General :: Checking Support For Peripherals?
Jun 29, 2011
The free Windows application Speccy returns very useful information about the hardware + software installed on a computer. Before installing Linux as double-boot, I was wondering if there were an up-to-date Linux hardware database so that I could tell users to run Speccy, and then somehow check against that database to make sure their hardware is supported, so that I don't waste time trying to install Linux on unsupported hardware?
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Sep 1, 2009
I am using Debian Linux. I completely forgot the username and password to log on. I looked on the internet to find a way to reset those, but all the solutions involve making a boot disk or using some peripheral. The computer I am using does not have any peripherals (only keyboard and screen) because it's an onboard computer in a robot.
Is there a way to reset the password and username without using peripherals (and without losing the information on the hard disk)?
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Nov 1, 2010
Since last year I have this problem and it seems nobody knows how to fix it. Here is my post from last year, commenting the same problem [URL] Well, this is what happens to me. I insert my ubuntu/ubuntu studio DVD to my pc. It starts from the DVD and the first screen appears. I select "install ubuntu" and then it starts to load for like 5-10 secs.
Then another screen pops up, this one tells me to choose the main language, BUT.. i cant use my keyboard in this screen. It just.. Dies. I tried with like 5 keyboards, with USB keyboards and serial keyboards, it just happens everytime. I was an avid user of ubuntu studio back like 2 years ago, with my laptop, but with this PC (gateway GT4230m) i just cant do it anymore. Its very frustrating.
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Sep 23, 2010
spent endless time trying to get multiple monitors going and have had a bit of success -- got two showing just fine. However, when I try to access the page I mention in the title, Slackware hangs hard -- only the red button will get me out. This is recent. I had dual monitors going before and that didn't happen, I think one monitor was at 800x600 and the other at some wide screeen rez. Anyway all by itself the 800x600 decided to go to 1024x768. Now, note that it all shows fine, no issues of any kind on the monitors themselves, xrandr works
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May 10, 2010
Sometimes at startup I get this message "Checking disk 1 of 1". Does that mean it's checking all partitions on the hd? After a bad shutdown there is no prompt for fsck to run and the system just boots up. In fstab I have both options set to "1" for the partition Ubuntu is on, all others set to "0". Any ideas on both?
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Apr 14, 2010
I have a HP laptop which can support 1600x900. But after I install ubuntu 9.10 on it, it can only support up to 1280x700. My laptop has a Nvidia graphics card. And i am using GNOME as my desktop environment.
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May 31, 2010
I am running a Debian 5.0.4 OS and running in a BASH shell I am currently working on trying to figure out how to 'Enable and disable integrated peripherals'. So, I am assuming this means I need to be able to access the kernel, BIOS, or CMOS setup ... I have had no luck so far, so how do enable/disable them? I think these also will be solved by getting into the kernel/BIOS/CMOS setup but just in case. I am trying to 'set hardware ID for the different devices' and be able to 'configure systems without external peripherals such as keyboards' I am assuming the second one has to do with remote login, but any help in these sections will be extremaly beneficial
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Feb 26, 2010
I chose Mint 8 Fluxbox and have the iso. I cannot figure out how to check the iso for errors and the MD5 signature.I'm using Windohs XP so I tried to install MD5sum.exe. When I double click on it to run it all it does is flash and then nothing.When I type in the commands it says it can't find it or it can't read it or something.I may be typing the commands incorrectly. I'm just not understanding.I need to check the iso for errors but can't understand how to check it.
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Apr 8, 2011
I'm trying to determine if IE is viewing my web page with the following HTML code:
Code:
But I don't see anything except "Test for IE". It is like the tests are being treated as comments? Do I need to turn something on in the server?
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Feb 5, 2010
I run Ubuntu 9.04 and was recently told by my university that my computer is massively port scanning the network. I am interesting in learning more about figuring out what is happening to stop it, but I am lost at where to begin. What steps should I take (or files to look at) to figure out what is happening?
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May 22, 2011
I'm writing and correcting API documentation in Sphinx using reStructuredText. Does anyone know of a good spellchecker that will handle this format, or a bunch of Unix/Linux tools that will allow me to use Aspell with it?
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May 10, 2009
I am using Red hat on my laptop and normally playing in the console. As I only plug in the battery supply when the battery is down and going form console to GUI just to check the battery status is quite cumbersome , So was wondering if the status can be checked form the console itself.
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Feb 21, 2010
Can I have parity checking without a raid? I would like to have parity checking but I want to maintain separate and independent drives so that if one day I decide I want to bring one of my drives to Bob's house I can do so. I Do understand that when I bring the drive to Bob's house it would at that point mess up the parity checking.
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Mar 31, 2011
I need to check the file name e.g. testbla_word.txt
Is theire a command to search for only "bla_"?
