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Toiletbrush posted:So my question is, can a faulty USB driver/device freeze the system? I've managed to hard-lock my desktop merely by unplugging a USB bluetooth dongle before, so I'd say "yes"
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Luckily, that guy's getting a wireless DSL router, soon, due to the IPTV crap he ordered. Let's just hope it is the modem. It requires ugly hacking in regards to extracting firmware from a download and dropping it somewhere into a folder so that Linux can upload it into the modem on boot. Sounds awfully not like a foolproof solution. --edit: Also, does it suffice to create a simple RC script starting bash to get a login shell? Ubuntu only seems to fire up GDM and nothing else, unless I boot in the failsafe mode. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 12:14 on Jul 18, 2007 |
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Toiletbrush posted:If it was a kernel panic, I'd figure that the system would drop into text mode, but it just freezes under Xorg. On Linux, they haven't bothered to do that. The stated position of the kernel developers is that you should use a remote machine connected via a serial port to do live kernel debugging. It can be very educational, but it's a hassle for average users. Plus most laptops don't even have serial ports anymore unless you get a port replicator for them. Usually, you're out of luck unless you can reproduce the issue and switch to text mode before it happens. Toiletbrush posted:--edit: Also, does it suffice to create a simple RC script starting bash to get a login shell? Ubuntu only seems to fire up GDM and nothing else, unless I boot in the failsafe mode.
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# ? Jul 18, 2007 14:36 |
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Another dumb question, how do I make Gnome change the location where it shows the emblems? Top right corner is meh.RoundsToZero posted:Try ctrl+alt+F1. ctrl+alt+F7 should switch back to X.
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# ? Jul 18, 2007 15:15 |
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Do you have lines like the following in your inittab? 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 If not, you can add them (Ubuntu might have a different getty though) and run init q to reload inittab without rebooting. Then you should have the login consoles right away, and when you next reboot. I can't believe Ubuntu doesn't have this by default. What happens if the X server can't come up for some reason? Also what do you mean by emblems? I'm no a Gnome user so I'm not familiar with that term but if you're talking about the system tray type applet, you should be able to move it around on a panel, or remove and re-add it on another panel.
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# ? Jul 18, 2007 15:40 |
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RoundsToZero posted:Do you have lines like the following in your inittab? RoundsToZero posted:Also what do you mean by emblems? I'm no a Gnome user so I'm not familiar with that term but if you're talking about the system tray type applet, you should be able to move it around on a panel, or remove and re-add it on another panel.
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# ? Jul 18, 2007 16:21 |
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how do I make debian etch recognize a GUID partition table so I can mount the HFS+ volume that's on it? Is there a kernel module I'm missing?
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RoundsToZero posted:I can't believe Ubuntu doesn't have this by default. What happens if the X server can't come up for some reason? It normally does, I've never had to muck around with inittab to get this to work. Toiletbrush, what happens when you switch, do you just get a blank screen? Edit: To be slightly more helpful, after not finding /etc/inittab on my latest Ubuntu install, it looks like they have switched to the Upstart system. More info http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=292507 http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ Edit 2: I think the files you need are /etc/event.d/tty2 which should have something like: code:
Hope that puts you in the right direction! Prince John fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jul 19, 2007 |
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68k posted:So, with that said, am I doing something wrong when trying to remove those firewire modules? code:
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Col posted:Toiletbrush, what happens when you switch, do you just get a blank screen? Ah well, I'll see. We're first waiting for that wireless router. Apparently the telco wants to install it, due to IPTV and what's it, so we have to wait. No point in dicking around until we've identified what makes the system lock up. And figuring various things out without possible internet help is annoying.
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I need to run check disk on an NTFS partition from Linux. What are my options, other than booting into windows twice? EDIT: To ellaborate, I'm mounting a TrueCrypt encrypted NTFS partition that's being read off an NTFS partition. I do not have access to Windows. Jo fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Jul 20, 2007 |
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I've been having an odd issue getting NFS set up properly and I was hoping somebody has some idea as to what's going on with it (I'm sure it's something really dumb, but I can't track it down). Essentially, what's happening is that, although I can successfully mount the filesystem and look around as root, normal users are getting permissions errors even trying to read from the directory. All the documentation I can find regarding permissions problems with NFS relate to the initial mount, rather than accessing the contents of it. On my server, I'm running an up-to-date version of the IA32 port of Debian stable and on the client, the PPC64 port of Fedora Core 7. I've got the following in /etc/exports on my server: code:
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I'm trying to find out which file gftp uses to store login credentials. I have an old ftp account I haven't used in over a year on a box that I can only ssh into. I've misplaced my login credentials for the ftp account, but am sure it is still stored in some file on that box. How can I get at it?
