Hardware :: Minimal Upgrade Of An Old PC Running VectorLinux 6.0 Light
Nov 21, 2010
I wanted to do a minimal upgrade to my daughter's old PC (Pentium III, 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM), running VectorLinux 6.0 Light (it's fast!) and Windows 98 SE, in dual boot. I read that you can install a mini ITX motherboard on an ATX case, so, I thought I could install one of them in it: "Asus AT5IONT-I" (1.8GHz Atom D525 dual core cpu, ION GPU). Can you let me know what you think about it? Besides, does that motherboard (and associated CPU and GPU) work wll with Linux? Best Regards
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Dec 12, 2010
I have a bought a Netgear Wireless N-150 router WGR614v10. I am using my net connection via PPPoE wired on a Win 7 machine and the connection was flawless the MAC address on the router is of the Win 7 machine.
My problem is that I have an old machine PIII 600Mhz 398MB SD Ram on VectorLinux 6.0....I tried connecting the internet directly with PPPoE the connection worked fine and I could connect through the net...but now after installing the router the machine is not detected by the router(Wired). only my Win 7 (Wired) machine and my android phone (wireless) is shown in attached devices and the VectorLinux machine is not shown....
The lan card light is on on the VectorLinux machine.
typed commands like ifconfig -a, lsmod, lspci got the reading:
root:# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:8a:11:3h:5d
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
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Dec 13, 2009
I upgraded from F11 to F12 and since then the light of the floppy drive stays on. Is this a known bug or should I report this?
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May 4, 2011
Despite being warned from a friend of mine who works for Intel that the new version of Ubuntu 11.04 sucked? I upgraded from 10.10 which worked perfectly fine and did everything that I wanted it to except work with my COBY MP3 player which is what I hoped 11.04 would do. It all worked great until I rebooted. I previously had the main screen on the left where all of the menus are and the right screen was the 2nd monitor.
Once it rebooted it let me login and loaded the desktop but the main screen is now on the right with that stupid application bar going up the side, all of my folders, etc. are all there but NOTHING is clickable, even the icons up in the right corner where you logout, etc. will not do anything other than highlight that you have clicked on them, the hard drive light flickers for a few moments then nothing.
Also the left hand screen is completely blank unless I move the mouse cursor through it. If I just leave the computer sitting there eventually the screens go dark and the monitor lights start flashing like it is supposed to but if I wiggle the mouse the screens come back on and the mouse is there but there is no login prompt to let me log back in. Pardon my French but this OS is a piece of <bleep> and sucks just like I was told.
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Mar 11, 2009
System fedora10
An IDE hard disk
Equipped with two IDE drives (one dvd drive a dvd burner drive which both share an IDE cable) Just using the system - Management - updatesystem the software upgrade of the upgrade is complete to allow the resumption of a problem was the
1, the normal boot drive two lights are flashing above but after the restart only the DVD drive light flickering burner did not react
2, when the show after the show graphics motherboard models that can enter the boss that dell card will be nearly 2 minutes (the past, each time on boot or restart the screen only shows a few seconds) then self-organized (here in particular explain if the motherboard model shows that by then dell would have been completely stuck only by restarting)
3, self-completed fedora10 select Start (here Please note that if the first question will not be the normal boot into the fedora restart if it is then that some characters will be displayed after the duplicate has been duplicate unless you press the restart)
4, in the end this thing have updatesystem Why are used with the yum update to update how things ah not the same as how to turn off the options I have at him inside the selection are not updated but not used
Say over these problems are in the use of upgraded updatesystem caused ago have never been Open the case I have put the hard disk drive memory and so on have won the cup to another mounted on a boss, or no longer put into the restoration of the factory set up is not effective
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Feb 17, 2010
After a long time I tried ubuntu(9.10) again on my fileserver, I have some remarks; why does a minimal server installation include X/openoffice? I don't need document conversion on a fileserver and I bet a lot of people don't. Wouldn't it be better to create a new server package and leave minimal minimal? low memory installs (64mb) don't work unless you configure swap by hand in between things, 64mb ram is a lot in my eyes. I mean, not to be rude but if I wanted all this I could've better installed Solaris.
