As the currently-available source for the APC kernel does not include the necessary drivers for video output to a monitor (amongst other things..) but does include network drivers (Via Velocity..) it seemed logical that I could adopt the same approach to a graphical interface that I use for the Dreamplug (which is a real ‘headless’ device!). So.. … Continue reading →
After all the pioneering work done to get a compiled working version of the APC kernel by Mike Thompson from the Raspbian project, as described in a previous post, I now have Fedora Linux running on the APC. I had planned to be able to get Fedora 17 working, but the APC kernel (vintage 2010!) is just … Continue reading →
Just updated my x86_64 Fedora 17 system to kernel 3.5 – just released – and so far, all is working OK. This is compatible with the latest NVIDIA drivers (304.22) and VMware 8.0.4 (patched).. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 3.5.0 #1 SMP Sun Jul 22 09:34:59 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Next step – to try … Continue reading →
I had a (rare) problem with power to my computers recently. The battery in my UPS had died (causing really annoying beeping warnings..) and the power also went out briefly, causing all systems to suffer a genuine power fail condition. The Linux systems all came back (after some extra – brief – systemd-fsck operations) in – literally … Continue reading →
Bacula is great for Linux – to – LTO tape backups, but the YUM updates can – at least on my system – sometimes leave it in an unusable state.. For some reason, the update tends to leave the libraries in /usr/lib64 in a mess, with some pointing to postgresql instead of mysql, and some still in … Continue reading →
So – after (literally) years, there is a new 4.0 version of Skype for Linux available (the download button still says 2.2, but the 4.0 version is downloaded) Still no 64-bit version, sadly.. The cynic in me would wonder if this sudden change of heart might have something to do with support for the new ‘inline targeted … Continue reading →
Ran 3.5-rc2 for while.. Seemed stable at first, but now getting USB3 XHCI errors: xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD usb 10-1.1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd usb 10-1.1: Parent hub missing LPM exit latency info. Power management will be impacted. xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with … Continue reading →
Found that the ‘latest’ (11.2.x) Adobe Flash Plugin for Linux (x86_64) makes YouTube videos look like something from a bad trip.. Tried different browsers, but the fault was still there.. Videos from news sites (BBC etc.) seemed to be OK.. So – reverted to 11.1 version of Flash Plugin (from Adobe archives) and all is well, again.. … Continue reading →
So, the problem can be summarised as follows: Login using ‘graphical boot’ (runlevel 5) and KDM – everything works correctly. Login using ‘multi-user boot’ (runlevel 3) and then use # startx to run KDE – USB disk mounts fail with “… Not Authorized” I use a non-graphical login (runlevel 3) and then run # startx, as this … Continue reading →
After recently upgrading from Fedora 16 to 17, I found that USB disk mounts in KDE were failing: Could not mount the following device An unspecified error has occurred Not Authorized I finally found a workaround at http://www.suurmeijer.net, and I have slightly modified it: Edit /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy as follows: <action id=”org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount”> <description>Mount a device</description> <description xml:lang=”da”>Montér en … Continue reading →