Sunday, September 2, 2012

AMD FX1600 CPU Svm Virtualization Extensions Check

# grep --color svm /proc/cpuinfo

svm present in the output in a terminal.

LinuxMint 13 Maya First Time Look On New Hardware

Look at earlier posts and you'll see I had an older, 32-bit, LinuxMint 12 Live CD that I tried out on this new set of hardware.

I got a Gigabyte motherboard, AMD FX 1600 6-core (!!) CPU, and a sick deal on DDR3 RAM, 8 gigs. Insane prices... so I didn't even go thru my old HDDs hanging around to put one in there, but with all these various distros, I figured I'd check to see if any work.

Lots of them worked, and way better than the very old hardware I've been testing them all on. Not all of them worked, and with 8gigs of ram, I really wanted to see if I could load the thing into ram to speed it up and eliminate the need for the bottleneck of the optical disk.

With Mint 12, I downloaded 13 to the download directory, pretty cool considering I wasn't even sure if that would work, it was darn fast with the Transmission bit torrent app already associated with the torrent file and popped right up. Then I used Brasero to burn a DVD, it was just over the limit for a CD.

Rather than burn another, since so much has been going well lately, (unlike the old days, Linux has come amazingly far) I just trusted the burn and the disk and rebooted with it in the drive and it worked.

Next was using the boot option, "toram." Debian has this option and it worked with Knoppix, SUSE, and maybe another distro, but not Ubuntu, surprisingly. It did work with Mint as it is really Debian and Ubuntu-based.

Many distros don't have flash or the latest flash or codecs etc. With Mint 13 Maya, it's been a very rare, strange ride so far. Audio, video, apps, display, it's all good, so far.

Next step is to look for a DVD with more apps on it. Although, Firefox, Gimp, Media player, and the others on this version could definitely do the job for a while. No Pidgin, but Kapote, have to try that now. Okular, really nice PDF reader.

Combine it with Google Docs, (soon to be Google Drive - why?...) and I don't even need persistent install.

Debian FAQ in Old School Text Format

Debian old-fashioned text FAQ is still being updated, cool.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html

Lots of Apps Running All In Ram Including the Operating System LinuxMint Maya Version 13

Plenty of RAM available also, only using about 1.5gigs showing in system monitor.

Loaded OS with the "toram" boot option.

I'm impressed...

Image of CPU Load Shared Over 6 CPU Cores Linux Mint

This is so awesome, and it's running off the LiveCD.

And, I even was able to use Torrent to get another Linux Mint version and burned it to DVD, while the entire OS was loaded into RAM using the toram option on boot to free up the optical drive!

I haven't even installed a hard drive in this new box yet.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

IDG News Service Found Embedded in Linuxforums

linuxforums regarding Suse toram, but also this IDG news service embedded news thing about new products. Pretty interesting, I need to find this elsewhere, obviously....

Update on AMD 6 Core CPU and Free Motherboard

I got an AMD FX 1600, 6 core CPU.

Got a free motherboard in the combo, after a $10 mail-in rebate.

And 8 gigs of ram for $39. Amazing.

Using this now with Linux Mint loaded into ram, but it's the 32-bit version so it is only seeing 2.7 gigs.

Must start downloading 64 bit distros soon!

Mint Tutorial Info

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/100

Browse List of tutorials and search

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/search

Just found this site

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

6 cores!

64 bit SUSE Studio is load balancing all 6 cores, running off of a cd-r, 8 gigs of ram, amazing.

Monday, July 30, 2012

posted at knoppix net but they take too long to moderate

Hi. Using Knoppix LiveCD 6.7 and sound worked once last year on this Asus pc and now it just happened to work again.

So I need to document all the settings so I can manually configure them the next time I want sound and it fails to auto configure.

I listed a few areas I thought of here [URL="http://techlinkcorner.blogspot.com/2012/07/suddenly-sound-worked-on-knoppix-livecd.html"]my little link saver site[/URL]

mobo is Asus k8u-x

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 204900 18
ppdev 4123 0
lp 6090 0
nouveau 444891 2
ttm 37497 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 19152 1 nouveau
8250_pnp 3379 0
parport_pc 24483 1
8250 15637 1 8250_pnp
floppy 41359 0
parport 21667 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
serial_core 12186 1 8250
snd_intel8x0 19600 3
i2c_ali15x3 3830 0
i2c_ali1535 3678 0
i2c_ali1563 3938 0
k8temp 2431 0
snd_ac97_codec 77913 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 750 1 snd_ac97_codec
uli526x 11083 0

and the line from lspci is here:
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 20)

How would I manually duplicate the current working condition?

