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Fedora 12 update

Marvin Kosmal — 2010-03-11T19:26:25

Hi

New install of Fedora 12

I need 508 updates and I get this message when I try to update..

I don't see these packages in the list


could not add package update for
abrt-plugin-runapp-1.0.8-2.fc12(i686)updates:
abrt-plugin-runapp-1.0.8-2.fc12.i686

Any ideas??


<I think the installer called this i386?>

TIA

Marvin

Monorail 3D audio...

Michael Robinson — 2010-03-11T09:18:15

Has anyone gotten this to work properly in Slackware 10.1?

I believe that Monorail 3D audio is OPTi931 based.  I have trouble
with oops messages on boot when the onboard sound card is enabled.
I've tried tweaking isapnp.conf to see if using IRQ 7 for the MPU-401
feature instead of 9 or 10 will work.  Still, I didn't have an
isapnp.conf last time I booted and Slackware tried to configure the
card just the same, unsuccessfully I might add.  Googling around, 
I've run into something about needing to statically, non PnP, 
configure this card.  I don't know how to do this unless there 
is a driver for freedos which is what I boot Slackware from.

Has anyone gotten Monorail built-in 3D Audio to work in Linux?

Monorail would probably still be around if the company had been smart
enough to integrate hardware that works with Linux and smart enough to
offer an LCD monitor upgrade for those who want to play Doom.  Oh well.

Fedora 12

Marvin Kosmal — 2010-03-10T06:02:31

Greetings from Fedora 12..

Anyone else run this??


Marvin

random question: how do you think newbies select theirdistributions?

chris (fool) mccraw — 2010-03-10T06:58:05

my 3/4-baked theory is that many people new to linux use what their
friends suggest, or what they first or most compellingly hear about.
that is, they don't do comparative research between available/relevant
distributions and choose logically.

certainly that was the case for me in the early days and even now i'm
more a "try it and see" type than a heavy researcher when i experiment with
distros i haven't used before.  hmm, then again, i know more of what i
want and need from a distro now, and can judge some things instantly
that i would have not understood when i was getting started, so maybe
the past 16 years has been of some use after all =)

anyway, what is your take on how people choose distributions, and/or
how did you choose your first?  i think newbies are an especially
interesting discussion because we are attracting so many to our ranks
these days and i'm curious as to what trends will shape the future of
the landscape;  i believe that the distros that see the most users
fare the best in terms of v

Starting X fails

Rich Shepard — 2010-03-10T02:31:35

   This goes under the category of 'if it ain't one thing, it's another.'

   A half hour ago I killed X (via the Xfce interface) and logged off the
host. I just logged back in to do a Google search and when I run 'startx' I
see it halt after a few lines of the scipt. And there it sits. There're no
error messages in /var/log/Xorg.O.log.

   Where should I start looking for a cause?

   I'll pursue this tomorrow morning because I'd rather have dinner now and
not futz with a new issue this evening.

Rich

Solved: New Computer

Marvin Kosmal — 2010-03-09T04:13:30


Update on this problem.

Bought a new computer...

Should come in the mail tomorrow..

Only disk I have is Ubuntu 8.04

Can I install that and then change /etc/apt/sources.list?

and install xubuntu??
And  do

apt-get update
apt-get dist upgrade


And what would the sources.list look like??

Or did I misunderstand..??????

Or I did get a Fedora 12 disk in the mail today...  I could try that???...


TIA

Marvin

Network boot link died...

Michael Robinson — 2010-03-09T04:40:01

I have 100 feet of Cat 5e UTP cable wired from my server running into 
an attic area.  After that, a crossover coupler and 90 feet of Cat5e 
STP cable follows.  The client computer has a 100 mbps Netgear Fa311,
but the server is limited to 10 mbps because I historically could not
get a stable link at 100 mbps.  Now I can't seem to get a stable link 
at even 10 mbps.  The 90' run goes outside, underground, and back
above ground into another building.  I assume that the cable is burial
grade cable, but I'm starting to wonder.  I keep getting ICMP time
exceeded packets.  Is mixing shielded and unshielded cable the 
problem?  This worked stably yesterday and it has been working for
years.  What can I tweak to deal with the timeouts or find out for
sure why the connection has gotten to be so weak?

Computer no boot

Michael Moore — 2010-03-08T17:32:57

I'm hoping for a quick diagnosis from someone more knowledgeable about
hardware than me (which is most people on this list, for starters), or
to find out, at least, that there's no obvious solution.

