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How to get screen resolution of 1440x900?
by Jochen Wiedmann 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Hi, I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop running Fedora 10 with an Intel 945GM graphics controller. My display is configured as an "LCD Panel 1440x900". I would like to have that resolution, but system-config-display offers 1024x768 only. Using previous Fedora versions and 915resolution I had that mode in the past. I also have this mode under Windows. Any hints what I might research or reconfigure? Thanks, Jochen -- I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -- (Bjarne Stroustrup, http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#really-say-that My guess: Nokia E50)

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Got networking, now missing hardware 3D graphics
by tom 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Aside: I can not remember a Red Hat or a Fedora release that has given me these kinds of fits. I'm sure they have but... Must have been a while. To quickly recap the situation. I started by installing F10 from DVD, and the networking aspect declined to function. Two reinstalls later, and much fussing and fiddling, networking came up on its own with Network Manager on the first boot post install. What changed is a wonderful question that I have no clue about. On to the next steps (obviously) This is an old machine, and has an nVidia GeForce FX5500 video card in an AGP slot. I recognize the proprietary nature of nVidia's drivers, so it was off to RPMfusion to get the 173.X drivers/stuff. After much mucking about, I finally got the nvidia driver installed such that I could get something other than 640x280 (yuck!), but there is no acceleration for OpenGL like there is supposed to be. The error message from one application includes the phrase: "Could not create GL context". Besides my mind, what am I missing here? Or what do I need to post to find out what I'm missing? Or HALP! Thanks in advance for the assistance