Awesome Knoppix Hacks and Seminar on Persistent Settings

<<no longer applies>> :(

and here's someone else validating my problem - no more 'saveconfig' ...just as I started to think I had a solution. :(

http://brownn.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/further-thoughts-on-knoppix-6/

......

This will probably cure my prior posted issue. Knoppix can save the current configuration!

This guy is awesome, he wrote a book with 100 Knoppix hacks, Kyle Rankin.

Here is his awesome youtube seminar:

Remaster Knoppix without Remastering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdahQulIcUU

Here is a nice post with someone's favorite hacks that I think I'll be using right now.

http://www.wplug.org/w/images/f/fb/Wplug-top023.txt

Suddenly Sound Worked on Knoppix LiveCD

(add to linux links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdahQulIcUU )

looking for the working settings so I can duplicate it next time it fails:

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1689 K8 Northbridge [Super K8 Single Chip]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation AGP8X Controller
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
00:03.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1563 HyperTransport South Bridge (rev 70)
00:03.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 20)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: ALi Corporation ULi 1689,1573 integrated ethernet. (rev 40)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7)
00:0e.1 Mass storage controller: ALi Corporation ULi 5289 SATA (rev 10)
00:0f.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:0f.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:0f.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:0f.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000] (rev c1)

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ lsmod

Module Size Used by

ipv6 204900 18

ppdev 4123 0

lp 6090 0

nouveau 444891 2

ttm 37497 1 nouveau

drm_kms_helper 19152 1 nouveau

8250_pnp 3379 0

parport_pc 24483 1

8250 15637 1 8250_pnp

floppy 41359 0

parport 21667 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc

serial_core 12186 1 8250

snd_intel8x0 19600 3

i2c_ali15x3 3830 0

i2c_ali1535 3678 0

i2c_ali1563 3938 0

k8temp 2431 0

snd_ac97_codec 77913 1 snd_intel8x0

ac97_bus 750 1 snd_ac97_codec

uli526x 11083 0

knoppix@Microknoppix:/etc/modprobe.d$ cat alsa-base.conf

# autoloader aliases

install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0

install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1

install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2

install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3

install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4

install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5

install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6

install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7

# Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules

install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; }

install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq-midi ; : ; }

install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-emu10k1-synth ; : ; }

# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0

options bt87x index=-2

options cx88_alsa index=-2

options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2

options snd-intel8x0m index=-2

options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2

# Keep snd-pcsp from beeing loaded as first soundcard

options snd-pcsp index=-2

# Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard

options snd-usb-audio index=-2

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc$ cd asound

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound$ ls

M5455 card0 cards devices oss pcm seq timers version

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound$ ls s*

clients drivers oss queues timer

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound$ ls -la

total 0

dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 .

dr-xr-xr-x 112 root root 0 Jul 30 17:52 ..

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul 30 18:50 M5455 -> card0

dr-xr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 card0

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 cards

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 devices

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 oss

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 pcm

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 seq

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 timers

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 version

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound$ cd card0

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0$ ls

codec97#0 id intel8x0 oss_mixer pcm0c pcm0p pcm1c pcm2p

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0$ ls -la

total 0

dr-xr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 .

dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 ..

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 codec97#0

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 id

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 intel8x0

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 oss_mixer

dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 pcm0c

dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 pcm0p

dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 pcm1c

dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 pcm2p

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0$ cat id

M5455

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0$ cat intel8x0

Intel8x0

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0$ cat oss_mixer

VOLUME "Master" 0

BASS "" 0

TREBLE "" 0

SYNTH "" 0

PCM "PCM" 0

SPEAKER "" 0

LINE "Line" 0

MIC "Mic" 0

CD "CD" 0

IMIX "" 0

ALTPCM "" 0

RECLEV "" 0

IGAIN "Capture" 0

OGAIN "" 0

LINE1 "Aux" 0

LINE2 "" 0

LINE3 "" 0

DIGITAL1 "IEC958" 0

DIGITAL2 "" 0

DIGITAL3 "" 0

PHONEIN "Phone" 0

PHONEOUT "Master Mono" 0

VIDEO "Video" 0

RADIO "" 0

MONITOR "" 0

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0$ cd codec97#0/

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0$ ls

ac97#0-0 ac97#0-0+regs

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0$ ls -la

total 0

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 30 18:51 .

dr-xr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Jul 30 18:50 ..

