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Saving Gnome Sessions in CentOS 5.0 x86
by Ioannis Vranos 02 May '07

02 May '07

OS: CentOS 5.0 x86. I am not sure it is a bug or something, however regarding saving Gnome Sessions, under Session Options, even if we select "Ask on logout", it doesn't ask. Any work arounds?

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Yum package/instlal/update problem
by fredex 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hi gang! I'm trying to update my videolan client (0.8.4a-4.el4.rf) to the latest 0.8.6 version. I see that Dag has a 0.8.6 for EL4 (I'm running Centos 4.4) but when I do "yum update videolan-client" it says there's nothing to update. When I remove the videolan client than do "yum install videolan-client" it insists on trying to install the 0.8.4 version: ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: videolan-client i386 0.8.4a-4.el4.rf rpmforge 5.4 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 5.4 M Is this ok [y/N]: n I can't figure out why it's not installing the 0.8.6 version that is clearly visible at Dag's repository at this page: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/vlc/ where we see, among other things: vlc-0.8.6b-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm Anybody got a clue? Thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------

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Fwd: Response from Canon - MultiPASS (KMM7153196V60774L0KM)
by Mark Hull-Richter 02 May '07

02 May '07

My apologies for this because it is, technically, OT, but it is a classic example of what rotten support Linux (and CentOS) get in the US from equipment manufacturers. The whole email is a lie because they DO have the drivers on their asia site, they just don't want us 'Murkins to get our hands on them. Or maybe it's part of some clever little nuance of their agreement with Micro$oft not to provide the Linux drivers so they can have the rights to distribute the Window$ drivers with the printers. Maybe I should advertise this - canonmp160.ppd available here (and put up a web site for it). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Canon Support - MFP <mfp(a)cits.canon.com> Date: Apr 15, 2007 11:13 AM Subject: Re: Response from Canon - MultiPASS (KMM7153196V60774L0KM) To: Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> Dear Mark: Thank you for writing to us. We value you as a Canon customer and appreciate the opportunity to assist you. I apologize for the difficulty you are having with finding a Linux driver for the MP160. Canon does not support Linux on its consumer products and therefore a driver for Linux is not available through Canon. I can only recommend checking with sites such as linux-drivers.org or any other third party that may have successfully written a Linux driver for your product. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance with your MP160. Thank you for choosing Canon. Sincerely, Karl Technical Support Representative Special Note: Certain issues are very difficult to resolve via email. If your question remains unanswered after you have received this email, you may call our special toll-free number for email customers with unresolved issues and speak to a technician* by dialing 1-866-261-9362, Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 midnight ET, and Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET (excluding holidays). If you prefer to continue to communicate via email, reply to this message and we will respond as quickly as possible. *Telephone support for products no longer covered under the manufacturer's warranty may require a $9.99 fee for support. Original Message Follows: ------------------------- Email Support Form Message Product Type: PIXMA MP160 Product Model: IslandData Session: Product Serial Number: JCGA97085 Date of Purchase: 04/12/2007 First Name: Mark Last Name: Hull-Richter Address: City: State: Zip: 92705 Phone Number: Email Address: mhullrich(a)gmail.com EMAIL_ADDRESS_CONFIRM: mhullrich(a)gmail.com q01: USB q02: Other q03: Driver_Installation INQUIRY: I am running CetnOS 4.4 on my PC and you do not have any drivers for Linux systems listed on your site (or anywhere on the web that I can find). Please provide a Linux driver for this printer so I can use it. Thank you. -- [This message is NOT SPAM and is sent in strict accordance with Google, Yahoo, AOL, Netscape and Earthlink Terms of Service. If you are NOT receiving this through a group and do not want any more emails from me, please reply to me and let me know. If you are receiving this second-hand, this sender disclaims all responsibility for your response.]

