The main component of most operating systems, the kernel manages most of a computer's communication between hardware and software. Typically, the kernel is the lowest level of abstraction a programmer can have to a resource.
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What's the type of my Ubuntu kernel?
Four commands on my pc:
$ dpkg -l |grep linux-image
Linux kernel image for version 3.4.0 on 32 bit x86 SM
It means my Ubuntu kernel is 32 bits?
$ uname -a
Linux ny 3.4.0-030400-generic ...
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How can a param be added to boot-command but not accepted by sysctl?
I can successfully add libata.ignore_hpa=1 to my boot command and the following cmd will yield a '1' upon boot:
cat /sys/module/libata/parameters/ignore_hpa
but grep'ing sysctl -a for libata and ...
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How I can replace linux module which are the same version?
I have compat-wireless module, it's built and patched.
I really need to replace the module located in /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ with this one but I don't know how do ...
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How to enable sched_compat_yield?
I am not able to see the sched_compat_yield entry under /proc/sys/kernel/. How to enable this propery in the kernel (so that I can tweak it for some debugging purpose) ?
Currently Available Entries:
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How to solve this driver installation? Bus 001 Device 007: ID 05e1:0b01 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd
I have a camera but i do not have a driver for Linux. So i am trying to install the driver for 05e1:0b01. But its still getting failed.
Device plug/unplug shows correctly in /var/log/messages
Aug ...
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State of vanilla kernel support of RaspberryPi
What is the state of the support for RPi in vanilla kernel? What is holding back any possible merge from the forked RPi specific kernel repo back into the upstream? Is there any technical issue with ...
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How to connect Linux to a HDD that has been “security locked”
In the process of playing around with several hard-drives, and hdparm's --security-set-pass and --security-erase options, I have a pile of HDDs that are in a "locked" state and I cannot unlock them.
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The system time has changed kernel-general, off by one day
Random events showing in event log. The system time changes to tomorrow, and then corrects about 10-15 seconds later. Causing all sorts of temproary havoc w/ VPN, Outlook, etc. Any thoughts?
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FreeBSD compatibility layer on Linux
I am aware of Linux mode on FreeBSD, where Linux binaries can seamlessly be executed in FreeBSD.
From the FreeBSD handbook:
In effect, there is a Linux kernel in the FreeBSD kernel. The various
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How to blacklist a particular bad RAM area in Windows? [duplicate]
I have found a RAM error with MemTest86+ (the version included with Ubuntu 13.04), it says:
Failing address: 002f796c48 - 759.5 MB
I have no money to buy new RAM now and the error seems to be ...
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What do these error messages mean and how to fix it?
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actually I figured out this is an issue of intel video driver:http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0902.3/01703.html
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How big is the Windows Kernel? [closed]
Question title says it all, I am interested in the kernel size of the different Windows versions. (Mainly Windows 7)
I am not interested in the size it has in memory when the system is fully booted, ...
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In linux distros, except for a new kernel, what else could require a reboot?
The most common case is a new kernel as far as I know, but what are other cases that usually require a reboot, too?
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How to boot linux kernel without bootloader?
By default to boot image bzImage of a Linux kernel you need to use the bootloader. If you try to boot the image directly it will give the error:
Booting from Hard Disk...
Direct booting from floppy ...
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Linux kernel 3.9 new storage features howto?
Linux kernel 3.9 has been released, which brings new features for storage cache devices (dm-cache), as well as BTRFS RAID 5/6. These features are undoubtedly sexy, but are all but completely ...
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Extreme Kernel Paged Pool Memory Use (Win 7 64-bit)
I'm currently running Win 7 Pro 64-bit on a file server system with 12 hard drives. The drives are connected through 2x IBM M1015 controller cards (flashed to LSI 9211-8i IT mode firmware). I'm ...
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Following the Linux from Scratch guide, can a Darwin distro be made by substituting the right kernel, or are there more steps?
I have read through and undertaken Linux From Scratch (and BLFS) and I was wondering, can I follow this guide to create a Darwin Distro by substituting the xnu kernel? Would the process be vastly ...
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Parallel Processes: Core Dump [closed]
I am trying to create an application which let you pause/resume any parallel process from any state. There are many thoughts. One is: core-dump. Can anyone tell me about creating core dump of parallel ...
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What is Kernel Memory? What function does it serve?
While looking at my Task Manager on Windows, I noticed a little thing marked "Kernel Memory." What exactly is this? And what function does it serve compared to the Physical Memory?
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Arch Linux - How do I replace the standard Linux kernel with Linux-libre?
I'm curious if there is a way to safely replace the Linux kernel in Arch with the Linux-libre kernel. I know there probably is a way, but I've Googled around and still can't find anything.
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What kernel modules are required for wi-fi to work?
My custom-built 2.6.32 kernel cannot connect to any WPA-protected network.
The kernel includes (probably?) everything that should be needed for wifi, including IPv4 network support (IPv6 is ...
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How to hide interception of kernel API calls? [closed]
I am using a piece of software called RunAsDate that allows one to run a selected executable in a specified date and time. However, after its usage and termination of processes of both RunAsDate and ...
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Where is vmlinux on my Ubuntu installation?
I'm trying to work with starting up oprofile, and I'm running into a problem at this step:
opcontrol --vmlinux=/path/to/vmlinux
Ubuntu has no package called vmlinux, and when I do a locate vmlinux, ...
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Any reason not to disable Windows kernel paging?
So I'm planning on eventually going to 2 GB (mobo max) RAM from 1 GB, and I want to disable kernel paging once I do, because I've heard it can give a performance boost (and that I believe). Any reason ...
