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Fedora 23 and Wacom Cintiq as Secondary Display

Fedora 23 recognized most of things automatically  for Wacom Cintiq and Krtia works out of box with most settings as default.

However, I could not find how to make Cintiq as a secondary display and able to draw on it directly. There is not UI button for it. Setting the Cintiq as a secondary display only make the Cintiq monitor itself as a secondary, however, the stylus detection still map to the primary screen.

After some Google search and debugging, found following post

http://ragnarb.com/configuring-wacom-cintiq-13hd-with-ubuntu-14-04/

which explains in great detail how to handle it.

However, when I run it, it failed with following error

Cannot find device 'Wacom Cintiq 13HD stylus'.


Cannot find device 'Wacom Cintiq 13HD eraser'.

I then use xsetwacom to find the devices real name

xsetwacom --list devices

It then display as

Wacom Cintiq 13HD Pen stylus id: 14 type: STYLUS 

Wacom Cintiq 13HD Pen eraser id: 15 type: ERASER 

Wacom Cintiq 13HD Pad pad id: 16 type: PAD

So I modified the script as following

#!/bin/bash

#

# Toggles which screen the cintiq is mapped to.

if [ "$(cat ~/.wacom-mapping)" -eq 0 ];

then

    echo 1

    xsetwacom set "Wacom Cintiq 13HD Pen stylus" MapToOutput "HEAD-1"

    xsetwacom set "Wacom Cintiq 13HD Pen eraser" MapToOutput "HEAD-1"

    echo 1 > ~/.wacom-mapping

else

    echo 0

    xsetwacom set "Wacom Cintiq 13HD Pen stylus" MapToOutput "HEAD-0"

    xsetwacom set "Wacom Cintiq 13HD Pen eraser" MapToOutput "HEAD-0"

    echo 0 > ~/.wacom-mapping

fi

Re run the script, and it works this time

[localhost ~]$ wacom-toggle-mapping

1

Update from Fedora 22 to Fedora 23 with Nvidia Proprietary Driver

I decided to upgrade my own workstation to Fedora 23 from Fedora 23 this weekend. After going through some struggles, I thought I will write down some of my steps so people can reference in case they hit similar obstacles.

Please note that I am not responsible for anything case by the info in the article and the article is provided as is.

Please also note not all info is coming from me. Some of them is found on the referenced article stated in there.

Perform Upgrade

I followed following guide:

https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-from-fedora-22-to-fedora-23/

sudo dnf upgrade

sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23 --best

The only thing that I did different from the article is that I hit error that mention nvidia drive from rpmfusion cannot be upgraded. So I did following

sudo dnf erase *nvidia

and then redo

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23 --best

sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

After that, I am able to successfully update.

However, after the update is complete, when I tried to install nVidia proprietary driver, but facing following issue:

nVidia Driver is not compatible with Fedora 23 as Fedora 23 includes X.Org 1.18 release candidate version
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/77564/fedora-23-nvidia-proprietary-driver/

To overcome it, I following article
http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1598

sudo dnf --allowerasing --releasever=22 downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg

sudo cat exclude=xorg-x11* >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Follow the article to install nVidia

http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia

sudo cat exclude=xorg-x11* >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

sudo reboot now

However, after reboot, I found the GDM screen shows up, but no user login prompt. After some research, I found following article

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/77555/fedora-23-gnome-login-issues/

which seem to indicate that GDM not working with nVidia driver (it seem true, if I remove all nVidia package, the GDM shows up correctly).

As a workaround, I use lightgdm to login
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/37728/unable-to-login-after-upgrade/

On the login screen, press

ctl + Alt + F2

Login as a user that have sudo previlige

sudo dnf -y install lightdm system-switch-displaymanager

sudo system-switch-displaymanager lightdm

sudo reboot now

After that, it should have lightdm to prompt login and one should have Fedora 23 + nVidia proprietary driver.

Please note to remove the change on

sudo cat exclude=xorg-x11* >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Once there is an offical X.Org 1.18 release and offical nVidia release to support it. (Also switch back lightdm to gdm if it is fixed.)

I did use nVidia proprietary driver because my nVidia card did not support by open source driver and only have software render, which is too slow to use on Krita.

