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O'Reilly back in the Linux book business

2009-07-03T07:00:00Z

Aside from the regularly scheduled releases of the fine "Ubuntu for Non-Geeks" by Rickford Grant on its No Starch imprint, my favorite tech-book publisher O'Reilly has been pretty scarce with the Linux titles over the last couple of years.

You'd think that the explosion of Ubuntu would mean a whole lot more Linux books. Except that publishers like O'Reilly (which is most definitely not alone) have been publishing fewer and fewer Linux titles with each passing year. And very few don't have the word "Ubuntu" in the title.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm a Ubuntu user, too. But I also want to know more about Linux and other free, open-source operating systems and the software that runs on them.

So it's nice to see O'Reilly put a sixth edition of "Linux in a Nutshell" on the schedule for September 2009 publication. The book by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love and Arnold Robbins is a pretty good reference and, unlike all those Ubuntu books, cuts across distros to give a whole lot of useful Linux information applicable to any number of systems you might want to run.

I've been limping along with the Fourth Edition of this book for some time, and it's nigh that I replace it with something new. And I'm glad to have that opportunity.

Now how about more Linux and BSD books, O'Reilly (and thanks to No Starch for its excellent second edition of "Absolute FreeBSD" from my tech-writing hero Michael Lucas; now if only he'd update his OpenBSD book ...).

Ubuntu 9.04 on my 8.04 laptop: Intel video issues sink upgrade

2009-06-30T23:00:00Z

As much as I've railed against quickie distro reviews, I find myself trying a new version of Ubuntu in live CD form and writing just such a piece. I apologize in advance for not running Ubuntu 9.04 longer, but in this evaluation, which has everything to do with the hardware I'm using, I'll explain why this is a wham-bam distro evaluation:

I've been sticking with Ubuntu 8.04 — the LTS version of the distro — on my main Toshiba 1100-S101 laptop for a number of reasons. For one thing, just about everything works (with exceptions being suspend/resume and some rare-but-troublesome crashes when running a USB Wifi stick), and as a production machine, I need it to continue to work.

And both of my identical Toshiba laptops have extremely flaky CD/DVD-ROM drives that don't like most CD-R discs. I managed to burn a Ubuntu 8.04 CD that did boot and install the OS to get me started on this laptop. Since then, I've discovered that commercially produced CD-ROM discs always boot fine. So does DVD+R media; I managed to burn a huge Debian Lenny DVD+R that I've used to set up the other Toshiba.

But I needed a "commercial" CD or DVD as a backup for this Toshiba, and that led me to request a free Ubuntu disc from Canonical.

I would've gladly accepted an 8.04 LTS disc, even though I do have a working CD-R of the release, but since 9.04 is what was offered, I was glad to receive it (along with the Ubuntu stickers that came in the padded envelope; thanks, Canonical!).

I would've gladly paid for the disc, but Canonical only sells them in quantity. If you want just one, you can't pay — your only option is to get it for free.

]]> While I hadn't given much thought to actually upgrading from 8.04 to 9.04, especially given all the trouble with Intel video in Xorg — trouble I've been suffering from a whole lot longer than is fashionable. I do have a fix, but it's been really nice to run X without an xorg.conf, as I was able to do in OpenBSD 4.4 (but NOT 4.5) and have the system-created xorg.conf actually work in Ubuntu 8.04.

Now that I can run Linux (if not OpenBSD in the current release) with a modified xorg.conf file, I'm in theory OK to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 just as the fix I've linked to above made it OK to upgrade from Debian Etch and Slackware 11.

Long story short, I'm now running Ubuntu 9.04 as a live CD, and as I feared, X is still dumping artifacts like crazy on my screen.

Other than that, everything is working pretty well. I do have 768 MB of RAM in this laptop, and the Ubuntu live CD tends to run pretty well with that much memory.

A peek into the filesystem reveals that in Ubuntu 9.04, there is an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, which means I won't have to generate one myself (not that doing so is particularly arduous in most cases).

At this point in my evaluation of 9.04 on this platform, I'm confronted by two questions:

1) Is the prospect of newer applications (OpenOffice 3.0.x, etc.) and improved performance (faster boot) enough to compel an upgrade?

2) Will my xorg.conf fix work?

Other things that impact my decision:

Now that the xorg.conf fix works in Debian and probably in most other Linux distributions, including Slackware, I have more options than I envisioned regarding what OS I run on this laptop.
I can always fall back to Ubuntu 8.04 if needed.

If I did decide to go with Ubuntu 9.04, Canonical's 18 months of support for the release means I would be covered with patches/fixes all the way to the 10.04 release (Ubuntu's next LTS) with either 9.04 or 8.04. Long-term support is important to me, whether it's the three years of the LTS on the desktop or 1.5 years for a non-LTS release. Anything more than the six months between releases is most welcome.

In order to test my xorg.conf fix, I opened a terminal and used sudo to edit the file:

$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

(Note: in the live Ubuntu environment, no password is needed for sudo to work.)

Once I added my line of code (seen in red in the example below), I needed to restart X. I've read that ctrl-alt-backspace is disabled in Ubuntu 9.04, and I can confirm that.

So I quit Firefox, saving my tabs in the process, logged out and let the live CD automatically log me back in.

Unfortunately, while the video "artifacts" seemed to be gone, I began having problems scrolling up and down in an application window.

I thought that perhaps using EXA instead of XAA in my xorg.conf line (Option "AccelMethod" "XAA") would help.

So I switched up the xorg.conf with Option "AccelMethod" "EXA". Scrolling worked that way, but the screen artifacts began to appear.

I'd like to think that an update since 9.04 was released will fix my problem, but I haven't heard of that happening and will in no way be holding my breath about it.

With my Debian Lenny fix NOT working in Ubuntu 9.04, I'm very wary of upgrading to what is currently the latest Ubuntu release it on this particular Intel-video-equipped laptop.

It looks like I'll be waiting until October for Ubuntu 9.10, November for OpenBSD 4.6, or will just run Ubuntu 8.04, Lenny or Slackware 12.2.

And while I'm open to fixes for this Xorg problem, I don't know how widespread it is among Linux and BSD users with Intel video. (I have a feeling it isn't as common as I might think, or it'd be fixed already. That's the theory, anyway).

