Kernel numbers
by Jeff Stevens
What does it mean to see an rpm with a kernel of 2.6.10-1.741_FC3, when
we go to a site like http://www.kernel.org and see the latest kernel is
at 2.6.10? If one wanted to compile their own kernel from this site,
would they be losing fixes/etc. from the "-1.741_FC3" portion?
Thanks, still learning here...
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Jeffrey Stevens
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15 years, 10 months
F9: The good and the bad
by lanas
All,
I've installed Fedora 9 and would like to share some notes about it.
All in all I was a bit deceived by some of its aspects, be them from
the system itself, KDE, or Konqueror. I think that nevertheless I
will perseverate and will not revert back to Fedora 8.
This is a x86 install. before doing the install, a backup of
/home/[user] and /etc/ from F8 was made, kept as a reference.
I do not want to draw a grim picture of Fedora 9. I might end up
keeping it after all, but I surely thought about reverting back to F8.
This machine is used for work and it seems I keep being trapped into
this idea of trying not the bleeding edge, not the alpha or beta, but
the official release, thinking that it would end up with a wow! effect
will keeping the functionality I had before, notwithstanding some
small adaptation to some possible (few) new ways of doing things.
It seems that time has not yet come. Coincidently, I always had
good experiences with even-numbered releases such as Fedora 6 and
Fedora 8. I still keep F6 at home with all the music-making apps
since it works so well. Too bad it's already outdated and there are
no new updates for it.
Maybe Fedora 10 will have a consistent wow! factor ?
The good things:
+ At least yum works !!!
+ xine from livna installs fine and plays some video fine.
+ using yum, claws-mail install fines and runs immediately, provided
that a previous .claws-mail was copied from F8 in the user
directory.
+ The DVD gave no (DMA or otherwise) errors whereas for F8 I had to
install from a USB key.
The not-so-good things:
* Add/Remove Software utility
- The Add/Remove software utility shows ´Downloading files´ endlessly
(internet connection is functional)
- Has no detailed feddback on what's going on
- Cannot do several tasks at once (waiting for other tasks to
complete) whereas kyum can.
Result: no software can be installed using this utility.
Is this the utility that got a spotlight in F9 new features ?
+ At least yum works !!!
* Konsole / video
- Konsole is no longer transparent whereas it was with F8
- Mouse rotary scroll button does not (worked with F8)
Konsole reports that the graphic capabilities are not good enough to
support transparency whereas F8 had no problem with that (on same
computer)
Video is:
Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
A quite slow glxgears reports:
Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic.
4790 frames in 5.0 seconds = 957.905 FPS
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
after 19132 requests (6276 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Video is not so fast, perhaps slower than F8. glxgears is not
right. KDE looks nice, but is slow.
* Missing apps ?
- My favorite kyum is found by the yum installer but... kyum cannot
run because is misses kdesu.
yum install kdesu
Parsing package install arguments
No package kdesu available.
Nothing to do
- same with kpdf
* KDE (category: Bummer)
- Add Widgets widget - how to make it go away ?
- Multiple desktops - not easy to find where to add desktops.
Havent't found it yet. Bummer.
- taskbar - not easy to find how to make it disappear
automatically. Havent't found it yet. Bummer.
- auto mouse focus - not easy to find. Havent't found it
yet. Bummer.
- KDE System Settings: Search is broken as far as it cannot return
anything for ´keyboard´ whereas previous F8 KDE reporte a list of
possibilities. Is this an upgrade ?
* Fonts
Although the DejaVu LGC fonts are installed:
ls /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/
[...]
DejaVuLGCSansMono-Oblique.ttf
DejaVuLGCSansMono.ttf
[...]
It is not possible to use them as per the Fedora 8 system, as in:
emacs -fn "DejaVu LGC Sans Mono-12"
The system reports that the font is not found. What gives ?
* VmWare (category: very, very useful)
vmware cannot be installed per se because there are no sources
available for that kernel in the repositories.
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1
06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
And the listing has:
kernel-headers.i386 2.6.25.3-18.fc9 installed
Why aren't the headers the same ? And, where are they stored ?
Maybe I could install VmWare with these.
* Konqueror browser
- 'right-click' and 'back' does not go back anymore
I wonder what kind of upgrade in functionality this is.
* Printer
The two network printers couldn't be discovered automatically.
* Shares
The two CIFS shares can not be mounted. Still have to investigate
on that one.
These were the notes I've taken today. Any comments/hints are
appreciated.
Cheers,
Al
15 years, 10 months
Weird scrambled fonts
by Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
Morning.
Some of my fonts looks weirdly scrambled:
http://www.padep.org.bo/fonts/
Why could that be? freetype-freworld?
Thanks in advance...
