power managerment very cool
by Neal Becker
After today's update I have gnome power manager applet in my kde panel. I
just tested setting it to suspend when lid closed, and it worked nicely.
Just 1 bug:
When resumed, the applet said there was a problem with suspend (or was it
resume), but I don't see any problemm.
Now, can we integrate this functionality with the kde power management
applet?
18 years, 1 month
Benchmarking OS's
by Justin Conover
What are some good test to run to benchmark OS's on the same hardware?
Not trying to flame Solaris or anything, but I'm curious because I run
several *nix's on my box, and Rawhide always seems to visually/perception of
running the fastest, and Solaris(nevada/opensolaris) seems to perform the
worst.
So I would like to run some test to find out if my perceptions are all
biased :)
18 years, 1 month
Re: xorg-x11-xkbdata, xkbdata, xkeyboard-config and you
by Mike A. Harris
Mike A. Harris wrote:
> This should resolve various keyboard quirks that have been reported
> in different components throughout FC5 testing, but may introduce
> a few new bugs too. Overall, since it is the only maintained
> xkbdata however, even if there are a few bumps, they'll be ironed
> out via modular package updates easily enough, unlike the situation
> we'd have if we shipped the X.Org xkbdata and let it rot.
>
> Hope your keyboards all do the happy dance now.
Update:
Some backward compatible options were disabled in the
xorg-x11-xkbdata-1.0.1-5 build which contains xkeyboard-config.
This has caused some problems for various users, and has been
fixed in the 1.0.1-6 release. If you are experiencing any problems
with the 1.0.1-5 release, before filing a bug report in bugzilla,
please update to the -6 release, which can be found at:
xorg-x11-xkbdata-1.0.1-6 is now available for download via ftp at the
following URL: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable
After updating to -6, and restarting X, if you still have problems,
please search bugzilla to see if it has been reported already or not
(we get a lot of dupes for things like this, please help to limit
them), and if nobody's reported it yet, please file a new bug and
we'll go from there.
Thanks again to all the people testing FC5 development!
--
Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca
Proud Canadian.
18 years, 1 month
Kdump warning on startup
by Mike Leahy
Hello list,
Does anyone know anything about a warning message that appears during
the FC5T3 startup sequence related to a kdump kernel image not being
found. It looks like this:
No kdump kernel image found. [WARNING]
I also noticed this warning whenever I booted FC5T2. I tried restarting
the kdump service, and I get the same message. Since it is only a
warning, and didn't seem to cause any problems, I've ignored it so far.
I'm just wondering if this is something that is fixable, or if I
should just continue ignoring it. I searched around online, but I
haven't found anything specifically related to this warning posted anywhere.
Mike
18 years, 1 month
GLX with the nv driver
by Jonathan Berry
On 3/1/06, David Timms <dtimms(a)bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Jonathan Berry wrote:
> > Are you able to run glxgears with the nv (open-source) driver? It
> > does not work for me (x86_64 PCI-e 6600 GT):
>
> Yes, the above slow results are with nv (ie default installer chosen
> driver / config) - there is no error, however it appears that the gears
> are not being clearly updated on the screen; CPU use goes to 100% but I
I think this is normal. It's the same effect as when looking at a
car's wheels and it looks like the wheels are rotating backwards. The
gear rotation rate is at just the right speed relative to everything
else to where they don't appear to move as much as they do. In FC4
with the nvidia driver, I get around 11,000 FPS and it appears that
the gears stutter a little.
> think that would be normal :)
Yes, 100% CPU usage is normal.
> from /var/log/X log:
> (II) LoadModule: "nv"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
> (II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.1
> Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
> ...
> (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
> ...
> (--) Chipset GeForce FX 5600 found
> ...
> (II) NV(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
> Screen to screen bit blits
I get the same messages in my log (except mine is a 6600 GT). I
wonder what the difference is. Yours is 32-bit arch, right? Is your
card a PCI, AGP, or PCI-e card? Mine is 64-bit arch, PCI-e card.
Perhaps it is time for a bug report.
Jonathan
18 years, 1 month
Desktop responsiveness and swappiness
by Brian C. Huffman
All,
I hate to open up this can of worms....b/c I know that it's been
discussed in depth before, but what is the current sense as far as
swappiness settings for desktop machines and in specific laptops?
I have just gone back and read a lot of the emails regarding this
including the ones from Andrew Morton where he says that he runs his own
desktop machines with a swappiness of 100.
Unfortunately, there are a couple of differences for me: 1) I'm using a
laptop and the drive is generally slower than desktops and 2) I don't
often (if ever) compile a kernel so I'm not looking for a faster
long-term experience (as with compiles). I'm looking for snappiness and
low latency on *any* apps that I have loaded on the desktop: window
manager (metacity), firefox, openoffice, evolution, and even VMWare.
So what are the thoughts / experiences of others? I've just set my
swappiness to 10 from 60 and it *appears* to me that things are snappier
and open quicker. I'll have to watch this long term to see if my
initial impressions are accurate.
Also, would the choice of IO scheduler matter here? I see that CFQ is
the default.
Thanks,
Brian
18 years, 1 month
initscripts, xen and bonding
by Axel Thimm
Hi,
I'm having a hard time getting bonding to work on FC5t3. It looks like
the bond0 interface bond0 is renamed to pbond0 by xen [*] and the
enslaving does not work anymore then. It works if I log on the
terminal and ifenslave the devices to pbond0 instead of bond0 after
the boot process has finished.
But I want this to be handled automatically during reboots, so I tried
assigning the bonding slaves to pbond0 as a master in the
ifcfg-eth{0,1} scripts, but that doesn't work.
What is causing the bond0 rename and should this renaming be
considered by initscript? Is this a user error or should I file this
against bugzilla? xen or initscripts?
Thanks!
[*] The only reference I found was a Japanese site and google's
translation of it.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://hoop.euqset.or...
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
18 years, 1 month
Using LIRC in FC5
by Brian Anderson
Can someone give some directions on how to use lirc in FC5. I've
googled for help, but all the howto's seem to discuss lirc-* kernel
modules which I cannot found even when building from the source RPM. I
have T42p laptop with an IR port and I was hoping to have it recieve
input from a TV remote.
Thanks for any pointers.
--
. __o Brian "la lumaca"
_`\<,_
(*)/ (*)
18 years, 1 month
What is beagle supposed to find?
by Gerry Tool
The GUI menu item Places > Search has replaced the older working Places
> Find Files or some such name. The old one always located files on my
computer if I entered a partial file name.
The current Search app, beagle, seems to be useless.
[gerry@fc5t3 ~]$ rpm -q beagle
beagle-0.2.1-12
I have preferences set to index my home directory and the system
root, /. If I enter fedora as the search string in the Find: box, I
first get a message that nothing was found, and then after a wait of
about 20 seconds, all I get is references to messages held in Evolution
for this mailing list.
If I cd to my home directory and execute
grep -R fedora *
I get many results of files containing the string fedora.
If I execute
locate fedora
I get many files with fedora in the name.
How is one supposed to use beagle to find these things?
I would really like to see this tool be useful.
Thanks.
Gerry
18 years, 1 month
Postgresql on FC5T3
by Uno Engborg
How do I get postgresql to work in FC5T3. I don't seam to figure out
how this new alternative
system is supposed to work. Could sombody provide a hint?
Regards
Uno Engborg
18 years, 1 month
