F9/KDE4: Can't access screen resolution changes after software install
by Don Levey
Based upon a mention in Linux Journal, I installed the Penumbra: Black
Plague demo yesterday on my laptop:
Acer TravelMate 4202WLMi
Inten Centrino Duo 1.66GHz
1 GB RAM
Intel GMA950, 1280x800
Fedora 9 x86
(hpl.log attached)
KDE4
At the end of the installation, there were no errors, though it seemed
to restart X on my machine. After logging in again, I tried starting the
demo just to see that it was working. When I exited it, I found that my
desktop had been changed to 800x600. I had hoped that restarting X would
reset my settings, but that didn't help. Nor did changing the settings
in the game itself.
I am unable to reconfigure my desktop at all. While the correct
(1280x800) resolution is visible as a selection in System Settings, the
Apply/Save button is not enabled. This appears to be a specific problem
in KDE; I can restart X and use another environment (Gnome) at the
correct resolution. Likewise ICEwm; in ICEwm I can even start and run
the game without issue and return to my proper desktop size.
What is particularly odd is that when logging in via KDE it *starts up*
in the correct resolution, but eventually changes. What happened to my
machine, and how do I get it back? It's probably just a configuration
change in one file, but I don't know which one.
Thanks in advance,
-Don
15 years, 10 months
Fedora 9 /dev/rtc missing
by byrdca
I have a dual boot Fedora 9 / Win XP Pro box. I notice that when I
boot to fedora my time is wrong and "System Clock Uses UTC" is still
checked even though I unchecked it at install time. When attempting
to clear the "UTC" check box and reset the time with
system-config-date I get the following error "Failed to synchronize
hardware clock. This may be because there is no hardware clock
accessible, e.g. when running in a virtualized environment". I am not
running in a virtualized environment so I checked the output of the
following:
hwclock --debug --show
and got the following response
hwclock from util-linux-ng 2.13.1
hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=2: No such file or directory.
No usable clock interface found.
Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
I ran dmesg | grep /dev/rtc and got no hits, I booted hit del to enter
setup and checked the cmos menu in order to look at the clock and it
seemed right so I don't think the battery has failed.
output of uname -r is
2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64
Does the list have any ideas?
15 years, 10 months
automatic updatedb in F9?
by Globe Trotter
Hi,
Does anyone know how to get updatedb to update automagically? Like say, every hour?
many thanks,
Trotter
15 years, 10 months
RAID1 in F9
by redhatdude＠bellsouth.net
Hello,
I'd like to create a RAID1 with 2 500GB HD I got.
Can anyone point me to a good step by step howto to do this with Fedora 9?
Thanks,
EJ
15 years, 10 months
FC 9 apps disappear when minimized
by Victor L.
Running FC 9 x86-64. When an application (i.e. Firefox etc) is minimized it
disappears from screen/panel. Next time app is opened it goes to <n+1> and
last one lost shows up when system is restart. Not sure if this due to
latest updates or my granddaughter hitting some keys while we were playing
Mr. Potatohead. Any help would be appreciated.
15 years, 10 months
slmodem and kmod-slmodem
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
I installed slmodem package in order to try to have my laptop modem working.
While slmodem is launched, it suggest that I have to install
kmod-slmodem but this seems imossible with last f8 kernel: missing
dependency: kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 is required but not found....
Is slmodem deprecated now? If yes whet is the new package?
Thanks.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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15 years, 10 months
selinux and fglrx
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
While I installed fglrx module for ATI video card, I was unable to have
X display working correctly until I disabled selinux.
What's wrong?
thanks.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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15 years, 10 months
F9 Firefox 3 crashing hard
by Chris Bredesen
Anyone else seeing FF3GA crashing abruptly? I'm going to disable the
few plugins I have enabled and continue working. But I haven't added
any recently, and this just started today...
-Chris
15 years, 10 months
