Home / user-16741

drgrog's questions

Martin Hope
drgrog
Asked: 2014-05-13 00:08:38 +0800 CST
  • 7

How do I find out what packages have been installed since the OS was installed? I do not want to know all packages installed, only those that were not part of the initial OS install, and have been explicitly installed afterwards.

For the sake of this question, lets assume a fresh install, as I imagine distro upgrades would complicate matters. I would prefer to use command line, but a GUI solution would be OK if a command or script is not available.

I've had a quick look at the man pages of dpkg and aptitude, but didn't see anything obvious. Also, the output of apt-cache show package-name or dpkg -s pkg-name doesn't seem to give any dates that can be compared against the date of OS installation (which I would have to work out how to get too).

I have logwatch on a server that sends daily notifications of what has been installed. My guess is that it parses dpkg.log. I'm not sure this method would be a solution, as many of the install entries may have been logrotated out, especially on older systems. And ideally this should work for any system, desktop or server.

It would also be great if the output could include the version of the package currently installed, but that may be asking too much, and I can always script it later once I have the package names.

package-management
Martin Hope
drgrog
Asked: 2012-03-17 04:34:45 +0800 CST
  • 17

Gnome-power-statistics is run when you click on the battery icon in the top panel of a laptop. It shows battery history such as charge and rate, as well as statistics such as discharge profile and discharge accuracy.

gnome power statistics discharge profile

The more you use your laptop, the more data it shows, and the more accurate the battery time-to-empty predictions are.

So, where does gnome-power-statistics get the raw historical data from? And, if it also saves any data, where does it save it to?

power-management
Martin Hope
drgrog
Asked: 2011-06-24 21:01:23 +0800 CST
  • 5

I am using a Natty Live-USB, and the Remote Desktop Viewer application (Applications -> Internet -> Remote Desktop Viewer) only shows SSH & VNC protocols.

How can I include RDP in the list, in order to connect to existing Windows Remote Desktop sessions on Windows XP machines.

I am aware that I can use the gnome-rdp application, or even rdesktop hostname from a terminal, but I would like to create a persistent LiveUSB that uses Remote Desktop Viewer to connect to Windows RDP (port 3389).

I do not want to set up VNC, TeamViewer or any others, as these do not solve my problem due to the fact they need additional software on the remote hosts.

11.04
Martin Hope
drgrog
Asked: 2011-06-01 03:15:58 +0800 CST
  • 74

Is there a way to check the size of the video memory? Specifically, is there one that works accurately for both integrated GPU's as well as PCI/AGP graphics cards?

Many integrated GPU's have dynamically allocated memory, so the solution would hopefully return either the maximum available video memory or the currently allocated amount. For stand-alone NVidia or ATI cards it would obviously return the total amount of physical GPU RAM.

lspci -v does output memory figures, but I do not believe it is the video memory. I suspect the figure reported is some system memory allocation or block or channel size, but I don't know for sure. You can see in these test results that lspci was wrong in 5 of the 6 tests:

** ASUS EN210 PCIe - 1024 Mb *** 

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8354
        Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]

*** Galaxy 8400GS PCIe - 512 Mb *** 

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 05cc
    Region 0: Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Region 3: Memory at e2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]

*** VirtualBox VM - 10 Mb (headless server) *** 

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]

*** VirtualBox VM - 128 Mb *** 

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA Controller])
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]

*** S3 Savage 4 AGP - unknown Mb (old lspci log), but I don't think they made these cards with 128Mb memory! *** 

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 01c5
    Region 0: Memory at feb80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
    Region 1: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]

*** NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 integrated - 1024 Mb *** 

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT215 [Quadro FX 1800M] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Dell Device 040c
    Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
video