A question about Virtuality
by John Pilkington
I have just acquired an i3 box with 2*500 GB disks, 4 GB ram and
Windows10, essentially 'because it was there' and because my grandson's
homework typically assumes an M$ environment. Fact.
In the past I would have installed Fedora as a double-boot, but this
list has much of talk of virtual boxes. I'd like a few pointers on
their practicality on this box and where to start.
TIA,
John P
6 years, 1 month
Upgrade from FC 24 to FC 27 broke support for DisplayPort 1.2 three
port adapter
by David
I had a working Fedora 24 box for almost 2 years that I decided to
upgrade to FC 27. I have 3 monitors and used a 3 way adapter from
StarTech to adapt the single display port from my Intel NUC to support
my 3 displays. Again this worked fine for years. After the upgrade
this setup stopped working.
My system has an encrypted root and home partition, and an
un-encrypted boot partition. When I power on the computer with the 3
way adapter I get bios screens and the grub menu. If I select the old
FC24 kernel to boot, the system proceeds to the password screen where
I unlock my root partition, and then to the user login screen for
fedora. But if I select one of the new FC 27 kernels on the grub menu
I get a black screen only, no password screen to un-encrypt. If I use
a straight through DisplayPort cable to power only one screen, the new
Kernels work fine and I can unlock and login.
Also, adding *nomodeset* to the kernel boot options will allow the new
kernels to work with the adapter, but all 3 screens mirror and
performance is way down. I think this option doesn't use Intel's
drivers?
I looked at Xorg vs Wayland as a possible cause, but the option to
select that is on the user login screen, would that have any effect on
the un-encrypt password screen just after grub?
My graphics are Intel Iris 6100. My hardware is an Intel NUC with i7
processor. Video card is on chip.
So I am stuck. Please help?
*****
I made sure my Intel drivers where fully updated =
$ sudo dnf install
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm
-E %fedora).noarch.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 0:59:03 ago on Tue 16 Jan 2018 09:22:40 PM CST.
rpmfusion-free-release-27.noarch.rpm 24 kB/s | 20 kB 00:00
Package rpmfusion-free-release-27-1.noarch is already installed, skipping.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
$ sudo dnf install intel-gpu-tools libva-intel-driver libva-utils
libva mesa-libOSMesa cairo-gobject cairo mesa-dri-drivers
mesa-filesystem mesa-libEGL mesa-libGL mesa-libGLES mesa-libgbm
mesa-libglapi mesa-libwayland-egl mesa-libxatracker
Last metadata expiration check: 0:59:23 ago on Tue 16 Jan 2018 09:22:40 PM CST.
Package intel-gpu-tools-2.99.917-31.20171025.fc27.x86_64 is already
installed, skipping.
Package libva-intel-driver-1.8.3-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package libva-intel-driver-1.8.3-2.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package libva-utils-1.8.3-4.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package libva-1.8.3-3.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package libva-1.8.3-3.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libOSMesa-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libOSMesa-17.2.4-2.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package cairo-gobject-1.15.10-1.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package cairo-gobject-1.15.10-1.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package cairo-1.15.10-1.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package cairo-1.15.10-1.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-dri-drivers-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-dri-drivers-17.2.4-2.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-filesystem-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-filesystem-17.2.4-2.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libEGL-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libEGL-17.2.4-2.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libGL-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libGL-17.2.4-2.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libGLES-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libgbm-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libgbm-17.2.4-2.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libglapi-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libglapi-17.2.4-2.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libwayland-egl-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libwayland-egl-17.2.4-2.fc27.i686 is already installed, skipping.
Package mesa-libxatracker-17.2.4-2.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
--
David
david283(a)gmail.com
6 years, 1 month
Dual screen
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I have 2 monitors (Samsung)
One is old (11 years) with a resolution 1600 x 1200 (primary)
and the other one, I just bought it, resolution 1920 x 1080 (secondary)
But they look very different.
The old one, display very sharp characters, the new one display very rough
characters.
This effect is less pronounced with images.
There something that I need to adjust beyond the the display setting?
Thank.
===========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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6 years, 1 month
unable to bring up mediatek usb wifi dongle
by JD
Tried to bring up a mediateck usb wifi stick with a built-in antenna.
$ dmesg | grep 'usb 1-1'
[ 3632.100121] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[ 3633.314114] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
[ 3633.446949] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=7610
[ 3633.446954] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[ 3633.446956] usb 1-1: Product: WiFi
[ 3633.446958] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: MediaTek
[ 3633.446960] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 1.0
$ lsmod | grep 2800
rt2800usb 27189 0
rt2x00usb 19835 1 rt2800usb
rt2800lib 91269 1 rt2800usb
rt2x00lib 66983 3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt2800usb
crc_ccitt 12613 1 rt2800lib
mac80211 683564 4 rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,iwldvm
and
$ lshw
shows this:
.....
configuration: driver=hub slots=2 speed=5000Mbit/s
*-usbhost:1
product: xHCI Host Controller
vendor: Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.x86_64 xhci-hcd
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1
logical name: usb1
version: 3.19
capabilities: usb-2.00
configuration: driver=hub slots=2 speed=480Mbit/s
*-usb UNCLAIMED <<<<<< Notice This..... No driver???
claimed it????
description: Generic USB device
product: WiFi
vendor: MediaTek
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:1
version: 1.00
serial: 1.0
capabilities: usb-2.01
configuration: maxpower=160mA speed=480Mbit/s
But, ifconfig only shows only these interfaces:
$ ifconfig
bond0: flags=5123<UP,BROADCAST,MASTER,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
em1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
So, what is missing as far as drivers, or apps ????