So mainly, to check a part of a filename (not the entire filename, only a part of it)
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Dec 18, 2009
I am logged in as root to my server and trying to get to the mail of a particular user (not root). I have created a mailbox in the 'prohosters' interface (a bit like cpanel) for johnny@john.com (under linux user: 'j0hn' I think) but when running the 'mail' command from the command line only seem to get mail for the root user ... ?I'd like to get any new emails as well for johnny and output their contents -
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Nov 14, 2010
I am trying to load a driver (xxx.ko) and uncertain if the path given is correct.
I do not have any direct access to my linux device, so I need a small script that will create a text file telling me if the file was found or not.
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May 9, 2011
how can i check from console where folders are mounted?
i want to be able to check what partitions certain folders are on.
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Jul 6, 2011
now i have installed libqt3-mt-dev this error is solve but new error is comming this is followingly i didn't understand------------->checking for KDE... configure: error:in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.So, check this please and use another prefix!
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Jul 29, 2010
checking of services in Nagios. You all know the check_[service] command right? In the commands.cfg and windows.cfg. To check for the different types of services/ports, we just replace the [service] in check_[service] with the name of the port? I only know of check_http, check_ssh, check_ftp etc. Some ports like Finger, snmp etc, all these we also write it as 'check_finger', 'check_snmp'? 2) And, if that is the case, do we have to install additional plugins to monitor the ports defined earlier? 3) Lastly, if i want to monitor finger,snmp in windows server, would i need to download any software?
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Oct 8, 2010
Looking for a command line tool for Windows / linux environment that can check a PDF file for any errors (not for repairing).
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Aug 5, 2010
I need to know which files were added/modified/moved/deleted after compiling and installing an application from source code, ie. the command-line, Linux equivalent to the venerale InCtrl5.
Is there a utility that does this, or a set of commands that I could run and would show me the changes?
The following is sort of OK, although it includes the lines where changes occured
(eg. "@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@"), and "." and ".." that I don't need: Code: # ls -aR /tmp > b4.txt
# touch /tmp/test.txt
# ls -aR /tmp > after.txt
# diff -u b4.txt after.txt
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Jun 19, 2011
Kernel 2.6.21.5, slackware 12.0
(Mozilla) Firefox 2.0.0.4
where the option to disable spelling checking is in FF? I think Edit>Preferences contains all of the settable options.
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Aug 5, 2010
I need to know which files were added/modified/moved/deleted after compiling and installing an application from source code, ie. the command-line, Linux equivalent to the venerale InCtrl5.Is there a utility that does this, or a set of commands that I could run and would show me the changes?
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Apr 27, 2011
I have one file called test.sh and in that file I have the below code. All this code is, is paths to three directories (as you can you can clearly see!).
Code:
#!/bin/bash
BACKUP="Documents /bin /sbin"
Now I have this other file which reads the directories (by using $BACKUP) and creates a tar file of everything in that folder. But what I am unsure of what to is create a bit of code that will simply look in test.sh, read all the directories and print a line saying either they all exist or some are missing. If possible it would be good to know which directories are missing too!
I have fiddled around with using -d but I can only get it to work for one directory or manually having to write out each directory.
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Dec 13, 2010
I have installed thunderbird sometime back on Ubuntu.I want to know the date and time of installation. How can i get this information. I tried "stat thunderbird", but it did not give the installation time
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Sep 19, 2010
I'm new to C language and some help finding places in the following code where a system call is made and error checking is not done. I found one but since I don't know C language at all I'm not exactly sure what else to look for. Link to my file: [URL]...
I found one and added error checking:
if (setoutpipe){
//Changes: Added error checking to the system call close()
//Orginal Code: close(pidefd[1]);
if(close(pipefd[1] != 0){
fprintf(stderr, "Could not close piple.
");
exit(255);
}
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Feb 12, 2010
i have just started working on LINUX. how to check if there are some bad scripts running on the server.
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Jan 11, 2010
I have seen this message more then once and I cannot find information that is understandable to me and which is recent, so maybe the situation has changed with newer kernels/file systems. My question: is this normal behavior with linux and beside from increasing the number of start-ups after which this check runs, is there another way to avoid this? Isn't there a way to do a check after the os has been loaded?
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Jun 27, 2011
I just installed umbutu 10 on a virtual machine running on VMware workstation 7.Workstation asked me for a username & password, which I supplied.The install went fine, and I logged on with the credintials that I provided to WorkStation. So far so good.I then downloaded Webmin and installed it, again no problems.I go to the provided link: URL... and it wants me to log-in as root.But I don't have the root password and checking umbutu it does not appear that I have a root user so that I can set a password.
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Aug 8, 2010
In a Linux bash script I can do several things with windows using wmctrl but I'm trying to figure out how to determine what the currently active window is.
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