minimal boot media...
by Mike Chalmers
I am thinking of trying this way to install Fedora Core 7. Do y'all
recommend this way? Where is a link to install for the minimal boot
media installation ISO?
Thanks,
Mike
16 years, 9 months
Fedora 7
by Karl Larsen
Hello List,
I installed Fedora 7 and tried to install Thunderbird Email client
but it will not run on Fedora 7. At least I didn't get it to.
Karl
16 years, 9 months
Where did lib64 directories come from
by Shams
Hi,
I noticed that Fedora has both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64
Is this only on Fedora or standard across many Linux distros?
Why is this needed, I mean why not just have /usr/lib?
Thanks
Shams
--
16 years, 9 months
"Error while initializing sound driver": 2 out of 4 restarts.
by A.J. Bonnema
Hi All,
Running Fedora Core 6 (updated) I run into regular sound problems.
I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.
I include as much information as I can below.
If you need anything else, please specify.
I am quite willing to try different things, but I have no idea
===== Symptom ======
Every time I restart the machine I have to wait whether I can play my
music or not.
2 out of 4 times I get the above error message, complete it is:
=== Error message ====
"
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
"
I get this message in a window after KDE starts.
======= Device =============
When I then start (from the GUI) the menu options
"Administration/Soundcard Detection" I can see the chip is being
detected (nvidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller, module
snd-intel8x0), but the PCM device is empty (in both tabs "Sound test"
and "settings").
========== Sound log file ============
Under the tab "System" I can push a button called "Generate sound log
file /root/scsconfig.log". I included this file as attachment. If this
doesn't work I will send a second mail containing the contents (but it
is a large file....).
I am running Fedora core 6, updated to the current version.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Guus.
--
A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
16 years, 9 months
Re: $HOME/bin
by Michael Klinosky
> Ben Stringer <ben(a)burbong.com>
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> The
>>> same goes for mounting /tmp and /var noexec. Why do you think there's
>>> an option to mount a partition with the noexec parameter?
>> It's useful for data partitions, but even then mounting read only is
>> more useful.
>
> I think you will find very quickly that mounting either /tmp or /var as
> read-only is anything but useful. Would you seriously suggest doing
> this? I am not sure you understand these options.
I'm sure that he meant only for data partitions.
** UPDATE **
Having tried the ~/bin concept, I see that I don't like it, and don't
need it. So I scrapped it. Actually, the app works file when run from
its own directory (where its support files reside).
16 years, 9 months
24 hour time in Thunderbird -
by Bob Goodwin
Does anyone know how to get Thunderbird to use 24 hour time when listing
email "Date?"
I use a large font and need the space that the stupid AM/PM takes for
useful [to me] information!
I know this is may not be a Fedora question but ...
Bob Goodwin
16 years, 9 months
Re: FC6 kernels & 4GB of memory
by Darryl
Quoting "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
>To see your memory layout check /proc/mtrr.
Ok, this is from 32bit PAE kernel:
$ cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1
> reset to factory "optimized" settings.
Did that after the last BIOS update.
> select mtrr discontinuous (was contigious)
That option disappeared with a BIOS update actually. a new one popped up
regarding Virtual stuff though.
> select mtrr hardware mapping (was disabled)
> select iommu 128k (was disabled)
BIOS doesn't have those options.
I tried downloading the latest/greatest 2.6.21 kernel and compiling my
own 32bit "PAE" & "regular" kernels but they did the same thing.
"regular" sees all the memory but tells me to use a PAE kernel and "PAE"
won't use all the memory and crashes on boot without mem=4095m. A
little frustrating since the "regular" kernel and memtest86 see all the
memory. The good news is that the on-board NIC is natively supported in
.21 though :-/
16 years, 9 months
firefox bookmarks
by Richard E Miles
Is it possible to save the firefox bookmarks so that when I do a clean install
of FC4 I can reload them?
I tried to cp the bookmarks.html file back into the /home/rmiles/.mozilla/firefox/0qem39dn.default directory but it did not
restore them from an earlier saving of this file.
It would be nice to be able to reset the bookmarks that I had in FC 3 to the FC 4
firefox.
--
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
registered linux user 46097
16 years, 9 months
problems for starting X after upgrade to kernel-2.6.20-1.2319
by Eric Doutreleau
well
i have an hp dc 7600 and after i upgrade to kernel-2.6.20-1.2319 i got
the following messages when i start X
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3205
X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp i686Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux citi-6234.int-evry.fr 2.6.20-1.2319.fc5
#1 Mon M
ay 21 19:52:13 EDT 2007 i686
Build Date: 08 April 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
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: Fri Jun 15 11:07:21 2007
(==) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf"
(WW) ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x10c0 e: 0x10c7 correcting
*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.
Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x87) [0x80b8757]
1: [0xaea420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so [0x8deb08]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so [0x8e2512]
4: X(InitOutput+0x99a) [0x80a237a]
5: X(main+0x276) [0x806ffc6]
6: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x26b4e4]
7: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xb1) [0x806f511]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
if i boot to the previous kernel i have no problems and it work perfectly.
does anyone has some kind of problem like this?
thanks in advance for any help
16 years, 9 months
How to find total MB of a directory plus all subdirectories
by Nigel Henry
This is a silly question perhaps. I have my soundfiles in a directory named
Sounds Library, this contains many subdirectories, which contain the .wav
files.
What command can I use to find out the disk space this directory is taking up,
including all the files that are in the subdirectories?
Nigel.
16 years, 9 months
