new printer with new PPD file
by Louis Garcia
I just installed an HP Officejet 6310 on my network and noticed that FC6
does not support this. I have downloaded the ppd file for this printer
and am not sure where it goes. This uses the hplip package and I believe
this file should go
under /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP/all_in_one/hp_officejet_*
Is this correct?
Also I noticed the new config-printer tool has a Provide PPD file
option, is this the better way?
-Louis
17 years, 7 months
Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy 470 FC5 X Windows failure
by Aaron Gray
X Windows on Fedora Core 5 fails on _one_ of our Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy 470's but not on our other one.
Redhat 9 and FC4 work fine on the 470's.
On Anaconda a message came up with the effect getting no response on port 6001, cannot remember the exact message.
When installed with text mode Anaconda X Windows fails to run when booting.
Will post more info when availiable.
Aaron
17 years, 7 months
rpm db problem
by Erwin Rol
This morning i tried to do a yum update and got an error, when trying a
rpm -qa i got the following error;
[root@xpc erwin]# rpm -qa
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: Invalid hash meta page 0
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
I have no idea how this happened, have others seen this problem
recently? And more important how can it be fixed?
- Erwin
17 years, 7 months
compiz problem - No window managment.
by Naoki
As I reported back on the 24th compiz was failing to perform any window
management, meaning all windows were on one workspace and had no borders
and could not be altered. Matthias Saou correctly noted that this
would happen if DRI was not loaded which was exactly my problem. With
the latest rawhide though the problem is back but there seems to be no
DRI problem in this instance..
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(==) AIGLX enabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so
(II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0
Anybody seen this issue with :
compiz-0.0.13-0.19.20060817git.fc6
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-30.fc6
I am using the "intel" driver if that's any help.
17 years, 7 months
SSHd
by Arthur Pemberton
Hello,
Why does FC ship openssh with sshd allowing root logins? And are there
any plans to preempt the now routine sshd weak password hunting bots?
Arthur Pemberton
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To be updated...
17 years, 7 months
"redhat" and "fedora" in package naming
by Paul B Schroeder
Not that it's a big deal.. But as redhat-config-* gave way to system-config-*,
I would think the same might be done with some of the other packages.. i.e.
redhat-lsb to system-lsb
fedora-release to system-release
etc...
Makes things more generic for the downstream distros anyway.. Any thoughts on this?
Cheers...Paul...
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Paul B Schroeder <pschroeder "at" uplogix "dot" com>
17 years, 7 months
readonly-root with a non-readonly-root
by Paul B Schroeder
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit currently gets the relies on getting $READONLY from
/etc/sysconfig/readonly-root. It uses this to determine whether or not to call
/etc/rc.readonly and whether or not to remount the root filesystem in read-write
mode.
In some instances (think flash based filesystem), it would be desireable to run
the rc.readonly script (we don't want to burn up the flash), but still have the
root filesystem in read-write mode (we still want to be able to do some
filesystem editing). Maybe rc.sysinit could check two separate variables to
control this?
$EXEC_RC_READONLY or whatever you would want to call it, could be used by
rc.sysinit to determine whether or not to exec rc.readonly. And $READONLY could
still be used to determine whether or not to remount root read-write.
Thoughts?
Cheers...Paul...
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Paul B Schroeder <pschroeder "at" uplogix "dot" com>
17 years, 7 months
Font rendering regression for freetype 2.2.1
by Joachim Frieben
The transition from FreeType 2.1.10 to 2.2.1 has led to a sensible
regression of the font rendering quality in various cases, in particular for
web pages using M$ core fonts. Luxi fonts (Fedora default font family up to
FC5) are affected, too. The latter is horizontally more condensed now, and
when the hinting is set from "medium" to "slight", it's ok in the horizontal
direction, but it gets vertically squeezed.
Verdana characters look blurred compared to setups where FreeType 2.1.10 is
installed. However, nobody seems to have complained about this, and the
associated bug report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198082
has not received any feedback. Nobody else hit by or sensitive to this
regression?
17 years, 7 months