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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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installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found
by Caffeine Lee 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Hi everybody, I've installed Fedora 17 and trying to install Microsoft fonts from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ But I couldn't install *msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm* file because * chkfontpath* is missing. Please help me install them. Thank you Best regards, Hoang

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Weird freeze
by Joe Zeff 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Currently, my desktop's running F16, fully updated. Just a few minutes ago, I was reading my morning comics on-line when my box froze. Nothing responded. Even the second hand on my desktop clock stopped moving. Just as I was about to try for an alternate text console, it rebooted itself and seems to be fine. This is the third or fourth time I've had it lock up in the past few months, but the only time it's rebooted itself and, until I "upgraded" to F16 it never happened. I'm reporting this mostly to see if anybody else has had any similar issues, and if so, what version of Fedora they're using. Suggestions for diagnostics will be appreciated, but they'll have to be something I can do over ssh, as I'm about to leave for Chaos Manor, where I'll be house sitting while Jerry and Roberta visit their beach house.

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Debugging a system freeze?
by Christopher Svanefalk 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Recently I have been having problems with my machine completely freezing up seemingly randomly. The display freezes in its current frame, and all I/O is completely unresponsive. It is not possible to SSH into it at this stage (ssh fails with a Host Unreachable error). The only remedy is a manual reset. I was wondering how I could go about trying to figure out what is going on? What log files can I look at to figure out what happened just before the reset etc? Would be grateful for any help. My specs are the following: Fedora 17 standard desktop version, completely updated as of June 17, 2012. i7-3930K clocked at 4.2Ghz with 1.240 vcore (stable) Gigabyte X79-UD7 Nvidia GTX285 (main suspect, since it is provably broken. However, I have not had these problems earlier) SATA HDD from Seagate. -- Best, Christopher Svanefalk

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F16->17 preupgrade - does it handle the /usr move?
by Steve Dowe 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Hi folks, Pretty much as the subject says, I guess... I can't seem to find the definitive (or any) answer on the web site. The 'Upgrading Fedora using yum' section goes through the necessary steps using dracut. I'm assuming these steps are not required before running preupgrade in F16? Thanks, Steve -- Steve Dowe Warp Universal Limited http://warp2.me/sd

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F17: gnome fallback with intel 855GM
by Dave Mitchell 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Just installed F17 on an old laptop. Gnome 3 is coming up in fallback; is there any way to get Gnome shell instead? My Googling on on the subject seems to indicate that: * the Intel 8xx graphics have buggy 3D, so are blanket disabled in Gnome 3; * but that starting in F17, Gnome Shell should be able to work with 2D -- You live and learn (although usually you just live).

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Pulseaudio strikes again!
by David A. De Graaf 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the sound system? Ever since pulseaudio was introduced in Fedora 8 and Mr. Lennart Poettering inflicted his peculiar ideas of security on us, the default installation hasn't worked properly, despite many BZ's and copious complaints! Specifically, pulseaudio invents the "seat" and only the one person in the "seat" can use the sound system. This precludes having root, or anyone else, from generating sounds - presumably it's a security risk. Bosh! A simple workaround was found - remove the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, and edit /etc/group, adding everyone on the system to the audio group (what a nutty idea). That removed the restrictions and restored sanity. Root could even generate a login tune via the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script, before anyone had logged on. With F17, this escape hatch has been removed. With the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package absent, a simple command to play a sound yields a core dump: $ play /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg dsp_protocol_open_node(): Could not open pcm device file /dev/dsptask/pcm2 Segmentation fault (core dumped) The pcm device file is, indeed, absent from the file system. In fact, no sounds whatever can be generated by any of the standard methods I use. (Except that Windows running inside VirtualBox seems able to manage it.) To get any sound at all, I've had to reinstall the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, but this allows only me to generate sound and destroys my crontab-simulated grandfather clock, among other things. On an i386 netbook, F17 sound works fine, as it always has, with the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package removed. The play program doesn't complain about the absence of /dev/dsptask/pcm2, but just plays the sound. What new magic incantation is now required that I may be permitted to use my x86_64 sound system fully? -- David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC dad(a)datix.us www.datix.us

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powerdown restarts
by Geoffrey Leach 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

This problem has been submitted to Bugzilla (836657), but I thought I'd ask here to see if there are any fixes lurking. System is running 3.4.3-1.fc17.x86_64. When I systemctl poweroff the kernel reboots instead of powering off. Under Windows 7, power off works as expected. All packages are up-to-date. Any ideas?

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