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RAM issues - Help!
by Steven Rose 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

I'd really appreciate any help on this matter, not really being all that knowledgeable in the hardware at hand. I am running a Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H (rev 1.0) motherboard with the latest BIOS, F6 I believe. The proc is AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+. The operating system at present being Ubuntu 8.04.1, fully updated and so forth. (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassVal…) The manual clearly states that the four DIMM slots run at a voltage of 1.8, this is also very clear in the CMOS settings. However, I have purchased a set of Corsair DDR2 800MHz XMS2 DHX, 2x2gb (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142433) before realizing my potential issue. In the extended specifications it mentions something regarding 2.1 volts as it also does on the side of the heat-sinks. They are both currently in this particular machine and seem to be working fine, my concerns arise when running a memtest via GRUB. I have altered nothing in the BIOS merely replaced the old RAM and attempted to boot, which works fine, the memtest is stating something along the lines of 5-5-5-18, which I presume is related to the latency, however the RAM is branded as being 4-4-4-12, I am blissfully unaware as to whether it is running at the correct speed, or indeed voltage to work fully. Another point would be the system only displaying itself as having 3.2gigs rather than four, although this I presume could be normal as I am under 32bit userland. If my hardware will allow, of course, I wish to run this memory at its full capabilities. Any aid in this will be a great help. Cheers, Steve

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Removing a disk drive, will it confuse things?
by Chris G 12 Oct '08

12 Oct '08

I want to remove one of the disk drives from my 'main' system (running Fedora 8). The drives on that system are currently:- /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 # # # Additions to see Fedora 7 partitions # /dev/sdb1 /f7boot ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/VGa2/LVa2 /a2 ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /f7 ext3 defaults 0 0 The disk I want to remove is /dev/sda which is (mostly) that /f7 mount point /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 (and also some of the swap). The two drives I'm leaving are currently /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. I can see if all is well in terms of the contents of the drives by simply removing the two lines from /etc/fstab and rebooting, that will check that there's nothing needed for the system to run on /dev/sda. However will the resulting changed names of the underlying physical drives that (I presume) will occur when I remove /dev/sda cause any problems? I.e. will it stop the system booting/running? If so would it just be a matter of booting off a CD and going into single user mode to sort things out or is it messier than that? -- Chris Green

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copy and paste facilities
by Barrys linux mail 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Hi I dont seem to be able to copy and paste text from firefox3 into Open office word as i can with windows. installed a clipboard program called glipper but still cannot copy and paste.I really need something with a graphical interface as i am not too good using commands etc. has anybody got any ideas on a program that will do this copy and paste for me? Barry

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To install "stright-through" via CUPS??
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Hi Folks, Confession: I've never had much luck with CUPS (as opposed to the old lpd system which I could get dancing to any tune)! Anyway: My printer is a PostScript-endowed HP 1300. I only ever produce PostScript files for printing. Therefore, I just want to be able to send the PostScript stream straight-through to the printer, i.e. not using any drivers. But when I try to set this up on CUPS (Gnome interface) it insists on going through the Maunfacturer/Driver routine. I've tried "Generic PostScript", and also "Apple Laserwriter II", installing PostScript drivers from the foomatic list. But the result is that, when I do 'lpr filename.ps', the printer starts printing reams of sheets with a single line of garbage on each. Don't ask me why! There's a complication, in that here I'm running Linux in VirtualBox on Vista, so there may be interference from Vista; but if I could get "straight-through" set up I think I should be OK. So, Question: How to set up straight-thorough in CUPS? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Oct-08 Time: 15:30:38 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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VNC Repeater
by Mark Rogers 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

If I have two Windows users, one needing to use VNC to view the desktop of another through various firewalls etc, what can I set up on a publically accessible (Linux) box to allow them to connect? Assume very little technical knowledge at each Windows end so I need to do something as simple as possible for them. The outbound connection from the vncserver end (the desktop that needs to be "seen" by the other end) will probably need to use some common port like 80 to get through the firewall, which will be fun as all my Internet servers have web servers on them, but I'll fall off that bridge when I come to it. The viewer end is marginally more technically capable (ie they'll follow instructions more carefully) than the server end. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Re: [ALUG] VNC Repeater
by Mark Rogers 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Phil Ashby wrote: > What I suggested does use an outbound at each end - one pushes the port > forward (-L) one pulls (-R)... :) > Oops, misunderstood because of your references to port-forwarding. I'll investigate further, thanks. [Phil's email was sent off-list but given its content I've assumed that was an error hence the on-list reply. All of Phil's reply is above.] -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Session saving not working - or am I confused?
by Chris G 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

I can't get Gnome to save sessions, at least I can't get it to do what I'm expecting it to do. Running Ubuntu 8.10 beta. I go to System - Preferences - Sessions and select the Options tab. There I'm presented with a selection box for "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" and a button which says "Remember Currently Running Application". Whichever I use *nothing* appears to be saved, i.e. if I log out leaving some terminals running they don't reappear when I log back in again. Am I misunderstanding what this is supposed to do or is it just totally broken? Google searches seem to suggest that it is supposed to do what I'm expecting but there don't seem to be any reports of it not working, even less of some sort of fix for it. -- Chris Green

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Shell script query
by Stuart Bailey 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

I'm trying to run a process that outputs to screen and file using tee. I allo want to capture the pid of the first process (not tee) into a file. I'm using the following command line - the pid I want is that of xterm. xterm -title "Test Terminal" -e 'bin/process | tee logfile' & echo $$ > /tmp/process.pid But I'm getting the pid of tee. How can I change the command line to get the pid of xterm? Many thanks Stuart -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Owner) Linux Specialist (0845) 6583563 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ---------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New system, almost perfect but some X/Video questions
by Chris G 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

So I ordered my new system (in bits) from Lambdatek over the weekend and it all arrived on Tuesday which, considering it came in four batches via four different carriers is pretty good. It's an Asus P5Q-VM motherboard, Intel quad core processor and 8Gb of memory with all other bits 'generic'. Ubuntu 8.10 beta installed without any problem at all, which is a good start. However..... I sort of knew the Intel G45 graphics was probably a bit risky being so new, and I was right. To get it to run without X crashing I have to add 'Option "NoAccel"' to the device section of xorg.conf. It's a know problem and there is a fix out there which will appear in the Intel X drivers in due course. I don't really need the acceleration at the moment so I can wait. However there is another minor problem, I can't get as high a display resolution as I want, the maximum I'm offered is 1152x864 and I normally run 1600x1200. The display is actually capable of more than that I think. Currently I'm running the new (Ubuntu 8.10) system on the VGA input of my monitor and the old (Fedora 8) system on the DVI-D input of the monitor. I did try swapping them round but the the Ubuntu 8.10 system just failed to start video at all, I had to ssh into it to shut it down. It looks as if the display/screen detection in the Intel X drivers is completely broken. The display is a Dell 2001Fp and is detected without any problems by the Fedora 8 system. How can I tell the Ubuntu systems X configuration all about my display without too much hassle? Is there any utility which will interrogate the display and spew out xorg.conf configuration parameters? -- Chris Green

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Linux Job
by Tracy Dickerson 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hello, I have just been sent this link as it might be of interest to people here. http://eadt.jobs24.co.uk/doc.html?_a=view&ctx=list&id=247400 Hope it is of help to someone. Tx

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