Cannot control Screen Brightness - Fedora 20
by CS DBA
Hi All;
I have Fedora 20 installed on a Lenovo W540. I cannot control the
screen brightness via the Function F5/F6 keys, nor can I control it via
the system settings (KDE) --> Power Management settings...
Can anyone help me debug this?
Thanks in advance...
10 years, 2 months
Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue
by CS DBA
Hi All;
I'm switching from Mac back to Fedora, my new Fedora laptop is a Lenovo
W540 with this card:
Intel Dual Band Wireless 7260AC
I posted about issues earlier, which I've been able to resolve via a
clean install. The wireless and wired connections connect immediately
and behave as they should.
However, the Fedora laptop connected to my local access point shows a
download speed of 1.63Mbps, while the mac, running the same test from
the same site (http://speedtest.comcast.net) shows a download speed of
26.89Mbps
Both laptops are sitting on the same desk, same distance from the access
point
I don't expect exact matching speeds but this is a dramatic
difference... can anyone help me debug / correct this?
Thanks in advance
10 years, 2 months
poor font rendering in ffox on f18
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Running firefox v26.0 on f18 with xfce and trying to enjoy the new Ted
Talks, e.g.:
http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_wants_to_grow_energy.
Their new site pulls in its own fonts: helvetica-neue.
On Chrome it displays perfectly (or falls back to sans-serif???) but on
firefox it is extremely difficult to read. Using firebug I can force it
to use sans-serif, which does display nicely.
Here's the link to a screen capture:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19486401/neue.png
that shows the leading vertical edges of n,u,h,p don't display; x is
also broken.
Any idea where this bug lies? ff, f18? and how to force "sans-serif"
without doing it manually for each ted talk. Maybe a ted talk on how to
fix their choice of font ;D
Thanks for any suggestions,
Mike Wright
10 years, 2 months
VLC Media Player for F20?
by Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello,
I want to install the VLC Media Player on my F20. The VLC website is very
outdated and only has instructions up to F14, and they don't work for me.
Any advice? Thanks!
Best,
Oliver
--
Oliver Ruebenacker
Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics.com>
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
10 years, 2 months
re: VLC Media Player for F20?
by Hunter Jozwiak
----- Original Message -----
From: Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli(a)gmail.com
To: Community support for Fedora users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Date sent: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:24:08 -0400
Subject: VLC Media Player for F20?
Hello,
I want to install the VLC Media Player on my F20. The VLC
website is very
outdated and only has instructions up to F14, and they don't work
for me.
Any advice? Thanks!
Best,
Oliver
--
Oliver Ruebenacker
Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics.com
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
There may be a version in the ropositories that is up to date.
10 years, 2 months
Can I scale ONLY my primary monitor?
by CS DBA
Hi All;
I have a shiny new 1920x1080 screen on a laptop running Fedora 20.
I've gone into system settings (KDE) "system settings --> application
appearance --> Fonts" and set the "Force fonts DPI to 115 which I sortof
like on my laptop display but not so thrilled with it on the external
display(s) I use
Is there a way to scale ONLY the laptop / primary display?
Thanks in advance
10 years, 2 months
F20 KDE Synaptics tapping not working
by Mark Haney
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I just rebuilt my Samsung netbook with upped RAM and a new HDD.
Finally restored Win7 on it and did a clean install of F20. For some
reason now, my Synaptics touchpad doesn't let me tap to select items.
It's enabled in the settings, it just doesn't seem to want to work.
This is a KDE install of F20. I don't recall having any issues with
the touchpad before I did the clean install, but I rarely if ever use
the touchpad since I have a wireless USB mouse.
Any ideas on where to start with this?
- --
Mark Haney
Network/Systems Administrator
Practichem
W: (919) 714-8428
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.5-202.fc20.x86_64
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10 years, 2 months
can't boot F19 system
by Paolo Galtieri
Today I needed to power off one of my F19 systems. So I logged out and
selected shutdown from the top right button. Instead of powering off as I
expected, and was told it was going to do from the message that appeared on
the screen, much to my amazement it didn't. Instead it restarted and went
back to the login screen. This happened again when I tried it. So in
desperation I hit the power switch. Well now the system wont boot.
