Discuss February 2016

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Memory vs. Display Card
by Rick 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system froze. Is there a way to fix this so I can use the memory I bought? Do I need a new display card? Current hardware: Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV505 [Radeon X1550 64-bit] -- http://www.spinics.net/lists/

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SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition
by Keith Roberts 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

Has anyone actually used a SSD in a Centos setup? My little experiment with a s/h WD drive for /tmp and SWAP partitions kicked the bucket on Wednesday, when the poor WD drive caught the click-of-death. It was a s/h drive to start with and lasted about 4 months. But that was without the /var/log/ partition being written to it, as I mounted that back onto /var/log from the original drive. So I had to install another (WD) drive, and repartion it and rebuild my RPM package database, from the backed-up Packages file. That seems to be all OK now. I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to use a new SSD for moving all the disk i/o to, that Linux likes to do so often. Plus putting SWAP onto a decent SSD should speed things up somewhat. Here's a short video of a laptop fitted with a SSD drive booting macOS, compared to a similar laptop booting from the standard HDD. The laptop with the SSD boots and loads some apps in 28 seconds. The other one takes twice as long. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Extreme_Pro_6G/?utm_source=t… Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------

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I want to connect to a l2tp server from centos.
by Eliezer Croitoru 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

I have a server currently connecting to a pptp remote server. This server(lns\lac) has the option for pptp connections and l2tp connections. The l2tp connections are not using ipsec encryption at all. I have seen couple guides\tutorials on the internet: - https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/IPSEC_L2TP_vpn_on_CentOS_-_Red_Hat_Enterpris… - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/L2TP/IPsec_VPN_client_setup But all the guides that I have found are using ipsec with "secret". On ubuntu there is a gui applet that helps setting these kind of connections up but I am working with a CentOS server and not Ubuntu desktop. If someone used l2tp the same way I want to use on CentOS 7 please give me some advice. If you have a guide which might help me I will be more then happy to see this one. Thanks, Eliezer

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Broadcom BCM4313 support broken with kernel 2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64?
by wwp 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

Hello, I noticed that with latest kernel (2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64), my laptop's Wifi doesn't work, whereas with previous kernel (2.6.32-504.30.3.el6.centos.plus.x86_64), it works fine. Is this a known issue or did I miss something new? BTW, `lspci` says: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) Regards, -- wwp

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Any further developments on CentOS7 for i386?
by Kay Schenk 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

Well I haven't tested out the CentOS 7 for i386 yet as sent in the message of 06/02-- https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-June/013426.html Nor have I seen any additional information. So how is this going? I'm almost ready to jump in as I would really prefer to be on Gnome 3. -- -------------------------------------------- MzK “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” --Lao Tzu

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Google Chrome and CentOS 6?
by Sorin Srbu 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hi all, Just recently I started getting the dreaded message about my CentOS 6.7 x64-installation wasn't going to be supported anymore by Google Chrome. "This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because this Linux system will no longer be supported." Doing some google searches I found this; http://superuser.com/questions/1011832/this-computer-will-soon-stop-receivi… Which in itself wasn't too uplifting... Following the suggestion about installing Chromium instead worked, but it seems to be stuck at an ancient version of the browser. Recompiling the available Chromium source is of course an option, but not for me. Not unless there are step-by-step guides doing it. There was a rather long and somewhat heated discussion regarding Chrome on CentOS a while ago. Was there any real conclusion about Google Chrome on CentOS and how to get around this problem? Are the views on this matter still infected? I'm not looking forward to go back to the sluggish Firefox. 8-/ -- BW, Sorin ----------------------------------------------------------- # Sorin Srbu, Sysadmin # Uppsala University # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry # Div of Org Pharm Chem # Box 574 # SE-75123 Uppsala # Sweden# # Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 # Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se ----------------------------------------------------------- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # This message was not sent from an iProduct! # # Please consider the environment before printing this email. # Join the campaign at http://thinkBeforePrinting.org # # MotD follows: # "You guys got something against spam?" -de Vriess, in Alien^4

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vpn - xl2tpd and routing to a net?
by lejeczek 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

hi everybody I'm having a, I'd like to think a "regular" VPN with IPsec/xl2tpd and it all works OK, except.. One thing that I never needed but now I do and I wonder.... is it my iptables, or/and routing or maybe VPN server config..? vpn clients with established tunnels can get to VPN server's NICs/IPs but cannot get through to the net behind the server. Well... they can, but only if on a host (eg. 192.168.2.33) on VPN server's net I do: route add -host 192.168.2.10 gw 192.168.2.100 # 192.168.2.10 is VPN client I thought this I'd not need since that local net (eg. 192.168.2.33) use VPN server's 192.168.2.100 as the default gw. is it by design and nature of that VPN solution it works this way or I actually have missed/messed up something? I hope the latter and adding routing on per "to host" basis is redundant. many thanks

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Laptop SCSI capability supported by CentOS 7
by Lamar Owen 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

I'm looking for a well-supported ExpressCard or PCMCIA/CardBus SCSI card that can do at least FastSCSI (Narrow, Wide not necessary) that is supported by CentOS 7. I have an Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460D, but it doesn't seem to be supported (it's previously supported by the aha152x driver). Any ideas are welcomed, other than 'just use a desktop.' I am not sure a USB or Firewire to SCSI bridge will work for what I need, which is connection to an audio-capable DDS2 drive (SGI Firmware Seagate/Conner/ArDAT Peregrine 4326 that is from an SGI system). Yeah, I know I can use DATman on IRIX (I have a pair of O2's and a purple Indigo2 w/ SolidIMPACT), but going forward I'd like to use my laptop.

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power management / tuned following external power source
by Karanbir Singh 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

hi, twice in the last week I've been caught out where the laptop was running tuned with 'throughput-performance' profile on the work table, and I walked away, carried on working - and had the battery run flat in just over an hour. Compare this with tuned running the 'powersave' profile - will usually take the battery through to 3hrs+ - and if i just totally turn down the cpu's in the powersave mode, I can get 5 hrs+ on the x1 carbon gen2 laptop I've got. So what I am wondering is if there is an easy way to have the tuned-adm reset profiles based on external power source. If I'm at the work table and plugged in, run with throughput-performance mode, and if the external power is disconnected, run in powersave mode ? I've had, admittedly a brief, look and found nothing obvious. Has anyone else run into this before ? Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Latest version of kate editor
by H 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. What is the recommended way of updating kate on Centos 6? Thank you.

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