or less the same error: Automatic partitioning errors - You have not defined a root (/) partition. This can happen if not enough space. What am I doing wrong on that box? TIA! - Lanny - Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I think the problem is that you can only have 4 Primary partitions on a disk. If you to convert one of the NTFS partitions to an extended partition, with the NTFS partition inside it. Personally, if you want to keep the 4 drive letters in windoz, I would back up the whole disk (in case), set up the disk with 1 Primary NTFS partition and an extended Partition with the other 3 NTFS partitions inside it. Leave the free space as free space and let the CentOS installer to use the free space as it sees fit ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SOLVED: Re: Partioning Error: Dual Boot, WinXP CentOS5, 27 GB Free space; my error is?
On Monday 26 November 2007 01:15:19 Lanny Marcus wrote: On 25 November 2007, John Bowden j-alan at btconnect.com wrote: snip I think the problem is that you can only have 4 Primary partitions on a disk. If you to convert one of the NTFS partitions to an extended partition, with the NTFS partition inside it. Personally, if you want to keep the 4 drive letters in windoz, I would back up the whole disk (in case), set up the disk with 1 Primary NTFS partition and an extended Partition with the other 3 NTFS partitions inside it. Leave the free space as free space and let the CentOS installer to use the free space as it sees fit John: THANK YOU! That was it! I blew it away with QtParted and in a few minutes, I had it correct. The attention to detail was lacking on that box. I got the other 2 boxes up and running, without this frustration. Hopefully they are partitioned correctly. CentOS is now installing on that box. :-) Lanny ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I'm glad to help. I'm new to CentOS, playing around with my first install at the moment. I have played around with partitions and file systems though and thought that might have been your problem. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD-ich9.iso.delta md5 mismatch
On Monday 29 October 2007 10:09:40 Simone Montagnani wrote: Thank you for the answer, I'm trying to install centos 5.0 on a Asus P5KC motherboard system (with Intel QX6850 processor), I got http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/pub/ich9/CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD-ich9.iso.delta and applied to the original CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso with wapplydeltaiso-3.3_0.3 for windows , do you think it's a windowa delta program problem? The image creation hangs at about 2GB ... Simone At 10.32 29/10/2007, you wrote: Simone Montagnani napsal(a): No one can help me? I can't apply delta on original DVD x86_64 iso , what's wrong with that? do you know something i'm missing ? thank you Simone Simone, what's deltaprm's version and what platform are you running? David ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Simon how much ram and how much free space on the windoz box? If you are trying to create a 4+Gb DVD iso you will need at least 2 times as much hard drive space for temporary files on a windoz box. I have seen similar problems when trying to add files to very large zip back ups when I used to be a regular windoz user. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Newbie: how to install from Windows?
On Thursday 27 September 2007 20:01:45 Labaki wrote: Hello! I just joined this mailing list a couple of minutes ago. I'll start to use CentOS for academic purposes. We'll try to build a cluster based in machines with this OS. First of all, I'd like to beg you for patience, because I'm comple- tly new in Linux. My first question is: every tutorial on installation talks about inserting an installation CD, but I'm not sure about what do it means... I've downloaded the four files .iso availabe in CentOS.org, but I don't know what to do with them. Should I burn this files into de CD the way they are? Should I unzip them before this? Details: I'm using Windows, trying to install CentOS 4 in a 32 bit's PC. I've downloaded CentOS-4.5-i386-bin...iso. Thank you for any help! ~ J. Labaki Computational Structural Mechanics Labs Dept. of Computational Mechanics Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Campinas State University/SP - Brazil http://www.fem.unicamp.br/~labaki Time is the best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos As an almost X windows user may I make some suggestions? The CD ISO files you have down loaded are an exact copy of the CD dumped into one file with a map of the layout of the original disk. Use Nero or another windoz burning software and go to the burn an ISO file option. This will unpack the ISO file onto the CD into the right folders. After burning if you look at the file with windows explorer it should show a root directory with a bunch of files and sub folders. If you have just one file CentOSXXX.iso then you have copied the ISO file which is wrong. Then get a copy of partition magic and install it in