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Display problem with Intel 852 chip and FC2
by Jörg-Rüdiger Hill 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I have tried to install FC2 on a Toshiba Satellite notebook which uses an Intel 852 chip for graphics. The installation went smoothly, the chip was detected and X was configured automatically to use the i810 driver and 3D hardware acceleration. However, whenever I run an OpenGL application there is a square slightly larger than the mouse pointer which is kind of copied from the point the mouse pointer was a few seconds ago and which moves with the mouse pointer. Effectively, this makes it impossible to pick anything with the mouse. If I turn hardware acceleration off by commenting out the dri module line in xorg.conf everything works as it should be (although without 3D acceleration) and the effect described above does not show up. Unfortunately, the notebook is supposed to be used as a demo machine for an OpenGL application. I have tried the few options available for the i810 driver without making any difference. In particular, enabling a software cursor just turns off hardware acceleration, which is of no use to me. I can't find any description of a problem like this on the net. It seems that people have no problems with the i810 driver. Has anybody seen such a problem and knows what to do to fix it ? Jörg-Rüdiger Hill -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jörg-Rüdiger Hill Tel.: +33 1 40 13 53 29 Scienomics Tel. (direct): +49 89 613 05 700 Paris Innovation Fax: +33 1 40 13 53 01 5 Rue d'Uzès E-Mail: Joerg-Ruediger.Hill(a)scienomics.com 75002 Paris Web: http://www.scienomics.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Unable to resolve localhost
by Shawn Kovalchick 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

The thing is, I can ping localhost. Nothing else has a problem talking to localhost, it's just postgresql. It has the same setup files as a separate installation on my home Gentoo box, which works fine. On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:44:08 -0600, Micheal <sundance(a)sundanceloki.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:29, Shawn Kovalchick wrote: > > > > ifconfig lo > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > > RX packets:2503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:2503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > RX bytes:2402682 (2.2 Mb) TX bytes:2402682 (2.2 Mb) > > > > On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:23:30 -0600, Micheal <sundance(a)sundanceloki.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:17, Shawn Kovalchick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to set up a postgresql server on FC2, and it seems that the server > > > > is unable to look up 127.0.0.1. Further investigation shows that dig > > > > is unable to return anything for localhost or a reverse lookup for > > > > 127.0.0.1. /etc/hosts has an entry for 127.0.0.1 pointing to > > > > localhost and localhost.localdomain. Am I missing something? > > > > > > > > Relevant sections of configuration files follow: > > > > > > > > /etc/nsswitch.conf contains this line: > > > > hosts: files dns > > > > > > > > /etc/hosts contains: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > > > > > > > > I apologize if this has been double posted, it appears that the > > > > initial post didn't take, as I was not yet signed up on the list. > > > > > > What does the out put of > > > > > > /sbin/ifconfig lo > > > > > > give? > > > > > > MC > > > > > > > > > > Thats tough. Nothing wrong with hosts or nsswitch.conf. If you can't > ping localhost. I would check your iptables and/or your postrgresql > configuration. Other than that, thats all I can suggest for now. > > MC > >

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Re: usb 2.0 external HD
by Erik Hemdal 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

> so i > > modprobe usb-storage > mkdir /mnt/usb > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb > > -- > netmask > > Thanks for just the right nudge. This works fine for a USB key. I have one of those USB 2.0 hard drives, and if I can get time to test it, I'll post. Netmask, this solved a problem for me, too. Erik

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Wireless problem FC1
by Marius Ionescu 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi. I have troubles trying to use a wireless PCMCIA card (Alvarion Breezenet = Orinoco gold) with Fedora Core 1. I am trying to connect to my university wireless network. Since they use secure connection, I tried both xsupplicant and a demo version of the Aegis client for linux, It seems that I can see the network, it reports the link quality, the key, essid, and both of the programs say that I am authenticated. But when I try to use dhclient nothing happens and I receive the message: "No DHCPOFFERS received.No working leases in persistent database - sleeping." Do you have any suggestion? Thank you, Marius

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usb 2.0 external HD
by acidblue 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

My usb 2.0 HD is not recognized by FC2 it's listed in info center under 'usb', but not under 'Storage Devices' How do I mount this HD? Does FC2 have usb 2.0 support? or do I have to re-config my kernel? Im using FC2 with the default 2.6.5-358 kernel Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Unable to resolve localhost
by Shawn Kovalchick 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I'm trying to set up a postgresql server on FC2, and it seems that the server is unable to look up 127.0.0.1. Further investigation shows that dig is unable to return anything for localhost or a reverse lookup for 127.0.0.1. /etc/hosts has an entry for 127.0.0.1 pointing to localhost and localhost.localdomain. Am I missing something? Relevant sections of configuration files follow: /etc/nsswitch.conf contains this line: hosts: files dns /etc/hosts contains: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain I apologize if this has been double posted, it appears that the initial post didn't take, as I was not yet signed up on the list.

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terminal freezes occationally
by Alan Mead 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I am using Konsole 1.2.3 on FC1 (KDE 3.1.4-4). I run time consuming numerical programs on this box and on occation, I find that the terminal session has frozen. The window itself (e.g., the menu) still seems to act normally but nothing I do will make the session echo commands or produce any screen output. The session seems frozen. I have to exit and start a new session. This only happens when I leave the window sit idle for a long time (hours or days; as when I'm waiting for a long running foreground process run). Any ideas? -Alan

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Default FC2 Swap Space
by Mike Witt 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

My newly installed FC2 systems is running a lot slower than I expected. I chose the "default" partitioning scheme suggested during installation. And fdisk now reports this as: > # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41174138880 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5005 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 14 4981 39905460 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 4982 5005 192780 82 Linux swap Isn't that around 188 Meg of swap space? My system has 128 Meg of memory, and in the past I seem to remember allocation about four times as much swap space as I had physical memory, with better results. Am I nuts? Does swap space only need to be the size of physical memory? I don't really understand the issues here. Advice? -Mike

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FC2: Cannot empty Trash, permission issue
by Ben Tobias 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I was attempting to upgrade to FC2 by using ISO's on the hard disk. I eventually scrapped the idea and was able to boot from CD. I deleted the folder with the RPM's in it but the user account did not have full permission to the files in the subdirectories. Now the situation is, after upgrading to FC2, I have a large number of files in the user's Trash that cannot be emptied because I do not have the permission to do so. How do I empty the Trash without permission or gain permission for the files in the Trash so I can get rid of them? Sincerely, Ben aka Howard Burnside

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Re: Last upate via yum breaks yum.
by miavia＠myway.com 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ? import libxml2mod > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlNewDocPI There's probably another libxml2mod.so on your path, ahead of the one in /usr/lib (maybe the one that comes with ActiveTcl :-)) Do ldd /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py and check where libxml2mod.so comes from. If it is not /usr/lib, you've got a problem. One way to fix it is to update the package that's causing you trouble. Another is to add /lib and /usr/lib to the top of /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig (this will complain about duplicate /lib and /usr/lib, and may break that other package) but it will fix yum. _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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