Next meeting - topics?
by Andy Stewart
HI everybody,
I am wondering what we should discuss at our next meeting - any ideas?
I have been playing with diskless clients lately. There are a couple of ways
to do this:
a) load and run a Knoppix CD with no hard drive
b) LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project
If people are interested, I could give a talk / demo of some basic LTSP stuff.
I've got it working between a lame P90 and my laptop server.
Let me know if you have other ideas, or if this idea sounds like something
interesting to you.
Later,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
15 years, 9 months
audio application...
by Keller, Tim
Hey,
At the BBQ, one of our members mentioned an application that he uses for
voice chat that has a linux server component.
Could someone (even possibly the person who mentioned it) remind me what the
name of that application is?
Thanks,
Tim.
15 years, 9 months
RE: [Wlug] X is freezing
by Keller, Tim
Baris,
Are you using the nvidia driver (nv) supplied with Xfree86 or the nvidia
supplied driver?
Thanks,
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Baris Hasdemir [mailto:penguen@hasdemir.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 7:58 PM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: Re: [Wlug] X is freezing
Gregory Avedissian wrote:
> I get X lockups, too. But when it happens, nothing works. No mouse, no
> keys, and I don't think I get increased cpu load. Only pressing the
> reset button works. I'm pretty sure it's due to a flaky power supply
> that puts out low voltages sometimes, and has on occasion rebooted
> itself for no apparent reason. I'll know for sure in about a week, when
> the new one arrives.
>
let me tell some more about the frozen state. when this strange thing
happens I absolutely can move the mouse pointer. but nothing reacts when
moved over, or clicked on.
more, when connected from another machine thorugh ssh, even if I kill
the application shown on the screen, although the application is killed.
(even not in Z state) it is still shown on screen as if nothing has
happened. it is more like a screenshot taken before the freeze.
it seems like driver problem? would you think so?
thanks,
baris
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15 years, 9 months
kernel choices in Debian
by Gregory Avedissian
I'm planning on wiping out my SuSE 7.2 installation and trying Debian
3.0r0. The install manual says that kernel 2.2 is the default, and
kernel 2.4 is an option. I can't find anywhere that says why I should
choose one over the other. My SuSE is already using 2.4. Seems like it
would be a step backward to install the default 2.2. Any ideas or
suggestions? Thanks.
Greg
15 years, 9 months
X is freezing
by Baris Hasdemir
Hi,
When uptime reaches around three days, somehow a weird situation is
happening. X usage suddenly jumps around 99% freezing the X environment.
X seems to have frozen, but I can move the mouse pointer. Nothing else
can be done.
I log on to this machine from another one on the local area network
using ssh, and reboot it for a temporary solution. If I restart only the
X server, I believe it doesn't take that long to have the problem again.
a total reboot gives me another 2-3 days.
as soon as it freezes, connecting to this machine from the other one, I
tried looking at the log files under /var/log several times. no entry
has been added to xfree log in the last 10-15 minutes. and the files
which have been modified in 15 minutes does not have any entries
relating to the situaion, at least to my knowledge.
suspecting the ram of this partially new system, I checked my rams with
memtest-86-3.0. no problems are reported.
suspecting the gdm, I tried without it as well. problem regenerates as
usual.
I don't know whether it is related but, another strange issue I am
having is that: with or without gdm, sometime(not soon) after X login
"alt" key starts not functioning. for example, alt+shift cannot change
the keyboard layout or ctrl+alt+f{1-6} cannot take me to the consol and
of course I cannot kill the X server using ctrl+alt+backspace.
motherboard: Asus A7N8X
cpu: AMD Athlon 2500+
video card: creative tnt2ultra 2X
video driver: nvidia
distro: slackware 9.0
ram: 512MB
swap: 256MB
Do you have any ideas? where would you think I should start from?
thank you,
baris
15 years, 9 months
SCO is getting greedy...
by Bill Smith
I got this as part of a mailing list for Information Week. I thought
you would find it interesting.
It's worth noting that SCO is working on THEIR SAY-SO. It is my
personal opinion that any company that cowers and pays SCO just
because they are using Linux is foolish. IANAL. It would be very much
like some company deciding they wanted to bill you for services they
didn't render. Would YOU pay that bill?
If you haven't been following this story, SCO is the current owner of
the Unix source code. They CLAIM that some of the System V source code
made it into the Linux kernel, a claim that has not yet been
substantiated. SCO has not (yet) publicly shown their "evidence". To
date, the only way to see the source of their claims (no pun intended)
is to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Many of the people that
have agreed to SCO's requirements aren't technically savvy. Most of the
people that WOULD know what they were looking at are either not
interested in signing anything (like an NDA), or they just don't think
that SCO has a leg to stand on.
SCO themselves think that most of the Linux community will laugh in
their (SCO's) face. I am proud to say that I am one of the people
laughing. ;)
ANYWAY, here's the teaser and the link to the article:
SCO Group Wants Its Money
With Unix System V copyrights in hand, the vendor introduced a
plan to charge those who've used Linux as an alternative to Unix
for UnixWare licenses.
http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eMu10FEZ5Z0V20B4bt0AU
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William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com
Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com
"And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you
receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just
evil lies." -- Linux Torvalds
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15 years, 10 months
Re: [Wlug] Linux Redhat 7.3 Remote Boot Installation.
by Karl Hiramoto
from the mirrors:
http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
read the docs:
ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/9/en/doc
the root of the install treee:
ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386
The images directory
ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/images
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Aramico wrote:
> Thanks Karl,
>
>
> But, I did not see any images directory here...
> Hmm, what a day..!!
>
> Do you have any other detail information to release it ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Hiramoto" <karl(a)zoop.org>
> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 5:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] Linux Redhat 7.3 Remote Boot Installation.
>
>
> >
> > under the redhat linux distro images/ directory write the bootdisk.img
> > and drvnet.img to a disk.
> >
> > dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0
> > dd if=drvnet.img of=/dev/fd0
> >
> > boot the computer with the bootdisk, and insert the network driver
> > disk when prompted.
> >
> > I would suggest installing redhat 9.0 versus 7.3
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Aramico wrote:
> >
> > > Friends,
> > >
> > > Can you help me that where or how can I create a bootable disk for Linux
> Remote Installation ?
> > > So, I can do Linux Installation using ftp, nis, or http under tcp/ip.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > Aramico
> >
> > --
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> > For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they
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Cell: 508-517-4819
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100% Damage to life support!!!!
15 years, 10 months
Possible Linux Sysadmin Job!
by Keller, Tim
Hey,
A buddy of mine just dropped me a mail asking me if he knew of anybody
looking for linux sysadmin job...
Drop me a line and I'll send you in the right direction.
Tim.
15 years, 10 months