windoz. Run partition magic and shrink your windows partition to give Linux (CentOS) some room, You will probably need a minimum of 25Gb of free space on your hard drive to install CenOS in, for a decent system to play with. Leave this space empty, (no partition in it). Then put CentOS disk 1 in grab a note pad, (to make a note of passwords and other settings) and reboot the windows machine. Make sure you have boot from CD set in your BIOS and then follow the prompts that the CentOS installer gives you. When you get to the part where you are asked where you want to install to (the partitioning bit in the installer) just tell the installer to use the free space. You will find the Linux world very help full and friendly. If you have any problems come back to the list with it. Give as much info about the problem, what version of CentOS you are using and any error messages you are getting and I'm sure we can help. Not that you will need it but Good Luck! -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please
On Monday 24 September 2007 12:33:39 William Warren wrote: I mistyped..hardware raid is the way to go. FRIAD will perform worse than Linux software raid most times..:) Feizhou wrote: William Warren wrote: actually it'll perform WORSE in many cases than Linux software raid. Used to (bar buggy firmware, incompatibilities). Most hardware raid cards nowadays not only have sufficient processing power, they also come with decent sizes of RAM cache which helps swing things a lot in their favour. If the load goes beyond what the card can handle, then yes, Linux software raid is the way to go. Scott Silva wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the following on 9/21/2007 2:43 AM: Exactly how much throughput are you realistically anticipating? What connection are you going to use? 802.11 or 10/100 or gige? And yes, the chips will pretty much always give you better performance with raid. Hardware raid gives better performance. Both of those are fakeraid.It won't perform any better than software raid. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos What can I use to benchmark the different raid set ups. I could do an all software raid trial and then an all hardware raid set up, (fresh install each time) and find out which is the best for my set up. Bear in mind I still think of myself as a Linux newbie (and a CentOS virgin), but keen to learn and the best way of learning is to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please
On Saturday 22 September 2007 15:12:23 Paul wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 20:53 +0100, John Bowden wrote: On Friday 21 September 2007 11:39:03 Jim Wildman wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, John Bowden wrote: (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two ink-jets), mail server and later on a myth tv set up. Would SAMBA be the best option for the file and print serving ? You realize the mythtv setup (if this machine is going to be the 'backend') really should be on a separate box? I was hoping a 2.6 gHz 32bit Athlon with 3Gb of ram would handle Myth and the file storage. It depends on your setup ... if you have a capture card that does Mpeg encoding then CPU power is not an issue. I have an 800Mhz Athlon XP (under clocked) system running a backend. The issue usually is if the box can keep up with the disk IO doing recording and streaming at the same time. I have two drives in the box, one for the OS and another for storing the video. The system does fine streaming to a front end at the same time it's recording std cable TV. The O/S will be on its own drive on the non raid IDE. I will look around for a high end dual tunner dab card. Adding file services with lots of IO might cause problems, it depends on the exact load your putting on it, adding RAM and using RAID 01 (mirrored and striped) may work. If you had issues, build a cheap sempon system to do the MythTV duties may be cheaper than making the server capable of doing both. Can do if the machine struggles, but I wont be writing much from the network to it while I watch TV. may be an odd file and recording another TV channel at the most. Network backups can be set up to run when the machine is idle. One note is RAID 1 is slower at writing that a single drive, but usually faster at reading. Paul ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please
