Twinview and the kde panel
by Endy
Hey all,
I'm using Nvidia's twinview and kde with both monitors running at
1024x768. However, one of the monitors can handle resolutions higher
than that, but everytime I have tried to set that monitor to higher
resolutions, the kde taskbar will not stretch across the bottom of both
screens. I have played around with all of the taskbar's settings. It
will stretch across both screens if the taskbar positioned along the top
of the desktop. Anyone know how I can get the taskbar to spread across
both of them on the bottom when running two different resolutions?
-Endy
19 years
RE: Fedora, ALSA and MIDI OH MY! (Theme to lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!)
by Dan Thurman
Thanks for responding!
Yes, I have tried Timidity. It does not work. Timidity has core
dumped (segmentation fault) a couple times. I think the problem is
at a lower level -- involving the devices - it appears to be something
that is not activating the midi hardware interface or so I think.
Kind regards,
Dan
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Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:44 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Fedora, ALSA and MIDI OH MY! (Theme to lions, tigers, and
bears, oh my!)
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:00:39 -0700
"Daniel B. Thurman" <dant(a)cdkkt.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Is it me or does Fedora have a real problem when
> it has to deal with Sound cards?
>
> I cannot for the LIFE OF ME figure out WHY is FEDORA
> IMPOSSIBLE getting sound to work!?!?!? I can get
> my CDROM to play music -- and wave files, etc but...
> MIDI is one of those simple things that *should*
> be working but alas -- no -- it is not simple...
> it is said not to work very well....
>
> I have tried a cheap Yamaha YMF-724F (DS-1) and a not-so-cheap
> Creative Labs, SoundBlaster LIVE card and there is no way in
> h$ll I can get midi to work for either cards!?!?!? I cannot
> even figure out how to disable the KDE arts server since it
> was removed from the KControl and so -- kindly -- how can I
> disable it -- just in case it is preventing midi from working
> right?
>
> Yes, I scouraged goggle, AskJeves, etc. and it seems people
> got these cards to work just fine on debian, Mandrake, Suze
> but heck -- NOT ON FEDORA!?!? I tried this on FC-2 and FC-3.
>
> Please, please, please, tell me -- how can I get MIDI to work?
>
> I was told that for YMF-724F the following line should
> be added in the /etc/modprobe.conf file:
>
> options snd-ymfpci index=0 mpu_port=0x330
>
> but -- nope! Does not work
>
> As for the SB-Live card - no information how in what
> to add to the modprobe.conf file....
>
> Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED!
>
> Humbled....
> ~Dan
>
Have you tried timidity? I have played midi files using that. The
current timidity is in this rpm:
timidity++-2.13.0-3
If you don't have it you can get it using yum.
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K3B DVD burn and md5sum
by Srinivasan S
Hi
I downloaded the FC4T2 dvd and md5 checked the iso .. identical md5sum, fine so far. Then I used K3B to burn the image .. I use a BENQ DVD writer under FC3.
After booting on a new machine when I did a media check it failed. Anyway I went ahead and installed it and it installed fine, no issues at all. Out of curiosity I popped in the disc into the writer and issued a md5sum /dev/hda and got a value that was different from the iso md5 .. I popped in the disc on the other machine and did a md5sum /dev/hda again and got an identical value. But this value is different from the published iso md5.
ANy reasons why this is different (thought the values should be identical) .. maybe same reason the Fedora install media check fails but installs correctly without issues.
Regards
Srini
19 years
URGENT HELP! I messed up the monitor configs, and now I can't start x!
by Gustavo Seabra
Hi,
I was experimenting with the monitor configurations, and now when I
boot I can't start in graphical mode! I am taken back to a text-only
login, and if I login and try 'startx' I get the error below. One of
the things I tried was to try to allow for a normal crt monitor along
with the laptop screen. Is that the problem? How do I get back to
normal???
Thank you very much!
I put here both the error and the config file:
THE ERROR:
X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-1.906_ELsmp i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux junia.chem.ksu.edu 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 #1
Thu Apr 7 19:23:49 EDT 2005 i686
Build Date: 24 March 2005
Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.11-1.14_FC3
(bhcompile(a)bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat
3.4.3-22)) #1 Thu Apr 7 19:23:49 EDT 2005
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun May 1 15:30:03 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Fatal server error:
Requested Entity already in use!
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
information.
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
THE "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" FILE:
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Option "Clone" "on"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel"
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor 800x600"
HorizSync 31.5 - 35.1
VertRefresh 50.0 - 61.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
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Gustavo Seabra Graduate Student
Chemistry Dept. Kansas State University
Registered Linux user number 381680
Say NO! to software patents: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com
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19 years
How can I use the advanced search more effectively, so that I will be less a pain?
by Herschel
I attempted to limit my search to Fedora Core 3 and updates using: the
search string "Core 3" AND update. Nonetheless, the first item in the
list was for Fedora Core 1 ...
There are just too many hits that are seemingly randomly ordered by date
to be certain what I am encountering has not been previously answered.
So forgive me if this is repetitious.
The install went fairly well on an older IBM laptop that previously
"worked" with Mandrake 9.1 Pro. After connecting to the Internet I
began to be bothered by the notice indicating I should update the Fedora
Core 3 installation. Despite all variations, no matter combination and
no matter how small the list of selected packages, at the end of the
load I receive a message of failing to find a critical package. It is
of the form:
"Error while attempting to retrieve the package [insert the name
selected] ...
