I am building new AMD PC and done lot of research on motherboards, now I am getting confused with the two motherboards, ASUS and Gigabyte..I am searching for a board with no integrated VGA and no SLI with 5.1 audio, good price.I heard that some motherboards of Gigabyte caught fire.
View 9 RepliesBut I am truly confused. I have searched the Multimedia & Video forum for some help about my TV stuff. I've found nothing I can apply to my system. I want to watch American ATSC tv, record on my hard drive and if possible schedule recording for another time. But I would take watching and recording alone. Recently, I asked, in another Ubuntu forum, if the drivers for what I think are necessary for my TV-card (AVermedia A188 'Duet' Duet for dual tuenrs on 1 card) are now in-built into the kernel. The reply was:
LGDT3305 and SAA7160
With the LG
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt3305.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt330x.ko
With the Philips this was closest:
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164.ko
so, my AVermedia Duet should work?
I tried Me-TV and it said I had no DVB devices available. I tried TV Time and the "screen" flashes on screen and vanishes off-screen. I tried lspci | -vnn (or something I found in another post and they got some terminal output) and the terminal returned nothing for me. I tried to look at DMESG, and saw some stuff about the recently installed TV Time, but I cannot understand enough of it and won't post that long string of lines unless asked. I looked at the Video4Linux hardware section and I think that this AVermedia card, a pci-express device is working, although they don't specifically mention it. Only that SAA716x is working.
Reading some of the posts at Multimedia and Video, on a search for AVermedia, I see some people installing dvb-utils or some similarly named applet. That applet scans for digital tv signals and creates a list, which when added to some other existing file, allows some TV application to find the channels. I tried to install that and aptitude returned -no such program-.
This thread [URL].. was the only one I could find on this forum that addressed the problem I am having. It also involved a Gigabyte motherboard. I recently purchased a Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3 motherboard which is a version 1.3 . I have a v. 1.0 of the same motherboard which I have used regularly for a year.
The problem I have is that newer versions of Ubuntu (10.04 and 10.10) don't boot reliably with the new motherboard. It will boot up to where it says "Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom. Done." and then will stop. If I hit any key on the keyboard the boot finishes and everything is OK. Sometimes it will hang like this but often it will boot successfully without assistance. I need it to boot by itself reliably every time.
Older versions of Ubuntu (8.04 and 9.04) boot just fine with the new board. If I put the drive with the 10.04 installation in my older Gigabyte v.1.0 computer, it boots reliably every time. Interesting to note that Windows XP sp1 installs fine on the older v. 1.0 computer but I need XP sp2 in order to do a successful installation on the v 1.3. I have stress-tested the new setup for 6 hours without incident and memtested the RAM for 4 hours without error. I have even swapped RAM between the two with no resolution.
I can't find any thing in syslog to explain this. It stops just before the splash screen comes up. I removed splash with no positive result.
I have read several guides about setting up a DNS server using Yast, now I am confuse, some guides use hostname in mx records and ns records, other guides uses alias, with the respective A record not been the hostname but and alias, Now, I have a DNS server with the hostname server01 with the ip address 192.168.0.10 and a router with the address 192.168.0.1, this server is also the mail server, how will be registered the NS record, and MX record and the A record in yast for this server?
I was thinking in ns record as
server01
MX record
server01 with the value of 0
and an A record
server01 A 192.168.10
I have been looking for a solution for this but am not certain how to word it to get a viable answer.My scenario:
Athena
Win7/Ubuntu 11.04
eth0 10.11.12.100/16 gateway+dns: 10.11.12.1
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I am looking to build a high end workstation (as against a high end gaming configuration). Wondering if anyone has good (or bad) stories about Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P or Gigabyte GA-MA790GPT-UD3H
Configuration 1
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P, AMD 790X, AM3, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1666(OC), SATA 3Gb/s, SATA RAID, ATX CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor RAM - 2 x 2GB DDR3 (not worked out which model, config, spec, one that'll go with overclocking.
