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configure a Macbook Pro to use external monitor at boot (Debian Linux)
In the spirit of reuse, I've installed Debian (version 6.0.5 "squeeze") on my wife’s old Macbook Pro (circa 2009 or so), to repurpose it for various tasks. The catch is the display is flaky. It will ...
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Flashing an IP Camera and Add a new Linux distro
I have a foscam IP camera, it has no USB etc, just wireless and cabled network connections. How would you flash a device like this? And how would you install your own Liunx distro on it ?
Could ...
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Capture key events at system level to control e.g. alsamixer
In Linux window managers, it is easy to define actions for key events - e.g. in openbox:
<keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
<action name="Execute">
<command>amixer set ...
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VMware tools patching - Kernel 2.6.37+ (Slackware 13.37) Graphics Drivers Not Working
Good day,
I am using Slackware 13.1 in VMware Fusion 3 (latest) on my OSX10.6 laptop.
I recently upgraded my Slackware 13.1 machine which is directly installed on a spare PC to Slackware 13.37, no ...
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View which patches have been applied to a git repository
Is there any way to view a patch history or something similar using git? I am trying to document which patches have been applied to make the Linux kernel happy with certain boards.
I could use git ...
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wait for kernel after creating partition with sftdisk on linux
I am creating a partition with sfdisk under linux. After partition creation I want to create a filesystem.
This fails with mkfs.ext3 not finding the partition:
echo ",,L" | sfdisk $DEVICE
mkfs.ext3 ...
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How to run VMWare on a newer kernel header file?
I have installed VMware on my ubuntu 11.10.
Now it asks me for kernel header files 3.0.0.17-generic , but I already have a 3.2.0.24-generic on my system.
what should I do ? cant I get to work with the ...
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Linux and battery usage [closed]
I want to install a linux distro on my laptop but I do not want to have a massive battery drain. I remember reading some kernels drain the battery faster then others? Would Mint Linux or Ubuntu out of ...
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X server not starting up after new kernel compilation
I have compiled the Kernel on my 64-bit Debian XPS Studio 1340 Dell system.
srikanth@debian:~ - 05:40:52 PM - $ uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 17:26:33 UTC 2012 x86_64 ...
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Is it possible to make the OOM killer intervent earlier?
I try to tweak my development system to maximal reliability. I disabled swap, because for GUI usage it mostly renders the machine unresponsive in such a way not useable anymore. Nevertheless, if ...
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Interaction between kernel, xorg, gnome/kde, and video drivers
When updating to a new kernel, I always run into problems afterwards. Often times, I will have to search online to run various commands related to xorg, video drivers, and gnome/kde. And luckily those ...
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Kernel compilation and free space
I am compiling linux kernel 3.0.1
My operating system is Ubuntu 11.04
The source is in /usr/src/linux-3.0.1
Though there is no free space remain in / the compilation is still going on .. !
What is ...
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USB Mouse / Keyboard issues with Linux
First and foremost, this problem only occurs when I compile one of the more recent Linux kernels (3.2.6 or 3.2.7). I do not have these issues when running the stock kernel 3.2.6 or 3.2.7 kernels under ...
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linux chmod causing crash
I needed to give write permission to file representing GPIO pins,out of curiosity i taught changing permissions of all files/folders,by mistake instead of doing chmod 755 * in the root
I did chmod ...
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“64-bit mode not compiled in” error while compiling Linux kernel
I am building 2.6.18 from CentOS source code.
I'm at the last step to the build process in their instructions but seem to be getting an error that I can't understand.
Instructions I'm following:
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How to show overall usage of system resources in linux?
Is there any way that i can see all system resources usage together in terminal, as we see on windows platform under Resource Monitor. I can see each resource usage under Linux separately, but i need ...
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Use initrd as root filesystem for network boot
I'm creating a stand-alone set of netboot images based on a LinuxFromScratch installation (7.0, kernel 3.1.0). I want to deploy that image to many diskless clients, but NFS is in my situation not an ...
