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What can yo do via ssh to get someone's attention while they're using another machine? The best I've come up with is SSH'ing to the other machine and doing an "eject" and then an "eject -t" to put the cdrom drawer in and out... but there's probably something funnier that can be done. X apps all open on the remote machine, so I'm at a loss for other ways to get a girlfriend's attention when she's in the other room playing frozen bubble or lbreakout. (killing the process works, but is unpopular) Any ideas?
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ok, after posting the above I went in with my digital camera and was going to take a picture of the gibberish on startup, but when I rebooted it worked just fine. I was able to start X and it looks normal.
This makes me think it's definitely not a BIOS type issue. I don't think it's a heat issue since the system is generally pretty cool and the air coming out the back fan is cool. I'd love anyone's ideas :)
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I'm not sure where to post this. My desktop has been flaking out occasionally for a while and one of the main reasons I started using linux in the first place was trying to figure out a way to get it to behave.
Yesterday it locked up hard in KDE and the only way I could get it to reboot was to ssh in from another computer to reboot. On reboot the first stuff up on the screen was pretty corrupted-looking. You could still read the words, but about half the letters had been replaced with smiley faces and weird symbols. It proceeded to boot, but X wouldn't load. When I checked from the other computer, however, I was still able to ssh in and the underlying linux system seems ok (apache's running fine, etc)
1) Could this be a video card problem somehow? (Sounds unlikely, but who knows)
2) Could this be a linux problem? (Sounds unlikely, since it happens before the system even gets to the hard drive and it happens for both gentoo and mandrake)
3) Any ideas?
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ok, i'm going to reply to myself to dump on genkernel for the second time today. Genkernel apparently also doesn't install the necessary options to run shorewall, which seems like it'd be a no-brainer to include.
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Ok, I tried using genkernel to get all the fancy stuff working on my laptop and it simply WILL NOT work from within an existing install (no loop,etc). Lots of threads on other boards, including posts by SoulSe and maybe others here :) I'll definitely steer clear of genkernel from now on. Trial and error with menuconfig seems much safer.
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Hmm, you're right. I thought I had seen it in mdk, but now that I look, it isn't there.
I actually think that the constitution would've come in handy a few times if I'd known it was there.
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That is a cool idea and would probably be more appealing to many people than a liveCD + USB keychain. It's pretty expensive, though, so I'm not sure who the target market would be. Hardcore linux nerds could just make their own.
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I've found all sorts of weird stuff before, notably the info in /usr/share/misc, but /usr/share/state just seems a bit odd. I'm a patriotic american and all, but it seems weird that several of the distributions I've checked all have the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence hidden away.
bill@pico bill $ ls -l /usr/share/state total 56 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45018 Aug 17 20:27 us-constitution -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9331 Aug 17 20:27 us-declaration
Is there an interesting story behind this? Why not add documents from other countries, or something like the UN Declaration of Human Rights? Weird.
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wow, I guess I was using the wrong keywords when I searched that forum... it's a bit embarassing to miss an exact answer to my question posted only a few days ago :o
instead of emerging other stuff, maybe i'll just try to sleep through the rest of KDE's emerge process :P
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great, thanks!
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I've emerged x.org and evilwm and am sitting here as KDE begins its monumental compilation. Is it harmful to open another terminal and emerge some smaller program at the same time?
I already tried it (I did an "emerge cowsay") and there weren't any obvious conflicts, but I don't want to make a habit of this if it will break things.
As always, thanks for the help :)
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I've only been a gentoo user for about 2 days now and it's good to see there are still some gentoo users around :lol:. It was looking like everyone had left for arch.
I've done two installs so far, one genkernel and one not. Can't really comment on the pros/cons yet, both were very easy.
Thanks for the wiki link, it looks helpful.
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Tools -> Options -> Web Features in Firefox
or just click on the icon that appears in the lower left-hand corner of the page when a popup is blocked.
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post the error message and someone might be more likely to be able to figure it out. :D
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i've had luck getting virtual hosts to work using the hostname rather than the ports. i don't think i used webmin when i set it up, but edited the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf by hand. (not sure that webmin is a problem, but i KNOW it can be done by hand and it isn't all that tough)
I would look at Apache's VirtualHost Examples to get an idea of what can be done.
According to the info on Running Different Sites on Different Ports, your httpd.conf should have something that looks like this:
Server configuration Listen 80 Listen 8080 NameVirtualHost 172.20.30.40:80 NameVirtualHost 172.20.30.40:8080 <VirtualHost 172.20.30.40:80> ServerName www.example1.com DocumentRoot /www/domain-80 </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 172.20.30.40:8080> ServerName www.example1.com DocumentRoot /www/domain-8080 </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 172.20.30.40:80> ServerName www.example2.org DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain-80 </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 172.20.30.40:8080> ServerName www.example2.org DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain-8080 </VirtualHost>
Another thing to check: have you opened those other ports in your firewall? (Configure your computer -> security -> firewall)
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ok, i've gotten it working. for whatever reason, anytime i install using urpmi, it seems to install the wrong rpms. but if i manually download thac's rpms for the messed up modules from http://rpm.nyvalls.se/graphics10.0.html, it works. i'm really thinking about buying some htpc hardware and keeping a machine hooked to the tv and stereo fulltime. mythtv is pretty cool.
