CPU Freq problem FC6
by Frank Pineau
I have a P4 notebook (Compaq NX9010-Pavilion ze8500) with which I'm
having CPU frequency problems. It's a 2.8GHz processor, but I can't
seem to get it above 692MHz.
[root@liquidity /]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 692.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid xtpr
bogomips : 5789.47
[root@liquidity /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
668000 692000
[root@liquidity /]$ dmesg |grep CPU
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07ae000 soft=c078e000
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf1ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU0: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 09
Brought up 1 CPUs
speedstep-smi: you're trying to use this cpufreq driver on a Pentium 4-based CPU. Most likely it will not work.
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
Note the speedstep-smi line.
I've tried disabling cpuspeed and also tried manually selecting frequency.
Personally, I'd prefer to have scaling working only on battery power, but I'll settle for getting it to work *at all*.
Any suggestions?
17 years, 6 months
Re: FC6: yum problem: unknown url type: media
by Kevin Layer
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:53:44AM -0700, Kevin Layer wrote:
> Problem solved:
>
> I had used the DVD to populate my initial FC6 mirror, including the
> repodata. When I refresh the repodata with from the mirrors, yum
> started working.
I'm not sure what you mean. Here's what I did:
* On the repo server: create a new set of repodata with createrepo. I
did this without extracting the RPM files from the DVD; I just moved
to the directory above that on which the DVD is mounted.
* On the client: clean out old repo data with "yum clean all", then
re-run the "yum install emacs" command.
I also upgraded the server's creatrepo to the FC6 version, which has
an amusing bug:
[root charlesc fc6]# rpm -q createrepo
createrepo-0.4.4-2.fc6
[root charlesc fc6]# createrepo -V
0.4.3
Upgrading creatrepo may not be necessary.
I didn't use createrepo and didn't know that I needed to. If
populating my mirror from the DVD was the wrong thing to do (and I
really need to use createrepo after copying the DVD), that's fine. I
was just trying to save time in the mirroring FC6.
I just want to save others the pain of what I went through.
17 years, 6 months
"Pocket Printserver" Dongle doesn't work with (64 bit) Fedora 6
by David Liguori
Through previous editions of Fedora and Red Hat I have blundered into
making this Ethernet to parallel printer box work (on a Laserjet 6MP).
For some reason, now it doesn't. I believed it was a Dlink product,
although all it says on the box is "Model PRS-301PE. I used
system-config-printer and set up an LPR connection using the box's fixed
IP address (of which I am certain) and port number 9100, of which I am
reasonably sure). When I click on the "print test page" box there is no
indication of any kind of error situation, other than nothing happening
with the printer.
Just to try something different I selected "Samba" instead of "LPR" and
used the address of the box that appears in Windows and Samba. Again,
nothing.
Below is the resulting printers.conf file:
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.2.4
# Written by cupsd on 2006-10-29 22:28
<DefaultPrinter LaserPrinter>
Info HPLJ6MP
DeviceURI lpd://192.168.1.20/9100
State Stopped
StateMessage Connected to 192.168.1.20...
StateTime 1162083935
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<Printer SMBLJ6MP>
Info SMBLJ6MP
DeviceURI smb://PS-5619D6/p1
State Idle
StateTime 1162178926
Accepting Yes
______
I tried temporarily relaxing SE Linux, to no avail.
For reference, yes this setup works, and has always worked, with various
flavors of Windoze.
--
David Liguori
17 years, 6 months
Problem Installing FC 6
by Norm
A friend of mine is having a challenge installing core 6.
The disks pass the media check on both the target computer and another
computer.
Disk 1 installs properly yet when he loads disk 2 it informs him that
he has loaded the wrong disk.
He and I both downloaded from the same site about the same time and my
disks have worked so it is not the site and he is certain in both cases
he is using core 6 iso's.
Any suggestions as to what he should do next?
