I have RHEL5.3 box with firefox 10.0.5 .

I want to update the firefox. When I extract firefox-25.0b4.tar.bz2 and then run firefox it gives the error msg :

Couldn't load XRE functions

what can should i do?

Thanks

videocard Intel Mobile 4. This software runs fine on a Compaq CQ50 with same graphics card.default install wants to use i810 and later driver, specifically i915

Random xserver crashes - black screen/ working mouse- BEFORE and after login and during sessions. Cannot reproduce but has happened over the past few months about every 5th login and every 2 hrs when in a session.

Many various error messages in /var and in .xsession-errors- too many to list but mainly regarding DBus disconnecting or cannot be connected.

Things tried:

-With and without desktop effects enabled

-Intel and Xorg drivers

-with and without xorg.conf (this seems to provide best results)

-Different kernels (pae,bfs, slightly older, slightly newer including latest)

-adding i915.modeset=1 to boot option

-delete ~.kde

-Adding Terminate server="True" to kdmrc

After a crash Ctrl+Alt+F(1-6) gives terminal. can login but cannot startx - error is either "xserver already running" or "cannot connect to server"

Ctrl+Alt+F7 gives me a text boot screen hung at "starting display manager"

Ctrl+ Alt+F8 returns me to the GUI session with all apps open as if nothing happened

If I hit CTRL+Alt+Bckspc immediately after crash I get GUI login. If after I launch another terminal session, it does nothing.

Any ideas appreciated.

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I am getting used to this Android way of life. I have a Chinese Android dual sim phone, handy for personal and work.

I want to start to install some apps, but how can I be sure that the manufacturer installed "Android Market" app is taking me to the Genuine Android Market?

This phone is used to all sorts of important stuff, so security is critical (isn't it always?).

Security is one area Apple seems to have it all over Android (that and I can't save sms texts to my pc easily!).

Who here is using Android, and how do you deal with an open market when it comes to downloading apps?

So, is it possible to determine if I am accessing the official market, and how can you be certain apps are secure?

I have been using Mandriva for 12 years now. But it seems this time has come to an end, although latest (2011) is good (I installed it on 3 coworkers’ PCs :) already).

Now, I want to use Gnome 3, and it is not part of the new Mandriva… So what would you recommend?

I want:

— repositories with dependency management (like urpmi) and broad choice;

— a good balance of stability and recent software, among which must be Gnome 3;

— multi-users (most distro are);

— a possibility to setup a newbie-friendly desktop session for some users;

— adequate performance.

I tried tinycore but there is no Gnome 3, and setting things up is a pain (for example: by default, pavucontrol does not find the PA daemon, although both pulseaudio and dbus are installed “on-bootâ€).

I’m thinking about trying Arch Linux. Is it a good choice?

Yves.

Q: How can I get Firestarter to load automatically when I log in as a regular user?

Firestarter running in the system tray

 

Normally when you start Firestarter by clicking an icon or manually from a terminal, the system will prompt you for your root user's password. However, this is a bit of a hassle, especially if you want to run Firestarter all the time when logged in. In that case Firestarter can be loaded in the background when you log in with your regular user, without asking a password and minimized to the system tray (pictured right).

Giving the user permission to launch Firestarter without the root password

 

In order for a regular user to be able to launch Firestarter, the user must be given additional privileges. Edit your /etc/sudoers file in your favorite text editor and add the following line at the end:

username ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/firestarter

 

Note: Debian users should replace /usr/bin/firestarter with /usr/sbin/firestarter in the above line.

 

Simply replace username with whatever your login is. The specified user is now able to launch Firestarter without being prompted for a password using the command sudo firestarter.

 

A note on the security aspects: This method makes a trade off in local security for convenience. If your user account becomes compromised the attacker will be able to control the firewall. However this method is preferable to having a shared root user password in a multiuser setting. It is also preferable if the alternative is not to run Firestarter at all.

Launching Firestarter minimized to the tray on login

 

Having performed the above configuration of permissions, the system can further be set up to load Firestarter when you log in with your regular user account. Firestarter will in that case load directly into the system tray without user intervention, after which the main interface can be accessed by clicking the tray icon.

 

Using GNOME:

The GNOME sessions manager

 

Open up your GNOME menu, select Preferences followed by Sessions. Switch to the Startup programs tab, pictured right.

