The documentation talks about the /var/run/utmp not being corrupted. Should I be able to tail that? When I do the screen goes crazy and beeps and beeps. If it should be a file that I can read, can I rm it and then touch it
View 1 RepliesI looked at this site [URL] and it said that it corresponds to Display non-disposable segments.
What does that mean? I am experiencing frequent computer freezes due to that. My laptop freezes all of a sudden and then on restart, it gives 2-3-4-3 beeps.
The problem is that only the first screen of bios i get and there is no further progress.Also there is very long(irritating) beeping noise comes out.I have not made any clocking and is at the factory setting.Sometimes,the OS gets booted but it hangs.Also i get straight lines on my monitor.What is wrong?.I have loaded fail-safe defaults and still its not booting all.I also reinstalled grub but cant make any progress. many important data on my hard-disk .I don't have other OS and the entire hard-disk is under ubuntu.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI noticed a few days ago that my asus g60vx-rbbx05 beeps. It doesn't however while the POST. It never beeped during POST so I guess not beeping is the way it tells me it is alright. It beeps while the software is working, after it is booted. I use fedora 14. I have no idea why though because it seems to do it randomly. I first thought that it did it when the CPU was running at high frequencies but that's not the case. It even beeped while I was writing this post and I don't have anything else running except Firefox.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWe have a weird problem with two PC's running SUSE 11.3. The built in PC speaker beeps every 2 seconds when you are typing.
One of the PC's (an old celeron with intel graphics, 32 bit suse 11.3) has had this problem for at least a year but we don't use the keyboard much. The other one is a Core i5 with nvidia graphics (suse 11.3 64 bit). This machine was fine until it was upgraded from suse 11.2 (with zypper dup).
It is like a torture and is driving us nuts. It only does this in X11 - text mode is fine. It's probably something obvious but we are stumped.
I'm using Slackware 13.1 on my laptop, and sometime ago it make some beeps on shutdown, and when I don't find any word on a page on Firefox(using the find tool on Firefox).
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe keyboard is acting strange ever since having to reinstall the gnome desktop, and sound alsa and pulseaudio. The lastest kernel update was what started the whole mess. What is happening is as I type about every 4 or so letter, the pc speaker beeps, and the status leds for caps lock, num lock and the third status leds turn on at random. When I hold down a key and have auto repeat kick in then for each character typed, there is an associated beep. I checked the keyboard setting in user preferences and there is a setting to enable beep on type, but it's not enabled, nor does changing the setting cause a change. I'm pretty sure it's just gnome related, as it doesn't occur in kde, but I can't be 100 % at this point.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded from lenny to squeeze and have subsequently lost system beeps in X. What I don't understand is, system beeping works properly in console, such as when I backspace an empty line or in tab completion, but in X terminals it does not. While in xterm I can do 'xkbbell' and get a bell / beep, but get no bell if I do 'tput bel' or 'echo -e 'a' ' or ^G.
pcspkr is loaded.
the 'pc speaker' volume is maxed and unmuted.
xset has bell volume at 100.
There was a bug in xorg that seemed to describe this problem really well a month or three ago [URL], but it appears to have been fixed as of version 1.7.0 (vs the 1.7.5 on my machine). There's been some talk recently of eliminating/disabling pc speaker beeps by default, but I'm not sure what came of it? Anyway, this issue is for me as irritating as it is minor, and failing a solution I'd at least like to know why.
EDIT: Can someone running Squeeze/2.6.32-3-686 and pcspkr loaded try and do a ctrl+g in a x terminal and tell me if you get beep
I built up a system using opensuse 11.1
the systems main work is to be a smb server and a ftp server
if the system is started it runs perfectly but after nearly 10 or 12 hours running without any server or ftp action the systemspeaker permanently beeps
no error in errorlog and sensors are showing fine temperatures . i tried 2 different boards (asus p5qlpro , msi p6mgm fd) with different speed intel dual-core processors
I am attempting to set up a machine to use as a movie/video viewer. When I connect this machine using an HDMI cable to an HDMI TV, I get video, but no audio. No beeps, no system sounds, no noise of any kind.
I've run the following mixers and set all volume controls to maximum:Gmixer, Kmix, AlsaMixer and pavucontrol.