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:51 ac97#0-0

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 18:51 ac97#0-0+regs

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0$ cat ac97#0-0

0-0/0: Analog Devices AD1888

PCI Subsys Vendor: 0x1043

PCI Subsys Device: 0x810d

Flags: 10

Capabilities : -headphone out-

DAC resolution : 20-bit

ADC resolution : 16-bit

3D enhancement : No 3D Stereo Enhancement

Current setup

Mic gain : +0dB [+0dB]

POP path : pre 3D

Sim. stereo : off

3D enhancement : off

Loudness : off

Mono output : MIX

Mic select : Mic1

ADC/DAC loopback : off

Double rate slots: 10/11

Extended ID : codec=0 rev=0 AMAP LDAC SDAC CDAC DSA=0 SPDIF DRA VRA

Extended status : SPCV LDAC SDAC CDAC SPDIF=3/4

PCM front DAC : 48000Hz

PCM Surr DAC : 48000Hz

PCM LFE DAC : 48000Hz

PCM ADC : 48000Hz

SPDIF Control : Consumer PCM Copyright Category=0x22 Generation=1 Rate=48kHz

AD18XX configuration

Unchained : 0x1000,0x0000,0x0000

Chained : 0x0000,0x0000,0x0000

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0$ cat ac97#0-0+regs

0:00 = 0090

0:02 = 1f1f

0:04 = 0404

0:06 = 0008

0:08 = 0000

0:0a = 0000

0:0c = 801f

0:0e = 801f

0:10 = 0808

0:12 = 0808

0:14 = 0000

0:16 = 9f9f

0:18 = 0808

0:1a = 0000

0:1c = 8080

0:1e = 0000

0:20 = 0000

0:22 = 0000

0:24 = 0000

0:26 = 000f

0:28 = 03c7

0:2a = 05c0

0:2c = bb80

0:2e = bb80

0:30 = bb80

0:32 = bb80

0:34 = 0000

0:36 = 9f80

0:38 = 9f9f

0:3a = 2a20

0:3c = 0000

0:3e = 0000

0:40 = 0000

0:42 = 0000

0:44 = 0000

0:46 = 0000

0:48 = 0000

0:4a = 0000

0:4c = 0000

0:4e = 0000

0:50 = 0000

0:52 = 0000

0:54 = 0000

0:56 = 0000

0:58 = 0000

0:5a = 0000

0:5c = 0000

0:5e = 0000

0:60 = 8080

0:62 = 0000

0:64 = 0000

0:66 = 0000

0:68 = 0000

0:6a = 0000

0:6c = 0000

0:6e = 0000

0:70 = 0000

0:72 = 0004

0:74 = 1001

0:76 = 6420

0:78 = 0000

0:7a = 0000

0:7c = 4144

0:7e = 5368

knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0$

Alsa and some Linux distros not working with ASUS k8u-x

http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2006/03/msg00190.html

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.user/22879

http://forum.linhes.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9190

http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2006/03/msg00191.html

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Some Handy Stuff Linux

Some handy linux system apps

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-linux-monitoring-tools.html

Linux KVM Intro on Youtube

Linux KVM Intro on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qni_oElJFZs&feature=related

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Processor_support

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#AMD_virtualization_.28AMD-V.29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YOKWks-vT4

Linus Torvalds: Why Linux is not Successful on Desktop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUk1yNVeEI&feature=related

Monday, July 23, 2012

discussion of live linux cd's and security

discussion of live linux cd's and security

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=115012

How to get chrome for linux into ubuntu

How to get chrome for linux into ubuntu

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/12/install-google-chrome-using-apt-get-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/

fascinating...