 

Click Add and enter

sudo firestarter --start-hidden

as the startup command. Click OK and you're done.

 

To stop Firestarter from loading on login, simply remove its entry from the startup programs listing.

 

Using KDE:

 

Open a terminal and execute the following two commands:

 

echo -e '#'\!'/bin/sh\nsudo firestarter --start-hidden' > ~/.kde/Autostart/firestarter

chmod a+x ~/.kde/Autostart/firestarter

 

Firstarter will now load automatically when KDE starts. To stop Firestarter from loading when you log in, remove the ~/.kde/Autostart/firestarter file.

I did that exactly,now i'm getting error message:

[user@user Autostart]$ ./firestarter

Sorry, user user is not allowed to execute '/usr/sbin/firestarter --start-hidden' as root on user

(replaced my username with "user",and "localhost" as well,since there reads my username instead of "localhost",i have configured network that way.)

I did that terminal session in root, and usermode,just to see if that would have different outcome.it did not.

Thank you..

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Seemed to install fine and run nicely until I created second and third users. Now OCCASIONALLY on logouts and even in the middle of a session I get a hang. I have a non blinking cursor upper left and a working mouse but no desktop, no panel, no wallpaper no icons, just black. Sometimes I can ctrl+alt+bckspc which restarts xserver and sometimes I have to RSEIUB. Apparently either the driver or kdm is not being "released" for the next login, or something in a session triggers a hang.

This has happened about 10-12 times in a 5 day period. Can't find a pattern. Have tried with and without KDE effects enabled and also tried downgrading kernel (2.6.37.x) and just now upgraded x-server but no joy.

I have run across many threads about modifying /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to "TermnateServer=true" under the [X-*-Core] section and this has seemed to lessen problem but still happens occasionally and someone has recommended trying xorg "intel" rather than vendor "Intel i810 and later" but when I select xorg in PCC "'configure graphics, the vendor shows "custom", but drop down menu still shows "i810 and later". even after saving and rebooting. Also PCC does not give the option to "test" as in MCC or even previous PCC.

This is confirmed by lsmod shows i915, although xorg.conf shows "intel". I have also tried blacklisting vendor intel drivers but no luck.

Xorg.0.log from AFTER the last hang shows a lot of stuff but there is a line about "server may be stuck in a loop". I can post all relevant files and more if needed.

Main question is how do I try the xorg intel drivers? "xorg-server-intel" show as installed in synaptic but PCLOS keeps loading the vendor specific i810 drivers.

Thanks for any help.

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

I really liked Fedora 14.

Tried Fedora 15 Gnome beta RC2 and my comment is the same as Korben Dallas' when asked [what he thought of Fhloston Paradise] by Ruby Rhod: "Tell me, my man, you happy here in the big world?" [you need to see the movie]. Apparently the author of the ZDNET article below felt similarly - at least regarding Gnome 3.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/fedora-15s-five-best-features/8968

Then i find the RPM is already done, i just handn't tried it.....

So post any great killer apps here, with a short description and why you think they are killer...

preferably they should be open source and applicable to everyone...

I'll start by nominating nvu from Linspire... fills a niche for easy web editors.

I want to see how they all compare but I so far cannot set up fedora with kde to make this comparison.

Did I miss something or is there more to install to be able to do this ???.

Cheers. John.

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Greetings!

Im wondering which linux distro to use besides mandy on another system, but Im checking options

1)Slackware

2)OpenSuse

3)FreeBSD

Slackware got out of my list because the lack of gnome support (I like it!!!)

FreeBSD its a good choice for a server not a Desktop

then OpenSuse

but it does support GNOME? I ve seen last versions show KDe as main enviroment!

and compared to mandy it has the same versability like easyurpmi? and it has the same amount of packages in their repos?

Thanks

Got the kernel from correct repos ( I think) and followed all instructions for upgrading.

Any help appreciated.

[Moved from Software - arctic]

The router is the firewall. The Windows box is not serving as a firewall. BTW, I checked my own router and firewall and opened the appropriate ports there.

I would like to know how to update the current ubuntu server kernel ver. to the new one. I just gave the following commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

A lot of things were updated except the kernel. Any clue. Thanks in advance.