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# ? Jul 21, 2007 17:24 |
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Jo posted:I need to run check disk on an NTFS partition from Linux. What are my options, other than booting into windows twice? Z-Bo posted:I'm trying to find out which file gftp uses to store login credentials. I have an old ftp account I haven't used in over a year on a box that I can only ssh into. I've misplaced my login credentials for the ftp account, but am sure it is still stored in some file on that box. How can I get at it? 6174 posted:Not even close. gFTP is a FTP client, not a graphical front-end to a FTP server. Not to mention most FTP daemons keep their login credentials separate from rest of the system by default, making your comment about /etc/passwd crazy. Scaevolus fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jul 21, 2007 |
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Scaevolus posted:Not even close. gFTP is a FTP client, not a graphical front-end to a FTP server. Not to mention most FTP daemons keep their login credentials separate from rest of the system by default, making your comment about /etc/passwd crazy. Z-Bo, look at ~/.gftp/bookmarks. It should have your stuff there. The comment at the top of the file says the password is scrambled. I'm not sure how, but they say it is not secure so a little source diving I'm sure can reveal the answer.
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# ? Jul 21, 2007 19:07 |
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Here's an easy one. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty, and I grew tired of ATI's driver support. I have an Nvidia card I'm ready to put in. Are there any precautions I need to take? I've blown up linux installs far too many times to not ask about this.
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Splashy Gravy posted:Here's an easy one. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty, and I grew tired of ATI's driver support. I have an Nvidia card I'm ready to put in. Are there any precautions I need to take? I've blown up linux installs far too many times to not ask about this. There really shouldn't be any problems, Linux has always dealt well with me changing large pieces of hardware in the past. As a precaution, you may want to change your video driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to vesa before you swap the cards out - it'll look like rear end, but at least you're guaranteed to get back to the desktop when you boot up again. Then it should just be a matter of installing nvidia-glx and the relevant linux-restricted-modules package, change your driver to 'nvidia' if needed and it should just work. On my fresh Feisty install, the new 'restricted drivers' dialogue popped up and installed it all automatically, so you may be lucky and have that happen instead Edit: Obligatory 'back up your files' and 'its probably a good idea to put your home directory on a separate partition' comments though. Prince John fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Jul 22, 2007 |
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I've searched this thread and Google, really didn't find a conclusive answer... I'm running drat Small Linux on a machine with like 30K of memory with runlevel 2, text only.... Anywho, this sound stupid but, the _ or cursor repeat rate at my bash shell, and within SSH is way too fast and it is pretty distracting. I've got this machine running off to my side, and the constant quick blinking is distracting and irritating.. I've played with exporting KEYRATE or CURSOR, but that doesn't have any change. kbdrate changes the time for the repeat if you're holding down the key, but not the little underscore on my prompt. I think I'm going to slowly go insane
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# ? Jul 22, 2007 11:36 |
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Re: ATI If I run Xgl without anything else, say Compiz, it still should display things like a normal X server, right? I'm trying to get Compiz Fusion working on my friends computer, but either it whines about texture pixmap support or if I try the Xgl way, I get a garbled mess on screen. I still can make out where the windows would be. AIGLX seems to be a no go, too. Complains about a lack of DRI. First stone in the way was that Ubuntu kept overwriting the kernel driver with its own old version every boot, thanks to that piece of poo poo idea called LRM that robbed my patience, and once I got it to load the correct version, I still didn't have DRI. Running the latest Catalysts, on a Radeon 9550 though.
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NotHet posted:I've searched this thread and Google, really didn't find a conclusive answer... If you are using the text console, use kbdrate utility: code:
If you are in X, use xset: code:
quote:I've got this machine running off to my side, and the constant quick blinking is distracting and irritating.. I've played with exporting KEYRATE or CURSOR, but that doesn't have any change. kbdrate changes the time for the repeat if you're holding down the key, but not the little underscore on my prompt.
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Toiletbrush posted:Re: ATI In some cases I have seen compiz failing until being run with fglrx's own libGL: code:
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Scaevolus posted:The ntfsprogs package contains the program "ntfsfix", which is probably what you're looking for, but I'm not sure how nicely it works with truecrypt. If truecrypt gives you a virtual block device, it should work. I was under the impression that ntfsfix wasn't a checkdisk replacement. I thought it just made it easier to remount Linux mounted partitions in Windows. EDIT: Tried it. Still getting the unclean partition warning. Jo fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Jul 22, 2007 |
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teapot posted:In some cases I have seen compiz failing until being run with fglrx's own libGL: One way or another, considering XGL is supposed to work with fglrx, I'm surprised that all it manages to show is a garbled mess, and that without compiz running.
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What are some popular Windows applications that won't work on Linux?
