i810 graphics with X.org on Sony VAIO Laptop
by Jerry O. Dueitt, Jr.
I am running a FC2T1 install that I have continuously kept up2date,
typically via up2date, but sometimes using yum if up2date refused to work.
But anyways, I am now up to Test 3 status. However, after installing the
updates that brought me to Test 3 an issue came up. Now everytime I boot X
tries to run at 640x480. Consultation of the X.org.log reveals this error:
(II) I810(0): not using default mode "1024x768" (bad mode
clock/interlace/double scan)
(II) I810(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (no mode of this name)
(--) I810(0): Virtual size is 640x480 (pitch 1024)
Does anyone know why this occurs and how to fix it. I have the DVD ISO
downloaded and can burn that if a fresh install is the solution. I mean
this system has just be updated through the various test versions. I
haven't seen anaconda in a while so maybe I should... I just don't want to
if I can avoid doing a reinstall before the final.
-Jerry.
19 years, 11 months
alsa mute
by Alex Thomsen Leth
why is alsa muted at start up, i think we should change that.
19 years, 11 months
ARRGH! Metacity is killing me.
by Matthew Miller
Okay, so there's the general new Orwellian mantra of "lack of features is
better!" and "your preferences are scientificially proven to be not very
usable by you despite what you think" and "shut up; human factors are
perfectly quantifiable and we measured this and who the hell do you think
you are".
Okay, fine. Off to the reeducation camps with my computer habits. It's more
convenient to find a tiny little pager applet in the middle of the bottom of
the screen than to be able to configure the scroll wheel to flip desktops.
And it's obviously better to not be able to click on a link in a background
window without it jumping to the top and covering up everything else I'm
working on -- I couldn't possibly be working on *more than one thing at
once*.
But *why* can't I push windows off the top of the screen with alt-drag?
Maybe I want them up there! I thought this whole "spatial browsing paradigm"
-- who knew it was a *paradigm*? -- I just thought it was tedious and
annoying and filled up your workspace with clutter, but science has shown
the error of my ways -- anyway, this "paradigm" was all about stability of
physical relationships between virtual objects. Well, dammit, why's the top
of the screen suddenly hard and fast?
Is this helping user-friendlyness by assuming that I'm so stupid that I know
how to use alt-drag to move the window *off* the screen, but might, in the
next few minutes, forget that I can do that to get it back on and be
bewildered forever looking for the title bar?
Arrrgh.
Okay, I feel better now.
The question is: how can I change the window manager Gnome uses to something
a little more _flexible? I've got Window Maker installed, but then I
discovered that the new GNOME apparently has no visible option for changing
window manager. (Of course! It's better that way! Why would you want to
change it away from the perfect-for-all-humanity defaults?!?) So I did some
googling, and discovered that there's a GConf setting for this. So I use
gconf-editor and change it. Log out, log back in again, and hey, lookit
that, no effect at all.
There's got to be a way. What am I missing here? Or should I just ditch
GNOME entirely and go back to my happy little Window Maker world?
--
Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
19 years, 11 months
Removing gftp-text
by Warren Togami
[root@ibmlaptop bin]# ls -l gftp*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278 Apr 14 21:34 gftp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 301804 Apr 14 21:34 gftp-gtk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 163828 Apr 14 21:34 gftp-text
I really want to just DELETE the gftp-text binary from the gftp package
in order to save some distribution package and filesystem space. gftp
the GUI client is great, but gftp-text really sucks. I can't imagine
that anybody prefers it over lftp or ncftp, and it has the usability of
"ftp".
Anybody see any good reason to keep gftp-text? If I don't hear any good
reason within the next 18 hours it will be deleted.
Warren
19 years, 11 months
Athlon 64 new breakages
by Alan Cox
Test2 the dual athlon 64 box installs faultlessly. Test3 the same hardware
blows up the kernel (blue screen with random crap on it - text mode) the
moment the aacraid driver loads.
So it looks like someone broke aacraid or the scsi layer between t2 and t3.
19 years, 11 months
lvm2 problems
by Neal Becker
I am running FC2 (from developement). Root is on Raid0 lvm2, created by
FC2T1.
When I boot lately, I'm seeing messages about not being able to find device
with uuid xxxx....
I just ran lvdisplay to see what it would say, and it looks like the same
message I saw at boot time:
/usr/sbin/lvdisplay
Couldn't find device with uuid '2adyAl-cmc6-kSXj-a7Nu-IPmg-YF0e-5ERd6y'.
Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group Volume00.
Volume group "Volume00" not found
It is not fatal, because it manages to mount anyway:
mount
/dev/mapper/Volume00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
Do I need to do something?
19 years, 11 months
ntfs support
by Anthony Richardella
Just wondering if there are any plans for adding support for
mounting ntfs filesystems.
Anthony
19 years, 11 months
FC2T2 - epiphany install
by Will H. Backman
epiphany was not installed with FC2T2 Desktop install, so I installed it
today using up2date epiphany. epiphany-1.1.12-0
It was not added to my red hat menu, at least not anywhere obvious.
Also, when I launched it from the command line "epiphany", it started as
a blank window that in no way looked like a normal browser.
There was no toolbar or status bar. Just a white window with the
pull-down menus.
Anyone else see this?
--
Will Backman <whb(a)ceimaine.org>
Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
19 years, 11 months
default services
by Alexander Kirillov
(Sorry if this had been discussed before - I am new to the list)
Why FC2 t3 activates so many services by default? I had to manually
deactivate the following:
- irqbalance - why the hell it was even installed on a uniprocessor
machine?
- rawdevices - how many people need this? And those who do, probably
know enough to enable them
- portmap/netfs/nfs/nfslock - well, I understand that they are
necessary in LAN environment, but could we add a question to installer
or firstboot so that home users do not get this bunch?
- rpcgssd/rpcsvcgssd - I do not fully understand what these are, but I
definitely do not need them. How many people do?
Sasha
19 years, 12 months
Missing Navigation Bars in Evolution 1.4.6
by J. Scott Amort
Hi All,
I've just upgraded to FC2T2, and have noticed that there are no
navigation bars (i.e. up/down bars) in the shortcut window on
Evolution. I have all of my mailing lists as a bunch of shortcuts in
their own group, but now I can only access the first ten or so, as there
is no way to scroll further down the list! Is this a silly error on my
part, or should I send it on to bugzilla? Thanks.
Best,
Scott
19 years, 12 months