While I'm on the subject: Especially in Ubuntu, I'm not at all comfortable having to hack into xorg.conf to get one of the most common video chips (Intel) working with Xorg. I don't know who's responsible for screwing up X in this manner over the past few years, but this is the kind of thing that drives people away from any OS that uses Xorg and back to whatever they used before, be it Windows or Mac OS.

I've been doing this (i.e. running Linux and BSD) for a bit more than a couple years at this point, so I'm used to hackery to get things going, although I have been hoping that we can get closer and closer to "just works," with Unix-like OSes. I hate seeing a regression like this (in Linux and BSD ... and I'm not blaming Ubuntu or OpenBSD at all, since this is an Xorg problem).

I'm disappointed by not being able to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04. But I'm thankful that I still have the 8.04 LTS release to carry me through.

I could still work on this xorg.conf, perhaps using what works in Debian Lenny ...

UXA doesn't work either: It seems that support for AccelMethod "EXA" is gone in this version of Xorg; I tried "UXA," but that didn't work either. So it's official: no Ubuntu 9.04 for me on this Toshiba laptop.

For the record, here's my modified (but not satisfactory) /etc/X11/xorg.conf, with the line I added in red type:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page. # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously # in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings # here are ignored. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Here's my dmesg output in Ubuntu 9.04:



[    0.000000] BIOS EBDA/lowmem at: 0009f000/0009f000

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu

[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 (Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic)

[    0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:

[    0.000000]   Intel GenuineIntel

[    0.000000]   AMD AuthenticAMD

[    0.000000]   NSC Geode by NSC

[    0.000000]   Cyrix CyrixInstead

[    0.000000]   Centaur CentaurHauls

[    0.000000]   Transmeta GenuineTMx86

[    0.000000]   Transmeta TransmetaCPU

[    0.000000]   UMC UMC UMC UMC

[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002f6f0000 (usable)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000002f6f0000 - 000000002f6ff000 (ACPI data)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000002f6ff000 - 000000002f700000 (ACPI NVS)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000002f700000 - 000000002f780000 (usable)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000002f780000 - 0000000030000000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

[    0.000000] DMI present.

[    0.000000] last_pfn = 0x2f780 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000

[    0.000000] Scanning 2 areas for low memory corruption

[    0.000000] modified physical RAM map:

[    0.000000]  modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000002000 (usable)

[    0.000000]  modified: 0000000000002000 - 0000000000006000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  modified: 0000000000006000 - 0000000000007000 (usable)

[    0.000000]  modified: 0000000000007000 - 0000000000010000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  modified: 0000000000010000 - 0000000000092000 (usable)

[    0.000000]  modified: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  modified: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  modified: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  modified: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  modified: 0000000000100000 - 000000002f6f0000 (usable)

[    0.000000]  modified: 000000002f6f0000 - 000000002f6ff000 (ACPI data)

[    0.000000]  modified: 000000002f6ff000 - 000000002f700000 (ACPI NVS)

[    0.000000]  modified: 000000002f700000 - 000000002f780000 (usable)

[    0.000000]  modified: 000000002f780000 - 0000000030000000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  modified: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)

[    0.000000]  modified: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

[    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 2f780000 @ 10000-16000

[    0.000000] RAMDISK: 2ef5c000 - 2f6bf993

[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F6C00, 0014 (r0 TOSCPL)

[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 2F6F9893, 0028 (r1 TOSCPL   RSDT    6040000  LTP        0)

[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 2F6FEF8C, 0074 (r1 TOSCPL BTW10     6040000 PTL         1)

[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 2F6F98BB, 56D1 (r1 TOSCPL ALMADOR   6040000 MSFT  100000D)

[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 2F6FFFC0, 0040

[    0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.

[    0.000000] 759MB LOWMEM available.

[    0.000000]   mapped low ram: 0 - 2f780000

[    0.000000]   low ram: 00000000 - 2f780000

[    0.000000]   bootmap 00012000 - 00017ef0

[    0.000000] (9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 002f780000]

[    0.000000]   #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000]   BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]

[    0.000000]   #1 [0000001000 - 0000002000]    EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]

[    0.000000]   #2 [0000006000 - 0000007000]       TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]

[    0.000000]   #3 [0000100000 - 000087c52c]    TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 000087c52c]

[    0.000000]   #4 [002ef5c000 - 002f6bf993]          RAMDISK ==> [002ef5c000 - 002f6bf993]

[    0.000000]   #5 [000087d000 - 0000881000]    INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [000087d000 - 0000881000]

[    0.000000]   #6 [000009f000 - 0000100000]    BIOS reserved ==> [000009f000 - 0000100000]

[    0.000000]   #7 [0000010000 - 0000012000]          PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000012000]

[    0.000000]   #8 [0000012000 - 0000018000]          BOOTMAP ==> [0000012000 - 0000018000]

[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:

[    0.000000]   DMA      0x00000000 -> 0x00001000

[    0.000000]   Normal   0x00001000 -> 0x0002f780

[    0.000000]   HighMem  0x0002f780 -> 0x0002f780

[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node

[    0.000000] early_node_map[5] active PFN ranges

[    0.000000]     0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000002

[    0.000000]     0: 0x00000006 -> 0x00000007

[    0.000000]     0: 0x00000010 -> 0x00000092

[    0.000000]     0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0002f6f0

[    0.000000]     0: 0x0002f700 -> 0x0002f780

[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 194293

[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c06d0f80, node_mem_map c1000000

[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap

[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved

[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 3941 pages, LIFO batch:0

[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 1487 pages used for memmap

[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 188833 pages, LIFO batch:31

[    0.000000]   HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap

[    0.000000]   Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap

[    0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008

[    0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs

[    0.000000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000000002000 - 0000000000006000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000000007000 - 0000000000010000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000000092000 - 000000000009f000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000ce000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000d0000 - 00000000000d8000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 00000000000e4000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000002f6f0000 - 000000002f6ff000

[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000002f6ff000 - 000000002f700000

[    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 30000000:cfb80000)

[    0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 45056 bytes of per cpu data

[    0.000000] NR_CPUS: 64, nr_cpu_ids: 1, nr_node_ids 1

[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 192774

[    0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --

[    0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

[    0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.

[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0

[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)

[    0.000000] TSC: PIT calibration matches PMTIMER. 1 loops

[    0.000000] Detected 1328.906 MHz processor.

