My Fedora 7 and 8 are working fine. Typically I bring up my Firefox web browser and try to read what is on the Google page. It is from a newspaper and it has a lot of advertising and pop-ups. While all this is coming up, sometimes it keys a sudden loss of the screen due to a full screen cross-hatch, and neither keyboard or Mouse work. The only thing to do is turn off power to the computer.
This is an unacceptable event. It makes me MAD and since using ext3 I can turn off the computer and not loose anything but sometimes I reboot and the problem will appear again in just a few minutes.
This problem started right after I changed to this computer. And so did the need to get a Nvidia driver for Linux. So I think it must be the Nvidia software generating this. But I do not know this for a fact because the problem is very intermittent.
I hate this problem so much I plan to load another F8 and see if one without Nvidia has the problem. The screen is just 800x600 but I can get Firefox working and see what happens.
Karl
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:03:49 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
My Fedora 7 and 8 are working fine. Typically I bring up my Firefox web browser and try to read what is on the Google page. It is from a newspaper and it has a lot of advertising and pop-ups. While all this is coming up, sometimes it keys a sudden loss of the screen due to a full screen cross-hatch, and neither keyboard or Mouse work. The only thing to do is turn off power to the computer.
You don't say what extensions you have installed in Firefox, nor whether you even have it behind a proxy. Before doing a lot of work, I'd try (if you haven't) putting firefox behind privoxy, and getting the NoScript and Adblock extensions.
If you already have those defenses, I'm no judge what to try next.
On Dec 30, 2007 12:29 PM, Beartooth Sciurivore beartooth@swva.net wrote:
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:03:49 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
My Fedora 7 and 8 are working fine. Typically I bring up my Firefox web browser and try to read what is on the Google page. It is from a newspaper and it has a lot of advertising and pop-ups. While all this is coming up, sometimes it keys a sudden loss of the screen due to a full screen cross-hatch, and neither keyboard or Mouse work. The only thing to do is turn off power to the computer.
You could also be having an overheating problem. You might check to
make sure your fans (case, chip, power supply) are working correctly and the intakes are not full of lint. Dick S.
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Karl Larsen wrote:
My Fedora 7 and 8 are working fine. Typically I bring up my Firefox web browser and try to read what is on the Google page. It is from a newspaper and it has a lot of advertising and pop-ups. While all this is coming up, sometimes it keys a sudden loss of the screen due to a full screen cross-hatch, and neither keyboard or Mouse work. The only thing to do is turn off power to the computer.
This is an unacceptable event. It makes me MAD and since using ext3 I can turn off the computer and not loose anything but sometimes I reboot and the problem will appear again in just a few minutes.
This problem started right after I changed to this computer. And so did the need to get a Nvidia driver for Linux. So I think it must be the Nvidia software generating this. But I do not know this for a fact because the problem is very intermittent.
I hate this problem so much I plan to load another F8 and see if one without Nvidia has the problem. The screen is just 800x600 but I can get Firefox working and see what happens.
I do not know about your video driver problem.
But to help your Firefox experience I have four suggestions.
- --------------------------------------------- 1) Install the Adblock Plus extension
This stops all, or most, of those adds and speeds up the pages loading. - ---------------------------------------------
2) Install the Flashblock extension.
This blocks flash from all sites and you can, as you wish, allow flash from certain sites as you choose. - ---------------------------------------------
3) Remove all of the languages that you do not need from the extensions. English is 'built-in' and these are checked for updates each time you load Firefox. Slows down the loading. This has to be done as 'root' and they will be replaced with each Firefox upgrade from Fedora. - ---------------------------------------------
4) use the squid proxy
Yum install squid
service squid start
goto the services menu and set squid to start on boot in levels 3 and 5.
save and close the window
start Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Connections 'settings...' button
select manual proxy configuration
in the box HTTP Proxy type 127.0.0.1
in the box Port type 3128
check the box Use this proxy for all protocols
click ok
set Cache to 0 (that is the number zero)
click clean now
click close - ---------------------------------------------
Enjoy the speed up
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David
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:37:59 -0500 David Boles dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
Enjoy the speed up
http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/squid-privoxy/index.html
Frank Cox wrote:
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:37:59 -0500 David Boles dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
Enjoy the speed up
http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/squid-privoxy/index.html
I have turned on the two filters and they do work well! The interent goes through localhost and it works fine. I have all the languages turned off.
I like the way your web page is laid out and the step-by-step instructions. I can't get the likes of rday and others to even talk about that kind of writing. A real shame.
The web page is saved here and the other changes will be added after I figure out where they go :-)
Now to watch football.
Karl
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:37 -0500, David Boles wrote:
But to help your Firefox experience I have four suggestions.
- Install the Adblock Plus extension
This stops all, or most, of those adds and speeds up the pages loading.
- Install the Flashblock extension.
This blocks flash from all sites and you can, as you wish, allow flash from certain sites as you choose.
- Remove all of the languages that you do not need from the extensions.
English is 'built-in' and these are checked for updates each time you load Firefox. Slows down the loading. This has to be done as 'root' and they will be replaced with each Firefox upgrade from Fedora.
