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  1. Quick and Easy Kernel Compile Upgrade

    in Tips and Tricks

    Posted

    Hi There!

     

    Since I compiled 2615 I have a few "symptoms" indicating threre are a few bugs in my config. Not quite sure what to do about it so I thought I d grep /var/log/messages and ask you all what's the situation.

    Practically, I have a ~30% failed booting where the system just stops after the 10 first lines of verbose -> reset button and it all starts as if nothing happen (not even a filesystem check). Otherwise my cdrom still is not that perfect it seems it doen t want to mount /media/cdrom (normal if there in no cd in the drive isn t it?)

     

    Code is a s folloW:

     

     
[root@linux-box stephane]# tail -500 /var/log/messages |grep failed
Mar 16 07:32:29 linux-box kernel: hda: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffcfa)
Mar 16 07:32:29 linux-box kernel: hdb: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffcfa)
Mar 16 07:32:29 linux-box kernel: hdb: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffcfa)
Mar 16 07:32:33 linux-box netfs: Mounting other filesystems:  failed
Mar 16 07:32:33 linux-box mandi: bind failed
Mar 16 07:32:33 linux-box mandi: mandi startup failed
Mar 16 07:32:36 linux-box sshd[4896]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.
Mar 16 07:32:49 linux-box mailman: python startup failed
Mar 16 07:32:57 linux-box kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Mar 16 07:32:57 linux-box automount[5966]: mount(generic): failed to mount /dev/cdrom (type iso9660) on /media/cdrom
Mar 16 07:32:57 linux-box automount[5966]: failed to mount /media/cdrom
Mar 16 07:33:41 linux-box smb: smbd shutdown failed

     

    Thanks!

     

    Stef

  8. Quick and Easy Kernel Compile Upgrade

    in Tips and Tricks

    Posted · Edited by sjaglin@yahoo.co.uk

    Hi Ian

    All done and it worked fien, only problem , as expected I lost my nvidia drivers because I suppose the kernel-source does not match the kernel. Sorry, I just went back to init3 and relaunched the NV installer and all is now in order, I will now try my software to see if all is ok. :thumbs:

     

    uname -a :

    Linux linux-box 2.6.15 #1 Sun Mar 12 17:58:03 GMT 2006 i686 AMD Athlon XP 3000+ unknown GNU/Linux

     

    I didn t need to touch Lilo, it was uodated automatically.

     

    Maybe a stupid question but do I leave my rpm update on automatic? Will the updates that I get from ftp servers be understood by the new Kernel or do the assume I still have the 2.6.12?

    :mellow:

    Stef

  11. Digital Cameras

    in Software

    Posted

    Hi John,

     

    Thanks to let us use your space then! Actually I just had a look on the specs of your camera (good choice by the way) and you have a raw mode as well (ccd-raw). This is therefore relevant to your camera, shooting in raw mode avoids any dara loss via compressin thst you get with jpeg. Some people qualify it as the Digital film processing as you have control on all the features that are involved in the creation of the photo from digital data from the ccd.

     

    I tried Bibblelabs's software (£40 for the Lite version) and it is quite impressive. Nevetheless after a snow fall this morning and a few shots in my garden I compared both processing by Bibblelab and UFRaw a Gimp plugin for raw processing.

    Well I am still in favour of UFRaw and not only because it s free but Bibblelabs result seemed to increase the noise from the ccd quite a bit (I was shooting @ ISO 400). When I try to use their Ninja noise facility it invariably crashes,

     

    Therefore I will stick with the UFRaw Pluggin.

     

    Hope that comes useful!

     

    Stef :D

     

    PS: Get some rechargeable batteries and an Isun to charge them in solar power, I leave in UK (lvely sun all year long but only in my heart B) ) and it works a treat!

  13. KPDA

    in Software

    Posted

    Hi there,

     

    I have a Tungsten T2 and I use Kpilot with which you can use All facilities (including installing programs and running AvantGo). That works very well and is integrated with Kontact.

     

    Stef

  14. Digital Cameras

    in Software

    Posted

    Hi John,

     

    I am a recently (about 12 month) Linux User and mainly use Mandriva 2006. I am also passionate about Photography and have quite a bit of gear (Nikon SLR mainly and a fez lenses etc...).

    I used to use Photoshop but not anymore. When I switch my camera on (plugged in usb) KDE3.4 imediately opens a dialogue box where he asks me if I want to import the Photos. I then download the whole lot (copy NOT NOVE) and put them in a "buffer" directory named "raw".

    Then I pre-visualise the photos with DigiKam and erase the "rejects" (when I go out for shooting I take on average 200 shots a day).

    If some photos need just a bit of colour correction or a siple croping I use DigiKam. For other work I use Gimp 2.2 which does just the perfect work.