Norm
17 years, 6 months
Weird problems on FC5; sound and bluetooth
by James Pifer
About a week ago I started having some sound problems on my laptop. They
started with VMware complaining that it couldn't open device /dev/dsp.
Now other applications are also complaining or failing. For example, if
I log off and log back on, gaim will have sound for a little while. Then
it seems like something grabs the sound and won't release it.
The only thing I can remember changing a little while ago was installing
flash in firefox... Don't see any problems in /var/log/messages either.
I've also had some strange problems with my bluetooth mouse, especially
the last few days. It had been working fine for a long time but suddenly
it's acting weird too. If I reboot, hidd will pick it up, but for no
apparent reason it will stop working, and I can't get hidd to pick it
back up again. It seems to definitely happen when I start vmware player,
but I think it happens at other times too. I'm now running the latest
vmware player and latest vmware-any.
I ran yum update and updated everything hoping it would somehow
magically fix things, but it didn't.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
James
17 years, 6 months
Reading mbox mail on Thunderbird (FC5)
by Gordon Charrick
I've set up Thunderbird with 2 different accounts. One is a pop account
from my ISP, and the other is a regular mbox account for local email.
The pop account works just fine. I get notified when new mail shows up.
The problem is that I get no notification when I get local email. If I
select the inbox for the local mail and click the "Get Mail" button, it
shows up immediately. Under the server settings I have it set to check
for new mail every 5 minutes but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone else
see this problem and have a solution?
The reason I need this to work is because I'm using the mailbox alert
extension to play a different sound when pop mail comes in versus local
mail.
17 years, 6 months
Re: Broken Cups Web-interface
by Gustavo J. Mata
It says:
lpstat: Unable to connect to server
Gustavo
Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 19:20 -0400, Gustavo J. Mata wrote:
>
>> It appears to, the system answered:
>>
>> cupsd (pid 1769) is running...
>>
>
> What does 'lpstat -r' say?
>
> Tim.
> */
>
>
17 years, 6 months
FC6: can't print to USB HP printer
by Dave Mitchell
I have a USB-based HP printer (HP PSC 2355) that worked fine under FC5,
but refuses to print under FC6.
The system-config-printer tool auto-configured this as:
Description: Added by HAL
Location:
Device URI: hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4911_HU4AFBR2HZKJ_if1_printer_HU4AFBR2HZKJ
make and model: HP PSC 2350 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
But doing a simple 'lpr /etc/rpc' from the command gives, in
/var/log/cups/error_log,
E [31/Oct/2006:22:42:33 +0000] [Job 7] Unable to open HAL device "hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4911_HU4AFBR2HZKJ_if1_printer_HU4AFBR2HZKJ"
E [31/Oct/2006:22:42:33 +0000] PID 4183 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/hal) stopped with status 1!
Any ideas?
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is against him, pounds on the facts; when the facts are against him,
pounds on the law; and when both the facts and the law are against him,
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17 years, 6 months
yum-updatesd not working?
by Phil
I have FC6 installed and yum works fine at the command line... if I do a yum
update I can see there are updates to be installed.
No I have waited 2 days and still there is no popup indicating that there
are updates needed.
The yum-updatesd service is running and there are no errors in the logs and
yum update works fine at the command line...
How can I make the pop up for software updates show up and indicate updates
or indicate some error so I can fix this issue?
17 years, 6 months
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block
by M. Lewis
I have a HD that refuses to mount with a 'bad magic number in super-block'.
[root@moe ~]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc /Big-Drive/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
To get a listing of all the superblocks, I did:
[root@moe ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/hdc
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
30539776 inodes, 61049646 blocks
3052482 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
1864 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632,
2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872
Next, I tried:
[root@moe ~]# e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hdc
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdc
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Subsequently I tried the above command and substituted each of the
superblocks listed above with the same results.
Have I missed something? Is there any hope at all for my data?
Thanks for any pointers!
Mike
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