When playing a video, pavucontrol meter shows signal from the application and shows output signal to the HDMI device, but where that output is going to is beyond me.
Using the Sound setup of Yast, I attempt to play a test sound on the HDMI, nothing.
Built in Audio adapter works fine. I have disabled it in pavucontrol in attempts to get the sound directed to the HDMI output, but, silence is all I get. I've also tried enabling and disabling simultaneous output with no difference in results.
I've tried a few suggestions from other posts with the same issue (creating /etc/asoundrc.conf, modifying /etc/pulse/default.pa), but no joy.
If I boot up that other operating system (starts with a W), all sounds (system & video) show up on the HDMI input with no adjustments needed.
Why must this be so difficult?
The technical details:
Suse 11.4
EVGA GeForce 8400GS Video card (HDMI)
All commands below were issued while HDMI cable connected, and video playing (using VLC).
Output of alsa-info.sh: [url]
I've tried to install 11.04 on my Macbook Pro (5,4) today. I had two drives in the machine, an SSD as my main drive, and an HD. I installed rEFIt before attempting to install Ubuntu. I moved my Snow Leopard install to the secondary HD & made sure I could boot to it. Then, I used the live CD & gparted to clear the 1st drive (the SSD), create the swap space, create the Ubuntu partition, and launch the install, where I used what I had just created on the SSD. The install completed okay (but with no option to select where the GRUB installer went, like some tutorials tell you to look out for). This seemed to go okay, so I went to restart at the end of the install, but the machine didn't come back up.
Instead, the power came on & I could hear the drives, but the screen stayed black, the battery light flashed a load of times really quickly (too quickly to count, but at least 10 times), and then the machine let out 1 long beep and stayed on the black screen. I forced it to power down & tried again, and just got a black screen, the battery light shining steadily, and no beep. I forced it to power down again, and got the same, then again, and got the same, and then a 4th time, which actually allowed me to boot. And this has been the pattern since then. I shut down, and my first attempt to restart gets me the flashing light and the beep, with the black screen. I try 3 more times to power down and restart, and just get the black screen. Then, *every* time on the 4th time, I'm allowed to boot.
The same routine will be gone through the next time I power down and try to restart. I've tried totally clearing the disk in gparted, restoring the OSX install from TimeMachine, everything I could think of, but all to no avail. Finally, thinking that maybe the OSX install I had safe on the secondary HD might still be okay (looking at it in gparted showed an EFI boot section & everything), I opened up my MBP, swapped the drives around so that the HD is now the main drive, and the SSD the secondary, and renamed the drives so that the primary HD is now called 'Macintosh HD' and is first in the list of drives that appear when I manage to boot each 4th attempt. But, to my great disappointment, I still got exactly the same error. Can anyone offer any advice on how to:
1) Get my machine booting to a safe Snow Leopard install on the (now primary) HD?
2) Safely install Ubuntu on the (now secondary) SSD?
Obviously the first is a top priority, as I need my machine in order to work! Then I can concentrate on moving my dev environment to Ubuntu, which I've been dying to do for ages.
I cant get Xubuntu to to work on both a specific resolution & a refresh rate at the same time?! what should I do?!the resolution is listed with only one refresh rate! :Slately I don't know what happened to my monitor..but it's shaky all of a sudden..I read articles about that..no new hardware was installed...the card is in it's place..but suddenly it needed to work on @85Hz while it was working on 60@ish or something..t, regardless of the monitor thing...how can I change the refresh rate without changing the resolution on Xubuntu?
View 6 Replies View RelatedSlackware 13.37 is giving me ugly suspend/resume problems.When I suspend to RAM and my laptop wakes up again, I get a corrupt screen flashing like crazy.This happens when I suspend from the console and when in X11; be it by issuing 'echo mem >/sys/power/state' or 'pm-suspend'.Tried the 'save-pci' quirk for 'pm-suspend', no dice.Tried to POST the card with 'vbetool' after resume, no dice. Tried to save/restore vbestate before and after suspend/resume, no dice.What is one supposed to do to get this stuff to work in 2011?Funny thing that suspend-to-disk works as it should.Also, with 12.2 I would pick a VGA mode for the console in 'lilo.conf' and it would freaking stick. Not anymore. Now the 1st half of the boot is performed in my chosen mode (80x30), then it switches to maximum resolution with an idiotically unsightly small font.My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5101 with an ATI Radeon 200M card.Is anyone going thru the same hell or has anyone found a fix?
