Send Fedora Your Hardware Profile (Read the initial post first!)

foolish · #1 6th March 2007, 01:56 PM

From the fedoraproject.org news section:

"If you have been looking for a easy way to contribute to the Fedora Project, here is your chance. Show us what hardware you are running Fedora on. It will help the project focus its development efforts and make more hardware work better with Fedora and Linux in general. Take a look at the announcement for more details. Thank you."

foolish · #2 6th March 2007, 02:00 PM

As stated in the announcement, if you're running FC6 or later, here's how to do this:

Open a terminal, enter:

Code:

su -c 'yum install smolt'

Enter root password when promted.

Once package is installed, enter:

Code:

smoltSendProfile

press y when promted.

Note:

Your smolt ID can be useful in many ways. Like when reporting bugs in bugzilla, refer to it to give the developers an overview of your hardware. Here in FedoraForum, it can be useful when asking questions related to hardware, simply post your smolt ID and other users can look at it. Having a link to your smolt Hardware Profile in your signature might be a good idea.

sailor · #3 10th March 2007, 02:35 AM

OK cool...here is my profile :
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?...2-0ce8ad0b49c6

akenateb · #4 2nd May 2007, 07:23 PM

Tried to send profile on ps3 fails. fc7 6.93 ppc.

[root@stohsp3 ~]# smoltSendProfile
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/smoltSendProfile", line 102, in <module>
print profile.getProfile()
File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 389, in getProfile
return '\n'.join(printBuffer)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)
[root@stohsp3 ~]#

BR.

glenngds2006 · #5 2nd May 2007, 11:32 PM

Error contacting Server: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Could not send - Exiting
is the error I got when I did as said.

What is wrong?

ryptyde · #6 3rd May 2007, 12:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glenngds2006

Error contacting Server: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Could not send - Exiting
is the error I got when I did as said.

What is wrong?

The server is probably down temporarily try again later. I have sent 4 different profiles 3 desktop and 1 laptop and the server was working.

glenngds2006 · #7 3rd May 2007, 03:34 AM

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?...a-b4ae17f72034 is my current smolt link. I have been trying since 3:00PM CDT to send my hardware data to the server. I have deleted and recreated UUID and still no luck the vast majority of my data just will not upload. I have a good internet connection and I have a direct internet connection by means of cable internet. I only have one computer so I cannot run over to computer number two to see if things work there or not.

joe.pelayo · #8 3rd May 2007, 05:51 AM

A very good idea indeed. This is my laptop's report http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?...b-be967a513e2a
Joe.

marcrblevins · #9 3rd May 2007, 06:16 AM

I tried smolt as well, it went in first time, no issues. Next step was to set link on my forum's signiture. Had to do several tries to get my forum signiture to show right. You could do the same.
However, I'm not sure if this smolt is ready. Cause Fedora 7 is out at the end of this month, so I'm going to reinstall everything and reinstall smolt, get it? I"ll ended up with a different UUID? Right?
I'll just remember to delete the old one before using Fedora 7. Then update my forum's signiture.

who_knows · #10 5th May 2007, 06:36 PM

urgently help required

here is my hardware's profile

desktop

intel original processor 3 D, (dual core)
intel D 965 RY (main board)
kingston 1 G DDR 2 with 533 front bus
250 GB SATA westerndigital with 16 MB cache
benq 52 X combo drive
compaq 17 " CRT monitor
3 buttor optical mouse

regards

brunson · #11 5th May 2007, 06:58 PM

Interesting, smolt talks to dbus, which doesn't get started at init 3, so I can't run it on my servers. I'll have to look into starting dbus services without Gnome.

Edit: Actually, it looks like I'm wrong about that. It's just the first server I tried seems to have problem with the dbus config that keeps it from starting. My other servers are all running it at runlevel 3.

ghell · #12 9th May 2007, 09:01 PM

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?...a-3c2e870669c0

Damn, I built this machine from parts and never knew there was so much nvidia stuff in it

(because of the ASUS P5N32-SLI SE DELUXE motherboard no doubt)

seakiwi · #13 12th May 2007, 09:10 AM

I just sent my laptop profile away.

Question ....

I noticed in the output that my IDE drive is set as the SLAVE and my CD/DVD drive is set to MASTER. I would have expected it to be the other way around. Is there any harm (as in reduction in speed/performance) in having them that way round?

nuts · #14 21st May 2007, 02:47 AM

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?...2-8117b5872d8c

ghell · #15 23rd May 2007, 07:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seakiwi

I just sent my laptop profile away.

Question ....

I noticed in the output that my IDE drive is set as the SLAVE and my CD/DVD drive is set to MASTER. I would have expected it to be the other way around. Is there any harm (as in reduction in speed/performance) in having them that way round?

Shouldn't be any harm. You can choose which is slave and which is master by either explicitly setting the jumpers on the drive or using cable select. Cable select takes the device at the end of the cable as master and the device in the middle of the cable as slave (or vice versa, I don't remember)

I have my CD as Primary Master but my old IDE hard drive as Secondary Master (my case is a NZXT Nemesis Elite so it puts hard drives in sideways but the 3.5" bays forwards so this was the only way I could plug it in, the cables were too short otherwise.) and I have windows on a SATAII RAID 0. This has caused me no problems so far