- use the squid proxy
Yum install squid
service squid start
goto the services menu and set squid to start on boot in levels 3 and 5.
save and close the window
start Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Connections 'settings...' button
select manual proxy configuration
in the box HTTP Proxy type 127.0.0.1
in the box Port type 3128
check the box Use this proxy for all protocols
click ok
set Cache to 0 (that is the number zero)
click clean now
click close
Enjoy the speed up
Perfect! I had no clue! Squid does a helluva job, I just didn't know about it. Thanks! Ric
On Monday 31 December 2007 12:03:47 am Ric Moore wrote:
when I try the steps below I get:
squid failed. The error was: init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... /etc/init.d/squid: line 54: 4704 Aborted $SQUID -z -F -D >> /var/log/squid/squid.out 2>&1 Starting squid: /etc/init.d/squid: line 53: 4705 Aborted $SQUID $SQUID_OPTS >> /var/log/squid/squid.out 2>&1 [FAILED]
This in the gui text box
and
[root@localhost ~]# tail /var/log/squid/squid.out Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.010 seconds = 0.003 user + 0.007 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 9 FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'
Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.009 seconds = 0.004 user + 0.005 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0
and then Firefox can't get out with page requests. I reset it so it works ok, but where would I set the visible hostname?
Dave
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:37 -0500, David Boles wrote:
But to help your Firefox experience I have four suggestions.
- Install the Adblock Plus extension
This stops all, or most, of those adds and speeds up the pages loading.
- Install the Flashblock extension.
This blocks flash from all sites and you can, as you wish, allow flash from certain sites as you choose.
- Remove all of the languages that you do not need from the extensions.
English is 'built-in' and these are checked for updates each time you load Firefox. Slows down the loading. This has to be done as 'root' and they will be replaced with each Firefox upgrade from Fedora.
- use the squid proxy
Yum install squid
service squid start
goto the services menu and set squid to start on boot in levels 3 and 5.
save and close the window
start Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Connections 'settings...' button
select manual proxy configuration
in the box HTTP Proxy type 127.0.0.1
in the box Port type 3128
check the box Use this proxy for all protocols
click ok
set Cache to 0 (that is the number zero)
click clean now
click close
Enjoy the speed up
Perfect! I had no clue! Squid does a helluva job, I just didn't know about it. Thanks! Ric
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On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 15:42 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
[root@localhost ~]# tail /var/log/squid/squid.out Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.010 seconds = 0.003 user + 0.007 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 9 FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'
Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.009 seconds = 0.004 user + 0.005 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0
and then Firefox can't get out with page requests. I reset it so it works ok, but where would I set the visible hostname?
I seem to recall that if you had your networking set up properly in the first place, Squid could work out what your hostname is for itself. Though you could specifically set it in the Squid configuration file (necessary for machine with several hostnames, and you didn't want to use the default).
Brute force approach: Open the squid configuration file in an editor, and search through it for "name", read the comments nearby. You'll find the place where you can set it soon enough.
But is your hosts file set up correctly? You should have something like:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.2 mymachine.example.com mymachine
Where the second line is written to be applicable to your machine, rather than my example (using your IP, your fully-qualified domain, and your hostname). The first line should, generally, be left as I've shown it, and not adorned with local machine names, as well.
Though, if like me, you use a DNS server, you don't have to do anything with your hosts file, just ensure your DNS server is configured correctly.
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 12:03 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 15:42 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
[root@localhost ~]# tail /var/log/squid/squid.out Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.010 seconds = 0.003 user + 0.007 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 9 FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'
Go back and read David Boles step-by-stepper. I only did as he wrote, and localhost was only set in Firefox in his example.
By default you should already have "localhost" set to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, here's mine with my local junkyard network:
[root@iam maps]# more /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.104 ru.wayward4now.net ru 192.168.1.103 ima.wayward4now.net ima 192.168.1.102 ur.wayward4now.net ur 192.168.1.101 iam.wayward4now.net iam
So just doing those edits to firefox should make it run just dandy if your /etc/hosts file has localhost set.
Fire up Firefox
click on edit > preferences > advanced > network > settings and you'll see the page he references. click on the button = 'manual', then add the following values:
HTTP proxy [127.0.0.1] Port [ 3128]
That should fire up when you restart Firefox. Did I leave anything out David? Thank you for your instructions. It was nifty. Ric
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Ric Moore wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 12:03 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 15:42 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
[root@localhost ~]# tail /var/log/squid/squid.out Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.010 seconds = 0.003 user + 0.007 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 9 FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'
Go back and read David Boles step-by-stepper. I only did as he wrote, and localhost was only set in Firefox in his example.
By default you should already have "localhost" set to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, here's mine with my local junkyard network:
[root@iam maps]# more /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.104 ru.wayward4now.net ru 192.168.1.103 ima.wayward4now.net ima 192.168.1.102 ur.wayward4now.net ur 192.168.1.101 iam.wayward4now.net iam
So just doing those edits to firefox should make it run just dandy if your /etc/hosts file has localhost set.
Fire up Firefox
click on edit > preferences > advanced > network > settings and you'll see the page he references. click on the button = 'manual', then add the following values:
HTTP proxy [127.0.0.1] Port [ 3128]
That should fire up when you restart Firefox. Did I leave anything out David? Thank you for your instructions. It was nifty. Ric
Well... You don't need to restart Firefox. But it does not hurt. If this continues to be a problem put:
visible_hostname localhost (notice the underline)
at the end of squid.conf and restart squid. It has to read the change.
There is also a way to hide your info from the sites you visit. Someone, I think it is Frank(?), has a really nice page on using privoxy and squid together to do that. That's what I do. I had not seen his page before but what I knew, what he wrote about, was something I know from way back in Junkbuster days. Maybe '82?
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