[    0.004000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25

[    0.004000] console [tty0] enabled

[    0.004000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

[    0.004000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)

[    0.004000] allocated 3888640 bytes of page_cgroup

[    0.004000] please try cgroup_disable=memory option if you don't want

[    0.004000] Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds

[    0.004000] Memory: 750824k/777728k available (4126k kernel code, 26028k reserved, 2208k data, 532k init, 0k highmem)

[    0.004000] virtual kernel memory layout:

[    0.004000]     fixmap  : 0xffc77000 - 0xfffff000   (3616 kB)

[    0.004000]     pkmap   : 0xff400000 - 0xff800000   (4096 kB)

[    0.004000]     vmalloc : 0xeff80000 - 0xff3fe000   ( 244 MB)

[    0.004000]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xef780000   ( 759 MB)

[    0.004000]       .init : 0xc0737000 - 0xc07bc000   ( 532 kB)

[    0.004000]       .data : 0xc0507a6f - 0xc072fe60   (2208 kB)

[    0.004000]       .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0507a6f   (4126 kB)

[    0.004000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.

[    0.004000] SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1

[    0.004018] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 2657.81 BogoMIPS (lpj=5315624)

[    0.004053] Security Framework initialized

[    0.004072] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.

[    0.004116] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized

[    0.004133] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

[    0.004391] Initializing cgroup subsys ns

[    0.004400] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct

[    0.004405] Initializing cgroup subsys memory

[    0.004412] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer

[    0.004443] CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

[    0.004448] CPU: L2 cache: 256K

[    0.004475] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.

[    0.020928] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code

[    0.204638] Freeing SMP alternatives: 18k freed

[    0.204652] ACPI: Core revision 20080926

[    0.207378] ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT

[    0.659955] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0600)

[    0.660120] weird, boot CPU (#0) not listedby the BIOS.

[    0.660124] SMP motherboard not detected.

[    0.660129] Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.

[    0.660133] SMP disabled

[    0.660633] Brought up 1 CPUs

[    0.660644] Total of 1 processors activated (2657.81 BogoMIPS).

[    0.660676] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.

[    0.661409] net_namespace: 776 bytes

[    0.661435] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware

[    0.661971] Time: 15:16:56  Date: 06/30/09

[    0.661986] regulator: core version 0.5

[    0.662074] NET: Registered protocol family 16

[    0.664171] EISA bus registered

[    0.664212] ACPI: bus type pci registered

[    0.683070] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd97a, last bus=2

[    0.683077] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access

[    0.685981] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT

[    0.694828] ACPI: Interpreter enabled

[    0.694839] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)

[    0.694873] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing

[    0.705163] ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x1c, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62

[    0.705169] ACPI: EC: driver started in poll mode

[    0.705358] ACPI: No dock devices found.

[    0.705378] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)

[    0.705487] pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe8000000-0xefffffff]

[    0.705494] pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xe0000000-0xe007ffff]

[    0.705513] pci 0000:00:02.0: supports D1

[    0.705532] pci 0000:00:02.1: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff]

[    0.705539] pci 0000:00:02.1: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xe0080000-0xe00fffff]

[    0.705557] pci 0000:00:02.1: supports D1

[    0.705621] pci 0000:00:1d.0: reg 20 io port: [0x1800-0x181f]

[    0.705668] pci 0000:00:1d.1: reg 20 io port: [0x1820-0x183f]

[    0.705714] pci 0000:00:1d.2: reg 20 io port: [0x1840-0x185f]

[    0.705797] HPET not enabled in BIOS. You might try hpet=force boot option

[    0.705807] pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO

[    0.705813] pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 1180-11bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO

[    0.705835] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 10 io port: [0x1f0-0x1f7]

[    0.705843] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 14 io port: [0x3f4-0x3f7]

[    0.705851] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 18 io port: [0x170-0x177]

[    0.705860] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 1c io port: [0x374-0x377]

[    0.705868] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 20 io port: [0x1860-0x186f]

[    0.705876] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 24 32bit mmio: [0xe0100000-0xe01003ff]

[    0.705923] pci 0000:00:1f.3: reg 20 io port: [0x1880-0x189f]

[    0.705955] pci 0000:00:1f.5: reg 10 io port: [0x1c00-0x1cff]

[    0.705963] pci 0000:00:1f.5: reg 14 io port: [0x18c0-0x18ff]

[    0.706006] pci 0000:00:1f.6: reg 10 io port: [0x2400-0x24ff]

[    0.706014] pci 0000:00:1f.6: reg 14 io port: [0x2000-0x207f]

[    0.706072] pci 0000:02:01.0: reg 10 io port: [0x3000-0x30ff]

[    0.706081] pci 0000:02:01.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xe0200000-0xe02000ff]

[    0.706109] pci 0000:02:01.0: supports D1 D2

[    0.706113] pci 0000:02:01.0: PME# supported from D1 D2 D3hot D3cold

[    0.706119] pci 0000:02:01.0: PME# disabled

[    0.706151] pci 0000:02:04.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x000fff]

[    0.706162] pci 0000:02:04.0: supports D1 D2

[    0.706166] pci 0000:02:04.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold

[    0.706171] pci 0000:02:04.0: PME# disabled

[    0.706201] pci 0000:02:04.1: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x000fff]

[    0.706212] pci 0000:02:04.1: supports D1 D2

[    0.706215] pci 0000:02:04.1: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold

[    0.706221] pci 0000:02:04.1: PME# disabled

[    0.706259] pci 0000:00:1e.0: transparent bridge

[    0.706265] pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge io port: [0x3000-0x3fff]

[    0.706271] pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xe0200000-0xe02fffff]

[    0.706314] bus 00 -> node 0

[    0.706326] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]

[    0.706430] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]

[    0.710018] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)

[    0.710227] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)

[    0.710428] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)

[    0.710628] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)

[    0.710825] ACPI: WMI: Mapper loaded

[    0.711239] SCSI subsystem initialized

[    0.711333] libata version 3.00 loaded.

