from:"Linuxguy123"

My wife is a busy professional person.  The organization she works for
uses Microsoft applications for scheduling and email.  The users access
their information via web browsers.  She is using the Safari browser on
her iPhone to gain access to her information.

My wife needs better access to her schedule and email.  Right now if she
doesn't have an Internet connection she doesn't have access.  And the
web user interface was designed to be used with a desktop computer with
a large monitor, not a small handheld device like an iPhone.

There must be a better way.  

I understand that some of the OS desktop apps (Evolution and Kontact)
are going to be working with Microsoft Exchange.  I suspect that when
they do she will be able to access her information via them.

So what is the smallest practical device that will run F12 ? 

How else could one run apps like Evolution and Contact on a small
device ?  Could they be made to run on a Symbian device ?  What about
Android ?

Thanks   

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Re: What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:00 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
 On Wednesday 23 December 2009 09:53:56 Linuxguy123 wrote:
  
  So what is the smallest practical device that will run F12 ?
  
  How else could one run apps like Evolution and Contact on a small
  device ?  Could they be made to run on a Symbian device ?  What about
  Android ?
  
  Thanks
  
 The nokia N900 runs debian, you can open a terminal, tweak the sources and 
 install things via dpkg.  I have a co-worker that has one - it's pretty 
 impressive.

I felt foolish posting this question but now I am very glad I did.

Is the n900 running Debian out of the box or did your friend load it
with Debian ?  Is Maemo Debian ?

What Linux apps will it run ?  Does it have Gnome/Qt/KDE ?   It must
support Qt apps because Nokia bought Qt.

Has anyone here fooled around with putting mainstream Linux apps on the
N900 ?


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Re: What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 12:52 -0500, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
 On 12/23/2009 11:53 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
  How else could one run apps like Evolution and Contact on a small
  device ?  Could they be made to run on a Symbian device ?  What about
  Android ?
 
 
 You might want to check out Davmail:
 
 http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
 
 It will talk to Microsoft's web based mail/scheduler and proxy it as 
 more standard protocols.  Then your small device only needs to talk 
 those standard protocols to interact.  It would mean that you would have 
 to have tomcat or something installed on an internet accessible host, 
 but that seems easier than figuring out how to get evolution onto 
 symbian or android.
 
 Woogie

Nice reply !  Thanks, I really appreciate it !

LG



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Re: What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:58 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
 On Wednesday 23 December 2009 10:42:50 Linuxguy123 wrote:
  On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:00 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
   On Wednesday 23 December 2009 09:53:56 Linuxguy123 wrote:
So what is the smallest practical device that will run F12 ?
   
How else could one run apps like Evolution and Contact on a small
device ?  Could they be made to run on a Symbian device ?  What about
Android ?
   
Thanks
  
   The nokia N900 runs debian, you can open a terminal, tweak the sources
   and install things via dpkg.  I have a co-worker that has one - it's
   pretty impressive.
  
  I felt foolish posting this question but now I am very glad I did.
  
  Is the n900 running Debian out of the box or did your friend load it
  with Debian ?  Is Maemo Debian ?
  
  What Linux apps will it run ?  Does it have Gnome/Qt/KDE ?   It must
  support Qt apps because Nokia bought Qt.
  
  Has anyone here fooled around with putting mainstream Linux apps on the
  N900 ?
  
 
 It's Maemo Debian, came that way out of the box
 I've read a few posts about folks installing mainstream apps on it with 
 success. I dont think it has KDE/Gnome, it's a touch-screen maemo specific 
 interface.
 
 I'll know more in the coming weeks, Mine is due to be delivered today

Please let me/us (?) know how you like it.  It would be SO sweet to be
running Linux on our phones, laptops and servers !  One OS and so much
flexibility, not have to learn some new SDK, etc. 

We are quite disappointed with my wife's iPhone.  Everything is so
locked up. 



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Re: What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:26 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote:
 On Wednesday 23 December 2009 10:18 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
  We are quite disappointed with my wife's iPhone.  Everything is so
  locked up.
 
 
 A friend of mine jailbroke his iPhone. He can do all sorts of cool stuff 
 including having a terminal and using ssh to log into our lab servers. ;)

They must be jailbroken if you want to do much with them.   We wanted a
good Skype/ VOIP application since the 3G network coverage isn't nearly
as good as plain GSM.

I think I would much, much prefer the N900.  I found out that davmail
can be use with an iPhone.  We'll see what my wife says. 

I might get an N900 just for myself.  What would stop one from running
Fedora on it ?  I guess ubuntu would be a closer fit ?



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Re: What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:58 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:

 It's Maemo Debian, came that way out of the box
 I've read a few posts about folks installing mainstream apps on it with 
 success. I dont think it has KDE/Gnome, it's a touch-screen maemo specific 
 interface.
 
 I'll know more in the coming weeks, Mine is due to be delivered today

This is the coolest device ever !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo

I wonder if I could get the TI89 calculator emulator running on it ?
Then I wouldn't have to carry both a phone and a calculator around.  I
lose about 1 TI89 calculator a year and I hate how dim the TI89 display
is.


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Re: What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 15:39 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
 On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:26 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote: 
  On Wednesday 23 December 2009 10:18 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
   We are quite disappointed with my wife's iPhone.  Everything is so
   locked up.
  
  
  A friend of mine jailbroke his iPhone. He can do all sorts of cool stuff 
  including having a terminal and using ssh to log into our lab servers. ;)
 
 You don't need to jailbreak to use ssh to log into your lab
 servers--there's an app (or three) for that.  It even does X, and
 there's a VNC client, too.  There's even an app for tn3270 for those of
 us who still need to talk to IBM mainframes.
 
 You do need to jailbreak to log into your iPhone from your lab servers,
 though...
 
 I agree, I don't like how locked up it is, but it does do slick like
 Apple always does.  It looks like Android and some other smartphone OS's
 will be promising competitors, though.  We'll see when my contract
 expires what the next-gen Droid looks like.

I know its off topic from Fedora, but Maemo looks very slick.  Its
starting to build a base of users and developers. 

And although its Gnome based, it now supports Qt stuff and a switch or
full dual support can't be far off being that Nokia bought Qt.

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Re: All I want for Christmas is digiKam 1.0 in F12-stable...

2009-12-22 Thread Linuxguy123

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:46 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: 
 Linuxguy123 wrote:
 
  digiKam 1.0.0 was released today.  I think a lot of us are running
  1.0-beta 6 installed via yum.   Would it be possible to get 1.0.0 into
  F12 stable prior to Christmas ?
 
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/digikam-1.0.0-1.fc12
 
 stable that quickly? I'd feel a bit uncomfortable without at least some 
 testing and positive feedback.

Nice job providing a means for installation without building from source
and so quickly.  Good work.

As for installation, doing a straight rpm -i over the -beta6 install
resulted in a slew of error messages regarding file conflicts.  I did a
yum remove digikam and then an rpm -i and everything worked fine.

Thanks again. 

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Re: All I want for Christmas is digiKam 1.0 in F12-stable...

2009-12-22 Thread Linuxguy123

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:18 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  As for installation, doing a straight rpm -i over the -beta6 install
  resulted in a slew of error messages regarding file conflicts.  I did a
  yum remove digikam and then an rpm -i and everything worked fine.
 
 That's to be expected, as rpm -i installs a package without removing
 the old one.  Unless the package is specially designed (like the
 kernel) you'll get conflicts.  Normally, you'd want to use rpm -U
 which will remove the old package before installing the new one.

DOH, what the heck was I thinking ?  I KNEW that.  Sheesh !  :smacks
forehead with open hand:

I was thinking it was an install because I had downloaded the rpms.  I
don't usually have to download rpms to do updates because I just use
yum.

Thanks for the reply.

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How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-22 Thread Linuxguy123

Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver
instead of the nouveau driver.

Or some other video driver that doesn't support kernel mode switching.

DON'T reply otherwise, I don't want to hear a debate on the free
versions versus proprietary or anything else.

If you are using the proprietary nvidia driver or some other non kms
equipped driver, how are you finding F12 ?  Ie do you experience
freezing when you access some panel items ?

Thanks 

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All I want for Christmas is digiKam 1.0 in F12-stable...

2009-12-21 Thread Linuxguy123

digiKam 1.0.0 was released today.  I think a lot of us are running
1.0-beta 6 installed via yum.   Would it be possible to get 1.0.0 into
F12 stable prior to Christmas ?

I know I can build it from source, but I need to install it on several
machines and it would be much easier to do it via a yum update.  I'm
also behind on my Christmas shopping... 

Thanks for listening. 

Season's Greetings !

LG

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Re: I upgraded to F12 and I can only run a console session. Help ! (wifii administration from a console ?)

On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:57 +0100, Julian Aloofi wrote:
 linux guy - Sunday 13 December 2009 15:34:41:
  I installed cnetwork manager and I can't get a wifi connection for some
  reason.  I invoke cnetworkmanager -C myISSD options and hangs.
  
 
 If you're connecting to a wireless network you need:
 cnetworkmanager -C yourSSID --SECURITY
 where SECURITY can be:
 --unprotected for an unprotected network
 --wep-pass=PASSWORD for WEP secured networks
 --wpa-pass=PASSWORD for WPA secured networks
 
 e.g. $cnetworkmanager -C mynetwork --wpa-pass=hqlo2547

Yeah, I used the security options, that is why I had options in my
command above.  It didn't work. 

Fortunately my cabled connection did work and yum update fixed
everything.  I am now running F12 with zero problems.  

Thanks for the help. 





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Re: Fedora 12 -- A great new version !

On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 16:44 -0500, William Case wrote:
 Hi;
 
 Just thought I would say I really really like Fedora 12.  It feels like
 a Christmas gift.
 
 I upgraded from F11 this morning with no difficulties -- worked like a
 charm.  Everything looks and feels a little cleaner and a little
 tighter.
 
 The upgrading process (which I couldn't get to work for me in F11) found
 the upgrades for all my applications except one small minor accessory.
 
 I had hoped the cx23885 driver for v4l2 had been fixed to handle analog
 cable TV, but I guess not.  However, that's an ongoing problem not
 related to the upgrade per se.
 
 I for one am very pleased.  If any of the maintainers are reading this
 list, congratulations!

+1.  Agreed. 

I updated from F11 based on this.  Due to /boot space issues I upgraded
using the F12 DVD.  I didn't have video or a network connection at first
boot.  Somehow DHCP was disabled for eth0.  I fixed that, ran yum update
and pretty much everything is golden. 

I can't believe how much more responsive F12 is than F11.  And it looks
more polished too.

Great work, people. 