On Friday 21 September 2007 10:43:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly how much throughput are you realistically anticipating? What connection are you going to use? 802.11 or 10/100 or gige? And yes, the chips will pretty much always give you better performance with raid. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -Original Message- From: John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:58:27 To:CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Central file server advice please Hi List I have a Gygabyte GA-7N400 PRO2 with a 2.6 mHz Athlon cpu. I want to set up a central file storage for 2/3 users using 6/7 machines. A mixture of win2k, XP and various Linux distros (my home network). It will be used to store files, (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two ink-jets), mail server and later on a myth tv set up. Would SAMBA be the best option for the file and print serving ? The mother board has 2 X IDE channels, 2 X IDE channels with raid and 2 X SATA raid channels, that's up to 10 hard drive devices. The IDE raid chip is a GigaRaid IT8212F chipset. It supports raid 0 or raid 1 and raid 0 + 1 and JBOD. The SATA raid is a Silicon Image Sil3512. It supports Raid 0 or 1. Would I get better speed performance using the chips to manage the raid or using software raid? Oh and I will be using the CentOS 5 install dvd. Any advice from the list would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos The m/board has an on board Realtek 8110S Gigabit chip (RJ45). All but the newest m/boards have 100 megabit nics and the switch is a 100 magabit, 8 port switch. the DSL modem is an up to 8Mb connection (generally about half that speed) with a 54Mb wireless point and 4 100 megabit ports. Only the laptops use the wireless all the other PC's are RJ45 wired. There is normally only me and the girl friend using the network. She browses the net. May be stream a film and a tv channel at the same time from the myth box when set up. Occasionally one or two mates round for a networked game of CC Generals. Very of topic Geoff but how easy is it to get your blackberry to talk with your Linux PC, for back up and editing files? I have an old Psion S5 that needs to be retired and have been looking at a Blackberry as a replacement? -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please
On Friday 21 September 2007 11:39:03 Jim Wildman wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, John Bowden wrote: (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two ink-jets), mail server and later on a myth tv set up. Would SAMBA be the best option for the file and print serving ? You realize the mythtv setup (if this machine is going to be the 'backend') really should be on a separate box? Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rossberry.com Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I was hoping a 2.6 gHz 32bit Athlon with 3Gb of ram would handle Myth and the file storage. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please
On Friday 21 September 2007 12:40:56 Ted Miller wrote: John Bowden wrote: I have a Gygabyte GA-7N400 PRO2 with a 2.6 mHz Athlon cpu. I want to set up a central file storage for 2/3 users using 6/7 machines. A mixture of win2k, XP and various Linux distros (my home network). It will be used to store files, (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two ink-jets), mail server and later on a myth tv set up. Would SAMBA be the best option for the file and print serving ? Probably The mother board has 2 X IDE channels, 2 X IDE channels with raid and 2 X SATA raid channels, that's up to 10 hard drive devices. The IDE raid chip is a GigaRaid IT8212F chipset. It supports raid 0 or raid 1 and raid 0 + 1 and JBOD. The SATA raid is a Silicon Image Sil3512. It supports Raid 0 or 1. Would I get better speed performance using the chips to manage the raid or using software raid? Some digging on Google seems to show that the IT8212F chipset is a halfway hardware RAID that offers some performance improvement over software RAID. The Sil3512 chipset appears to be pure fakeraid, in which case you are better off putting it in non-RAID mode (in your BIOS) and using software RAID. I have two 250Mb ide drives and I'm going to ad another two. Set up with hardware raid, stripped for speed, to write the myth recordings to and the central file storage for the network. Then may be two (depending on finances) 750 Gb SATA drives software raided, mirrored for security to be used for a back up server for the network Oh and I will be using the CentOS 5 install dvd. Any advice from the list would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, John The other consideration is migration. If your motherboard dies some night, you can take Linux software RAID disks, transplant them onto another motherboard, jump through the setup hoops, and be back in business (because the RAID is tied to Linux, not the motherboard). If you use the motherboard chips for RAID at all, that will not transfer to another motherboard (except possibly if you get another motherboard with the same chipset and BIOS). Even if you migrate in a non-failure situation, you will not be able to move the drives to another motherboard (mobo) until you either 1. copy the data to another drive somewhere install old drives on new mobo set up drives on new mobo in new RAID array re-sync drives copy data from temporary drive back onto array or 2. Set up new mobo with new drives Do initial setup/sync on new array copy entire drive contents from old machine to new machine over network Compared to connecting drives to a new mobo and having a new install of Linux recognize the array and set it up for you, there is quite a bit of difference in convenience. My cursory Google search did not give me any data about how much performance improvement you would get from the hardware in the ITF8212F chipset, as opposed to an all software solution. If mass throughput is not your primary goal (e.g. serving multiple video streams at once without any glitches), software RAID may take a little longer to set up at first (though I believe you can do it as part of your install, if you answer the questions right), it may be easier to live with later on. I have seen this option when installing Mandriva at the partitioning stage. This is my first CentOS install, (played with FC6 F7). Not too clued up on LVM though, will be having a read of the LVM man pages. Ted Miller Indiana, USA ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please
