Can't read/mount SD flash memory card in builtin reader.
by Richard Shaw
I am having trouble getting Fedora 9 (x86_64 live cd) to read my SD
card using a built-in Ricoh MMC reader on an HP 8510 laptop (Core 2
Duo). I get mmcblk0 and mmcblk0p1 in /dev but any attempt to read the
card fails. I see an icon in Nautilus but after opening it and a brief
pause I get an error "Can't read superblock". Also, any attempt to
inspect the device in parted or fdisk also fail. They both complain
about lables but I'm not sure if they are talking about filesystem
labels or volume lables. I can't see why the latter would cause an
issue. I tried the mklabel command in parted setting it to msdos but
it couldn't complete... I'm in Windows XP right now and it's reading
it fine.
Along those lines, is it possible to get the UUID of a disk from windows?
Richard
15 years, 5 months
trends in fedora
by Russell Strong
Hi,
I've just installed Fedora 9 on my laptop, and unfortunately a few
things are getting worse in Fedora.
Network management has always been awkward on Fedora and with Fedora 9
it's getting much worse.
1. I have always edited the config files directly to get things
working. And still have to ( it's just a straight forward wireless
connection ).
2. NetworkManager is now the default on install, BUT...
2.1 NetworkManager does not give you a wireless connection when no
user is logged in.
2.1.1 How am I going to run any network service, NTP, NFS,
httpd, etc..... without a network?
2.1.2 How am I going to remotely administer my machines?
2.2 NetworkManager does not give you the ability to configure system
wide networking services or policy.
2.3 NetworkManager does not have any decent documentation.
3. Try using WPA and DHCP at the same time. It's never worked in this
or any previous Fedora. Yes, NM will do it, but that's no good because
of the previously stated problems. the network service won't do it
because it tries to run DHCP immediately after bringing up the
interfaces...It SHOULD wait until wpa_supplicant has run and the
interface is available for traffic before kicking off DHCP...
GDM was functional, well behaved and stable in Fedora 8. I used it to
log into other F8 machines locked away in difficult to get at racks.
Fedora 9 has effectively removed that ability by shipping a GDM with
gdmsetup. How many users depend on that functionality? I did, and
won't be able to upgrade to F9 for any other machines.
A suggestion...
Use the fedora website/wiki to collect information about use cases.
Find out what people depend on. Use that to provide a guarantee that
functionality and usefulness won't go backwards. If it was ever setup,
I'd tell you everything I do with my machines.
Russell
15 years, 5 months
X and Intel 965
by Jeffrey Ross
so far the installation of FC6 has gone relatively smoothly albeit some
additional learning and bumps due to the 64 bit architecture of this
machine.
The mother board is an Intel DG965RYCK which uses Intel's 965 express
chipset. Based upon what I've been able to find on the web, Intel has
released the drivers for this chipset to OSS, although there have been
issues as to what Intel actually released and how complete they might be.
Regardless I unable to run mplayer (or Realplayer) for that matter
without the display first freezing then going black followed by garbage
along the bottom of the screen. A Control-Alt-Backspace does not stop X
from running. The only way to recover the machine from this point is to
reboot the system. I am still able to connect from a remote system, its
just the display that has become unstable.
lspci -v shows the following for the graphics adapter
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 514d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
Memory at 50200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Memory at 40000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 3110 [size=8]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
15 years, 5 months
GDMSetup
by Casartello, Thomas
Was gdmsetup removed from Fedora 9? I'm trying to figure out how to
configure gdm.
Thomas E. Casartello, Jr.
Infrastructure Technician
Linux Specialist
Department of Information Technology
Westfield State College
Wilson 105-A
(413) 572-8245
E-Mail: tcasartello(a)wsc.ma.edu
Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)
15 years, 5 months
F9 & GDM 2.22 : cannot define multiple login servers anymore?
by Rob
Hello,
Fedora 9 ships with a newer version of GDM (2.22), for which the gdmsetup
is missing. I found many discussions on people also missing the setup utility.
However, I couldn't find an answer to my problem:
Before F9, I had GDM configured to produce 3 login screens on my PC, on
vt7, vt8 and vt9, simply by having this line in /etc/gdm/custom.conf :
[servers]
0=inactive
7=Standard vt7
8=Standard vt8
9=Standard vt9
I tried to add this manually to the file, but it does not seem to work anymore.
