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I recently obtained a desktop computer with an nVidia video card: from lspci: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1 I had to open the case to connect the DVD drive and saw what appears to be a fallen radiator: http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/computer/amd64-1.jpg http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/computer/amd64-2.jpg That nothing is shorted

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, John R Pierce wrote: > DD the CentOS ISO onto a USB stick. boot from USB, format HD with anaconda, > install as desired, done. Thanks. More or less the answer I was hoping for. My recollection had been that even when possible, booting from USB involved black magic. This helped: Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> > Some do, some don't. They all come with

How do I find whatever it is that wodim or readom thinks is using /dev/sr0 and kill it? So far, reboot is the only solution I've found that works. I don't like it. I want to be able to use my DVD-burner more than once without rebooting. lsof has not helped. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is

I've got an MSI K9N Platinum MS 7250 VER 1.1 motherboard with a dead battery. The battery mounts vertically: http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/computer/battery.png To me, the tab on the right would seem to need moving. It does not want to move. I am reluctant to apply any more force than I already have without knowing how to apply it. How do I remove the battery? -- Michael hennebry

On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2015, Frank Cox wrote: > >> On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 00:54:24 -0500 (CDT) >> Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >>> Actually, I mistook black for green. >>> Green was occupied by my external speakers. >>> Putting the headset's green plug in the green spot >>> lets VLC and aplay make

The last couple time I tried to hibernate, I got an error message: > PM: Not enough free swap I find that hard to believe: [hennebry at localhost doc]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3833 1124 2709 0 51 286 -/+ buffers/cache: 786 3047 Swap: 11453 356 11097

When I gvim a file from gnome, gvim's working directory is always my home directory. That is not what I want. It is inconvenient for :vi , :r and :w something.else . Is there a way to automatically cause gvim's current directory to be the directory of the edited file? I am aware of workarounds involving the command line. I am aware of gedit. I am looking for a way to give gvim the correct

Whenever I start firfox, it tries to download two .iso files into Desktop. Until recently, I wouldn't notice until it announced that it had run out of room. At that point I would click on the messages to make them go away. In the mean time, it had been chewing up bandwidth. One file, I had tried to download by mistake. Don't remmeber what I did with it on purpose. The other I downloaded

Most of the time, if I plug a USB drive into my computer, gnome/centos/whatever will ask me what I want to do with it. With a Hitachi Lifestudio, all the partitions mount without asking me. How do I stop that behavior? My suspicion is that the same kind of mechanism is what makes candy drops work. So far as I know, my backup drive is not candy, but I would still like to be able to control my

I have a gif image in a folder. Whenever I have gthumb display it or a copy of it, gthumb goes into slideshow mode. Usually I can stop the show. It will not stop before going to the next image. but I only have a slideshow period to look at the troublemaker. If the troublemaker is last in the directory, I cannot stop the show without stopping gthumb. How do I make gthumb stop going into slideshow

gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11) is a bit old. There have been major changes since then. I'd like a newer version. If I have to, I expect that I can install from source. I'd rather not. Is there a CentOS 6-compatible repository from which I can get a newer version? Does a standard CentOS 7 repository have a newer version? Does a CentOS 7-compatible repository have a newer

On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, g wrote: > On 06/05/2015 03:43 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 6/5/2015 1:33 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> It's a desktop in an old house. >>> The outlets have ground-fault protection, >>> but the third prong is ungrounded. >> >> not sure how GFI would function at all without a valid ground, unless >> the GFI is wired

I've been informed that rpmforge and epel do not play well together and that if I use both, epel should have the higher (lower numbered) priority. Alas I had it the other way around. rpmforge messed up my effort to get audacity. I no longer need audacity, but would like to fix the situation before some other problem crops up. Would fixing the priorities and telling yum to reinstall all the

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >> Most of the time, if I plug a USB drive into my computer, >> gnome/centos/whatever will ask me what I want to do with it. >> With a Hitachi Lifestudio, all the partitions mount without asking me. >> >> How do I stop that behavior? > Not sure,

Is there a way to get firefox to not print all that useful data at the top and bottom of a web page. For me, that oftem makes one web page into two printed pages. There is rarely a good place for the split. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and

I'm running firefox on Centos 6 and am trying to watch a movie on hulu. Hulu requires Flash Player 10.1.53.64 or higher What to do? My recollection is that dealing with flash has always been a pain and that it recently got worse when Adobe EOLed flash for linux. Is this correct? [hennebry at localhost grease]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 19

How do I make my headset work. Before I try it with anything else, I'd like to make it work with arecord and aplay. VLC and movie player can make sounds with my external speakers. though not in my headset yet. I've got an insignia NS-PAH5101 headset. As directed, the red connector is in the pink spot and the green connector in green spot in the back of my computer. arecord folloed by aplay

On boot, my computer has been beeping at me and showing the BIOS screen for almost two minutes. During that time, it does not respond to tab or delete. Where do I find the beep codes for a MSI K9N SLI Platinum Series motherboard? My google-fu has failed me. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to

Take a look at Devtoolset, I think this will give you what you want: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-3/ On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11) is a bit old. > There have been major changes since then. > I'd like a newer version. > > If I

----- Original Message ----- | Take a look at Devtoolset, I think this will give you what you want: | https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-3/ | | | | On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Michael Hennebry | <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: | > gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11) is a bit old. | > There have been major changes since then. |