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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi) (Peter Hemmings)
2. Re: Bristol Digest, Vol 623, Issue 2 (Mik Phelps)
3. Re: HPET (was Fedora 22 - Slow Shutdown) (Martin Habets)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 12:41:18 +0000
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi)
Message-ID: <563DF16E.6080201@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed

Hi,

On 06/11/15 16:15, Neil Baker wrote:
> On 06/11/15 15:48, Peter Hemmings wrote:
>> Hi, I was going to try to get Kodi working on my Fedora 22 box and the
>> installation stated it should not be run with the default Nouveux
>> driver, is this correct as I am having trouble installing the old 340
>> driver from NVidea!?
>>
>> I have downloaded the driver "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.93.run" and as
>> root, tried to run it from the command line, (I thought) I had booted
>> into run level 3 but it complained that I still had Nouveux driver, so
>> I assume I was not booting correctly even though I did not have a GUI!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>
> You might also need to go 'old school' and create an Xorg.conf file.

It all worked OK as stated. I have and oldish GeForce 210 and used the
340 driver:

[peter@study ~]$ nvidia-installer -v |grep version
nvidia-installer: version 340.93
(buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-03)
[peter@study ~]$ uname -a
Linux study 4.2.5-201.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 28 20:00:23 UTC 2015
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[peter@study ~]$ lspci |grep -i VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce
210] (rev a2)

Only problem is that I cannot post to the site to give him the info, I
seem to be blocked!

Regards

--
Peter H



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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 09:35:14 +0000
From: Mik Phelps <ha1ry.g1t@mypostoffice.co.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Bristol Digest, Vol 623, Issue 2
Message-ID: <563F1752.5050008@mypostoffice.co.uk>
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Thanks to all who have replied to this so far, currently I have a
damaged left hand to deal with due to a fall (Collapse) so not much so
far tried, and not much done so far in searching local IT suppliers.
Only need monochrome scans (black and white) for letters etc like a
monochrome photocopier, but there must be a way posted somewhere.

Lots of options published by the manufacturer, just not it seems for
this scanner.
Will keep looking at the various support/user websites where it seems
that just about every other model of scanner they make is listed....

Other alternative could be is if anyone knows of a local (Bath) supplier
of something which does work please; or perhaps could visit here to get
this scanner please, or another one, working?

my apology if this reply is a bit 'sharp' but I am at present having to
take about fifteen different 'flavours of tablets' for my hand injury -
potential osteoarthritis - which makes typing very difficult.
I also have an old unused Packard Bell Diamond 1200 Plus, but this
scanner seems to be for Windoze only; install using Wine perhaps?
But I am aware of potential Wine USB connection problems reported for this.
It is an is an ACER 'E 15 Aspire, E-511-P345 Laptop - type number is
from the label on the front panel.

Thanks again in advance for any assistance

Mik

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> Have a Canon 'CanoScan LiDE 120' which I am having problems getting to
> work with this laptop running openSUSE 13.2.
>
> Has anyone got one working or have any ideas on how to get it to work please?
>
> thanks for any assistance in advance
>
> Mik
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 11:26:42 +0000
From: Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] HPET (was Fedora 22 - Slow Shutdown)
Message-ID: <20151108112642.GA14604@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
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Normally you could use the clocksource=tsc as a kernel parameter, but your
earlier report said this was also poor:

[ 0.059000] TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]:
[ 0.059000] Measured 617436 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
[ 0.059000] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed

Best check if you still get this problem with the new BIOS.
If not, try it with the kernel parameter above.

MArtin

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 09:16:03PM +0100, Peter Hemmings wrote:
> I updated the BIOS OK but the boot still takes a long time mainly
> due it resetting HPET:
>
> [ 60.586334] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): virbr0: link is not ready
> [ 63.542817] fuse init (API version 7.23)
> [ 74.008023] Adjusting hpet more than 11% (2611938570 vs 2601267907)
> [ 104.833640] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
> [ 104.833647] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
> [ 104.833655] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
> [peter@localhost ~]$
>
>
> Is this a H/W (CPU) problem with the timer?
>
> BTW its always 10% off!
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Peter H
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