The message was:
An HTTP error occurred:
URL: http: [gives what appear to be reasonable web site locations]
Status Code: 404
Error Message: Not Found"
I tried to update emacs alone, bash, Firefox as well as part of the
kernel and in every case I ran into this form of failure. I have heard
too often about the ability to update Fedora to not think something I
am doing is at fault. What dumb thing am I doing that is causing me
this grief?
TIA
19 years
Forcing Screen Resolution
by disguised.jedi＠gmail.com
How can I force the desktop to use 1024x768 screen resolution. I can't
select a monitor in the list for some reason, the OK button is disabled.
Therefore, I'm restricted to the 800x600 or 640x480 resolution. My laptop
dual-boots XP Home, and it can use that resolution, but that is the maximum.
Thanks for help in advance!
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19 years
makewhatis - out of nowhere
by sly
i installed fc3 1 week ago and since some weired things are happening. out of nowhere the hdd starts going off like crazy, the cpu runs at 100%, the temperature goes up.
all these are caused by "makewhatis". witch i don't know how it started and why. and worst of all is that i can't kill it!
anybody had experience this?
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Re: makewhatis - out of nowhere
by billpwl1
>
>
> Message: 17 Date: 1 May 2005 18:02:22 -0000 From: sly <dsyc(a)go.ro>
> Subject: Re: makewhatis - out of nowhere To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
> Message-ID: <20050501180222.11283.qmail(a)s2.home.ro> Content-Type:
> TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>>> On Sun, 1 May 2005, sly wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>>>>> i installed fc3 1 week ago and since some weired things are happening.
>>>>> out of nowhere the hdd starts going off like crazy, the cpu runs at
>>>>> 100%, the temperature goes up. all these are caused by "makewhatis".
>>>>> witch i don't know how it started and why. and worst of all is that i
>>>>> can't kill it! anybody had experience this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It's part of regular daily system maintenance. makewhatis creates a
>>> database of summaries of man pages to answer queries like "man -k",
>>> "apropos", and "whatis". It's fairly disk-intensive, but shouldn't take
>>> more than a few minutes.
>>
>>
>
>thanx a lot for the info. i will remove it because is on my laptop and it kills the performance for few minutes and i don't use "apropos" that often on my laptop.
>
>
>
>>>
>>> The other disk-intensive daily operation is updatedb, which builds the
>>> database for "locate". That command lists paths to all files where the
>>> path containts a particular string. It's much faster than "find", but
>>> requires an up-to-date database. Again, it shouldn't take more than a
>>> few minutes each day.
>>>
>>> You can shut these off if you want by removing scripts in
>>> /etc/cron.daily, but you will find that the usefulness of the commands
>>> these databases support will decay over time--if you don't run updatedb
>>> regularly, you won't be able to "locate" files added since the last
>>> updatedb, and if you don't run makewhatis, you won't be able to
>>> "apropos" man pages added after the last makewhatis.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> sly.
>
Also check "man anacron" and "man anacrontab". anacron handles running
cron jobs that gets missed while the machine is turned off. You are
probably seeing these cron jobs run from anacron if you are turning your
laptop off at night. Those cron jobs normally would run early in the AM
unless you turn the machine off, then they will run at some scheduled
interval after the machine is next turned on, from /etc/anacrontab. You
could reduce the frequency they run by moving the cron job from
cron.daily to cron.weekly or cron.monthly and leaving the machine on
during that time period, then those jobs won't run from anacron and
everything will be more up2date(though not on a daily basis)!
Bill
19 years
Install themes on FC3
by Sam Johnson
Hello,
I am trying to install the Clearlooks metacity theme. When I drag the
theme's tarball file into the install theme dialog, the tarball appears
in the field, but whe I click OK, the theme does not appear in the
window. I am acquiring the theme from Gnome-Look.org.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sam Johnson
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them into the impossible."
-Arthur C. Clarke
19 years
Re: makewhatis - out of nowhere
by sly
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 1 May 2005, sly wrote:
>
>> i installed fc3 1 week ago and since some weired things are happening.
>> out of nowhere the hdd starts going off like crazy, the cpu runs at
>> 100%, the temperature goes up. all these are caused by "makewhatis".
>> witch i don't know how it started and why. and worst of all is that i
>> can't kill it! anybody had experience this?
>
>
> It's part of regular daily system maintenance. makewhatis creates a
> database of summaries of man pages to answer queries like "man -k",
> "apropos", and "whatis". It's fairly disk-intensive, but shouldn't take
> more than a few minutes.
thanx a lot for the info. i will remove it because is on my laptop and it kills the performance for few minutes and i don't use "apropos" that often on my laptop.
>
> The other disk-intensive daily operation is updatedb, which builds the
> database for "locate". That command lists paths to all files where the
> path containts a particular string. It's much faster than "find", but
> requires an up-to-date database. Again, it shouldn't take more than a
> few minutes each day.
>
> You can shut these off if you want by removing scripts in
> /etc/cron.daily, but you will find that the usefulness of the commands
> these databases support will decay over time--if you don't run updatedb
> regularly, you won't be able to "locate" files added since the last
> updatedb, and if you don't run makewhatis, you won't be able to
> "apropos" man pages added after the last makewhatis.
>
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