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Did I really install Kmod-Nvidia ?
by gilpel＠altern.org 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

There are all sorts of instructions as to how to install Kmod-Nvidia on Fedora, but I thought yum would do a better job of guessing my configuration (x86_64, 9400 GT) to get the most up-to-date correct package and getting everything right. So, I just typed: yum install kmod-nvidia Now, /etc/X11/xorg.conf looks like this: # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection The file is only a few minutes old... So, I suppose it's a new config for the Kmod driver. But the process was so transparent, I can't help but wonder if all those modifications to the kernel that I read about in the doc have been made. If so, why not provide the documentation that all that is needed is to type the yum command? The Nouveau driver worked very well and, since I'm not too sure I'll install 3D, maybe I could have kept it. But my screen kept blanking once in a while for a few seconds. This happened with my previous computer too -- it had an old ATI card, the same monitor and a very standard open source driver for ATI -- but not so often and not for so long: it was just a quick blank. I thought this might fix the problem. Also, I intend to install a TV card and, it anything doesn't work, I'm sure the first suggestion from Nvidia will be to install their driver. As the material I buy is only on a one week money back guarantee, I prefer to make sure everything works in advance. Also, as it often happens when I download new packages, there was a socket error and a long (~ 1-2 min) halt before another server took over. (I forgot to save the console screen before I rebooted, but the name "liberty" was part of it.) After the installation finished, the rx/tx light of the modem began flashing very fast as if there was a download occuring... or maybe an upload if some information on the installation has to be sent back to rpmfusion or nvidia. No indication of what was going on appeared onscreen. Is this anything to be concerned about? Any idea What this transfer was about?

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Re: Getting more juice from a preamp?
by Antonio Olivares 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> wrote: > From: gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> > Subject: Getting more juice from a preamp? > To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com > Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10:34 PM > I listen to sound on my system with > headphones, so I only use the preamp. > > This aft, I was watching this feature on the cause of > Beethoven's death: > > http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2008-2009/Reportage.asp?idD… > > but the sound is a bit weak. You don't miss anything, but > you feel you > have to be very attentive. Maybe they wanted to make you > feel like you're > getting deaf yourself :) > > I checked alsamixer, but volume control is maxed out. Is > there any other > control somewhere else? Anything in alsactl or pulseaudio, > for instance? > > Thnaks! > > -- Try the following: $ alsamixer -c0 then $ pavucontrol after adjusting those to your preference save your settings with $ su -c '/sbin/alsactl store' put in your password and settings should be saved for next reboot, ***unless*** an update(s) breaks your configuration and let us hope that those things don't happen :) Regards, Antonio

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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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Tablet hardware
by Florian Weimer 09 May '15

09 May '15

Is there any tablet-like hardware which is well-supported by Fedora 20 and later? Something with a high-resolution display? I don't need 3D acceleration beyond what's needed to run a typical desktop environment, but I'd like to have lots of RAM, a bit of CPU power (perhaps even a current Core i7) and an SSD with decent read speed.

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RPM build error
by Ranjan Maitra 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hello, I am trying to build an RPM for sylfilter available at http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylfilter/src/sylfilter-%{?version}.tar.gz with the attached .spec file but I get the following errors: ..... error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/include/sylfilter/bayes-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/blacklist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-gdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-qdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-sqlite.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-manager.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-utils.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/ngram-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/textcontent-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/whitelist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/wordsep-filter.h /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.a /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.la /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0 /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0 RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/include/sylfilter/bayes-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/blacklist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-gdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-qdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-sqlite.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-manager.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-utils.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/ngram-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/textcontent-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/whitelist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/wordsep-filter.h /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.a /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.la /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0 /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0 Not sure what the issue is, but wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features! Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more!

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f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds
by Branko Grubic 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

This is about Fedora 21 which is still not released!!! Please read carefully. And it is only default on Workstation image (that is what I know) There is a new feature introduced in Gnome and NetworkManager which allows 'Captive Portal'[1] services to work. This may be useful feature for some users (that is why it is implemented), but most users won't use it, and it pings fedora servers every '300seconds', it is enabled by NetworkManager and 'NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora' << (package/config file) which is default installed in Workstation image only (currently, unless someone explicitly pull it in for other live images), 'gnome-shell' package only depends on it. Because I'm not a security expert, I don't want to say this is security issue, but privacy issue to some level (probably not critical), as I understand it, no more information than request to get a file is being sent (so only your 'IP' is exposed)), It currently uses HTTP to communicate with fedora servers, but it is planed to use HTTPS [2], without that you cannot verify who serves that file? (n00b here). At the moment users aren't aware of this feature, and most users probably never will find it working in the background, but I think it shouldn't be enable by default silently, so I filed a 'fesco' ticket for it [3] (PLEASE DON'T SPAM ON FESCO TICKET!, keep discussion here as much as it is possible) Please don't turn this thread to something which it shouldn't be. Be constructive. I don't want to insult anyone, just want this to be discussed, and features like this to be discussed/announced with/to users and developers in future. (English is not my native language, I learned some basics from reading/writing/listening, so, sorry for mistakes) [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal [2] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135777 [3] - https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1337

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help writing a service file for dropbox
by SternData 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

There's an init.d file for Dropbox for non-GUI servers. I'd like to use drobpox as a way to understand systemd a little better. In the init.d file, it pulls in a list of users from /etc/sysconfig. I'm trying to figure out how to do something like that with a service file. My dropbox.service file is: cat /etc/systemd/system/dropbox.service --------------------------------------- [Unit] Description=Dropbox as a system service [Service] ExecStart=/home/sdstern/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd User=sdstern # 'LANG' might be unnecessary, since systemd already sets the # locale for all services according to "/etc/locale.conf". # Run `systemctl show-environment` to make sure. Environment=LANG=en_US.utf-8 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target --------------------------------------- Ideally, I'd look at a list of users entered in a file in /etc/sysconfig and loop through ExecStart and User for each user, substituting the user name for "sdstern" on each. So, pointers on how to do things like this in a .service file? -- -- Steve

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Google Account in GNOME
by Dave Cross 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Soon after I installed Fedora 20 I used the online accounts config panel to set up my Google account. This worked well for several months. A few weeks ago, I changed my Google account password. Ever since then, GNOME keeps prompting me for my Google account password - but it won't accept either the new password or the old one. I just have to cancel the dialog box. I've tried removing the account and adding it back, but it still won't accept the password. Every time I wake the system from sleep, I get a dialog box asking for my Google account password which I have to cancel. Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how I can fix this? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave(a)dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg

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