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system-config-display wrongly sets up Viewsonic VG730m monitor
by Anne Wilson 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

I originally set up this monitor with an analogue lead. Everything seemed fine, so I didn't check xorg.conf at all. Then I bought a digital lead, and since then the monitor blinks. Running system-config-display identifies it as a 1280 x 1084 CRT monitor. It is an LCD monitor. That model is not on the drop-down list, so assuming that a specific driver wasn't available for it, I tried telling system-config-display that it is a generic LCD 1280 x 1024 monitor - restarted X, then went back to system-config-display, where it showed up as a CRT monitor. The refresh rate set was way outside the manufacturer's recommendations (1280 x 1024 @ 60Hz). so I tried manually setting refresh rates to match the manual's recommendations. At the moment my xorg.conf has ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: Identifier "Monitor0" ModelName "Monitor 1280x1024" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync 60.0 - 72.0 VertRefresh 60.0 - 72.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection EndSection Attached is the relevant part of the specification page. Any advice, please? Anne

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rsyslog repo?
by Johnny Tan 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Does anyone know of a CentOS-5 (el5) repo for rsyslog, that's being maintained on a relatively regular basis? I checked all the usual suspects (dag, karan, epel, etc.), but they either don't have rsyslog at all, or they have an old version. Currently, I'm doing a rebuild of the Fedora-8 srpm, but it's at version 2.0.2. I wanted to move to 3.11.x for the disk-assisted buffering, and I was able to fix the spec file such that the package installs and runs. But I'm having other troubles with it (specifically with remote logging, which I was able to get working with the 2.0.2 version). So, I'm troubleshooting those problems as I speak(type), but perhaps rather than reinvent the wheel, I just wanted to check if there's an existing 3.x repo for el5, or if there are people out there who've worked out these problems already. johnn

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Multi domU Xen Box Network Transparent Sound
by Ross S. W. Walker 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

(I tried cross-posting between centos and centos-virt, but it only appeared on centos-virt, maybe it was rejected?) I have a new development box at home that I am working on. Currently it has CentOS 5.1 + Xen 3.2 running several domUs. I am using XDMCP on the domUs and an X Chooser on dom0 for connecting to them and it works well, but now I want to be able to get sound from my domUs and I have been struggling. I can get some from network transparent sound by using ESD, but I have no way of controlling the mixer (volume) settings from within the domU which kind of sucks. I have been looking at the possibility of setting up a PulseAudio server in dom0 and installing the ALSA PulseAudio plugin on each domU set to use the dom0 server as from the web site it seems to be able to have remote mixer controls and can be handled as if it were a regular ALSA sound card, which should allow a majority of the apps to work as if there were a local sound card. My questions are: 1) Has anybody on the list used PulseAudio in this type of setup (not necessary Xen interface, but ALSA plugin to remote PulseAudio server)? 2) Does anybody on the list know a compatible repo that carries pre-compiled PulseAudio packages? Thanks in advance, Ross S. W. Walker Information Systems Manager Medallion Financial, Corp. 437 Madison Avenue 38th Floor New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 328-2165 Fax: (212) 328-2125 WWW: http://www.medallion.com <http://www.medallion.com/> ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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Multi domU Xen Box Network Transparent Sound
by Ross S. W. Walker 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

I have a new development box at home that I am working on. Currently it has CentOS 5.1 + Xen 3.2 running several domUs. I am using XDMCP on the domUs and an X Chooser on dom0 for connecting to them and it works well, but now I want to be able to get sound from my domUs and I have been struggling. I can get some from network transparent sound by using ESD, but I have no way of controlling the mixer (volume) settings from within the domU which kind of sucks. I have been looking at the possibility of setting up a PulseAudio server in dom0 and installing the ALSA PulseAudio plugin on each domU set to use the dom0 server as from the web site it seems to be able to have remote mixer controls and can be handled as if it were a regular ALSA sound card, which should allow a majority of the apps to work as if there were a local sound card. My questions are: 1) Has anybody on the list used PulseAudio in this type of setup (not necessary Xen interface, but ALSA plugin to remote PulseAudio server)? 2) Does anybody on the list know a compatible repo that carries pre-compiled PulseAudio packages? Thanks in advance, Ross S. W. Walker Information Systems Manager Medallion Financial, Corp. 437 Madison Avenue 38th Floor New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 328-2165 Fax: (212) 328-2125 WWW: http://www.medallion.com <http://www.medallion.com/> ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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umask in nfs
by Craig White 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Normal users umask is 022 set in /etc/bashrc Obviously I can change that value to 002 but that would affect all files created by each user. Is it possible to set a different umask on nfs mounts only so that user created files have a umask of 002 on files saved onto that mount? man mount shows this is possible on some filesystems but man nfs doesn't suggest that this is possible. Craig

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Acronis True Image Agent on CentOS
by Kai Schaetzl 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Has anyone successfully installed Acronis True Image Agent 9.1 (that's the version before Echo) on CentOS 5 (or 4?). It fails for me in the dkms build of the snapapi kernel module. As it is the first time I install it on a Linux OS I am not sure if this problem is CentOS 5 specific or happens to occur on any Linux regularly, anyway. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Colors in vi for user rootRe:
by David G. Miller 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Mario Gamito <gamito(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > How can I have vi with syntax hilghting for root ? > Regular users have it, but not root's. > > I've seen the hidden files of a regular user home, but found nothing. > > Thanks in advance. > > Warm Regards, > Mário Gamito This was discussed previously soon after CentOS 5.0 was released. The upstream distribution changed root from using vim (with syntax highlighting) to using vi. With the 4.X versions root was using vim. The 5.X configuration is: [root@bend ~]# which vi /bin/vi [dave@bend ~]# which vi vi: aliased to vim [dave@bend ~]# which vim /usr/bin/vim The idea is that vi is in /bin which should be available if the system can boot at all. Stuff under /usr may be in a different partition and, thus, may not be available for some reason. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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Moving from RAID 0 to LVM RAID?
by Scott R. Ehrlich 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