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How to Restart the service sshd in Fedora Linux System ?
by Jyotishmaan Ray 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Dear All FEDORA Users, I am a new bir in fedora linux system as administrator. Please tell me one thing. In my fedora linux os server, i am not able to sshd service . The thing is that, once I had to change the permissions of the files just in order to avoid the other users to explore the system, using chmod command. However, I have immediately changed the permissons again back. Soon after that I could not log on to the fedora server systm using the ssh serverhostname username command. When tried to run sshd service using service sshd restart, I got the folloeing errors shown below:- Permissions 0755 for '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key' are too open. It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. This private key will be ignored. bad permissions :ignore key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Could not load host key : /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key sshd: no hostkeys available --exiting Please immedialtely let me know, what to fix in order to restart the service sshd. Thanks, Jyotishmaan Ray Moderator Of Paradise Groups http://yahoogroups.com/group/Spirituality-Paradise Are You Spiritually Aware !!! Are You Enjoying Yourself !!! See What All You Had Been Missing !!!! Please Join Immediately By Sending A Blank Mail @ Spirituality-Paradise-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com --- On Mon, 12/22/08, fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com <fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com> wrote: From: fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com <fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com> Subject: fedora-list Digest, Vol 58, Issue 254 To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 4:24 PM Send fedora-list mailing list submissions to fedora-list(a)redhat.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com You can reach the person managing the list at fedora-list-owner(a)redhat.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of fedora-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: changing 'hosts' to get my machine name ? (Thomas Cameron) 2. Re: changing 'hosts' to get my machine name ? (William Case) 3. Strange network problem in fc 10 (William W. Austin) 4. RE: FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine (Frank Millman) 5. Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? (Mike Cloaked) 6. Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? (Arthur Pemberton) 7. RE: FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine (Frank Millman) 8. Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? (Mike Cloaked) 9. awesfx missing - can't load soundfonts (Paul (draeath)) 10. Re: /etc/profile (Paul (draeath)) 11. Re: awesfx missing - can't load soundfonts (Michael Schwendt) 12. flash-plugin installed and not available (William Case) 13. fedora login window (Alain Roger) 14. Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? (Kevin Kofler) 15. Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? (Kevin Kofler) 16. Re: fedora login window (John Austin) 17. Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!) (Anne Wilson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:38:21 -0600 From: Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron(a)camerontech.com> Subject: Re: changing 'hosts' to get my machine name ? To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <494F27CD.9030007(a)camerontech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed William Case wrote: > Hi; > > This is an old stupid question but I am stuck nonetheless. I have > googled for several different ways but none work. > > I have changed my /etc/hosts file to: > 127.0.0.1 CASE localhost.localdomain localhost > > This is the same as from my F9 /etc backup. > > CASE is the name of my machine. None of my programs seems to recognize > it except 'hostname' -s or -f. The same problem with > localhost.localdomain. I have changed it manually before in earlier > Fedora versions but now nothing seems to work. If I remember correctly > there where two files that needed changing. > > I just installed F10 and must have missed Anaconda asking for my machine > name. > Your hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts is only for name resolution, although you should prbably set your hostname there as well. You should use lower case for the hostname, some apps don't grok mixed or upper case. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:01:54 -0500 From: William Case <billlinux(a)rogers.com> Subject: Re: changing 'hosts' to get my machine name ? To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <1229925714.3076.6.camel@CASE> Content-Type: text/plain Thanks Thomas; On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 23:38 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > This is an old stupid question but I am stuck nonetheless. I have > > googled for several different ways but none work. > > > > I have changed my /etc/hosts file to: > > 127.0.0.1 CASE localhost.localdomain localhost > > > > This is the same as from my F9 /etc backup. > > > > CASE is the name of my machine. None of my programs seems to recognize > > it except 'hostname' -s or -f. The same problem with > > localhost.localdomain. I have changed it manually before in earlier > > Fedora versions but now nothing seems to work. If I remember correctly > > there where two files that needed changing. > > > > I just installed F10 and must have missed Anaconda asking for my machine > > name. > > > > Your hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts is only for > name resolution, although you should prbably set your hostname there as > well. You should use lower case for the hostname, some apps don't grok > mixed or upper case. > I set the hostname with lower case in network. Everything works fine -- I guess I just had a brain cramp or something. However, I had heard that some programs don't understand upper case hostnames. In F9 I purposefully used CASE to see. I didn't hit one program that had a problem. I wonder if that means the world has changed by now and a user can get away with using upper case. -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2 Evo.2.24.2, Emacs 22.2.1 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:20:28 -0500 From: "William W. Austin" <waustin(a)speakeasy.net> Subject: Strange network problem in fc 10 To: Fedora List <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <1229923228.6098.0@baustin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have a strange (local) network problem in fc 10 which I never had in fc9 on the same hardware (with same config files). This machine serves as a proxy+firewall between about 10 other machines on the local network (192. addresses - the # of machines varies depending on where laptops are) and the real world. There have been no problems up through fc9 (fc2-9 worked fine). No hardware has changed, and this is a clean install (I can swap boot drives in the bios so am able to go back to fc9 to check if and compare). While on fc9 the following work correctly, on fc10 the results are a little different: Under fc9: + The firewall+proxy machine can see all of the network printers and ALL of the machines on the 192 network. + All Linux, windows, and Solaris machines on the 192 network can see the firewall+proxy machine. Under fc10: + The firewall+proxy machine can see all of the network printers but CANNOT see the windows machines on the 192 network. + ONLY the non-windows machines on the 192 network can see the firewall+proxy machine. (The windows machines can still see each other AND can see everything except the firewall+proxy box. The files /etc/hosts /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 /etc/rc.d/rc.local are identical between the fc9 root and the fc10 