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development package report and build request
by Marius Andreiana 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

After a few days of struggling with wine-20050310-1fc3winehq, I can finally report success! I've added to fedora extras development cvs the following packages and I request a build for them: - iis 8.2 (Microsoft Internet Information Server) I hope it will be included in Fedora Core 5 and by Fedora Core 7 it will be the default instead of buggy Apache I'm still working on support of ASP.NET (using mono) - iexplorer 6.1 Internet Explorer is the most critical missing piece from a decent desktop! This prevents reports I get from my users like 'Linux is slow and no multi-tasking, it can only open one window when surfing the net. Explorer opens so many so fast!' - msibuild 3.0 This was working since wine-20050105, when MSI support was added, but I was waiting for the other packages to really test it. This supports building software packages with Microsoft Software Installer instead of current rpm. So, rather than current feature-less situation when you double click a .rpm file and it installs, and you can know each file on what package belongs and it can uninstall cleanly, one can have now enterprise-level software installs: double click an .exe file, it uncompresses, it runs install, user can press Next several times (gives a feeling of interactivity), he can choose to install in /usr, in /usr/local or /prgfiles and so on. On uninstall it automatically detects what files might be used by other programs, so they can be left on the system. That's it for now, next I'll work on anti-virus and anti-spyware (FREE for personal use!) I'm CCing this to fedora-list too, I think this is important news for everybody! -- Marius Andreiana Epon -- future-proof business applications http://www.epon.ro

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Kde 3.4 Problem
by Zack 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hi, I'm relatively (g)new to Linux. Few days ago I've made an upgrade to KDE 3.4 of my Fedora box, by installing rpm packages with --nodeps. What a horrible thing. Then I've update the packages with apt/synaptic to 3.4.0-1.2.3 Successively I've ran KDE and I've got this error message: Impossible to find mimes: application/octet-stream And then: No mimes installed. By installing in a wrong order KDE packages, I think KDE was unable to register mimes types. How can I register those mimes types? Is it yet possible? There's nothing I can do? Alternatively, how can I unistall all the kde packages (with dependency packages such qt) in a clean way? Thank You Zack -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Bisogno di liquidità? Non devi spiegare per cosa. Fino a 4.000 a casa tua Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=2291&d=31-3

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RE: installing Request Tracker 3.4.1 on FC3
by Ronald Nissley 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

>> I have RT 3.4.1 running on FC3. It works fairly well...I'm running it on >> some older hardware which may explain the (IMO) somewhat slow >> performance. I've not yet been successful running it using fast-cgi and >> suexec, but haven't given up. It took a lot of time and patience to get >> it installed and running. Probably the single greatest time investment >> was reading through much of the documentation >> (http://wiki.bestpractical.com/) The following is for FC2, but should >> still be largely relevant: >> http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?FedoraCore2InstallGuide If you >> have a specific question I'll do my best to answer. >did you, in fact, have to upgrade mysql to version 4.0.1? did that >cause any problems? rday I uninstalled FC's MySQL and downloaded/installed the Linux x86 RPMs from the MySQL site (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html#Linux_x86_RPM) Ron

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Ghost 2003 and FC 3
by RL 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I just got a DVD writer for my FC 3 machine so I could ghost the entire drive. I have Norton Ghost 2003. I remember having no problems ghosting other Linux distros. When I try to ghost this time, however, it errors at the start with a read sector failure. Is this a known issue? Ghost 2003 should work with ext3 filesystems just fine. Are there any other good ghosting progs? I have used "g4u" with FreeBSD and it is real nice; however, I'd rather have something to backup an entire hard-drive right on to a DVD.

