Running Blender 2.56 on Fedora 13 and 14
by Valent Turkovic
Hi galls and guys,
I saw that there are no up to date instuctions for getting Blender
2.56 running on Fedora, not even on Blender wiki so I wrote up this
blog post:
http://bit.ly/gLQgFS or long version:
http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/blender-2-56-on-fedo...
I would like to ask you to try out these instructions and post any
feedback that you have, especially if there are some errors in
instructions.
Also if there are some Blender artists in Fedora design team please
test if all Blender functions work correctly.
I saw some Blender 2.56 packages in Koji for F15, does anybody know if
Blender 2.56 will ship with Fedora 15?
I talked with few Blender artists that I know and asked them which
version of Blender they used. They all replied that they used 2.56 and
not 2.49. They all claim that Blender 2.56 is rock solid on both OSX
and Windows, I don't know Blender artists that use Linux :(
So if Blender 2.56 turns out to be stable could it be made to replace
aging 2.45 in Fedora 14 and 15?
Cheers,
Valent.
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8 years, 6 months
Skype - No sound from microphone
by Kostas Sfakiotakis
I have an issue with Skype .
Although am able to hear sounds ( in a call i can hear the caller ) the
caller
can´t hear me . System wide i have sounds.
The version of Skype am using is :
skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586
Now the odd thing is that if i go to PulseAudio Volume Control under
Multimedia
under the Recording devices i can "see" the microphone and the system
can hear
me speaking since the volume increases and decreases accordingly .
Theoretically
at least that should mean that the microphone is actually being detected
and the
proper modules have been loaded. One last thing that might be relevant
is that i
don´t actually own a seperate microphone but it´s build in my Logitech
Web Camera.
The thing is that Skype actually knows about the Web Camera since if i
test it under
the video controls i can see my face . If i make the sound tests i can
hear the sound
if i make the test call i can hear the test person speaking but i can´t
hear my voice
. I have looked in the net but i don´t want to mess anything else ,
since everywhere
else the sound is working ( admitted it´s the playback sound and not the
recording thing
that am hearing ) . I would be glad to try even any other application
that speaks
the Skype protocol if that thing would make things easier without
messing up anything .
8 years, 6 months
Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone,
I am using KMail 1.13.5 from within Kontact 4.4.8. Also, I am running Fedora 13
and KDE 4.5.4. All of this is fully updated.
I don't know when this problem started, but when I copy something like this from
any email in KMail:
No. Why do you need the "full-install" DVD?
and paste it into any text editor, it comes out like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-
strict.dtd">
<body>No. Why do you need the "full-install" DVD?</body>
If I want to copy and paste a tracking number for an item that I purchased
online, it looks like this when I paste it:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-
strict.dtd">
<body>9101128882300487354725</body>
In the above example, this is the procedure I followed:
1. Using my mouse, I select "9101128882300487354725" in the desired email.
2. Right click the mouse, and then select "Copy"
3. Then, I either do "Ctrl V" or "Right Click | Paste"
4. The result is always the same. I get the text that I selected, plus a whole
lot HTML markup...
I have KMail set to compose and send emails in text only.
In my experiments so far, this only occurs when I copy FROM KMail. If I copy
from any other application, and paste INTO KMail, it pastes correctly. Also,
when I select and then copy "9101128882300487354725" FROM KMAIL, and then check
my clipboard, it shows up in the undesired format:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-
strict.dtd">
<body>9101128882300487354725</body>
As far as I know, I didn't change anything to cause this problem to occur. I do
know that up until a few weeks ago, on this same system, if (from within KMail)
I selected and copied something like "9101128882300487354725" and then pasted
the result into any application, I would get this:
"9101128882300487354725"
That is how it has always worked for me, and that is NOT how it's working for me
now :(
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Steven P. Ulrick
8 years, 6 months
Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?
by Mickey
Fedora 14 / KDE
Today my Thunderbird-3.1.7 crashed and sent all my 1500 emails to the
Trash Can. Thunderbird was taking so long to compact and other
things it had to do and locking up my desktop and Web Browser.
In Fedora is there a better email Browser ?
I tried Evolution but it just does not seem to work very good in Fedora 14.
8 years, 6 months
how to change nautilus' default browser?
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Subject says it all.
I've gone through every option I could find, right clicked everything,
grepped through .nautilus and .gnome2* and haven't the slighted idea why
nautilus insists on opening Chrome when the system default is set to
Firefox.
(IMO Chrome isn't ready for prime time: the Firebug extension for it is
a joke, its UI is tedious; it may be faster at some things but its
shortcomings *way* overwhelm any of its benefits.)
Any takers?
TIA,
Mike Wright
8 years, 6 months
Fedora 14: Shutdown problem
by Terry Barnaby
Hi,
About 1 in 4 times Fedora 14 hangs during shutdown on at least 4 of my systems.
