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FC3 and ghostscript
by Bill R. Williams 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

I went straight from FC1 to FC3 and something ugly has appeared. (I mention this because it might have appeared in FC2, but I wouldn't know. The ghostscript output UGLY! Big clunky-looking font. Easy to create example: (using yum startup -- any [ba]sh script will do.) $ enscript -p out.ps -G -C --color --pretty-print=sh /etc/init.d/yum $ gv out.ps # or whatever GS viewer you use The above example you can do a perl script (--pretty-print=perl) or whatever. Part of the problem is easy to notice that because there is COLOR in out.ps the gv display will have some text "backed-up" over preceding characters. Not so noticeable for those who don't do a lot of 'enscript' of scripts, is that the font is big and clunky and runs off the right-hand side of the "page". I do quite a bit of programming in various scripts and sometimes C/C++, and I have a need to produce nice program listings. I have used 'enscript' for years; from RH v7.x through FC1 it produced exactly what I needed. With FC3, it is just unusable for my purposes. Note that NO FONT is specified, so I am used to getting the default which is mono-spaced resulting in output that has all characters lined up as they should be. (No variable-width character adjustment. Kerning?) I have tried many variations specifying a font to get back to what I want. If I specify something which produces variable-width characters, the output is "correct" in that there is no "backed-up" text due to the color specification; however, this type of font is no good for program listing purposes. I have determined that the problem is with ghostscript! (Any utility I use which displays postscript uses ghostscript.) I can produce my standard enscript output on my FC3 system at home, take it to my office and look at it on my RH 7.3 system with gv and it is as I want it to be. This problem is significant to me for several reasons, and affects my intention to upgrade my system at work to FC3. Help will REALLY be appreciated! (Including the proper "official" place to post this.) -- --------------------------------------------- Bill R. Williams <brwilliams AT chartertn DOT net>

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software to read BIOS values
by dballester＠kernpharma.com 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Hi to all: Some time ago I saw a Linux application capable to read BIOS values, something like <Register> <Content> . Now i don't remember where andf when i saw this app, and google can't help me very much. May be the reference was done here in this list. Anybofy remeber it, or knows what I am talking about? As usual, a lot of TIAs David Ballester Montolio GNU/Linux user #206389 GNU/Linux - Unices Sysadmin Oracle DBA SAP-BC Kern Pharma - Grupo Indukern www.kernpharma.com

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Re: Bittorrent - how to use on Linux?
by Paul Howarth 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Andrea Montenegro wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > >> Andrea Montenegro wrote: >> >>> I was wondering if anyone has experience the same problem with >>> bittorrent and FC3: I installed the version 3.4.2-1-1 from a rpm I >>> found on Internet; the program seems to work fine using the command >>> line "/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate 32 <torrent file>", >>> except for the fact that after a few hours my operating system stop >>> responding and I'm forced to shut down the machine using the power >>> button. I tried to login through ssh when the computer hang, but even >>> that didn't work. >>> >>> The operating system is very stable until I run bittorrent, and it >>> runs 24 hours a day without a glitch. Is there a log file that can >>> help to better understand what causes the problem? >> >> >> >> This isn't something I've noticed but perhaps you could give the new >> beta version (3.9.1) a try and see if that's any better? >> >> I have RPMs for it at: >> http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/BETA/ >> >> Paul. >> > Thanks Paul, I'll give it a try. Did this help? FWIW, I now have an FC3 package of the new BitTorrent 4.0.0 client (no longer a beta) at: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/ Paul.

