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Problems with 3COM 3C900Combo
by Christian Moller 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all Fedora users, I have just joined this list. I am running the latest Fedora but I can't get my 3C900Combo networking card to work. I can see that the card is installed but no IP-address is asigned to it and I can't set it. So I think that there is a bug in that driver. Any other user out there who have a solution for this? Best regards and thanks, Christian

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RAGE XL Framebuffer
by Yanick Quirion 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all I know that is not a specific question about Fedora, but I can't find answer on the kernel mailing list. Is somebody having server with integrated ATI RAGE XL video card? Is it possible to patch the kernel to support this video card? If I add VGA=791 in my grub.conf, I will have a resolution of 1024x768 which is good, but the display is very slow (especially when the screen is scrolling). If I use I this: "video=aty128fb:1024x768@70" it will not work. I'm using kernel 2.4.22 but I will try 2.6.0-test11 today. If somebody has a patch, a link or anything else that can help me, it will be appreciated. Thanks for your help. Regards, ----------- Yanick Quirion Administrateur Réseau/Network Manager NEOKIMIA INC. Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke 3e étage (Édifice Z5) 3001 12e avenue Nord Sherbrooke, Québec CANADA J1H 5N4 Tél.: +1 819 820-6040 Direct: +1 819 820-6855 Fax.: +1 819 820-6841 email: Yanick.Quirion(a)neokimia.com

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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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What happened to floppy drive support?
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required? JB

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Anyone got three monitors working?
by thomas cameron 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy All - I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital video port. It works well, I get accelerated X and wobbly windows and all that silliness. Guilty pleasure: I like eye candy. I'd *really* love to do triple head - the monitor in front of me for my main work, and the two side screens for supporting stuff. I am wondering, since my motherboard has a four PCI Express x1 ports and I see PCI Express x1 video cards for decent prices, if I can either replace my single card with two identical two-port X1 cards, or just add a single X1 video card to what I already have and get triple head. Has anyone done this? Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7SknEACgkQmzle50YHwaCHXgCgh5OPtqXsUZnn5F6hnuTvJYH6 0Q4An29A0m4znOWxWIgni3wv/l8zCAyr =nFLx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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oovoo.com
by Gregory P. Ennis 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Dear List, I was asked to assist connecting a Fedora linux system for video conferencing with oovoo.com. It is apparent that they support Mac and Windows. Does anyone have any experience in using the Mac installation for oovoo for Fedora? Can anyone make recommendations for connections that allow video conferencing with Fedora. Thanks much -- Greg Ennis PoMec Corporation www.PoMec.net

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Gnome-Shell
by David Quigley 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Is there a list anywhere of supported hardware for gnome-shell? I've tried it on 3 computers so far and none of them work. The first was VMWare which I've seen isn't supported so I wrote that off. The second was a dell optiplex 790 with on-board intel accelerated graphics. The final one is an optiplex 960 with a Radeon HD 3450 in it. Is there something wrong with the setup or is gnome-shell really that selective about hardware even after its been in two Fedora releases? Dave

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Fedora 16 black screen with Radeon HD 6470M: partially solved?
by M. Fioretti 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Greetings, SHORT VERSION: I think I've found a temporary solution to this Fedora install problem (found on other distros too), but I am not sure about _why_ it works, and it's the best solution. Any feedback is very appreciated. I've got a HP G6 1273SL laptop with this chipset and a live cd of Fedora 16 x86_64, KDE spin. When running live from the CD there were NO graphic problems. So I went and installed it on the laptop hard disk. The install was successful, or so anaconda said, so I rebooted. I got the GRUB 2 menu just fine. However, when I select or let start the default entry, the screen goes completely black. If I remove the "quiet" option in the grub entry I see that the last thing before it goes black is "radeon something..." (too fast to read it...) So it seems to me that is the same issue mentioned here: http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/179/black-screen-while-startingwhen-f… I have done a bit of research and found this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28848/what-does-the-kernel-boot-parameter-se… linked from https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+questi… which also mentions the same problem on Fedora, and indeed, if I enter "e" in grub and add to its initrd line the two parameters acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor Fedora boots without problems, but the laptop is quite warm. This other page says even the first parameter alone is OK: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/765438/comments/2 Now the questions: 1) first of all, I admit I don't really understand how and why this works, that is if this is a real/ complete / best solution. Should I add those two parameters to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, rerun grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and go on? I believe i should also try some combination of vgaswitcheroo and/or radeon.modeset=0 as mentioned in other " Radeon HD 6470M and black linux screen" threads like http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11271523 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1781662 that, as far as I undertsand, should be better since they should completely turn off that chip and make the laptop cooler but... how to implement them in Fedora? This not clear to me. 2) why there was no problem with the live cd??? What are the options used there that make the distro work from the cd but not from the hard disk? Please note that, for me, at least for the short/medium term, it is perfectly OK for me to use only the on-board graphich chipset instead of the radeon one, I don't need to do heavy 3D stuff with this laptop... Thanks, hope this helps. Marco

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F16 unusable while writing to pendrive
by Patrick O'Callaghan 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

This looks like a regression. Under F15 when I wrote large files to a pendrive, the system would become a little sluggish. Now it essentially freezes until the write terminates. What I mean is that the UI is almost completely unresponsive; even clicking between two terminal windows is so slow that you can see the window contents refresh, followed several seconds later by the frame. Fully updated F16 with KDE, Intel Core 2 Dual, 4GB RAM, Intel onboard graphics. The pendrive is an 8GB Patriot Xporter (a year or two old) under USB-2 with no intervening hub. poc

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ld finds some libraries, but not others.
by Jonathan Ryshpan 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

A build is failing with the error cannot find <library> for libraries that are, in fact present on the system. I made a very simple test bed, consisting of the empty file conftest.c, which I attempt to compile and link with various libraries. All the libraries are in /usr/lib64. Sometimes the compilation fails with undefined reference to `main' which is what I would expect, but often it fails with cannot find -l<whatever> I have no idea what's happening. Can anyone explain? Here's an example of what's going on. This is a listing of some files in /usr/lib64: 1167 lib64 $ ll libICE.so* libgd.so* libkate.so* libkblog.so.* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Nov 9 18:28 libICE.so -> libICE.so.6.3.0* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Nov 9 08:02 libICE.so.6 -> libICE.so.6.3.0* -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 98328 Jun 21 09:37 libICE.so.6.3.0* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Nov 9 08:14 libgd.so.2 -> libgd.so.2.0.0* -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 278048 Oct 26 20:15 libgd.so.2.0.0* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Nov 9 08:06 libkate.so.1 -> libkate.so.1.2.1* -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 75640 Mar 7 2011 libkate.so.1.2.1* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Nov 13 09:03 libkblog.so.4 -> libkblog.so.4.7.0* -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 312960 Nov 4 10:05 libkblog.so.4.7.0* And here's a attempt to compile the dummy linking to them: 1033 wview-5.19.0 $ gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lICE /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.6.2/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start': (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status 1034 wview-5.19.0 $ gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lgd /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgd collect2: ld returned 1 exit status 1035 wview-5.19.0 $ gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lkate /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lkate collect2: ld returned 1 exit status 1036 wview-5.19.0 $ gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lkblog /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.6.2/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start': (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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