This worked for me while using the Live CD Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS

Interesting that you can update software in the virtual folder tree while using a live cd.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Linux Commands and Usage to be Updated Here

cut
to list user names on system:
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
cat
less
ls

Useful Linux Link

Linux Command: List All Users In The System

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-list-users-command/

List groups:

http://serverfault.com/questions/127782/how-can-i-get-a-list-of-linux-users-group

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_can_you_get_a_list_of_users_in_Linux

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Flash in Lubuntu Live CD and Sound Issue Solved

Ausu K8U-X motherboard 500mb ram, sempron cpu

Problems

no flash included in Lubuntu Live CD version 11.04

no sound unless startx as root

chromium browser wouldn't run as root

synaptic gui software installer would only run as root

error from trying to install flash this way:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

error:

download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

(see end for more on error)

So I could install flash as root and have sound, but not run the browser, or I could run the browser but have no sound, or I could install flash, run browser as non-root user but have no sound!

So I had to do the following:

1
Find the working package from when I ran gui as root from synaptic.
It is called:
browser-plugin-gnash

then from command line as root do this:

sudo apt-get install browser-plugin-gnash

this actually worked, no errors.

2
Start up gui as root

sudo startx

3
Run Chromium browser as root with the requirements that came from the error message.

In a terminal enter:

chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/ubuntu

4
Also had to right-click on the task bar to add the volume control

Youtube works, but BBC and Bloomberg radio didn't, I may need to install some other form of flash or something, I'll work on it.

This following path didn't work:

Find out the non-root username with "whoami" before any "sudo su"

whoami

non-root username for Lubuntu Live CD is: ubuntu

Open up a terminal from the gui desktop and log in as ubuntu since starting it as root with sudo makes everything done in it as root.

Start the browser from the terminal as ubuntu user

To do that I had to find the command that the gui shortcut is using by getting the properties of it from the start menu and entering it into the terminal, however this failed as user ubuntu!

The error for not starting as root, however, was actually useful and helpful to me!

It said that it just needed a home directory so I did step 3, above.

Original full error:

download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-downloader (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up libasound2-plugins (1.0.24-0ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-downloader
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Ask Ubuntu FAQ

Ask Ubuntu FAQ: http://askubuntu.com/questions?sort=faq

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

CMBS Bloomberg Article

CMBS Article
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-06/s-p-blocked-in-cmbs-after-derailed-goldman-sachs-deal-mortgages.html

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Greek Plan

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/us-greece-idUSTRE8120HI20120213

Friday, February 10, 2012

video in yahoo finance regarding potential trend change

Giant link to video in yahoo finance regarding potential trend change

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/time-prepare-market-sell-off-160829136.html;_ylt=AswSOtroZwb3UmhKw6g3KAeiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQzYXR0dWljBG1pdANGaW5hbmNlIEZQIEp1bWJvdHJvbiBMaXRlBHBrZwM2NGNlMzFhYi04ZTQyLTM4OWMtOTkxOC1iMjU2Mjg4ZjdmZmUEcG9zAzEEc2VjA2p1bWJvdHJvbgR2ZXIDOTA1OWUwZjAtNTQwMy0xMWUxLTlmM2YtZTcxMjY2ZjQ3NzVh;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

No One Gets Caught

Bloomberg article on how no body gets caught...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-10/world-s-dumbest-traders-were-at-credit-suisse-commentary-by-jonathan-weil.html

Fed Plays Favorites on Wall Street
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-10/fed-plays-wall-street-favorites-in-secret-bond-deals-mortgages.html

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Fewer foreclosures

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-07/banks-paying-homeowners-a-bonus-to-avoid-foreclosures-mortgages.html

UBS Traders mess up

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-07/ubs-reports-76-drop-in-quarterly-profit-investment-bank-loss.html

Aussie Up

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-07/australian-dollar-advances-to-six-month-high-as-reserve-bank-holds-rates.html

Monday, February 6, 2012

Music Links

Origins of popular music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster

http://parlorsongs.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlour_music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highbrow

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Google Docs, Picasa, and Blogger not connected?

Weird, it seems I can' move an image from google docs to picasa or from either to blogger, but when uploading directly to blogger the image ends up in picasa. Unless I'm missing something, they seem to be only partially integrated.