Touch Pad Sensitivity
by Lovell Mcilwain
Hello All,
Is there a way that I can decrease the tap sensitivity or turn off the
tap option on my touch pad?
I am having this annoying problem that when I am typing my palm or some
part of my hand brushes up against the touch pad and starts me typing in
another part of the text that I have already typed. I thought I could
live with it but I really can't :) . I tried changing my typing so my
wrists are up higher but no luck. So now I would like to try turning
off the tap option (if there is a way to do that) and see if I am better
off without it.
I am using Fedora Core 4 on a Compaq Presario R3000
Thanks,
Lovell
18 years, 6 months
Installation Question
by Ali Helmy
Hey All,
I'm just rather new to FC4, so bare with me please if this question is
rather dumb & silly. I have a Windows XP Professional system, that boots
directly from the HDD, now I have downloaded the FC4 DVD image from the
website, and can mount it on a virtual DVD-ROM, like Daemon Tools.
Now, I do not have a DVD or CD writer, so is it possible that I can install
FC4 without having to burn those images, or is it absolutely impossible?
Thanks
--
A. Helmy
18 years, 6 months
Re: Compusa 54MB Wireless G PC Card for Fedora4
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
mcfreemind(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Hi --
>
> Fedora newbie just bought this PC card for hp omnibook 6000 notebook
> installed with Fedora 4.
> I've searched through google and
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html but
> haven't found related info yet. Appreciate any info on how to make it
> work.
>
> Thanks.
>
> !DSPAM:438a5275288957693863866!
Make sure you have updated to the latest kernel. The original FC4
kernel had fairly minimal PCMCIA card support. Try putting the card in
and do a "lspci -v" as root. You should see something like:
04:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism
GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Netgear WG511 Wireless Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 177
Memory at 52000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
somewhere in the spewage along with similar information for every other
device that hangs off of your notebook's PCI bus. Dig around for the
wireless adapter. Then you get to start hunting for a Linux wireless
LAN driver for the card. Google is your friend.
If you can't find a native Linux driver, look into ndiswrapper.
ndiswrapper lets you use the Windoze driver by providing a "wrapper"
module. The livna repository does a good job of keeping the FC4 rpm
current with the latest kernel. If you want to learn more, the project
is hosted on sourceforge.
Dave
18 years, 6 months
PostgreSQL fails on boot, but works fine after logging in...?
by Mike Leahy
Hello list,
I'm not sure if my problem is due to updates, but this problem does
coincide with the 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 kernel update. On reboot, I noticed
that my PostgreSQL database service fails. However, after I login to
the Gnome desktop, I can execute /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start in a
conosle, and it works fine. What could cause this anomaly?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Mike
18 years, 6 months
x86_64 browsers
by Graham Campbell
I am the proud owner of a new dual core AMD 64-bit system and am
fighting to get it into shape to replace my old system. I am currently
fighting the browser plug-in situation. Is there any tutorial,
white-paper or the like that someone can point me to to do this?
Alternatively how do I create a 32-bit browser?
--
Graham Campbell <gc1111(a)optonline.net>
18 years, 6 months
How to disable "acpi poweroff" in shutdown script?
by Petr Fischer
Hi, please, how to easily and systemically disable acpi poweroff
switching when calling "shutdown" in Fedora Core? (I need only "halt
state" after shutdown - for UPS workflow). Understand?
Thanks! pf
18 years, 6 months
Slow Writing to Lexar Jump Drive
by Charlie McVeigh
I have a 128 MB USB Lexar Jump Drive. It worked reliably for me for
close to a year. About a month ago it became painfully slow when
writing large files to it (both Fedora and Windows) - It takes about 24
minutes to write a 4.5 MB file to it. Read speed from the device
appears to be as fast as always.
I contacted Lexar and they suggested that I reformat the device with
FAT32 format. After reformatting to FAT32 read/write speed when using
Windows appears to be back to normal. However when automounted on my
FC3 desktop the write speed is still 24 minutes to write the same 4.5 MB
file. Fast on Windows slow on Fedora - any one have any suggestions?
Of course Lexar is no help when it comes to Linux.
18 years, 6 months
Sylpheed-Claws: how to continue getting a mail from a connection break?
by Strong
Sometimes when getting my mail from a server, the last one breaks the
connection so that after some time when I try to get it again, the
Sylpheed-Claws-1.9.15-1.fc4 gets the downloaded messages again. I want
to reduce the traffic, so don't want that that be the case. Tell me
please how I can do that? Thank You.
--
Best regards,
Strong.
18 years, 6 months
tightening ssh
by Claude Jones
I've been reading up, and talking up, various security strategies. One thing
that is striking to me in looking at logs for my servers are the endless ssh
probes that go on. It appears to be one of the most common. Up till recently,
I had dealt with this by using firewall rules to allow ssh access only to
selected ip addresses - to all others, the port appears closed (I checked
this with port scans). Now, I must change strategies. I need to give access
to an associate who gets his dsl ip address via dhcp, so it's always
changing. I'm not quite ready to try port knocking, so, the other suggestion
I read over and over is to provide ssh on a non-standard port. So, I throw
this out to the collective experience - what's your take on that strategy?
Won't simple scans reveal the existence of ssh access on a non-standard port?
Is this really much protection? Is it merely a question of reducing odds?
--
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
18 years, 6 months
Tape drive
by Matt Morgan
Can anyone recommend a tape drive that meets these requirements?
1) easy to get working in Fedora Core 3 & 4
2) reliable
3) works fine with Amanda
4) stores 200+ Gb on a tape or single set of tapes
If it's easy and obvious how to eject and insert tapes, that's a plus,
since this is going to be in a location without any real techies.
Thanks!
18 years, 6 months
