Dive Into Python.pdf
by Gene Heskett
Is there a way to set the text colors so they aren't the same as the
background in this? Looking at it with AR.
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
All newspaper editorial writers ever do is come down from the hills after
the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
13 years, 12 months
Re: How can SATA power management feature be controlled?
by Peter van Hooft
> How can I control the automatic power management feature of my SATA disk
> drives? Right now the heads are unloading so frequently that within
> one year I will have exceeded the rated number of load/unload cycles for
> the drives. The drives are Western Digital model WD10EADS. I tried
> using "hdparm -B 254" and "hdparm -B 0", but neither works:
>
> # hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error
> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error
> # hdparm -B 0 /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error
> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error
>
> My efforts to find anything useful with 'sdparm' have been fruitless.
>
Hi,
I use both:
hdparm -q -S 0 /dev/sda
hdparm -q -B 255 /dev/sda
which seems to work.
peter
13 years, 12 months
3D and Nvidia
by Henry Wyatt
I have Nvidia Go 6150 card I assume f12 uses this. Does this card support
3d or accelerated graphics and how do I enable
13 years, 12 months
Fedora Community Gaming
by Bruno Wolff III
A suggestion was made to have game sessions for the community playing games
available in Fedora. A pilot project has been started and the first
session will be this Friday (or Saturday depending on timezone).
For background you can find the original request at:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/18
A wiki page for this project is at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Gaming
The first session will start this Friday at 9pm EDT (0100 UTC Saturday).
We will be playing bzflag and attempting to use Fedora Talk (x2010) as a
social channel, as chatting socially by typing, while playing bzflag seems
hard to do.
bzflag is a pretty light, chaotic game that allows for easy dropping in
and out. The session will last at least 2 hours, but will go longer if
people actually show up and want to keep playing. games1.wolff.to will
be set up as a private server, but you will just be able to connect without
any special password. Before we start playing we will be using the
#fedora-games IRC channel to communicate in case there are problems.
If you think it's likely you'll show up you can add you name in the wiki
so we know how many people to expect.
The week after we will be running a Wesnoth session, using the in game
chat for socializing. That's a much different game and will probably
appeal to a different group of people.
After that, it depends on the response both a of players and people willing
to sponsor games. At least initially we want to try a lot of different
stuff. The first two being at the same time has to do with my schedule.
I would hope that other people run game sessions at different times in
order to be more accessible to other people.
13 years, 12 months
Brief rant on PXEboot
by Timothy Murphy
I acquired a new/old laptop (Thinkpad T43) yesterday,
and decided to install Fedora-12 by PXEboot.
I've done this before, and always found it relatively confusing,
so I decided this time to follow the Installation Guide exactly.
After following this for an hour or so,
I've come to the conclusion that whoever wrote
the sections on PXE boot has never tried out what he/she suggests.
To start with, the section that purports to explain PXEboot (5.4)
immediately tells you that you should be reading chapter 10 instead.
Chapter 10 starts with the warning:
"The instructions in this appendix configures an automated install server.
The default configuration includes destruction of all existing data
on all disks for hosts that install using this method."
On perservering, I'm told that I must read
/usr/share/doc/syslinux-version/syslinux.doc ,
which as far as I can see is all about floppy disks.
What a mess.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
13 years, 12 months
EVGA GTX 295 not working
by BadMagic
Hi all (figured out the problem),
I've had trouble installing Fedora for the last few releases. I don't
have it installed at the moment so I can't offer much help BUT as I'm
certain my prob relates to my EVGA GTX 295 Co-Op Edition graphics card
and these are quite common cards, I'm sure the fix is quite widely known.
Everything installs/boots okay until I get to the bit where I need to
log in. I get the GDM graphical login screen but the mouse and keyboard
seem to stop working. If I change to terminal view (Ctrl Alt F2 for
memory) I can still type DMESG shows problems with the graphics card -
can't remember specifics.
I tried changing the xorg.conf to settings I know worked under other
distros/BSD/Solaris (using xorg) to no avail.
Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? Is there some GRUB switch I can
throw in there that'll work - I tried some to no avail.
My specs are as follows:
ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard
4GB Kingston (compatible with mobo) RAM
EVGA GTX 295 co-op edition graphics card
Corsair HX 1000W (more than enough)
That's about all
Regards,
Steve Laurie
13 years, 12 months
How can SATA power management feature be controlled?
by Robert Nichols
How can I control the automatic power management feature of my SATA disk
drives? Right now the heads are unloading so frequently that within
one year I will have exceeded the rated number of load/unload cycles for
the drives. The drives are Western Digital model WD10EADS. I tried
using "hdparm -B 254" and "hdparm -B 0", but neither works:
# hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error
# hdparm -B 0 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error
My efforts to find anything useful with 'sdparm' have been fruitless.
--
Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete it.
13 years, 12 months
X-window to the remote Fedora system
by Siavoush Dastmalchi
Dear List,
I want to establish an X-window session from my PC to a Fedora (FC 5) OS Linux system using X-Win32 program, but so far no luck. I can do that to a remote Redhat system and SGI computer, but don't know what I am doing wrong in the case of Fedora system.
Any suggestion much appreciated.
Cheers, Siavoush
13 years, 12 months
Re: how would this work as a fedora laptop?
by Darr
> You know, if you go to Dell you can build a laptop that you
> *know* will be supported by Linux for about the same as an
> "off-the-shelf" laptop at TigerDirect.
That's about what I was going to say, but I suggest starting at
http://outlet.dell.com and one with 4GB of DD3, 500GB HDD,
17.3" 900p LCD and an i3 CPU can likely be had for the same
price as that acer...
I would UNcheck the scratch & dent selection and just look at
the 'certified refurbished' and 'open-box/returns' (they call them
'previously ordered new') models. If you're patient (the selection
changes daily, of course) you might find one there with 1080p
LCD and a WiFi/WiMAXan combo card for slightly more.
13 years, 12 months