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I know MythTV is supposed to be notoriously tough to install, but I wanted to try playing with it. I installed with RPMs on 10.0 CE, and tried both the individual packages and the meta package. I can get the basic program up and running but many of the components do not work because of version conflicts like this:
The mythmusic plugin was compiled against libmyth version: 0.14.20040102-1, but the installed libmyth is at version: 0.14.20040123-1. You probably want to recompile the mythmusic plugin after doing a make distclean.
I've tried searching for different versions of the library, but can't find them anywhere. Can others get this to work from RPM? Should I try compiling it from source or try the CVS? Thanks.
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my server had mandrake 9.1 on two different hard drives (hdc and hda). i really wasn't using hdc, so i decided to try mdk 10.0CE, as well as trying an upgrade instead of my usual clean installs.
i'm 100% certain i told the installer to upgrade the 9.1 install on hdc, but upon reboot i had a new 10.0 install on hda. thankfully everything went amazingly well--everything seemed to work right away except for the nvidia driver. i haven't seen this as a "known issue" but it might be of concern to some other weirdo like me with multiple installs of 9.1 on their machines.
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i emerged kde, but can't get it to start. it looks like my XF86Config is a bit hosed but that shouldn't be too hard to fix. i'll be out of town for a few weeks, but will hopefully get everything up and running when i get back :)
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ok, i've got an installed gentoo system that i can log into, i seem to have dual-booting working fine with debian. thanks for all the help, HJ. this may have to remain a work in progress, but things seem to be working fine so far.
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ooh, thanks HJ. i now remember reading that and not knowing whether i needed to do that or not. duh.
is it ok to just re-start the bootstrap process? or should i have deleted everything on the partition and started from scratch? thanks!
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hmm, i seem to have hit a wall.
all i did so far was start the bootstrap (from within KDE, on debian) and came back a bunch of hours later and have a bunch of this:/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1432: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1433: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1434: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1436: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1437: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1438: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 39: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 63: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 75: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1225: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1226: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1232: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1247: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 690: /dev/null: Permission denied
did i somehow mount the gentoo partition incorrectly? i had to su to root in order to chroot to the gentoo partition, but that could that be the problem? i've been following the gentoo documentation at gentoo closely, and there haven't really been enough steps for me to have gotten too confused yet, or so i thought.
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this is pretty cool. i decided to try to install gentoo on a spare laptop partition (it was that or slackware). i hadn't realized i could let gentoo build while in another distro--so i'll just let it chug along in the background.
i know this will take a while, or "ages"... but about how long should it take on a pIII 930 starting from stage 1? all weekend? longer? thanks.
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you can do everything you mentioned in linux. easily and pain-free.
i have a similar digital camera (canon elph s200). buy a $10 USB compactflash reader and it'll be easier in both windows and linux. it'll save batteries and the computer will just see the card as a little hard drive. it's MUCH better than the software that comes with cameras. i think 9.2 will automatically detect when you plug the compactflash into the reader and mount it automatically. if not, it would be as easy to mount as clicking an icon on your desktop. (There are also a lot of different utilities that might allow you to connect directly to your camer just as you do now--but i haven't used them and don't know much about them... it's possible you could just plug your camera in and it'd work.)
burning cds and dvds is at least as easy in linux as in windows. k3b and similar programs have come a long way. if you build the computer, install 9.2, it should set up everything for you.
if you aren't ready to go all out on a new system right now, why not just buy a new hard drive and stick it in your existing win2k box? then you could install mandrake on it and do all the neat stuff you're talking about right now, just as you do in windows!
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Take that partition and give new distros a try. One thing I'd do before playing with distros too much is learn how to use grub as a bootloader--in my experience it is much easier to boot multiple distros with grub than lilo.
With a computer that fast, gentoo's compile times won't be all that big a deal. It'll definitely take a while to get up and going with the initial install, but the day to day usage shouldn't be that bad. Go with phunni's advice on the stage 1 install. The install docs at gentoo.org are among the best docs I've seen.
I moved to gentoo in the past month. After a year with Mandrake I was ready to get my hands dirty and try something new. For me, it's actually much easier to find software with gentoo than it was for Mandrake. With urpmi I had to worry about constantly adding new sources or downloading third party rpms (which frequently didn't work well). Portage has virtually everything I've looked for and everything installs seamlessly. For the long-term, I like the fact that gentoo doesn't have to be reinstalled to be kept up to date. With mandrake I had to reinstall every 6 months to keep up to date. This is going to be a problem for commercial distros because it's harder to make money if nobody has to re-buy your product :(
The software in gentoo's portage tree also seems to be less "tinkered-with" than mandrake's software, so it all seems to work together more smoothly. I can't really explain it, but things seem to break less frequently than they did in Mandrake.
Gentoo's definitely worth trying. It's got a big community of users out there so you can feel confident that if you come upon any problems, someone else has seen the problem and probably worked to fix it already, which is nice.