On Friday 21 September 2007 16:39:46 Von Landfried wrote: My one piece of advice, coming from experience, is to buy a hardware RAID card from a reputable manufacturer, i.e. 3ware, Adaptec, LSI. I personally recommend 3ware, and have 10+ in various servers here in the office. The $200-$600 dollars you will spend will be well worth it if something ever should happen. You can swap out cards, and the raid array will be recognized, you can swap out drives on the fly, and they all support the newer RAID 6 for even better redundancy (I like RAID10, but I am paranoid). 3ware has amazing utilities for monitoring the array, either via the linux CLI, or via a secure web interface (nice when you use SSH port forwarding). It will send you an email when any errors occur (configurable detail levels) so this helps provide peace of mind. I can't stress how important a dedicated hardware RAID card is, regardless of the brand. Just my .02 On Sep 21, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 at 10:58pm, John Bowden wrote I have a Gygabyte GA-7N400 PRO2 with a 2.6 mHz Athlon cpu. I want to set up a central file storage for 2/3 users using 6/7 machines. A mixture of win2k, XP and various Linux distros (my home network). It will be used to store files, (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two ink-jets), mail server and later on a myth tv set up. Would SAMBA be the best option for the file and print serving ? Samba for file serving, CUPS for print serving -- both Win2K and XP can handle IPP. The mother board has 2 X IDE channels, 2 X IDE channels with raid and 2 X SATA raid channels, that's up to 10 hard drive devices. The IDE raid chip is a GigaRaid IT8212F chipset. It supports raid 0 or raid 1 and raid 0 + 1 and JBOD. The SATA raid is a Silicon Image Sil3512. It supports Raid 0 or 1. Would I get better speed performance using the chips to manage the raid or using software raid? Without digging out the specs of those cards, I'd lean heavily towards software RAID, mainly for ease of management and compatibility. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos A bit out of my price range for a home file server, but I will keep an eye out at the computer fair I attend. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please
On Friday 21 September 2007 16:24:24 Les Mikesell wrote: John Bowden wrote: I have a Gygabyte GA-7N400 PRO2 with a 2.6 mHz Athlon cpu. I want to set up a central file storage for 2/3 users using 6/7 machines. A mixture of win2k, XP and various Linux distros (my home network). It will be used to store files, (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two ink-jets), mail server and later on a myth tv set up. Would SAMBA be the best option for the file and print serving ? The mother board has 2 X IDE channels, 2 X IDE channels with raid and 2 X SATA raid channels, that's up to 10 hard drive devices. The IDE raid chip is a GigaRaid IT8212F chipset. It supports raid 0 or raid 1 and raid 0 + 1 and JBOD. The SATA raid is a Silicon Image Sil3512. It supports Raid 0 or 1. Would I get better speed performance using the chips to manage the raid or using software raid? Oh and I will be using the CentOS 5 install dvd. Any advice from the list would be appreciated. If you are interested in an appliance-like setup for serving files, printers, email and some other things, you might like the SME server from http://www.contribs.org. It's based on centos code but with a kickstart install and completely web based administration. It will automatically install as raid1 if it sees 2 disks, or as a 'broken' raid set if you only have one so you can easily add the mirror later (a very nice trick). Since the configuration is all built by web/perl scripts it is hard to do additional customization, but in a multiple machine setup you might find it easy to take advantage of its features. I will have a closer look at this - looks interesting -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please