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create a restricted user
by Zacharie Elcor 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I want to create a restricted user without password that can only use a web browser. I added a user named "visitor" and created in his home dir a file .xsession that contains: firefox so that when he logs in, firefox is launched, and when he closes firefox, he is logged out. This works fine but he is still able to ctrl+alt+F(1-6) and log in to browse the file system. To prevent that, I tried to set /bin/false as the default shell for that user in /etc/passwd but this also prevented him to log in graphically. Is there a way to be sure that "visitor" will only be able to browse the web and not the file system ? any security issues ? Thanks for help

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SB Audigy not detected
by Robert Crowther 27 May '05

27 May '05

I have just purchased an Audigy 2 soundcard (this one: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?product_uid=82109) I have an Asus A7V333 motherboard which has onboard sound, but there is no way to disable the onboard sound in the BIOS (all the information I could find indicated that the onboard sound would be turned off automatically if there was a soundcard plugged in, but this doesn't seem to be the case). Gnome doesn't detect the soundcard at all, it doesn't appear in any of the system tools and, even after I manually added entries to modprobe.conf I am still stuck with only my onboard soundcard. The snd_emu10k1 module is getting loaded, it appears when I lsmod, but no sound card device is created. It does seem that the kernel knows the card is there, it just doesn't seem to know what it is: #/sbin/lspci | grep Creative 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0008 #/usr/sbin/kudzu -p --class=AUDIO class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Creative Labs: Unknown device 0008" vendorId: 1102 deviceId: 0008 subVendorId: 1102 subDeviceId: 1001 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: e pcifn: 0 - class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: snd-cmipci desc: "C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738" vendorId: 13f6 deviceId: 0111 subVendorId: 1043 subDeviceId: 80e2 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 5 pcifn: 0 So I'm thinking there will be a config file somewhere where I can explain that the snd_emu10k1 is the driver for deviceid 0008? Does anyone know where that is - or am I barking up the wrong tree. (BTW - currently running 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 because I couldn't get fglrx to work with the 2.6.11 kernel). Rob

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Printing problem with CUPS after FC3 upgrade
by felix 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hi, I have a strange problem. There's a computer on the network that are connected to a printer via Samba and another one by JetDirect (on port 9100). The computer used to be on FC2 and could print on either printer fine. After upgrading to FC3, however, it stopped sending jobs to the printers. More precisely, it still sends jobs to the printers, but nothing comes out on the other end. There are no error messages or anything. It's just a black hole. I am totally at a loss at this point...

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fedora 4 public release date?
by Jack Wallen 16 May '05

16 May '05

am i correct in a june 6th release of FC4? -- jack wallen, jr mailto: jlwallen(a)monkeypantz.net AIM: linuxula or maryjanecapri http://www.monkeypantz.net public key: http://www.monkeypantz.net/jlwallen.asc

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gtkglarea
by Paul D. Jones 15 May '05

15 May '05

I am trying to install a piece of software that requires the gtkglarea libraries, is there an rpm for these for FC3? I couldn't find one. I guess this has been removed from the core 3 distribution, are there any incompatibilities I should be aware of? Thanks Paul ================================ Paul D. Jones, Ph.D. NIH Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Entomology & Cancer Research Center University of California, Davis Davis, CA 95616 ================================

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extra repositories
by Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina 15 May '05

15 May '05

HEllo, I'm looking for a list of "extras" mirrors. I alredy have enough "base" ones in my yum.conf. I need ocaml and python-imaging, that are both in extras. I saw this could be one: http://fedoraproject.org/extras/EXTRAS but it indicates a main mirror (xxx.redhat.com) and i dont want to overload the main mirrors. would you know some others, or do i need to check one by one all the available mirrors here http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html#EU to find onethat could suit me? I'm located in France (centre area). -- Get a fully managed dedicated server for €200/month ($257/month) No time limit for taking care of your server. You keep the "root" acces if you want. Billing periods are 3 months. See the conditions at http://aspo.rktmb.org/activities/managed_servers

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Fedoraforum.org is now official?
by David Hoffman 14 May '05

14 May '05

OK, so I get this note today that says that the new official support site for Fedora is going to be the web-based forums at fedoraforum.org. I guess all the hassle about the mailing list over the past few weeks finally got to someone. However, it also says that the mailing list is not going away, and that "users are encouraged to go to the forums first if they have support questions. So now people will be going to two different places to NOT search the archives, and ask questions. Brilliant! -- David Registered Linux User 383030 (since everyone else was doing it 8-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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