I've finally made the switch to CentOS 5.1 (I had been running 4.6). So far, so good, but I do have a few issues. First, I can not find kermit (or ckermit) in any of the repos (base, extras, centosplus, rpmforge). On my 4.6 systems, /usr/bin/kermit was provided by the package ckermit in the base repo. That package appears to be no longer available. Any ideas where I could find a suitable replacement? Second (and this is probably OT), I use the binary nVidia driver and the keyboard and mouse sharing utility Synergy (http:// synergy2.sourceforge.net, a fantastic utility without which I would be so much less productive). Since upgrading to CentOS 5, if the nVidia card goes into powersave mode, it can not be woken up by moving the cursor from the Synergy server to the Synergy client display (in this case, the CentOS 5.1 systems); you have to hit a key on the keyboard that's physically attached to the CentOS 5 system to wake it up. Is there a way to have the display wake up when the cursor is moved into the client display? Or at least disable this "deep sleep" mode on the nVidia cards? I have not changed the hardware or the version of the nVidia driver when upgrading from CentOS 4.6 to CentOS 5.1, and I did not have this issue before the upgrade. Alfred
On May 14, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote:> Second (and this is probably OT), I use the binary nVidia driver > and the keyboard and mouse sharing utility Synergy (http:// > synergy2.sourceforge.net, a fantastic utility without which I would > be so much less productive). Since upgrading to CentOS 5, if the > nVidia card goes into powersave mode, it can not be woken up by > moving the cursor from the Synergy server to the Synergy client > display (in this case, the CentOS 5.1 systems); you have to hit a > key on the keyboard that's physically attached to the CentOS 5 > system to wake it up. Is there a way to have the display wake up > when the cursor is moved into the client display? Or at least > disable this "deep sleep" mode on the nVidia cards? I have not > changed the hardware or the version of the nVidia driver when > upgrading from CentOS 4.6 to CentOS 5.1, and I did not have this > issue before the upgrade.This may well be an upstream issue; I have recently begun to encounter the same problem on a RHEL 5.1 workstation, using Synergy and nVidia binary packages from rpmforge (synergy-1.3.1-2.el5.rf, nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf). I first started seeing this issue last week, after a reboot; unfortunately I'm not sure off the top of my head which packages I had recently updated. Before last week the desired behavior (the display waking from sleep upon mouse movement) was present. -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v
Hi, On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com> wrote:> First, I can not find kermit (or ckermit) in any of the repos (base, extras, > centosplus, rpmforge). On my 4.6 systems, /usr/bin/kermit was provided by > the package ckermit in the base repo. That package appears to be no longer > available. Any ideas where I could find a suitable replacement?I don't know why you need kermit, but for serial-based terminal/console access, minicom may do what you want. I use it to access Unix/Linux hosts through the serial console and for network switches and routers as well. It works OK for that. HTH, Filipe
Probably already answered, but kermit isn't open source. You can get it from Columbia University's kermit site though. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Wed May 14 10:58:43 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues On May 14, 2008, at 9:50, Steve Huff wrote:> This may well be an upstream issue; I have recently begun to > encounter the same problem on a RHEL 5.1 workstation, using Synergy > and nVidia binary packages from rpmforge (synergy-1.3.1-2.el5.rf, > nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf). > > I first started seeing this issue last week, after a reboot; > unfortunately I'm not sure off the top of my head which packages I > had recently updated. Before last week the desired behavior (the > display waking from sleep upon mouse movement) was present.It's encouraging to hear that this used to work in 5.X. I am just upgrading to 5.1 and this has always been "broken" for me, so I can't tell if it was a recent update. Can you post (or email me offline) the relevant output of "rpm -qa --last"? We may be able to figure out what update caused this issue. In the mean time, anyone have any info on Kermit for CentOS 5? We have some Kermit scripts sent to us by one of our vendors, so we can't just easily migrate to another serial communications tool. Thanks, Alfred _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080515/d0a1f92e/attachment-0005.html>
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:> > Probably already answered, but kermit isn't open source.I think that depends on how schizophrenic you are about interpreting the definition of open source. ckermit is in the Centos4 repo and its license explicitly permits redistribution with free operating systems. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com