~
6 years, 1 month
Re: unable to bring up mediatek usb wifi dongle
by JD
On 02/21/2018 10:18 AM, JD wrote:
>
>
> On 02/21/2018 07:41 AM, jarmo wrote:
>> Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:23:49 -0400
>> "George N. White III" <gnwiii(a)gmail.com> kirjoitti:
>>
>>
>>> There seem to be lots of "MediaTeK 7610" dongles with various chips
>>> inside. You could try
>>> adding your USB id to the list of devices supported by the rt2800usb
>>> module:
>>>
>>> https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?309580-Mediatek-MT7610-Rali...
>>>
>>>
>>> If this fails you might at least get the details for your chipset.
>>>
>>> There is also: https://github.com/ulli-kroll/mt7610u/
>>>
>> I have Asus AC51 dongle, with MediaTek cip. Never have got it working.
>> Even package says, that working with LINUX, yes maybe, driver is for
>> kernel 2.6.x
>> Wrote to ASUS, they said, that they have nothing to do with drivers...
>>
>> So, now I have one electrical garbage more :) Thank heaven, it didn't
>> cost much...
>>
>> Jarmo
> Well Jamo, I did come across the driver from Mediatek and I am trying
> to see if it will build and run.
>
Well, that was quick ....
It will not compile due to errors:
/tmp/drivers/mediatek/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:
In function ‘__RtmpOSFSInfoChange’:
/tmp/drivers/mediatek/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1109:20:
error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘int’ from type ‘kuid_t’
pOSFSInfo->fsuid = current_fsuid();
^
/tmp/drivers/mediatek/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1110:20:
error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘int’ from type ‘kgid_t’
pOSFSInfo->fsgid = current_fsgid();
.
.
.
.
.
.
^
make[2]: ***
[/tmp/drivers/mediatek/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.o]
Error 1
make[1]: ***
[_module_/tmp/drivers/mediatek/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916/os/linux]
Error 2'
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2
6 years, 1 month
is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?
by Robert P. J. Day
admittedly a weird question ... i have, on very short notice, been
handed a linux course to teach for a new client, and it's typically
taught in a centos 7 environment. perusing the manual, it all looks
reasonable, until i get to a section in the user/group administration
chapter called "configure user profiles."
the section is weirdly written, and it may be nothing, but is there
such a thing as a "user profile" in linux, as opposed to just the
standard user/group/.profile configuration? that is, can a single
account have multiple "user profiles" configured for it in some way
that i've never been aware of?
i suspect the term "user profile" here was simply badly chosen, but
i want to make sure i'm not misunderstanding something. thanks.
rday
--
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http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
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6 years, 1 month
smartmontools still "monitoring" a replaced hard drive.
by William Mattison
Good evening,
(f26; Gnome) This past spring, with a lot of help from this list, I replaced the dying hard drive on my home workstation. But when I use the "disks" tool to check the health of the new hard drive, smartmontools continues to report test data from the old drive. I've looked at the smartmontools web site, but I don't see a way of telling smartmontools to update itself to the new drive. I'm a home user with no real sys.admin., OS, or hardware training. So please spell it out clearly, in detail:
How do I make smartmontools (and the disks tool) aware of the hard drive replacement and monitor the new hard drive properly?
Thank-you in advance.
Bill.
6 years, 1 month
Hardware errors
by Anne Wilson
Hi. After a long time away from Linux I'll be asking some newby-type
questions, so I'll apologise from the start.
I have just installed the KDE Spin of FC27 to a four-year-old Lenovo
G510 laptop, with a 120GB drive installed. Dring bootup I'm seeing
messages about hardware failures. They don't linger long enough to
write them down, and boot.log appears to be empty (unless that's because
I'm logged in as user, not root). They mention
TSC_Deadline
mce
dracut-pre-udev
How desperate is this? Is it really telling me it's time to ditch that
laptop?
Anne
6 years, 1 month
Re: Hardware Errors
by Anne Wilson
On 17/02/2018, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Try 'journalctl -k -b' to see kernel
> messages since the most recent boot
(Fabricated quote, as I never received your message in TBird. Sorted
now, I think.)
Hi, Patrick. Tried that, resulting:
mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: M
mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 AD
mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSO
It's hard to be sure whether anything is not working correctly. I am
having problems getting my mind back into linux mode. As you say, much
has changed in recent years, apart from my increasing lapses of memory.
Anne
6 years, 1 month
