July 2003 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

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

July 31, 2003

Re: [Wlug] audio application...

by Richard Goodman

That was me. www.ventrilo.com Dick >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. > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

July 30, 2003

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.

July 29, 2003

Re: [Wlug] X is freezing

by Baris Hasdemir

Keller, Tim wrote: > Baris, > > Are you using the nvidia driver (nv) supplied with Xfree86 or the nvidia > supplied driver? > > Thanks, > Tim. sorry for the confusion. I am using nvidia.com supplied driver. NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run to be more spesific. today, I downloaded and installed an updated version (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run) hoping it might solve the problem. baris

July 29, 2003

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 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

July 29, 2003

Re: [Wlug] kernel choices in Debian

by Gregory Avedissian

Thanks. I should have guessed that I'll be looking forward to new and exciting challenges. Seems like a new install is a good time to learn about kernel upgrades. Greg brad wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 16:40, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > >>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, > The option to use the 2.4 kernel is an option after the install is complete. > You must install the system, then once it is running upgrade the kernel > package to 2.4.x. Just some warning, I had some difficulty upgrading from 2.2 > to 2.4 on my system with the debian packages. > --brad > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

July 29, 2003

Re: [Wlug] X is freezing

by John Stoffel

Baris> When uptime reaches around three days, somehow a weird Baris> situation is happening. X usage suddenly jumps around 99% Baris> freezing the X environment. X seems to have frozen, but I can Baris> move the mouse pointer. Nothing else can be done. Baris> video card: creative tnt2ultra 2X Baris> video driver: nvidia I'd try getting rid of the Nvidia module and making sure that X works just fine without it. Sure you won't have acceleration, but you're looking for stability first, right? I'd also check and see if you have the correct kernel version for the nvidia driver your using. Any messages in the logs? Look in /var/log/messages, and think about turning on more verbose X logging. I can't find the file(s) to tweak in a quick search though. John

July 28, 2003

Re: [Wlug] kernel choices in Debian

by brad

On Saturday 26 July 2003 16:40, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > 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, The option to use the 2.4 kernel is an option after the install is complete. You must install the system, then once it is running upgrade the kernel package to 2.4.x. Just some warning, I had some difficulty upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4 on my system with the debian packages. --brad

July 28, 2003

Re: [Wlug] X is freezing

by Baris Hasdemir

Karl Hiramoto wrote: > I've had x lockups before in the past. Only thing that has solved it > was upgrading X to the latest and having a driver fixup fix the bug. > > I could ssh in from another box and kill -9 the X process. > > Are you running the latest version of X? unfortunately yes. penguen@penguen:~$ XFree86 -version XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 ...

July 28, 2003

Re: [Wlug] X is freezing

by Baris Hasdemir

Karl Hiramoto wrote: > I've had x lockups before in the past. Only thing that has solved it > was upgrading X to the latest and having a driver fixup fix the bug. > > I could ssh in from another box and kill -9 the X process. > > Are you running the latest version of X? unfortunately yes. penguen@penguen:~$ XFree86 -version XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 ...

July 28, 2003