Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL7 DVD creation

://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7/contexts/#_context_directory_structure You can also use the attached script to build a DVD. Pat On 04/21/2016 01:28 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: I'm working on making the jump from SL5 to 7 (skipped over 6). For SL5 I have a nice shell script that unpacks

SL7 DVD creation

I'm working on making the jump from SL5 to 7 (skipped over 6). For SL5 I have a nice shell script that unpacks the official DVD iso, adds/removes a few packages, rebuilds the repo data, tosses in a custom syslinux config and kickstart files, and finally builds a resultant bootable respun iso

Re: darktable

On 04/13/2016 01:30 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: Is there any port of: Grab the latest source tarball (recent version: darktable 2.0.3) – make sure to use the .tar.xz file to SL 7x? Yasha Karant There is a Fedora package, I would start there. You can always grab the source rpm and try

Re: Offline update FAQ?

On 03/02/2016 09:12 AM, Howard, Chris wrote: Can someone point me to a good cookbook for doing offline updates? My fuzzy understanding is that I would build an internet-accessible SL system, then periodically create my own repository and from that cook a DVD and take it to the

Re: fglrx problems

On 01/15/2016 08:36 AM, Ken Teh wrote: I installed a Radeon 5450 card in an SL6.7 machine in the hopes of getting a higher resolution video. The on-board could only handle 1280x1024. But I've been unable to get it to work. At first I thought I bought the wrong card - a Radeon 6430. So, I

Re: SL 6.7 Kernel headers misses typedef sa_family_t

On 01/14/2016 04:06 AM, André Hartmann wrote: Hello List, I have written a program which uses SocketCAN for CAN communication. The development takes place under Ubuntu Linux and compilation is fine there (also cross-compilation for an embedded ARM Linux). But when I compile my program under

Re: Dell Precision T1700 default xorg.conf file needed

On 01/13/2016 01:35 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 01/11/2016 08:52 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Mark Stodola <stod...@pelletron.com <mailto:stod...@pelletron.com>> wrote: On 01/11/2016 09:57 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 01/09/2016 04:37 PM, Akem

Re: a year later - CERN move to Centos - what are we doing?

Since this is becoming a top-post thread, I will continue the trend. CentOS does not offer a support contract like RHEL. Why would a company compete with itself? It is essentially a community supported release of RHEL, just like SL. Of course, some one please correct me if I am wrong

Re: Dell Precision T1700 default xorg.conf file needed

On 01/11/2016 09:57 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 01/09/2016 04:37 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Yasha Karant > wrote: The ElRepo Nvidia driver seems to have erased (not backed up) the default X11 xorg.conf file on a

Re: glibc debuginfo version mismatch

The glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm and the rest of the family there that match the offending debuginfo package are in the 6x fastbugs. You have the base and security for 6x enabled, but not fastbugs. What version of 6 are you on? Maybe the debuginfo ended up in one of the point release

Re: Help - Synaptics touchpad not working in 7.1

On 07/19/2015 07:38 PM, dgr...@ieee.org wrote: Hi, My Dad for me a new laptop when I was in hospital last week (scientific epilepsy): http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/novatechnspiren1735.html All things work except for the touchpad. The Windoz install discs have Synaptics drivers.

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Repo error after 7.0 to 7.1 upgrade

On 04/15/2015 10:49 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 15/04/15 15:38, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/15/2015 09:13 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 15/04/15 14:37, Pat Riehecky wrote: can I have you run: yum clean expire-cache and see if the errors persist? Pat I've been through the sequence

Re: IMAP client backup applications

On 3/9/2015 6:20 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 03/07/2015 04:21 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 03/06/2015 06:58 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: My department is being forced by the university administrative IT unit to MS Office365 distributed server (cloud) email service, as I have communicated in a

Re: SL7 install fails on EEEPC-100HD

On 11/10/2014 08:31 AM, Charles Elsaesser wrote: Hello, when trying to install SL-7-x86_64-Everything-Dual-Layer-DVD.iso from an usbkey created with dd if=SL-7-x86_64-Everything-Dual-Layer-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=512 installation request goes on on most of x86_64 computers. But on EEEPC-1000hd

Re: any workaround for `GLIBC_2.14' not found on SL 6x

On 8/30/2014 12:02 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 08/30/2014 03:50 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Is there any workaround for the issue below other than moving to SL 7 (once that release goes into production from beta)?