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Re: FC3 Intel on-board sound card detected on install, now no longer works
by VB 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

--- David Curry <dsccable(a)comcast.net> wrote: > VB wrote: > > >I recently installed FC3 on my Toshiba M200 laptop. > > >The integrated sound card was detected properly on > >install (initial test sound played fine). Now > sound > >does not work. I have gone to every place I can > think > >of to modify volume but still no sound. > > > >How can I start debugging this problem? My > "Hardware > >Browser" shows an "Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM > >(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller" using > a > >snd-intel8x0 driver. Below is my 'lsmod' listing: > > > > > > > > > The following URL may be helpful > http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/alsa.shtml > Awesome! Instructions worked...hit the spot. Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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inn "howto"?
by David Cary Hart 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I am trying to set up in to provide the regex filtering that is absent from linux news clients. Has anyone seen "The Nitwit's Guide" or something comparable that can help me ABC what should be a simple setup? Innd won't start without first running makehistory which won't run without numerous errors. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Kill Spam at the Source: http://www.TQMcube.com/spam_trap.htm Today's Spam Trap Adds: http://www.TQMcube.com/BlockedToday RBLDNSD HowTo: http://www.TQMcube.com/rbldnsd.htm

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modem keeps disappearing
by Claude Jones 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I'm having a disappearing modem problem. I put in the computer, it gets recognized by kudzu, and it comes up working. I use it to dial in to an old mainframe. Kermit sees it, and I have ProComm for DOS running under dosemu. All seems well. I shut down the computer, and when it comes back up, it has disappeared. So far, I've only been able to recover it by removing it and rebooting, and then reinstalling it and rebooting. It seemed to be a problem with a lockfile earlier on, but, that's no longer the case. Can anyone offer an idea? I've searched the list and read the configuration manuals from Redhat, but there is precious little said about modems for old-style dialup. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA

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KMail/Evolution Disk space usage
by Chris Ruprecht 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi all, my email arrives at my server and gets filtered into the appropriate directories with procmail - all is well. I then use Evolution or KMail depending on the mood of the day to read/send messages (using IMAP, not POP so that the stuff stays on the server) and all is still well, or so it seems. Until I started to investigate my disk space that is, and why there are only 2 GB left on the 40 GB laptop drive. What I found is a little astonishing: all mails get copied to the laptop from the server so that I now have 3 copies of everything: 1: server, 2: Evolution, 3: KMail - so if I was to eventually move to Thunderbird, provided they sort the addressbook import using vcards out one day, I will have #4 copy sitting around. Since I have no intention of deleting anything on the server, matters will gradually get worse, I guess. My question is: Is there a way to tell the IMAP client (Evolution or KMail) to NOT bring the messages over, the header would be perfectly fine? I can limit the damage by using only Evolution - but it's fonts are so rediculously large under KDE and the laptop screen real-estate is somewhat in high demand, so smaller is better. Any ideas? Thanks, Chris

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up2date header files
by Mark Weaver 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I'm curious about something... are the up2date package header files that are stored in /var/spool/up2date needed for anything, or can I clear them out to conserve space on my hard drive? thanks, -- Mark ----------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2, 10.0 & RH Fedora Core 3

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Re: Ide=nodma is "loosing too many ticks"
by Richard Molen 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

--- Mark <msalists(a)gmx.net> wrote: > I got the following problem after my FC3 install: > > Losing too many ticks! > TSC cannot be used as a timesource. > Possible reasons for this are: > You're running with Speedstep, > You don't have DMA enabled for your hard disk (see hdparm), > Incorrect TSC synchronization on an SMP system (see dmesg). > Falling back to a sane timesource now. Seems I had this problem when compiling a custom kernel for an a7n8x board recently. hdparm couldn't enable the dma either. It finally worked after adding the correct IDE driver (amd/nforce) for that mobo. Until I corrected the problem disk performance was quite poor. > I have ide=nodma in the boot parameters, since I was not able to > complete the install with that parameter. > If I try to take this parameter out of the grub.conf, I get the below > and the machine does not boot: You may need to compile a custom kernel with the correct driver for your motherboard. Or perhaps get try an updated kernel. -- Richard Molen __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest

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