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Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 17:38 -0600, Peter Danenberg wrote:
 Quoth Patrick O'Callaghan on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath:
  Alternatively, you could jailbreak the phone and copy files using
  scp. I don't know if the phone will then recognize them as something
  it can play, but I wouldn't bet on it.
 
 I was able to use gtkpod[1] on a jailbroken iphone to transfer music,
 manage playlists, photos, etc.
 
 Footnotes: 
 [1]  http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html
 

Thanks !  This was very helpful.

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Re: F12

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 01:11 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
 I just finished installing F12 on a 64 bit machine and I have to say, so 
 far this seems to be the best Fedora so far.

+1 

F12 is friggin amazing.

I yearned for an OS like this for so many years.  Back in the pre
Windows 3.0 days (1988-90) I was running all sorts of PC Unixes trying
to get something that was stable and had a rich feature set.  When
Windows shipped I wanted a GUI on top of Unix.  20 years later I have it
- and more.

Linux is way, way more than I ever envisioned a Unix OS could be.  Not
only do we have a Unix compatible OS, we have a complete GUI, actually 2
or three of them, a whole swarm of tools and stuff that I never
imagined. Just look at Eclipse ! 

And its all open source !  And its all free !

I first used Linux in 1996.  I was thrilled but still wanting.  Open
Office wasn't available, it was time intensive to set up different
hardware, etc.  But it was light and fast.  I was hooked.

Now look at Linux.  Its friggin amazing.  And so is modern PC hardware,
especially LCD monitors, laptops, etc. 

I remember the days of being over the moon at having access to a Sun
workstation.  I remember drooling over a Next machine.  We have come so
far.  Its incredible, it really is. 

Nothing is going to stop this juggernaut. 
 


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Why are some file operations so slow ?

Some file operations seem extremely slow on my computer.  Its a laptop
with 2 hard drives, a T8400 processor and 4 GB of RAM.

$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Dec 9
11:00:30 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

$ rpm -q kdelibs
kdelibs-4.3.3-4.fc12.i686

Certain file operations seem to take a long time.  Right Click-Delete
in Dolphin, for example.   Or creating a new directory to save a file in
from within Fireofox when doing a Save As.

Why is this ?

Thanks

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How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2009-12-12 Thread Linuxguy123

How do I load mp3s onto my iPhone in F12  ?

Is there a way to use an iPhone as a data modem via Bluetooth ?

Is there a way to have a Bluetooth phone operate with F12 like it does
with Microsoft Sync in a car ?

Thanks

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Re: F12 updates-testing issue: X flickers and fails to start

2009-12-09 Thread Linuxguy123

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:36 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote:
 On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:12:07 +0200 (EET) Pekka Savola wrote:
  Now gdm login however doesn't show my username and fingerprint login 
  is no longer an option
 
 Looks like the issue with hal-0.5.14-1:
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-12840


I think it has something to do with display power management and the
monitor brightness level. I can replicate the behavior by simply
adjusting the display brightness in a KDE session.

I have logged 2 bugs that are possibly related to this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528188

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525767



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Re: F12 updates-testing issue: X flickers and fails to start

2009-12-09 Thread Linuxguy123

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 06:27 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
 On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:36 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote:
  On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:12:07 +0200 (EET) Pekka Savola wrote:
   Now gdm login however doesn't show my username and fingerprint login 
   is no longer an option
  
  Looks like the issue with hal-0.5.14-1:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-12840
 
 
 I think it has something to do with display power management and the
 monitor brightness level. I can replicate the behavior by simply
 adjusting the display brightness in a KDE session.
 
 I have logged 2 bugs that are possibly related to this.
 
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528188
 
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525767
 

I recommend connecting an external monitor to see if the issue is
display specific and have you tried ctrl-alt-F6 to get to a console at
login and then going back to the X session with ctrl-alt-F1 ?


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Re: F12 updates-testing issue: X flickers and fails to start

2009-12-09 Thread Linuxguy123

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 18:36 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
 Linuxguy123 wrote:
  I have logged 2 bugs that are possibly related to this.
  
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528188
  
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525767
 
 Huh? One of these is a Nouveau bug, the other is a bug in the proprietary 
 nvidia driver, both of them already happened with F12 as released, so these 
 have absolutely nothing to do with this thread.

That is what you say.  How exactly did you determine that ? OR are you
guessing ?

I say they have similar symptoms.  I said they *might* be related.  

I bet my bugs have nothing to do with the nouveau or nvidia drivers.
I've been saying that all along.  I guess we will find out.

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Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Linuxguy123

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 14:01 +, Terry Barnaby wrote:
 Ok, controversial title.
 
 I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different 
 ones).
 All of these bar 1 has problems with the graphics (X11 lockups, system lockups
 and other problems) mainly in 3D but also in 2D.
 I still am using F8 on most of my systems as the Graphics systems have not
 been stable enough for 3D in Fedora since around those times.
 
 I know there is a lot of work going on in the graphics front, I myself
 have worked on and fed back issues as time and ability allow. During F11
 I helped with some issues, but unfortunately none of these made it back into
 updates for F11 and now F12 is out with yet more issues.
 
 The Linux kernel is generally relatively stable, as is the main system
 libraries etc in Fedora. The core issues most people seem to be facing is 
 Graphics and Sound issues. Obviously a major issue with Graphics is the sheer
 number of different graphics chip sets in use and the lack of documentation
 for quite a few of them. Due to this it requires a lot of user testing and
 feedback to get these issues sorted out. Unfortunately the very fast
 Fedora new release schedule gets in the way of getting this testing done
 and things do not get fixed prior to a new release which introduces yet
 another set of problems. The new release speed also uses a lot of
 developer and user time in just managing to create a new release and
 updating systems to use it.
 
 I know the quick release cycle is one of Fedora's features in its aim to
 be close to the leading edge, but this has to be balanced with usability 
 otherwise there will be few people actually using it in anger and thus
 actually testing the software. This could lead to the demise of Fedora.
 
 As an idea, at this stage, how about canceling the F13 release and just 
 fixing 
 and updating the F12 release ? This will concentrate developers and users 
 into 
 one system release. Similar to the pre-release test days we could have
 post-release test days. For example a Graphics test day for F12 where
 a certain set of tests with a test suite and a set of well known applications
 could be run. As F12 would be out longer, more people could participate in 
 this.
 If a commitment, all round, to producing updates fixing the issues in F12 
 were 
 made, I think more people would be willing to participate as users could
 expect to see a stable system for their efforts.

+1 on this.

I have 4 bugs entered into bugzilla related to display problems and none
of them get any attention.  I even posted a warning to the group about
this matter. (See November 16, Warning about possible display issues
with F12 upgrade.)

For KDE users, this situation has been building for a while.  Back in F9
the Folderview widget didn't work correctly with some nvidia cards,
supposedly because of issues in the proprietary nvidia driver.   The
developer's response to this: tough luck for using a proprietary driver.
Now that the open source nvidia driver is out they say to use it.  The
problem with nouveau is that it has just as many or more problems than
the proprietary driver, albeit in different areas.

I am not buying that all of the display problems are caused by the
proprietary driver.  And if they are, why do these bugs get closed ?
They should be forwarded to nvidia for work.  

Aside: I know, the bug reporter should forward them to nvidia.  But then
why even report a bug to the Redhat bugzilla ?  EVERYTHING is upstream
to them !  And the problem with reporting the bug (non proprietary
nvidia) upstream is that they say that we aren't running the general
release of the component, we are running the Fedora version and thus
Fedora should fix it. 

I am VERY frustrated with the state of the display components right now.
I am quite frustrated with how display component bugs are handled by the
Fedora developers.   I think some things need to change. 

I'm holding back from upgrading to F12 until I hear that some of these
issues are resolved. 


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Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Linuxguy123

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 Specific bug reports are definitely going to
 help.

Here are 4 to start with:

1) Cronometer crashes KDE session.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504173

2) Display not operating properly
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528188

Notice that this uses nouveau and it was reported back in rawhide.

3) Blank screen on login
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525767


4) KDE session display gets messed up on Gateway LT3108u
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525767



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Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

2009-11-25 Thread Linuxguy123

I'm perplexed by the posts I am seeing regarding F12 upgrades.  Lots of
upgrade issues and darn faint praise as far as I can tell ?

I was expecting a totally different response.

Is F12 stable enough to warrant upgrading to it ?

Is it a worthwhile upgrade at this point ?

Thanks.

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Re: Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

2009-11-25 Thread Linuxguy123

On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 09:19 -0700, Craig White wrote:
 Problems seem to relate to nVidia video, kernel mode setting.

Tell us more... I'm reading a lot of posts here but not getting the
picture.  Which nvidia devices, which driver (nvidia proprietary or
nouveau) and what is the work around if it doesn't work after the
upgrade ?

Thanks

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Re: F12 work around for out of space on /boot for preupgrade?

2009-11-18 Thread Linuxguy123

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:02 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 I deleted the old kernels and freed up space in /boot. Now, when I
 reboot after preupgrade, it tells me I'm still 1.1 MiB short.
 
 I don't see anything else I can delete and I suspect resizing /boot
 would be a real pain.
 
 There is an upgrade directory on /boot.  Can I move the upgrade
 directory to another partition and link them?  That is, will this work?
 
cd /boot
mv upgrade /tmp/upgrade
ln -s /tmp/upgrade upgrade
 

I am wondering if running gparted from a live disk would allow you to
resize /boot without losing any data.

Please keep us informed... I have exactly 187 MB free after cleaning up
and that is supposedly how much it needs.   How much free space do you
have ?  (df -h)

Thanks 

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F12 installs report here.

2009-11-17 Thread Linuxguy123

Subject says it all.  Tell us about your experience. 

LG

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Re: F12 installs report here.

2009-11-17 Thread Linuxguy123

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 14:56 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
 Sound Just Works!  Including the stuff from RPM Fusion.

Now that is good news !


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Re: F12 upgrade needs more space for /mnt/sysimage/boot

2009-11-17 Thread Linuxguy123

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 01:43 +, Paul Smith wrote:
 Dear All,
 
 When upgrading from F11 to F12 with preupgrade, I get an error message
 telling me I need more space for /mnt/sysimage/boot. Any ideas?

This was a known potential issue discussed on the Fedora Developer forum
a few days ago. 

Search for FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12 on Fedora-devel-list
for more information.   You might want to post there too and see if they
have any suggestions for getting your system upgraded.

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Warning about possible display issues with F12 upgrade.

2009-11-16 Thread Linuxguy123

Just a heads up that I know of at least 2 F12 show stoppers (as far as
upgrading goes) wherein the computer screen doesn't display the session
properly.  

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529128

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528188


Both of these cases involve NON proprietary display drivers.

If you Google a bit you might find other cases that involve non
proprietary and proprietary drivers.