[    0.711435] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs

[    0.711472] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub

[    0.711528] usbcore: registered new device driver usb

[    0.711749] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing

[    0.711904] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.13

[    0.712087] NET: Registered protocol family 31

[    0.712091] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized

[    0.712098] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized

[    0.712102] NET: Registered protocol family 8

[    0.712105] NET: Registered protocol family 20

[    0.712130] NetLabel: Initializing

[    0.712133] NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128

[    0.712136] NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4

[    0.712163] NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default

[    0.712325] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled

[    0.712352] pnp: PnP ACPI init

[    0.712352] ACPI: bus type pnp registered

[    0.721330] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 9 devices

[    0.721336] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered

[    0.721343] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP

[    0.721366] system 00:04: ioport range 0x600-0x60f has been reserved

[    0.721372] system 00:04: ioport range 0x700-0x70f has been reserved

[    0.721377] system 00:04: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f has been reserved

[    0.721382] system 00:04: ioport range 0x1180-0x11bf has been reserved

[    0.721386] system 00:04: ioport range 0x1200-0x120f has been reserved

[    0.721392] system 00:04: ioport range 0xfe00-0xfe01 has been reserved

[    0.721398] system 00:04: iomem range 0xfebffc00-0xfebfffff has been reserved

[    0.721404] system 00:04: iomem range 0xfff80000-0xffffffff could not be reserved

[    0.756287] pci 0000:02:04.0: CardBus bridge, secondary bus 0000:03

[    0.756292] pci 0000:02:04.0:   IO window: 0x003400-0x0034ff

[    0.756298] pci 0000:02:04.0:   IO window: 0x003800-0x0038ff

[    0.756304] pci 0000:02:04.0:   PREFETCH window: 0x40000000-0x43ffffff

[    0.756310] pci 0000:02:04.0:   MEM window: 0x48000000-0x4bffffff

[    0.756316] pci 0000:02:04.1: CardBus bridge, secondary bus 0000:07

[    0.756320] pci 0000:02:04.1:   IO window: 0x003c00-0x003cff

[    0.756326] pci 0000:02:04.1:   IO window: 0x001400-0x0014ff

[    0.756332] pci 0000:02:04.1:   PREFETCH window: 0x44000000-0x47ffffff

[    0.756338] pci 0000:02:04.1:   MEM window: 0x4c000000-0x4fffffff

[    0.756344] pci 0000:00:1e.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:02

[    0.756349] pci 0000:00:1e.0:   IO window: 0x3000-0x3fff

[    0.756356] pci 0000:00:1e.0:   MEM window: 0xe0200000-0xe02fffff

[    0.756362] pci 0000:00:1e.0:   PREFETCH window: 0x00000040000000-0x00000047ffffff

[    0.756382] pci 0000:00:1e.0: setting latency timer to 64

[    0.756701] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10

[    0.756708] PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered

[    0.756715] pci 0000:02:04.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

[    0.756723] pci 0000:02:04.0: setting latency timer to 64

[    0.756992] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10

[    0.756998] pci 0000:02:04.1: PCI INT B -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

[    0.757005] pci 0000:02:04.1: setting latency timer to 64

[    0.757013] bus: 00 index 0 io port: [0x00-0xffff]

[    0.757017] bus: 00 index 1 mmio: [0x000000-0xffffffff]

[    0.757021] bus: 02 index 0 io port: [0x3000-0x3fff]

[    0.757025] bus: 02 index 1 mmio: [0xe0200000-0xe02fffff]

[    0.757029] bus: 02 index 2 mmio: [0x40000000-0x47ffffff]

[    0.757033] bus: 02 index 3 io port: [0x00-0xffff]

[    0.757037] bus: 02 index 4 mmio: [0x000000-0xffffffff]

[    0.757041] bus: 03 index 0 io port: [0x3400-0x34ff]

[    0.757044] bus: 03 index 1 io port: [0x3800-0x38ff]

[    0.757048] bus: 03 index 2 mmio: [0x40000000-0x43ffffff]

[    0.757052] bus: 03 index 3 mmio: [0x48000000-0x4bffffff]

[    0.757056] bus: 07 index 0 io port: [0x3c00-0x3cff]

[    0.757060] bus: 07 index 1 io port: [0x1400-0x14ff]

[    0.757064] bus: 07 index 2 mmio: [0x44000000-0x47ffffff]

[    0.757068] bus: 07 index 3 mmio: [0x4c000000-0x4fffffff]

[    0.757092] NET: Registered protocol family 2

[    0.757358] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

[    0.757976] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)

[    0.762380] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

[    0.765028] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)

[    0.765042] TCP reno registered

[    0.765433] NET: Registered protocol family 1

[    0.765770] checking if image is initramfs... it is

[    1.260101] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0

[    1.787528] Freeing initrd memory: 7566k freed

[    1.787661] cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset.

[    1.787981] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)

[    1.788090] type=2000 audit(1246375016.788:1): initialized

[    1.800100] HugeTLB registered 4 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages

[    1.802785] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1

[    1.802921] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)

[    1.804342] fuse init (API version 7.10)

[    1.804520] msgmni has been set to 1481

[    1.804952] alg: No test for stdrng (krng)

[    1.804984] io scheduler noop registered

[    1.804988] io scheduler anticipatory registered

[    1.804992] io scheduler deadline registered

[    1.805043] io scheduler cfq registered (default)

[    1.805078] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device

[    1.815730] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5

[    1.815750] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4

[    1.816073] ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)

[    1.816868] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)

[    1.816991] input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0

[    1.816997] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]

[    1.817089] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input1

[    1.817160] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]

[    1.817234] input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input2

[    1.817239] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]

[    1.817560] processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0

[    1.817569] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)

[    1.823480] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...

[    2.177026] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found

[    2.179376] Serial: 8250/16550 driver4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled

[    2.179907] serial 0000:00:1f.6: enabling device (0000 -> 0001)

[    2.179923] serial 0000:00:1f.6: PCI INT B -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

[    2.179935] serial 0000:00:1f.6: PCI INT B disabled

[    2.181344] brd: module loaded

[    2.181979] loop: module loaded

[    2.182208] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed

[    2.182225] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2

[    2.182372] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input3

[    2.182457] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods

[    2.182476] Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods

[    2.182631] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.12

[    2.183092] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 9

[    2.183100] PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered

[    2.183108] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9

[    2.183207] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64

[    2.183449] scsi0 : ata_piix

[    2.183743] scsi1 : ata_piix

[    2.184897] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x1860 irq 14

[    2.184904] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x1868 irq 15

[    2.348447] ata1.00: ATA-5: TOSHIBA MK2018GAP, M1.42 A, max UDMA/100

[    2.348452] ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA 

[    2.356388] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100

[    2.520310] ata2.00: ATAPI: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2612, 1011, max UDMA/33

