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Hello plus question
by Steven Hodgen 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

I'm new to this list, so "Hello!" I'm currently in the process of discussing the possibility of turning our school into a Linux based school, with lab and office computers running Linux. I'm seriously considering using Fedora, because it seems to have pretty up to date desktop packages, looks nice, and the install has a good selection of packages as is. The Principal of the school has a serious eyesight problem, and must use screen magnification software to use his computer. For windows, decent full-screen magnification packages cost, at least, $400. he currently uses a package called ZoomText 7.1, which originally cost him $395. How they have an update that's another $150. Shortly another update that costs even more is coming out. On one level, I can see how a company who's only product is a screen magnifier would need to charge a bit to stay in business, since it's a vertical market, but still... I opened the Assistive Technology Support preferences box, enabled support, but the Magnifier and Screen Reader choices are grayed out. I did a little digging, and it seems that gnopernicus must be installed. Based on further research, it would seem that this package is part of the 'core 2' system, but it doesn't appear to be available in the Add/Remove Programs (Package Manager?) tool. I've checked the details for every category, and nothing. Can anyone help me find this, since having decent screen magnification will definitely influence his opinion. Thanks!! --Steven

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IBM x306 + SATA Raid
by Scott McClintock 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Hi, I would like to get FC2 running on an IBM x306 with the onboard SATA (Adaptec) RAID controller. I have it working under SUSE9.0 and there are drivers for RHEL3 but I can't get anything happening with Fedora. Has anyone tried this or have any ideas? regards Scott -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/

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Re: Hello plus question
by Richard E Miles 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

> I'm new to this list, so "Hello!" > I'm currently in the process of discussing the possibility of turning our > school into a Linux based school, with lab and office computers running > Linux. I'm seriously considering using Fedora, because it seems to have > pretty up to date desktop packages, looks nice, and the install has a good > selection of packages as is. > The Principal of the school has a serious eyesight problem, and must use > screen magnification software to use his computer. For windows, decent > full-screen magnification packages cost, at least, $400. he currently uses > a package called ZoomText 7.1, which originally cost him $395. How they > have an update that's another $150. Shortly another update that costs even > more is coming out. On one level, I can see how a company who's only > product is a screen magnifier would need to charge a bit to stay in > business, since it's a vertical market, but still... > I opened the Assistive Technology Support preferences box, enabled support, > but the Magnifier and Screen Reader choices are grayed out. I did a little > digging, and it seems that gnopernicus must be installed. Based on further > research, it would seem that this package is part of the 'core 2' system, > but it doesn't appear to be available in the Add/Remove Programs (Package > Manager?) tool. I've checked the details for every category, and nothing. > Can anyone help me find this, since having decent screen magnification will > definitely influence his opinion. > Thanks!! > --Steven /usr/share/comps-extras/whichcd.py gnopernicus gnopernicus-0.8.1-2.i386.rpm is on disc 3 Richard Miles -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097

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enabling ip6tables in FC1
by Audsin Dev 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Hi Fedora Users I am using FC1 with custom built 2.4.26 kernel. I enabled all the IPv6 netfilter modules (like the userspace queuing via netlink, IP6 tables support etc) when i recomplied my kernel. I have the following modules in my /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/net/ipv6/netfiler ip6_queue.o, ip6table_filter.o, ip6table_mangle.o, ip6_tables.o, ip6t_ah.o, ip6t_dst.o, ip6t_esp.o, ip6t_eui64.o, ip6t_frag.o, ip6t_hbh.o, ip6t_hl.o, ip6t_ipv6header.o,ip6t_length.o, ip6t_LOG.o, ip6t_mac, ip6t_mark.o, ip6t_MARK.o, ip6t_multiport.o, ip6t_owner.o and ip6t_rt.o However i dont find ip6tables in my system. I have iptables in my /sbin but NOT ip6tables. when i type "service ip6tables start" i get ip6tables: unregonized service. Any suggestions for enabling ip6tables in FC1 Regards Dev _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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UW Imap FC! to Cryus-imapd FCD broken E-mail
by test 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

When I upgraded from FC1 to FC2 it installed cyrus-imap..which broke my pop3/imap clients. I spent a day off and on trying to get it working. How do I get my pop3 working again? FC2 sendmail squirrellmail . No LDAP ..saslauthd and cyrus-imapd are started and running. Sendmail is receiving ok..I just can't get authorized from clients ( thunderbird , OE .Outloook) I tried using pam ..NG... It's currently using shadow by default. I read the docs but can't get things working..., Is there something I'm overlooking? ddg

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Re: UW Imap FC! to Cryus-imapd FCD broken E-mail
by James Marcinek 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

