DPI in intel modesetting driver
by Leo
Hi all,
[A thread started by me in xorg mailing list on setting a 96x96 DPI:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/14115]
So far I haven't got any decent solution. Passing an argument to X or
adding a 'Monitor' section in xorg.conf seems backwards. Thus I think
it deserves to be fixed by autodetecting i.e. DPI should come out
correctly by system-config-display.
Could anyone run `xdpyinfo|grep resolution' to see if your DPI is set
correctly? Since gnome will adjust it to 96x96, you won't see any
difference no matter what value you get. But in other WMs, you will
see the difference for example, the font size could appear to be too
large or too small.
Mine is:
,----[ xdpyinfo|grep resolution ]
| resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
`----
Thanks.
--
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
17 years, 3 months
SCALE To Host Women in Open Source Mini Conference
by Gareth J. Greenaway
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles, CA
January 2, 2007
The Southern California Linux Expo announces plans to a 'Women In Open Source'
Mini-conference. The goals of the conference are to encourage women to use
technology and open source and free software, and to explore the obstacles
that women face in breaking into the technology industry. The audience will
be those women who may have an interest in technology, but hesitate to get
into it because they believe it's a male-only club. The conference will be
held in conjunction with the Fifth Annual So Cal Linux Expo, at the Westin
LAX Hotel. The 'Women in Open Source' mini-conference will be held February
9th.
If you are interested in speaking, there are still speaker slots available.
Contact Gareth Greenaway (gareth(a)socallinuxexpo.com) with your talk proposal.
About the Southern California Linux Expo:
The Southern California Linux Expo is the premier grass roots Linux and Open
Source Software conference in the United States. SCALE 5x, their fifth annual
event, will be held on February 10th and 11th, 2007 at the Los Angeles
Airport Westin hotel. SCALE will include seminars by leaders from the open
source community, tutorials for beginners, and an exhibit hall with both
vendor booths and non-commercial booths.
Linux Expo of Southern California, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose
members are currently comprised of, but not limited to, members of the SCLUG,
USCLUG, and UCLALUGs.
For more information see http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
Call For Papers Submissions:
gareth(a)socallinuxexpo.org
Media Inquiries:
Orv Beach
info(a)socallinuxexpo.org
1.877.831.2569 ext 120
Attendance Information:
Gareth J. Greenaway
gareth(a)socallinuxexpo.org
1.877.831.2569 ext 130
--
Gareth J. Greenaway | g(a)socallinuxexpo.org
Voice - 877-831-2569 x130
Southern California Linux Expo
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
17 years, 3 months
Re: FC6 on a HP DC7700
by Gianluca Sforna
On 1/3/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson(a)georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 12:31 AM +0000 1/3/07, T Swan wrote:
> >Gianluca Sforna <giallu <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> On 11/26/06, Gianluca Sforna <giallu <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >>
> >> with acpi=off I can reach anaconda, but the slowness is there despite
> >> I'm not using anymore PS/2 peripherals
> >>
> >> I hope this is somewhat useful...
> >>
> >
> >After a BIOS flash, my dc7700 will run w/ or w/o acpi enabled, but it
> >feels like it is running at 300MHz or less.
> >
> >Starting udev takes almost 5 minutes.
>
> Review the BIOS settings? Mine can get into a "safe mode" if it thinks
> booting failed, and that includes lowering the CPU clock speed as well as
> making the memory slower.
Are you saying you are running a Core 6 on a DC7700 without problems?
17 years, 3 months
musicpd
by Jarosław Górny
Hi,
sorry if the question should be sent somewhere else:
Extras repository contains clients for musicpd (http://www.musicpd.org): mpc,
ncmpc, gmpc, but ther daemon itself ('mpd') is not present (neither in Extras
nor in Core).
it there a particular reason for that? Without mpd this clients are rather
unusable.
--
Jaroslaw Gorny
17 years, 3 months
Re: musicpd
by Paulo Cavalcanti
> The internal copy can be patched out, we do this for several other
> packages as well (audacious-plugins ships with
> audacious-plugins-fedora-x.x.x.tar.gz, which is the original tarball with
> problematic source removed.
In my oppinion, if a package cannot be supplied because of patent
issues, it should not be supplied at all. Let someone else do it.
Otherwise,it is very difficult for a person that is not using RedHat for a
long time
to be able to set up audio-video applications. A lot of pieces of code come
from different places.
Fedora uses Livna to supply parts of what cannot be given "officially".
This is one of the main reasons distributions, such as Ubuntu, became so
popular (it is so much easier ....)
/Paulo Roma.