[    2.528265] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33

[    2.528659] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      TOSHIBA MK2018GA M1.4 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

[    2.528868] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 39070080 512-byte hardware sectors: (20.0 GB/18.6 GiB)

[    2.528904] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off

[    2.528908] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00

[    2.528964] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

[    2.529128] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 39070080 512-byte hardware sectors: (20.0 GB/18.6 GiB)

[    2.529158] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off

[    2.529163] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00

[    2.529215] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

[    2.529225]  sda: sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >

[    2.959184] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

[    2.959294] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0

[    2.960710] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TOSHIBA  DVD-ROM SD-C2612 1011 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

[    2.961356] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

[    2.961363] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

[    2.961568] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

[    2.961654] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5

[    2.962839] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver

[    2.962878] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver

[    2.962908] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver

[    2.963010] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

[    2.963027] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: setting latency timer to 64

[    2.963033] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller

[    2.963192] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

[    2.963233] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 10, io base 0x00001800

[    2.963416] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[    2.963471] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

[    2.963489] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

[    2.964187] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 9

[    2.964198] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9

[    2.964212] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: setting latency timer to 64

[    2.964217] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller

[    2.964326] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

[    2.964356] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 9, io base 0x00001820

[    2.964526] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[    2.964588] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found

[    2.964606] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

[    2.964778] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9

[    2.964788] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: setting latency timer to 64

[    2.964793] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller

[    2.964880] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3

[    2.964906] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 9, io base 0x00001840

[    2.965067] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[    2.965115] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found

[    2.965132] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

[    2.965374] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual

[    2.965445] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial

[    2.965468] USB Serial support registered for generic

[    2.965494] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic

[    2.965499] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core

[    2.965578] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12

[    2.968556] i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.

[    2.973502] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

[    2.973515] serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

[    2.973520] serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

[    2.973524] serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

[    2.973528] serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

[    2.973830] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

[    2.974197] rtc_cmos 00:01: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0

[    2.974221] rtc0: alarms up to one month, y3k, 242 bytes nvram

[    2.974404] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3

[    2.974653] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.14.0-ioctl (2008-04-23) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com

[    2.974769] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded

[    2.974775] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded

[    2.974982] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0

[    2.974994] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1

[    2.975000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2

[    2.975004] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3

[    2.975028] EISA: Detected 0 cards.

[    2.975088] cpuidle: using governor ladder

[    2.975092] cpuidle: using governor menu

[    2.976185] TCP cubic registered

[    2.976433] NET: Registered protocol family 10

[    2.977242] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions

[    2.977850] NET: Registered protocol family 17

[    2.977894] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.11

[    2.977897] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized

[    2.977903] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6

[    2.977906] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized

[    2.978009] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized

[    2.978032] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized

[    2.978036] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.10

[    2.978138] IO APIC resources could be not be allocated.

[    2.978187] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode

[    2.978397] registered taskstats version 1

[    2.978607]   Magic number: 13:564:286

[    2.978630] ppp ppp: hash matches

[    2.978771] rtc_cmos 00:01: setting system clock to 2009-06-30 15:16:58 UTC (1246375018)

[    2.978777] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found

[    2.978781] EDD information not available.

[    2.980204] Freeing unused kernel memory: 532k freed

[    2.980450] Write protecting the kernel text: 4128k

[    2.980516] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1532k

[    2.993627] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input4

[    3.280086] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2

[    3.442513] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[    3.840278] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

[    3.859756] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

[    4.059898] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev

[    4.072900] input: HID 062a:0000 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input5

[    4.097552] generic-usb 0003:062A:0000.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0

[    4.097594] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

[    4.097602] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver

[    4.102132] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)

[    4.102561] 8139cp 0000:02:01.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too

[    4.109349] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28

[    4.109444] 8139too 0000:02:01.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

[    4.110904] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x3000, 00:02:3f:7a:1c:b3, IRQ 10

[    4.110909] eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'

[    5.226576] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds

[    5.226609] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

[    5.304732] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds

[    5.304766] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

[    5.639827] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3

[    5.664042] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A

[    5.924695] aufs 20080922

[    6.169284] squashfs: version 3.3 (2007/10/31) Phillip Lougher

[   81.777590] udev: starting version 141

[   82.127922] intel_rng: FWH not detected

[   82.177842] Linux agpgart interface v0.103

[   82.266938] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4

[   82.323357] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 830M Chipset

[   82.323816] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 8060K stolen memory

[   82.325799] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000

[   82.854643] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0

[   83.051838] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.05

[   83.052425] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH3-M TCO device (Version=1, TCOBASE=0x1060)

[   83.052580] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)

[   83.260866] parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI

[   83.260899] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]

[   83.363016] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:01/input/input6

[   83.396418] ACPI: Video Device [GRFX] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)

[   83.924423] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input7

[   83.991445] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.0: CardBus bridge found [1179:ff00]

[   83.991472] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.0: O2: res at 0x94/0xD4: ca/00

[   83.991477] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.0: O2: enabling read prefetch/write burst

[   84.121735] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.0: ISA IRQ mask 0x0838, PCI irq 10

[   84.121746] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.0: Socket status: 30000006

[   84.121754] pci_bus 0000:02: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#02) from #02 to #06

[   84.121773] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x3000 - 0x3fff

[   84.121781] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x3fff: clean.

[   84.122137] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0200000 - 0xe02fffff

[   84.122143] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x40000000 - 0x47ffffff

[   84.123389] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.1: CardBus bridge found [1179:ff00]

[   84.253858] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.1: ISA IRQ mask 0x0838, PCI irq 10

[   84.253868] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.1: Socket status: 30000006

[   84.253876] pci_bus 0000:02: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#02) from #06 to #0a

[   84.253985] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.1: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x3000 - 0x3fff

[   84.253994] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x3fff: clean.

[   84.254361] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.1: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0200000 - 0xe02fffff

[   84.254367] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.1: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x40000000 - 0x47ffffff

[   84.477695] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver

[   84.683118] synaptics was reset on resume, see synaptics_resume_reset if you have trouble on resume

[   84.824240] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x200-0x20f

[   84.825921] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7

[   84.826674] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.