Long explanation short, I would run F12 live before I did a blind
upgrade to make sure that the video display is going to operate properly
once you do upgrade.

Hope this helps someone.  

 

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Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

2009-11-13 Thread Linuxguy123

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 06:59 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
 Linuxguy123 writes:
 
  
  So, I reverted to using system-config-network and firestarter.  I
  disabled NetworkManager controlling the devices.  Firestarter kept
  saying that eth0 wasn't ready and crashing.   I know I've run into this
  problem before with statically configured ports and firestarter, but I
  can't remember what I did to fix it.
  
  This is way harder than it needs to be !
  
  I'm hoping the Network Manager in F12 will be a little more refined.
 
 Sometimes, it's easier to configure things directly by editing the contents 
 of /etc/sysconfig, rather than try to figure out how to do it using some 
 flashy GUI.
 
 What you want to do is not really that exotic. However it is also rather 
 uncommon, so, sometimes, you find that the tools which are designed for 
 average users and common situations simply cannot accomodate an unusual 
 situation, even though, underneath, it's not really that complicated.

I agree.  I was disappointed that I couldn't get it set up with
system-config-network and firestarter.  I'll look back in my Linux notes
and see if I can figure out why firestarter is crashing with eth0
enabled statically.  Any ideas ?

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Re: Recent kernels don't play well with suspend-to-disk

2009-11-13 Thread Linuxguy123

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 16:48 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
 Kernels since kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 up to and incuding 
 kernel-PAE-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686 seem to have a problem with suspend-
 to-disk.
 
 Why do I say this? Two behaviors. First, up until the most recent 
 kernel, I get non-fatal kernel errors that resulted in a spew of error 
 messages to each active terminal window, sometimes accompanied by a 
 notice that kerneloops has sent off a report. This, of course, after 
 one or more resume-from-disk. Reboot cures the problem temporarliy. The 
 most recent kernel failed toresume-from-disk in the boot process, 
 freezing up with a bunch of page fault errors. (Yes, I know I shoud 
 have copied/saved all of this). The only variable here appears to be 
 the kernel rebooting with 2.6.30.5-43 makes the problem vanish.
 
 Obviosuly there's not enough here to debug the problem. The fact that 
 its not going away suggests that the kerneloops reports are 
 insufficient.
 
 So, (a) anyone else having the problem? (b) suggestions for gathering 
 enough data to make a Bugzilla report worthwhile?
 
 ASUS Z84F w/ Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1666 MHz, INTEL 945GM chipset, 
 AET760SD00-30DA98Z 2x1 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM, Seagate Momentus 7200.1 
 series ST910021A

I have the same problem with suspend to RAM.  I am running a PAE kernel
too.  I never use suspend to disk. 

LG


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Re: FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:56 -0500, James Laska wrote:
 Greetings folks,
 
 After careful review by Will Woods around recently discovered problems
 related to preupgrading to Fedora 12, I've filed ticket#270
 (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/270) for discussion at the next
 FESCO meeting.  Please take a moment to read the details in the ticket. 
 
 The high-level summary from Will ...
 
 preupgrade to F12 is basically not going to work for anyone
 without significant manual workarounds, due to insufficient disk
 space on /boot. 

How much disk space will one require on /boot to perform the update
without work arounds ?

Can gparted resize /boot ?

Thanks


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Re: FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:10 -0500, James Laska wrote:
 On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 13:00 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
  On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:56 -0500, James Laska wrote:
   Greetings folks,
   
   After careful review by Will Woods around recently discovered problems
   related to preupgrading to Fedora 12, I've filed ticket#270
   (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/270) for discussion at the next
   FESCO meeting.  Please take a moment to read the details in the ticket. 
   
   The high-level summary from Will ...
   
   preupgrade to F12 is basically not going to work for anyone
   without significant manual workarounds, due to insufficient disk
   space on /boot. 
  
  How much disk space will one require on /boot to perform the update
  without work arounds ?
 
 From the ticket (see URL above).
 
 Here's the details.
 The default /boot partition is 200MB, but there's some overhead:
 Ext3/Ext4 overhead:  7MB
 Reserved space: 10MB
 F11 kernel:  8MB (at least - usually 3 kernels = 24MB)
 GRUB/EFI files:  1MB
 Total overhead: 26MB
 
 So there's 174MB of usable space maximum, and usually 158MB available.
 
 preupgrade now requires at least 167MB free space on /boot:
 F12 installer images:  143MB (8mb larger than F11!)
 F12 kernel: 18MB (10mb larger than F11!)
 RPM/anaconda tmpfiles: =8MB (measured in stupid tests)
 Total: 167MB (Was 149MB in F11 - no problem!)

With all my kernels removed except the current one, I have this:

# df -h
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 143G   89G   47G  66% /
/dev/sda1 190M   14M  167M   8% /boot
tmpfs 2.0G   88K  2.0G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 294G  242G   37G  87% /data


uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 3
23:41:33 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


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How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

I need a wired Ethernet connection between my laptop and a device.

The device sends a high bandwidth UDP video stream to the laptop to save
on its hard drive.

The device also needs light, intermittent access to the Internet. I
would like to provide this via the Wifi card in my laptop.

My laptop has a wireless card and a wired Ethernet device (NIC). I have
a crossover cable going between my laptop and the device. I am running
F11 and network manager.

I found this article:

http://jeremy.visser.name/2009/03/24/simple-internet-connection-sharing-with-networkmanager/

Its interesting, but I think it misses a lot of details on how to set
this up.

I want my laptop to act as a DNS server to the device and allow it to
connect to the laptop via the crossover cable and the wired Ethernet
port.

I also want my laptop to connect to the Internet via the wireless card
and share that connection with the device.

I've got my wireless connection up and running. I've got the wired
connection to the device working, ie NetworkManager-Connection
Information shows an IP address, speed, etc. (IP address = 10.42.43.1)

I edited my wireless connection and set IPV4 Method to Shared to other
computer.

I installed dnsmasq. I turned on the DNSmasq server service.

In system-config-firewall.py, I did the following:

- trusted the wired Ethernet port.
- trusted DNS and Multicast DNS
- turned on masquerading for the wired ethernet port
- applied all these

In spite of all this my device is not getting an IP address. What am I
missing ?

How and what am I supposed to setup in the details for the wired
ethernet device ? (ie NetworkManager- Edit Connections- Wired - Edit
(device name)...

It has fields for MAC address (blank), MTU (automatic), 802.1x Security
(disabled) and IPV4 Settings Method (). If one selects Automatic
(DHCP), is that saying we are expecting another server to give this port
an IP address OR is that saying that the laptop will serve a DHCP
address to any computer that requests it ?

I guess what I am asking is, how do I tell the laptop to serve addresses
to clients on the wired Ethernet port ?

Thanks !

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Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 20:25 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
 Linuxguy123 writes:
 
  
  In system-config-firewall.py, I did the following:
  
  - trusted the wired Ethernet port.
  - trusted DNS and Multicast DNS
  - turned on masquerading for the wired ethernet port
  - applied all these
  
  In spite of all this my device is not getting an IP address.   What am I
  missing ?
 
 I say you're missing the correct configuration for your wired segment, and 
 you're missing a DHCP server.
 
  I guess what I am asking is, how do I tell the laptop to serve addresses
  to clients on the wired Ethernet port ?
 
 For starters, you need to assign a static IP address for your wired 
 interface. Your narrative did not include the low-level configuration 
 details of both your wired and your wireless interfaces. I'm guessing that 
 you probably configured both your wired and your wireless interfaces to use 
 automatic settings. That works for wireless, since your wireless address 
 point is handing your laptop an IP address. That won't work for your wired 
 segment, since there's nothing on your wired segment to give your laptop an 
 IP address for its wired network interface, all you have is some dumb device 
 there. Your laptop needs to take charge of the wired segment, and run the 
 whole show.
 
 Presuming that your access point is assigning your laptop an IP address in 
 the 192.168.0.0/24 range, the logical netblock for your wired segment would 
 be 192.168.1.0/24, so you'll need to configure your laptop's wired interface 
 to a static netblock of 192.168.1.0, and a static IP address of 192.168.1.1.
 
 You do that in Network Configuration. Bring up Network Configuration, and 
 edit your wired interface address.
 
 Turn off all options, including Controlled by NetworkManager. Turn on 
 Activate device when computer starts, select Statically set IP 
 addresses, put in an address of 192.168.1.1, subnet mask 255.255.255.0, and 
 leave the gateway address blank, together with all the DNS fields.
 
 If, on the other hand, your wireless access point is giving your wireless 
 interface an 192.168.1.x netblock IP address, you'll just need to turn 
 around and set up your wired interface to use the 192.168.0.0/24 range 
 instead. Your wired and your wireless interfaces must be on different 
 netblock segments, and your laptop bridges the two. That's how it works.
 
 Then:
 
 yum install dhcp
 
 chkconfig on dhcp (so that dhcp starts when you boot your laptop).
 
 man dhcpd.conf
 
 (a lot of reading goes here)
 
 emacs /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
 
 You probably need to do add something like this in your dhcpd.conf file 
 (presuming that you're using 192.168.1.0/24 for your wired segment):
 
 subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
 
 option subnet-mask  255.255.255.0;
 
 allow unknown-clients;
 
 option routers  192.168.1.1;
 option domain-name-servers  192.168.1.1;
 
 range 192.168.1.129 192.168.1.159;
 
 default-lease-time 604800;
 max-lease-time 604800;
 }
 
 Since, as you say, you're using dnsmasq, you'll need to tell your DHCP 
 client (your wired device), that your wired interface's IP address is going 
 to be its DNS server (option domain-name-servers), also that your wired 
 device needs to use your wired interface as its router (option routers).
 
 Oh, and you'll probably need to reboot, too.

But, but, but... I thought Network Manager had these spiffy options that
allowed one to do this all automatically with the correct selection of
values in a few drop downs ?

Its too much work to set up the DHCP part of this.  I'm going to give my
port a static IP via NetworkManager and set the IP on my device to be
static as well then. It doesn't pay to go through all this for just one
device connection.



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Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 20:25 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
 Linuxguy123 writes:
 
  
  In system-config-firewall.py, I did the following:
  
  - trusted the wired Ethernet port.
  - trusted DNS and Multicast DNS
  - turned on masquerading for the wired ethernet port
  - applied all these
  
  In spite of all this my device is not getting an IP address.   What am I
  missing ?
 
 I say you're missing the correct configuration for your wired segment, and 
 you're missing a DHCP server.
 
  I guess what I am asking is, how do I tell the laptop to serve addresses
  to clients on the wired Ethernet port ?
 
