VirtualPC: German Keyboard Layout and the Backslash
To create the backslash symbol \ in a VirtualPC environment when having installed a German Keyboard Laoyut, you may press CTRL+ALT+ß instead of the normal AltGR+ß.
Archive of posts filed under the Linux category.
Unknown Monitor (locked to 800×600) – Nouveau Driver vs. NVidia Driver
With current Fedora Core releases many Nvidia graphic cards may report an “unknown monitor” after installation. The resolution then is locked to 800×600 at maximum. The root cause, however, is not the monitor itself, but an experimental graphic card’s driver.
Converting VMware image to QEMU
Converting a VMware image to be used in XEN or QEMU sound like an easy task in most posts available out there. In most cases only the conversion of the disk image file is considered. This article shows more advanced aspects especially on bridged networking.
Mismatch_cnt is not Zero
After having repotted a Fedora Core 12 installation I was challenged with the apparently quite well-known warning message /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check: WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md0 which came from Anacron into my inbox (The subject line starts with Anacron job ‘cron.weekly’). I remembered that I solved this problem on that Fedora server before,
Repotting Fedora Core 12 on Software RAID
Having installed the root partition of a Fedora Core 12 system on a software RAID device can be a tricky situation when it comes to resizing the file system. The post describes what needs to be done to ensure that the system can also boot after resizing has happened.