dual head intel graphics card problems (laptop + docking station)
by Natxo Asenjo
hi again,
since I upgraded to f13 getting to start my laptop at work in a
docking station is really painful.
Setup: dell latitude e6500 with fedora amd64. At work, docking station
with 2 20´' monitors. With Fedora 12, this worked flawlessly. Plug
laptop in dockinstation, turn on with lid down, set it up once, work
since then with the 2 external monitors when I am at the office, just
the laptop monitor when not there.
Now it takes me between 10 minutes to half an hour to get my dual head
working every morning. It's getting on my nerves, to be honest ;)
What happens is either:
1) I plug laptop on docking station, turn it on and when the gdm
screen should appear I just see 1/4 of left screen, the rest is not
available (black). I can go to a VT, go to runlevel 3, back to 5 and
see if it works. Rinse and repeat until it does;
2) turn it on outside the docking station, login, plug it in the
dockin station, pray that it detects the monitors. If it does not,
then it effectively hangs, I cannot change to a VT, I have to power
cycle it. Rinse and repeat until it works.
My question is: until fedora 13, the standard behaviour was not to
mirror the monitors. How can I have this behaviour now? What extra
info can I supply you with?
lspci -v:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device 024f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31
Memory at f6c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at ef98 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device 024f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f6b00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
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Groeten,
J.Asenjo
13 years, 11 months
F13: Delay in screen refresh
by Marco Guazzone
Hi,
I've noticed that there is a some kind of "delay" in the screen refresh.
For instance, under VIM when I move the cursor (that is a black
rectangle) under a character, it takes between 1 and 4 secs before
the character appears inside the cursor.
I've experienced the same issue under OpenOffice and FireFox.
This is really annoying. :(
Under F12 no problem
Does any other experienced this behaviour?
My system is:
* OS: F13 x86_64 - up-to-dated
* WM: OpenBox
* CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo
* GPU: Intel GM965/GL960
* RAM: 2GB
Thank you so much!
-- Marco
13 years, 11 months
Re: Fedora 13 live-cd doesn't boot on HP 6930p
by Brett
> I've noticed that if I burn a Fedora (or any other distro) CD at full
> speed, about 25% of the time I end up with a disk that won't boot.
I had a lot of trouble burning Fedora 13 DVD from a computer running Ubuntu, I tried a bunch of times using Brasero, K3B and other software, tried UNetBootin and usb-imagewriter, it would never work. Then I tried burning the disk from Windows 7 (on the same computer) and it worked first go. Maybe something on the Fedora 13 iso is not "liked" by other linux distros?
13 years, 11 months
Compiling a kernel problems
by Alex
Hi,
I'm trying to compile a kernel with aacraid support for a dual Opteron
246 box with two 36GB disks on a Tyan S2891, using an initrd and lilo.
There is an older kernel on there that works just fine, so I suspect
it's something I'm missing in the kernel config. No matter what I try,
the kernel fails to find the disks on the controller. I've even tried
building it without an initrd and compiling everything into the
kernel, but it still panics.
I've included the aacraid support, SCSI disk, SCSI generic, and even
RAID1/5 support. The controller and motherboard also have the latest
BIOS updates.
What else is necessary to support aacraid? What are the minimum
settings required to provide support for this controller?
It prints the Adaptec aacraid basic info, but doesn't detect any disks
or even probe the controller.
Is I2O or ACPI support necessary?
Are there any boot-time options to increase debugging output to
troubleshoot this?
The dmesg output from a working system is here:
http://pastebin.com/0AnVBV7s
The kernel config for the attempt is here:
http://pastebin.com/gi9ybDwS
Thanks for any ideas.
Best regards,
Alex
13 years, 11 months
SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions
by Gary Stainburn
I had to re-install windows on my laptop, and also wanted to try Fedora 13, so
I came up with the idea of replacing the HDD and doing the installs onto
that.
This has worked fine, and I now have a clean (but still flakey) WinXP install,
and F13 dual booting fine.
I have now the old HDD in an external chassis connected via USB.
My problem is that neither OS will allow me access to either of the partitions
on the old HDD. Both see the USB->SATA bridge, and see the HDD but neither
will allow me access to the contents.
Windows just sits and smiles at me. Linux says it cannot access the drive.
Can anyone help?