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Where is my /boot/grub/menu.lst file
I m using VMware for my linux version Ubuntu 11.04 and i have searched for /boot/grub/menu.lst file but this file was not there. Why??
I was creating a new kernel in virtual linux but unable to ...
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Linux Mint 14 severe overheating
I've tried switching to Mint (it was Mint 12) about 6 months ago, but failed to do it due to enormous overheating which made it virtually impossible to run any applications more complex than Gedit.
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In the output of lspci -vv, what do the Region lines mean?
I have the following output from running lspci -vv -s 00:00 on my single board computer running Linux.
07:05.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 03)
Subsystem: Adaptec ...
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Installing an old Linux distro on a new piece of hardware
We have the need to install an older Linux distribution (Suse 10) on a brand new laptop. The kernel that comes with Suse 10 doesn't have new enough drivers for the NIC and the drive controller. ...
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installing kernel for vortex86dx
I have a vortex86dx single board computer. I just installed Debian 6 and now am tring to install a new kernel for the hardware. The kernel I am trying to install is from here. I put the .deb file on a ...
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What cache makes a file search faster for the second time exactly?
On Windows on a HDD partition with Total Commander, if I make a file search on the file system root e.g. C:\, it will take considerable time: it display as it walks the entire directory structure ...
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How to disable device in Linux Debian (Wheezy)
I need to force the kernel to not load drivers for the Intel NIC in my PC to see if this helps on performance issues I have by using the second NIC that is on the same motherboard. How can I do this? ...
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any idea what type of error this is - Machine check / Kernel Panic
I have been getting the following problem running Ubuntu 12.10. Basically, it freezes completely, doesn't respond to keyboard or mouse, CAPS won't change and alt+sys req+REISUB doesn't do anything. ...
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KMS, linux kernel 3.7 and ati mobility radeon x1350
I got problem with booting new kernel. If I on bootloader pass nomodeset flag to the kernel linux boots up successfully but it doesnt load radeon module to kernel which is really frustrating cause I ...
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Packet Forwarding Linux Server
i am trying to configure the Kernel of my Linux server so that It will not act as router, for more security . The point is not to forward packets.
i have found this:
echo "o" > ...
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I have compiled the 3.8.2 kernel and the fan doesn't stop after resume from suspend
Kernel config for HP 6730b notebook
I can't figure out what I did that's causing this issue.
This is xubuntu latest version 12.04.02 LTS
Link for kernel config: http://pastebin.com/AuYWdNDR
Any ...
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Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5
I'm running Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and I've just migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5.
As my HD's are on RAID 0 mode I use a custom initrd file in order to be able to boot. While ...
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Union mounts not supported by the 3.8 kernel?
I've been using union mounts (unionfs) for live images and read-only rootfs images. But when I updated the kernel to 3.8, I found that there were no config items related to overlayfs.
So the 3.8 ...
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Debian wheezy frequent random crash
I have a fresh install of the debian testing distro with gnome-shell 3.4 and it crashes daily.
By crash I mean, the sound keeps repeating itself, keyboard and mouse is unresponsive, and my only ...
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where does Kernel reside on a multi-core system
Suppose I have a multi-core system, say 4 cores, and in this I pin 3 user process to a 3 CPU's.
In such a case, where will the kernel reside?
Suppose one of the user process make a system call, or ...
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iproute2 not functioning (“RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported”)
The command and error message:
gtwy ~ # ip rule add from 64.251.23.186 table t1
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
Older article of the same problem, but it did not help me: ...
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Install VC Redist 2008 on Windows Server 2000
I recently set up a server with Windows Server 2000 (I know it´s old, but the hardware of the computer wouldn´t take more than that). Now I installed xampp which requires the VC redist package 2008. ...
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-kernel option like in QEMU for BOCHS
I am working on creating my own kernel using C/Asm. I have always used QEMU as my emulator mainly because I can specify -kernel and it boots the kernel directly without a boot loader. I wish to switch ...
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Error while validating for Ubuntu 12.10 Kernel headers
I have my VMware Player (v 5.0.0 build-812388) all up and running Ubuntu (12.10) from my Windows (Win 7) machine.
When I launch sudo vmware-config-tools.pl, it tries to search for kernel
Searching ...
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FEdora 17, Install specific Kernel version using yum
how can i install a specific version kernel version, I want to install kernel-3.6.11-1fc17.x86_64, however when using yum, it is saying no package available
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which process is using a linux kernel module?
I am trying to run this command:
# rmmod nvidia
But I get:
ERROR: Module nvidia is in use
How can I know which process(es) is/are using the nvidia module?
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Ubuntu wont recognize USB port
I have a problem trying to run Ubuntu 11... Oneiric Ocelot, it starts to run, and it seems to work but we need the usb port to connect the keyboard and mouse, the problem here is that it doesn't ...
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ubuntu: upgrading
i have some kind of problem with my system (it's a kvm vm with 2 gig ram and 50gig hd). when i try to install "linux-image-3.2.0-38-generic-pae" using apt-get, i'm told that there's no space left on ...
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Which processor family should I choose when compiling the kernel for an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52 CPU?
I have laptop with AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52 CPU. Which processor family should I choose when configuring kernel?
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Linux distro with just busybox and bash?
I just want a linux distro that boots fast, has a bash terminal (no gui) and busybox.
Is there any such distro or is it hard to compile a kernel and just make one myself?
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find kernel config option in menuconfig
I've upgraded my gentoo-sources today to 3.3.8, and now I am looking at diff between old kernel's defconfig and old kernel's .config: there are about 20 changes. I want to apply this changes manually ...
