DVDPro and Redhat 9/Fedora
by Alan
Has anyone gotten DVDPro and xcdroast to work with Redhat 9 and/or Fedora?
On my system it locks the entire system hard when it starts to fixate the
dvd. CD recording works fine.
The only information in the logs is an error about an invalid command to
the scsi device shortly before the hang. It worked fine under the Redhat
8 kernel.
The drive is a Pioneer A-05 4x burner using the ide-scsi emulation.
And, yes, it is a closed source driver. Does anyone have a good
suggestion about a gui cd burner app that does data DVD-Rs that is not
closed source?
20 years, 7 months
Mozilla mouseovers
by Brian C. Huffman
I know this is not unique to RedHat, but I don't know where else to post this...
I have an issue with Mozilla in a web app that has text boxes displayed on the
mouseover. The problem is that inside the popup text boxes they try to use
carriage returns and they only show up as a strange "square-like" symbol. They
show up correctly in IE.
I heard in another forum that this was already in bugzilla (for mozilla), but I
can't find it. Also, is there any work around?
Brian
20 years, 7 months
Bugs...
by Miguel Angel Morales García
Hi.
Sorry I dont speak english... Im spanish :-).
PROBLEMS:
Evolution 1.4 => Close Evolution application no respond.
YUM => List very small of applications to download ¿?
RedHat-Install-Packages => Install Finish no respond application
20 years, 7 months
Talked Fedora over a beer with Bruce Perens
by Christopher A. Williams
Bruce Perens was in Denver yesterday and today, and I had the chance to
hang out with him in the hotel bar last night. He had just given a talk
at the Colorado Linux Users and Enthusiasts (CLUE) meeting. The subject
of Fedora came up and I thought this might be relevant here.
Bruce cautioned that, if anyone posted what he had to say, to be certain
we emphasize that HE HAS NOT THOUGHT ALL OF THIS OUT YET and so his
thoughts and opinion are still subject to change.
OK, re-read that paragraph just in case...
Good!
Now - He did have some interesting comments about the future of Linux,
OOo 1.4, some ideas he has for Debian and how they relate to Fedora.
First, he clearly favors Debian (so surprises there), however not
necessarily for the reasons most people think. It has a lot more to do
with full community ownership as opposed to opening up the possibility
of companies taking their ball and going home.
With respect to OOo, he said its success is critical to desktop Linux.
He then noted version 1.1 provides 100% of the features 80% of the
population needs, and we should all do everything we can to get a copy
into the hands of everyone we know. Give them the Windows version if
they run Windows, but get it to them. We discussed maybe marketing it as
an upgrade to a free office suite. He also said the top priority for OOo
has to be font support. Ugly font substitutions and those venerable
question marks due to missing glyphs is definitely OOo's biggest
obstacle in his mind. He pointed out most end-users see this as
incompatibility with MS Office formats and that, even though it really
isn't, perception is reality.
Bruce expressed strong interest in delivering a community Linux project
that has a *lot* of the same features and qualities that both Debian and
the Fedora Project have, but also said the last thing we really need is
yet another Linux distro. When I asked him what his issues were with
Fedora, he said that really he had no issues with it other than that it
is "dominated by Red Hat". He said if it were dominated by Red Hat and
about 100 other companies, he thinks it would be great, and also seemed
to be tossing around the idea that there might be a way to link up and
cooperate between the Fedora Project and what he had in mind for doing
with Debian - providing a base core of Linux that is fully owned by the
community, available at no cost, and something that big companies would
work together on. Again, he emphasized he hasn't worked all of this out
yet and I am going from my own interpretation of the conversation.
He noted that Red Hat has historically done the right thing when it
comes to the community and he saw no reason why this would change, at
least in the near term. But he also cautioned that every company has a
"Multiple Personality Disorder" that requires the community always
remain vigilant. That MPD is caused by the fact that a company's first
responsibility is to its shareholders. He summarized it up by saying he
wasn't really worried about what Red Hat is today, but he is concerned
about what Red Hat *could* become tomorrow if the values of the company
leadership changed. That, he said, is what happened to SCO - a good Open
Source citizen that, through leadership changes, "became ferrule". He
was definitely less positive about SUSE, by the way. The other criticism
he had was that RHEL AS requires companies not disclose the contents of
service bulletins that come from their support contracts. He said, "That
means there could be a service bulletin about my software and I won't
get to see it." He also said that one of Debian's biggest benefits is
that it keeps companies like Red Hat honest - just in case that MPD
crops up.
Anyway, that's a short synopsis of what I remember over a very good,
late-night Honey Wheat brew and a plate of hotel Chicken Fingers.
Hopefully, this will be useful to someone here. Sounds like Bruce has
certainly left the door open to cooperate with the Fedora Project,
albeit somewhat cautiously.
Cheers,
Chris
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20 years, 7 months
startup/stop init scripts for gdm/kdm
by Chris Spencer
Due to repeated failures on freshly burned CD's I ended up doing a
minimal install and adding packages as I needed over the network.
I am curious about why startup scripts for /etc/init.d weren't packaged
with kdm or gdm when I added them.
Anyone have any ideas?
I can make them myself but just curious why they weren't created.
Are they part of another package? Auto created by some other tool?
-Chris
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin,
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
20 years, 7 months
Building a Yum Repository
by Charles Curley
I'm cross-posting this to the yum list, of which I am not a
member. Please CC me in your replies to that list.
There have been some questions about using yum (Yellow dog Updater,
Modified) on Fedora on various lists. I set up a yum repository, and
wrote up my notes on how to do this. I currently have them in
OpenOffice.org format, and have exported them to xml. As soon as I get
my xml tools working correctly, I'll produce a somewhat more readable
version. Eventually, when I get it whipped into shape and have had
some peer review, I'll release it under the GFDL. Meanwhile, for
your review are a raw text export from OpenOffice.org and a pdf
export from OOo version. Sorry, the hyperlinks didn't export.
http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html
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20 years, 7 months
fedora versus fedora test?
by Robert P. J. Day
can someone explain the difference between the "fedora" and
"fedora test" lists. given that fedora core is itself a beta,
what is the distinction?
rday
20 years, 7 months
Certification
by Dee-Ann LeBlanc
I know this topic has been vaguely discussed on this list already, but I
haven't seen anything that is concrete regarding the future of the RHCE
and RHCT. Specifically, I need a feeling for whether the RHCT and RHCE
should be taught (as much as it can be taught) these days at all using
Fedora Core or not.
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Lots of things Linux
http://www.Dee-AnnLeBlanc.com/
20 years, 7 months
Re: Mozilla mouseovers
by C.M. Connelly
"BH" == Brian Huffman <sheep(a)graze.net>
Brian,
BH> The problem is that inside the popup text
BH> boxes they try to use carriage returns and they only show
BH> up as a strange "square-like" symbol. They show up
BH> correctly in IE.
BH> I heard in another forum that this was already in bugzilla
BH> (for mozilla), but I can't find it. Also, is there any
BH> work around?
The bug is <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67127>.
The workaround is to avoid carriage returns in your title
attributes. If you're doing something scriptomatically, it should
be pretty easy to avoid (just don't put in any newlines and don't
wrap the text later!). If you're coding by hand, you usually get
it to work by putting the ``title="<string>"'' on its own line
(i.e., breaking the line just before the title attribute).
Claire
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Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754
Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College
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