View 1 Replies View RelatedBecause I have Windows and two different Linux distributions installed, I have two GRUBs on my system. The first one that starts when I boot the computer is Linux Mint's GRUB. It can run Mint, Windows, or Kubuntu's GRUB, which in turn can run Kubuntu. Right now I mostly use Kubuntu, but I haven't changed the setup of the GRUBs because it worked. Until yesterday, when Mint's GRUB worked well, but Kubuntu's GRUB gave me an error while trying to run Kubuntu. I restarted the computer a few times, and it happened every time. Sometimes the errors I got were 16 and sometimes 18. Occasionally, even the first GRUB had errors.
I thought that maybe something's wrong with my hard disk, so I booted from a Kubuntu Live CD and did a fsck, which showed no errors at all (except that it's rather suspicious, because it checked the partition instantly, is it supposed to work like that?). Then, I reinstalled Kubuntu's GRUB and rebooted the computer. This time, everything went well! I even rebooted it later once, and didn't get any errors.
Today, I got up and wanted to use the computer, and it gave me the same errors again. :O I rebooted a few times, and it was just like before. Then, I booted from the Live CD, there I didn't start the system, but I picked "boot from hard drive" and it miraculously worked. This is weird. What could possibly cause these errors? I haven't even installed or updated anything recently.
Something seems to be wrong with the form redraw. When I open a movie in movieplayer, it looks Ok until I try to resize the window or move it. Then it draws crazy, repeats elements in the form, and kills the movie image. You can still hear it, but it's black. Something is up with the software that draws apps on the screen. Have you seen this or have an idea what might be going on?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAnyone have an issue with Messages in Queue going crazy? and inside the emails is: Received: (qmail 13662 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2010 10:07:14 -0700 Delivered-To: [URL]..
Don't really know what could be causing this, the other day my messages in queue was at like 5,000 or so, but now its up to 445,000 messages in queue!! All of them that exact message.
after a few recent updates, i've noticed firefox is crashing like crazy.5-10 minutes with pandora loaded... crash.2 minutes of videos videos... ka-boom.anyone else seeing this? i tried to report it to bugzilla but the 02938472093874 packages it wanted to download never finished, so i couldn't give an actual report.
View 14 Replies View Relateddid a search and I can't believe I seem to be only person reporting this. It's been a bug since I did a fresh install of 10.04 UNR, but it's only gotten to the tipping point where I actually HAVE to do something about it today. I finally cracked.As you can see in the screen shot attached the one line text box (ie, search bars mostly, but the thread title in this case) stretches way beyond length it is supposed to. For the first screen shot I have "zoomed out" to give a better idea of the full effect, the second screen is what I see during normal browsing.If anyone could help me fix this error it would be greatly appreciated. I've tried both Firefox and Chrome (and Chromium) and the same issue occours. The screen shot is taken from Chrome 5.0.375.70
View 9 Replies View RelatedAs mentioned in the title something is terribly wrong with my system. After some updates in the last 2 days Plasma keeps on crashing like a jackhammer. Kwin reports bugs and siece to work. That said I have no borders of any window I have opened and no Kickstart menu. (I am using KDE 4.4.1.) On top of it all when I rebooted the system it just hangs when it is supposed to start X and KDM. When I switch to verbose boot I see that Avahi Daemon has a "Failed" sign. I have tried with older kernels, but that did not solve anything. To be honest I am clueless on how to fix Avahi. The easiest way is to reinstall Fedora, but I would have stuck with Windows for that and where is the learning opportunity in that?
View 1 Replies View Relatedi am fairly new to Ubuntu. i was using it fine for a month, but today, when i booted my computer up, it came up with a black screen instead of the normal purple ubuntu screen. the black screen had white text on it, and asked for my username and password. from there, it was a terminal prompt. i have been google searching for a while, and have tried typing "startx", "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop", "sudo gdm", and i have also tryed uninstalling xorg, and reinstalling, and none of these things wanted to do anything for me.