 For starters, you need to assign a static IP address for your wired 
 interface. Your narrative did not include the low-level configuration 
 details of both your wired and your wireless interfaces. I'm guessing that 
 you probably configured both your wired and your wireless interfaces to use 
 automatic settings. That works for wireless, since your wireless address 
 point is handing your laptop an IP address. That won't work for your wired 
 segment, since there's nothing on your wired segment to give your laptop an 
 IP address for its wired network interface, all you have is some dumb device 
 there. Your laptop needs to take charge of the wired segment, and run the 
 whole show.
 
 Presuming that your access point is assigning your laptop an IP address in 
 the 192.168.0.0/24 range, the logical netblock for your wired segment would 
 be 192.168.1.0/24, so you'll need to configure your laptop's wired interface 
 to a static netblock of 192.168.1.0, and a static IP address of 192.168.1.1.
 
 You do that in Network Configuration. Bring up Network Configuration, and 
 edit your wired interface address.
 
 Turn off all options, including Controlled by NetworkManager. Turn on 
 Activate device when computer starts, select Statically set IP 
 addresses, put in an address of 192.168.1.1, subnet mask 255.255.255.0, and 
 leave the gateway address blank, together with all the DNS fields.
 
 If, on the other hand, your wireless access point is giving your wireless 
 interface an 192.168.1.x netblock IP address, you'll just need to turn 
 around and set up your wired interface to use the 192.168.0.0/24 range 
 instead. Your wired and your wireless interfaces must be on different 
 netblock segments, and your laptop bridges the two. That's how it works.


Thanks for this reply.  It was helpful.  I knew that the wired port's
address couldn't be set by DHCP because its not connecting to a DNS
server.  It is the server.

I don't want to go to the trouble of setting up a DHCP server.  I
thought that was going to happen automagically.   So I gave my wired
port and the device addresses myself.  However, the device still isn't
happy.  It doesn't have Internet access.

I know that I can do this all manually by deactivating Networkmanager,
setting things up in system-config-network and in Firestarter, because I
have done it before, but I want to see how easy it is, or not, using
Network Manager. 

My wireless router is giving my laptop an IP of 192.168.1.x.  So I gave
my wired port an address of 192.168.0.0 in NetworkManager. 

I used a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.  

What is the gateway for this port ?  I put it to 192.168.1.1, because
that is how it would reach the Internet, but the software sets it to
0.0.0.0 when I apply it.  ?

I left DNS servers blank but somehow it automagically set the Search
Domains to be my ISP.  

I haven't added any routes.   

On my device, I set its IP address to 192.168.0.10, subnet mask to
255.255.255.0 and gateway to 192.168.0.1 because that is the laptops
wired port.

I've got masquerading set up in the firewall.  Why can't my device talk
to the Internet via my laptop ?

Thanks



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Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 21:40 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
 Linuxguy123 writes:
 
  What is the gateway for this port ?  I put it to 192.168.1.1, because
  that is how it would reach the Internet, but the software sets it to
  0.0.0.0 when I apply it.  ?
 
 No gateway setting. The gateway setting is applicable to the entire host, 
 not a single network interface.

OK

  I left DNS servers blank but somehow it automagically set the Search
  Domains to be my ISP.  
  
  I haven't added any routes.   
  
  On my device, I set its IP address to 192.168.0.10, subnet mask to
  255.255.255.0 and gateway to 192.168.0.1 because that is the laptops
  wired port.
 
 No, you just said, above, that you've set the wired network interface's IP 
 address to 192.168.0.0, and not 192.168.0.1.

The wired network interface has an IP of 192.168.0.1.

I changed the settings to match what you recommended.  No joy using
Network Manager.   One problem is that the IPV4 settings don't make any
sense.   If I set the Wifi port to share this with other computers, it
doesn't get an IP address assigned to it.  Hmm... 

There is an IPV4 setting of Local Link  I wonder what that means.
NetworkManager doesn't appear to have a help system ?

So, I reverted to using system-config-network and firestarter.  I
disabled NetworkManager controlling the devices.  Firestarter kept
saying that eth0 wasn't ready and crashing.   I know I've run into this
problem before with statically configured ports and firestarter, but I
can't remember what I did to fix it.

This is way harder than it needs to be !

I'm hoping the Network Manager in F12 will be a little more refined.


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Re: Getting new laptop today... F12 Beta or wait for full release?

2009-11-11 Thread Linuxguy123

On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 22:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 On 11/11/2009 10:38 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
  My wife is getting a new laptop[1] today and I don't want to put F11
  on it as F12 is almost here. At the same time, I don't want to leave
  Vista on it any longer than I have to.
  
  Are there any serious issues with F12 Beta that I should wait for the
  full release?
 
 I recommend getting the RC4 release instead of Beta
 
 http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/12-RC.4/

There are always issues with new releases.  I would install F11 and wait
a couple weeks for F12 to stabilize.   You will lose nothing by doing an
upgrade from F11 to F12.

Just my $0.02.

LG



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Countdown is on... 13 days until F12 stable.

2009-11-04 Thread Linuxguy123

13 days until Fedora 12 hits the streets.  (November 17th, according to
this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule)

I am looking forward to XI2, which I am hoping will allow my wife and I
to work on the same computer in the same session.  That would be pretty
darn neat.

I am wondering what versions of Qt, X11 and Qt F12 will ship with.

Otherwise, I am looking forward to seeing how much progress has been
made with everything since F11.  For me its not usually the big headline
stuff that makes the upgrades worthwhile, its the little stuff
everywhere.  And Fedora/KDE seem to be really good making huge strides
with stuff lately.

I can't wait to run F12 on my production machine.


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OT: Bloomberg comments on open software and Linux

2009-10-30 Thread Linuxguy123

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109sid=arPzMR.hhDq0

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Freeze on resume from Suspend to Ram.

2009-10-29 Thread Linuxguy123

For about the last month, occasionally my laptop will freeze when I
resume after suspending to RAM.  About once in every 5 resumes.  

It responds to a keypress by starting to come to life.  The fan goes on
high.  But the screen stays dark and never displays anything.

Does anyone else have this problem ?

How would I troubleshoot it ?

Thanks.  

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Re: How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

2009-10-27 Thread Linuxguy123

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:48 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote:
  gil...@altern.org on 10/26/2009 04:05 PM wrote:
 
  Section Device
  Identifier Videocard0
  Driver nvidia
  EndSection
 
 
  Maybe there's a problem?
 
 
  Here's your problem. Change nvidia to nouveau and restart X.
 
 Normally,
 
 --uninstall
 
 During installation, the installer will make backups of any
 conflicting files and record the installation of new files. The
 uninstall option undoes an install, restoring the system to its
 pre-install state.
 
 file:///usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.36/html/chapter-04-section-04.html
 
 So, if the driver is still nvidia, it's most probably that process
 didn't complete, maybe didn't even begin.


It totally completed.  Removing the nvidia driver doesn't touch the
setting in the xorg.conf file.


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Re: How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 08:38 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
 Run 'livna-config-display
 --active off' to prevent the starutp script from modifying xorg.conf.
 Then edit xorg.conf and change the driver from 'nvidia' to 'nouveau'.
 The reboot.
 
 I think that'll do it.

It didn't.  I did this and rebooted and nvidia still runs.   What else
do I need to do ?

THanks


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Re: How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 16:14 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
 Run
 nvidia-config-display disable
 and reboot

It didn't work.

$ lsmod | grep vid
nvidia   9579020  40
video  18744  0
uvcvideo   50572  0
videodev   29612  1 uvcvideo
i2c_core   25024  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
v4l1_compat12048  2 uvcvideo,videodev
output  2476  1 video

$ lsmod | grep nouveau
nothing

Now what do I do ?

I was running akmod, which presumably builds an nvidia kernel module.
Do those modules get loaded automatically ?  If so, how does one remove
an akmod build kernel module ?  Ie how does one do a 'make uninstall'
for an akmod module ?

Thanks

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Re: How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:51 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
 Linuxguy123 on 10/23/2009 09:29 AM wrote:
  
  Now what do I do ?
  
 
 
 Attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.
 


X.Org X Server 1.6.3.901 (1.6.4 RC 1)
Release Date: 2009-8-25
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 i686 
Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain
2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Sep 25 04:56:58 EDT 2009 i686
Kernel command line: ro root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47cd2665
rhgb quiet 
Build Date: 09 September 2009  11:25:24AM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.6.4-0.1.fc11 
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Fri Oct 23 08:22:40 2009
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(==) ServerLayout Default Layout
(**) |--Screen Screen0 (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor Monitor0
(**) |   |--Device Device0
(**) |--Input Device Keyboard0
(**) |--Input Device Synaptics Touchpad
(**) Option Xinerama 0
(**) Option AIGLX on
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) FontPath set to:
catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
built-ins
(**) ModulePath set to
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
(**) Extension Composite is enabled
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or
'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Keyboard0
(II) Loader magic: 0xa40
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 5.0
X.Org XInput driver : 4.0
X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(II) Loader running on linux
(++) using VT number 1

(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:0609:103c:30d4 nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800M
GTS rev 162, Mem @ 0xe900/16777216, 0xd000/268435456,
0xea00/33554432, I/O @ 0x6000/128, BIOS @ 0x/131072
(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel
(II) System resource ranges:
[0] -1  0   0x - 0x (0x1) MX[B]
[1] -1  0   0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B]
[2] -1  0   0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B]
[3] -1  0   0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B]
[4] -1  0   0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B]
[5] -1  0   0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B]
(II) LoadModule: extmod
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.6.3.901, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension SELinux
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: dbe
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.6.3.901, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: glx
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module  185.18.36  Fri Aug 14 17:50:12 PDT 2009
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: record
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.6.3.901, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: dri
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.6.3.901, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: dri2
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri2.so
(II) Module dri2: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.6.3.901, module version = 1.1.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DRI2
(II) LoadModule: nvidia
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: synaptics
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
(II) Module synaptics: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.6.1.901, module version = 1.1.3

Re: How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:51 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
 Linuxguy123 on 10/23/2009 09:29 AM wrote:
  
  Now what do I do ?
  
 
 
 Attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.


It has (II)
Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia//libglx.so.

Do I have to manually remove this path from the xorg.conf file ?

I thought that nvidia-config-display disable would have done that sort
of thing ?

Thanks.