Fahd

100505

[moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

Can anyone suggest a good setup of server + database clustering. The involve are HTTP and PostgreSql. Im planning to setup an active passive environment, though Google would display lots of results on the topic, but maybe some one here has a good advice on which solution to go.

here's the scenario:

2 centos server running httpd and postrgresql

database and apps content is mounted via iscsi at storage MSA2312i.

not a best practice though since apps like httpd runs along with postgres, but its already there and currently not yet separated.

Really appreciate if someone can point me to a good solution or advice.

thanks

:)

I recently tried installing Xubuntu 9.10 (Xfce) on my A21P laptop and have a good start - except for this Window Manager problem. The Window Manager is not available through the Settings menu nor the Xfce 4 Settings Manager - it's like it's not there.

When I open a new window, there are no close, maximize, or minimize buttons. I cannot shade, move, or resize windows. To further frustrate things, the windows cover the top panel - so I can only open one application at once. If I do manage to get two applications open (like opening the online help for an application I have open), I cannot alt + tab between the open applications.

Workspaces are also ineffective - it says there is a workspace 2, but I cannot access it.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff

The hardware:

AMD Sempron 3000+ (stock HS)

512 MB RAM

(1) 40GB IDE drive (OS drive)

(2) 320GB SATA drives \

(2) 500GB SATA drives | (storage drives)

(2) 1TB SATA drives /

(2) case fans, 80mm I think

SATA controller

The next thing I will check is overheating and OS hard drive integrity but right now I'm a little too frustrated to do anything else. It's frustrating to not have the majority of my media files and documents unavailable, let me tell you.

Thanks for the help.

The biggest difference for me is when I type some thing like this:

$ ls fil

and then press TAB. In Mandriva, pressing TAB gives me a list of all files in this directory that start with fil:

file1 file2 file_to_delete

In ubuntu, I first hear a loud beep, and the list appears only when I press TAB for the second time.

The second big difference is that Ubuntu does not request me to confirm whether I want to remove a file, when I type

$ rm file

, ie it defaults to

$ rm -f file

. Mandriva gives you a chance to confirm deleting, I like this feature a lot.

Now my question is how I can make bash in Ubuntu follow Mandriva's settings. I have an Ubuntu PC in my office. Coming from Mandriva, I have a habit of pressing TAB very frequently, so the beep irritates everybody around. I don't want to disable speaker altogether - occasionally, the beep is useful. Also, it would be good to change the behavior of the rm command. I recall that there must be an alias somewhere but I cannot remember where it is.

Can anybody please help.

On windows Yahoo!Messenger works just fine, but when i switch to Ubuntu they don't work anymore.

Thanks,

Stefan

________________________

EDIT

I found the solution on another forum.

For those who have the same problem you have to go at Accounts->Manage Accounts -> Advanced

And edit the Pager server line to cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com on Pidgin

apo33@lex-desktop:~$ uname -a

Linux lex-desktop 2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 15:54:25 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

apo33@lex-desktop:~$

apo33@lex-desktop:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings

# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@vernadsky) Tue Mar 4 20:24:34 UTC 2008

 

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)

#

# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using

# values from the debconf database.

#

# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.

# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)

#

# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*

# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg

# package.

#

# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated

# again, run the following command:

# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Default Layout"

Screen 0 "Screen" 0 0

InputDevice "Configured Mouse"

InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "GLcore"

Load "bitmap"

Load "dbe"

Load "ddc"

Load "dri"

Load "extmod"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx"

Load "int10"

Load "record"

Load "speedo"

Load "v4l"

Load "vbe"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Generic Keyboard"

Driver "kbd"

Option "XkbRules" "xorg"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "pl"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Configured Mouse"

Driver "mouse"

Option "CorePointer"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Configured Monitor"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor"

VendorName "Unknown"

HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0

VertRefresh 60.0

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "Videocard"

Driver "nvidia"

VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"

Screen 0

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen"

Device "Videocard"

Monitor "Monitor"

SubSection "Display"

Depth 4

Modes "1024x768"

EndSubSection

EndSection

Problem example - OpenArena game

3573 files in pk3 files

execing default.cfg

couldn't exec q3config.cfg

couldn't exec autoexec.cfg

Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok

----- Client Initialization -----

Couldn't read q3history.

----- Initializing Renderer ----

-------------------------------

QKEY found.

----- Client Initialization Complete -----

----- R_Init -----

 

------- Input Initialization -------

Joystick is not active.

------------------------------------

...loading libGL.so.1:

Calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO)...

SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) passed.

QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so.1 from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: Failed loading /home/apo33/libGL.so.1

failed

----- CL_Shutdown -----

RE_Shutdown( 1 )

-----------------------

Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

[moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

Let me explain 'working properly'. Thing is, I can install, and boot SGD from my USB key, I can navigate through the mass of menus and 'help' that it throws up, but when I actually ask it to do anything involving other disks, it just stops. For example, if you look hard enough within the SGD menus you will find an entry 'Show Partitions'. If I select this the cursor moves to a new line and then - nothing! I know it is not searching for anything since there is no hard disk activity light on the PC (there is if I use the CD version). You can leave it as long as you like, it just stays there. It is not just that menu entry either, if I try one of the grub entries it says it is searching for '/boot/grub/menu.lst' (and others) but it does not do so, it just sits there until you shut it down.

It seems to me that although it is working, it is doing so in complete isolation, in other words it is totally unaware of any other disks on the machine.

Any ideas why that might be?

Whenever a client uses my Cent box for DHCP, it'll get an IP address, a hostname, DNS servers, etc., but it WILL NOT connect to the internet for some reason. I can ping the other machines on my network, but I cannot resolve hostnames whatsoever (not from the DNS on my cent box nor from 4.2.2.1).

Now, this leads me to believe that it's a DNS issue, but there are no problems with my BIND server. To confirm this, I disabled DHCP on my Cent box and enabled DHCP on my router. If clients on the network get their DHCP information FROM THE ROUTER, everything works, INCLUDING resolving names using my internal BIND server...

What setting in my DHCP server could be causing this mess? Any ideas?

You can read more about it at debian.org (see news item) or slashdot.

1. Provide automatic hardware detection and driver installation

2. Not install any base packages aside from xorg and drivers

3. Have a helpful and intelligent package manager to aid the process of adding apps and a desktop environment (maybe even a wizard that takes you through desktop creation and installation of essential apps)

4. Transparent install - access to all config files, daemons, etc. from the start

I think it essentially amounts to Arch plus a couple (major) additions in order to get something that's a breeze to install but lets you put things together exactly as you please. Does anyone know if this sort of Mandriva/Arch type hybrid exists? I've poked around a little bit and couldn't seem to find anything with this "build-it-yourself... the easy way" mentality. It's weird because I would think people would love it. I know I certainly would.

So can anyone help me out? What's the closest thing you've seen to what I'm describing?

Also, this Apple page seems to suggest that version 6 only runs on 64-bit, Intel Macs.

Does anybody use Java 6 on Mac OSX? Does anyone use Java 5 instead? Would anyone like to volunteer to try out running a jar file to see whether it runs ok on the Mac?

Here is the content of xorg.conf:

Can anyone help?

A few weeks ago, the following Error message began to appear. I am stuck.

Error - DCOP communications error (removable device)

X There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system

Could not open network socket

Please check that the "dcopserver" is running!

Eee 701 running stock Linux with no mods

No connections in CAT5, USB or VGA ports--running WiFi with Linksys BEFSR41+WRT150NV1.1 (801.g)

SD card (Transcend 8GB HC class 6) with data files only (no programs running on SD)

Eee had performed beautifully for 1 year since purchase

Tried CTRL-ALT-BKSP several times, also removed battery and SD card for 5 hours, then retried.

Although I have found the DCOPSERVER folder (in Bin files) and tried each of the start* files, no success.

How does one properly get the DCOPSERVER running, once lost or corrupted, to resolve?

Thanks for any insights.

Kent

rkh986

[moved from Laptops, etc by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]

I would like to hear your suggestions for a lean (and mean) distro for the following PC hw-set and use.

HW

PII 400 MHz processor

Motherboard (something from last millennium; 1999)

2 x 128 MB (DIMM) of RAM

ATI PCI 9xxx (something) w/ 256 MB

Planet WL-8310 PCI card for WiFi/WLAN

HP DVD Player (don't remember the model)

HD space of massive 160 GB!

TV set (100 Hz TV; CRT) as a screen (VGA capable) with max resolution of 640x480.

I need this PC to access my Wireless LAN and to mainly act as a video player for my PVR files. The PVR is located downstairs and hooked with a USB cable to one of my network PCs (running MDV 2007.1 Free) and it can be accessed with ftp. So I can run the videos from my upstairs PC (this old pc) and play them in the TV set I have connected to it (as the PC Screen).