Re: rpm problem

On 07/24/2014 02:00 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/23/2014 09:05 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/23/2014 10:43 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, I am having trouble installing the PDF Studio RPM. https://www.dropbox.com/s/slgrnolcsktaezz/PDFStudio_v9_0_2_linux.rpm # cat /etc/redhat-release

Re: rpm problem

On 07/24/2014 02:19 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/24/2014 12:17 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/24/2014 02:00 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/23/2014 09:05 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/23/2014 10:43 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, I am having trouble installing the PDF Studio RPM. https

Re: rpm problem

On 07/24/2014 02:30 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/24/2014 12:29 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/24/2014 02:19 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/24/2014 12:17 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/24/2014 02:00 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/23/2014 09:05 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/23/2014 10:43 AM

Re: rpm problem

On 07/24/2014 02:45 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/24/2014 12:37 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/24/2014 02:30 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/24/2014 12:29 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/24/2014 02:19 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/24/2014 12:17 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/24/2014 02:00 PM

Re: rpm problem

On 07/24/2014 03:19 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/24/2014 01:20 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/24/2014 02:45 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/24/2014 12:37 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/24/2014 02:30 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 07/24/2014 12:29 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/24/2014 02:19 PM

Re: rpm problem

On 07/23/2014 10:43 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, I am having trouble installing the PDF Studio RPM. https://www.dropbox.com/s/slgrnolcsktaezz/PDFStudio_v9_0_2_linux.rpm # cat /etc/redhat-release Scientific Linux release 6.5 (Carbon) # uname -r 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64 # rpm -ivh

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

On 06/20/2014 08:55 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Lamar Owen wrote: On 06/20/2014 03:55 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: It may have become a legal question now that the SRPMs are no longer available from ftp.redhat.com. That in itself is an unwelcome change. It is an unfortunate

Re: speed fan for SL?

On 6/11/2014 4:41 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 06/10/2014 06:26 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 06/10/2014 12:16 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 06/09/2014 10:06 PM, Johan Guldmyr wrote: - Original Message - From: ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com To: Scientific Linux Users SCIENTIFIC-LINUX

Re: speed fan for SL?

for SL? On 06/09/2014 09:30 PM, Johan Guldmyr wrote: - Original Message - From: ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com To: Mark Stodola stod...@pelletron.com Cc: Scientific Linux Users SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 7:21:19 AM Subject: Re: speed fan for SL

Re: speed fan for SL?

On 6/9/2014 7:40 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, Anyone know of a speed and temperature monitor for SL? I have used http://almico.com/speedfan.php in the Windows environment, but they don't offer a Linux version. -T Have a look at lm_sensors.

Re: need bash variable syntax help

On 6/7/2014 11:25 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:52 PM, ToddAndMargotoddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, In Bash script language, how do I create a variable name from a variable? I am trying to create a variable called abcStatus x=abc $xStatus=xyz obviously doesn't

Re: How do I elevate in a script?

The setuid is not honored for shell scripts, try it and you will see. -Mark On 4/30/2014 2:35 AM, Matthieu Guionnet wrote: Hi Todd, why don't you just use setuid ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid You just change the script owner or group to root. And put the s bit with the chmod command.

Re: 6x-6.4?

On 01/13/2014 03:08 PM, jdow wrote: I figure this is a stupid question; but, is 6.5 really not ready for prime time yet? I see that the 6.5 repo tree appears to be open for business. But 6x seems to point to 6.4. {o.o} Joanne The 6.5 tree is available for testing (BETA 1) as of December 19.

