Installing spice is my first attempt at compiling anything from source and it has been an incredible headache so far. After going round and round for 3 hours chasing missing dependencies I'm finally stuck at a place where I don't know how to proceed. According to the instructions I'm following: "In case of an older kernel (version < 2.6.30)Get kernel sources using the following git repository:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.30.y.git
cd <spice_root>/vdesktop/kernel
./configure
ln -s <linux-2.6.30 source dir> linux-2.6
make sync
make "
Unfortunately my CentOS box (the one I'm working on) doesn't have internet capability, so I have to download everything on my windows box and burn it to cd. So I downloaded the 2.6.30 source from kernel.org, copied it to my CentOS box and unpacked it. I got as far as "make sync" in those instructions before I hit the next snag. When I tried to "make" it gave me an error "/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/build no such file or directory"When I look for the referenced "build" file, it says link broken and when I follow the link to "/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-x86_64" which does in fact not exist.
So a quick google search reveals I need the source for my current kernel in addition to the 2.6.30 kernel source. The instructions here:
[URL] for the full kernel source look hugely complicated and involve rpms which is something I know nothing about. I tried to yum install kernel-devel hoping that would appease the unhappy make build, but I'm limited to installing things on the CentOS install DVD and yum tells me "error downloading packages" from the DVD repo, so I guess the source files are not the DVD? To top it all off, I only have 30 Mb of free space left on this drive anyhow, so I don't think there is room download the whole source anyway unless I put it on cd and mount it or link to it somehow in ways that make my tired brain hurt.
Has someone using opensource SPICE [URL] wit WIN7 Prof. desktop across the low 2 Mbps WAN with 50ms latency? BTW we're using VMware View 4.6 Desktop with WIN7 Prof. (PCoIP) and have a lot performance problems across the WAN.
SPICE has been getting there for a while now and seems to be a very capable mechanism for running remote desktops. (You see where I'm going?) Virtual desktops have a good chance of becoming all the rage if SPICE gets a low enough latency implementation. But what about applying that low latency implementation to running over a physical layer? Who says the host machine has to be a virtual box? (See where I'm going now?) Does anyone know if I can start using SPICE as an alternative to NX for example?
I have a pretty powerful desktop running fedora and was wondering if I could use the new SPICE VDI technology to create a dummy terminal virtual desktop using just a 2nd monitor, keyboard, and mouse (no thin client). Is this possible using USB ports? Would I need a 2nd video card for the monitor?
Spice server/client configuration. I used remote viewer on debian jessie to connect to a guest virtual machine on kvm and everything works fine. It used a spice server / client and qxl. After I upgraded to debian stretch, I suddenly face issues with black bars in the remote client window. Those black bars appear only on the left and right side of the remote viewer window. Also in full screen mode the black bars sadly appear. Maybe the scaling mode is somehow disabled or my screen resolution of the host was wrong calculated related to that i can change the guest screen resolution but the spice remote client keeps its window size with the black bars. I was trying the last couple of days to resolve this issue, unfortunately without success.
I am trying to compile VLC code base on my Fedora5 system. I am getting the error when i am trying to run ./configure command.DBUS >=1.0.0. installed libdubs-dev is not installedwhat should I do. I have already installed DBUS (1.4.1).
I just want a simple email notifier. I have started to use Ubuntu 10.10 and seem to have downloaded Gmailwatcher - it shows in Applications/Internet/Gmailwatcher. But it doesn't show as installed software in the Installed Software Centre. So, I cant uninstall it. I can't configure it? If I try to open Gmailwatcher I receive a popup asking me to open it from an icon above - but there's no icon there, I just want a simple email notifier - preferably one which I can add an audio alert.
i installed win xp2 in my c: drive as usual it deleted my grub startup I had fedora 10 installed before installing XP and when i put the fedora cd to get back the startup it shows the following : " An Unhandled Exception has occured..This is most likely a Bug" and the details i had deleted my swap partiton.
I'm having some trouble getting xclock installed on RH linux (RedHat 4.1.2):not sure how this could be I thought xclock was a very common package? Is there a way to update the repository locations to point to more recent/updated database?Quote:
[02:43:22][root@host:/home]# yum search xclock Searching Packages: Setting up repositories
I am trying to compile an android project, which requires GCC-4.3(mandatory, GCC-4.4 doesn't work). So I downgraded the gcc-4.4 on my ubuntu 10.04 to gcc-4.3.
But then the compiling process doesn't work. It says: cc: command not found make: *** [...] error 127
It's weird that the shell can't find 'cc' while I do have gcc-4.3 installed. I've tried type the following command: export CC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.3" but I don't know what's it for.
I have opensuse 10.2 and need to install mercurial on it. It doesn't have mercurial package so I downloaded mercurial-1.6 but I don't know how to install mercurial on opensuse.