[   84.827307] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.

[   84.836195] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.

[   85.102926] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x200-0x20f

[   85.104672] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7

[   85.105420] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.

[   85.106049] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.

[   85.106960] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.

[   85.153273] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: enabling device (0000 -> 0001)

[   85.153292] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: PCI INT B -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

[   85.153322] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64

[   85.306729] input: PS/2 Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input8

[   85.351853] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input9

[   85.728047] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 55367 usecs

[   85.728055] intel8x0: clocking to 48000

[   89.464326] Adding 489940k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:489940k

[   98.047183] ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt mode

[   98.048663] ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, transactions will use polling mode

[   99.956287] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3

[   99.956297] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast

[  100.011082] Bridge firewalling registered

[  105.851169] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

[  107.477867] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810

[  107.733416] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

[  107.733428] pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64

[  107.733822] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 on minor 0

[  107.739491] [drm:i915_setparam] *ERROR* unknown parameter 4

[  107.739545] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6

[  108.478882] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1

[  108.854183] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6

[  118.680067] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

[ 2809.263643] mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,8000000 found

[ 2812.443667] [drm:i915_setparam] *ERROR* unknown parameter 4

[ 2812.443722] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6

[ 2813.350808] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6

[ 3317.133392] mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,8000000 found

[ 3319.293779] [drm:i915_setparam] *ERROR* unknown parameter 4

[ 3319.293829] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6

[ 3320.028186] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6

Fixing Yahoo Messenger in Pidgin in Windows and Ubuntu 8.04

2009-06-26T23:06:54Z

If you've tried to log into your Yahoo Messenger account with the Pidgin instant-messaging application on any of the many platforms on which the latter runs, it hasn't worked.

It seems that Yahoo is upgrading/reconfiguring its servers, leaving Pidgin users with non-working Yahoo Messenger accounts when accessed through the IM client that brings together the instant-messaging accounts of everything from Google Talk and AIM to Yahoo Messenger and MSN, plus a few more I haven't heard of.

For a few days I used the Yahoo IM client built into Yahoo Mail. I'm somewhat fond of Yahoo Mail and its IM feature, and I do use it from time to time, but I like having the option of using all my IM accounts in one app.

To fix the problem in the Windows version of Pidgin, I first changed one of the server names in the configuration. That didn't work. In Windows, DON'T DO THIS.

Instead, go to the Pidgin site and download the latest version of the app. That will fix the Yahoo issue.

In Linux/Unix, different distributions are handling the problem differently. Some are pumping new versions of Pidgin through their repositories, and those should show up in the updates on your system.

But in Ubuntu 8.04 — the LTS (long-term support) version of Linux, unless you want to install a new version of Pidgin manually, you'll just have to fix the old one.

Luckily it's easy (I figured it out from this Softpedia page):

Once you're running Pidgin (the version in Ubuntu 8.04 is Pidgin 2.4.1 in case you wanted to know), in the menu, click Accounts, then mouse down to your Yahoo account, mouse over to Edit Account and left-click it.

Then click on the Advanced tab, and under Pager server, if you have this:

scs.msg.yahoo.com

Change that line to read this:

cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

That's right, just add cn. to the beginning of this line, then click Save, and the fix is done.

I don't know if you necessarily must quit and reload Pidgin to make the fix work, but that's what I did. Once I saved my change, I went to Buddies - Quit to kill Pidgin, then I restarted it from the menu.

For now, at least, Pidgin is working with Yahoo Messenger buddies. I'll report back if that changes.

As far as fixes go, this is a minor one.

Deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett kill Twitter search — and pretty much slow down the whole Internet

2009-06-26T05:02:59Z

I wondered why the search box and my saved searches disappeared from the Twitter.com page. But knowing that the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett were straining the entire Internet in general, I knew that the prone-to-overloading Twitter didn't stand a chance.

Turns out that's exactly what happened, according to this mocoNews item.

Anybody who's used Twitter knows that the exponentially growing popularity of the microblogging service means that it's a major news event or two away from collapsing entirely.

As my fellow blogger Matt Asay says, what do you expect from a free service that's not even trying to make money?

I won't blame everything on Twitter. The whole Internet is feeling it

10:30 p.m. update: Twitter search has returned. (The fact that I'm noting this at all means I am sorely in need of getting a life.)

Michael Jackson dies, according to reports

2009-06-25T22:45:00Z

I'm on the desk at Dailynews.com following the Michael Jackson story, which began this afternoon with reports that he was taken to UCLA Medical Center after suffering from cardiac arrest.

Now, at 3:40 p.m., most media outlets are either citing TMZ.com or the L.A. Times and saying that the King of Pop is dead.

I'll be following the story all night, adding photo galleries, video, additional stories and anything else I find.

And watch this space for reports on the impact of the Michael Jackson story on the technology around us. Right now I tried to tweet this but got a more-terse-than-usual message about Twitter being overcapacity.

Does OpenSolaris desktop wallpaper look like my Ubuntu/GNOME desktop

2009-06-24T23:02:26Z

I see the resemblance.

Ubuntu goes blue on my desktop

2009-06-24T00:51:45Z

(Click the image for a full 1024x768 view)

I decided that I was tired of brown, brown, brown in Ubuntu, so I changed out the wallpaper on my Ubuntu 8.04 desktop to this blue-themed image from the fine folks at GNOME. I also changed the way my "theme" looks by going to System - Preferences - Appearance in the GNOME menu and picking something less brown, more blue.

I know that GNOME-themed distros are usually blueish in hue and that Ubuntu's brown represents a departure from that blueness, but in my case, going all the way back to Ubuntu 6.06, I'm done with brown.

This is the 1,209th entry in Click

2009-06-17T21:43:42Z

Please read all 1,208 others ...

I'm kidding.

No, I'm not.

My simple rsync backup scripts for Ubuntu 8.04 (also good for just about any Linux or BSD)

2009-06-16T22:00:00Z

I'm no coding guru. And I feel like having to write my own scripts to get stuff done in Unix/Linux is all too much like reinventing the wheel.

Be that as it may, I hacked together these two short scripts to back up my /home files in Ubuntu 8.04 to an external USB drive. I put the scripts in /usr/local/bin and made them executable. I'm lazy enough that I used the Nautilus file manager to do this.