That said it's stable and running fine. Since it's my home fileserver I tried to convert my previously created raid10 mirror on an adaptec 1200 card to a softraid 5 solution. This is wat I did:
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Apr 29, 2010
Due to some CD burning/reading problems with the laptop I'm installing to, the only install disk that I have been able to get to work is a MinimalCD disk.Unfortunately this only works if I don't ask it to install any extras at all, so I can install Ubuntu, but it is bare bones, and boots to a shell, no GUI or anything like that.What packages do I need to apt-get to bring this minimal install up to the standard Ubuntu install? Does anyone have a list of packages, or a site that will tell me which packages to install?
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May 6, 2011
I've seen this happening to others, but can't find the original bug report I saw. From what I can tell I'm getting the error because I am using a local mirror, as others have successfully updated using "official" mirrors.
What would cause the installer to differentiate between a local and an official mirror? I'm pulling everything anl.gov has for Lucid, Maverick, and Natty, and had no problems using the local mirror to dist-upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10.
The exact error is:
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After your package information was updated the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore.
This indicates a serious error, please report this bug against the 'update- anager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report. main.log from /var/log/dist-upgrade:
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2011-05-06 10:15:06,986 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=True)
2011-05-06 10:15:07,582 DEBUG openCache()
2011-05-06 10:15:07,582 DEBUG failed to SystemUnLock() (E:Not locked)
2011-05-06 10:15:08,032 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 1444
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Jun 21, 2010
On running aptitude update and then aptitude upgrade following warning notedfollowing packages have been kept back:
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Nov 20, 2010
I've just tried running an upgrade and I'm getting lots of errors. Anyone having the same problem or know a fix/workaround
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May 6, 2011
Since my upgrade to 11.04, ubuntu has been running real slow. When I click on the firefox icon on the side bar, it literally takes over 3 seconds to start opening up. And the same thing goes for folders. Is there something I need to tweak to fix this? And my computer is pretty fast on its own, vista runs very fast on it if that says something.
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May 23, 2011
upgrade a laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04.
Since wifi is the only connection to the Net, I'll have to burn a CD/DVD to perform the upgrade.
how well that works, traps to pay attention to, tips to make it run smoothly, etc.
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Mar 16, 2010
I'm running Debian Squeeze and last night i upgraded to the latest kernel release. Rebooted and noticed that as the system temp rises the fan runs louder(as expected)t unlike before, it no longer gets quieter as the temp drops again. I didn't really think the OS managed that so bit confused why it is happening.I booted into Windows 7 and with the exact same temps the fan drops back down to a quieter state
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Mar 4, 2011
When running sudo apt-get upgrade, the following error occurs.
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No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
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Jun 21, 2010
Debian 5.0 32bit On running aptitude update and then aptitude upgrade following warning noted
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Apr 28, 2010
I upgraded my Asus Eeepc 900a to 10.4 yesterday. Since then, Xorg has averaged between 30-40% CPU, and my fans have gone nuts running high/low/high/low, ad nausium.
Any ideas what might be going on? Another clue perhaps: on reboot or shutdown, I get a "program not responding" message with "unknown" as the hung program. I have not been able to determine what this program is or if it is related to the hyperactive Xorg.
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Oct 13, 2010
Everything works well when executing:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
When executingsudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I get this
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Apr 17, 2011
As I type this, I can just barely see what I'm typing. The background is a very light gray and the words are a very light blue. I can just barely make out the words. How can I change this?
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Apr 12, 2010
I have the question if anyone here has a suggestion for a Linux-based operating system I can use to run on an old laptop, connected to an external monitor with a keyboard and a mouse (so that it kinda looks like a pc, i'm saving money okay ). The specs for the laptop are:
Acer Aspire, 512 mib RAM, 16 mib Graphical Card, AMD Sempron processor, 30 GIG storage. I have Ubuntu 9.04 running on it, but I find it a bit too slow, it takes at least 20 seconds before google chrome (which is faster than firefox, and firefox takes at least 40 seconds to start up) will start up, as well as openoffice.I just need to do the following things on this laptop:
- browse the webs
- make text documents
- be able to view flash
- be able to play video's and mp3
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Jun 7, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with 9.10's Humanity icon theme. I have been irritated for a long time about the prelight on icons. That is, how icons light up when you hover over then in any view except list view. How can I get rid of the prelight?