Re: log in prompt out of screen

On 12/12/2013 06:04 AM, Jim Chen wrote: Hello experts, I have currently installed SL6.4 on a machine with PCM-3362 PC104 Atom processor. Everything works apart from the login screen cannot be seen each time after booting to the splash. It seems like the log in prompt is out of the screen. The

Re: UEFI SL 6x boot

That is correct, SL and TUV do not support secure boot at this time. This link is a year old, and I am sure more support it by now, but: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20522.html I'm sure a more up to date list can be found with moderate searching. On 09/24/2013 11:46 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:

Re: LO destroyed envelopes

On 06/25/2013 12:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Can you guys tell if this is finger pointing or if this really is not a Libre Office problem? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42327 Many thanks, -T Having had my fair share of odd behavior with CUPS, I would lean

Re: LO destroyed envelopes

On 06/25/2013 01:21 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 06/25/2013 10:40 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 06/25/2013 12:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Can you guys tell if this is finger pointing or if this really is not a Libre Office problem? https://bugs.freedesktop.org

Re: Samba4 rpm

On 02/07/2013 04:17 PM, Andrew Z wrote: Hello, i need to set up samba. and apparently there was a new release 4 already. so i did yum search, but: samba4-4.0.0-23.alpha11.el6.x86_64 [root@server ~]# rpm -ql samba4 /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0 /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0/COPYING

Re: LAPACK for SL/CentOS/RHEL 5?

On 02/05/2013 11:51 AM, Alan McKay wrote: I see LAPACK 3.0 when I do yum search, but the latest version is 3.4.2 Is there any place to get the newer RPMs for SL 5? I've looked into building it but the instructions assume a knowledge of using the package. I'm just a lowly Sys Admin and want to

Re: cloning with dd

On 01/29/2013 09:56 AM, Steve Gaarder wrote: I've done cloning for many years with tar: On the source machine, boot from an SL live CD and mount the source's root file system. Make a tar file of this system with a command like: cd /mnt/wherever tar -cSf - . | ssh someuser@somewhere 'cat

Re: cloning with dd

On 01/29/2013 10:43 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: There are advantages and disadvantages of the methodology you use. I have the following questions: 1. The SL live CD presumably requires a manual configuration of the network -- this university uses /22 IPv4 subnets (we have not made the full

Re: What is the correct way to set up a dual boot system for CentOS 6.3, or SL 6.3, and Windows 7?

On 08/20/2012 09:31 AM, Conan Doyle wrote: After numerous searches on how to setup CentOS 6.3 and Win7 to dual boot I turn to the readers of this forum for help... I suppose my question is quite simple: What is the correct way to set up a dual boot system for CentOS 6.3, or SL 6.3, and Windows

Re: How to build a custom ISO?

On 08/16/2012 08:38 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for cross build without success

Re: Changing the logo on login screen

On 08/06/2012 09:00 AM, Jeff Gregor wrote: I'm setting up a couple of old machines as sort of web/email kiosks for internal users. I'd like to be able to change the SL logo on the login screen to use my organization's logo. I've figured out how to change the background image on the login screen,

Re: significance of indicating root partition location in bot process

On 07/18/2012 08:37 AM, anuraag chowdhry wrote: Hi all, in the following print from grub.conf: title Scientific Linux (2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686 ro root=UUID=8ea0b46d-4a99-4e10 -a40b-6c265ae4a09e what is the above root= line

Re: Error with 'irq_set_affinity_hint' while compiling compat-wireless

On 07/10/2012 07:59 AM, Freak Trick wrote: I have Atheros Ethernet (On Board) which is not detected by the SL 6.2 (Updated). Ethernet Details: [root@localhost compat-wireless-2012-03-12-p]# lspci | grep Ethernet 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit

Re: Port puzzle

On 07/06/2012 04:06 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Logwatch on my laptop tells me Listed by source hosts: Dropped 30 packets on interface eth0 From 192.168.0.40 - 30 packets to tcp(38575) 192.168.0.40 is a mail/file/print server running SL. It may

Re: XFCE 4.10

On 05/31/2012 08:43 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 06/01/2012 03:16 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: Andrew Z wrote: just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in packaged form :) ? Probably no time soon, since it apparently requires newer versions of Gtk+, Glib etc than exist in SL 6.

