Re: hwmonitor or equivalent for SL 6 x86-64
On Jun 19, 2011, at 04:59 , Yasha Karant wrote: I have installed lshw. lshw does seem to give an extensive listing, but lshw-gui does not seem to give much. As with lshw, does lshw-gui need to be run by root? Also, I have a real 1.44 Mbyte floppy drive installed that goes to the floppy drive controller on the mother board (this particular MSI motherboard has SATA, EIDE, and floppy controllers and connectors on the motherboard). It worked fine under RHEL 5 (CentOS 5.6) on this motherboard. Under RHEL 6 (SL 6), I find: ls -la /dev/fd/* ls: cannot access /dev/fd/255: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /dev/fd/3: No such file or directory lrwx--. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/0 - /dev/pts/0 lrwx--. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/1 - /dev/pts/0 lrwx--. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/2 - /dev/pts/0s but I cannot seem to access these via a mount, even as root, to access a MS-DOS floppy. Obviously, I am doing something wrong, but what? Moreover, the mtools (that provides MS-DOS compatibility) used to access the floppy drive as A: but now does nothing. Presumably, once I understand how to access the floppy drive, things will work. Would a ln -s /dev/floppy to /dev/fd/0 as well as a ln -s /dev/fd0 to /dev/fd/0 work? Probably not ;-) Try echo 'I am not a floppy drive' /dev/fd/1 for a hint what these actually are. Note that the output of lshw does not show the floppy drive, although the hardware listing utility of RHEL 5 did show this. This is the same hardware with no change to the motherboard BIOS -- the motherboard BIOS utility does show the floppy. Do floppy devices appear after modprobe floppy? I realize that this might have to be re-done upon the next upgrade (to SL 6.1), but otherwise should work until /dev is overwritten. It's created at boot time. -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Re: hwmonitor or equivalent for SL 6 x86-64
On 18/06/11 02:10, Yasha Karant wrote: 2. The grub or whatever switch / configuration file so that the actual boot process and starting processes list (including any failures) is displayed to the console rather than simply some icon (spinning under noveau, progress bar under regular xorg including the Nvidia proprietary driver). Pressing F6 during boot shows the info for me. I've not found a way to get it with a grub config yet.
Re: hwmonitor or equivalent for SL 6 x86-64
On Jun 18, 2011, at 09:36 , Phil Perry wrote: On 18/06/11 02:10, Yasha Karant wrote: 2. The grub or whatever switch / configuration file so that the actual boot process and starting processes list (including any failures) is displayed to the console rather than simply some icon (spinning under noveau, progress bar under regular xorg including the Nvidia proprietary driver). Pressing F6 during boot shows the info for me. I've not found a way to get it with a grub config yet. Remove rhgb quiet from the kernel command line? -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Re: hwmonitor or equivalent for SL 6 x86-64
Hello, 1- Hardware browser: lshw and lsw-gui, from the rpmforge repository, provide a detailed view of the various components of the hardware. 2- You can easily view all messages displayed during the boot process by removing rhgb and quiet paramaters from the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf. Nevertheless, messages are stored in /var/log/ and can be browsed using dmesg or other current tools (system-config-log is a gui based tool which alllows a centralised and detailed view on the log files). 3- Assuming Firefox 4 32bit is installed on /opt create a /opt/firefox/plugins directory and copy (or symlink) the libflashplayer.so. Note that if you intend to install the Firefox 64bit, you would have to download and install the experimental Flash Plugin (currently flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710). Best regards, Le 18/06/2011 03:10, Yasha Karant a écrit : I am very close to getting a fully functional (for my needs) SL 6 X86-64 workstation that supports both 64 bit and 32 bit applications. Three things I have not been able to find: 1. a way to list the detected hardware on the system via a GUI or even as a long and often unreadable text file. Supposedly, RHEL 6 has hwbrowser to replace the application available on RHEL 5 and clones, but I have not found this. Any suggestions? 2. The grub or whatever switch / configuration file so that the actual boot process and starting processes list (including any failures) is displayed to the console rather than simply some icon (spinning under noveau, progress bar under regular xorg including the Nvidia proprietary driver). 3. how to make the proprietary Adobe Flash plugin work. This worked fine under 32 bit RHEL 5. I have gotten 32 bit Thunderbird to work so that I can use the goggle calendar connector for Lightning, 32 bit Firefox 4 to work (so I can get updates from Mozilla rather than waiting for a RPM to be ported from the Firefox source), etc., but the 32 bit Flash plug-in still misplays on the screen. Thanks, Yasha Karant
Re: hwmonitor or equivalent for SL 6 x86-64
I have installed lshw. lshw does seem to give an extensive listing, but lshw-gui does not seem to give much. As with lshw, does lshw-gui need to be run by root? Also, I have a real 1.44 Mbyte floppy drive installed that goes to the floppy drive controller on the mother board (this particular MSI motherboard has SATA, EIDE, and floppy controllers and connectors on the motherboard). It worked fine under RHEL 5 (CentOS 5.6) on this motherboard. Under RHEL 6 (SL 6), I find: ls -la /dev/fd/* ls: cannot access /dev/fd/255: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /dev/fd/3: No such file or directory lrwx--. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/0 - /dev/pts/0 lrwx--. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/1 - /dev/pts/0 lrwx--. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/2 - /dev/pts/0s but I cannot seem to access these via a mount, even as root, to access a MS-DOS floppy. Obviously, I am doing something wrong, but what? Moreover, the mtools (that provides MS-DOS compatibility) used to access the floppy drive as A: but now does nothing. Presumably, once I understand how to access the floppy drive, things will work. Would a ln -s /dev/floppy to /dev/fd/0 as well as a ln -s /dev/fd0 to /dev/fd/0 work? Note that the output of lshw does not show the floppy drive, although the hardware listing utility of RHEL 5 did show this. This is the same hardware with no change to the motherboard BIOS -- the motherboard BIOS utility does show the floppy. I realize that this might have to be re-done upon the next upgrade (to SL 6.1), but otherwise should work until /dev is overwritten. Yasha Karant On 06/18/2011 01:16 AM, Hervé Riboulot wrote: Hello, 1- Hardware browser: lshw and lsw-gui, from the rpmforge repository, provide a detailed view of the various components of the hardware. [snip]
