How to enable fingerprint reader on Fedora 20
by Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Hi all,
I have a Lenovo E430 with a fingerprint reader.
The lsusb report the unit as
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 147e:1002 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor
If I start the fprintd daemon, in the log I read:
Feb 23 22:40:15 pc-delo systemd: Starting Fingerprint Authentication Daemon...
Feb 23 22:40:15 pc-delo systemd: Started Fingerprint Authentication Daemon.
Feb 23 22:40:15 pc-delo fprintd: Launching FprintObject
Feb 23 22:40:15 pc-delo fprintd: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
Feb 23 22:40:15 pc-delo fprintd: ** Message: entering main loop
And, starting fprint_demo it doesn't recognize the input device.
I can see that there is a fingerprint project that support the Upek, but
I can't understand if fprintd support it and how to made it working.
Someone have the same device working, and how?
Bye
Ambrogio
10 years, 2 months
Using LightScribe on Linux???
by Fred Smith
I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from
other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use LightScribe to
label the discs.
well, I come to discover that LightScribe seems to have gone out of
fashion, and I can't find suitable software anywhere.
LaCie used to distribute software for Linux that reportedly worked
well, but I can't find it either,... it has disappeared from their
web site.
Can anyone point me to a site that may still have it? (or other
suitable substitute).
Thanks!
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -----------------------------
"For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his
glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior
be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before
all ages, now and forevermore! Amen."
----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) -----------------------------
10 years, 2 months
is there an advanced yum/rpm document/tutorial/manual?
by Robert P. J. Day
other than the standard, what i would call basic usage of rpm and
yum, is there a really comprehensive guide to package management on
fedora? it seems that once one gets beyond the basic tutorials for yum
and rpm, it gets harder to find decent coverage of the rest of the
utilities, like the commands in yum-utils like "repoquery" and so on.
is there a single place that tries to cover rpm/yum to this depth?
thanks.
rday
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http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
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10 years, 2 months
Fedora.next update + panel discussion video from DevConf
by Matthew Miller
Video from my presentation about Fedora.next (where it comes from, what it
means to address, why it's important, what we're doing, what you can do,
etc.) and the follow-up panel discussion moderated by Stephen Gallagher and
featuring FESCo WG liaisons (Stephen, Josh Boyer, Marcela Mašláňov, Phil
Knirsch, me):
<http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzd8cXxlZ8KOcJrNpkZx3trBjaStGIB0s>
I'm working on an article-style summary of this for Fedora Magazine, which
I'll also post to Fedora mailing lists for easier inline discussion, not to
mention faster skimming. But here's the video for now.
There are also a number of other incredibly-relevant and interesting
recordings from the conference at
<http://www.youtube.com/user/RedHatCzech/videos>, many about Fedora
directly, and others about interesting related open source software.
--
Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
10 years, 2 months
Help needed with xhost
by Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Hi all,
I use my laptop with a user (root in this case, but please don't say
"don't use root").
Sometimes I use to launch on terminal some commands with other users.
To permit to that commands to display on my screen I used "xhost +".
This worked well on my last laptop with fedra 14.
Now, on Fedora 20, if I use the same sequence, the command are unable to
open the display.
On root console the command xhost has this output
# xhost
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
SI:localuser:root
On the other terminal the command (amelu for example) returns
$ amule
Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?
I can't understand why but I would like to understand it.
Can someone explain to me this behaviour?
Tnx
Ambrogio
10 years, 2 months
HELP! System keeps locking up
by John Aldrich
Hello, all...
I'm running Fedora 20 on a homebrew PC It's an AMD Athlon X2 processor with an
on-board nVidia display chipset.
This is a fresh install of F20, pretty much up to date. I had to do a fresh
install since I mangled the upgrade from F18.
Every once in awhile, mainly when I'm trying to unlock the screen, the system
will freeze up. My display is a black background with "bits" of color in a
diagonal pattern.
I say "mainly when trying to unlock the screen" because I had it happen to me
this morning (third time in 24 hours) when I was thinking of trying a different
screen saver (been using Moebius Gears) on the thought that maybe the Noveau
driver doesn't like the GL screen saver for some reason.
Every time this happens I have to use the reset button on my system. This
morning when it happened, I had an SSH window from another PC logged in and it
was frozen as well.
I have checked /var/log/messages and there is nothing in there that would
indicate a problem. There was hardly anything in there since about 8PM last
night and it's locked up twice since then.
Suggestions/thoughts/theories???
I'm running XFCE, if it matters, but still using parts of KDE as well.
10 years, 2 months
Security Chip
by CS DBA
Hi All;
I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad W540,
the specs list this:
Security Chip 2 Security Chip Enabled
I plan to run Fedora 20 on it. Is this something I should be concerned
about? Can it be disabled in the bios?
Thanks in advance...
10 years, 2 months
CentOS and Fedora as alternative OS's
by Timothy Murphy
I tried to install Fedora-20 as a second OS on my CentOS-6.5 server,
purely as an experiment, but it was disastrously unsuccessful.
I used the same /boot partition for both,
assuming that Fedora would use /boot/grub2/ while CentOS used /boot/grub/,
so the two would not interfere with each other.
I shared the same /home partition between the two OS's.
I installed the Fedora / on a spare partition
from a Fedora KDE Live CD on a USB stick.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
10 years, 2 months
Annoying NetworkManager notifications
by Timothy Murphy
If NetworkManager (on my Fedora-20 KDE laptop) cannot link to my WiFi router
it puts out repeated notifications that the link is "de-activated".
These appear in small windows, one under the other,
filling a column in the centre of the screen
and covering the KDEWallet request which is the cause of the de-activation.
Most notifications of this kind disappear after a short period,
but the NM-notifications seems to last indefinitely,
until each one (there could easily be 20) is clicked.
Is there any way of stopping these notifications?
It is obvious to me if the link is down, as the WiFi LED does not flash,
so I don't actually need or want to be told.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
10 years, 2 months