Re: Whitelisting websites

I would recommend looking into squid or some other filtering proxy. The fundamental problem with using iptables/hosts restrictions is wildcard matching for subdomains and various other technical details that you end up sinking a vast amount of time to resolve. There are also several

Re: Lifecycle

On 04/24/2012 11:01 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:53 AM, zxq9z...@zxq9.com wrote: On 04/24/2012 11:58 PM, g wrote: On 04/24/2012 11:02 AM, zxq9 wrote: From a question on the Japanese mailing list: TUV is committing to a 10 year production lifecycle for 5 and 6.

Re: Firefox 10 system wide preferences

On 03/28/2012 04:44 PM, g wrote: On 03/28/2012 09:29 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: I'm just looking to set the default homepage for now. Is anyone successfully doing this? Has it changed from Firefox 3.0, 3.6, and the current packaged 10? -=- menu bar; Edit Preferences General

Re: Firefox 10 system wide preferences

On 03/28/2012 04:58 PM, Kinzel, David wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Mark Stodola Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:30 PM To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV

Firefox 10 system wide preferences

I've never attempted to set system wide/global preferences for Firefox, but am now looking into how to do it. Google has not been very kind in shedding light on the subject as all of the solutions site different file locations and names. I'm just looking to set the default homepage for now.

Re: pxeboot kernel problem (additional)

Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: On 03/06/2012 06:00 AM, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil wrote: On 03/05/2012 11:04 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: ksdevice=link seems to work for us when reinstalling SL5 systems with SL6.

Docbook, Publican, docbook-utils?

Does anyone have any recent experience writing documentation in docbook with current tools? I'm in the process of updating a user manual that I wrote several user ago in docbook xml that used xsltproc, fop, and docbook 4.1.x definitions. It looks like I've fallen behind and new tools are

Re: a question on mozilla applications

On 2/20/2012 5:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 02/20/2012 02:32 PM, Chris Pemberton wrote: On 02/20/12 13:29, Yasha Karant wrote: Before someone states that this is not a Scientific Linux issue, as it seems to be restricted to this distribution (perhaps other EL distributions as well), this

Re: SL 6.2 rpmfusion

On 2/18/2012 3:57 AM, Daniel Pun wrote: Hi Steven, I did already enable EPEL after the installation of SL 6.2 and have removed the RPMFUSION Fedora packages and now installed EL6 RPMFUSION packages. According to your suggestions, my output are as follows: [pund@church ~]$ rpm -qpl

Re: CUPS doesn't offer Ledger as a paper size

James M Pulver wrote: We've got a Brother MFC-j5910 which is working great networked via the brother LPD and CUPS driver, except if you want to print 11x17 / Tabloid. The printer for some reason doesn't support that, and instead supports the less common 17x11 / Ledger format. If I use a

Re: Install Mount Configuration

Jeremy Wellner wrote: I have a sadly newb question to put forward to the list. In setting up SL 6.1 for my workstation I made the decision to not use the dell fakeraid card that was built in and instead used the built in soft raid with SL to make RAID1 mirrors of all the basic partitions so

Re: output of var/log/messages on the terminal

On 12/10/2011 1:49 PM, Andrew Z wrote: gys, how can i send the /var/log/messages on a designated terminal? i remember some many years ago i saw on of SAs having messages file to 11 or 10 terminal from the moment machine booted. The gain - they just switch to it instead of typing tail .

Re: upgrading apache to 2.2.21

dricha...@globalcerts.net wrote: Thanks for your response. Heho, I am running Scientific Linux 6.0, which comes with Apache 2.2.15. I need to upgrade it to 2.2.21. Please keep in mind that a manual installation will result in you having to keep track of security updates.

Re: List mirrors gateways

Monte Milanuk wrote: Hello all, Are there any mirrors or mail2news gateways for the scientific-linux lists? Specifically, I thought I read some time back about efforts to get it on Gmane.org, but I can't find any archives there yet/still? I'm mainly interested in that because it makes it

Re: Updated version of Install-DVD.iso and Everything-DVD1.iso now available for SL 6.1 i386/x86_64

Connie Sieh wrote: I have patched the Install-DVD.iso and Everything-DVD1.iso for both i386 and x86_64 to fix the issue where the network was required during a install.This also removes the ability to install security errata during the install as this was broken for the