17 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20060103 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
aspell-12:0.60.5-1.fc7
----------------------
* Tue Jan 02 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com> - 12:0.60.5-1
- update to 0.60.4
- cleanup spec file
* Wed Nov 08 2006 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com> - 12:0.60.4-1
- update to 0.60.4
* Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 12:0.60.3-7.1
- rebuild
autofs-1:5.0.1-0.rc2.41
-----------------------
* Wed Dec 27 2006 Ian Kent <ikent(a)redhat.com> - 5.0.1-0.rc2.41
- fix nonstrict multi-mount handling (bz 219383).
- correct detection of duplicate indirect mount entries (bz 220799).
cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-5
-------------------
* Tue Dec 05 2006 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.1.22-5
- rebuild
- add 'authentication' or 'auxprop' to summaries for plugin packages to
better indicate what the plugin provides
- switch from automake 1.9 to automake 1.7
dev86-0.16.17-4.fc7
-------------------
* Wed Dec 27 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 0.16.17-4
- bcc now searches in correct path for bcc-cpp on x86_64 (#219697)
* Tue Dec 05 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 0.16.17-3
- make the dev86 spec less tragic -> use macros, don't conflict
on multiarches, add URL, fix BuildRoot, fix rpmlint warnings
eclipse-cdt-1:3.1.1-6.fc7
-------------------------
* Mon Dec 11 2006 Jeff Johnstont <jjohnstn(a)redhat.com> 3.1.1-6
- Rebase autotools to 0.0.6 source.
evolution-2.9.4-4.fc7
---------------------
* Sat Dec 30 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.9.4-4.fc7
- Add Requires evolution-data-server-devel to devel subpackage
(RH bug #218889).
* Thu Dec 21 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.9.4-3.fc7
- Add patch for RH bug #218898 (viewing message source).
* Wed Dec 20 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.9.4-2.fc7
- Revise patch for RH bug #202751 (printing of indic languages).
fbset-2.1-23
------------
* Tue Jan 02 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com> - 2.1-23
- Fix man page syntax error
gcc-4.1.1-49
------------
* Tue Jan 02 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 4.1.1-49
- update from gcc-4_1-branch (-r120062:120325)
- PRs debug/26964, fortran/30200, libfortran/30145
- fix endless recursion in negate_expr/fold_unary (PR middle-end/30286)
- fix cpp problem on empty source files (Tom Tromey, PR preprocessor/30001)
- improve constructor disambiguation (Mark Mitchell, PR c++/28261,
PR c++/29535)
- fix handling of non-NULL attribute on nested functions (Andrew Pinski,
PR tree-opt/30045)
- fix ICE with friend templatized static member function (PR c++/29054)
gdb-6.5-22.fc7
--------------
* Sat Dec 30 2006 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil(a)redhat.com> - 6.5-22
- Fix unwinding crash on older gcj(1) code (extended CFI support) (BZ 165025).
- Include testcase for the readline history of input mode commands (BZ 215816).
gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.15-3.fc7
---------------------------------
* Sat Dec 30 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.15-3.fc7
- Remove Prereq: /sbin/install-info (RH bug #220520).
gnome-python2-2.16.2-5.fc7
--------------------------
* Sun Dec 31 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.16.2-5
- Bonobo subpackage requires pyorbit >= 2.0.1, not 2.0.l (RH bug #150885).
hal-cups-utils-0.6.3-1.fc7
--------------------------
* Tue Jan 02 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.6.3-1
- 0.6.3:
- Put PPD NickName in info line instead of just 'Added by HAL'.
- Don't add/remove new printer if one already exists with a matching URI.
* Sun Dec 17 2006 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Use 'hp:' URIs when appropriate (bug #175555).
- Added syslogging to hal_lpadmin.
