FC6 Notebook
by Gérard Milmeister
Hi,
I am going to acquire a new notebook.
It should have adquate battery power. No high-end video card is needed,
I think Intel 9xx should be enough. Other than that, some features such
as card reader would be nice.
I have a choice among the following brands:
Acer
Asus
HP
Toshiba
Fujitsu
Is there any model that is particularly suited for FC6?
--
Gérard Milmeister
Langackerstrasse 49
CH-8057 Zürich
17 years, 3 months
login from a web browser
by Justin Zygmont
Does anyone hapen to know of a program that can run either as an applet or
servlet to allow ssh or telnet logins through a web browser. Its harder
to find one that works well and is easy to use.
Thanks,
17 years, 3 months
Sick of crappy wireless, suggestions?
by Neal Becker
I have bcm4318. I've got wireless working with windoze driver, but it's
very unreliable. I've had enough. Can anyone suggest an add-on card for
my laptop that will work well with FC6, natively?
17 years, 3 months
Cinepaint
by Claude Jones
Does anyone have Cinepaint running in FC6?
I've downloaded the ver 21 tarball and running configure yields up the
following toward the very end:
checking for gtk-config... no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.8... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
If I run this I see the following gtk stuff installed on my system:
$ rpm -qa | grep gtk
gtk2-engines-2.8.0-1.fc6
usermode-gtk-1.87-3
libgtk-java-2.8.7-2.fc6
gtkhtml3-3.12.2-1.fc6
gtk-sharp2-2.10.0-3.fc6
gtkspell-2.0.11-2.1
gtk+-1.2.10-55.fc6
authconfig-gtk-5.3.12-1.fc6
pygtk2-2.10.3-3.fc6
gtkhtml2-2.11.0-3
gnome-python2-gtksourceview-2.16.0-1.fc6
gtk-murrine-engine-0.31-1.leofc6
pygtk2-libglade-2.10.3-3.fc6
gtk2-devel-2.10.4-8.fc6
gtk2-2.10.4-8.fc6
gtksourceview-1.8.0-1.fc6
libswt3-gtk2-3.2.1-23.fc6
I could really use the more robust aspects of Cinepaint over the Gimp - does
anyone know where I need to go to pursue this? I've tried the rpm search but
the most recent rpm I can find is for FC4, which used to run under FC5, but
won't install on FC6 with the following errors:
Missing Dependency: libIex.so.2 is needed by package cinepaint
Missing Dependency: libIlmImf.so.2 is needed by package cinepaint
Missing Dependency: libHalf.so.2 is needed by package cinepaint
Missing Dependency: libImath.so.2 is needed by package cinepaint
Searches on rpmbone and google yield up openEXR packages for those libs -
openEXR is already installed on my system, though presumably, not the version
I need
So, to get back to my question, is this going nowhere, or has someone
succeeded in getting Cinepaint to run on FC6?
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
17 years, 3 months
FC6 and acroread - not working
by Florin Andrei
I got acroread-7.0.5-2.2.fc5.rf.nosrc.rpm from here:
http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/acroread/info.html
I extracted the spec file. I downloaded the latest acroread tar.gz from
Adobe, then adjusted the spec for the new version. Then rebuilt the
acroread binary package.
But when I launch acroread, I get a bunch of messages like this:
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
Any clue?
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
17 years, 3 months
FC4 -> FC6 dvd writer not detected
by Douglas Phillipson
After I upgraded to FC6 my DVD writer was no longer detected, I suspect
because I had to comment out a line in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
to get my machine to boot. What can I do to get the DVD detected and
the device made for it, after the machine is booted. Because I had to
comment out the following line in 50-udev.rules:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="?*", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*",
RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}"
I had to put: "/sbin/modprobe snd-emu10k1" in /etc/rc.local for my
sound card driver to be loaded. I assume I need another modprobe
command for my DVD, I just don't know what it is...
Thanks
Doug p
17 years, 3 months
Fedora Core 6 not recognizing all of my memory
by SevenFortyOne
Greetings,
I just installed FC6 on a Dell 6800 with 32GB of ram. When I run the free
command it reports I only have about 15GB available. I had FC4 on this
machine and it saw all 32GB of Ram. I checked the BIOS and it seems to see
all 32GB as well.
Does anyone know if there is a known problem with FC6 seeing this much RAM?
--741
17 years, 3 months
qwerty layout shortcuts
by Dotan Cohen
On KDE I've got three keyboard layouts installed- US English, Dvorak,
and Hebrew. I go nuts switching over to US English everytime that I
need to perform a keyboard shortcut. How can I have the keyboard
shortcuts work as if the keyboard is always qwerty? I'd like to
configure it at the X level rather than at the KDE level, but I'd
accept any solution that works. Thanks in advance.
Dotan Cohen
http://dotancohen.com/eng/movies.php
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/skype.html
17 years, 3 months
Will my graphics card support this?
by awrobinson-ml＠nc.rr.com
I received a Dell 20 inch monitor for Christmas. It's native resolution
is 1680x1050. Looking at my Xorg.0.log file, I find these lines:
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(1): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(1): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(1): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(1): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
Do these lines mean my video card will not support this resolution or
that I need to do some configuration to get the card to support this
resolution or something else entirely?
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
17 years, 3 months
