FC3 -- KDE CDROM, xmodmap and pilot-xfer
by Malcolm Cowe
I took the plunge and upgraded from RH7.3 to FC3 last week, and I have
to say it's been a bit of a mixed bag. So far, there remain 3 issues
which I cannot resolve satisfactorily.
I've been using RH since 4.2, and this is the first time that I have
been left with an operating environment that is unable to do all of the
things I normally expect of it. I have FC2 on my laptop and it's working
great, but this FC3 installation has left me feeling uncomfortable. Not
even the Tao of Yum can restore absolute calm.
To clarify the platform a little, I chose a fresh installation of FC3 on
a brand new [Seagate] HDD. My computer is a generic P3 Tualitin based
system with an Asus motherboard. Very standard stuff and has worked very
well under RH7.3. The only non-standard component is the keyboard, which
is a UK Macintosh USB keyboard.
Issue 1: The first problem I encountered is that under KDE, and only
under KDE, I cannot access the CDROM device. A dialogue box labeled
"Error - kio_devices_mounthelper" returns the following:
mount: /dev/hdc already mounted or /media/cdrecorder busy
Please check that the disk is entered correctly.
From within the KDE session, opening a terminal and mounting the device
manually returns the same error. But log out, and log back in using
GNOME and all is well. Similarly, logging out of KDE and choosing a
command line login from which to issue the mount command also works.
So now we don't use KDE. I'm not heartbroken, but it is annoying and
unnecessary.
Issue 2: Xmodmap doesn't work reliably. As stated earlier, I use a UK
Macintosh keyboard. Yes, on my x86 computer. Under RH, to get this to
work properly required some entries in /etc/X11/Xmodmap. Specifically,
my Xmodmap file contains:
! Euro sign support
keycode 26 = e E currency
keycode 54 = c C cent
keycode 113 = Mode_switch Mode_switch Multi_key
keycode 11 = 2 at EuroSign
! Hash (#) symbol for Mac UK Keyboard
keycode 12 = 3 sterling numbersign
! Mac Extended Keyboard Keys
keycode 165 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 158 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 166 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 93 = XF86Launch0
keycode 123 = XF86Launch1
keycode 127 = XF86Launch2
keycode 128 = XF86Launch3
keycode 116 = XF86Eject
This allows the use of all of the extra keys on the keyboard. The UK
keyboard is quite idiosyncratic; for example it does not have a "#"
symbol (the convention is to assign alt-3 to #). X11 xkb support for the
UK (gb) keyboard is inadequate, but I am quite content to hack around
with the keymaps to get the result I want. But this does not work under
FC3. If I log in, bring up a terminal and run xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap,
sometimes it will work, sometimes it will segfault. Sometimes it will
return the following:
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption: 0x09790868 ***
Aborted
Under no circumstances that I can induce will xmodmap successfully load
the key mappings when invoked as part of Xsession. I have tried using
Option "XkbDisable" as well as manually inserting the xmodmap command
into the Xsession script, with no success.
This is a real shame, since xmodmap is widely used, easy to understand
and permits experimentation and hacking. Plus it's been around for a
while. That said, I have tried to hack together an xkb configuration for
the macintosh gb keyboard. What a horrid system of files. So far, I've
got the following for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/gb:
// $XConsortium: gb /main/3 1996/08/31 12:19:51 kaleb $
// $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/gb,v 3.3 1996/12/23 07:13:25
dawes Exp $
partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
// Describes the differences between a very simple en_US
// keyboard and a very simple U.K. keyboard layout
name[Group1]= "Great Britain";
key <AE02> { [ 2, at ],
[ EuroSign ] };
key <AE03> { [ 3, sterling ],
[ numbersign ] };
key <LSGT> { [ quoteleft, asciitilde ] };
key <KPEQ> { [ KP_Equal ] };
// key <KPEQ> { [ equal ] };
// End alphanumeric section
key <RALT> { [ Mode_switch, Multi_key ] };
modifier_map Mod3 { Mode_switch };
include "apple(extended)"
};
I can't get everything to work yet. The multimedia keys are not
included, and nothing I've tried will induce the keypad equals key to
work (although xev does find it). More importantly, control-alt-F1 does
not elicit a virtual console (although control-alt-del does bring up the
logout dialogue, and control-alt-backspace kills the server). ctl-alt-+
does nothing. Also, I've noticed that combinations such as ctl-shift-A
does not work (I use this in thunderbird as a matter of routine, so this
is vexing).
Issue 3: pilot-xfer doesn't work. I have read that this may be due to a
problem with kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3, but what a pain. The program just
hangs after 2 or 3 seconds and the handheld hotsync software times out.
19 years, 4 months
Configure initial wallpapers
by Patrick
Does anybody know how to configure the initial wallpapers of Fedora 3?
Is there a way I can determine which wallpapers will or will not be visible to the users?
In other words, where is the "original" wallpaper-list stored??
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19 years, 4 months
Question on /media mount points
by Alan
Since the introduction of sysfs and udev and whateverdev the system now
creates a bunch of mount points automagically.
I have a friend who wants to rename these but they vanish after reboot.
The devices are pointing to actual ide devices in fstab, but instead of:
/media/cdrecorder he wants /media/dvd-burner
/media/cdrecorder1 he wants /media/cd-burner
/media/cdrom he wants /media/dvd-rom
I am not finding the config information for this anywhere.
Any ideas how these mount points are determined and/or created?