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Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar(a)padep.org.bo
otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962
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"Das Fernsehen ist eine Infektion der Seele."
- Federico Fellini
15 years, 10 months
Vertical bars in status tray (KDE4-F9)
by Craig White
I have two white vertical bar type objects in my system tray on KDE4
(F9)...one fairly thin, the other about twice the thickness.
If I hover over them or right click on them, I get nothing.
Does anyone know what they represent?
Craig
15 years, 10 months
Re: Fedora 9 + Network Manager = Wireless NOT Connecting
by Robert Cahn
I have updated my desktop using the 64-bit desktop of F9 from F7. My
wireless is described by:
00:0a.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
(rev 01)
Subsystem: Netgear MA311 802.11b wireless adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
Memory at e9005000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: hostap_pci
Kernel modules: orinoco_pci, hostap_pci
Under F7 the wireless connected without any issues.
The I'm using plain old WEP on the access point. When I attempt to connect
the first NM pip turns green immediately but the second pip never does.
Eventually I'm asked for the WEP key. Entering it again does no good. I've
used system-config-network to statically enter the WEP key and specify the
SSID. Nothing works. I've never been able to connect under F9.
I notice that I'm never asked to unlock the keyring as I was under F5 and
F7. Are there any other suggestions as to what I can try?
/Bob Cahn
15 years, 10 months
F9: libusb & palm syncing not working
by Brian Mury
I am trying to get my Palm M130 working with F9 using libusb. When I
start the hotsync, /var/log/messages shows this:
May 19 11:32:41 localhost kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3
May 19 11:32:41 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 16
May 19 11:32:41 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May 19 11:32:41 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0830, idProduct=0050
May 19 11:32:41 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
May 19 11:32:41 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: Product: <FF><F7><9F>
May 19 11:32:41 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Palm, Inc.
May 19 11:32:41 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: SerialNumber: PalmSN12345678
May 19 11:33:54 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 16
The "address 16" on the second and last lines increments each time I try
it, otherwise it is identical every time.
I also get the following in /proc/bus/usb/devices:
T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 16 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=16 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0830 ProdID=0050 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=Palm, Inc.
S: Product=<FF><F7><9F>
S: SerialNumber=PalmSN12345678
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms
and I get a corresponding entry in /proc/bus/usb/003 (in this
case, /proc/bus/usb/003/016).
However, "pilot-xfer -p usb: -l" just sits there saying "Listening for
incoming connection on usb:..." forever.
Is there anything special I need to do to configure this? Any
troubleshooting ideas? Or should I just give up on libusb and use visor?
15 years, 10 months
Fedora 9 and Security
by Geoffrey Leach
There are several things about Fedora 9 that bug me.
First, SELinux is configured, with no ability to opt-out, as was the
case in Fedora 8. Second, the "automatic login for a designated user"
has been removed.
Both of these are clearly security-related, but where is it written
that Fedora needs to force us to "be good". Strikes me that the folks
who do these things need to ask what the users want. Or was I asleep
when the discussion raged on the list?
Third, not security related but emblemantic of the same mindset, I
suspect, is the introduction, again by default with no opt-out, of
UUIDs. I understand that this is thought to be a Good Idea (tm) for
those users who use bleeding-edge software on their multi-system
networks, but for the rest of us, its just a pain, and makes life more
complicated for those of us that administer our own laptops.
Now I feel better.
Geoffrey Leach
15 years, 10 months
problem with totem
by Amitakhya Phukan
hi all!
totem has suddenly stopped its sound output. any help ? it is a recently
updated f9 box.
regards,
amit.
15 years, 10 months
F9 with ASUS EAH3450 / ATI Radeon HD3450 bad video after install screens.
by Mick M.
Hi;
I just installed F9 on my shiny new box.
The install went fine.
When it spit the DVD out and ebooted the video was awful.
The screen apppers to be tearing/sparkly.
I had to guess with the Tab key/mouse and Enter to get a user added and go into X.
Once there the video is still broken.
I tried system-config-display.
It says I am running st 640x480 and millions of colors.
The size drop-down menu just shows 640x480, the colors millions/thousands.
It seems to be much higher display than that though.
Too tall for the screen, cannot "mouse down" even near the bottom.
I looked in /etc/X11 xorg.conf and it says "vesa"
I googled and could not find a fix (had to use this old system)
The card is ID as Radeon HD 3450, the box says ASUS EAH3450.
It is a fanless 256M PCI Express 2.0 "HDCP compliant" card.
The install display was quite nice and I would be happy to see that resolution again.
The box barcode read:EAH3450/HTP/256M/A
I am using the 15 pin vga output not the DVi-I
thanks
Mick M.
Death before Decaf!!!
15 years, 10 months