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I would like to connect my pc to the TV but the vga cable is not compatible with my analog Tv.The pc that i'm using is equipped with everything, except it hasn't got an agp port for my TV-OUT video card.I have a second motherboard with cpu(+power source) on it, but it's too slow so i don't want to use it.So! My idea is to connect the pc to the second motherboard, and use the second motherboard just for the agp and the TV-out video card.(i really don't have no money for signal converters and new video cards at all)
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it technically possible to use just one power supply for more than one motherboard?The reason for asking is that I have a number of old (a few years) boards that I would like to use to make up a blender render farm yet only have one spare PSU. Having looked at the pin spec URL...pin 16 (power on) should only be connected to one board (or have a manual switch to ground for on)Pin 9 (standby +5v) probably should only connect to the one board or none and the other (or all) boards would need pin 9 to be tied to a +5v pin.All the boards would network boot and have nothing connected to them, no disks, floppies, monitors, etc; as all data would reside on a network server.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have two servers (A and B) which are identical. My idea was to have a software RAID 1 with both of them running and if server A craps out I wanted to swap the hard drives from server B into server A. When I tried to test this idea the network driver doesn't seem to want to cooperate. ifconfig gives nothing and I can't figure out why. From googling I've read that a network card has a unique ID on it (I'm assuming their talking about the MAC address) and is used in some config files which is why swapping hard drives gives two different MAC addresses and confuses the system. If that is so would anyone know exactly what config files the mac address is stored/used in? That way I can make a backup of those files and swap those out if I ever need to swap out the hard drives.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an amd phenom II 9950 125 watt am3 cpu, and 16GB of ddr3 1066 ecc registered 4x4G dimms.I am trying to find a motherboard that works with this memory.I like the reliability of ecc, and I want ot use it.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi read the sticky post on here about how to try and get my wireless card working.
i have installed opensuse 11.4
i followed step 1 of post and got following: /usr/bin/lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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I know that this is easy, but I am confused.I have three computers all with a clean install of SUSE 11.2. Two of them use wifi with the internet and the third is wired.I would like to share files between them all of them.When I go to dolphin/network there is nothing there and I don't know how to set it up.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am returning to Ubuntu as my primary OS. For this, I am building a new system (I have a beast of a Windows desktop, but retiring that as an HTPC and building a new desktop). Will be moving some items from the Windows desktop like the speakers, keyboard/mouse, monitors, etc, that will not serve with the HTPC configuration. Basically, this is what I am building (amost identical to my current Windows machine, except it's a Core2Quad and has 12GB of RAM):
i7-860
P55 chipset motherboard
8GB of RAM
system/boot volume volume 2x64GB 2nd gen 64GB SSDs in RAID0 (have hardware garbage collection so will run find in RAID)
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Video Card: with 10.04, should I go with ATI or nVidia for a card? Am running triple monitors, and will be gaming using Cross-Games and Cedega. Which drivers between the two manufacturers is performing the best and would be best for gaming/multiple monitors.
RAID Card: The 2320 says it has native support in the 2.6.25 kernel. I get good speeds (500-600 MB/sec on both the SSDs and the RAID5) and no troubles with it on the Win Desktop. Should I have any issues with it under 10.04 or would there be a suggestion in the <$350 price range to replace it with? Or, would running the ICH10R off the motherboard work with the alternate CD?
SSD Setup: What partitions would be best to keep off the SSD volume and on the RAID5? I know /tmp, /home, /var, and /swap should be kept off the SSDs to reduce the excessive writes. Any other suggestions? With a 128GB system/boot volume, what would you do for partition sizes there?
Sound Card: Is the Omega supported under 10.04? Or another suggestion for good 7.1 surround sound?
I run a small business and are right now in the need of a telephone solution to run on my Ubuntu server. Obviously there's some alternatives out there that seems really extensive, maybe too extensive, so if there's anyone here that would like to share their experiences and thoughts in this area
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to be able to create a Dialog (similar to the one for Winetricks, run it without parameters to see it) with a checklist that tells my script to go out and download whatever scripts of mine I've selected. I also wish to make a GUI for some of my more complex scripts, such as my Backup script so I can have a nice looking menu instead of a text based one.Does anybody know a good place to learn how to do this, with lots of explanations and breakdowns of each part of the script?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've decided to build a new system. I been doing a lot of compatibility searches with little luck. I don't have a bunch of money to put into it but here is what I've been looking at. I have been very happy with Ubuntu 10.04 lts Lucid 32-bit version and thought I would install the 64-bit version on this. I would like your input on this system. Are there any compatibility problems here?