install. None of the other machines (Linux or windows) has had any updates since BEFORE the install of fc10. The firewall+proxy machine can see all of the Linux machines on the network, but none of the windows machines. A packet sniffer can see the attempts to ping from both sides, but there is never an answer in either direction. Finally, I can boot to the fc9 root drive and the problem disappears, while if I boot to the fc10 drive, it occurs repeatably. Machine: Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU with 6 GB ram, mixed scsi and eide drives. Kernel: (fc10: same result with both kernel-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64 and kernel-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64). {note: on fc9 it was the 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.x86_64 kernel}. Glibc: glibc-2.9-3 (x86_64, i686, and i386 installed). Any pointers as to what I might try to find a solution here would be greatly appreciated, as I've spent many hours reading and going over everything I could think of - with no luck. I suspected a problem with SE linux, so as a test, I took the firewall +proxy machine off the internet (no connection), disabled selinux, and rebooted. The results were (as expected) unchanged. (And it's back in place now, although I thought the disk relabeling would take forever...). I really don't think this is a bug - scanning through bugzilla didn't find any pointers. I suspect cockpit error (mine), but I can't identify it so far. Please help. Thanks -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..." ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:56:50 +0200 From: "Frank Millman" <frank(a)chagford.com> Subject: RE: FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine To: "'Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.'" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <20081222065744.D84C23F4396(a)fcserver.chagford.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > What does > > rpm -qa --queryformat > "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.{ARCH}\n"|grep kernel|sort > > return? > > Also, what do you have in /etc/grub.conf? > > Sorry. It is > > rpm -qa --queryformat > "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" | grep kernel | sort > kernel-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 kernel-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686 kernel-firmware-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.noarch kerneloops-0.12-1.fc10.i386 As mentioned to Mikkel, /etc/grub.conf is a link to /boot/grub/grub.conf, but there is no grub directory in /boot. I cannot remember if there was one after installation, but I got the feeling that a couple of things changed after I moved the HDD to the second machine and selected 'Install/Upgrade'. I got the following message - Warning: The partition table on device sda (ATA ST38410A 8213 MB) was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive. This operation will override any previous installation choices about which drives to ignore. I did not proceed past this point, but afterwards I noticed that the contents of /etc/fstab had changed. Before, it looked like this - /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 UUID=b6c62c5a-0afb-4258-a726-6a377a6f3b9e /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 Afterwards, it changed to this - UUID=6e47e294-fc8d-4457-b1e9-03f68a57d0aa / ext3 defaults 1 1 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 UUID=519e0658-aa0a-49a2-9b39-d80e92b0c838 swap swap defaults 0 0 I don't know if any of this is significant. Thanks Frank ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:34:53 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <21123826.post(a)talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Armin Moradi wrote: > > > That argument is really old. Nowadays with the great work of the KDE > SIG, Fedora is > as much KDE centred as it is focused on GNOME. You see little to no > difference between > them these days! > > >From reports it looks like KDE4.2 will be really nice - but I wonder which desktop Linus is using at the moment? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/is-KDE-dead---did-Gnome-win--tp21118075p21123826.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:44:16 -0600 From: "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <16de708d0812212344n4f5e26bag84f7e483b32e762c(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Armin Moradi wrote: >> >> >> That argument is really old. Nowadays with the great work of the KDE >> SIG, Fedora is >> as much KDE centred as it is focused on GNOME. You see little to no >> difference between >> them these days! >> >> > > >From reports it looks like KDE4.2 will be really nice - but I wonder which > desktop Linus is using at the moment? I fail to see the importance of what desktop environment a kernel hacker is using. Unless of course you're a kernel hacker yourself. Even then, the DE is entirely userspace. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:45:24 +0200 From: "Frank Millman" <frank(a)chagford.com> Subject: RE: FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine To: "'Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.'" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <20081222074618.2DEFD3F4396(a)fcserver.chagford.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Frank Millman wrote: > > [...] > > I ran mkinitrd on the original machine, just to see if it > would work. [...] > > > I don't know how to tell it to use the new image. Is there a way to > > change boot options without booting off the installation dvd and > > selecting 'rescue mode'? I did boot in rescue mode, and tried > > 'initrd=test.img' and 'initrd=/boot/test.img', but in both cases it > > said it could not find test.img. > > > You can edit the kernel line in Grub before it boots the > kernel. If we have to go that route, we can cover it. (My > brain is froze - I was out shoveling/snow blowing snow...) > As I mentioned before, there is no grub directory in /boot, so there is no grub menu on bootup. I don't know why. All I can do is press <esc> once booting has started, and it changes from a progress bar to the old text display, but there does not seem to be any place where I can add or change boot options. > You HAVE TO build the new initrd image on the new machine. If > you build it on the old machine, it will have the drivers for > the old machine. This not what you want. (The image is the > same as the one you are trying to boot off of now, and is not > working.) > I did do this, and it seemed to build ok. However, I don't know how to tell it to use the newly created image. I did a search for '*grub*' on my system. It found a few files. The following could be relevant - 1. /etc/sysconfig/grub boot=/dev/sda forcelba=0 2. /sbin/grub-install I ran it, but it asked for an install_device. I prefer not to guess, so I did not try any further. For the record, 'ls /boot' looks like this - config-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686 initrd-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686.img System.map-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686 vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686 If I type 'umount /boot', it says '/boot: not mounted'. Is that expected? As mentioned in my reply to Paulo, /etc/fstab has changed. It used to contain an entry for /boot, but now it does not. I am not sure when it changed, but I think it was when I selected Install/Upgrade on the second machine. I got a warning message and did not proceed, but a couple of things seem to have changed after that. It is quite possible that my messing around has left things in a state which makes it difficult to diagnose problems. If you would like me to re-install from scratch on the first machine and start the whole process again, I will try that. I think it is worth persevering with this exercise to prove a point. Hopefully others may find it of benefit as well. Any more suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks Frank ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:53:38 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <21123952.post(a)talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > I fail to see the importance of what desktop environment a kernel > hacker is using. Unless of course you're a kernel hacker yourself. > Even then, the DE is entirely userspace. > > I guess it is not important but possibly interesting to know his thoughts since I read some time ago that Linus was a long time avid fan of KDE. I wondered if he still is a KDE(4) fan, as he uses Fedora I was told, that was all. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/is-KDE-dead---did-Gnome-win--tp21118075p21123952.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:56:19 +0100 From: Paul (draeath) <no-reply-gw(a)fcp.surfsite.org> Subject: awesfx missing - can't load soundfonts To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <1d32ce3497adbc7f8d5c54e34b009d92(a)fcp.surfsite.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I can't find the awesfx package for Fedora 10, and nothing in the Fedora or RPMFusion repositories provides the file "*/asfxload" or "*/sfxload" These executables are REQUIRED for loading samples into an EMU10k soundcard's wavetable synth, and hence are required for hardware MIDI support. Where did this package go? If I remember, Fedora 8 had it for instance. I've tried building it myself to no avail. Does anyone know where I can find an x86_64 awesfx package for Fedora 10? -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=314230&topic_i… If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame draeath(a)gmail.com. ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:56:23 +0100 From: Paul (draeath) <no-reply-gw(a)fcp.surfsite.org> Subject: Re: /etc/profile To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <1bdcc4bdc4a45aad7ed1bd06dc04f17f(a)fcp.surfsite.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" You'll need to run them as a command on a terminal, exactly as was entered before. -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=314267&topic_i… If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame draeath(a)gmail.com. ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:24:47 +0100 From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: awesfx missing - can't load soundfonts To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <20081222102447.0165d198.mschwendt(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:56:19 +0100, Paul wrote: > I can't find the awesfx package for Fedora 10, and nothing in the Fedora or RPMFusion repositories provides the file "*/asfxload" or "*/sfxload" > > These executables are REQUIRED for loading samples into an EMU10k soundcard's wavetable synth, and hence are required for hardware MIDI support. > > Where did this package go? If I remember, Fedora 8 had it for instance. I've tried building it myself to no avail. > > Does anyone know where I can find an x86_64 awesfx package for Fedora 10? It's marked "dead.package". See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/405131 I no longer have any SB AWE/EMU10k cards, so I don't know what is used to load soundfonts to them nowadays. ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:05:19 -0500 From: William Case <billlinux(a)rogers.com> Subject: flash-plugin installed and not available To: Fedora List <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <1229940319.11209.4.camel@CASE> Content-Type: text/plain Hi; I am not getting any sound with my flash plugin. When I follow the advice from: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/Flash I get the following message from yum: Package flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386 installed and not available Now what? -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2 Evo.2.24.2, Emacs 22.2.1 ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:20:00 +0100 From: "Alain Roger" <raf.news(a)gmail.com> Subject: fedora login window To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <75645bbb0812220220r23caf50egc696dcf1a921863f(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, is there a way to have the fedora 10 KDE login window on the standard fedora 10 (with KDE) ? i find the KDE login nicer than the standard GNOME login window. thanks a lot. -- Alain ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows XP x64 SP2 PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MS SQL server 2005 Apache 2.2.10 PHP 5.2.6 C# 2005-2008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20081222/9287985d/a… ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:18:18 +0100 From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> Subject: Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <ginpha$sir$4(a)ger.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Alain Roger wrote: > For now i just found in Gnome the terminal features nice...lkike > transparent background... but the menu by itself is horrible as usual :-( Konsole can also do transparent background (it's set up in your Konsole color scheme), but only if you have desktop effects enabled in the window manager (because it's true transparency, not fake transparency). Kevin Kofler ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:22:04 +0100 From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> Subject: Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win? To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <ginpoc$sir$5(a)ger.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mail Lists wrote: > (1) Are the fedora KDE users moving back to gnome ? ... is KDE dead > or alive ? Nope, I'm still using and comaintaining KDE, I don't see how KDE 4.1 is any worse than 3.5. Well, there's a couple of missing features, but most of those are coming back in 4.2. I don't think switching to GNOME makes any sense, really, but of course you're free to use whatever you prefer, as always. Kevin Kofler ------------------------------ Message: 16 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:44:59 +0000 From: John Austin <ja(a)jaa.org.uk> Subject: Re: fedora login window To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <1229942699.3546.40.camel@tarifa> Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 11:20 +0100, Alain Roger wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to have the fedora 10 KDE login window on the standard > fedora 10 (with KDE) ? > i find the KDE login nicer than the standard GNOME login window. > thanks a lot. > > -- > Alain > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Windows XP x64 SP2 > PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MS SQL server 2005 > Apache 2.2.10 > PHP 5.2.6 > C# 2005-2008 > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list(a)redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines I just set DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" in /etc/sysconfig/desktop and then init 3;init 5 or a reboot I have this in mine Pretty sure that its not all necessary !! tarifa ~ 1001# cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" WINDOWMANAGER="XFCE" DISPLAY="KDE" DESKTOP="XFCE" John ------------------------------ Message: 17 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:54:12 +0000 From: Anne Wilson <annew(a)kde.org> Subject: Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!) To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <200812221054.16936.annew(a)kde.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" On Monday 22 December 2008 00:03:48 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Except that he is trying to install yum. ;) Duh! shouldn't work when I'm tired. Sorry! Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20081222/18f03899/a… ------------------------------ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list End of fedora-list Digest, Vol 58, Issue 254 ********************************************