View 4 Replies View RelatedUnfortunately my experience in the Unix* based world up to this point has only been using web servers and administrating them, no GUI experience of any kind so I am completely unfamiliar with the setup and entire usage of Xorg or any other Window manager at this point. The issue I am having is with the screen resolutions I am being allowed to chose for my Dell Studio 1535 running Fedora Core 13 and the KDE 4 desktop GUI, thus my issue since I am not really familiar with how to run a Unix* based GUI in the first place.
The basic information, if there is more needed just advise what and what command gathers that info (or what conf/log I should look into in order to find it). Laptop is a Dell Studio 1535 Video is the Mobile Intel GMA X3100 ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics. LCD interface is the LVDS.
So far it seems to give me modes for 1024x768 and on down, nothing above this. I believe I am supposed to use the radeon driver being that is the type of card it is but every time I change the xorg.conf file to use this instead of vesa the system wont get past the loading screen anymore upon reboot and nor can I seem to find a way to bring up a command line so I can hit up the Xorg.0.log to see what is wrong or change the xorg.conf file back to the original driver it had listed.
I am going to assume this is a missing driver or something else it hangs on but without being able to get access back to the system and having to rebuild it again (re-install via live CD) I am basically out of luck at this time. Sorry for the rather poor post but I do hope to receive some basic directions on where to go from here with this issue
I'd like to have my VNC sessions to a server use a separate display from the physical screen. So that e.g. I could have the physical screen locked in screensaver while the VNC display is unlocked.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was using irssi in screen but lost connection. After I ssh'd back in to the server, I can no longer attach to that screen. screen -ls shows that the screen is already attached. I tried screen -D to force detach it, and it said detach but screen -ls still says it's attached. I tried screen -x and it just hangs there.
[sub@server ~]$ screen -ls
There are screens on:
4033.poe (Detached)
7728.irssi (Attached)
2 Sockets in /var/run/screen/S-sub.What can I do now?
When I am using emacs under GNU Screen, if I call C-x C-s screen hangs and does not respond to any keyboard input.
I can't reproduce this, but at least one time per day I have to kill my screen session and restart it.
I've been a happy Arch Linux user for years now. Recently, on my eee 1000he (an Atom netbook with intel GMA graphics) I've been seeing strange things. After it has been on for some time (usually hours), the screen starts to jitter, just for a fraction of a second, every now and then. After this has happened some times, the screen goes black (one time it went red). The backlight is still on and I can still ssh to the machine which reacts normal appart from the black screen. I can only regain the screen when rebooting. What could this mean? Is it hardware or software? X logs don't shown anything weird, where should I look? I haven't found anyone with the same problem on the net.
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhen insert ubuntu 10.04 cd to laptop [xp] this run ok [run from cd], but when in desktop vista the screen of ubuntu appears bigger than screen dimension so menu does not seem, what is the solution?
View 6 Replies View Relatedi recently update my linux ubuntu 10.10 when i update it and restarded it my os doesnt work anymore , my screen is also blinking and a dark screen background , what happen to my os ?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have to work inside two environment. One Windows (local) and one Linux (remote).I've installed the screen linux utility in both.I'm able to open a screen on my windows, then in one tab, I opened a ssh connection to the linux remote and I start another screen.Samplelinux -- |0 linux remote 0| 1 linux remote 1 windows-- |0 linux | 9 windows I can switch between "linux remote 0" and "linux remote 1" using Atl+.This is configured in .screenrc (bindkey "^[0" select 0)How could I switch to "9 windows"?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Debian Linux (Lenny, but I used a backpost kernel) A couple months ago, I dropped my laptop and it has GIANT cracks in it so that it is nearly impossible to see most of the screen. I've managed to work around it by hooking it up to my TV screen, but now that I've installed debian, and am trying to use bash as much as possible, I wonder if it would be possible to tell debian not to use any of the unusable screen. Is there a way to set this up? It's an Acer Aspire One 150 ZG5
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just started and very green, I got a old unit that has Linux instaled. I get home start it and I get a purple screen after gnu grub screen, I'm using a diferent mouse and monitor is all that changed from when I picked it up. I don't know were to start.
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