ASUS M4A785-M AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Model #:M4A785-M
Item #:N82E16813131595
XFX PVT94GYAJG GeForce 9400 GT 512MB 64-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
Model#: PVT94GYAJG
Item #:N82E16814150488
AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor ADX640WFGMBOX
Model #:ADX640WFGMBOX
Item #:N82E16819103871
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 Desktop Memory Model KHX8500D2K2/4G
Model #:KHX8500D2K2/4G
Item #:N82E16820104073
Along with this I have 1-Sata 500G and a 1-Sata 250G hard drives that will be installed.
So I've got old components from my previous computer I'd like to use to build a media center. Here's what I have:
Case
550W PSU
MSI K8NEO 4 Platinum MOBO
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I'm looking to make a launching script which launches a program in one of the current directories that the user has open, the problem is I have no idea how to get info about all of the terminals open.I simply want to check which directories the user has open and do a pwd on the terminals, and then use that to cd into the dir before launching. I might be able to use a combo of who,tty, top, and pwd...but I don't know where to go.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am not sure if this is the right section to ask this question (sorry if it isnt). Anyway, I want to build and install 3 different softwares:OpenCV, Player, Stage. These are required for my school projects and research etc. Now, I need to install them in this manner:
Opencv-2.0.0, player-2.1.3 and stage-2.1.1 and Opencv-2.1.0, player-3.0.1 and stage-3.2.2
The reason for this is, these are the sets of versions that talk to each other without problems. And I need the older versions for a project that I'm currently working on and its always nice to have the newest version installed on the system. If its only a single version install, its pretty easy and I can do it.Since I want to install multiple versions of the same software I could use some help. I am not sure whether I can install all of the them in the default directory (/usr/local/). So, I can set up a separate directory on my home folder. But thats as far as I've gotten to. I am particularly concerned whether one version would break another. Is there anything that I can do to avoid this?
I recently wanted to build Empathy 2.31 from a source tarball (after having installed all the dependencies listed on the Empathy website).I got the following error while launching ./autogen.sh:
Code:configure: error: glib-compile-schemas not found.After some googling to try to fix this problem, I've found a thread on these forums. It was saying install libglib2.0-dev an then install (or remove) gnome-shell.I tried every solution I've found but nothing works, still got the error.Does anyone here succeded in compiling Empathy from source please?
Is it possible to build a MacOS X compatible pc using of-the-shelf compoments?
For example, what motherboards are considered compatible (i presume they must have EFI, lol), what sound cards, wifi cards, video cards etc.
Also, why not a start an OS X compatibility topic/list?
It would be very nice, as many people would be able to simply print the list and go shopping (no need to search a billion other sites with ambiguous info) and it would allow many people to get a mac for the price of a pc
PS: Don't start recommending the OSx86 operating system. It's a heavily kluged up OS I do not want. I want the real OS X.
simple shell script that creates a PC speaker beep when a certain background process or script stops, and possibly reports the run time of that process.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy scenario is based on Ubuntu server guide, can be found at [URL].. Step 1: I do as chapter 6, install OPENLDAP server, populating LDAP => run ok. Step 2: do as LDAP Authentication section => run ok. Step 3: Install samba => ok. Step 4: do as OpenLDAP Configuration section => there's a problem here: when I run the command:
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ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,cn=config -W -f /tmp/cn=samba.ldif.I can't login to LDAP server, it said that:
Quote: ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
I am sure that the password is correct, but I still receive this message
I recently went shopping at newegg for components for a new home server to fulfill multiple needs--chief amongst them to replace an aging old Athlon box which has been running a 4TB software raid for years now So I ordered an ASUS P7P55D-E LX mobo, 8GB DDR2, a core i5 quad-core, and 6 WD "green" 2TB drives (I'm more concerned with capacity than speed). I got it all assembled, using a 500GB 2.5" drive as the boot / host drive, a blu-ray reader, and splitting the 2TB drives amongst the 2 controllers (4 on the remaining ports of the x6 SATA controller and 2 on the x2 SATA-III controller, just not needing the SATA III capabilities). I plan to use Software RAID5 rather than the fakeraid that might be supported by the chipset. This affords maximum portability for the future.
At any rate, I installed 10.10 64-bit (Desktop), let it update, then installed mdadm and set about configuring the RAID5. I decided to use the nifty graphical tool. Last time I did this on my old Fedora box, it was all CLI.All seemed to be going well, and I was letting it fully recover / synchronize before setting up a filesystem (planning on ext4 this time). I kept an eye on it with cat /proc/mdstat.