Gary
[root@dcomp5 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
Unable to read /dev/sdb
[root@dcomp5 ~]# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /media/linux/
mount: special device /dev/sdb2 does not exist
[root@dcomp5 ~]#
[/var/log/messages]
Jun 24 12:54:54 dcomp5 kernel: usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 5
Jun 24 12:54:54 dcomp5 kernel: usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=152d,
idProduct=2338
Jun 24 12:54:54 dcomp5 kernel: usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,
Product=2, SerialNumber=5
Jun 24 12:54:54 dcomp5 kernel: usb 2-2: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge
Jun 24 12:54:54 dcomp5 kernel: usb 2-2: Manufacturer: JMicron
Jun 24 12:54:54 dcomp5 kernel: usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 152D203380B6
Jun 24 12:54:54 dcomp5 kernel: scsi6 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
Jun 24 12:54:59 dcomp5 kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access
PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
Jun 24 12:54:59 dcomp5 kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Jun 24 12:54:59 dcomp5 kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
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Gary Stainburn
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may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown
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13 years, 11 months
Re: Flash videos not playing in Fedora 11 firefox browser
by Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, ranjan sundar <njan79(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to download flashplayer for linux from adobe website and
> downloaded this zip file. i extracted it and found that it contained
> only 1 file with .so extension (shared object).
>
> [snip]
My guess--and it's only a guess--is that you downloaded the Windows version of the flash plugin. Zip is usually used by Windows. Linux uses .rpm, .tar.gz, and a few others, but rarely just plain ol' .zip.
Go here to download the latest version. The page should recognize that you're running Linux. If not, click "Choose another operating system...."
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP
This is the 32-bit version. There is no 64-bit version anymore. So, if your Fedora 11 is 64-bit, you'll have to wrap the 32-bit version with nspluginwrapper. Or install a 32-bit browser. Or find someone who still has the old 64-bit one (10.0.45 Alpha was the last, IIRC), but it has a major security hole. However, I've been using it since its release back in February of this year on my 64-bit F12, and have had no incidents of viruses or trojans, etc.
B
13 years, 11 months
HD Home move editor
by Richard Shaw
My new camera takes 720p clips (AVCHD) and I wanted to do a little
editing, but after installing Kino which I've used in the past, I
found it downgraded it to 480p DV video. Are that any full video
editors that handle HD movies correctly?
Thanks,
Richard
13 years, 11 months
[OT] rather advanced video editing question
by Petrus de Calguarium
I have 2 versions of the same video from you tube.
Version 1: in 2 separate segments, great video, bad audio with long silences
Version 2: in 1 long file, poor grainy video, great flawless audio
Concatenated, if that is possible, both versions would have the same length.
Question: How can I join the 2 files from Version 1, erase the audio and
supplement it with the audio from version 2 (using programs available in fedora
& rpmfusion repos, of course)?
13 years, 11 months
How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.
by linux guy
I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD.
Both drives are 160 GB in size.
I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB and 2 GB to
500 MB and 8 GB respectively. The first resize is because preupgrade
now fails to run unless /boot is 500 MB or larger and the second because
the swap file is supposed to be as big as the RAM in the computer and my
laptop currently has 4GB and I want to upgrade to 8 GB in the future.
So... I partitioned the SSD to the appropriate sizes. I then ran
Clonezilla and installed the /boot data seemingly without any problem.
I used the expert mode and told it to resize things to fit the new /boot
partition size.
Unfortunately, Clonezilla won't let me do the same for / because / on
the SSD is 6 GB or so smaller than it was on the hard drive
because /boot and swap are larger.
So how do I move ALL the data from / on the hard drive to / on the sdd ?
dd won't work because its for device files, not for partitions. If I
use dd between the devices, it won't resize anything.
Or should I do an outright dd and then use gparted to resize everything
afterward ?
Can one make cp copy EVERYTHING on one drive to another and keep the
timestamps, etc, all correct ?
I think I did this once a few years ago using tar, but I can't remember
how and I think it took up a lot of disk space and took forever to run.
BTW: if I verify the partition table for the SSD, it tells me
Remaining 5165 unallocated 512-byte sectors
Yet:
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001ab7d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 66 530113+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 67 1111 8393962+ 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sdb3 1112 19457 147364245 83 Linux
Am I missing something ?
Thanks !
13 years, 11 months
Ideas for integrating a SIP account, N900, Magic Jack, Linux, etc...
by linux guy
I'm looking for some ideas on overhauling/revamping our telephone
system.
We are two busy working professionals. We spend half our weekends away
from home. My wife still has an iPhone. I'm getting an N900. We
have a landline with (terrible) voice mail service.
I want to tie it all together, somehow.
I'd like to get a VOIP account somewhere and connect to it with a SIP
server of some sort so that I can do things with that connection.
I'd like all our voicemails to be stored on that SIP server, so we don't
have to erase them, etc. Actually, I'd like to get them as emails that
we can listen to and organize.
I'd like to be able to call into my SIP server with the N900 and maybe
the iPhone and then make (cheap) calls anywhere.
Can one share a Magic Jack connection as a SIP service ?
How can I use Linux to do some of this stuff without resort to a full
blown asterisk installation ?
Thanks !
13 years, 11 months