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ZFS distribution in Linux kernel? [closed]
If anyone has a better title for this question feel free to edit
I am wondering about something related to the conflict between CDDL (Sun's license) and the GPL. Mainly pertaining to the reason ZFS ...
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Huawei 3G USB dongle ( USB error )
I'm trying to connect a Huawei E220 to a linux system (ubuntu on a BEAGLEBOARD ) and get some USB errors,
An error like:
[ 113.291610] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device number 2 using musb-hdrc
[ ...
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What does this macro mean in linux kernel code?
see i found one config file in which this are macro defined
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# Input Device Drivers
#
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ADP5588 is not set
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
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Linux kernel hangs at 'Switching to clocksource tsc" on Pentium 4
Hardware: Dell Dimension 4500S : i845G, Pentium 4, stock + 2GB RAM and latest (circa 2002) BIOS update.
I've been building a Linux system from source, so far it's LFS 7.0 by the book. The first ...
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VirtualBox Under CentOS vboxdrv not loaded
I am a newcomer with linux. I have a little problem with linux.
Whenever I try to open [start] virtual box, I get this error and do not know how to fix
VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (rc=-1908)
The ...
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Open a linux port without using iptables in Centos? [closed]
just a quick question, is it possible to open a port on linux Centos without using iptables? If so, how do I do that from the command line?
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Kernel log littered with re-mount attempts because of going to/from battery mode. How do i turn it off?
My boot times became a bit too much so i decided to take a look ad kernel log to see what might be causing the problem..
There i noticed repeating:
12/17/11 02:25:28 PM EXT4-fs (sda6) ...
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Installed linux-image-686-pae and now my second monitor won't work
I just installed linux-image-686-pae on my Debian system and the PAE kernel effectively increased the memory limit.
However for some reason my dual monitors both show the same image, instead of an ...
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can /usr/src be a sym link?
I want to store all source code of programs I have installed in /usr/src. However, due to size of the drive I made a sym link /usr/src that points to ~/src. That was nice. Unfortunately, that caused ...
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__modver_version_show undefined error when building linux kernel 3.0.4 version
I tried to build the linux kernel 3.0.4 on ubuntu 11.10 in virtualbox. Here are my steps:
Download the source code
tar xjvf linux-source-3.0.0.tar.bz2
cd linux-source-3.0.0
make menuconfig, changed ...
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Where to get the network NIC's firmware rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw?
Im installing Debian testing version wheezy on my Asus X53Sc with Intel Centrino Wireless-N 100.
Im having a problem with my wifi connection.
When I try to connect to internet with the wireless ...
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Missing kernel on debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1
I want to install the Debian testing linux version.
But at a certain point of the installation, an error occurs:
Impossible to install kernel. a compatible kernel version is missing.
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Oracle Virtualbox on statically compiled kernel
I can't seem to find any documentation on the subject. I'm working on putting together a linux install for a fairly "dirty" environment. Best practice there would be a statically compiled kernel ...
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Sudden machine reboots observed with ipmiutil watchdog timer
Originally raised on serverfault as this question.
I've got a production openSUSE 11.1 2.6.34.4 Intel server with a standard ipmiutil-2.4.1 installed.
The watchdog is basically a 90 second hardware ...
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L3 cache disabled in Ubuntu 11.04
I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 64bit .. After checking my CPU cache it shows that 3MB cache is disabled. see below :
$ sudo lshw
description: Notebook
product: SATELLITE C660 (PSC1SE-00G009AR)
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“failed to create main reactor” error in linux while starting Siteminder Policy Server
i have installed one application(siteminder policy server R12 Sp3) on linux rhel4 AS machine.
it got installed successfully but when i am starting my application,
its failing to start, its showing ...
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Can I install Linux on a USB flash drive?