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Apr 15, 2011
I'm using a scanner with Fedora. However, linux does something that is undesirable; It turns off the scanner light, everytime it does a scan, which the HP software, which comes for windows, doesn't do. The result? The light never warms up enough and all the images come with a blue tone on them. Only after using the scanner a few times, the light warms up enough and the images start getting their true colour.The question is, can I somehow force the light to stay on, even during scans, like it happens when I am using Windows? Or not? Anyone has ideas?
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Jan 5, 2010
I have an annoying text color problem. I don't know what to change to fix it. I have played around with System->Preferences->Appearance to no avail. Here is the problem: I am getting very light colored text so only the currently selected item is readable. The funny thing is that in Nautilus, Firefox, Chrome, Amarok, etc.. it's fine. It seems to be in only some programs in boxes with selectable line items, but also in the area that displays status updates in FileZilla. So I'm not sure how to pinpoint the problem.
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Feb 20, 2010
My system config.:512 MB RAM ,40 GB hard disk,processor speed -2.85GHZ,pentium 4 processor,and i,m accessing internet via mobilephone(mobilephone modam)i,m getting 7 kb/sec, i,m using ubuntu 9.10,ple suggest me a good light web browser .i,m using firebox now...
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Jul 15, 2010
hey i have this issue but mine happens at anytime i have 4GB of RAM and 3 GhZ AMD 64bit....
but my issue is that it dose it when im not evin on it just at random times???
it will start to hang then it just locks up and i cant do anything?? i have 500GB HDD this should not be a problem i never had this mutch truble with 8.04 on this computer but now this issue is cousing me to loose data that im ether downloading or im doing school work for collage and it just lokes up i wated for 2 hours and it was still locked i had to do a force power off because i thought it was going to catch on fire my CPU was 162F like super hot?
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May 4, 2011
I've been using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for almost a year now in WUBI with WinXP. I'm a relative noob with Linux, though always eager to learn more. Lately, I have noticed that every now and then Ubuntu stops working for about 30 seconds or so with the hard disk light solidly on. Clicking anywhere does nothing until it wakes up and then remembers all my previous clicks.
When it doesn't do this, it works wonderfully. I can't figure out what sets it off. And some days it does it annoyingly often and other days not at all or rarely. I checked the log files and this is a sample of some troubled times:
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May 2 19:32:17 ubuntu kernel: [ 909.000011] ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x58)
May 2 19:32:17 ubuntu kernel: [ 909.000064] ata1: soft resetting link
May 2 19:32:17 ubuntu kernel: [ 909.196337] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
May 2 19:32:17 ubuntu kernel: [ 909.196342] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
May 2 19:32:17 ubuntu kernel: [ 909.196348] ata1: EH complete
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Aug 7, 2011
I try to put my lenovo in suspend mode the other day an it show me hazard light. ie the process light and another keeps blinking.
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and I recently move my swap from the back to the fron.
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Nov 17, 2009
I have tried code...
I have tried to install exim4 and then to purge exim4-daemon-light but
that fails too.
How do I get rid of all exim4 stuff?
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Apr 24, 2011
I am using CentOS 5.5 (64 bit) and want to know the command to turn off day light saving settings permanently. I only have SSH access to the server so please let me know command so that I can turn off that settings.
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Jan 27, 2010
Every time I login I get the abrt flashing light at the top of the screen, but nothing comes up. When I try to run it manually from Applications->System Tools->Automatic Bug Reporting Tool I get a popup with:
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Error while loading the dumplist. org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)Is anybody else seeing this? If so, any idea as to what's going on? How to fix it?
I could just dump abrt since it's hardly a necessity, but I'm inclined not to as I think it's a good idea which could potentially be of great benefit to us all.
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Nov 26, 2010
I want to introduce my friends to this wonderful OS . I am looking for a Fedora derivative that can be run on a Pentium iii with 256 mb of ram .
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