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Re: How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:08 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
 Linuxguy123 on 10/23/2009 10:07 AM wrote:
  (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
  (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
  (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
  (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
  (**) NVIDIA(0): Option TwinView 1
  (**) NVIDIA(0): Option MetaModes CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP:
  nvidia-auto-select +1680+0
  (**) NVIDIA(0): Option TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder DFP-0
  (**) NVIDIA(0): Option AddARGBGLXVisuals True
  (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
  (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X
  extensions is
  (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
  (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8800M GTS (G92) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
  (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
  (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 62.92.23.00.17
  (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
  (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
  (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 8800M GTS at
  (--) NVIDIA(0): PCI:1:0:0:
  (--) NVIDIA(0): DELL 2005FPW (CRT-0)
  (--) NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0)
  (--) NVIDIA(0): DELL 2005FPW (CRT-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
  (--) NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
  (--) NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link LVDS
  (**) NVIDIA(0): TwinView enabled
  (II) NVIDIA(0): Display Devices found referenced in MetaMode: CRT-0,
 
 
 Your xorg.conf file is wrong. You still have nvidia for the driver.

 
 It clearly shows you still have all the old nvidia driver options
 present. TwinView is not something defaulted on and is only found in the
 proprietary nVidia driver.
 
 Fix your xorg.conf file. You haven't.

Man, this is confusing.  

I ran nvidia-display-config disable.  I manually changed the Device
driver from nvidia to nouveau. I thought that was supposed to take care
of everything.

Below is my xorg.conf file.  What else do you suggest that I change ?

Thanks



# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section ServerLayout
Identifier Default Layout
Screen  0  Screen0 0 0
InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard
InputDeviceSynaptics Touchpad CorePointer
EndSection

Section Files
ModulePath   /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia
ModulePath   /usr/lib/xorg/modules
EndSection

Section ServerFlags
Option  AIGLX on
Option  Xinerama 0
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Keyboard0
Driver  kbd
Option  XkbModel pc105
Option  XkbLayout us+inet
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Synaptics Touchpad
Driver  synaptics
Option  SendCoreEvents true
Option  Device /dev/psaux
Option  Protocol auto-dev
Option  HorizScrollDelta 0
Option  SHMConfig true
Option  TouchpadOff 2
EndSection

Section Monitor
Identifier   Monitor0
VendorName   Unknown
ModelNameDELL 2005FPW
HorizSync30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section Device
Identifier  Videocard0
#Driver  nvidia
Driver   nouveau
VendorName  NVIDIA Corporation
BoardName   GeForce 8800M GTS
Option  AddARGBGLXVisuals True
EndSection

Section Device
Identifier  Device0
Driver  nvidia
VendorName  NVIDIA Corporation
BoardName   GeForce 8800M GTS
Option  AddARGBGLXVisuals True
EndSection

Section Screen

# Removed Option TwinView 1
# Removed Option metamodes CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP:
nvidia-auto-select +1680+0
# Removed Option TwinView 0
# Removed Option metamodes 1680x1050_60_0 +0+0; nvidia-auto-select +0
+0
# Removed Option TwinView 1
# Removed Option metamodes CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP:
1680x1050_60_0 +1680+0; CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP:
nvidia-auto-select +1680+0
#Option TwinView 0
#Option TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder DFP-0
#Option metamodes 1680x1050 +0+0; 1680x1050_60_0 +0+0
# Removed Option TwinView 1
# Removed Option metamodes CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP:
nvidia-auto-select +1680+0
# Removed Option TwinView 0
# Removed Option metamodes DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0
# Removed Option metamodes CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP:
nvidia-auto-select +1680+0
# Removed Option TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder DFP-0
# Removed Option metamodes DFP: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0, CRT:
nvidia-auto-select +0+0
# Removed Option TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder CRT-0
Identifier Screen0
Device Device0
MonitorMonitor0
DefaultDepth 24
Option  TwinView 1
Option  TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder DFP-0
Option  metamodes CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP:
nvidia-auto-select +1680+0

Re: How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:35 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
 Linuxguy123 on 10/23/2009 11:33 AM wrote:
  
  Section Device
  Identifier  Videocard0
  #Driver  nvidia
  Driver   nouveau
  VendorName  NVIDIA Corporation
  BoardName   GeForce 8800M GTS
  Option  AddARGBGLXVisuals True
  EndSection
  
  Section Device
  Identifier  Device0
  Driver  nvidia
  VendorName  NVIDIA Corporation
  BoardName   GeForce 8800M GTS
  Option  AddARGBGLXVisuals True
  EndSection
  
 
 
 Look at it a few times and I think it will come to you.
 
 Hint: Why do you have two device sections?

Changing both of the device section drivers to nouveau and disabling
all of the options made nouveau run.

I'll write this all up in a post when I get my dual monitor setup
working.


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How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

2009-10-22 Thread Linuxguy123

I need to test my computer with the nouveau driver in order to provide
information for a bug report I contributed.  Besides, I would like to
see how well the open source driver works compared to the proprietary
one.

So how does one remove the nvidia driver and install the nouveau driver
in its place ?  

I recently started using akmod-nvidia.  I suspect that its built and
installed an nvidia kernel module.  I did a yum remove kmod-nvidia and
yum remove akmod-nvidia.

I edited xorg.conf and changed nvidia to nouveau, but I did not change
any of the module paths.  

I did a modprobe nouveau.  lsmod shows that its there.

I did an rmmod -w nvidia in an attempt to uninstall the module.  But
when I reboot, it still runs.

Now what do I do ?  Edit xorg.conf ?   rmmod ?  lsmod ?  insmod ?

Thanks

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Touchscreen isn't doing anything in KDE ?

I just fired up a 10.4 touchscreen LCD.  The touchscreen part of things
doesn't seem to do anything in KDE.  I expected to plug it in and have
it work, ie cursor follow my finger, etc.

How should I proceed to get it working ?

$ lsusb
snip
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax
TouchScreen  
snip


$ dmesg
snip
usb 7-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 7-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0eef, idProduct=0001
usb 7-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=5, SerialNumber=3
usb 7-2: Manufacturer: eGalax Inc.
usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: eGalax Inc.
as /devices/pci:00/:00:1d.2/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input16

Now what ?

Thanks !

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Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

How is it working for you ?

Thanks

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Re: Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 21:02 +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
 On 10/14/09, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote:
  How is it working for you ?
 
 If, by 'any other mini', you mean 'any netbook', then yes, I run it on
 an underpowered netbook (1st gen eee pc, but with memory upgraded to
 2GB), and I'm quite happy with it.

What processor does it have ? SSD ? How fast do applications run ?  What
do you find to be annoyingly slow ?  How was it with 1 GB of RAM ?

Thanks !


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Re: Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:50 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
 Frank Cox wrote:
  On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:52 -0700
  Rick Stevens wrote:
  
  Linuxguy123 wrote:
  How is it working for you ?
  I run it on an Acer Aspire One.  Works fine.
  
   *blink*  Is THAT what he meant by minicomputer?  How could you possibly 
  call
  something like that a mini?  See my tractor-trailer rig and I show you a
  Honda Civic with trailer hitch?
 
 Well, I'm assuming that's what s/he meant.  I, too, am of the old school
 where mainframes were S/370s, Sigmas and the like; minis were
 PDP-11s, Vaxen, Novas and their ilk; and micros were anything smaller.
 With laptops, portables and netbooks, the lines are even fuzzier.

I feel the same way about the Mini moniker.  I guess its somewhat
justified that the netbooks are called Minis because they have more
computing power than the old minis (PDP 11 et al) did.  

There isn't anything mini about a PDP11 any more... except if you
compare its size to an old mainframe.

Its astonishing to think how much processing power we can buy for ~$400
these days.  (See HP Mini 311, for example...)  30 years ago $400 would
have bought less than a day's computing time.   Now it buys an entire
machine that is way faster and nicer.  


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Re: Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:34 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote:
  How is it working for you ?
 
  Thanks
 
 Asus EEEPC 4G (+ 4GB SD Card, 4k striped LVM formatted to ext4)
 512MB Ram
 F11 LXDE
 Updated BIOS to get full 900MHz on CeleronM cpu.
 
 Performance is pretty good but scrolling in FF w/ Flash heavy sites
 still lag a bit sometimes.

Can you watch youtube videos ?  In HD ?

Thanks


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Re: Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:34 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote:
  How is it working for you ?
 
  Thanks

Do the netbooks (Atoms, AMDs et al) just run a plain x86_64
distribution ?  Or does one need to mod a few things ?

Thanks


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Re: Using a USB Hub on Linux ?

2009-10-09 Thread Linuxguy123

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:56 -0400, Jim wrote:
 Fc11/KDE
 
 Is there anyone out that is using a USB hub to connect to one USB 
 Printer from mulitiple computers ?
 
 Like auto self detect hub on each port. Not a switch hub.
 
 I have tried two different ones with no luck .
 
 Could you give me some Make, Models.

?

As far as I know USB doesn't support this mode of operation.  There can
be only one master, ie PC connected to a hub.

What you could do is connect the printer to one computer and then share
it over the network or use a USB printer server that has a USB port on
it.

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An interview with the creator of PulseAudio...

2009-10-08 Thread Linuxguy123

He makes some interesting comments about bugs, drivers, etc.

http://www.cio.com.au/article/320807/open_source_identity_pulseaudio_creator_lennart_poettering?pp=1

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Re: Old laptop for a media server ? (F11, mediaTomb, transcoding, uPNP server, etc.)

2009-10-05 Thread Linuxguy123

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 08:44 -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
 On 10/05/2009 01:38 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
  We have a Dell 5100 laptop sitting here not doing anything.  My wife got
  a new one a year ago. We need a media server to serve large digital
  images to client computers running digikam and we also want to run
  mediatomb to act as a server for our laptops and our uPNP capable tv.
 
  The 5100 has a Pentium 4 running at 2.66 MHz.  Right now it has 256 MB
  of RAM, but I think I have 1 GB sitting around here for it.  Plug in a
  new 7200 RPM 500 GB hard drive ?  Run a 1 TB USB drive for more
  storage ?
 
 
 Definitely add RAM. Even if you don't have the big stick, RAM is dirt 
 cheap and will make a big difference.
 
  I would like to run Fedora 11 on it.  (What else ?)  Boot init 3 ?  Run
  init level 5 for doing administration ?
 
 
 I ran Fedora on a server for quite some time, but eventually switched 
 away, for the simple reason that upgrading the server was too painful 
 with Fedora---as I'm sure we all know. And if the upgrade process 
 aborts, then I end up having to reconfigure the whole server. Not to 
 mention that I have to take the thing down anyway to do it. This could 
 be a reason to think about some Debian-based distro, or you could try 
 CentOS, which is what I'm now using. I don't know if MediaTomb can be 
 compiled for CentOS, though---I run Logitech's Slim Server, or whatever 
 it's called now, to feed music to a Squeezebox and two Transporters---or 
 if the formats you would need would be available there. If not, then I'd 
 think about Debian.
 
  I am running the F11 Live CD on it right now.  It seems to work fairly
  well, albeit a bit slow.
 