I run the scripts with sudo, meaning in my user account, I open a terminal and do this, entering my password when prompted:

$ sudo usb-backup

$ sudo usb-backup-exclude

For the second script, I created an "exclude file," which the script uses to exclude whichever directories or files I wish. In this case I use it to exclude the .gvfs directory, which breaks the script (and doesn't need to be copied anyway) and in this case to exclude my Thunderbird mail files, since they take so damn long to back up that doing it every day is something I'm not fond of. The beauty of the exclude file is that I can modify it while keeping the script the same.

I'm sure there are many of you who can do and have done a better job than this, but these two scripts appear to work, and that's what counts for me anyway.

There are some pounded-out notes for the scripts; feel free to remove them. They won't affect how the scripts work.

Here are the scripts:

usb-backup:

#! /bin/bash
# Use rsync to back up the /home folder to a 4 GB USB flash drive
# --delete allows for deletion of files on the backup that have been previously deleted on the source drive
# using --exclude to keep rsync from trying to back up ~/.gvfs
# Finally able to remove --ignore-errors now that .gvfs is excluded
rsync -av --delete --exclude 'home/steven/.gvfs' /home /media/disk/ubuntu
exit 0

usb-backup exclude:

#! /bin/bash
# Use rsync to back up the /home folder to a 4 GB USB flash drive
# --delete allows for deletion of files on the backup that have been previously deleted on the source drive
# setting up an exclude file to back up some directories and not others.
# Finally able to remove --ignore-errors now that .gvfs is excluded
rsync -av --delete --ignore-errors --exclude-from '/home/steven/Documents/shell_scripts/exclude' /home /media/disk/ubuntu
exit 0

And here is my "exclude" file which, as you can see from the script above, lives at /home/steven/Documents/shell_scripts/exclude:

/home/steven/.gvfs
/home/steven/.mozilla-thunderbird

.gvfs note: I've done similar scripts before in OpenBSD and Debian, and I don't believe either used the GNOME Virtual Filesystem, so there was no need to exclude ~/.gvfs when using rsync.

Ubuntu 8.04 update: Happy to be back in a Linux environment (revised)

2009-06-16T19:45:00Z

I've been bringing more data into my main Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installation on one of my two Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 laptops, and I continue to be satisfied with the performance of what by most accounts is the world's most popular desktop Linux distribution.

No, its GNOME desktop isn't as fast as Debian's. But even though I do have Xfce (and not the full Xubuntu) installed on this Ubuntu laptop, I'm still using the brownish-themed GNOME that ships with the distro.

I'm getting used to all the GNOME-ish touches in the Nautilus file manager and in Ubuntu/GNOME in general that makes a full-fledged desktop environment such a nice place to work.

]]> On rare occasion — maybe once every couple of weeks — I have a show-stopping crash in which the screen freezes and ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-delete don't work at all. To get going again, I have to hard-reset the laptop. Both times I was accessing a rather-heavy Flash-based Web application, so I blame Flash 9 for the trouble.

One thing I might do is set up SSH on the laptop and see if I can log in over the local network after one of these crashes happen. But in the two weeks since I began this post, I don't think I've had even one crash, so something must be going right; perhaps a change in Firefox with one of the updates that have been pushed out over the past month?

I haven't lost any data, and now that I have 3 GB+ of critical files in this installation, I've been more habitually backing up everything via rsync.

I've been using OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird (I even pulled the Evolution icon from the top panel and slotted in the Thunderbird launcher), Gedit, the GNOME Terminal, gFTP, Pidgin. MtPaint, the GIMP and Rhythmbox.

I thought I'd use gtkpod to manage my iPod, but since the music player was first used with a Mac, it has the HFS+ filesystem instead of the FAT-32 filesystem it would have had if I had first synced it with a Windows PC running iTunes, so I can't write to its drive. I can play music from the iPod through Rhythmbox, but I was hoping to unchain myself from iTunes on the Mac and just use Ubuntu to drop new files onto the player.

I could wipe the iPod, but there's a lot of music on our Mac, and getting it off of there and onto a Linux installation is more than I want to do right now. Instead I'm thinking of getting a cheap MP3 player to use with Ubuntu (and I am taking suggestions). The constraints of Apple's iTunes/iPod system are really chapping me.

I'm still interested in editing video in FOSS operating systems, and while there are many more choices for Linux than there are for OpenBSD, the previous operating system on my main machine, I'm still eager to learn how to cut video with Blender, the 3D-modeling software that can handle video as well.

Things Blender has going for it:

An active user and developer community with lots of help, tutorials, books and even conferences
A commitment to multiple platforms, which include Linux, seemingly every BSD, Windows and Mac OS X
Very sparing of system resources (in my limited exposure to it, at any rate)

All in all, I'm pretty happy to be back using Linux after my six months with OpenBSD. While I enjoyed using OpenBSD very much — including the painful parts, since they were mostly experiences in learning and not frustration — returning to the easier-to-use and much-easier-to-update Ubuntu/Debian environment has been a very good thing.

I spent quite a bit of time looking for good backup solutions — local and remote — for OpenBSD, and now that I'm back in a Linux environment, that search has gotten both easier and more difficult at the same time: Easier because there are many more choices, many of which aren't as hard to figure out as the command-line utilities that OpenBSD has at its disposal; harder because there are so many choices — I'm not used to it.

I have a few dozen Web links to the various services, and I'll start narrowing down to what I actually want to try. Off-site networked backup to either a dedicated data center or a cloud environment is something I really want to get a handle on.

Among the services I'm looking at are rsync.net and JungleDisk.

As our digital lives get that much more complicated, the ability to safeguard and preserve our data is becoming more and more important. With everything from text files in various formats to images, videos and audio files and a growing amount of e-mail on my local drive, there's more data than ever that I need to have backed up more than once.

I'm looking at but not at present seriously considering the new Ubuntu One, which is more of a way to mirror files from one Ubuntu machine to another than a dedicated backup solution. It's a way for Canonical to monetize Ubuntu with users; I'm not saying that's a bad thing, just giving my first impression. If I decide to run more than one Ubuntu desktop, say my laptop that I take with me and a desktop that stays at home, such a syncing service might be more useful.