After 20 hrs (averaging 25MB/sec on the sync...seems a bit slow, but who knows?)...it finishes and the RAID is immediately degraded with one volume (/dev/sdc1) marked as faulty and another volume marked as a spare. I replaced the SATA cables with brand new ones as long ago I ran into an issue like this due to a bad cable. Before trying again I ran the extensive SMART test and a read/write benchmark on each drive. They all checked out fine. So I started over and 20hrs later, same thing.So I shut down and removed the offending drive and started with only 5 drives. Another 19hrs go by and this one turns up /dev/sde1 faulty and another drive marked as a spare. That drive was fine before, and is on a different controller from the one that it was finding as faulty before.
Now I am suspicious that there is a larger underlying issue and that the drives are not bad at all. Should I have just gone with a 32-bit + PAE install? Does the 64-bit have known issues with the software RAID? Should I have just built it using the CLI? Looking online, it seems people are having success with the GUI tool. I don't think it is the GUI tool. Checking with mdadm, it seems everything is being configured right.
I am wanting to build a NAS. There are lots of pre-built NAS boxes out there, but what fun would that be? I have many 8GB USB drives and would want to install Lucid on the drive. I don't mean create a bootable USB flash drive in place of the LiveCD, I mean install the OS to a USB drive and boot the computer using the flash drive. This way the OS would have 8GB of space and could access say a 1TB HDD added to the PC. Once I get the OS installed on the USB drive I would install NFS and Samba. I could then remote into the NAS and make changes if needed. From everything I have read, I would need to not have a swap file on the USB drive as well.
View 1 Replies View RelatedDownloaded Nautilus source to patch for transparent background.
Patching went well and fine.
During building I received this:
Code:
I am wanting to build myself a Linux based firewall and network switch but I am not entirely sure where to start. I would like to point out that I am aware that it would be easier and quicker to just buy a switch and use that, but this is an intellectual exercise.
What I want to do is have a NIC which has the internet coming in. The traffic is then passed through the firewall program (I think IP tables is what I should be using?).
Now my main issue is that I will have quite a few Network Interfaces to manage. The machine could easily assign IPs by DHCP and act as the DNS server but what would I need to use to share the internet connection to all the NICs? There will be at least 4 interfaces, but possibly up to 12.
I've been running my dedicated server on Ubuntu 10.04 for 300 days non-stop so far (touch wood). I'm planning to purchase a dedicated server to host many large sites. The specs are Sandybridge Xeon with 16 bay x 2TB storage using RAID5 (Adaptec RAID 51645).I don't have experience with RAID, but I read that ext4 can only support filesystem up to 16TB, my plan for the system is to have 32TB of storage. How can I make Ubuntu run this configuration?
Also, can Ubuntu 10.04 recognize the Adaptec card? Going through Adaptec website there is no mention of drivers for Ubuntu (although many other distros are available).
I'm looking at building a small NAS setup for my home to hold all my media (DVD's, pictures, music etc..). I'm not too concerned with backups of it at this point as I have all the data elsewhere as it is, but would like one central spot to access it.
A friend of mine turned me on to Ubuntu to do this with but he's never tried it, so I'm looking to see if anyone else has done this or if there issues with it. I've used linux off and on for several years, but this would be my first Ubuntu install.
I'm looking at either using some older hardware I have sitting around, or something cheap like a small dell server (T310 or something). I'd get 4 2TB drives and just use them in a software raid 5 array. It would be accessed with a few different samba shares I'm thinking.
I currently have a 2TB qnap nas which will be relegated to mirroring important files from my new nas. I am building up a HP Microserver with 2*2TB and want to look at the best way to manage the data, disks and backups.
My wish list: Power down unused drives
I want all the disks to appear as one.
I want to be able to easily add an extra drive and add to the available space
I want to be able to replace a disk with a larger one and add to the available space (It's ok if I have to manually copy the data from the old drive to the new drive)
If a disk dies I want the remaining disks to still function with whatever data they have left on them.
Email me if a drive dies
If the server blows up then I can plug any drive from the server into another pc and copy the available data off the disk
Mhddfs - anyone use this much? What's the speed like? Do individual drives get spun down if not used? How is it decided which drive gets the data? No one talks about mhddfs much. It all seems to be about mdadm and raid and LVM which I don't think is suitable for my current purpose. I have a existing qnap nas with a total of 2tb that will rsync changed files from the server nightly. To restore missing files would I use rsync in reverse?