OpenShift 3 (Fedora 22 Host + Vagrant with libvirt + OpenShift 3 Docker)

Red Ha recently introduced OpenShift 3, which is different from OpenShift 2 by adopting Docker + Kubernetes. Following doc covers some note I took during experimenting with it as it seem there is still some gaps in online docs that is different from my installation experience (I may just miss something too)

Update (06/27/2015): The latest binary v1.0.0 from OpenShift 3 along with latest CentOS patch (that includes Docker 1.6.2 along with necessary SELinux Policy), its example seem to be working okay. But I found that race condition may happen during a lot of image pull (but maybe it is just because I have a single all in one instance)

The code can be found at here:

https://github.com/openshift/origin

The OS in this docs is Fedora 22 WorkStation version, so some settings will be oriented with Fedora specific settings.

Install Vagrant + libvirt (one may check this doc for more detail http://fedoramagazine.org/running-vagrant-fedora-22/):

sudo dnf install vagrant vagrant-libvirt

Install Vagrant Plugin (details can be found at here: https://github.com/openshift/vagrant-openshift)

vagrant plugin install vagrant-openshift

(Optional: Install Docker for local debug)

sudo dnf install docker

Install nfs-server packages (one may find the detail docs at here: http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_22&p=nfs)

sudo dnf install nfs-utils 

Install firewall rule for vagrant + libvirt NFS mount (as vagrant + libvirt use NFS mount for share the data between host and VM, it is a requirement), following commands must be run even if you choose to disable your firewall (I am not sure why, but without following rules, NFS will not happen even if your firewall is off), (detail explanation can be found at here http://fedoramagazine.org/running-vagrant-fedora-22/):

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=nfs &&sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=rpc-bind &&sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=mountd &&sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Install git (for cloing the repository):

sudo dnf install git

For people who like single line command:

sudo -y dnf install vagrant vagrant-libvirt git docker nfs-utils &&
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=nfs &&
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=rpc-bind &&
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=mountd &&
sudo firewall-cmd --reload && vagrant plugin install vagrant-openshift

Move to a folder where OpenShift source can be stored and clone it down:

git clone https://github.com/openshift/origin.git

Move into the directory and create a CentOS 7 configuration file instead of default Fedora 21 ones (the reason is Fedora 7 seem to be close its end of life, so thought to choose a long support edition)

cd origin
vagrant origin-init --stage inst --os centos7 openshift

Check the configuration:

cat .vagrant-openshift.json  | grep centos7

Should Produce following:

  "os": "centos7",
    "box_name": "centos7_inst",
    "box_url": "http://mirror.openshift.com/pub/vagrant/boxes/openshift3/centos7_virtualbox_inst.box"
    "box_name": "centos7_base",
    "box_url": "http://mirror.openshift.com/pub/vagrant/boxes/openshift3/centos7_libvirt_inst.box"
    "ssh_user": "centos"
    "ssh_user": "centos"

Proceed to stand out the vagrant box (in the origin folder above):

vagrant up

It should continues to stand out the machine, enter password as needed for the network settings and NFS mount. If it is has errors on NFS mount, please use the above docs and other info to help debug. Once the machine completes success, proceed to ssh into the VM (and type password as necessary):

vagrant ssh

Once ssh into the machine, we can pull the image to ensure they are latest

. /data/src/examples/sample-app/pullimages.sh

Download and start up the necessary binary for OpenShift v3

# Download the binary
curl -L https://github.com/openshift/origin/releases/download/v1.0.0/openshift-origin-v1.0.0-67617dd-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar xzv

# Change to root user (for below scripts)
sudo su -

# http://fabric8.io/guide/openShiftInstall.html
export OPENSHIFT_MASTER=https://$(hostname -I | cut -d ' ' -f1):8443
echo $OPENSHIFT_MASTER

export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)