 
 You should see my server, then: 300MHz Pentium III.
 
  I love the form factor.  It would be quiet and small.  Its got a monitor
  and a keyboard and built in battery back up, for a couple hours, anyway.
  We have a wireless card for it too... I could do administration on the
  couch instead of in some closet somewhere.
 
 
 The only thing I might worry about is heat, and what that will do to the 
 laptop if you're leaving it on all the time. (I'm guessing you want to 
 leave it on all the time.) You could try putting the laptop on one of 
 those laptop cooler things, that has built-in auxiliary fans. I've got 
 one that plugs into one of the USB ports.
 
  Will it do the job ?  I'm worried about the transcoding part of things.
  Our TV doesn't support many video formats but mediaTomb does transcoding
  so that we can watch just about anything we can store.
 
  Will it do the job ?
 
 
 Transcoding is labor intensive, but, given enough RAM, and assuming 
 you're not trying to transcode full HD, I'd think you'd have a chance of 
 having enough power. I think MediaTomb also has an option to buffer 
 the output, and if you set that high enough, then that'll help a lot.
 
 If I were doing this now, I might think about building a dual-core 
 Atom-based box in some smallish case. The only downside to this sort of 
 thing, and this applies to the laptop, too, is that you very likely will 
 run out of disk space at some point, even with a 1TB drive, if you're 
 really collecting the videos, and then you have a problem. A 
 conventional case gives you a lot more room for new drives.
 
 Richard


Thanks for the reply.   I will be transcoding 1080 HD.  Anyone have
experience with how much processing power that takes ?


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Old laptop for a media server ? (F11, mediaTomb, transcoding, uPNP server, etc.)

2009-10-04 Thread Linuxguy123

We have a Dell 5100 laptop sitting here not doing anything.  My wife got
a new one a year ago. We need a media server to serve large digital
images to client computers running digikam and we also want to run
mediatomb to act as a server for our laptops and our uPNP capable tv. 

The 5100 has a Pentium 4 running at 2.66 MHz.  Right now it has 256 MB
of RAM, but I think I have 1 GB sitting around here for it.  Plug in a
new 7200 RPM 500 GB hard drive ?  Run a 1 TB USB drive for more
storage ?

I would like to run Fedora 11 on it.  (What else ?)  Boot init 3 ?  Run
init level 5 for doing administration ?

I am running the F11 Live CD on it right now.  It seems to work fairly
well, albeit a bit slow.

I love the form factor.  It would be quiet and small.  Its got a monitor
and a keyboard and built in battery back up, for a couple hours, anyway.
We have a wireless card for it too... I could do administration on the
couch instead of in some closet somewhere.

Will it do the job ?  I'm worried about the transcoding part of things.
Our TV doesn't support many video formats but mediaTomb does transcoding
so that we can watch just about anything we can store. 

Will it do the job ?

Thanks 







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Re: NFS causing slooooow boot

2009-10-01 Thread Linuxguy123

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 16:50 +, Valent Turkovic wrote:
 On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:03:25 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
 
 
  If you're seeing long NFS resolution times on boot, check to see if
  you're running NetworkManager as opposed to the classic network startup.
 
 I'll check, but the point is that I didn't change .ks scripts and 
 previous ISO images booted fast, only the latest ISO images that I 
 created are booting slowly.
 
 That is why I'm asking has anybody seen this and what change could 
 produce this?

I don't know if this has anything to do with your situation, but the
fedora developers list has a thread entitled Buyer Beware: A Major
Change in NFS is about to happen.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the thread. I am not using an NFS mount right
now.

I used an nfs mount a few years ago and it too mounted very slowly.  I
know I fixed it but I can't remember how.  Seems to me the mount process
(in fstab) could take an option which affected things. 

The other thing to look for is version issues between the client and the
host in nfs and the other protocols used to implement nfs.

Hope this helps. 

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Advice for crossgrading from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from
raw files at one go.   My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only
using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel. 

uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Fri Sep 25
04:30:19 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Sooner or later I want to upgrade to a 64 bit kernel and 8 GB of RAM.
Other than this article, I can't find any information on the subject.

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/123800

I am looking to do the upgrade WITHOUT reinstalling Fedora.  I've done
enough re installations in the past to know that I don't want to go
there.

Has anyone done crossgraded from 32 to 64 bit ?  What advice do you have
to offer ?

Thanks

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How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM.  I
want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.  

I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel.  How do I change to using
a PAE kernel ?

What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ?

Thanks

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Re: Advice for crossgrading from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:29 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote:
  I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from
  raw files at one go.   My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only
  using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel.
 
  uname -a
  Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Fri Sep 25
  04:30:19 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 
  Sooner or later I want to upgrade to a 64 bit kernel and 8 GB of RAM.
  Other than this article, I can't find any information on the subject.
 
  http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/123800
 
  I am looking to do the upgrade WITHOUT reinstalling Fedora.  I've done
  enough re installations in the past to know that I don't want to go
  there.
 
  Has anyone done crossgraded from 32 to 64 bit ?  What advice do you have
  to offer ?
 
 Have you really done enough upgrades? I think not.  If you did, you
 would know that the best advice is to back up your files and perform a
 clean install.

No, that is NOT the best choice.  I've re installed clean more than 4x
and its a BIG pain setting things up again.  I have a lot of software
installed and not all of it is a simple yum command, ie custom versions
of Eclipse, java, etc.

Just like we shouldn't be telling everyone to do a 'yum clean all' when
its not necessary, nor should we be telling people to reinstall. 

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akmod for PAE kernels ? Was: How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?


 On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:27 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
  My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM.  I
  want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.  
  
  I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel.  How do I change to using
  a PAE kernel ?
 
yum install kernel-PAE  reboot ?

I did this and it installed the lastest kernel's PAE version.  And its
running too.  

# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Sep 25
04:56:58 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

HOWEVER... when it was booting, it gave a couple errors about not being
able to find the nvidia driver and it appears not have installed it
either:

$ lsmod | grep nvidia
$ lsmod | grep nv
$ lsmod | grep vid
video  18744  0
uvcvideo   50572  0
videodev   29612  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat12048  2 uvcvideo,videodev
output  2476  1 video

There is no kmod-nvidia for this kernel.  I have been using akmod-nvidia
for my nvidia drivers.  Does akmod-nvidia not work with PAE kernels or
do I have do set up something different ?

Thanks

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Re: akmod for PAE kernels ? Was: How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 21:01 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
  On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:27 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
   My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM.  I
   want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.  
   
   I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel.  How do I change to using
   a PAE kernel ?
  
 yum install kernel-PAE  reboot ?
 
 I did this and it installed the lastest kernel's PAE version.  And its
 running too.  
 
 # uname -a
 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Sep 25
 04:56:58 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 
 HOWEVER... when it was booting, it gave a couple errors about not being
 able to find the nvidia driver and it appears not have installed it
 either:
 
 $ lsmod | grep nvidia
 $ lsmod | grep nv
 $ lsmod | grep vid
 video  18744  0
 uvcvideo   50572  0
 videodev   29612  1 uvcvideo
 v4l1_compat12048  2 uvcvideo,videodev
 output  2476  1 video
 
 There is no kmod-nvidia for this kernel.  I have been using akmod-nvidia
 for my nvidia drivers.  Does akmod-nvidia not work with PAE kernels or
 do I have do set up something different ?

Looks like I needed to install kernel-PAE-devel. 

I hope this helps someone.

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Re: Advice for crossgrading from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 23:32 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
 Linuxguy123 writes:
 
  I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from
  raw files at one go.   My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only
  using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel. 
 
 Why led you to this conclusion? 32 bit Linux is perfectly capable of 
 addressing 4 GB+ of RAM. You need to install a PAE kernel, which should 
 already be the case, by default.
 
 If you are not already booting a PAE kernel, just install it.
 
  Sooner or later I want to upgrade to a 64 bit kernel and 8 GB of RAM.
  Other than this article, I can't find any information on the subject.
  
  http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/123800
  
  I am looking to do the upgrade WITHOUT reinstalling Fedora.  I've done
 
 Someone who has sufficient technical experience and know-how might be able 
 to pull this off. But, to be perfectly straight, if you have to ask how to 
 do this, you do not have the requisite know how.

snip

 But, if all you want is more RAM, all you really need is the PAE kernel, 
 which I believe can handle up to 16 GB. A single 32 bit process is still 
 limited to accessing 3 GB max, but overall the system will be able to use up 
 to 16 gigs. If that works out for you, this is your path of least 
 resistance.

Thanks for the reply.  I installed the PAE kernel. 


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Re: How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:23 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote:
  My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM.  I
  want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.
 
  I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel.  How do I change to using
  a PAE kernel ?
 
 yum install kernel-PAE
 
 Note: There may be additional packages which need to be installed,
 e.g. kernel-PAE-devel, kmod-nvidia-PAE, etc.

For the record, I did:

yum install kernel-PAE
yum install kernel-PAE-devel

I already had akmod-nvidia installed.  (Which rocks, btw.)

I knew that akmod-nvidia needed a -devel package because I used to
manually build my nvidia drivers.  But I didn't realize that the PAE
kernels had their own -devel, but then I should have because its an
option in the kernel setup if you build your own kernel. DUH !

 I'm surprised that Anaconda did not detect that your processor was an
 i686 and automatically install the PAE kernel.

I've been running this installation since Fedora 8 and I think there was
a time period when the PAE kernels were not available.  And everything
since then has been an upgrade/update, so Anaconda probably isn't
getting to look at what kernel I might need.

  What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ?

Everything seems faster, but I also changed kernels and there was a yum
update to KDE at the same time, so I can't tell how much is from the new
kernel version, the new kde updates and from PAE.  In any event, I am a
happy camper.   

Thanks for the replies.

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Re: How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:23 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote:
  My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM.  I
  want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.
 
  I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel.  How do I change to using
  a PAE kernel ?
 
 yum install kernel-PAE
 
 Note: There may be additional packages which need to be installed,
 e.g. kernel-PAE-devel, kmod-nvidia-PAE, etc.
 
 I'm surprised that Anaconda did not detect that your processor was an
 i686 and automatically install the PAE kernel.

  What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ?
Evolution seems to be faster, but 'free -m' isn't showing that I am
running out of memory or anything.   I generally have ~1600 MB free now.
I gained 1 GB, so before it would have been ~400 MB free. 

Now I should increase the size of my swap file partition from 2GB to
4GB...  

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Re: How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 00:43 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
 On 09/30/09 00:21, quoth Linuxguy123:
 
  What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ?
  Evolution seems to be faster, but 'free -m' isn't showing that I am
  running out of memory or anything.   I generally have ~1600 MB free now.
  I gained 1 GB, so before it would have been ~400 MB free. 
  