On Friday 21 September 2007 19:06:16 John R Pierce wrote: John Bowden wrote: The mother board has 2 X IDE channels, 2 X IDE channels with raid and 2 X SATA raid channels, that's up to 10 hard drive devices. ... Sometimes those IDE channels w/ raid only support 1 drive per channel. anyways, putting two devices on one IDE channel w/ raid isn't a very good idea, if either device fails in certain modes, it can take out the IDE channel. WhateverI'd configure it all as JBOD, and implement raid-1 (mirroring) or raid1+0 (stripe/mirror) in Linux. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I have had two 250 Gb drives on the same channel with raid 0 in windoz when I first brought the board. At the time the chip was not recognised in Linux. The SATA drives will have software raid and will get backed up to DVD R. i don't mind loosing a few tv recordings if the ITE raid set up has a problem. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] request for hosting ( London, UK )
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 17:10:24 Karanbir Singh wrote: John Hinton wrote: A couple of Sun Netra t105 have been donated to the CentOS Project. The machines are located in London and I was wondering if anyone in the area might be able to host these machines for us ? Nevermind... I can't read... machines for us != machines in us Thanks for the offer though :) now atleast we know there is someone we can call on for a bit of hosting in the US :) I have an up to 8Mb BT Business ADSL line, all ways connected. its running a bit slow at the moment, (Incoming: 3776 kbps Outgoing: 448 kbps), and I plan to give BT a call to see if I can get it speeded up a bit, (it was running at 7456kbs when I first had it installed). How much band width would you be needing? I'm in Telford East Midlands. I don't have any racks at the moment, just lots of PC's but got a 3 bed flat with one room for my servers. I'm only planning to use my connection to host my own photo's for the stuff I'm going to sell on ebay at the moment and a bit of file sharing on the torrent network, and I don't mind stopping the file sharing to free up some band width. If that's any help? -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange behavior from OO Writer
On Friday 24 August 2007 18:55:13 Mark Hull-Richter wrote: On 8/24/07, Steven Vishoot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL! I must say you do have the strangest things happening to you. Could it be all caused by operator error? Hm. What do you think? I won't rule it out as yet. However, when the file won't open (or writer even start up) from the command line using gnome-open filename, but it will with gnome-open filename1, when I open the writer from the applications menu and go to File-Open and select the file and it does not open but the renamed file does, and when I open a Nautilus window and have the exact same results, I have to wonder how much operator action could be involved. FTR, I checked the file and directory permissions - identical and correct (well, yeah, if I just rename the file between the names and one works and the other doesn't...). I know there's a funky permissions problem somewhere in some conf file or other on the machine because a lot of things don't work quite right at the moment, but so far I haven't heard a clue (e.g., previously posted issue with not being able to open pdfs, jpgs and certain other files directly from nautilus but okay with right-click-Open With), but at least they open one way or another - this one doesn't. Besides, if the solution was that easy or obvious, I wouldn't have raised it here (not any more). mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Lock file on the original file? -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Sparc
On Monday 09 July 2007 22:41:04 John R Pierce wrote: John Bowden wrote: Sorry to hijack this thread. I have got some old Sparc station 5's any one know of an o/s that I can install on them. I would like to learn all about clustering SS5 or Sun Ultra 5 ? the SS5 is way WAY old (discontinued in 1996), 70Mhz and used oddball memory, 8 x 8MB (64MB total) or 8 x 32MB (256MB total maximum), and used SBus peripherals, you'd be better off with pentium-II systems. clusters generally need multiple network adapters at the very least. Yes exactly what I have, with massive 520Mb hard drives ;-) The architecture is completely new to me The Ultra 5 is somewhat newer, with a 270-400MHz ultrasparc IIi and support for up to 512MB ram,, but was penalized (heavily!) by using a programmed IO IDE channel controller (no DMA). It also requires nonstandard RAM (EDO DRAM with ECC in a 168 pin jedec form factor), very hard to find. anyways, I think you'd have better luck trying to bring up a test cluster using old x86 PCs. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I think I will get rid of them as I have some old 333mhz boards. thanks for the reply. I will hand back the thread now -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] First install No Sound