I would need to have the following features

1) Easy to use and install sw (I really like urpmi and MCC)

2) I should be able to install atleast the following SW components

- Madwifi/ndiswrapper for my wlan card,

- VLC videoplayer for my files

- ssh and ftp

- perhaps some other video and audio codecs and sw

- Firefox

- NO Open Office, NO e-mail, NO 3D gaming (OK, perhaps something easy and simple for my 4-year-old son :D )

I'm now running MDV 2007.1, but with that poor resolution some parts of the software pop-ups don't even fit on the screen that size! One good example is the "Configure your desktop" where I can set my screen resolution. I cannot see the OK or Cancel buttons as they are below the screen...

My main pain with Mandriva together with this HW is the screen resolution and the general slowness in some cases.

I'm familiar with Mandriva and KDE, but am not afraid to try some other distros or window managers. I don't need any eye-candy for this PC, but need to make it operate smoothly (with mainly vid's downloaded from my PVR or play them directly from the PVR through the wlan w/ ftp).

All your comments and advice is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I did search the forum and read e.g. this thread: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=39430

For some reason some of the windows in Gnome do not show correctly a selected theme.

For example when using T-ish theme and border, all is fine except YaST's windows. I guess it is somehow related to GTK-1 or GTK-2 issue.

Need you help on this.

Thanks.

So I want to compile hedgewars on openSuse and this is the error i get:

suse:/home/ilia/Desktop/hedgewars-src-0.9.7 # cmake .
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
SDLMIXER_INCLUDE_DIR
  used as include directory in directory /home/ilia/Desktop/hedgewars-src-0.9.7/QTfrontend
SDLMIXER_LIBRARY
linked by target "hedgewars" in directory /home/ilia/Desktop/hedgewars-src-0.9.7/QTfrontend
SDL_INCLUDE_DIR
  used as include directory in directory /home/ilia/Desktop/hedgewars-src-0.9.7/QTfrontend

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
suse:/home/ilia/Desktop/hedgewars-src-0.9.7 #

I think i must tell cmake where are QT files located, but I'm not sure where to find them.

How do I solve this?

Thanks again...

I use openSUSE 11.0 and recently I've tried to set up compiz. The problem is that when i turn on desktop effects window borders disappear completely. How can I solve this?

Thanks

"The alias "SERVER" could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found."

When I try to "fix" it I cannot choose the file or my server to choose it. So how do I get around to fixing this?

Figured one of the Mac fans here could help me. :D

Thanks ahead of time.

Have fun. :)

I'm posting this here because I saw a similar thread but too old and that wasn't addressing exactly the same problem. Anyway, I'm a linux newbie and I've been struggling for a couple days to get Debian to function and properly on a laptop. I got everything I needed to work except for the wireless connection. The driver seems to work, actually everything seems to work except it doesn't connect to the internet, although it "sees" routers (mine and my neighbours). (sorry for the non technically accurate description). Here's what I get:

with Ifconfig:

eth2	  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:9B:D3:DD:0A
	  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
	  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
	  Interrupt:169 Memory:c0304000-c0306000

with iwlist eth2 scan

Well now I get

eth2	  No scan results

but it used to scan and detect 2 networks with all the info. Anyway.

with route

Kernel IP routing table
Destination	 Gateway		 Genmask		 Flags Metric Ref	Use Iface
192.168.1.0	 *			   255.255.255.0   U	 0	  0		0 eth2
192.168.1.0	 *			   255.255.255.0   U	 0	  0		0 eth1
default		 192.168.1.1	 0.0.0.0		 UG	0	  0		0 eth1
default		 192.168.1.1	 0.0.0.0		 UG	0	  0		0 eth2

the new thing also is I have to do put down eth2 and redo ifup eth1 to get my wired connection to work every time I do networking restart.

note: computer acer ferrari, wifi card : Broadcom Corporation BCM4318

really now I don't where the problem comes from. wonder if I should uninstall and reinstall so I can understand better what I am doing. Any advice would be great.

Micho

I've done about as much Googling as I possibly can now I'm hoping for some of your expert advice.