  Now I should increase the size of my swap file partition from 2GB to
  4GB...  
  
 
 I just did this last week. Works fine. But I just have one question:
 
 You say your situation is that you're now running at around 1.6G free mem. So
 why bump the swap area? You can do it, but the whole point was to use more
 memory. If you didn't run out of swap before then you're even less likely to
 run out now, unless you now plan on doing things that you didn't do before.

I'm running 1.6 GB free when not running any of my heavy duty
applications like ufraw (batch), digikam, eclipse (sometimes 2 or more
instances), gimp, a couple browsers, evolution and a couple Open Office
apps. 

Did I mention that I want to start editing HD video ?

I need 8 GB of RAM ! 

BTW: The PAE kernel seems to run faster. 

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*^^%%$!!! Konqueror is getting less and less stable !

2009-09-16 Thread Linuxguy123

F11, KDE4.3.1, all updates. 

Konqueror is getting less and less stable.  Proof: go to
www.circuitcity.com and click on Cameras at the top and tell me what
happens.

I've had about 5 Konqueror crashes in the last day. Luckily its pretty
good at recovering the open websites when you restart it.   But the
browsing history for each on is lost, ie you can't go to the previous
page on any of them. 

FRUSTRATING !

Honestly... how many YEARS have we been seeing Konqueror do this sort of
thing ?

I still LOVE  KDE/Linux/OS.

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Re: *^^%%$!!! Konqueror is getting less and less stable !

2009-09-16 Thread Linuxguy123

Here is another one that doesn't work in Konqueror and does in Firefox.
http://www.traction.com/en/viewpdf?cp=O31 s=[k]

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Re: Dual monitor setup quit working with recent update ?

2009-09-14 Thread Linuxguy123

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 19:36 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
 On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 19:50 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
  On 09/13/2009 07:39 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
   Further to my last email, I can now only run a graphical session with my
   2.6.30 kernel.   All the others fail to start the x session.
  
  
  You can thank your RPMFusion packages for that. The kmod system is very 
  bad, but they refuse to use any other method despite my suggestions. I'd 
  point you to my personal repo with DKMS RPMs but I'd hate to have all 
  nVidia users start using it and my repo run out of bandwidth. Good luck!
 
 I am happy to report that I got my dual monitors working.  I don't know
 what exactly did it, but here is what I did.
 
 I suspected that the laptop display was not working due to a power
 management issue, ie the screen was dimmed too dim to view.   I
 suspected this because I have seen this happen after the laptop comes
 back from a suspend event. 
 
 So... I went into KDEStart-Settings-System Settings - Advanced -
 Power Management- Edit Profiles - Screen.  
 
 I then disabled Enable display power management on each of the
 profiles, saving them as I went.
 
 The I logged out of my KDE session and logged back in.   The laptop
 monitor was then functional. 
 
 I'm not certain that power management was the issue, but this sequence
 of changes fixed my issue. 

I'm unhappy to further report that my dual monitors only work after I
log out and log back in after rebooting.

When I boot up my laptop monitor doesn't display anything.  My desktop
is displayed on my external monitor.  If my external monitor isn't
connected then I don't have any display at all !  

I am hoping this gets fixed before the weekend as I have to take my
laptop on the road on Saturday morning.

However, if I log into a KDE session and then log out and log in again,
my laptop monitor comes to life.  Someone forgot to initialize something
somewhere ?

LG


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Dual monitor setup quit working with recent update ?

2009-09-13 Thread Linuxguy123


Just got back from holidays.   Ran yum update and installed 2 weeks of
F11 updates, including... 

cat yum.log | grep nvidia

Sep 13 17:06:38 Installed:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586-185.18.36-1.fc11.1.i586
Sep 13 17:06:47 Updated: kmod-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.1.i586
Sep 13 17:06:51 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.36-1.fc11.i586
Sep 13 17:06:54 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.i586

cat yum.log | grep x11

Sep 13 16:53:54 Updated: xorg-x11-server-common-1.6.3-4.fc11.i586
Sep 13 16:56:11 Updated: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.3-4.fc11.i586
Sep 13 16:56:24 Updated: xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-7.1.fc11.i586
Sep 13 16:57:02 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.2.5-1.fc11.i586
Sep 13 16:59:57 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.3.0-3.fc11.i586
Sep 13 16:59:58 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-chips-1.2.2-1.fc11.i586
Sep 13 17:06:51 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.36-1.fc11.i586
Sep 13 17:06:54 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.i586
Sep 13 17:07:14 Updated: 1:qt-x11-4.5.2-3.fc11.i586

cat yum.log | grep kernel

Sep 13 16:53:52 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586
Sep 13 16:56:05 Installed: kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586
Sep 13 17:03:17 Installed: kernel-devel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586


My dual monitor setup doesn't work anymore.  The external monitor works
fine, but the laptop monitor is black after the boot process goes
graphical. 

How do I fix it ?

Thanks


uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Aug 27
21:18:54 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux



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Re: Dual monitor setup quit working with recent update ?

2009-09-13 Thread Linuxguy123

Further to my last email, I can now only run a graphical session with my
2.6.30 kernel.   All the others fail to start the x session.

$ yum list kernel
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, kmdl, priorities,
refresh-
  : packagekit
1 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Installed Packages
kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-213.fc11
@updates
kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11
@updates
kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11
@updates
kernel.i586 2.6.30.5-43.fc11
@updates

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Re: Dual monitor setup quit working with recent update ?

2009-09-13 Thread Linuxguy123

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 19:50 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
 On 09/13/2009 07:39 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
  Further to my last email, I can now only run a graphical session with my
  2.6.30 kernel.   All the others fail to start the x session.
 
 
 You can thank your RPMFusion packages for that. The kmod system is very 
 bad, but they refuse to use any other method despite my suggestions. I'd 
 point you to my personal repo with DKMS RPMs but I'd hate to have all 
 nVidia users start using it and my repo run out of bandwidth. Good luck!

I am happy to report that I got my dual monitors working.  I don't know
what exactly did it, but here is what I did.

I suspected that the laptop display was not working due to a power
management issue, ie the screen was dimmed too dim to view.   I
suspected this because I have seen this happen after the laptop comes
back from a suspend event. 

So... I went into KDEStart-Settings-System Settings - Advanced -
Power Management- Edit Profiles - Screen.  

I then disabled Enable display power management on each of the
profiles, saving them as I went.

The I logged out of my KDE session and logged back in.   The laptop
monitor was then functional. 

I'm not certain that power management was the issue, but this sequence
of changes fixed my issue. 



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Has anyone had a bugzilla sound bug fixed ?

2009-08-26 Thread Linuxguy123

Has anyone submitted a sound related bug to bugzilla in recent history
and seen it get resolved, ie fixed ?  If so, what component was it ?
(ALSA, Pulse Audio, audio device driver, etc.) 

Thanks

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kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.

2009-08-24 Thread Linuxguy123

Kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586 works fine on my laptop, but 217.2.8
won't boot at all.  It seems to run through everything just fine and
then the video starts blinking like crazy in text mode, like it can't
start the nvidia driver.   After that I get a black screen with a
blinking cursor. 

Kernel 217.2.3 is working OK for me.  I can live without 217.2.8, except
that I am worried that the next kernel update will delete it and I might
be left with zero working kernels. 

Any idea on what I could do to get 217.2.8 running ?

Thanks


$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29
15:46:46 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

$ yum list kernel
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, kmdl, priorities,
refresh-packagekit
1 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Installed Packages
kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-213.fc11 @updates
kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11 @updates
kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11 @updates

$ yum list \*nvidia*


Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, kmdl, priorities,
refresh-packagekit
1 packages excluded due to repository priority
protections 
 
Installed Packages 

kmod-nvidia.i586  185.18.31-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586.i586  185.18.29-1.fc11
@rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586.i586  185.18.31-1.fc11
@rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586.i586 185.18.14-1.fc11.6
@rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i586  185.18.31-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 185.18.31-1.fc11
@rpmfusion-nonfree-updates




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Re: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.

2009-08-24 Thread Linuxguy123

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 03:35 +0930, Tim wrote:
 Change the configuration in yum.conf to keep more than two kernels.
 Two's not enough for exactly the reason that you're concerned with.
 
 e.g. installonly_limit=6

Thanks for the tip.  I made this change. 

LG

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kmod-nvidia for kernel -217 please ?

2009-08-18 Thread Linuxguy123

'yum update' is showing a new kernel is available.  However, those of us
running non open source video drivers (for various reasons) cannot
update because the new kmod-nvidia driver isn't built for the new
kernel.

Could someone build it and push it out to the repositories ?

Thanks 

PS: Thanks for supplying the kmod-nvidia driver.  I used to have to
build it myself.  I'm glad I don't have to.  Good job.

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Re: kmod-nvidia for kernel -217 please ?

2009-08-18 Thread Linuxguy123

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 09:04 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
 Linuxguy123 wrote:
  'yum update' is showing a new kernel is available.  However, those of us
  running non open source video drivers (for various reasons) cannot
  update because the new kmod-nvidia driver isn't built for the new
  kernel.
  
  Could someone build it and push it out to the repositories ?
  
  Thanks 
  
  PS: Thanks for supplying the kmod-nvidia driver.  I used to have to
  build it myself.  I'm glad I don't have to.  Good job.
  
 
 Why not install akmod-nvidia (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)? Then you are 
 independent from the current kernel (the module will be rebuilt on the 
 first boot of a new kernel).

I'll give it a try.



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Re: kmod-nvidia for kernel -217 please ?

2009-08-18 Thread Linuxguy123

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 06:58 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
 On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 09:04 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
  Linuxguy123 wrote:
   'yum update' is showing a new kernel is available.  However, those of us
   running non open source video drivers (for various reasons) cannot
   update because the new kmod-nvidia driver isn't built for the new
   kernel.
   
   Could someone build it and push it out to the repositories ?
   
   Thanks 
   
   PS: Thanks for supplying the kmod-nvidia driver.  I used to have to
   build it myself.  I'm glad I don't have to.  Good job.
   
  
  Why not install akmod-nvidia (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)? Then you are 
  independent from the current kernel (the module will be rebuilt on the 
  first boot of a new kernel).
 
 I'll give it a try.

I didn't build when I rebooted.  The boot hung.  

For some reason my wifi card doesn't connect to the network during the
boot.  It establishes a connection and works just fine during my KDE
session, but it doesn't establish a connection during the boot.

I'm still waiting for kmod-nvidia so I can use the new kernel. 

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Speeding up boot process by managing Wifi devices ?

2009-08-12 Thread Linuxguy123

I seem to be rebooting my laptop a lot lately.  Unfortunately, its a
slow process.  