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GPU chips vs Video Cards
by Dave Feustel 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Will the use of GPU chips eliminate the need for video cards and/or eliminate the security vulnerabilities that the video cards introduce into operating systems? Thanks.

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Cheese
by Christoph Unger 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

When removing the "cheese" package with yum on Fedora 10 x86, I noticed that the entry in the starting panel had not been removed... is there a bug in the rpm package of this program or what else causes this? Regards, Christoph

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what does pulse, pulse-access and pulse-rt get me?
by Frank Cox 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

I've noticed that my sound seems to go away sometimes. Most of the time it seems to be fine, but occasionally when I try to run a program that uses sound I get "Error opening PCM device default: Connection refused" Restarting pulseaudio seems to get it going again: pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog When pulseaudio starts, /var/log/messages tells me: QUOTE: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us privileges. Dropping SUID again. Dec 23 15:08:14 mutt pulseaudio[21344]: main.c: For enabling real-time schedulin g please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pu lse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user . Dec 23 15:08:14 mutt pulseaudio[21344]: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy. END OF QUOTE pulse, pulse-access and pulse-rt groups all exist on this computer but I'm not a member of any of them. Again, though, my sound mostly works. Would I gain something by joining these groups? I've done some reading about this and the purpose of these groups is still not clear to me. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com

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Fedora 10 ctf-alt-F2
by Patrick Dupre 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hello, Since I moved from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10, I lost the functionality of the ctl-alt-Fx in a X session. In text mode every works fine, but from a X session, it breaks jsut the session. thank for your help. -- --- ========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384 The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516 Heslington | | York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: pd520(a)york.ac.uk ==========================================================================

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f10 no sound through usb headset
by Don Raikes 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

I have f10 installed and running fine on my gateway system, but I wanted to use my plantronics headset with it. I plugged in the headset and can see from the log that it is recognized, but I get no sound through the headset. Any thoughts appreciated.

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system restore from a cron backup
by Kevin Kempter 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hi All; I've setup a cron backup script to backup my Fedora 10 laptop - mostly in case a new yum update breaks my system. I'm currently excluding /proc but when the rsync script hits the /sys directory I get lots of read errors like this: sys/module/vmmon/initstate rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/module/vmmon/initstate": No data available (61) sys/module/vmmon/refcnt rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/module/vmmon/refcnt": No data available (61) sys/module/vmmon/srcversion rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/module/vmmon/srcversion": No data available (61) Questions: - should I exclude /sys from my rsync backup ? - Is it safe to restore my system without restoring /proc and /sys ? - If I do need to restore can I simply do an rsync like this: rsync -va /backup-location /system-location (i.e. rsync -va /stage/backup/etc /etc) Will rsync overwrite the files say in /etc with the backed up files even if the current /etc files are newer than the backed up files. Here's my backup script if it helps: # cat run_rsync.sh #!/bin/bash for I in `cat dirlist` do echo "[$I]" echo "==========" rsync -av /${I} /stage/backup done and here's the dirlist file: # cat dirlist bin boot dev docs download etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt root sbin selinux srv sys tmp usr var as always, thanks in advance...

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Sound problems with SELinux ?
by Bill Case 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hi; This probably more of a frustration question than an eventually solving it myself question. I couldn't get any sound -- I originally thought it was an Adobe Flash problem -- until I changed SELinux from enforcing to permissive. How do I make sound available to the user while still using SELinux enforcing? -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2 Evo.2.24.2, Emacs 22.2.1

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