On Friday 06 July 2007 05:17, Garrick Staples wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:09:46AM +0100, John Bowden alleged: On Friday 06 July 2007 04:44, Garrick Staples wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:30:58AM +0100, John Bowden alleged: The sound card is an on board one. class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 desc: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio vendorId: 10de deviceId: 03f0 subVendorId: 1849 subDeviceId: 0862 pciType: 1 pcidom: ? ?0 pcibus: ?0 pcidev: ?5 pcifn: ?0 - class: AUDIO bus: ISAPNP detached: 0 driver: snd-mpu401 desc: PNPb006 deviceId: PNPb006 The sound card detection program does see it but no sound come out when I test it. I'm not sure but I think that the nvidia chip set may be quite a new one and I'm beginning to think it might not be supported yet in Linux. The listing for a driver implies that it is supported. This might be a dumb question, but did you check the volume settings in the mixer app? Not such a dumb question, I had tried running the alsamixer command when I had F7 installed but not after getting rid of F7 and installing CentOS. I have just tried the command from the cli and here is what I got. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ When KDE starts up it gives me a error message about the sound problem. Next time I reboot I will make a note of what it is. I know that the speakers are plugged into the correct socket as this machine is one of two that dual boots windozs and I get sound when I run windoz to play games. I'm off to bed now as its just past 5am so will shut down this box and have another try later on today. Thanks for the help so far though. That means the driver isn't loaded. 'modprobe snd-mpu401' as root and try again. Ok tried that command, at first it did not work so I specified the full path and here is the out put. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]# modprobe snd-mpu401 bash: modprobe: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]# /sbin/modprobe snd-mpu401 [EMAIL PROTECTED] john -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] First install No Sound
On Friday 06 July 2007 11:19, Lorenzo wrote:
Garrick Staples ha scritto:
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:09:46AM +0100, John Bowden alleged:
On Friday 06 July 2007 04:44, Garrick Staples wrote:
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:30:58AM +0100, John Bowden alleged:
The sound card is an on board one.
class: AUDIO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
desc: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio
vendorId: 10de
deviceId: 03f0
subVendorId: 1849
subDeviceId: 0862
pciType: 1
pcidom: ? ?0
pcibus: ?0
pcidev: ?5
pcifn: ?0
-
class: AUDIO
bus: ISAPNP
detached: 0
driver: snd-mpu401
desc: PNPb006
deviceId: PNPb006
The sound card detection program does see it but no sound come out
when I test it. I'm not sure but I think that the nvidia chip set may
be quite a new one and I'm beginning to think it might not be
supported yet in Linux.
The listing for a driver implies that it is supported. This might be a
dumb question, but did you check the volume settings in the mixer app?
Not such a dumb question, I had tried running the alsamixer command when
I had F7 installed but not after getting rid of F7 and installing
CentOS. I have just tried the command from the cli and here is what I
got.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
When KDE starts up it gives me a error message about the sound problem.
Next time I reboot I will make a note of what it is. I know that the
speakers are plugged into the correct socket as this machine is one of
two that dual boots windozs and I get sound when I run windoz to play
games.
I'm off to bed now as its just past 5am so will shut down this box and
have another try later on today. Thanks for the help so far though.
That means the driver isn't loaded. 'modprobe snd-mpu401' as root and
try again.
I have a similar board from Asrock which has apparently the same onboard
audio card; on my FC5 install the audio module used is snd-hda-intel and
the sound works... the relevant section in /etc/modules.conf is:
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21 || : ; };
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
Cheers
Lorenzo Quatrini
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It would seem that I do not have a modules.conf in /ect/. I have opened
konqueror in super user mode and done a search starting from / and the only
matching file I can find is in
file:///usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Modules.conf.
I do have a modeprob.conf in /ect and it does have some sound entries in it. I
can post the contents if needed.
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Re: [CentOS] First install No Sound
On Friday 06 July 2007 17:49:13 Lorenzo wrote:
John Bowden ha scritto:
I have a similar board from Asrock which has apparently the same onboard
audio card; on my FC5 install the audio module used is snd-hda-intel and
the sound works... the relevant section in /etc/modules.conf is:
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21 || : ;
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
It would seem that I do not have a modules.conf in /ect/. I have opened
konqueror in super user mode and done a search starting from / and the
only matching file I can find is in
file:///usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Mo
dules.conf. I do have a modeprob.conf in /ect and it does have some sound
entries in it. I can post the contents if needed.
