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Is anyone running CentOS on a newish Thinkpad? I have been using Linux as my primary workstation since about 97 and it seems like using Linux as a desktop has slipped over the years. After the Gnome desktop dumb-down, I have been nursing CentOS 6.8 on a 5 yo Toshiba. So I was hoping that someone has some recent real-world experience with new Thinkpads. So is anyone running a new Thinkpad? What

I have a dell inspiron 8200 laptop running centos 4.1 just fine. I want to connect it to an external 32 inch LCD. This laptop is dual boot windows. I set windows up to 1024x768 and connected the LCD - it worked just fine. LCD max is 1333x768 I then booted Centos 4.1 and set X to be 1024x768 also. rebooted the laptop just ot make sure. I then connected the LCD and it says can't display

greetings one and all. installing centos 7 32 bit i386 to laptop; specs: toshiba satellite l455d-s5976 amd sempron si-42 2 GB ddr2 250 GB hdd ]$ lspci|grep Realtek 0e:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. \ RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller (rev 22) 14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. \ RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet

Hello all, This is the laptop I own: HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition Spec: Intel Core i7-2630QM 2.0GHz, 6GB RAM, 750GB HDD, VGA ATI Radeon HD 6490M You can also check the spec here: http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-dv6t-dv6tqe-Laptop/dp/B00506B7DS/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1312164145&sr=1-3 I am going to install CentOS 6 to it but I want to make sure that which drivers

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100423 Bug ID: 100423 Summary: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 022554 [ IBUS ] Product: xorg Version: unspecified Hardware: Other OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: medium Component: Driver/nouveau Assignee: nouveau at

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mar 8, 2014 10:08 AM, "Gene Cumm" <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> vNIC not VMNet. AMD PCNet32 vlance, Intel e1000, Intel e1000e, VMware >>> VMXNet3? Feel free to

Hi all, I am trying to configure utf8 in mysql under centos6 to display special characters, like accents. I use this mysql instance to store plain syslog logs. I have configured this under my.cnf: [mysqld] init_connect = 'SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci' init_connect = 'SET NAMES utf8' character-set-server = utf8 collation-server = utf8_general_ci [client]

On 11/4/2015 11:36 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Absolutely, I see your point. This was the starting point - you add the > device on the ESXi server, you reboot the VM, the VM sees the device, no > problem. Now, I ask - do I have to reboot the VM? Logically I hope there > ought to be a way for me not to have to do that - but I have yet to figure > out how to get there. > vmware

Boris Epstein wrote: >> >> My turn for a dumb question: from not paying a lot of attention to this >> thread, the answer isn't clear to me: has the *host* recognized the >> disk? If not, the guest's not going to see it. > > IMO your question is not dumb at all. Unfortunately, I don't have an > answer to it. > > All I know is, you reboot the VM and

Listmates (only posting to one list) Compiz has been running great with the 8.433 driver except for the libGL SONAME lockup on exit. see: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=344135 I just built and installed the 8.452 driver. Compiz would not start with the normal fusion-icon approach that I have been using with the 8.433 driver. This is on my Toshiba P35 laptop with an ATI

Hello, I have observed several strange blktap2(?) corruption problems using Xen-4.1.2 on several 2.6.32-39 based amd64 Linux Systems. I run an installation of a domain, which use 3 blktap2 devices: 2× 20 GiB hard disk image files and 1× 1.1 GiB DVD iso file. During installation processes start to SEGV, which aborts the installation. * Not all processes in domU segfault in each run:

okay well i've been fighting to get wow to work the past few days...i am a complete linux noob running ubuntu 8.10(intrepid)...after many issues installing i finally got the game installed and booting up however when i get in game i deal with massive glitching and screen tearing i set all screen tear reduction options in wow and have read several possible fixes but i have insufficient

Hi all, I have setup a CentOS6.3 x86_64 host to act as a nfs server. According to RHEL6 docs, portmap is not needed when you use NFSv4, but in my host I need to start rpcbind service to make NFSv4 works. My /etc/sysconfig/nfs # # Define which protocol versions mountd # will advertise. The values are "no" or "yes" # with yes being the default MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"

Hi, Is CentOS good for a desktop machine? I have been using Fedora but the whole GNOME 3 debacle has me scrambling for something else. I have a few "minimal" CentOS servers but does anyone here use CentOS on their laptop? Does wireless and suspend work ok? Are there packages for the usual desktop stuff like libreoffice, sylpheed and so on? Machine is Toshiba Portege R935. It's

Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.

On 11/22/2016 12:41 PM, wwp wrote: > Latitude OK, I run CentOS6/7 on that. which Latitude? they've probably made 100 different laptops over the last couple decades branded 'Latitude'. I bet my wife's new Latitude 15 5000 would be problematic, it uses USB C/Thunderport for its docking station which has 2 additional video adapters in it. She's even having some issues

Hi, I am creating a virtual machine. My laptop is i686 system. Please advice me which Centos verson can be downloaded? With regards, Shiva

Does anybody know if NIC Realtek RTL8151GH-CG is supported on FreeBSD 9.2 or 10.0? It is included in HP ProDesk 490 MT which I may buy, but I cannot find what hardware parts are supported by FreeBSD and what not. I am running FreeBSD for about 13 years on servers. I didn't run it on desktop grade HW for more than 8 years. So any tips for some solid home PC with i7-4770 (or i7-3770?) is

This computer is my main desktop machine --- an Intel i7-940 CPU and DX58S0 motherboard with a Radeon X1950 Pro video card. It's currently running Fedora 11 and working just fine. However, I have been slowly moving all of my "computer stuff" off of Fedora and onto Centos, and this (and my Acer Aspire One laptop) are the only Fedora installations that I now have left. Does anyone

Hi all, Somebody can points me where I can found a list with supported pci wireless cards under centos 3.x ?? These pci wireless cards need to support a/b/g and n protocols... Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com