So I've learned a valuable RAID 0 lesson, and it fortunately was not a major catastrophy. I got lucky, and had a workable-enough backup on tape to make the user who needed some data happy. Now, from the OS side, LVM is an option. Say the RAID controller only allows hardware striping or mirroring for logical volumes, but I want to use more than two disks, and I don't want the RAID 0 problem again. When I get a replacement disk and build the system from the ground up again, I could, conceivably, use hardware RAID 1 for the OS on two disks, and CentOS 5 64-bit's LVM for software RAID 5 (or maybe 1+0 if available) on the remaining for 4 disks, maybe 3 disks as active and the 4th as a hot spare? I've never had much faith in software raid, since it is not hardware-based, and there would be a performance hit, but in this case, it could be an option. Insights from the OS-created RAID experience welcome. Thanks again. Scott

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Re: [CentOS] Colors in vi for user root
by cweisiger＠bellsouth.net 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

do you have the vim-enhanced package installed? -------------- Original message from Charles E Campbell Jr <charles.e.campbell(a)nasa.gov>: -------------- > Mário Gamito wrote: > > > > How can I have vi with syntax hilghting for root ? > > Regular users have it, but not root's. > > > > I've seen the hidden files of a regular user home, but found nothing. > 1. use vim instead of vi (vi is /bin/vi , which is usually a "tiny" vim > with few features) > 2. put into /root/.vim : > set nocp > filetype plugin on > syn on > > Regards, > Chip Campbell > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis for Freemind?
by Robert Moskowitz 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

I am working on installing Freemind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) on my new notebook. And it is not working... I downloaded all the rpms and put them into my local repo, enabled the jpackages repos then, well here is what is happening: yum install freemind* jcalendar* jgoodies-forms* Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files 429 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for freemind-javadoc to pack into transaction set. freemind-javadoc-0.8.1-1. 100% |=========================| 36 kB 00:00 ---> Package freemind-javadoc.noarch 0:0.8.1-1 set to be updated ---> Package jcalendar.noarch 0:1.2.2-3jpp set to be updated ---> Downloading header for freemind-plugins-time to pack into transaction set. freemind-plugins-time-0.8 100% |=========================| 4.9 kB 00:00 ---> Package freemind-plugins-time.noarch 0:0.8.1-1 set to be updated ---> Package freemind.noarch 0:0.8.1-1 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for freemind-plugins-help to pack into transaction set. freemind-plugins-help-0.8 100% |=========================| 4.9 kB 00:00 ---> Package freemind-plugins-help.noarch 0:0.8.1-1 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for freemind-plugins-svg to pack into transaction set. freemind-plugins-svg-0.8. 100% |=========================| 5.3 kB 00:00 ---> Package freemind-plugins-svg.noarch 0:0.8.1-1 set to be updated ---> Package jgoodies-forms.noarch 0:1.0.5-2jpp set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: jakarta-commons-codec for package: freemind --> Processing Dependency: batik < 1.7 for package: freemind-plugins-svg --> Processing Dependency: relaxngDatatype for package: freemind --> Processing Dependency: ws-jaxme for package: freemind --> Processing Dependency: rhino for package: freemind-plugins-svg --> Processing Dependency: javahelp2 for package: freemind-plugins-help --> Processing Dependency: jakarta-commons-lang for package: freemind --> Processing Dependency: msv-xsdlib for package: freemind --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package relaxngDatatype.noarch 0:1.0-3jpp set to be updated ---> Package batik.noarch 0:1.6-3jpp set to be updated ---> Package ws-jaxme.noarch 0:0.5.2-1jpp set to be updated ---> Package msv-xsdlib.noarch 0:1.2-0.20050722.3jpp set to be updated ---> Package jakarta-commons-codec.i386 0:1.3-7jpp.2 set to be updated ---> Package javahelp2.noarch 0:2.0.02-1jpp set to be updated ---> Package jakarta-commons-lang.i386 0:2.1-5jpp.1 set to be updated ---> Package rhino.noarch 0:1.6-0.r2.2jpp set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: xmlbeans for package: rhino --> Processing Dependency: ant for package: ws-jaxme --> Processing Dependency: xmldb-api for package: ws-jaxme --> Processing Dependency: xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis for package: ws-jaxme --> Processing Dependency: log4j for package: ws-jaxme --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package ant.i386 0:1.6.5-2jpp.2 set to be updated ---> Package xmlbeans.noarch 0:2.1.0-4jpp set to be updated ---> Package log4j.i386 0:1.2.13-3jpp.2 set to be updated ---> Package xmldb-api.noarch 0:0.1-0.20041010.3jpp set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: java-devel for package: ant --> Processing Dependency: xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis for package: ws-jaxme --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package java-1.4.2-sun-compat.i586 0:1.4.2.10-1jpp set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis for package: ws-jaxme --> Processing Dependency: j2sdk = 2000:1.4.2_10-fcs for package: java-1.4.2-sun-compat --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis is needed by package ws-jaxme Error: Missing Dependency: j2sdk = 2000:1.4.2_10-fcs is needed by package java-1.4.2-sun-compat =========================================================== Note beside the missing dependencies, the java 1.4.2 dependency; I have installed: java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.112.i386.rpm I really need Freemind working. I have LOTS of documentation in it. I was using 0.8.0-6, now 0.8.1-1 is available.

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