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Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: I have been trying to mount floppies on a couple of CentOS5 servers - the usual "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (yes, /mnt/floppy exists!). On both servers, the mount command just doesn't come back and I have to hit CTRL-C. I have tried different media and also changed the floppy drive on one server, /dev/fd0 is seen as present on both

...uccessfully transitioned to TDU, Typical Dumb User, since I got out of computers professionally). The system is pretty-much "box stock" CentOS 6.6, but for adding gpm, some KDE components, and plugins like flash player and "official" java for Firefox and such. $ uname -a Linux CentOS501.homegroannetwork 2.6.32-504.1.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 11 17:57:25 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/centos-release CentOS release 6.6 (Final) System is 100% current AFAIK. I tried to use the provided abort tool to report the X abort issues, but I have no RH account. Anybod...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The new kernel-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686 kernel breaks audio support on my onboard audio on an AMD Solo motherboard. 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 AC97 Audio (rev 03) After upgrading to the new kernel from kernel-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5.i686, I quickly noticed audio not working in Flash in firefox, then after

Hello! I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to get a backslash to appear as a backslash? To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with echo '\' in bash, ksh, etc. Regards, Chip Campbell

I'm backing up to a NTFS partition on an external USB drive with dump. I'm seeing failures in /var/log/messages reading sector 0xFFFFFFF that cause the verify pass to fail. Are there any known problems in the USB driver? Kernel via uname -a: Linux segw2.mpa.lan 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jun 25 13:49:24 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Message reported. (Note the number 268435455,

Is it just me or does Xorg/Gnome seem slow and clunky to any other desktop users once the 6.7 upgrade is done? $ uname -a Linux CentOS501.homegroannetwork 2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Jul 25 17:05:50 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/centos-release CentOS release 6.7 (Final) Top shows PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 32160 root 20 0 259m 104m 22m R 76.5 1.3 5...

...as able to wget the docbook w/NP. Any suggestions? Not critical, I only run evo on my 4.X. But I've begun a slow and careful migration to my 5.0, letting it serve as back up for now. TIA -- Bill =============================================================================== # uname -a Linux centos501.homegroannetworking \ 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 13:01:45 EST 2008 \ i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # yum install evolution Loading "changelog" plugin <snip usual informational messages> Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=...

I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install. >From rpm install: Running firefox as root -- I have verified there is a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins that points to the actual plugin located in /usr/lib/flash-plugins nada. SoI then copied the plugin directly into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and eliminated the symlink from the equation. nada. I then

Hi Is there any way to re-export an nfs mounted directory? I am having three servers runnning on centos4.5 and i am trying to implement nfs share in an below manner [bcoz there is no alternative way for me to setup nfs share] HOST A--->>>EXPORTS /prod/data ------->>>HOST B HOST B ---->>MOUNTED ------>>> /prod/data-----UNDER---/PROD1 [working fine] HOST B