Sorry, that was a typo from me... the right file is modprobe.conf
Before editing the file try with modprobe snd-hda-intel if it works
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Ok tried the modprobe snd-hda-intel command I got no error messages, but no
sound. I also tried copying and pasting your sound section into my
modprobe.conf file and rebooted. I watched the boot process and it is
complaining about line 8 ( /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel).
Still no sound. Do I have to do a reboot when tinkering with the
modprobe.conf file or is there a command to reload it?
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[CentOS] Have I down loadded the correct manuals?
Hi Folks I'm just installing CentOS 5 and while the install is in progress I went to your site and down loaded the pdf manuals. I have jst opened the installation guide and its a Red Hat 5 manual. I kow CentOS is based on Red Hat but ave I down loaded the correct manuals? -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Have I down loadded the correct manuals?
On Thursday 05 July 2007 11:05:07 Akemi Yagi wrote: On 7/4/07, John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks I'm just installing CentOS 5 and while the install is in progress I went to your site and down loaded the pdf manuals. I have jst opened the installation guide and its a Red Hat 5 manual. I kow CentOS is based on Red Hat but ave I down loaded the correct manuals? This page explains: http://wiki.centos.org/RedHat Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks for the explanation. I thought that was the case, but it was the early hours of the morning in this neck of the woods and I was not thinking clearly -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] First install No Sound
On Friday 06 July 2007 01:03, Steven Vishoot wrote: --- John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === message truncated === would you be able to send us a longer message next timethis one was not long enough We all love receiving these notes... Steven Get your Art Supplies @ www.littleartstore.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Just trying to send as much info that might help with my problem as posible. How about this Help i have got no sound -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] First install No Sound
On Friday 06 July 2007 03:28:09 Steven Vishoot wrote: --- John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 July 2007 01:03, Steven Vishoot wrote: --- John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === message truncated === would you be able to send us a longer message next timethis one was not long enough We all love receiving these notes... Steven Get your Art Supplies @ www.littleartstore.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Just trying to send as much info that might help with my problem as posible. How about this Help i have got no sound -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos going through your dmesg and all the error msgs about hdb.. i did not see anything about loading a sound device, Do you have one installed? i could of missed it from all the other garbage that was in your short email. Steven Get your Art Supplies @ www.littleartstore.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos The sound card is an on board one. class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 desc: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio vendorId: 10de deviceId: 03f0 subVendorId: 1849 subDeviceId: 0862 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 5 pcifn: 0 - class: AUDIO bus: ISAPNP detached: 0 driver: snd-mpu401 desc: PNPb006 deviceId: PNPb006 The sound card detection program does see it but no sound come out when I test it. I'm not sure but I think that the nvidia chip set may be quite a new one and I'm beginning to think it might not be supported yet in Linux. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] First install No Sound
On Friday 06 July 2007 04:44, Garrick Staples wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:30:58AM +0100, John Bowden alleged: The sound card is an on board one. class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 desc: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio vendorId: 10de deviceId: 03f0 subVendorId: 1849 subDeviceId: 0862 pciType: 1 pcidom: ? ?0 pcibus: ?0 pcidev: ?5 pcifn: ?0 - class: AUDIO bus: ISAPNP detached: 0 driver: snd-mpu401 desc: PNPb006 deviceId: PNPb006 The sound card detection program does see it but no sound come out when I test it. I'm not sure but I think that the nvidia chip set may be quite a new one and I'm beginning to think it might not be supported yet in Linux. The listing for a driver implies that it is supported. This might be a dumb question, but did you check the volume settings in the mixer app? Not such a dumb question, I had tried running the alsamixer command when I had F7 installed but not after getting rid of F7 and installing CentOS. I have just tried the command from the cli and here is what I got. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ When KDE starts up it gives me a error message about the sound problem. Next time I reboot I will make a note of what it is. I know that the speakers are plugged into the correct socket as this machine is one of two that dual boots windozs and I get sound when I run windoz to play games. I'm off to bed now as its just past 5am so will shut down this box and have another try later on today. Thanks for the help so far though. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