    Then I move all the final photos from "raw" into a more definite directory like "Maderira-2005" etc...

     

    ONLY THEN I remove the photos from my camera by formating because believe me, it will happen, enter at the wrong time and you start swearing, but a bit late cause the perfect photo is gone in the bin!

     

    Hope it helps,

     

    Enjoy your Kamera!

     

    Stef

  16. nvclock/nvidia sensors and basic linux commands

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted · Edited by sjaglin@yahoo.co.uk

    Hi

    I don t use a script but a Console, so far i ve tried Konsole and RXvt.

    Cheers!

     

    SOLVED! I was making the error of not putting my commands between two [ ' ] when running the command watch.

    watch -n 5 -d 'nvclock -i| grep temp>> nvtemp'

    records every 5 seconds the board and GPU temperature and output them as a stack in a file called nvtemp!

     

    Really great, thnks to all for your help!

     

    Stef

  18. nvclock/nvidia sensors and basic linux commands

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    Here is the output, but I want a history of temps during the game.

     

    [-- General info --

    Card: nVidia Geforce 6800

    Architecture: NV40 A1

    PCI id: 0x41

    GPU clock: 349.312 MHz

    Bustype: AGP

     

    -- Pipeline info --

    Pixel units: 16 (1111b)

    Vertex units: 5 (110111b)

    HW masked units: pixel 0100b vertex 001000b

    SW masked units: None

     

    -- Memory info --

    Amount: 128 MB

    Type: 256 bit DDR

    Clock: 698.625 MHz

     

    -- AGP info --

    Status: Enabled

    Rate: 8X

    AGP rates: 4X 8X

    Fast Writes: Enabled

    SBA: Enabled

     

    -- Sensor info --

    Sensor: Fintek F75375S

    Board temperature: 49C

    GPU temperature: 50C

    Fanspeed: 2504 RPM

    PWM duty cycle: 29.7%

     

    -- VideoBios information --

    Version: 05.40.02.15.00

    Signon message: ASUS V9999 VGA BIOS Version 5.40.02.15.AS07

    Performance level 0: gpu 325MHz/memory 700MHz/1.20V

    VID mask: 3

    Voltage level 0: 1.10V, VID: 0

    Voltage level 1: 1.20V, VID: 1

    Voltage level 2: 1.40V, VID: 2

     

    [stephane@linux-box ~]$

     

    Stef

  20. nvclock/nvidia sensors and basic linux commands

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted · Edited by sjaglin@yahoo.co.uk

    Hi there,

    Still tweaking with my Asus 9999td (NV40 fx6800 128Mb) I want to know a couple of things :

     

    1- I would like to record the temperature as I am playing to make a decision on the settings balancing risk and gain... I tried as follow:

     

    touch nvtry

    nvclock -i >>nvtry

     

    I thought this would give record and "pile" all the entries but it doesn't. I get a clean entry and the rest seems to be a mixture of ascii and text ! Probably a basic linux mistake, can anyone help?

     

    2- nvclock gives me a temperature reading by accessing a sensor. Can this sensor reading be integrated in my gkrellm?

     

    3- My system is a Ideq 210v from biostar. gkrellm gives me 3 temperature sensors and my Bios only shows one! I understand linux does have better access to the hardware but how can I find out which is which? One is CPU but what about the 2 others? Toaster? Iron?

     

    Thanks for your help, I m now gonna board my loft and I ll be back...

     

    Stef

     

    [moved from Software by spinynorman]

  22. Little problem with Ark

    in Software

    Posted

    I have a dvd as rar files and am trying to unrar it via Ark and here is the message:

     

    The utility unrar is not in your PATH.

    Please install it or contact your system administrator

     

    Probably a simple problem but can t see the answer?

     

    :wall:

  23. What do you use your systems for?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    I use mine for internet browsing/communiocation etc, for Gaming (doom3 and quake) for Work (Open Office and web training) and I try to improve my knowledge using cooker hoping one day I can participate. I dual boot with Windows only to play X3 and X2 and to keep up to date because I buit system for friends and family and most of them want windows preloade...

    Stef

  24. SATA install.... again

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Hi

     

    I don t know if it helps but I had exactluy the same problem and I did:

    on a working mdv on my SATA

     

    lsmod| grep sata

    which gave me the name of my sata driver : sata_via

    then I did :

    modprobe sata_via

    on the mdv which could not detect sata drivers

    And there we are, they were then detected, then I put that line in modprobe and it does it each time I reboot.

     

    But I have now installed my mdv 2006 and my cooker on the SATA drive the install takes 6 minutes on my sata and 20 on the pata, I get much better results for video transcoding as well.

     

    Hope it helps,

     

    Stef

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