I want to install Red Hat Linux on my flash drive. Is there a way that I can do this?
I tried a lot found through searching, but couldn't get a satisfactory answer. In fact, if I try the same for ...
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Debian Squeeze, linux-image-2.6.32-5-486: Boot process halts with [<c1003997>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
I just upgraded an old box from Debian Etch to Lenny, and then from Lenny to Squeeze. Upon getting the system up to Squeeze, I installed the latest 2.6 kernel, linux-image-2.6.32-5-486. When I ...
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How to add ahci module to linux-image-2.6.38-11-virtual kernel?
I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 with the linux-image-2.6.38-11-virtual kernel as a virtual machine in VirtualBox (4.1.2). When I booted the machine after installation, I got this error message:
FATAL: ...
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Unmounting Detachable devices (eSATA,USB storage) in Linux
A detachable device like eSATA, USB drive can be abruptly removed (by simply pulling the plug).
If there are open file handles on a partition, then this partitions won't unmount, i.e. the Linux ...
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user not able to access the file which has privilege via group
I am facing the below problem in linux kernel 2.6.18-7.1
I created user "BBC" using adduser -D after this /etc/passwd contains "BBC:x:1010:1010:Linux User,,,:/home/BBC:/bin/sh"
I created group ...
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How can I disable console messages at boot time?
I am using Arch Linux and want to disable console messages which are displayed when the kernel boots. I have tried the quiet and loglevel=2 options in /boot/grub/menu.1st as given below:
kernel ...
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Should I compile the linux kernel in the git repository itself?
This is about common practices. I have a git repository containing the linux kernel. Now I want to build this linux kernel. Should I copy the sources outside the git repository and then build the ...
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How do I set up grub2 with Xen?
I am booting a new Xen kernel and it all goes fine up until some point during the boot process when the machine reboots without warning. Unfortunately, I don't see errors flash up just before that ...
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Building the Linux kernel: compute intensive or disk I/O intensive?
I am trying to explain some results that I got from a recent benchmarking experiment. For that I need to know whether compiling the Linux kernel is a compute intensive task or a disk I/O intensive ...
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Linux kernel compilation taking over 4 GB of temporary disk space
I am trying to compile linux kernel 2.6 and am shocked to see it is taking over 4 Gigs of disk space. It is also taking around 80 minutes to compile. Is it normal ? Or am I doing something wrong ?
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how does route -n work in linux?
i can understand the strace output of "route -n", but does the command read any of the files in /proc to get the routing table and since routes and ipaddresses are stored in file, why does strace not ...
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Kernel panic when trying to setup rootfs over NFS on ARM board
Hi I have a ARM board on which i am trying to configure NFS so that the rootfs will be mounted over a network. Please help me on resolving this.
My server configuration:
OS: Scientific Linux 6.0
My ...
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how to totally clear the filesytem's cache on linux?
In a performance test, I want to bypass the influence of cache of linux system (including page cache/inode cache and so on).
I have tried O_DIRECT flag, but it's turned out that direct I/O is still ...
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Setting /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to 1 and then exhausting addresses
As I understand it, setting /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to 1 is supposed to make sure malloc always succeeds, and set the OOM killer loose if there's an actual memory problem.
I'm wondering what ...
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Unified file system across Windows and Linux for type-2 hypervisor
Is there anyway to map a Windows disk partition( c:/, d:/) to Linux (running as guest on top of Windows host Type-2 hypervisor)?
There are few solution like a shared folder in VirtualBox, however, ...
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Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode
This error appears during Ubuntu 10.04 start up and I can run in low graphics mode. I tried to install the NVIDIA driver and then it works but when I reboot Ubuntu this error appears:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): ...
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What's new in Linux 3.0? [closed]
Linus Torvalds just announced that he's releasing version 3.0-rc7. So what's new in Linux 3.0 when it comes to:
Architecture
Stability
Security
Hardware support
etc