To use Ubuntu One, I'd have to upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 9.04. Already I'm seeing small apps that I'd like to use, such as s3cmd, that are too old in 8.04. And I did use Ubuntu's Shipit service to get a shiny, new Ubuntu 9.04 CD, more because my old Toshiba laptop likes maybe 2 out of 10 CD-R discs and responds way better to commercially made CD-ROMs. I would've gladly paid for a CD-ROM, just like I did for OpenBSD 4.5, but they're hard to come by. There are no shortage of companies selling CD-Rs they've burned with various OSes on them, but again, it's hard to find the kind of traditionally manufactured discs that this old, DVD/CD-ROM drive can properly read.

Getting back to my Ubuntu laptop: I do have a Debian Lenny test installation running right now, but I anticipate more than a few months on this Ubuntu system, with many more updates like this on exactly what and how I'm doing with it.

I wonder if I should be upgrading the install to Ubuntu 9.04. I'd probably have to roll in 8.10 and then 9.04, but then I'd be "caught up."

I could also do a reinstall and have a fresh 9.04 desktop. I haven't done all that much customization, and I could probably add all my extra apps fairly quickly. But since all my hardware is working at present, I'm loathe to do that on this laptop, and I could see riding out this long-term-support release for at least another six months before I get antsy for a new set of packages. And the next Ubuntu LTS — version 10.04 — is due, as its version number reveals, in April 2010.

Coming home to Puppy Linux

2009-06-16T18:00:00Z

It's been many months since I last used Puppy Linux. I bet more than a year has passed since I seriously ran Puppy, still one of the best Unix-like distributions/projects for older, underpowered computers.

I decided tonight to break out the 1999 Compaq Armada 7770dmt (233 MHz Pentium II MMX processor, 144 MB RAM), which has OpenBSD 4.2 on the 3 GB hard drive (yes, I know 4.5 is out, and yes I do have the CD set, and yes, I'll probably reinstall) and two pup_save files in its 0.5 GB Linux partition.

During my extensive tests of operating systems on this platform, I ended up running the aforementioned OpenBSD 4.2 and Puppy 2.13, the latter from live CD.

I'm in Puppy 2.13 right now. I know it's old. I know Puppy 4.something is out now and that the project is in some sort of turmoil.

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And I've run many other Puppy releases up through the early 4 series, but for this old, slow, memory-poor laptop, 2.13 still runs the best. I would probably benefit greatly from a new Seamonkey browser, but my fondness for this particular Puppy release (yep, it was my first) has me continually returning to it.

I've been adamant about running "upgradeable" distros such as Debian and Ubuntu instead of static live CDs such as Puppy not just for the security and bug-fix updates but also for the much greater variety of software in a "big" distro.

Then I spent six months running OpenBSD 4.4. With no updates. And no, I never did figure out how to patch my way from -release to -stable.

Puppy runs as well or better than any other operating system I've used on the old Compaq (aka the $15 Laptop, named after the price I paid for it from a surplus reseller).

At this point, for the work I'm doing at present, I like having OpenOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox, the GIMP and Inkscape. Not that you can't graft most if not all of those applications onto Puppy, because you can. I've done it, and it works. But it seems like once you add all that stuff and get away from the "purity" of the live CD and the standard Puppy distro, you might as well run Debian, CentOS, Vector, Ubuntu or whatever else runs acceptably well.

Even though I probably burned live CDs of Knoppix 5.1 and Ubuntu 6.06 first, Puppy was the first Linux distro to which I had any meaningful exposure.

I learned about the Linux environment (OK, one of them anyway) and couldn't believe all that comes along with a distribution. Just the fact that you can install a distro or even run it from live CD and have a complete working environment without having to add anything remains a mind-blowingly wonder way to use a computer.

You can't get that kind of experience with Windows or Mac OS.

Applications I used for the very first time that I still use heavily today include:

The Rox filer file manager, which I continue to consider one of the best, and which served me quite well during my six months with OpenBSD 4.4 as my main desktop OS.
The Geany text editor, a quick and powerful application that I've used both to write HTML and CSS code as well as general blog entries and other stories/essays/diatribes.
MtPaint, a super-light, extremely competent image editor that makes you never again want to wait for the GIMP (or Photoshop) to start up

Applications that I don't use so heavily but admire greatly nonetheless:

The Abiword word processor, an excellent lightweight alternative to OpenOffice
Seamonkey, the lighter Netscape Communicator browser/mail/news/HTML-creator concept updated with underpinnings of Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird
JWM, aka Joe's Window Manager, one of the better lightweight environments.

Notice that I've used the words "light," and "lightweight" about a dozen times? Distros like Puppy and Damn Small Linux can give you many clues about how to choose applications that will lighten up systems running Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware and other "bigger" distributions.

Interesting links:
How Puppy 2.x works
Puppy creator Barry Kauler's blog (powered by the PPLOG blog software)

FYI: Federico Ramirez wrote PPLOG, which stands for Perl Powered Blog and is described like this:

PPLOG is a very simple BLOG made in PERL. Currently the version is 1.1 Stable, It does not require Mysql, it uses flatfiles!

...

PPLOG Consists on only 1 perl file, 1 css file and some images which are optional. Also it has other folder, that folder contain files for making a new style, it has a HTML file so you can see the changes on the CSS file also located there without reuploading everything.

L.A.'s analog stations might have signed off, but three are still transmitting

2009-06-16T17:15:08Z

Now that the June 12 deadline has passed and the era of analog television is supposed to be over, most of the channels have indeed gone dark.

It's a bit eerie to turn on an old analog set (of which I have no shortage at present), flip through the channels and see nothing but snow.

In Los Angeles however, analog channels 2, 4 and 5 continue broadcasting. Except that they're all showing the same program: instructions in English and Spanish about how to hook up a digital TV converter box and antenna to receive DTV broadcasts on an older analog set.

If you didn't get ready for DTV, you'll learn all you need to know with what now appears to be the only programming available to non-DTV viewers.

KTTV, Channel 11, on the night before the June 12 DTV transition

2009-06-13T00:06:31Z

KTLA-TV, Channel 5, on the night before the June 12 DTV switch

2009-06-13T00:02:58Z

KCAL, Channel 9, on the digital-TV switch, plus reports on the shutoff of Channel 9 and KCBS Channel 2

2009-06-12T23:56:04Z

KCAL doesn't offer embedded video from its player, but you can see the video of Channel 9's June 12 report via this link. And this much better video covers the shutoff of KCAL and KCBS Channel 2's analog signals. plus an earlier report before the analog signals of channels 2 and 9 were shut off.