kernel-2.6.19-1.2904.fc7
------------------------
* Mon Jan 01 2007 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.20rc3
* Mon Jan 01 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com>
- Fix fallout from half-baked upstream IBM vSCSI patch
* Mon Jan 01 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com>
- Fix BUG() in assembler in PowerPC
- Fix Maple IDE IRQ
m17n-db-1.3.3-44.fc7
--------------------
* Tue Jan 02 2007 Mayank Jain <majain(a)redhat.com>
- Resolves: Bug 221122: [hi_IN-remington] vowels in hi-remington are not typed correctly
net-tools-1.60-75.fc7
---------------------
* Wed Dec 27 2006 Radek Vokál <rvokal(a)redhat.com> - 1.60-76
- fix arp unaligned access (#220438)
netpbm-10.35-9.fc7
------------------
* Thu Dec 28 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 10.35-9
- pbmtog3 won't segfault on 64bit arches (#220739)
* Tue Dec 19 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 10.35-8
- remove bogus man pages (#220112, #220113)
- overflow2() no more conflicts with libgd.so (#216116)
- fix BuildRoot
* Thu Oct 12 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 10.35-7
- remove note about OSL 1 licensing from COPYRIGHT.PATENT file
policycoreutils-1.33.6-9.fc7
----------------------------
* Tue Jan 02 2007 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.33.6-9
- Fix fixfiles script to use tty command correctly. If this command fails, it
should set the LOGFILE to /dev/null
Resolves: #220879
psacct-6.3.2-42.fc7
-------------------
* Tue Jan 02 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com> - 6.3.2-42
- Resolves: 221069
(fix lastcomm man page)
- spec file cleanup
pygtk2-2.10.3-7.fc7
-------------------
* Sat Dec 30 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.10.3-7.fc7
- Add Requires pkgconfig to devel subpackage.
scim-bridge-0.4.9-1.fc7
-----------------------
* Tue Jan 02 2007 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 0.4.9-1
- update to 0.4.9
- fixes hanging agent processes (#210772)
- fixes movement of preedit with clicking (#217329)
- no longer need scim-bridge-0.4.8-qt-moc-path.patch and
scim-bridge-0.4.8-tests-dir-missing.patch
- protect update-gtk-immodules in %post and %postun
selinux-policy-2.4.6-21.fc7
---------------------------
* Mon Jan 29 2007 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.4.6-21
- Allow spamassassin to read var_lib_t dir
Resolves: #219234
* Fri Dec 29 2006 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.4.6-20
- fix mplayer to work under strict policy
- Allow iptables to use nscd
Resolves: #220794
* Thu Dec 28 2006 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.4.6-19
- Add gconf policy and make it work with strict
system-config-printer-0.7.45-1.fc7
----------------------------------
* Wed Jan 03 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.7.45-1
- Updated to pycups-1.9.17.
- 0.7.45:
- Fixed traceback in driver check.
* Tue Jan 02 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.7.44-1
- 0.7.44:
- Fixed traceback in error display (bug #220136).
- Preserve case in model string when dumping debug output.
tar-2:1.15.1-24.fc7
-------------------
* Wed Jan 03 2007 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com> 2:1.15.1-24
- supply tar man page (#219375)
uucp-1.07-13.fc7
----------------
* Wed Jan 03 2007 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com> 1.07-13
- spec file improvements (#220534)
vixie-cron-4:4.1-68.fc7
-----------------------
* Thu Dec 14 2006 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> - 4:4.1-68
- Patch to run vixie-cron with mls correctly
Broken deps for s390
----------------------------------------------------------
systemtap - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
systemtap-runtime - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
17 years, 3 months
Re: The cdrecord debate
by Paulo Cavalcanti
> for me it works using plextor 755A (as user and root). (but have not tested
with the current kernel release)
> but for some reason cdrecord -scanbus does not work:
You need to pass dev=ATA. The simplest way
is creating an alias like this, if you use tcsh:
alias cdrecord 'cdrecord dev=ATA \!*'
/Paulo Roma.
17 years, 3 months
Move Evolution to Extras?
by David Woodhouse
Evolution is fairly much broken in FC5, and there's little movement even
on the 'this mail crashes Evolution' bugs, let alone the "Evolution is
totally unusable with IMAP" bugs.
What are we going to do about it? One option might be to move it to
Extras in the hope that someone will actually start to look after it
there. Or perhaps just drop it entirely? Any better ideas? Volunteers?
--
dwmw2
17 years, 3 months
[Offtopic] Rather amusing diagram on wikipedia
by Konstantin Ryabitsev
There's an "organizational" diagram on wikipedia that seems a little
fishy to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project . I'm not up
to speed on the finer details of Fedora Project organizational chart,
but I believe that diagram is a little... random, especially seeing as
apparently the ultimate goal of everything Fedora Project does is RHEL
releases. :)
Maybe someone from the project who is familiar with the orgranization
cares enough to update the page?
Cheers,
--
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Montréal, Québec
17 years, 3 months
To NX or not to NX
by Ralf Ertzinger
Hi.
Looking through dmesg on my laptop, I noticed the following:
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
While this is certainly nice, the processor is quite capable of real
NX:
$ grep nx /proc/cpuinfo
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr
Is there a reason this is not used?
kernel is 2.6.19-1.2891, processor is a Intel Core Duo CPU L2400
17 years, 3 months