Looking at the shutdown messages (ESC in the splash screen) and adding some
debug statements to /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt, it hangs after the messages:
"Unmounting file systems"
"init: Re-executing /sbin/init"
with the message:
"mount: you must specify the file system type."
Adding some debug, this appears after the following command is executed:
"fstab-decode mount -n -o ro,remount /dev/sda1 /"
The file system is ext4 on all of the systems and that command looks ok.
Any ideas ?
Terry
8 years, 6 months
Printer marker levels -
by Bob Goodwin
I am plagued with the cryptic message:
Printer "Brother-HL-5140": ";marker-supply-low".
This seems to have begun recently, perhaps with the installation of
F-14, I'm not certain? If I knew what it means I might be able to
fix something, alternatively how to eliminate it if I can't satisfy
whatever it's objecting to.
System-config-printers > Properties tells me "Marker levels
[whatever they are] are not reported for this printer" but the
notice keeps coming up anyway.
I print two copies each of five crossword puzzles every morning and
this notice keeps popping up and blocking part of my screen, an
annoyance and one more thing to keep clicking on!
Suggestions?
Bob
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8 years, 6 months
CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page
by Armelius Cameron
Hello,
I know Fedora try to be more user friendly, and the website design that points
to the various download options reflects that. But I think one signficant thing
is missing: the CHECKSUM file is not easily accesible. How can a novice user
know how to check that his/her download is correct and not corrupted ?
Following the link to get fedora from the main page, I ended on this page:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#formats
Since I want to get the full DVD install, I follow the link to:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86...
x86_64-DVD.iso
That goes to a page that tells me that the download would start shortly (and
it did), but no information about how to check the correctness of the
downloaded file.
There's this box that says: "What should I do with this ISO file?" and a link
to instruction. The second page on the instruction ask to "Verify the
download", but again, no link to point to the CHECKSUM, or how to even verify
the download.
Sure, I can figure out just fine that I can browse the download directory
manually, get the CHECKSUM, and verify it with 'sha256sum' utility. But how
about Aunt Tillie ? How about people who uses Windows to download and may not
have the utility handy ? should there be at least a link to the CHECKSUM file,
or even just display the hash there on the download page, and a quick
instruction on how to check the download ?
Thanks
--
AC
8 years, 6 months
httpd cannot connect via TLS to LDAP server after upgrade to fedora 14
by Ldap Tester
After upgrading a machine from fedora 13 to fedora 14 (with all
updates), I was suddenly unable to get its httpd to authenticate
with my LDAP servers. After connecting my browser to the web server
with https, and typing in my username and password,
I get an Internal Server Error response.
My configuration is:
LDAPTrustedGlobalCert CA_BASE64 /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
LDAPTrustedGlobalCert CA_BASE64 /etc/openldap/cacerts/cacert.asc
<Directory /var/www/html/ssl>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "User Login"
AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthLDAPURL "ldap://serv1.foo.org serv2.foo.org/dc=foo,dc=org" TLS
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off
require valid-user
SSLOptions +StrictRequire
SSLRequireSSL
</Directory>
The httpd debugging log shows:
auth_ldap authenticate: user XXXX authentication failed;
URI /ssl/staff/index.shtml
[LDAP: ldap_start_tls_s() failed][Connect error]
Changing AuthLDAPURL to use SSL instead of TLS also fails but with:
[LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed][Can't contact LDAP server]
tcpdump shows that the httpd client connects to the LDAP server,
and is sent:
Start TLSrequest accepted Server willing to negotiate SSL
but no certificate info is exchanged and the client quickly closes
the connection.
Changing AuthLDAPURL to use NONE makes it connect successfully.
serv1 uses a cert purchased from GoDaddy,
and serv2 uses a self signed cert
(which is /etc/openldap/cacerts/cacert.asc).
Both servers are 389-ds.
Both certs mentioned in LDAPTrustedGlobalCert are valid and world
readable. ldapsearch is able to connect to both servers with TLS.
On another machine with the same httpd configuration, but still at
fedora 13, httpd is able to connect securely even
without the LDAPTrustedGlobalCert lines.
As a side note, after upgrading to fedora 14, I had to add
tls_cacertfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
to /etc/nss_ldap.conf and /etc/pam_ldap.conf
and also add
TLS_CACERT /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
to /etc/openldap/ldap.conf
in order to get those to work.
Under fedora 13, everything worked without those lines.
I don't know if this is a problem with httpd's mod_authnz_ldap
or its mod_ldap or with openldap, or just a configuration mistake
on my part, but it used to work before the upgrade.
I have searched all over for an answer to this problem
because I can't believe that I am the only one having it,
but I have found nothing.
I welcome any ideas.
8 years, 6 months