This morning my computer died while I was using it ... just shut
itself off, as if the power had gone out, except it hadn't.  When I
try rebooting, I hear several "clicks" -- probably six or eight, about
a second apart -- as the ASUS BIOS message flashes on screen.  Then a
pause, then a few more clicks as it switches to this screen:

VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA Raid BIOS Setting Utility V2.01

Scan Devices, Please wait...
Press <Tab> key into User Window!

Hardware Initiate failed, Please Check Device!!!
The Bios does not be installed.  Press <g> to continue!

(Yes, it really does say "Hardware Initiate" and "Bios does not be installed.")

Pressing 'Tab' does nothing.  Pressing 'g' just takes me to a screen
that says insert a bootable device.

Does this sound like it could be the hard drive that

OpenSuSE 11.2 busted my wireless

David Fleck — 2010-03-07T22:35:48

Here's a mystery - a wireless card works with OpenSuse 11.0; with OpenSuse 
11.2, it no longer works.  Reverting to 11.0, and it works again.  I don't 
know enough about the details of wireless to know how to fix the problem, 
assuming it can be fixed.

The hardware:
------------
Router:
Linksys WRT54G, firmware v8.00.2

Wireless card:
Linksys WUSB11 V2.6 802.11b


The WORKING setup:
-----------------
OpenSUSE 11.0

driver software:
at76_usb
(identifed in log messages as 'Atmel at76x USB Wireless LAN Driver 0.17')

interfaces managed by NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant

At boot, interface comes up and works:

  Feb  2 14:44:57 boxn ifup-wireless:     wlan0     warning: using NO encryption
  Feb  2 14:44:57 boxn ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig wlan0 nick boxn' returned
  Feb  2 14:44:57 boxn ifup-wireless:  Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) :
  Feb  2 14:44:57 boxn ifup-wireless:     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
  Feb  2 14:44:57 boxn ifup:     wlan0
  Feb  2 14:44:57

P2V of MS Win on VirtualBox?

Mike Connors — 2010-03-07T05:39:11

I haven't researched this much yet, but I'm curious to know if anyone 
has recently
taken a running MS Win box and converted it to a virtual machine w. 
VirtualBox?

USB portable drive

VY — 2010-03-05T23:50:09

Hi

I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ/WRITE between
Linux, Win XP and MacOS X.
It is currently in FAT which has a 4GB file size limit.  Is NTFS the right
format to go?  I
seem to recall Linux can do full read/write to NTFS.  Just want to see if
anyone else has similar experience
to share.


thanks

--Vincent

video from Jeri Ellison last night

Randal L. Schwartz — 2010-03-05T22:18:29

The video I recorded from the Jeri Ellison presentation last night
(which was excellent, by the way) is available from:

  http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5194965

It's in a flash player... I'm figuring out how to download it so I can
convert it to a more linux-friendly format.

Victor wants to play with the N900

Victor Soich — 2010-03-05T06:49:01

Hi,

Is there some PLUG meeting where I can go to, or something, where I
can play with the N900.  Does somebody own one and can bring it to
Freegeek or whatever, so I can see it and touch it.  Also, as a bonus,
would this same person know how to get the best deal out of a T-mobile
Business account.  My brother has a T-mobile business account, not a
consumer account.  I know I can't get a discount on the price of the
phone through T-mobile, but I think I can get a monthly discount on
the bill because the phone would be bought at a ridiculously high
price.  Anyways....I'd like to see the phone and play with it a bit.
I've never owned a smart phone, and since I'm a little bit brainwashed
by linux, I figure I should check out this phone.

Thanks,
Victor Soich

phpbb question

2010-03-05T04:03:22

I may not be asking this question on the list, but here goes. I am new to
administrating a phpbb forum on my site. I have been getting tons of
spammers and am trying to figure out how to possibly eliminate the problem.
I am running phpbb3 on Ubuntu 9.10 Server. I have read about the MODS for
textual questions and answers but cannot figure out how to install them on
Ubuntu.

Anyone have any ideas on how to help alleviate the spamming problem of a
forum board?

