[CentOS] xorg and backlight

2008-06-29 Thread Andrej Moravcik
Hi all, I have found one problem after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 x86 on my HP Compaq nx7010 laptop. When I close and open lid, backlight is not turned on again. I can see my desktop, but the only thing I can do is press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart X11. Then the backlight is restored. xorg.co

[CentOS] rsyslog as default syslog daemon?

2010-11-26 Thread Andrej Moravcik
Hi all! Is anybody here using rsyslog? I am looking for the right solution how to use rsyslog in CentOS 5 as the default logging daemon. We use it because of filtering using regular expressions. I switched from sysklogd to rsyslog simply using chkconfig --del syslog chkconfig --add rsyslog chk

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog as default syslog daemon?

2010-12-01 Thread Andrej Moravcik
James Pearson wrote: > > I think your problem is that you did 'chkconfig --del syslog' - as the > man page states: > > --del name > The service is removed from chkconfig management, and any sym- > bolic links in /etc/rc[0-6].d which pertain to it are removed. > > Note

[CentOS] sysctl and gnome desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Andrej Moravcik
Hi all, I use CentOS 5.5 x86_64 on my laptop. I have couple of entries in /etc/sysctl.conf entries according to the recommendations http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ When Gnome Desktop starts something resets them to defaults. For example 'vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 1500' resets b

Re: [CentOS] Routing issue between 2 LANs

2010-12-19 Thread Andrej Moravcik
Hello Jose, from the picture you provided the situation looks pretty simple. - you have enabled IP forwarding on router, I recommend you to put it into /etc/sysctl.conf for persistence. - you have configured firewall rules on router to allow forwarding traffic from left to right subnet. You ca

Re: [CentOS] Firefox slower on GMail since update to CentOS 5.5

2010-06-02 Thread Andrej Moravcik
Hi Mathieu, I had the same problem with Firefox since I upgraded to CentOS 5.5. I noticed very slow (almost unusable) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g (Database Control, Grid Control and Application Server Control) and MS SharePoint pages, high X.org cpu usage and noisy fans activity. I couldn't

Re: [CentOS] Firefox slower on GMail since update to CentOS 5.5

2010-06-03 Thread Andrej Moravcik
't >> help, but finaly I realized that I upgraded nvidia driver too - problem >> disapeared right after downgrade to nvidia driver >> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run. >> > Do you think this worth filing a bug report against? > > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010