Re: Fedora 9 + Network Manager = Wireless NOT Connecting (F8-Live works)
by Robert Cahn
As A test I downloaded Fedora-8-Live-x86_64 iso. When I boot from this disk
all the wireless problems go away. It connects immediately. In F9 the
services have been changed. There is a Network Manager but no
NetworkManagerDispatcher. That would seem to indicate a major rewrite.
This test seems to show that for some of us wireless support is broken.
Bob Cahn
16 years
SCIM and other Problem in XFCE in FC9
by das
Hello Friends
I am using SCIM on Fedora for around two years. In Fedora 7 and
then 8, everything was working as fine as it could be.
All this time I was working with SCIM, which I use for changing to and
fro between Bangla (Bengali) keyboard layout 'Probhat' for Bangla texts
and the US English layout as the default one.
After I upgraded to Fedora 9, in two machines, the SCIM thing is not
working. I have used 'im-chooser' to choose this input method. I have
checked with the 'scim-setup' but with no avail. No application in XFCE
will get the SCIM keyboard switcher (Ctrl+Space) activated. Claws-mail,
mousepad, OpenOffice -- nothing, in all which I regularly used Bangla
keyboard before.
When I installed Gedit, or Mousepad from XFCE, which is a fork of Gedit
if I am remembering correctly, from the context menu option for
choosing input method, after I choose SCIM there the CTRL-Space switch
is working. But, then again when I log out and come back to XFCE with
'startx', again I have to do the same thing in Gedit or Mousepad context
menu. Though all this type the SCIM icon is there on the task bar. And
the icon is showing the usual context menu, but not the usual keyboard
list.
After the Gedit experience I installed Gnome things with 'yum
groupinstall gnome-desktop' and I am getting SCIM properly there,
everything OK. But, I want XFCE.
Am I doing something wrong, something has changed in Fedora 9 version
of XFCE? Or, is it some problem?
After I reported this problem to the XFCE mailing list, friends there
told me that in their recently updated XFCE too SCIM is working fine,
so maybe it is a problem of the FC9-build.
There are other problems with XFCE too, like the right-click->quit or
the taskbar icon-> quit, as usual, is showing three options, 'log-out',
'restart' and 'shutdown', but all of them are actually doing 'log-out',
and when back on the init 3 command prompt, before it comes back, there
is a message about some SCIM-mcs error or something. And it all worked
fine till FC 7 and 8. I used it everyday both on my laptop and my
desktop.
In our local linux user group (GLT-madhyamgram) more than one of my
friends are having the same problem with XFCE quit. And they don't use
SCIM and hence that I could not report.
Maybe my reports were too non-technical, but see, I am no developer. If
you want some particular output I can send you, to list or otherwise.
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16 years
Dag Repo
by Chris
What would be the DAG repo to use for F9 x64 ?
Thanks in advace.
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16 years
More Qlogic driver madness.
by Mark Haney
This is really getting silly. How is it possible that an initrd will
not USE the firmware included with it to allow me to initialize my
Qlogic FC card? I've built my own, I've read everything I can about
initrd and initramfs and I'm still stuck. Are there tools included with
Fedora that let me edit/muck initramfs settings? Or do I have to roll
my own?
I just don't get it, between FC6 2.6.20 and 2.6.22 kernels in FC6 this
capability was broken and no one's complained? I'm really very tempted
to file a bug report on this for F8 and hope it gets fixed that way,
since I'm unable to find an answer.
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16 years
Re: Fedora 9 + CIFS issue
by potat0
Thanks for the tip on strlcpy.
>
> My solution was to ensure that my credentials file does not terminate with a new-line character. I used a hex editor to delete the final new-line character that vi sticks in there, and I was able to use my credentials file at that point.
>
> However, it looks like the same thing is happening in the domain parameter, so if you include both a domain and a password, you need to have a new-line character to separate them, and I am not sure how to workaround that.
Here are a couple of alternative workarounds if you need to supply both domain and username in the credentials file. The trick is to help strlcpy to terminate the string, by explicitly inserting a NULL character.
1) If using a hex-editor insert a NULL character (00) just before the newline on each row.
