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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months
why no ethX assigned to 3Com card.
by sean darcy
On F9, I have 3 interface cards:
lspci | grep Eth
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex]
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
The kernel assigns both the Realtek cards a device:
dmesg | grep Real
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc814000, 00:48:54:8b:ab:29, IRQ 11
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc8b8000, 00:60:67:70:cc:95, IRQ 11
but not the 3Com card:
dmesg | grep eth
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc814000, 00:48:54:8b:ab:29, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc8b8000, 00:60:67:70:cc:95, IRQ 11
eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139A'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x43E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
though the kernel does see it:
dmesg | grep -B 2 3Com
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0d.0
3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
0000:00:0d.0: 3Com PCI 3c595 Vortex 100baseTx at 0001e800.
It's hard to configure with a device name (:
sean
15 years, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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
--
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, 6 months
another EDID question, if i might
by Robert P. J. Day
i finally have a decent handle on interpreting and
manipulating EDID information based on a couple threads
here not that long ago, but i just ran into another
curious problem. someone handed me a piece of video
processing equipment that (allegedly) had decent EDID
programmed into it, i hooked up my WUXGA laptop, started
the X server, and what i got in the X server log was:
...
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DVI-0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "XXX", prod id 26
(II) RADEON(0): Using EDID range info for horizontal sync
(II) RADEON(0): Using EDID range info for vertical refresh
(II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1920x1200"x0.0 156.87 1920 1978 2010 2100
1200 1206 1212 1236 +hsync +vsync (74.7 kHz)
(II) RADEON(0): Output: DVI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 3
(II) RADEON(0): EDID data from the display on output: DVI-0
----------------------
(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: XXX Model: 1a Serial#: 0
(II) RADEON(0): Year: 2006 Week: 1
(II) RADEON(0): EDID Version: 1.3
(II) RADEON(0): Digital Display Input
(II) RADEON(0): DFP 1.x compatible TMDS
(II) RADEON(0): Indeterminate output size
(II) RADEON(0): Gamma: 2.20
(II) RADEON(0): No DPMS capabilities specified(II) RADEON(0):
Supported color encodings: RGB 4:4:4 YCrCb 4:4:4
(II) RADEON(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
(II) RADEON(0): GTF timings supported
(II) RADEON(0): redX: 0.625 redY: 0.345 greenX: 0.350 greenY: 0.580
(II) RADEON(0): blueX: 0.140 blueY: 0.095 whiteX: 0.320 whiteY: 0.355
(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
(II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) RADEON(0): clock: 156.9 MHz Image Size: 0 x 0 mm
(II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1920 h_sync: 1978 h_sync_end 2010
h_blank_end 2100 h_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): v_active: 1200 v_sync: 1206 v_sync_end 1212
v_blanking: 1236 v_border: 0
...
huh? the above looks a bit strange here:
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1920x1200"x0.0 156.87 1920 1978 2010 2100
1200 1206 1212 1236 +hsync +vsync (74.7 kHz)
"0.0"?? shouldn't that represent the refresh rate?
is that a valid value? apparently, my laptop is refusing
to generate a video signal on the DVI output because,
perhaps, it doesn't like that value.
and then there's this:
(II) RADEON(0): clock: 156.9 MHz Image Size: 0 x 0 mm
"0 x 0 mm"?? i'm not sure what to make of that either, but
i'm going to be handing this back to the person who programmed
that piece of equipment and ask whether that information is
supposed to be correct.
thoughts?
rday
15 years, 6 months
Fedora and X61 Tablet
by Jerry Ro
Hello all,
After a few hours of struggling, I managed to install Fedora 9 on X61 Tablet
without having a CD-ROM, and by using mostly the Vista partition and an
Internet connection. Here are the exact instructions how to do that, in case
of someone interested in it in the future (I think these messages are
archived for look up by google:)
You will need the following:
- (notice: since I did not have DVD or CDROM I needed two thumbdrives, one
of size at least 4GB for a DVD and the other
of a smaller size - 1GB)
- Defrag your vista installation - this is important!
- Download gparted Live CD iso. I used version 0.3.9-4.
(http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) and "burn" it on a thumbdrive
(or CD). You can use unetbootin for that (
http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html).
- Run the gparted Live CD from the machine (put the thumbdrive
in the laptop and click F12 when it boots. Then choose to boot
from the thumbdrive.) Notice: choose the option which says "safe
graphics"!
- Allocate as much space as you want for the Linux partition. This resizing
may take a little
bit of time.
- Download Fedora 9 DVD installation .iso, x86_64 version is good for X61T
as far as I can tell from my case.
- Put it on a disk on key using unetbootin again (notice: you will need
gparted again,
so it will save you time not to use the same media for this DVD as well.)
- Same process, boot this thumbdrive with the DVD. Choose "text
installation" - for some
reason, Fedora's fonts were not okay at this phase in graphics mode with
X61T that I had.
- Install Fedora. When asking about where to put the boot loader GRUB for
Fedora, say "boot record"
and *NOT* MBR. Vista tends to overwrite the MBR whenever it feels like
it.
- Load the gparted thumbdrive again.
- Run an Xterm from gparted live cd.
- Use fdisk /dev/sda (or whatever your harddisk device is) to find where is
the Linux partition and
Windows partition (for example, by typing fdisk /dev/sda, p, then q).
- This is where it gets tricky. I had to use two thumbdrives here. Since I
had the one where I copied
the .iso file, I mounted it after loading the gparted (I placed it in a
different USB port):
mkdir /tmp/mnt
mount /dev/sdcX /mnt/tmp
- With the help of dd, write the boot sector of the Linux partition:
dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/mnt/tmp/linux.bin bs=512 count=1
- Reboot and load windows. You may see all kind of attempts to "recover"
your windows or fix it. Don't
be afraid. You (probably) did not lose any information on the Windows
partition if you did everything
correctly. Just let Vista get over its panic attack and get used to its
new neighbour OS.
- Now we are left with using Vista's bootloader and the linux.bin file we
wrote to set up dual boot
between Vista and Fedora. To do that:
Run cmd as Administrator (Start -> Run -> cmd, then right click on cmd and
"Run as Administrator")
copy e:\linux.bin c:\ (where e:\ is where the second thumbdrive is.)
bcdedit /create /d "GRUB" /application BOOTSECTOR
This will lead to a response with a very long UID (if everything goes
well.)
We will refer to it from now on as {LinuxID}.
bcdedit /set {LinuxID} device boot
bcdedit /set {LinuxID} PATH \linux.bin
bcdedit /displayorder {LinuxID} /addlast
bcdedit /timeout 10
- Boot the computer. You should be given the option to load eithe Fedora
(GRUB) or Vista.
Load Fedora and do the quick setup as requested. In my case, I did not
have X11 loaded after that,
but everything was run in text mode. To fix that (meaning, use Fedora
GUI), login as root
and use vi /etc/inittab. Change the number "3" to "5" (there should be
documentation there explaining
what's going on.) Another thing I would immediately do at this point is
"adduser [non-root-user]"
followed by "passwd [non-root-user]" to set its password.
If everything went well, you should have Vista and Fedora on your X61T
laptop, and next time you reboot
you can run either one of them with their GUI.
"Keywords for google": x61t, x61 tablet, fedora 9, fedora, linux
installation, thinkpad.
Enjoy!
15 years, 6 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, 6 months