I've got a Dell Latitude D620 laptop which has the Intel ProWireless 3945 wireless NIC. The reason I purchased this card for this laptop was the fact that Intel has traditionally supported their hardware under Linux. I am running Fedora 8 and had a 2.6.23 kernel. I had always used the ipw9345 Sourceforge page and gotten binaries and then had eventually used the Freshrpms dkms-ipw3945 and associated packages to make continually running the ipw3945 binaries simplistic. However, when I updated my software I got a 2.6.24 kernel and the autoinstaller didn't work. I'm forced to use the http://intellinuxwireless.org/ project's iwl3945 (iwlwifi) software. Until now I'm unable to get this working. I can OCCASIONALLY scan and find networks.

I removed all the ipw3945 stuff and made sure I had all the iwl3945 (firmware, etc.) installed. I added the following lines to my /etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth1 tg3

options eth1 disable_hw_scan=1

and removed all the blacklist entries for iwl3945. The relevant entry from lspci is

0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

and

from dmesg is

iwl3945: Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26kds

iwl3945: Copyright© 2003-2008 Intel Corporation

iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG

iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels

My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 is

# Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

DEVICE=eth1

ONBOOT=yes

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

HWADDR=00:1b:77:23:52:85

TYPE=Ethernet

USERCTL=yes

PEERDNS=yes

IPV6INIT=no

NM_CONTROLLED=yes

I have nothing for WPA keys or anything like that. Is anyone else having any troubles with this change?

Jon

[moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

Create your own iso / distro online.

http://www.nimblex.net/

Im not sure if any of you remember me - its been a very long time. Im currently returning back to Linux - namely Kubuntu.

So far I love it. Linux has come a long way for sure. With Kubuntu everything "just works" (lol kinda).

Now my issue. I play WoW via wine on my Merc Zboard.

http://www.zboard.jp/

At first I used xmodmap:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Zboard

and it seemed all worked at first. For sure every key does indicate when I press it down. The red movement keys (w,a,s,d,x) will show up when I press. The only problem is only the "w" key repeats. So I can only move forward in WoW. Well I can turn but I need to press the turn key about 500x. Other mapped keys repeat but the a,s,d,x do not.

What I have found is that this seems to be an ubuntu problem. I installed Mepis and PcLinuxOS and both worked fine - as did Gentoo (another user). I used to know my way around Linux but Im a bit rusty - so go easy please.

Here is what I have tried:

Installed Mepis and copied the entire (working) xorg config to the Kubuntu partition and booted = nogo

I have tried to force repeating:

xset r 128 = nogo

I have tried numerous xorg.conf setting to no avail.

I was wondering if any of you had any clues on how to solve this? I have also posted on the ubuntu forums to try and find help.

Thanks

[moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

So I installed Ubuntu and rebooted my computer. I then noticed that my graphic GRUB had not only been replaced by a text GRUB but with a text GRUB with the Ubuntu entry as the primary one. I had had (and wished to still have) a graphical GRUB that would boot Mandriva automatically after a few seconds of waiting.

I thought I could fix this by booting Mandriva and reinstalling my GRUB. This made the Ubuntu entry disappear completely.

I used the Mandriva Control Center's bootloader options and made a new boot entry. I didn't know what I'm supposed to select for that entry's "root", but I think it's /dev/hda8. That's the partition on which I installed Ubuntu.

I could now boot Ubuntu, but the mouse cursor didn't move one bit. I'd like to use my mouse so I wasn't truly satisfied yet.

When creating a new boot entry I'm supposed to select an "image". I get these to choose from:

/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.18-desktop-1mdv,

/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv,

/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv

/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.19-desktop-2mdv

How about "Append", "Default" and "Initrd"?

In case you need to know, these are my partitions:

(Partition | Filesystem | Mountpoint | What's this? | Flags)

/dev/sda1 | ntfs | /media/disk-2 | Windows | boot

/dev/sda2 | extended | - | - | -

-What is this anyway? It claims to be 100GB but as far as I know this partition doesn't exist..?

/dev/sda8 | ext3 | /media/disk-1 | Ubuntu | -

-It's only 3.1GB. Do I need a bigger partition for this?

/dev/sda5 | ext3 | /media/disk-3 | Mandriva | -

/dev/sda6 | linux-swap | - | swap | -

/dev/sda7 | ext3 | /media/disk | my /home partition | -

The home partition, of course, is supposed to be used by both Ubuntu and Mandriva.

The command find /boot/grub/stage1 returns:

(hd0,4)

(hd0,7)

I've got no idea what to do.