Re: kudzu changes ifcfg-ethx files when moving disc

Bill Askew wrote: We have some Lenovo T61p laptops that we are running SL 5.0 on. I configure /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 with a static IP address. I am not putting in the MAC information on purpose. I reboot and the configuration works fine. In the production environment we have, one laptop

Re: hardware compatibility list

I'll second this. Been using Intel-branded motherboards and NICs (ELrepo drivers) for quite a few years now without problems. Phong Nguyen wrote: Intel-branded motherboards are likely to be compatible, though you may need to get backported drivers for the NIC via ELRepo. On 25 Oct 2011, at

Re: ifplugd rpm

On 10/21/2011 10:29 AM, Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) wrote: I am looking for a tool like ifplugd. Can anyone point out why I can find ifplugd-packages for el4 and el6 but not for el5 ? Regards, Carel van der Werf I may be wrong, but that particular project is defunct as far as I can tell.

Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

Matthias Schroeder wrote: Hi Yasha, On 10/17/2011 03:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: After much searching, I found for my wife a laptop that we could afford given that her Department had no funds to replace her stolen laptop, one that does work under EL including the 802.11 WNIC. It is a Lenovo

Re: need help with gnutls and p11-kit

Howard, Chris wrote: I've been given the task of installing filezilla on SL 5.3 It demands gnutls with a version higher than what comes with SL. gnutls demands p11-kit (whatever that is!) Compiling p11-kit seems to work but then gnutls can't seem to find it. Configure says No package

Re: Any CentOS 5.6 friendly ink jet printers?

On 09/16/2011 09:21 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, I have a sweet old duffer on CentOS 5.6, x32 with an HP DJ 6940 printer on the USB bus. CUPS like to put it offline a lot, which frustrates the two of us. There is also no easy way to clean the heads (other than a dubious command

Re: Fwd: ADSL/pppoe configuration

Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Steven J. Yellin yel...@slac.stanford.edu wrote: You may already understand what I'm about to write, but it's possible that you're enough of a newbie that you've misunderstood the role of rpms, so I'll explain anyway:

Re: How to update the Kernel, keeping the proprietary modules.

On 8/18/2011 5:33 PM, Pablo Cavero wrote: Hi, I have another question, so how to I can do an kernel update, and don't lose the proprietary modules. I use a Raid Adaptec and Network Cards Intel, and if I move, like example, from the Kernel: 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 to 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64

Re: usb attached mouse is dying and usbcore is missing

Alan Bartlett wrote: On 15 August 2011 18:47, Andrew Z form...@gmail.com wrote: Saga continues.. Now the intervals between lockups increased from 15 minutes to hours/days. Last night i tried to rmmod usb* modules and to my amusement i could not. rmmod -f caused nothing, but hanging of the

Re: How to turn off screen saver and DPMS

Michael Jones wrote: On 07/14/2011 01:41 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Michael Jones wrote: Despite this radically overkill approach, the screen still turns off after around half an hour. I suspect that the reason is the monitors built in power saving features, which I

Re: RPM: file versions

Andrew Z wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Phil Perry p...@pendre.co.uk mailto:p...@pendre.co.uk wrote: On 15/07/11 19:54, Andrew Z wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Phil Perryp...@pendre.co.uk mailto:p...@pendre.co.uk wrote: On 15/07/11 19:28,

Re: pbone

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/31/2011 05:12 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I ask the guys over

Re: USB over IP programming experience

David, This sounds like a job for a terminal server (RS232 over IP). They are very common and easy to work with. In fact, I'll be on your campus for the next 2 weeks (flying in Sunday) to help install an accelerator that is being moved. Part of the installation includes such a device. I'd

Re: OpenGL driver not correctly installed? Which driver for nVidia 280?

