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xfree86 issues
by Chris Locke 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

I'm having problems with XF86. It will not let me run a resolution higher than 1024x768. I have a 19inch monitor so it is rather ugly. I have tried using different combination of drivers for both monitor or video card and nothing works. This system dual boots between redhat 9 and fedora and under redhat 9 I can run 1600x1200 no problem. I tried editing the XF86Config file by hand to give it the same settings as my redhat install but it still goes back to 1024x768. Anyone else have this problem or know of a resolution for it? thanks Chris Locke Stratitec IT

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Boot Loader Detection: GRUB or LILO?
by Charles Curley 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

Is there any way to detect which boot loader is the working one? Simply detecting whether a grub or lilo package is installed may not be sufficient, especially in the case where both are installed. I suppose I could look to see which is more recent, grub.conf or lilo.conf, but I can think of several scenarios unde which this would fail. It's time to update my bare metal recovery scripts (http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html) to handle grub, and I'd like to detect the current boot loader if possible. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB

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Fedora bittorrent
by Neil Aspinall 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

The site for the Fedora bittorrents, http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu, seems to be down at the moment and has been for a while. Are there torrents available elsewhere? Will this (very useful service) be available again for the Fedora release on Monday? Cheers, Neil

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Setting Default System Theme
by jeff 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

When a new user is added to the system, by default they get the Bluecurve theme. How is this default changed to another theme? I've tried the following files, which seemed pertinent, but they didn't do the trick: /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /etc/skel/.gtkrc /etc/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_interface.schemas /etc/gconf/schemas/metacity.schemas /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk/gtkrc Where is it hiding? :) Thanks, -Jeff

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Laptop power saving
by Philip Balister 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Does anyone have a summary of what laptop power saving type features are expected to work on Fedora Core? For example echo N > /proc/acpi/procesor/ performance doesn't seem to adjust the clock speed. Any comments on laptop things would be helpful. By and larger I am very happy with Fedora on my Dell Inspiron 600M. Philip

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After All This
by Ryan J Zygar 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

All I have to say is Fedora is great. The ATI deal is important though. Mine doesn't work w/o using the ATI website drivers. Panther and Fedora our wonderful.

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Speedtouch USB with Fedora 0.95
by Yann Zinzius 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hello, I'm user of redhat linux for a long time and I have a speedtouch usb modem. I saw on the fedora kernel that the speedtch module was precompiled in the kernel package. Until now I used the speedtouchconf script to install my speedtouch usb on pppoa mode but I would like to try using the kernel module provided with fedora, and maybe using it on a the futur 2.6 kernel. My problem is to know if someone install already this modem on a fedora system and how ? Because it seems that if I'm looking to the standard procedures as presented in http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch that the "linux-atm" or at least "libatm" has to be installed. And I don't find something similar on the installation tree. When i try to install the linux-atm manually using the rpms from the atm website it's install, but something else is missing a "nas0" device and/or module to install an nas0 connection. So is it external to the kernel or as to be compiled ? Please someone help me ? Thanks in advance Yann

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Re: unsubsribe
by Edward Croft 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:51, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:29:14AM -0800, Shadhin rahman wrote: > > pleae unsubscribe me. thank yyou. > > Three in just a few hours. COME ON, now, people. If you went through > the effort of subscribing then you have the responsibility to figure out > how to unsubscribe. Stop posting these to the list. Paul, I reiterate, Red Hat screwed something up and these people were added inadvertently. They can't unsubscribe themselves. Someone from Red Hat has to. If you were on the redhat list you would see that Marc from Red Hat is monitoring the lists and removing these people manually. Please all, don't jump on these people. They can't get themselves off.

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ATI Radeon 9600 bug report
by Terry Cole 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Dear Mike, We recently tested fedora on a dual Athlon machine with an ATI Radeon 9600 with two outputs, VGA and DVI. Chipsets 4150 and 4170 combined on the one board. I tested this every way I could think of, modifying the XF86Config for one or two screens, etc. But no joy. I'll get more details after the weekend. VESA was fairly stable. Regards, TC -- Terry Cole admingt(a)maths.otago.ac.nz System Administrator Dept. of Maths and Stats, Otago University PO. Box 56, Dunedin tel:64-3-4797739 NEW ZEALAND fax:64-3-4798427

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yum/apt and dependencies
by Greg Mitchell 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

I ran into a little problem updating my machine tonight with yum. I issued "yum update" and it gave me a list of 4 dependencies and 3 of them were fine. The fourth was a dependency on mozilla (from open-office). I have mozilla-firebird installed and don't wish to have mozilla (konqueror is my browser of choice, followed by firebird). To resolve the problem, I manually downloaded and installed openoffice (with --nodeps). It worked fine, then yum update did not bother me about mozilla. Is there a way for me to tell yum to ignore a specific dependency in the future? Or is there at least an easy way to see what requires that dependency (I went through the rpms infos by hand)? Also, are there any decent apt repositories out there for FC as well as general purpose rpms? Thanks. Greg

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