So:

A ) how to make an entry that works?

B ) how to fix the entry that does boot Ubuntu but disables my mouse?

Thanks,

Tapksa

I want to use it as the mother of all MP3 players in my car.

CURRENTLY I have DSL installed.

Something about the VIA video drivers dont seem to allow any MDV based distro to work. however ANY UBU based distro works fine.

I want a SMALL fast distro that has a nice based MP3 player AND USB auto mount.

The USB is important because I dont think that I'll be able to put enough HD INSIDE the box to hold my MP3's (I have 128GB of speeches I want to carry, not to mention music), so I figure an external USB HD will be my b est route.

unfortunately DSL (the one I have) is running kernel 2.4

I'm nopt really married to ANY distro, I just need a light GUI (for the wife) and a good boot time.

GOS works great, but takes almost 3 minutes to boot

any suggestions?

Have you all heard the news, Beta 1 for OpenSuse is out! Woot. Anyway, have y'all seen the screenshots posted? http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots/openSUSE_11.0_Beta1 I don't know about you guys, but damn does it look stunning. Do you think Mandriva could out do them with 2009? With respect to the Mandriva Dev Team, functionality is the most important part to any distro, and they seem to have that down. But as far as the look and feel, well I personally feel/think that they are lacking just a tad, but still great in the end. I was looking at their(Suse) Media layout page, found here http://en.opensuse.org/Media_Layout/11.0 and noticed they've got a KDE4 LIVE CD. What do you guys think about Suse 11? Has anyone here tried it, if so, how does it compare to Mandy?

I have been using Linux (mostly Mandrake/driva) for a long time. Yep, every next release gets better and better.

But the single most annoying part of the game is that you set everything up, spend a week on finetuning it, finally have nice working setup (in my case not exactly trivial) and then half a year later you start all over again.

I am beyond the age when tinkering with my comp was my favourite passtime, all I need is a working setup.

I have considered simply not upgrading - but that's not an option either. New versions of software come out that I depend on and using old versions is often not very practical.

So here is the Q:

Is there any Linux distro that supports version upgrades? Suse? Fedora? Some other? Note that I am not friends with Ubuntu so suggesting it is useless.

I know upgrade is possible in Mandriva, but AFAIK it is not officially supported and i know from my earlier experience that it is possible to get burned quite easily. I make my living on my computer and killing it with failed upgrade I cannot afford.

With regards

Wahur

I configured my Mandriva menu.lst to boot all three OSs. Everything was fine. I did save my menu.lst

I decided to install Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit(as my system is fully capable) over the previous ubuntu install, however I didn't see the step 7 to install grub. So when it finished it reboot fine.

The old Mandriva GRUB still loads but I cannot boot neither Mandriva nor Ubuntu now. XP still boots fine. Anyway I can figure out what's wrong?

Does that make sense?

I know this works, I've had it working in both Sabayon and Mandriva, I just can't seem to get the same method working in Gentoo. Here is my xorg.conf file, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier	 "Layout0"
Screen	  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice	"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice	"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath		 "/usr/lib64/X11/rgb"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
FontPath		"/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load		   "dbe"
Load		   "extmod"
Load		   "type1"
Load		   "freetype"
Load		   "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option		 "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
Identifier	 "Mouse0"
Driver		 "mouse"
Option		 "Protocol" "auto"
Option		 "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option		 "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 8 9"
Option		 "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 10 11"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier	 "Keyboard0"
Driver		 "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier	 "Monitor0"
VendorName	 "Unknown"
ModelName	  "LG L1732TQ"
HorizSync	   30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh	 56.0 - 75.0
Option		 "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier	 "Videocard0"
Driver		 "nvidia"
VendorName	 "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName	  "GeForce 7600 GS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier	 "Screen0"
Device		 "Videocard0"
Monitor		"Monitor0"
DefaultDepth	24
Option		 "TwinView" "1"
Option		 "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; 1280x1024, 1280x1024"
SubSection	 "Display"
	Depth	   24
Modes	  "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
#Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

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It also say it uses 1680x1050 resolution, but in fact it uses 1280x1024 because i see 2 fat black bars on the left and right of the screen.

I uses VESA drivers (i don't know the intel graphics engine is supported or not

Can this problem been solved by messing around in the xorg.conf?

thanks