Has anybody an idea how I can integrate this with GDM 2.22 ?
Thank you,
Rob.
15 years, 5 months
How to export terminal to F9 using r-tools?
by Marcelo Garcia
Hi
How do I enable my Fedora 9 (x86) to accept terminals from other
machines using r-tools? I cannot use ssh -X in this case.
I tried to configure using /etc/gdm/custom.conf in the "xdmcp" option:
Enable=true
Port=177
but it is not working.
Thanks
Marcelo
15 years, 5 months
gnome panel icons rearranging themselfes with compiz
by Christoph Höger
Hi,
whenever I restart my fedora 9 laptop
(running Gnome compiz at actual stable versions:
[choeger@choeger6 ~]$ rpm -q gnome-panel
gnome-panel-2.22.2-1.fc9.i386
[choeger@choeger6 ~]$ rpm -q compiz
compiz-0.7.6-2.fc9.i386
) I see my icons (include some applets and starters) in a new randomized
order.
For example currently my cpu frequency applets appear between my
complete name and the current date, nm-applet and battery applet have
gone far left.
Anyone seeing that too? How can that be fixed?
regards
Christoph
15 years, 5 months
Re: ps2 mouse pointer wanders away
by Joel Rees
Ed Greshko wrote:
> Joel Rees wrote:
>
>> I find that I often lose control of the mouse pointer. It seems to
>> happen more when I'm seeding torrents, or running a diff or a
>> message digest check on the download, or doing other things that
>> load the system.
>>
>> Sempron 2600, single processor, VIA KM400something+8237 chipset,
>> 760M RAM. Generic PS-2 mouse and keyboard.
>>
>> I can plug in a USB mouse and use that, and sometimes plugging the
>> USB mouse in brings the PS2 mouse back, as well.
>
>
> In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file what is mouse protocol set to?
No mouse definition in that file whatsoever.
I thought I'd ssh the whole file over to this box, to prove it, and
discovered in the process that, while the interface was set up
properly by the installer, the hosts file was set up to tell the
fedora 9 box that it was the external interface of my dsl router.
That boggled my mind enough that I forgot to take a copy of what I
found in /etc/hosts, so I'm going to have a hard time filing a decent
bug report on it.
And, in the process, I discovered that there seems to be an
intermittent bug in the language setup, such that I was not able to
switch from Japanese to English so I could make sure I understood the
firewall settings widget.
And, now, using one of the widgets instead of working directly on the
configuration file, I find that the box has forgotten what the dns
servers were, so the box is completely off line. And there's
something wedged in the firewall, as well, apparently, can't even
ping it.
I was going to start a rant about how I didn't expect Fedora 9 to be
rawhide, but I helped my wife with the laundry instead and have
calmed down a bit. This is, after all, the only way to figure out how
to deal with the new security model.
I expect that we'll end up proving that the whole idea of access
control lists is a specification level bug, but only time will tell,
and I really can't think of any other way of proving it is, other
than to subject a mixed technical user group like this to the spec.
Something good should shake out of the process, but it won't look
much like the theory they teach at school.
> I've seen what I think you are describing when set to infrequently
> seen/used setting. FWIW, the one I use most often is...
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Thanks for reminding me where that file is. I found an example of the
mouse definition section on the web, but the problem now is getting
the box back on the web first.
I find myself wondering whether I should bother, though. If I've got
the time to nurse the box this way, maybe I should just go straight
to rawhide.
Thanks.
Joel Rees
15 years, 5 months
Fedora9 on macbook
by korgull
Hi,
I have F9 installed on my macbook (tripple boot with OSX and WindowsXP).
The installation of F9 went very well and I must say, a lot faster than OSX
and Windows.
Most things work in F9 (airport works, bluetooth works etc) but I'm having
trouble finding the correct keyboard driver and a way to map the right apple
key as right mouse button.
Does anyone know how to get the keyboard work correctly so that I can also use
CTRL-ALT-F1 and have delete button functionality ?
I tried xmodmap regarding the right apple key but it somehow doesn't work for
me. Is there another way to get this done ?
Also, I tried compiz but when I enable it my whole screen turns white with
only a mouse pointer. Anyone seen this bug ?
Regards,
Marcel
15 years, 5 months