Fedora 14 xfceI have installed a package using yum install package-name.However, I can't seen to find out where it has been installed to.Is there any command that will tell me what directory the files have been installed to?
I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 but the interface does not look anything like the screenshots shown on the Ubuntu web site at:[URL]What can I do to get all the original settings of 11.04? At one point I had compwiz installed, but I've un-installed it now using the Synaptic Packet Manager.
Packages installed with synaptic are usually well installed on your system (i.e. bin in /usr/bin/, etc.). However, when a software is not in the repo, I always wonder where I should install it, when everything comes together (i.e. /bin, /var, /man are all subfolders of the main folder of the software). For now, I've opted for /var/opt/ or /usr/share, but I'm not really sure this is a best practice... is there any guidelines on that?
I installed Oracle Linux 5 and now I can not boot into Vista. However if I use Debian Live CD Vista is there and looks fine (as far as I can see). Is there a way I can use a live CD to fix grub? I have googled it but none of the commands I found worked.
I have already installed 3.4.6 version of gcc and i have installed older vesion 3.2. Now I want to check the version gcc-3.2 installed successfully or not? Second, I want to switch over the version gcc-3.2. What is the procedure require to be done?
EDIT, 3 January 2010: SOLVED: In fact, it was the fonts that were being rendered larger and pushing everything out. Altering DPI in xorg.conf solved the problem, see details at bottom.ORIGINAL POST:I used jockey-kde to activate the nVidia (closed-source) driver in order to fix some full-screen problems I was having.It has fixed that, but now everything is really big. I have my resolution set to 1680x1050 but it appears to be lower than it was before - the K menu, for instance, takes up about 1/6 of the screen when I open it. I took a screenshot here:http://i.imgur.com/94lyN.jpgI know this isn't much information, but can anyone tell me why - while the desktop appears to be larger with a higher resolution - applications are actually appearing as though the resolution is lower?
Yesterday I re-installed Musix over top of another installation of Musix using the keep files option.I did this because after it froze last night it would boot up properly.I got that problem fixed and I still have all of my files and settings but I am having one problem now:root has a password and I can't guess what it is.
In the beginning there is MBR. MBR looks for the active partition and tranfers control to the VBR of the active partition. MBR is where grub may be installed. which allows the user to choose an OS(a VBR) I am not sure what the program in the VBR does,but it manages to loads the OS. What am I trying to do: Backup. I ma tired of losign my partitions my bootloaders. I want to backup them all! partitions/MBR /VBR everything short of creating an disk image.
My questions:
1. say the ubuntu partition is formatted, will grub still load? if not is there a bootloader that would?am I making sense? i hope so...
2. what exactly does the VBR contain ?
2. How do I go about backing up? The mbr and the partiton table are backed up with a simple dd command. Then what else needs to be backed ? VBR's of every partition?
I just installed CentOS 5.4 Final on a 64 bit system. After install, I found a lot of 32 bit packages are also installed. Is it necessary for a pure 64 bit system to run (let's say, I will never want to run any 32 bit app on this system), or is it something I could have avoided during install?
Is it possible to burn a installed system onto a dvd because of the size and run that from the cd-rom, I don`t mean running from a live cd. Using Ubuntu 9.10 For example I have tried running a installed system on a memory stick which works fine, can that be achieved from a cd or dvd.
I have a laptop with Windows XP. I partitioned the drive and installed opensolaris on the second partition. Now whenever I turn on the laptop, Grub opens and only gives me the option for Solaris and not windows. I haven't been able to boot to Windows since. I've seen a lot about editing the command lines for Grub but I'm new to this.
I've just installed fedora 15 to try out Gnome 3and came to know the sound is not working . I've tried changing the setting from "Sound Setting" but didn't work. lsmod gave this
So this indicate that the driver is installed ,but i can hardly hear anything . I even tried installing "pavucontrol" but its of no use. As a last try ive tried installing sound drivers from Reltek website but ive got error while configuring.
On a fresh Fedora 13 install, I have done:su yum install vncand:su yum install vnc-serveryum installs tigervnc and tigervnc-server with no errors. However, when I go into /etc/sysconfig/ to edit vncservers, vncservers does not exist. Also, there is no vnc service listed in the services, and doing:sudo service vncserver restartreturns the message:vncserver: unrecognized service
Actually i want my java code to connect to linux sendmail server. Right now i am using gmail pop protocol to connect to gmail server. So now i want to connect to sendmail server using pop and i read that using dovecot you can make sendmail to havepop and imap services. By default it has only SMTP support. So i want to know how can i check that i have dovecot installed or not, or my sendmail has pop or imap enable or not. Means by what command.
