changing GDM background image on F12
by Fred Smith
Hi!
I've looked thru the forums and done some googling but I don't see an
answer THAT WORKS for this question:
How to change the default GDM background/wallpaper to some other image?
I've tried all the things listed in the forums and none of them works,
including (but not limited to) copying the image I want into
/usr/share/backgrounds/images then running this command:
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --set --type string "/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename" "/usr/share/backgrounds/images/Fistmaster.FullHD.0190.jpg"
having done that either log off or reboot and voila! no change at all! :(
Thanks in advance.
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14 years, 3 months
KDE menus slow to appear when using VNC, but OK local
by Lets Go Canes
Hi all.
I am having a problem on a laptop where the KDE "kickoff application launcher" takes several seconds to appear after it is clicked - 30 to 40 seconds would be typical. The same problem exists with the "lock screen" and "shutdown/logout" widgets that I have added to the taskbar. The problem only occurs over VNC - it does not occur when logged-in to the laptop directly.
The problem would seem to be similar to the one discussed at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=234227 , with the following differences:
o problem occurs on a VNC display, but not on the laptop's LCD
o system uses the radeon driver, not nvidia
o system has xorg-x11-server-Xorg.i686 and xorg-x11-server-common.i686 1.7.4-1.fc12 installed (I tried 1.7.4-4, but it didn't fix the problem, and "broke" the laptop display)
Has anyone else seen anything similar, or have any suggestions?
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14 years, 3 months
Disk usage error
by William John Murray
Hello all,
Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk
partition of 65GB in LVM; df says:
/dev/dm-0 65570580 60494828 1744888 98% /
However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in it
add up to 30Gb or so. As it is my root directory, and there are various
others it is a little difficult to get the total, so I booted under
liveUSB and saw exactly the same - 30Gb used, but 98% full.
So something is stealing half my disk. If I try to write more it is
out of space.
Any ideas how I get my space back? fsck reports the disk is clean.
Thanks,
Bill
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14 years, 3 months
random lockups when using Firefox
by Julian C. Dunn
Hi,
I have a F12 box that periodically locks up solid when visiting certain
Flash-based sites in Firefox. There are usually no odd messages found in
/var/log/messages to indicate what went wrong, except a couple of days
ago, after a crash, I found this:
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm:radeon_fence_wait] *ERROR*
fence(f1045aa0:0x00000507) 942ms timeout going to reset GPU
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] RB2D reset succeed
(RBBM_STATUS=0x80010140)
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] CP reset succeed
(RBBM_STATUS=0x00000140)
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] radeon: cp idle (0x10000000)
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000020000000
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] GPU reset succeed
(RBBM_STATUS=0x00000140)
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm:radeon_fence_wait] *ERROR*
fence(f1045aa0:0x00000507) 954ms timeout
(etc.)
My video card is a:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60
[Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
Could there be some bug with the radeon driver that is causing this?
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14 years, 3 months
Add Xfce desktop & apps in Fedora 12
by JayLinux
On a new Fedora 12 install how can one add libraries and applications
for Xubuntu (i.e. add the Xfce Desktop with it's apps) ? Am using
GNOME as the desktop presently.
Thanks,
Jay
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14 years, 3 months
RaLink rt3090 support
by Colin Brace
Hi all,
I installed F12 on a Eee PC 1001HA. Everything workes fine except the
wireless chipset, RaLink RT3090
Google turned up various leads, such as this thread:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=236729
One poster writes:
"Kernel-2.6.32-0.63.rc8.git2.fc13 includes a module for the rt3090 chip in
the staging directory."
Another writes:
"Fedora's kernel package contains some of the staging modules. I don't know
what criteria they have for choosing what staging modules get into the
Fedora package. Most likely the rt3090 got in the 2.6.32-0.63.rc8.git2.fc13
package by accident. You can file a bug in bugzilla.redhat.com and ask them
to reinclude it.
Meanwhile rpmfusion offers a kmod-staging package that you can try, which
covers (most of) those staging modules that don't come with Fedora's
kernel."
Someone filed a bug against this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548805
One of the followups indicates:
Staging: remove no longer needed rt3090 driver
rt2860 handles now all rt2860/rt3090 chipsets.