I watched the textual output during a reboot and was surprised to learn
that most of the time booting is spent on two Wifi related events:

a) Determining IP Information for wlan0

b) Searching for the nntp server, even though wlan0 did not connect to a
network.

I am running KDE and I've got Network Manager enabled, so once I log in,
its asking me which network I want to connect to and then connecting to
it.

All in all, I must be waiting several minutes for my wifi device every
time I reboot.

Is there a way to change this behavior so that:

a) my computer isn't trying to connect to a network when rebooting ?
b) its not trying to connect to the time server when it doesn't have a
network connection ?

Thanks

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Re: kmod-nvidia?

2009-08-06 Thread Linuxguy123

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 07:35 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote:
 
  Hi, folks.  I've got an AMD, 64-bit PC running Fedora 11.  I've been using
  the kmod-nvidia driver for graphics.  With the update to the latest
  kernel:
 
  2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64
 
  I seem to have lost that driver.
 
 You haven't. It should be out shortly, say the next 24h. Meanwhile, chose
 another kernel when you boot.

The kmod-nvidia packages for -217 are out and they work.

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Does the nouveau driver support dual monitors ? How ?

2009-08-05 Thread Linuxguy123

Kernel 2.6.29.6-217 installed this morning on my computer during a yum
update.  There was no kmod-nvidia package.  My computer rebooted using a
different video driver. nouveau ?

Its all good except that I lost my dual display functionality and I need
it back.

Assuming the driver running is nouveau, how does one set up dual display
functionality ?   I ask this because a while back I read that using
xorg.conf for setting things up is kind of taboo these days.  (This was
in reference to initializing the Synaptics touchpad.)

So... how do I determine what video driver my system is currently
using ? (lsmod ?)

How do I configure it to drive the second display ?

Thanks

$uname -a 
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29
15:46:46 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

$ lsmod | grep video
video  17380  0
uvcvideo   49804  0
output  2364  1 video
videodev   32216  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat11560  2 uvcvideo,videodev



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Re: kmod-nvidia?

2009-08-05 Thread Linuxguy123

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 16:01 -0700, Michael Hannon wrote:
 Hi, folks.  I've got an AMD, 64-bit PC running Fedora 11.  I've been using 
 the kmod-nvidia driver for graphics.  With the update to the latest kernel:
 
 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64
 
 I seem to have lost that driver.
 
 [root ~]# rpm -qa | grep kmod
 libmikmod-3.2.0-4.beta2.fc11.x86_64
 kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64-185.18.14-1.fc11.2.x86_64
 
 [root ~]# yum update
 Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
 Setting up Update Process
 No Packages marked for Update
 
 Is there an update in the works?  And/or is there something else I should be 
 doing?

I've got the same issue.  I reverted back to -213 for now.  Hopefully
they build and push the new kmod-nvidia shortly. 

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F11 for an HP Tablet computer (TX25xx) ?

2009-08-01 Thread Linuxguy123

Has anyone tried using F11 on an HP tablet computer like the TX2510 ?

Does Linux have a driver for the touchpad ?

Does Linux have a decent handwriting recognition app ?

Thanks

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Fixed: KpackageKit error: Repository configuration was invalid

2009-07-29 Thread Linuxguy123

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 12:09 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
 On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Linuxguy123linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:53 -0700, Keith wrote:
  Linuxguy123 wrote:
 
  
   a) I don't have a repository called InstallMedia.
  
   b) Its highly annoying that this error keeps popping up and that it
   can't be turned off.  It was appearing the other day too and I finally
   turned it off by turning off the yum-updatesd service.  But now it seems
   to appear even though that is turned off. FRUSTRATING !
  
   I've done a yum clean all and yum clean expire-cache.  It still occurs.
  
   How do I fix this ?
  
   Thanks
  
  
   It is looking for a install drive like a DVD or CD-rom. You need to go
  into your settings and turn it off.
 
 
  I looked in kpackagekit-settings-Origins of Packages and I don't have
  anything to disable that looks related to a DVD or CDROM.  Any ideas ?
 
  Thanks for the reply !
 
  LG
 
 Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/Fedora-install-media.repo. Change to enabled=1
 to enabled=0.

This action fixed my problem.

In case someone wants to know, the contents of this file were:

[InstallMedia]
name=Fedora 8
mediaid=1194015397.199387
metadata_expire=-1
gpgcheck=0
cost=500

I added  enabled=0 to stop the messages.



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Re: Soundcard works but no sound... how do I troubleshoot ?

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:55 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
 On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 16:31 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
  I am running F11 with KDE, all updates installed.
  
  $ uname -a
  Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Tue Jul 7
  20:45:17 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
  
  I have sound through my headphone jack when I run system-config-sound.
  It shows the PCM device to be STAC92xx Analog.
  
  I also have sound when running Amarok.  Its not clear to me which device
  it is using.
  
  But I don't have sound with other applications (eg Youtube or mplayer or
  xine) or with KDE in general.
  
  At this point I DO have pulseaudio installed.
  
  How do I troubleshoot or fix the sound on my laptop ?
  
  Thanks
  
 I had to remove alsa-pulseaudio rpm.

I think you meant alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.

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KpackageKit error: Repository configuration was invalid

I am getting an error message from KpackageKit every few minutes.
Repository configuration was invalid and could not be read.

Details:
Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
InstallMedia. Please verify its path and try again

# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, kmdl, priorities,
refresh-packagekit
repo id  repo name status
fedora Fedora 11 - i386 enabled: 13,289
livna rpm.livna.org for 11 - i386 enabled:  3
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free enabled:377
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free - Updates
enabled: 204
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree enabled:110
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates  RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree - Updates
enabled:115
updates  Fedora 11 - i386 - Updates  enabled:  3,564


a) I don't have a repository called InstallMedia.

b) Its highly annoying that this error keeps popping up and that it
can't be turned off.  It was appearing the other day too and I finally
turned it off by turning off the yum-updatesd service.  But now it seems
to appear even though that is turned off. FRUSTRATING !

I've done a yum clean all and yum clean expire-cache.  It still occurs.

How do I fix this ?

Thanks


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Re: Soundcard works but no sound... how do I troubleshoot ?

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 11:08 -0400, William Case wrote:
 Hi;

 
I had to remove alsa-pulseaudio rpm.
   
   I think you meant alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.
   
  you are probably correct.
 
 I removed PulseAudio and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio a couple of days ago
 and Audio CD in RtythmBox etc. still doesn't work.
 
 I think the problem is hidden in one of the other updates.  Ubuntu
 people (googled) seem to be having the same problem.  I would guess that
 the bug was introduced somewhere upstream of Fedora. 

There isn't just one bug, there are several.  The whole linux sound
setup is currently a mess in my opinion.

My sound worked yesterday through my headphone jack, from various
sources.  I even had sound for system events from time to time.  I have
no idea why it decided to start working.

This morning I removed the pulseaudio components to see if that would
allow me to have system sound.  That messed up the entire sound system.
I now only have sound from Amarok.  So its back to tweaking various
settings and rebooting frequently to see if I can get sound working
again.

Do I need to mention that sound was fine in F10 and that all of this is
extremely frustrating ?

I can't even file a bug report on this because the symptoms are changing
with every reboot.

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Re: KpackageKit error: Repository configuration was invalid

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:53 -0700, Keith wrote:
 Linuxguy123 wrote:

  
  a) I don't have a repository called InstallMedia.
  
  b) Its highly annoying that this error keeps popping up and that it
  can't be turned off.  It was appearing the other day too and I finally
  turned it off by turning off the yum-updatesd service.  But now it seems
  to appear even though that is turned off. FRUSTRATING !
  
  I've done a yum clean all and yum clean expire-cache.  It still occurs.
  
  How do I fix this ?
  
  Thanks
  
  
  It is looking for a install drive like a DVD or CD-rom. You need to go
 into your settings and turn it off.
 

I looked in kpackagekit-settings-Origins of Packages and I don't have
anything to disable that looks related to a DVD or CDROM.  Any ideas ? 

Thanks for the reply !

LG


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Soundcard works but no sound... how do I troubleshoot ?

2009-07-26 Thread Linuxguy123

I am running F11 with KDE, all updates installed.

$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Tue Jul 7
20:45:17 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I have sound through my headphone jack when I run system-config-sound.
It shows the PCM device to be STAC92xx Analog.

I also have sound when running Amarok.  Its not clear to me which device
it is using.

But I don't have sound with other applications (eg Youtube or mplayer or
xine) or with KDE in general.

At this point I DO have pulseaudio installed.

How do I troubleshoot or fix the sound on my laptop ?

Thanks

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Re: pulseaudio breaks after update today - at least you HAD sound !

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:13 -0700, jack craig wrote:
 Hi Fedora list,
 
 today i did an update and am left with, ...

At least you HAD sound.  I haven't had sound since I upgraded to F11,
even though it worked fine in F10.

Sound now *almost* works on my computer.  I actually got output from
system-config-soundcard last night.  Though I still didn't have any
system sounds nor any output from amarok.  Sound is again totally broken
after my reboot this morning though.

I can't tell you how frustrating this has been.

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When will we ever have an upgrade with sound that just works ?

I've been using Redhat/Fedora since RH8.

It seems that every time we get a new version sound gets broken and I
have to go through a whole complicated and convoluted troubleshooting
sequence to get it running again.

Wireless networking used to be like that and now it seems to work
release after release.  When will sound get the same attention to detail
that Wireless got ?

Sound worked just fine in F8 and F10, after some fiddling, of course.
Along comes F11 and I've got nothing, in spite of spending literally
days mucking and fiddling around.  The pundits say that the problem is
my complicated, unsupported sound card (Intel HDA), but it worked just
fine in F8 and F10 and it hasn't changed since.  If it ran fine in F8
and F10, why should it suddenly be OK to NOT run in F11 ?

The funny part of all this is the pulse audio component.  Pulse audio
seems to be bug ridden.  There doesn't seem to be any real documentation
for troubleshooting it.  And yet one gets chastised if one says they
want to remove it and run without it.

Oh, yeah... I forgot... Fedora is bleeding edge.  The funny thing is
that we've been bleeding on the sound card issues since RH8 and there
doesn't seem to be any end in sight.  And I would hardly call sound
systems leading edge in this day and age.

When (and how) will this madness end ?


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Re: When will we ever have an upgrade with sound that just works ?

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 09:58 -0700, Craig White wrote:
 The way problems get fixed is to have a repeatable installation and a
 repeatable problem and report to bugzilla so the software developers
 know that there is a problem, can get information from you as to your
 hardware, suggest changes and then these changes will be incorporated
 into the distribution.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509620

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Re: When will we ever have an upgrade with sound that just works ?