Brunner, Brian T. wrote: Board: Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2302dl=1#ov) Chipset nVidia nForce 590 SLI CPU: AMD 64 FX 62 (2-core) Video: Nvidia 280 OS: SL6 (kernel 2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.i686) RAM: 4GB I did yum install wine wine-devel and a few

Re: Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets

Chris Tooley wrote: Hello all, I am wondering whether the Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets are supported natively by any packages or the kernel, or whether I have to install a newer driver? Thanks, ~Chris Tooley I try to use Intel NICs as often as possible. If the standard SL kernel doesn't

Re: forum for Scientific Linux users

n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Kevin Thomas writes: « HTML content follows » I don't know if everyone was aware of this (I just found out yesterday), but there is a forum for Scientific Linux. It looks like it was created fairly recently. I just wanted to bring it up in case some of you prefer web

Re: HPLIP v.2.8.10

Alan Bartlett wrote: On 8 February 2011 03:21, Chris Tooley ctoo...@uvic.ca wrote: I am attempting to get an HP Color LaserJet cp2025dn installed on some SL5 systems. Firstly, if anyone has any experience getting these up and running I would be grateful for some hints or help :) Anyway,

Re: please give me the required link

Urs builds a great livecd, however no torrents listed on his site. http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/ Not sure why it needs to be a torrent though, plenty of fast mirrors available. -Mark Parshwa Murdia wrote: hi, can one get me TORRENT link for KDE desktop version of live CD of SL 5.5 for a

Re: Network Shared close periodically

This could be a simple matter of firmware for the USB wireless adapters. Have you tried removing the USB adapters for a few seconds after linux has been shutdown, then booting windows? You could also unplug them while windows is running and then replug to load windows' copy of the firmware.

Re: EVO video with nvidia drivers

Devin Bougie wrote: Hi, All. We have several SL5 systems using the proprietary nvidia driver from sl-contrib. We did not have any trouble with these systems until we tried to view video in EVO (ViEVO). We have no problem using EVO with the latest 260.19.29 drivers downloaded and installed

Re: Need help recovering SL4 /boot (not backed up)

Pann McCuaig wrote: Greetings SL fans, Sorry for the length of this post, but I'm hoping someone can come to my rescue and want to provide sufficient context. Recently I had a hard drive failure on a Sun X4600 box running SL4.8. The box has four drives; the drive that failed was /boot (only).

Re: User interfaces for mysql

Larry, Could you elaborate on this. I'm having trouble following what exactly you are trying to accomplish. If you want to provide a web interface to a mysql database using php, this is certainly possible. You'll need apache, php, php-mysql all installed and functioning. If you've written

Re: texlive-texmf packages

Give this a try: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-July/061620.html -Mark Hiisi wrote: Hi, list! I need kvoptions to be installed on my system (SL5). However yum tells me that No package texlive-texmf-latex available even with --enablerepo=*. Which repo should I add in order to

Re: firstboot problem on laptop Dell E6510

Try adding 'noprobe' to your boot options during install. -Mark FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: Hello, is there a way to bypass the probing of the video card during install ? There is an nvidia card probed on new Dell E6510 laptop which does not work with the nv driver . I tried vga=nnn

Re: install alien

Frenck Cacia wrote: The fedora version does not exist, there are other versions of alien, but I find it difficult to install Alien is a last ditch effort at best. Are you able to obtain the source code to the .deb package and compile it yourself? Odds are you are going to run into

Re: Another side effect that crept in with SL 5.5

Larry, Although my problem might be different, it may be relevant. I've not used 5.5 (still hanging on 5.2). I've run into problems like this as well with printing in a similar fashion. I've found that the community adopted the use of texttopaps, which is horribly bugging, borderline

Re: More on Spurious Interrupt

Is this at all related with using a VM? Is this of any help? http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 Cheers, Mark Larry Linder wrote: Adding nosmp apm=force noapic api=off pci=noacpi after a reboot of system appeared to work on first inspection. Some time after reboot there are more

Re: netconfig

Felix Farcas wrote: Hello I have a SL 5.3 x64. Is it possible to install netconfig in Scientific Linux 5.3. I saw in the documentation that say that this program was removed. Do you have any solution? Thank you Felix Is there something it can do that system-config-network or

Re: Nvidia woes...

to a system crash. Do you see anything similar? My attempts at using valgrind have been inconclusive (if not confusing) up to now... Cheers, Sergio On 27 Apr 2010, at 22:54, Mark Stodola wrote: Hey everyone, I currently have deployed a number of SL 5.2 i386 machines. Due

Re: Problem mounting cifs

You might be able to get some info out of the contents in /proc/fs/cifs/. Does nautilus actually mount the filesystem somewhere, or is it using smbclient and friends to make it appear as such? CIFS is actually quite different from SMB once you start digging into it. Also, a newer samba

Re: Clean SL 5.4 Install and Anaconda Disk Partitioning Madness

Brent L. Bates wrote: I've been searching Google for answers and can't find any, so I decided to check here. I'm trying to do a clean install of SL 5.4. I'm booting from an SL 5.4 x86_64 DVD. When I get to the point of custom partitioning my drives, Anaconda makes a mess of things.

