Fedora Queries for Laptop
by Jigar Sutaria
I have Dell Inspiron with all latest configuration. I want to know
following work with Fedora or not
If they are working any configuration required or not (Any document
reference that can help me knowing this)
1. Bluetooth data/voice
2. USB Flash Drive
3. USB Hard Drive
4. Playing Movies VCD/DVD
5. Playing Music
6. Telephony Tools
7. Microphone
8. Webcam
9 Scanner/Cameras
.
15 years, 11 months
Fedora 9 On Laptop battery
by Fastie
Hi
I have been working on Fedora since Core 6, and found that now I've moved
i've had to start using my battery more on my laptop than I used to. So my
battery just doesn't last. I got myself a replacement thinking that my
battery is dead but still had the same result.
I am running an HP NC6320 laptop with nothing extra (clean install). My
brightness is on the lowest setting.
I went through my services and stopped all the ones I don't need and
installed powertop and did what it told me to do, (but it is not permanent
for one).
According to HP my battery should last about 4 hours, however I only get
about 1.5 hours if I am lucky. I have to say when I was testing this on
Windows I did not get 4 hours as HP say but got about 3 hours. So running
Fedora cut my battery time in half.
One thing I did see on powertop is that my "Wakeups-from-idle per second" is
running at "669.1 interval: 10.0s", this looks high. How do you reduce
this?
Is there anything else I can do to get more battery power out of it?
Thanks
Chris
16 years
webcam
by Arnav Kalra
I have bought a new webcam with a tag of only windows vista. will it work on
my fedora laptop
--
arnav kalra (linux inside)
16 years
Re: backup and synchronization program?
by Andrew Farris
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:05 PM, D. H. Holsboer <dh holsboer xs4all nl> wrote:
> I am looking for a program that can backup and/or synchronize data on my
> laptop (FC 8), on another FC 8 and on a WIN XP on my LAN. I have for WIN - WIN
> synchronization and/or backup the program SyncBack, but don want to have to
> switch to Win XP all the time I want to make a backup or synchronize the
> systems.
> Does anybody know which Linux program performs these actions by simply
> copying files from one system to the system on which they are not present and
> overwriting old files with the newer versions? This is the way I use to my
> satisfaction the program SyncBack.exe. Of course, the Win XP machine is
> accessible via smb.
You might want to look at either BackupPC or Unison. Unison is basically a
two-way rsync that you run when you choose (or script via cron), so it can keep
the newest file whether you change it on the PC or portable; normally with rsync
you cannot do that. I've never used BackupPC but it is supposed to be a
full-blown backup solution.
--
Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com> www.lordmorgul.net
gpg 0x8300BF29 fingerprint 071D FFE0 4CBC 13FC 7DEB 5BD5 5F89 8E1B 8300 BF29
16 years
X not working at all
by El-Hassan Wanas
Hey guys,
I have an LG R405, it has an integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 card in it.
During the Fedora 9 installation(which started in text), I got a message
saying couldn't configure X. I tried installing other distros as well, but
nothing worked graphical.
Any help on that?
Thanks,
Wanas
--
http://programmingden.blogspot.com
16 years
Panasonic Y7 hotkeys
by Dr Peter L R Smith
Has anyone managed to get acpi/hotkeys working properly on a Panasonic
Let's Note Y7 and Fedora 9? I cannot get suspend or the brightness keys
to work. Any help would be appreciated.
16 years
Looking for evtouch driver for Fedora 9
by axel lin
hi list,
I'm looking for evtouch driver for Fedora 9.
I have checked http://www.conan.de/touchscreen/evtouch.html.
Here is my questions bout using evtouch on Fedora 9:
1. Is there any rpm available for evtouch driver on Fedora 9.
2. I tried to use pre-built evtouch-0.8.7.tar.gz driver,
but I got version mis-match error (in /var/log/Xorg.0.log)
Then I try to compile the source code.
but I got below error when execute ./configure
checking for XORG... configure: error: Package requirements (xorg-server
xproto ) were not met:
No package 'xorg-server' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XORG_CFLAGS
and XORG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
Which rpm is missing?
Below is the xorg packages installed in my system.
[root@localhost Packages]# rpm -qa |grep xorg
xorg-x11-apps-7.3-3.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.7-6.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.99.1-0.5.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-dmc-1.1.2-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion-1.6.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-s3virge-1.10.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.10-2.20080408git0991281.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.5.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.3.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.2-4.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.2-4.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-twm-1.0.3-2.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.8-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.10.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-geode-2.8.0-3.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.3.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-10.16.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-sisusb-0.9.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-xtrans-devel-1.1-2.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.3.0-2.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.3.0-3.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-ast-0.85.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.8-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-jamstudio-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-acecad-1.2.2-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-tek4957-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-wiimote-0.0.1-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-apm-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-v4l-0.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drivers-7.3-4.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.3-12.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-filesystem-7.3-1.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.2-4.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-utils-7.3-3.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.3.0-15.20080404.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-tdfx-1.4.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-palmax-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-magellan-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-digitaledge-1.1.1-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-microtouch-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-elographics-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-ur98-1.1.0-5.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-24.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.3.1-7.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.1.1-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-glint-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-14.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-3.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-hyperpen-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-dynapro-1.1.2-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-diamondtouch-0.2.0-0.1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-spaceorb-1.1.0-6.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-i740-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-calcomp-1.1.2-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-void-1.1.1-9.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-neomagic-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-rendition-4.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-trident-1.3.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-summa-1.2.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-citron-2.2.1-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-i128-1.3.0-1.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.902-3.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-savage-2.2.0-2.fc9.i386
Regards,
Axel
16 years
F9 installer could not detect my previous installed F8
by Yunus
Hi Users of Fedora,
I have installed F9 successfuly (GRUB installed on MBR). It seems that F9
could not detect my previously installed F8.
