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
KERNEL HEADERS
by David McCormick
I have been trying to install drivers for a Marvell nic and an Atheros
wireless on my new Toshiba laptop but when I run the install scripts I
get the error Kernel Headers not found. If I try to install them RPM it
says they are already installed. I have searched the archives but can't
find a reference to where they are.
I have loaded FC-9 x86_64, I use it on two other machines with no
problem, on a Toshiba Satellite and the hardware is factory installed on
it. I have found the tar balls to get them working if I can just find
where the headers are.
Thanks
Dave
15 years, 5 months
Udev net issues
by Joseph L. Casale
In trying to swap a motherboard for the exact same type I kept having issues
with the NIC not being started (network manager was disabled). I finally found
70-persistent-net.rules under udev had the mac address of the old nic as eth0
so I moved this file out and rebooted only to see it was recreated as expected
but had the old mac address? I finally edited the mac address and that worked.
Where in the world would it have gotten the old mac from?
Thanks,
jlc
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
[Fw: Cambridge (F-10) Beta release announcement]
by Paul W. Frields
Hot off the presses!
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:12:14 -0700
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Subject: Cambridge (F-10) Beta release announcement
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Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid
Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of
Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are
important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get
the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally
important to you!
https://bugzilla.redhat.com
Do your part to make Fedora 10 that much better.
Among the new, fun, and interesting features:
* New NetworkManager with connection sharing
* Improved printer handling
* Remote virtualization and easier virt storage
* Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework
* RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years
... and more ...
* New version of PackageKit for managing software, with more fixes
and enhancements (which benefits all distributions)
* New version of PulseAudio (which benefits all distributions)
* Kernel 2.6.27, including better support for WiFi
* Better support for the EFI for Apple Macintosh hardware
* Faster graphical start-up by Plymouth, replacing the venerable
RHGB
* Better support for webcams through the hard work in kernel
2.6.27 (which benefits all distributions)
* New icon theme "Echo", to be completed with the theme graphic
"Solar" in the Fedora 10 release
* Gnome 2.24
* KDE 4.1
* Adding the NetBeans IDE
* Eclipse 3.4
* Automatic installation of multimedia codecs
* Better HDTV support in X.org
* "Sugar" graphical environment (from OLPC) available for use,
testing, and development
A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList
For release information, including common and known bugs, please see our
release notes:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Beta/ReleaseNotes
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