Re: can't boot livedvd64_SL54_2009-11-20.iso

Alan Bartlett wrote: On 22 March 2010 14:39, Urs Beyerle urs.beye...@env.ethz.ch wrote: Stephen Isard wrote: 1. remove rhgb from the default boot options - no graphical bootup per default. 2. make norhgb working - /etc/rc.sysinit has to be modified. 3. (at least) remove rhgb from

Re: SL archives and indexed postings not accessible

Works fine for me on FF under SL 5.2. I navigated from listserv.fnal.gov to the archives, then chose SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS, selected a random month and clicked on a random message. -Mark William Lutter wrote: I find that on both firefox linux and IE winxp that I can't access either

Re: udev rule to name USB disks after their serial number

Tim Edwards wrote: We have a process here were users must push files onto USB disks. The user logs in remotely to a machine which may have many USB disks attached and he/she knows the serial number of the disk to write to. In trying to do away with some complex, hacky scripts I'm trying to

Re: udev rule to name USB disks after their serial number

Tim Edwards wrote: On 05/03/10 15:16, Mark Stodola wrote: Tim, I think you are confusing sysfs with environment variables. the %E{key} is used for environment variables. The serial number is a SYSFS attribute. Try changing %E{serial} to %s{serial} and see if it works. Cheers

Re: udev rule to name USB disks after their serial number

Tim Edwards wrote: On 05/03/10 15:36, Mark Stodola wrote: Tim Edwards wrote: On 05/03/10 15:16, Mark Stodola wrote: Tim, I think you are confusing sysfs with environment variables. the %E{key} is used for environment variables. The serial number

Re: SL5.4 and Asus eee S101 netbook

William Lutter wrote: I've installed SL5.4 on an ASUS eee S101 netbook that my lab has purchased. Reviews say Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.10 work flawlessly (Ubuntu). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220595 I usually use SL, so I've installed 5.4. lscpi indicates that the

Re: SLC4 - udev

Nicola Maggi wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Mark Stodolastod...@pelletron.com wrote: Nicola Maggi wrote: Hello to everyone, I have a Scientific Linux CERN 4 installation and I need to control an usb device with it. My device is an Opal Kelly FPGA with an usb interface. I need

Re: dual head with ATI Radeon 43xx

I run a 3650 on SL5.2 just fine. I don't see any reason why a higher end card on a slightly newer revision wouldn't work, except maybe kernel changes. Just download/compile/install (I'm using ati-driver-installer-8-12-x86.x86_64.run) the ATI driver and you can use aticonfig to ease the Xorg

Re: Boot in Single CPU mode

Alan Bartlett wrote: On 19/05/2009, Nicola Maggi nicola.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I've been required to start a SLC4 box in Single CPU mode, does anyone know how to do that? On the kernel line, in your /etc/grub.conf file, append the string nosmp (without the quotes). I'm sure that

Re: SL 5.3 with IceWM from SL 5.2 mini_livecd (long post)

I have almost these exact specs, except mine is a P3 and not a celeron. I use Xubuntu (xfce) and have found it a pleasure to use. -Mark Radu-Cristian Fotescu wrote: Folks, I might be polluting this list, but I'm having several questions and observations, so I thought that sending a mail to

Re: How can I install Skype on SL 5.0 ?

Try the CentOS package. It will let you know of dependencies when you try to install. Cheers, Mark Pedro Ferreira wrote: Hello all, I dont't know how to install skype on my SL5. I don't even know which distribution I should download, since there are no Red Hat versions. Which dependencies

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