My partition layout as follows:
Device Partition Type Remark
--------------------------------------------------------
dev/sda
dev/sda1 /boot newly created from free space for F9
free space unallocated space
dev/sda2 /home formerly created for F8
dev/sda3 swap formely created for F8
dev/sda4 extended partion
dev/sda5 /1 formeld created root partion for F8
dev/sda6 / newly created for root partion for
F9
Anyone can help me to recove my F8 and give advice on best partion layout
for dual boot (Fedora+Fedora or Fedora+Debian)?
Thank you
yunus
16 years
Re: Fedora-laptop-list Digest, Vol 26, Issue 2
by Arnav Kalra
jcviz,
thank you for your reply. can u tell me where would i find official
synaptics touchpad driver for linux
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> 4. Re: how to install F9 (Mehul)
> 5. Re: how to install F9 (Kae Verens)
> 6. Which file i need to burn on DVD (Mehul)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:06:16 -0400
> From: jcvlz <jcvlz(a)jcvlz.com>
> Subject: Re: Fedora-laptop-list Digest, Vol 25, Issue 10
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> 2008/6/1 Arnav Kalra <arnavkalra007(a)gmail.com>:
> > can anybody tell me that the following will work in f9 on a sony vaio
> sz400:
> >
> > touchpad
> > 3d graphics
> > keyoard
> > wi fi
> > hindi text with a english keyboard
> > java
> > flash
> > actually with f8 the touchpad doesnt work correctly and its sensors make
> the
> > cursor go in opposite direction
> >
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>
> I've been running F9 for about a week on a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ240E, with
> no serious problems to speak of. So far, it appears to be handling
> the hardware better than F8, with less need for customization. There
> are of course a couple of tweaks that you'll probably want to make,
> but nothing critical.
>
> As far as your list, all seem to be working fine, except the hindi (I
> havn't tried it). Although, I did not have any problems in F8 either
> (e.g. the touchpad worked fine).
>
> To get the headphone jack working, I had to add the following to
> modprobe.conf:
> options snd-hda-intel model=vaio
>
> I should also mention that I have not yet tested Xen on this machine,
> since dom0 is not supported in F9 (should be back in F10). Note,
> you'll have to do the bios hack to turn on virtualization support - it
> worked fine for me.
>
> Please let me know if you have any other questions.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:07:19 +0530
> From: Mehul <bhensaniya(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: how to install F9
> To: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
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> Hi Dear All,
> i am useing Dell Vostro 1400
> I just want to know about how to install Fedora 9. i just download i386
> from
> the redhat site then i write a DVD after unzip that File(i386) but when i
> try to boot from DVD it is not booting from it
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mehul Bhensaniya
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> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:38:48 +0100
> From: Kae Verens <kae(a)verens.com>
> Subject: Re: how to install F9
> Cc: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
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> Mehul wrote:
> > Hi Dear All,
> > i am useing Dell Vostro 1400
> > I just want to know about how to install Fedora 9. i just download i386
> > from the redhat site then i write a DVD after unzip that File(i386) but
> > when i try to boot from DVD it is not booting from it
>
> make sure your system is set to boot from DVD instead of HardDrive.
>
> when you turn on your machine, there should be a momentary (a second or
> so) message saying something like "Press F11 to change boot order". You
> need to change the boot order so the DVD is first.
> In some cases, you may need to go into to BIOS setup to do it. All
> systems are a little different.
>
> --
> Kae Verens' signature
> http://webworks.ie/ lead programmer
> http://verens.com/ my blog
> http://kfm.verens.com/ current project
> --
> this is Kae's signature's signature.
> --
> Kae's signature's signature does not get one though
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:15:35 +0530
> From: Mehul <bhensaniya(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: how to install F9
> To: "Kae Verens" <kae(a)verens.com>, fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
> Message-ID:
> <78412f710806020045n2fca4639tff8e77804b6ef22b(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Thanx Dear for the your reply
>
> But Even after i change the boot order it's not booting from DVD. & even i
> just want to know that is that only i386 is needed for the fedora 9
> installation.