Any help or pointers is greatly appreciated, or you can tell me I am in the
wrong place for this question if that is the case

Thank you

Randy

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting

David Mandel — 2010-03-03T19:06:59

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Mar 4, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    *******************************************************************

                                PRESENTATION

Quick process for upgrading Debian to unstable

drew wymore — 2010-03-03T16:58:25

I'm super new to Debian and I'm trying to track down a JVM issue (not
related to the distro I don't think) and need to upgrade to unstable
for testing. Can someone hit me with the clue stick or link me to the
proper docs to do this?

Thanks,
Drew-

MSQL Cross-Table Query

D. Cooper Stevenson — 2010-03-02T08:09:36

Hello Everyone,

I've worked through the documentation but haven't yet worked out a
cross-table query in MYSQL yielding the correct results. My goal is to
pull data from four tables that correspond to the date-time stamp of the
first table. This will make sense as I describe what I am trying to pull
from the database below.

I have three tables entitled, "msft," "goog," "aapl," and "intc." Each
of these tables are in the same database entitled, "minute."

Here is an example of each (they're essentially the same):

msft:

      date             time        open   high     low      close    volume
| 2009-01-15 | 16:57:00 | 18.64 | 18.67 | 18.62 | 18.64 |  190394 |
| 2009-01-15 | 16:58:00 | 18.63 | 18.63 | 18.61 | 18.62 |   60652 |
| 2009-01-15 | 16:59:00 | 18.62 | 18.63 |  18.6 | 18.61 |  404419 |


goog:

      date             time        open   high     low      close    volume
| 2009-01-15 | 16:49:00 | 299.32 | 299.32 | 299.32 | 299.32 |    550 |
| 2009-01-15 | 16:51:00 | 299.93 | 299.93 | 299.93 | 299.93

Fast-Cgi with Wt (C++ web toolkit)

b kielhorn — 2010-03-01T03:05:24

Is anyone using Wt?  Does it work?  Is it mature?

Wt is a toolkit for creating web applications.  Developers write C++
code, and  Cascading Style Sheets, and nothing else.  Wt then
generates  the necessary HTML/XHTML, Javascript, CGI, SVG/VML/Canvas
and AJAX code.
The application is deployed as a Fast-Cgi executable along with
associated resource files.

Can anyone recommend a web hosting company that supports Fast-Cgi protocal?

Thanks,
Bill

Linux from scratch...

Michael Robinson — 2010-02-28T09:35:31

I finished getting a Linux from scratch system working.

A few things missing, there is no netstat command, no ifconfig command,
and no dns/dhcp commands.

Pulled out my bash book and played a bit with the shell prompt.

I don't know how to set the hostname, so the host name comes up as
(none).

I haven't gotten my wireless logitech keyboard to work with this system,
maybe I need to add something to the kernel?

Well, I'll have to see if I can get the networking tools to fit in 100
megs or less.

Portland Startup Weekend is happening March 5-7 < at > Nedspace

Scott Garman — 2010-02-27T17:59:56

Hi all,

I briefly mentioned this during my PLUG AT presentation a week or so 
ago, and though I'd bring it up on the mailing list.

Portland Startup Weekend is kind of a mix between an unconference and a 
weekend-long development sprint. You show up, pitch project ideas, form 
teams, and work your ass off all weekend and see what comes out of it. 
If the stars align right and your team gels, you may even find yourself 
becoming a co-founder of a new tech startup company.

It's certain to be a lot of fun, and it's only $75 to register (students 
can register for $40). Friday night there will also be some great 
presentations to get things going on the right foot.

For more details, visit http://portland.startupweekend.org

I'm planning to be there, and I'm especially interested in any product 
ideas that would involve an embedded Linux project. I've posted a few 
concepts on the Comment Wall of the Portland Startup Weekend community site:

http://startup-weekend.ning.com/group/portland

It just occurred to m

C++ include files and autocompletion in IDEs

Carlos Konstanski — 2010-02-27T02:31:55

There seems to be an issue with certain C++ IDEs (Eclipse and Emacs with
XRefactory) in dealing with symbols defined in included header files. Not
custom headers like "MyHeader.hpp"; rather system headers like <string> or
<iostream>.

For instance, if I type this much code into one of the aforementioned editors:

  string foo = "hello world";
  cout << foo.

I would like to be able to get a list of completions for the string class,
like length(), at(), etc. But I get nothing.

I looked at string.h and found a possible reason why. This file contains
nothing except more #include directives. length(), at() and the other
methods are defined in other header files. All the C++ header files are like
this.

Is there a nice Linux C++ IDE that overcomes this limitation?

Carlos