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19 years, 4 months
FC2 to FC3 upgrade exits abnormally
by Rick Lim
I'm trying to upgrade a working FC2 to FC3, having got past the first error
where the harddisk geometry was read wrong by using the parted update, I get
to the point where it starts to begin the install and then I get
warning: package kernel = 2.6.9-1.667 was already added. Replacing with
kernel = 2.6.9-1.667
install exited abnormally.
Any suggestions?
19 years, 4 months
Re: xawtv: no audio sound
by Raffi Khatchadourian
Jim Higson wrote:
>On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 13:09, you wrote:
>
>
>>Yeah, it seems that the sound is not being generated in the xawtv
>>application. Upon startup, yes, the sound mixer is usually muted or down
>>to 0. When muted, I am not able to hear the "channel" clicking sound.
>>When I turn up the slider, unfortunately, that is all I hear when I
>>change the channels.
>>
>>
>
>Just to make sure the tv card is ok, have you tried connecting it directly to
>your speakers? If it's making clicking noises and nothing else, I'd try
>debugging there.
>
>Of course it depends what kind of set up you have, I'm assuming it's like mine
>where the tv card decodes the audio and sends it via an external cable to the
>sound card, which really just acts as an analogue volume control (no
>processing done by card or application). Digital DV might be different.
>
>
Hmm ... I have not tried connecting directly to my speakers. I plugged a
walkman into the line-in jack on my sound blaster card and it worked
fine so I just assumed that wasn't the problem. I will try that tho. How
would I go about debugging there? Is there any options to debug with
xawtv? If so, what would I look for?
Yes, I do have that setup where an external cable that runs into the
sound card. I do not have the DV card.
19 years, 4 months
PS2 Keyboard and mouse dead in FC3 on Dell Precision 530
by J. Epperson
Sent this last night, but my registration was apparently not complete
and it did not go to the list (not in archive, anyway)>
The i get an error when booting FC3 on a Dell Precision 530 ("i8042.c:
Can't read CTR while initializing i8042"). The keyboard and mouse are
then "dead" from there on--can't press a key and trigger kudzu before
the timeout, can't type a username/password on the X11 login screen,
etc. Odd, since they both worked fine all the way through a graphical
install, just not with the resulting kernel config. Reading suggests
apci/apic problem in i8042.c code, I've tried the suggested noapic and
noacpi kernel line parms, but nothing's working. I did include SELinux
in "warn" mode in the install, FWIW.
Installed FC1, and everything worked ok. Will try FC1-->FC3 upgrade
tonight. Suggestions welcome.
--jake
19 years, 4 months
sendmail howto?
by Trevor Smith
Can anyone point me to a sendmail howto that will work? I tried googling
"sendmail howto" and followed the instructions for the standalone user on the
first link found but it does not make sendmail work for me. (The symptom is
that sendmail receives messages but apparently does not send any messages out
anywhere -- I get no errors, but I can't send a message to myself at my email
hosting provider and have it actually get back to me, for example.)
I *can* send a message to mysefl at localhost and sendmail receives *that*.
And I can use fetchmail to retrieve mail from my mail hosting provider and
fetchmail delivers it to sendmail on my system, which I can then use to
retrieve it into KMail.
But I can't for the life of me, figure out how to get sendmail on my system to
accept email from the command line ('mail -s ...') or from KMail and have
that message actually get delivered anywhere other than localhost.
I set the MASQUERADE_AS(`haligonian.com')dnl
and
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
stuff in the sendmail.mc file and processed it into a sendmail.cf file and
restarted sendmail before trying. No luck. What else am I missing?
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19 years, 4 months
xawtv: no audio sound
by Raffi Khatchadourian
I am experiencing problems with xawtv on Fedora Core 3 with an ATI All
In Wonder 8500. I am able to receive TV video, however, with no sound.
The line-in on my sound card is operational and it seems that the
program itself is not outputting audio. Has anyone experienced similar
problems?
19 years, 4 months
FC3: Mesa and 'nvidia' driver
by Alexander Volovics
Is it still necessary to remove the (xorg-x11) Mesa-libGL and
Mesa-libGLU rpm's before installing the nvidia driver.
Alexander
19 years, 4 months
How to compile kernel source for FC3
by Tony Denault
I needed to recompile the kernel for an inhouse development project.
Following the threads _almost_ told me what to do. I'll posted
how I got the kernel source install, compile and running
reference. Or please correct any error....thanks,
Download,install & compile kernel source.
Example using kernel version 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 for Fedora Core3.
Following the direction in the release notes for getting source tree:
# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec <-- slightly difference from the release notes
# cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
Kernel soures is located in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9/
Copy the tree to /usr/src/linux-2.6.x
# cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9
# tar cf - linux-2.6.9 | ( cd /usr/src; tar xf - )
Then proceed as usual.
# cd /usr/src
# ln -s linux-2.6.9 linux-2.6
# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6
# make clean
# make mrproper
# make oldconfig -> generate a .config file based on the running kernel
# make bzImage
# make modules
# make modules_install
# make install
For some unknown reason it calls the kernel '2.6.9-prep'
The kernel name can be modified by editing /usr/src/linux-2.6/Makefile
I did peek-and-poke around and this was the 2.6.9-1.681_FC3. I think
the Makefile should call it 2.6.9-1.681_FC3-custom rather that -prep
Not sure you need to copy the source to /usr/src, but I'm used to this;
plus I'm not sure what happens to /usr/src/redhat when a new kernel
updates arrives.
Tony
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