Instead it always goes to emergency mode.
I booted off a F19 DVD, went into troubleshooting and ran fsck on all the
file systems. They all came back clean - no errors, and yet I can't get it
to boot. I have hit the power switch to power off a system in the past
because it was so hung up I couldn't do anything else. Every time the
system has recovered, but not this time.
Anybody know what I need to do to get back to a working system?
This particular system is a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop.
Any assistance is appreciated.
Paolo
10 years, 2 months
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! after recent update of Fedora 20
by The Walters
After a recent update started seeing messages like what is listed below
and now complete lock up. Tried going back 1 or 2 kernels but same
issue. Wondering if this is a hardware problem? The system is a Dell
poweredge SC420 with an Intel P4 2.8 GHz processor. No special additions
to it.
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] BUG: soft lockup -
CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:0:21796]
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] Modules linked in:
cfg80211 rfkill nf_conntrack_netbios_ns ip6t_ipv6header ip6t_REJECT
nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_conntrack_broadcast nf_conntrack_ftp
nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack ip6table_filter
nf_conntrack ip6_tables tg3 iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support gpio_ich ppdev
dcdbas microcode serio_raw lpc_ich i2c_i801 ptp pps_core parport_pc
parport nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc i915 video ata_generic
i2c_algo_bit pata_acpi drm_kms_helper drm i2c_core pata_jmicron
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] CPU: 0 PID: 21796
Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 3.13.5-202.fc20.i686 #1
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] Hardware name: Dell
Inc. PowerEdge SC420 /0X3468, BIOS A01
01/28/2005
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] Workqueue: rpciod
xs_tcp_setup_socket [sunrpc]
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] task: f4d09680 ti:
dda8a000 task.ti: dda8a000
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] EIP: 0060:[<c0925cc1>]
EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] EIP is at
__inet_stream_connect+0xe1/0x2c0
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] EAX: 00000000 EBX:
ddb10580 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] ESI: e7609b00 EDI:
c0c7e800 EBP: dda8be78 ESP: dda8be48
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS:
00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] CR0: 8005003b CR2:
b7727000 CR3: 00d5e000 CR4: 000007d0
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] Stack:
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] 00000000 00000000
ffffff8d 00000000 c09abf83 dda8be78 dda8be6c c09ac020
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] 00000246 e7609b00
e650800c 00000010 dda8be90 c0925ecf 00000800 c0a2c1c0
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] 00000800 e65083a0
dda8bea4 c08abd69 00000800 00000000 00000000 dda8bf08
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] Call Trace:
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c09abf83>] ?
_raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x13/0x20
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c09ac020>] ?
_raw_spin_lock_bh+0x10/0x40
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c0925ecf>]
inet_stream_connect+0x2f/0x50
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c08abd69>]
kernel_connect+0x19/0x20
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<f86434a3>]
xs_tcp_setup_socket+0x223/0x610 [sunrpc]
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c09abf83>] ?
_raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x13/0x20
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c045d4ad>] ?
move_linked_works+0x4d/0x70
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c045dbad>] ?
pwq_activate_delayed_work+0x2d/0x70
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c045f605>]
process_one_work+0x115/0x380
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c045ef9d>] ?
destroy_worker+0x6d/0xa0
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c045ff55>] ?
manage_workers.isra.28+0x1a5/0x250
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c04600fe>]
worker_thread+0xfe/0x330
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c0460000>] ?
manage_workers.isra.28+0x250/0x250
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c04658b1>]
kthread+0xa1/0xc0
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c09b33f7>]
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x1b/0x28
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] [<c0465810>] ?
insert_kthread_work+0x30/0x30
Mar 13 18:07:27 localhost kernel: [536424.057006] Code: 45 dc 0f b6 43
12 ba 0c 00 00 00 0f a3 c2 0f 83 2e 01 00 00 80 bb e1 00 00 00 06 c7 45
d4 00 00 00 00 0f 84 72 01 00 00 8b 55 dc <8b> 45 d8 85 d2 0f 84 51 ff
ff ff 64 a1 94 e6 d4 c0 89 45 d0 8d
10 years, 2 months
