preventing drivers\modules from loading
by Frank Murphy
I have no need for the following in my kernels running as kvm guests.
8021q
vlan support
ppdev parallell port driver ( I have no legasy h\w requiring it.
Is modprobe blacklist the safest bet.
Rather than mucking about with custom kernels.
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Regards,
Frank Murphy, friend of fedoraproject
UTF_8 Encoded
12 years, 2 months
system-config-network
by Timothy Murphy
Is there something wrong with my Fedora-16/KDE setup,
or has this command become completely useless?
It used to show me the various interfaces on my computer,
with information which I could edit about them.
Now I am offered a single window
(with a border of circumflex-ed a's!)
with 2 choices: Device configuration and DNS configuration.
If I choose the first I am just shown the ethernet connection
to my laptop, which I am not using, with no information about it
except for its name "p2p1".
DNS configuration just shows me the content of /etc/resolv.conf .
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin
12 years, 2 months
Re: How do I get half my KDE panel back????
by DB
On 02/05/2012 01:00 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: How do I get half my KDE panel back????
> From:
> Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com>
> Date:
> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:26:45 +0800
>
> To:
> Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
>
>
> On 02/05/2012 06:18 PM, DB wrote:
>> > What I'd like, is to move it out of the "lost& found" back into the
>> > "Internet", and for the Orange Firefox icon to come back........
> Hover your mouse over "Applications" and then right click. Choose "Edit
> Applications" and you will get a gui that should be self explanatory.
Thanks Ed,
It actually required me to hover over the "big K" icon lower left, right
click, then drag firefox from "lost & found" into "internet". Success
#1!!! Then I unlocked the widgets from the same place, went along to the
"white page" icon clicked "icon settings" & waded through the whole pile
of possible icons to find the Firefox one. After a few seconds, it
transported itself into the "internet2 entry. After so many tries, it's
good to have the real icon back!!!!!!
Many thanks, Ed,
Dave
12 years, 2 months
yum cachedir
by Frank Murphy
Quick question
I want to keep the yum cache
in yum.conf it's
cachedir=/nfs/yum/$basearch/$releasever
Would anyone see a problem for my needs in changing it to:
cachedir=/nfs/yum/$releasever (which would be shared on the lan)
that way I only need download "noarch" files once,
for both i386\x86_64
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Regards,
Frank Murphy, friend of fedoraproject
UTF_8 Encoded
12 years, 2 months
Re: How do I get half my KDE panel back????
by DB
On 02/05/2012 12:16 AM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
>> > Please can someone tell me a) what this left-hand part of the panel is
>> > called
> It's called the task manager widget.
Thanks, it's good to know what things are called!!
>
>> > b) how to get it back???
> Unlock widgets (if they are locked), open the panel settings (little yellow
> thing at the right end), click "add widgets" and then choose task manager
> (double-click it to put it on the panel). Drag it with the mouse to the
> desired position on the panel. Close panel settings, and optionally lock
> widgets.
Great, thank you Marko, I never thought of a panel manager as a
widget.......
>
>> > BTW, if anyone knows where/how to get the proper icon for Firefox back&
>> > how to put it back into "Internet" from "Lost& found", I'd be grateful!!!!
> I don't understand what "into Internet" means, and where is lost&found. Please
> elaborate what is wrong and what you want.
Ahh sorry, thought it was "Quite Clear"!!! When I click on the Fedora
Application Launcher in the left-hand corner, I get a list of things to
start grouped as "recently started", "applications" & "actions".
Normally(!!) Firefox came up in the "Applications" "Internet" setting, &
now is only to be found in "Applications""Lost and found""Firefox (Web
browser)", without an icon. It appears in the panel as a 'white page'
icon, rather than its normal orange Firefox icon.
What I'd like, is to move it out of the "lost & found" back into the
"Internet", and for the Orange Firefox icon to come back........
As ever. many thanks!
Dave
12 years, 2 months
Fedora 16 and Chromium
by Roger
Interesting problem inststalling chromium in Fedora 16
I get an error: chromium-15.0.874.106-1.fc16.x86_64 requires
libvpx.so.0()(64bit)
yum whatprovides reports: libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.i686 : VP8 Video Codec SDK
not the 64bit version.
I have Fedora 16 -x86_64 - Updates and Test Updates switched on in
software sources.
All software is reoported up to date.
I downloaded libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm
<ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Pac...>
from http://rpmfind.net/ but on install I get:
Local Install failed-- Can't install libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64(1).rpm
as no transaction.
I've run out of ideas, what does the error "no transaction" mean and how
can it be fixed please?
thanks in advance
Roger
12 years, 2 months
Re: libvpx issues, anyone?
by R. G. Newbury
On 02/04/2012 03:56 AM, Paul Smith<phhs80(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Roger<arelem(a)bigpond.com> wrote:
>>> >> Does anyone except me had problems today with updating their F16 systems?
>>> >> I seem to have dependency problems regarding ffmpeg-libs and/or libvpx. My
>>> >> repos are standard Fedora ones and rpmfusion. And 'yum clean all' did not
>>> >> help.
>>> >>
>> > Yes same here
> Another one in the same situation.
RPMFusion is probably not up to date yet. I ran into the same problem
updating and had three packages from atrpms have a dependency issue. I
thought it was a Fedora bug, but it was my error to not notice that the
packages were atrpms and not fedora's.
Wait till rpmfusion does a rebuild, or remove the packages from you box,
download the SRPMS and rebuild them against the updated base ( ie, do
what rpmfusion does). The Fedora Admin guide explains how. A skill worth
knowing, too.
Geoff
12 years, 2 months
ntpd
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
When I run system-config-services,
ntpd does not show up (and does not run), but if I do service ntpd start
then it shows up in the list of service.
How can I make it run automatically after a reboot?
Thank.
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The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516
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12 years, 2 months
IP address incorrectly assigned on boot
by Geoffrey Leach
A system on my local network (pvr) has its IP address in /etc/hosts
geoff@pvr[1]->cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
localhost4.localdomain4
192.168.10.2 pvr.mtranch.com pvr
192.168.10.3 mtranch.mtranch.com mtranch
192.168.10.1 Netgear
198.168.20.5 Homerun
Netgear router accessed from pvr via wireless. It has the address
192.168.10.2 reserved and assigned to pvr. Worked fine. Today after
booting up the latest kernel, (3.2.2-1.fc16.i686.PAE), the IP address
has changed to 192.168.10.5:
geoff@pvr[2]->ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AE:5D:BA:91:67:2D
inet addr:192.168.10.5 Bcast:192.168.10.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::ac5d:baff:fe91:672d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
you'll note that it is 192.168.10.5
Not surprisingly, I can't ssh 192.168.10.2, but I can ssh 192.168.10.5
Question: where is this (dynamic?) assignment taking place?
12 years, 2 months
How do I get half my KDE panel back????
by DB
Hi guys & gals,
Sorry to bother you with what must be a dead simple thing, but which is
bigger than me at the moment!
I'm using F15 KDE, & until a week or so ago I had in the right hand part
of my Panel the icons for the programs I most use & in the left-hand
half, were tags (right titlee??) of any running programs. Somehow, I've
managed to erase/remove the left-hand part & I can't find out how to get
it back!!!
Please can someone tell me a) what this left-hand part of the panel is
called & b) how to get it back???
BTW, if anyone knows where/how to get the proper icon for Firefox back &
how to put it back into "Internet" from "Lost & found", I'd be grateful!!!!
Thanks to you all for any help
Dave
12 years, 2 months