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SnatchRabbit posted:What are some popular Windows applications that won't work on Linux? Using Wine, Photoshop doesn't work flawlessly. (GIMP is alternative for most of its functions). Some winamp functions don't work (eg playlist) - use amaroK as its better. If you're willing to pay, Crossover office will handle MS Office, iTunes etc. Perhaps if you told us what you use we can tell you if there is an alternative?
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# ? Jul 23, 2007 18:19 |
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Col posted:Using Wine, Photoshop doesn't work flawlessly. (GIMP is alternative for most of its functions). Some winamp functions don't work (eg playlist) - use amaroK as its better. Not really trying to do anything, was just curious which other big name software apps don't support Linux, as you mentioned iTunes and Photoshop being iffy. Any others of note?
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SnatchRabbit posted:Not really trying to do anything, was just curious which other big name software apps don't support Linux, as you mentioned iTunes and Photoshop being iffy. Any others of note? Unless explicitly stated, there are NO Windows applications that are supported on Linux. If you can deal with the various alternatives that are available on other OSes for Windows applications, by all means use them. But for the love of god if you need to run specific Windows programs, just run Windows. As far as Wine has come (and it has come a LONG and impressive way), new Linux users trying to get Windows applications working fully and properly on Linux almost always ends in pain and frustration and is just not worth the effort.
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# ? Jul 23, 2007 18:56 |
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what is the cheapest wireless G capable, Linux compatible wireless card?
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DeadBird posted:what is the cheapest wireless G capable, Linux compatible wireless card? I guess it would be a generic linksys pos with ndiswrapper. I'd go for US Robotics if you want something with native linux drivers.
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SnatchRabbit posted:Not really trying to do anything, was just curious which other big name software apps don't support Linux, as you mentioned iTunes and Photoshop being iffy. Any others of note? "Big name" companies almost never put any effort into making their Windows applications run on Linux under emulation. I can't even name anything other than picasa to be done that way. Ones that want their applications to run under Linux make a native Linux version (Google Earth, Mozilla/Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Maya, VariCAD) or don't bother at all. Many applications have Linux equivalent made by someone else (Windows apologists love to bitch and moan about those applications not being exact copies of Windows ones), some (mostly games) are well supported under emulation.
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How would I go about uninstalling ubuntu 7.04 from a Vista/Ubuntu dualboot? Only 1 HDD, each OS on its own partition. Not that I don't love Linux, I just have to remove ubuntu for work reasons.
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# ? Jul 23, 2007 20:56 |
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SnatchRabbit posted:How would I go about uninstalling ubuntu 7.04 from a Vista/Ubuntu dualboot? Only 1 HDD, each OS on its own partition. Not that I don't love Linux, I just have to remove ubuntu for work reasons. Use the windows rescue CD to restore the dos-style MBR and to make sure the windows partition is bootable. Boot into windows and remove any of the partitions used for ubuntu filesystems via diskmgmt.msc
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# ? Jul 23, 2007 21:23 |
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teapot posted:"Big name" companies almost never put any effort into making their Windows applications run on Linux under emulation. I can't even name anything other than picasa to be done that way. Ones that want their applications to run under Linux make a native Linux version (Google Earth, Mozilla/Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Maya, VariCAD) or don't bother at all. Many applications have Linux equivalent made by someone else (Windows apologists love to bitch and moan about those applications not being exact copies of Windows ones), some (mostly games) are well supported under emulation. Google basically had their software compiled with Wine or something. Winelib to be more exact.
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DeadBird posted:what is the cheapest wireless G capable, Linux compatible wireless card? I picked up one of these for about $30 at Microcenter. It works perfectly with the madwifi driver and wpa_supplicant.
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crazysim posted:Google basically had their software compiled with Wine or something. Winelib to be more exact. Picasa -- yes (that is more precise than my description). Google Earth -- no. It's native.
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# ? Jul 24, 2007 03:26 |
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Thanks to some help earlier in this thread, I now know how to burn DVD's via a CLI, but I would like some help to automate this process a little more. I want to write a bash script that will contain this linecode:
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echo "alias dvdrecord='cdrecord -v dev=6,0,0 driveropts=burnfree'" >> ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile ?
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Furd_Terguson posted:
Just put "%1" in your script instead of "file.iso", and that will be replaced by the first parameter of the script. (So if your script is called "dvdrecord", use "dvdrecord somefilename.iso")
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JoeNotCharles posted:Just put "%1" in your script instead of "file.iso", and that will be replaced by the first parameter of the script. (So if your script is called "dvdrecord", use "dvdrecord somefilename.iso") "$1" . %s are for Windows batch script variables(?) Also, you're better off putting that in a shell script in ~/bin or something. code:
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thenameseli posted:"$1" . %s are for Windows batch script variables(?) How the hell did I do that? I don't even use Windows!
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