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Kae Verens <kae(a)verens.com> wrote:
>
> > Mehul wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Dear All,
> >> i am useing Dell Vostro 1400
> >> I just want to know about how to install Fedora 9. i just download i386
> >> from the redhat site then i write a DVD after unzip that File(i386) but
> when
> >> i try to boot from DVD it is not booting from it
> >>
> >
> > make sure your system is set to boot from DVD instead of HardDrive.
> >
> > when you turn on your machine, there should be a momentary (a second or
> so)
> > message saying something like "Press F11 to change boot order". You need
> to
> > change the boot order so the DVD is first.
> > In some cases, you may need to go into to BIOS setup to do it. All
> systems
> > are a little different.
> >
> > --
> > Kae Verens' signature
> > http://webworks.ie/ lead programmer
> > http://verens.com/ my blog
> > http://kfm.verens.com/ current project
> > --
> > this is Kae's signature's signature.
> > --
> > Kae's signature's signature does not get one though
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mehul Bhensaniya
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:52:55 +0100
> From: Kae Verens <kae(a)verens.com>
> Subject: Re: how to install F9
> Cc: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
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> Mehul wrote:
> > Thanx Dear for the your reply
> >
> > But Even after i change the boot order it's not booting from DVD. & even
> > i just want to know that is that only i386 is needed for the fedora 9
> > installation.
>
> > i am useing Dell Vostro 1400
> > I just want to know about how to install Fedora 9. i just
> > download i386 from the redhat site then i write a DVD after
> > unzip that File(i386) but when i try to boot from DVD it is not
> > booting from it
>
> when you say "unzip" above, what do you mean?
>
> the DVDs should be written directly to DVD - there is no unzipping
> involved. the files you download should be complete DVD images.
>
> what files are you downloading? (provide URLs)
>
> --
> Kae Verens' signature
> http://webworks.ie/ lead programmer
> http://verens.com/ my blog
> http://kfm.verens.com/ current project
> --
> this is Kae's signature's signature.
> --
> Kae's signature's signature does not get one though
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:26:34 +0530
> From: Mehul <bhensaniya(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Which file i need to burn on DVD
> To: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hi ,
>
> I just want to know about the image which i need to burn on the DVD.
> after download i386 i see it that is zipfile so i unzip it & burn the DVD
> is
> that write Or i need to burn the file as a same form what i download from
> the redhat
>
>
> Regards,
> Mehul Bhensaniya
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> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:03:22 +0100
> From: Kae Verens <kae(a)verens.com>
> Subject: Re: how to install F9
> To: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
> Message-ID: <4843A94A.9090702(a)verens.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Mehul wrote:
> > Hear the link is
> > http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
> > from this above link i download the i386 DVD image
>
> this is the one you want.
>
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386...
>
> you should download that, then burn it to DVD. Note that the extension
> is .iso, not .zip
>
> The file is a DVD image. When burning to DVD, make sure you choose to
> burn as an image. Otherwise you will have a DVD which has a single large
> file on it.
>
> --
> Kae Verens' signature
> http://webworks.ie/ lead programmer
> http://verens.com/ my blog
> http://kfm.verens.com/ current project
> --
> this is Kae's signature's signature.
> --
> Kae's signature's signature does not get one though
>
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 05:08:18 -0300
> From: "Rafael F. Compte" <rfcompte(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Which file i need to burn on DVD
> To: Mehul <bhensaniya(a)gmail.com>, fedora-laptop-list
> <fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID:
> <56e2d9e50806020108k4c3fb8a6q4533415be923d400(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> 2008/6/2 Mehul <bhensaniya(a)gmail.com>:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I just want to know about the image which i need to burn on the DVD.
> > after download i386 i see it that is zipfile so i unzip it & burn the DVD
> is
> > that write Or i need to burn the file as a same form what i download from
> > the redhat
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mehul Bhensaniya
> > _______________________________________________
> > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list
> > Fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
> > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
> >
> >
>
> Think you are doing something wrong. There's no zip file. It's an iso
> image. Maybe you are using Windows and winrar thinks athat the iso
> image should be "unzipped". Don't do that. Follow the instructions
> here http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en_US/
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Rafael F. Compte
>
> Avenida Cabildo 2575, PB "C"
> C1428AAH
> Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
>
> Tel: 54 11 4706-1625
>
> http://www.rafaelfcompte.com.ar
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16 years
backup and synchronization program?
by D. H. Holsboer
Hi,
I am looking for a program that can backup and/or synchronize data on my
laptop (FC 8), on another FC 8 and on a WIN XP on my LAN. I have for WIN
- WIN synchronization and/or backup the program SyncBack, but don want
to have to switch to Win XP all the time I want to make a backup or
synchronize the systems.
Does anybody know which Linux program performs these actions by simply
copying files from one system to the system on which they are not
present and overwriting old files with the newer versions? This is the
way I use to my satisfaction the program SyncBack.exe. Of course, the
Win XP machine is accessible via smb.
Later this month I plan to change to FC 9, hoping that most difficulties
with the new version (no new version without itś own set of
difficulties...) will be solved.
Daniel
16 years