# Create the log directory in advance
mkdir -p /var/lib/openshift/
chmod 755 /var/lib/openshift

# Remove previous generated config if anyrm -rf openshift.local.config

nohup openshift start \
        --cors-allowed-origins='.*' \
        --master=$OPENSHIFT_MASTER \
        --volume-dir=/var/lib/openshift/openshift.local.volumes \
        --etcd-dir=/var/lib/openshift/openshift.local.etcd \
        > /var/lib/openshift/openshift.log &

tail -f   /var/lib/openshift/openshift.log

Please wait until the log is print out listening before proceed to next steps

On may then use the web browser to visit the OpenShift console with VM_ADDRESS:8443 in the host machine, one may found the VM_ADDRESS by using following command in the VM

ifconfig 

Should have similar output at eth0 (other ones are for Docker and OpenShift)

eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.121.169  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.121.255
        inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fec6:ba8d  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 52:54:00:c6:ba:8d  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 184375  bytes 442794303 (422.2 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 11  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 119825  bytes 15028821 (14.3 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

In the Vagrant VM, start following command,

# Link the current config
mkdir -p ~/.kube
ln -s `pwd`/openshift.local.config/master/admin.kubeconfig ~/.kube/config
export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=`pwd`/openshift.local.config/master/ca.crt
sudo chmod a+rwX openshift.local.config/master/admin.kubeconfig
sudo chmod +r openshift.local.config/master/openshift-registry.kubeconfig 

# Create local registryoadm registry --create --credentials=openshift.local.config/master/openshift-registry.kubeconfig --config=openshift.local.config/master/admin.kubeconfig
# Check the statusoc describe service docker-registry --config=openshift.local.config/master/admin.kubeconfig

Above should print out docker registry info (please check until Endpoint parameter is no longer <NONE>)

Use following commands to log in as a sample user

oc login --certificate-authority=openshift.local.config/master/ca.crt -u test-admin -p test-admin

Use following commands then to create a javaee sample application with WildFly (please check the original blog: http://blog.arungupta.me/openshift-v3-getting-started-javaee7-wildfly-mysql/)

# Create new project

oc new-project test --display-name="OpenShift 3 WildFly" --description="This is a test sample project to test WildFly on OpenSHift 3"

 # Create new app

oc new-app -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bparees/javaee7-hol/master/application-template-jeebuild.json

# Trace the build 

oc build-logs jee-sample-build-1

 The above command should yield something similar to following (may need to wait for few minutes):

I0628 04:40:08.327578       1 sti.go:388] Copying built war files into /wildfly/standalone/deployments for later deployment...
I0628 04:40:08.352066       1 sti.go:388] Copying config files from project...
I0628 04:40:08.353790       1 sti.go:388] ...done
I0628 04:40:16.662515       1 sti.go:96] Using provided push secret for pushing 172.30.6.81:5000/test/jee-sample image
I0628 04:40:16.662562       1 sti.go:99] Pushing 172.30.6.81:5000/test/jee-sample image ...
I0628 04:40:24.410955       1 sti.go:103] Successfully pushed 172.30.6.81:5000/test/jee-sample

One then should be able to use describe service

oc describe services

Output:

NAME       LABELS                                   SELECTOR        IP(S)           PORT(S)
frontend   template=application-template-jeebuild   name=frontend   172.30.88.128   8080/TCP
mysql      template=application-template-jeebuild   name=mysql      172.30.250.39   3306/TCP

One may use ssh tunnel to post the website on your local workstation by opening up a new terminal, move into the origin code directory (the ip may be different front above, please check the ip for frontend service and change as necessary)

From local workstation (not the vagrant box), use following

cd origin 

vagrant ssh -- -L 9999:172.30.167.74:8080 

The IP and Port depends on the output above, 9999 is the local machine available port. One may then open localhost:9999 in local workstation browser and it should open the Java app.

Clean up everything (it will remove everything, please be warned)

oc delete pods,services,projects --all

Shutdown the vagrant boxes by using the command on host workstation:

vagrant halt 

Or use the following command on host workstation to destroy the VM (in case something goes wrong):

vagrant destroy --force

Happy Mother's Day Year 2015

Mother Card 05092015 by danil-ko on DeviantArt

Happy Mother's Day Year 2015.

Completed in Krita.

Following is some of concept art before starting it.Start to try out new ways to color things and correct anatomy problems.



Concept Art 05092015 by danil-ko on DeviantArt