2) or wash/fix an existing credentials file like this:
cat credentials_file | tr -d ' t' | awk -- '{printf "%sn", $0}' > new_credetials_file
This also take care of the space problem, since any spaces (or tabs) are deleted.
3) or create a brand new credentials file like this:
echo -en "domain=xxxnusername=xxxnpassword=xxxn" > credentials_file
Cheers
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16 years
Re: Wiki Migration (Tuesday 05-26-2008)
by Valent Turkovic
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello Fedora Universe! It is my pleasure to announce that starting on
> Tuesday http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ will be run by Mediawiki instead
> of Moin. Why bother announcing this to everyone? Well there are a couple
> of reasons.
For people like me who missed the discussion about this move to
Mediawiki it would be nice to see the link. I believe that you made a
right choice and I love Mediawiki but I would just like to see what is
benefits are there with moving to Mediawiki so that I can take
advantage of them.
Cheers,
Valent.
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16 years
livna nvidia at last!
by Tom Horsley
Downloaded the latest kmod-nvidia from livna this morning, and finally
I can run my monitor at the 1920x1200 resolution God (or DELL, anyway)
intended it to run at. Still have to add the bogus driver option:
Option "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck"
but that isn't new with this card (something somewhere insists that the
max pixel clock rate is considerably lower than the actual max rate
for a DVI interface, so I have to make the driver ignore that bogus
info, and it works perfectly - smoke hasn't yet started coming out of
the system after all these years of ignoring the pixel clock check :-).
Together with the magic ServerFlags option:
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
(which makes DragLockButtons work again so my trackball is functional),
and I'm almost ready to declare fedora 9 finally usable :-).
16 years
F9/KDE4.0/Nvidia not running/Dual monitors ?
by linux guy
I've been running dual monitors with nvidia since FC4.
I'm running F9, KDE 4.0 and an nvidia card. Dual monitors worked great
in F8. My second monitor isn't working in F9. I seem to have the
nvidia module installed, but yet I am getting a failure message on the
boot screen.
yum list *nvidia*
Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
kmod-nvidia.i686 169.12-8.lvn8
installed
kmod-nvidia-2.6.24.5-85.fc8.i686 169.12-7.lvn8
installed
kmod-nvidia-2.6.24.7-92.fc8.i686 169.12-8.lvn8
installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i386 169.12-1.lvn8
installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i386 169.12-1.lvn8
installed
# /sbin/lsmod | grep nvidia
<nothing>
Why is the nvidia module throwing an error during boot ? How do I fix
it ?
Thanks
16 years
Fedora 9 - Slow GUI Response
by Manish Kathuria
I upgrade my existing Fedora 8 x86_64 installation to Fedora 9 using yum
successfully but I am facing some problems related to the GUI. I use
GNOME as the desktop environment and ever since I have upgraded to
Fedora 9, the response time of the GUI has slowed. There is an increased
delay when the windows are refreshed and when I change from one
workspace to another one. The applications most frequently used by me
include evolution, firefox, open office and the gnome terminal besides a
few others and the delay is noticeable in case of all of them.
I am using a Core 2 Duo based Dell Vostro laptop with a 15.4" LCD and an
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller and
the display resolution is set at 1280 x 800 at 24 bits. The display
adapter has been configured to use the "intel" driver.
Has anyone experienced a similar problem or any such issue ? Any
comments and suggestions ?
Thanks,
Manish
16 years
Fedora 9 nfs and autofs instable?
by David Jansen
Since switching to fedora 9 (fresh install, no upgrade), both nfs and
autofs seem to crash on an almost daily basis.
nfs mountd is just gone, no errors in the logs. autofs is even more
enigmatic: the daemon is still running, but nothing gets mounted untill
I restart the service. And here also, nothing is mentioned in the logs.
So, when I noticed this, I have switched SELinux off, but the results
are still the same, this morning both services were again not working.
The thing I suspect is my rsync backup script, which runs at night and
makes heavy use of nfs mounted directories.
has anyone else seen such crashes, and does anyone know a solution or a
way to learn more about the problem?
David Jansen
16 years