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Sound problems with CentOS
by Preston Crawford 02 May '07

02 May '07

Has anyone experienced this before? This happened to me even under CentOS 4.x. But basically what happens is that when I play MP3s, whatever the right speaker crackles at higher volume. And it's always that speaker and only that speaker. If I turn the balance to the other speaker I have no problems. So it feels like it might be a mixer issue. I use Alsa, of course, as that's what the default is. Is this a known issue or does someone know how to fix it? Preston

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Sftp slow on both our centos installs
by Jamie Lists 01 May '07

01 May '07

The short version. Copying over SFTP to our centos boxes maxes out at 2MB a sec. The Question: Is there some sort of speed limitation somewhere in the ssh/sftp daemon? Does anyone have any idea why this could be happening? The long version We have centos 4.6 installed on 2 different machines, different hardware, different nics. Even on 2 different subnets. I've tried different switches, 1000 Full/Half 100 Full/Half and still get the same speed. It maxes out at 2MB a sec. Same switch, network, client using sftp to our xserves gets 10MB a sec. Basically filling the pipe of the network. The only thing that is the same on both the linux boxes is the distro. So i thought maybe someone may have come across this before. I haven't tried other protocols yet (FTP and HTTP) I'll check that tomorrow. Thanks, Jamie

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CentOS 5 and ndiswrapper
by David G. Miller 01 May '07

01 May '07

This is an abbreviated version of an e-mail that I also posted to the ndiswrapper mailing list. Compressing the long story, I ran into the same problem using CentOS 5 as I had with Fedora Core 6 and ndiswrapper: my laptop (HP Pavilion zv6000 series with a Broadcom BCM43xx wireless NIC) would lock up or spontaneously reboot after a few hours if I brought up the wireless interface. I also tried using the native bcm43xx driver but the system wouldn't even boot. On a whim, I tried the current "plain vanilla" kernel (2.6.21) from kernel.org. My laptop has been up and stable running the 2.6.21 kernel with the wireless NIC up using ndiswrapper ever since. Does anyone have any idea why the un-patched kernel from kernel.org works fine with ndiswrapper but both the FC6 and CentOS (RHEL) kernels lock up or spontaneously reboot? I built the 2.6.21 kernel by copying the config file for 2.6.18-8.1.1 from /boot and doing a "make oldconfig". Everything is x86_64. Cheers, Dave P.S. Frosting on the cake: the secure digital card reader built into the laptop also works with the 2.6.21 kernel. -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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Identify motherboard from SSH login
by Dogsbody 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi, I have CentOS 4.4 installed on a system at an ISP and I am trying to setup lm_sensors. It would be a lot easier to setup if I knew what motherboard I was using! :-) Is there any way of identifying the motherboard of a system remotely (via SSH)? Many thanks Regards, Dan

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CentOS 5 - Issues with multimedia
by first last 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi, I am having some issues with CentOS 5. -XMMS stops playing MP3s without apparent reason. I leave it playing some album and it will just stop whenever it feels like it. It will go into "pause" and just stay there. Pressing on the pause button to resume does nothing at all. I thought it could be some newly encoded songs, but it does the same for a song that I have played 100% times. -K3B takes 1:40 to create a DVD. Initially I thought it could be because I was writing a DVD with 2GB files on and UDF extensions, but creating the image first and then burning that takes exactly as long. I am running a clean install of CentOS 5 i386 on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (Core Due, 1GB RAM) with SELinux on "enforcing". None of these issues happen on the same machine running kubuntu 6.10. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks Gabriel ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

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CentOS 5 VESAFB
by clorden＠altern.org 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hello. Does anyone know why # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set in kernel config? I find very useful having a large text console on servers (exp. without X running!). Now my setting vga=0x345 in grub.conf does not work anymore... Thanks! --Clorden

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Cobbler: Opinion
by Karl R. Balsmeier 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi, Last time I was on Karanbir mentioned Puppet, -what do you all think of Cobbler? I plan to deploy one of the suggestions this week since it looks like i'll be dealing with 2000 centos systems instead of the few hundred I had predicted. -krb

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