Now I am thoroughly confused. :)
>From Fusion, I installed kmod-staging:
kmod-staging-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686-2.6.31.5-2.fc12.10.i686
staging-kmod-addons-2.6.31.5-2.fc12.noarch
kmod-staging-2.6.31.5-2.fc12.10.i686
as well as the rt2860 driver:
kmod-rt2860-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686-2.1.2.0-3.fc12.12.i686
rt2860-2.1.2.0-2.fc12.noarch
However, when I rebooted the Eee, the wireless card still isn't recognized.
What are my options at this point?
Wait for 2.6.32 kernel? Will it make it into F12 or not until F13?
Try to install via kmod-staging? Not sure how, can't find any man page or
docs anyway.
Compile the driver myself? Version dd 27 january, source:
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
Install rawhide? Not crazy about that idea.
Thanks.
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14 years, 3 months
Problems with network speed setup in F12
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
in f11 I had a line into /etc/rc.d/rc.local to force speed/duplex/autoneg:
/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off >> /tmp/ethtool.log 2>&1
In F12 I see that this setting is not maintained.
After I log in in Gnome I see that:
[root@tekkaman ~]# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Half
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
Link detected: yes
The log file has timestamp of my boot time, so that I know it was
actually executed.
If I run it manually it succeeds and I get now:
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: off
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
Link detected: yes
but after some minutes I get again:
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Half
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
Link detected: yes
So there is something external that manage this kind of changes.
Some questions:
- network guys say me that switch port is fixed at 100/full (it is a
gigabit ethernet) so, if this is true, even in autoneg there is an
error in getting settings
- what is the component that changes the settings? I walked through NM
applet to edit connections but I don't see any parameter....
Hw is a Dell laptop XPX M1330 with updated F12 x86_64
lspci for network card gives:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M
Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell XPS M1330
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31
Memory at f1bf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Capabilities: [e8] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-1d-09-ff-fe-3d-82-50
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3
Strange thing is that after booting the laptop less that 4 hours ago,
with dmesg I get these messages:
tg3.c:v3.99 (April 20, 2009)
tg3 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
tg3 0000:09:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
tg3 0000:09:00.0: PME# disabled
eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95906) rev c002] (PCI Express) MAC address
00:1d:09:3d:82:50
eth0: attached PHY is 5906 (10/100Base-TX Ethernet) (WireSpeed[0])
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[0]
eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
...
tg3 0000:09:00.0: PME# disabled
alloc irq_desc for 31 on node 0
alloc kstat_irqs on node 0
tg3 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Bridge firewalling registered
virbr0: starting userspace STP failed, starting kernel STP
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
--------------------------->>>> this I think is about my rc.local
command
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
type=1305 audit(1264148879.894:25902): audit_enabled=0 old=1
auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=kernel res=1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
...
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
So I have many link down messages and (apparently) renegotiation tthat
then gives 100/half
Any suggestions???
BTW I have libvirtd started but no vm created
Thanks in advance,
Gianluca
14 years, 3 months
radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.
by Tom Horsley
My poor system at work generated this bug shortly after
I installed f12 on it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541387
I had hoped that over time, the drivers would improve,
but since the updates of about a week ago, the crashes
have been much more dramatic and frequent, so much
so that I've had to go back to my fedora 11 partition
because I couldn't get any work done due to the
frequency of crashes on fedora 12.
Is there a list anywhere of the video cards that
are actually used by X developers on the machines they
need to be up all the time? Switching to a card from that
list seems like it would be a good idea :-).
Is there any remote chance that AMD/ATI are ever going
to produce a catalyst driver that can be built on the
fedora 12 kernel? It might work better...
14 years, 3 months
Yum update crashes
by Jim
FC12-X86_64/KDE
Yum update is crashing.
I did a yum clean all, but that doesn't help.
]# yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
fedora/primary_db
| 12 MB 00:39
google-chrome
| 951 B 00:00
google-chrome/primary
| 1.8 kB 00:00
google-chrome
3/3
livna
| 2.4 kB 00:00
livna/primary_db
| 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free
| 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free/primary_db
| 344 kB 00:05
rpmfusion-free-updates
| 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db
| 159 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree
| 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree/primary_db
| 91 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
| 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/primary_db
| 40 kB 00:00
updates/metalink
| 14 kB 00:00
updates
| 4.4 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db
| 3.7 MB 00:16
Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
14 years, 3 months
