fedora installation
by Jerry Ro
hello all,
I am interested in installing fedora on a laptop x61t (it is, to the best of
my understanding, a 64bit machine.)
a few questions I have:
* should 60-80 GB be reasonable for full installation of fedora?
* i would like to upgrade to fedora 10 when it is available. should i
install the beta release which would make it easier to upgrade, or should i
stick to fedora 9 since it is more stable and still easy to upgrade?
* should i be worried about performance with fedora 10/9 on a laptop with
1.6Ghz processor and 4GB ram?
* last, i tried running the Live CD for x86_64 of fedora 9. i had a weird
experience - fedora loaded, but no text appeared. instead it was all black
empty spots ("null" font). should i be worried about that when coming to
install fedora in fully?
* i read somewhere that someone installed fedora 64bit on a laptop x61t like
mine, and complained that everything was incredibly slow. once he
re-installed the 32bit version, it became much better. i would like to use a
64bit version still... should i be worried about having the same behavior?
hope it is not too many quetsions.
thanks.
15 years, 5 months
Fedora Install Using DVD and HTTP
by Tod
I have a web server with a DVD drive, and a server with only a CD ROM
drive. How can I install fedora on the server over the network using
HTTP? I've searched around but haven't found a method that matches my
particular situation. Any ideas?
Thanks.
15 years, 5 months
Problem viewing network streams with vlc.
by Erik P. Olsen
It's vlc 0.8.6i on Fedora 8 fully updated as of today and the problem is not
viewing, it's in the audio. After approx. one minute of sound it suddenly goes
mute and after maybe half a minute it will produce sound again and so it
continues ad infinitum. The console list from such vlc looks like:
[erik@epohost ~]$ vlc
VLC media player 0.8.6i Janus
[00000331] access_mms access: selecting stream[0x1] audio (85 kb/s)
[00000331] access_mms access: ignoring stream[0x2] audio (69 kb/s)
[00000331] access_mms access: ignoring stream[0x3] audio (38 kb/s)
[00000331] access_mms access: selecting stream[0x4] video (859 kb/s)
[00000331] access_mms access: ignoring stream[0x5] video (419 kb/s)
[00000331] access_mms access: ignoring stream[0x6] video (224 kb/s)
[00000331] access_mms access: connection successful
[00000376] pulse audio output error: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused
[00000376] pulse audio output error: Pulse initialization failed
[00000376] alsa audio output error: write failed (Broken pipe)
[00000319] main playlist: stopping playback
It is very consistent it happens every time I view a network stream.
Is this something I can correct or should I raise an issue with bugzilla?
--
Erik.
15 years, 5 months
Fedor 9 X Window System error:
by Jeff Maxwell
Has anyone encountered:
The program 'recorder' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadName (named color or font does not exist)'.
(Details: serial 214 error_code 15 request_code 45 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
I have had this happen on a couple of other applications.
I am also curious if this is preventing my Gnome applications from running? They seem to just flash and disappear.
15 years, 5 months
Fedora 9 32 or 64 Bit - Which One?
by Charlie McVeigh
I apologize if this question has been asked before. I have a new
Thinkpad T61 in scheduled to arrive sometime next week. I want to
install Fedora 9 on it. Being as it has a Core 2 Duo processor, I
assume I can install the 64 bit version of Fedora 9. My question is
what are the pros and cons that I need to consider when choosing 32 or
64 bit version of Fedora 9? I am currently using a Thinkpad T42
running Fedora Core 7, so I have no experience with 64 bit linux or
associated issues.
Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
Charlie
15 years, 5 months
How do I create 6 pages?
by Steven W. Orr
On my F9 task bar I have a pager widget, but I can't figure out how to
increase the number of pages. I'd like to get to 6.
TIA
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15 years, 5 months
FEDORA net etiquette
by Joachim Backes
Until tomorrow, I always sent signed emails to the FEDORA mailing list,
where the signature was issued by the PKI of my computer center (german
university). But some fedora list people told me that even very small
emails always have a size of at least 8 kilobyte.
Therefore i switched to unsigned emails.
My question: are there rules for the fedora email traffic saying: do not
use signatures?
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
15 years, 5 months
16GB USB Drive Not Accessible
by Christopher A Williams
I recently bought a snazzy new 16GB USB pen drive from the local store -
it was only $29! I have several drives that are 8GB and smaller from the
same store that are the same brand.
Imagine my surprise when:
* The 16GB drive is not accessible on either F9 or F10 Snap 3
* The 8GB drives all work just fine on both F9 and F10 Snap 3
* The 16GB drive works fine on Windows XP
* The 16GB drive also works on a Windows XP VM running on top of F9!!!
I can only conclude from this that something is a miss that causes F9 to
not be able to access and use USB pen drives that are bigger than 8GB,
and that this most likely has something to do with a file system driver
or such.
Anyone else seen this yet? Is there a fix / work-around?
Here's the dmesg output for those who might be interested:
==============================================
usb 1-2.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13
usb 1-2.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi1264 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 13
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb 1-2.3: New USB device found, idVendor=090c, idProduct=1000
usb 1-2.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-2.3: Product: USB Flash Drive
usb 1-2.3: Manufacturer: USB 2.0
usb 1-2.3: SerialNumber: AA20000000000306
usb-storage: device scan complete
scsi 1264:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB 2.0 USB Flash Drive 1100 PQ: 0
ANSI: 0 CCS
sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] 31326208 512-byte hardware sectors (16039 MB)
sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] 31326208 512-byte hardware sectors (16039 MB)
sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 1264:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata5.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY }
ata5: soft resetting link
ata5: nv_mode_filter: 0x1&0x1f01f->0x1, BIOS=0x1f000 (0xc5000000)
ACPI=0x1f01f (30:600:0x13)
ata5.00: configured for PIO0
ata5: EH complete
==============================================
Cheers,
Chris
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busy committing suicide."
-- Woodrow Wilson
15 years, 5 months
Slow Second Access to Internet
by Michael D. Berger
In my FC7, using Firefox, if for example, I access
www.google.com, I get an essentially instantaneous
response. If I then close the browser, reopen it,
and again try to access google, there is a long
delay, perhaps a minute before I get the response.
(I note that my browser is set to delete all
private on closing.) During this delay, the
browser reports that it is looking up the URL.
If I then wait a few minutes I can repeat the
whole scenario.
I suspect that something similar may be happening
with my Pan news reader.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mike.
15 years, 5 months
Problem with .Xresources
by Steven W. Orr
When I log in, I want to get my .Xresources file loaded. That is not
happening. Then I found a file called /etc/X11/Xresources
I added the content of my .Xresources file to it
*customization: -color
*StringConversionWarnings: on
But when I log in, it still does not get loaded. Anyone?
TIA
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Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0.
happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0
Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net
15 years, 5 months