> When I upgraded from FC1 to FC2 it installed cyrus-imap..which broke my > pop3/imap clients. > I spent a day off and on trying to get it working. How do I get my pop3 > working again? Is uw-imap still installed? If so is the daemon running? Use the chkconfig command to find out... > > FC2 sendmail squirrellmail . No LDAP ..saslauthd and cyrus-imapd are > started and running. > > Sendmail is receiving ok..I just can't get authorized from clients ( > thunderbird , OE .Outloook) Sendmail must be configured to use cyrus-imapd instead of uw-imapd. I've done it before; however I ended up moving from both Sendmail and uw-imapd in favor of Postfix and cyrus-imapd. I did it from a cold start because I got tired of trying to remember how I had got it to work in the first place... To be honest, using postfix is much easier to configure than sendmail... I installed the postfix, read the configuration requirements (which does not require a great deal of time like Sendmail does. I have a huge O'Reilly book for configuring Sendmail...). I also moved from Squirrelmail to OpenGroupware (http://www.opengroupware.org and http://www.exchangekiller.com ). The cyrus-imapd saves the file in a database versus appending each mail to each other. It only took me about 2 hours to complete the transition. If you decide to use cyrus, you'll have to install the devel tools to convert your old mail. The most difficult was this task and it was only because I had not done this before. Now with that said, I would first see if your rpm is installed. Did they change the name of the imapd rpm that comes with fedora? I was under the impression that it was not too cyrus, only that it was available. If cyrus is installed I would check to see what imapd is running using the chkconfig command... Sendmail can definitely be a pain but the default config doesn't require much changes. I ran into problems when I had to move off the uw-imapd to cyrus (better functionality for the OpenGroupware). I had it running but I did something and never got it to work right (that's what happens when you work when you should be sleeping!). > I tried using pam ..NG... > It's currently using shadow by default. > > I read the docs but can't get things working..., > > Is there something I'm overlooking? did you modify your sendmail.mc (and compile using the m4 macro to use cyrus)? HTH- james > > ddg

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error in XKB configuration..I have tried everything
by Vishal Modak 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

hi everybody i am getting XKB configuration error when I login fedora core 2 as non-root.. I know..several ppl have had this problem..there are various fixes suggested over the web..for the past 1 week..i have been almost the solutions presented in the various mailing lists and unfortunately.. all have failed to solve my problem these are fixes that i have tried 1. Added a Option "XkbRules" "xrg" in xorg.conf 2. Adding symbolic links to xfree86.lst -> xorg.lst xfree86-it.lst -> xorg-it.lst xfree86.xml -> xorg.xml 3. I have also tried Xorg -configure and created a new xorg file.. None of the above solutions have worked for me.. I am left with no other option..please help me out... I have reached to point where..I think reinstalling FC2 is my only option..but i really dont want to do it.. Is there any other alternative..? Regards Vishal Modak Dept. of Computer and Information Science Univ. Of South Alabama Mobile, AL

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Re: Hello plus question
by James Marcinek 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> wrote: > I'm new to this list, so "Hello!" > > I'm currently in the process of discussing the possibility of turning our > school into a Linux based school, with lab and office computers running > Linux. I'm seriously considering using Fedora, because it seems to have > pretty up to date desktop packages, looks nice, and the install has a good > selection of packages as is. Fedora might be good for the desktop; however you might want to consider something like White Box Enterprise Linux (Open Source version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0) as a server based solution. http://whiteboxlinux.org/ > > The Principal of the school has a serious eyesight problem, and must use > screen magnification software to use his computer. For windows, decent > full-screen magnification packages cost, at least, $400. he currently uses > a package called ZoomText 7.1, which originally cost him $395. How they > have an update that's another $150. Shortly another update that costs even > more is coming out. On one level, I can see how a company who's only > product is a screen magnifier would need to charge a bit to stay in > business, since it's a vertical market, but still... > > I opened the Assistive Technology Support preferences box, enabled support, > but the Magnifier and Screen Reader choices are grayed out. I did a little > digging, and it seems that gnopernicus must be installed. Based on further > research, it would seem that this package is part of the 'core 2' system, > but it doesn't appear to be available in the Add/Remove Programs (Package > Manager?) tool. I've checked the details for every category, and nothing. > > Can anyone help me find this, since having decent screen magnification will > definitely influence his opinion. You might have to look browse on the CD for the rpm that you're looking for: ls |grep -i gnopernicus Once you find it just install it via the rpm command: rpm -Uvh <the_name_goes_here> HTH- James RHCE > > Thanks!! > --Steven > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list(a)redhat.com > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >

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RE: How to stop smb errors
by Cowles, Steve 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Gerry Doris wrote: > I keep getting flooded with the following error messages: > > smbd[8874]: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not > connected > smbd[8874]: read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Connection > reset by peer > Gerry, You're not alone. I've seen the above errors since using the samba-3.x series rpm's. Fortunately, everything is working fine at this end too (as you also stated). In fact, google shows this error is not just limited to samba, so I'm at a loss as to why this is happening. I've even tried running ethereal on both my XP and Samba boxes at the same time trying to capture what the hell is causing this - but so far, have not been able to recreate this error during the capture process. :-( Maybe someday I'll get lucky and be able to capture what is causing this problem with ethereal. It is annoying. Steve Cowles

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Change boot Kernel
by Steven Hodgen 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Oh yes, one more thing. Shortly after installing Fedora, the automatic update system let me upgrade the Kernel from 2.5.* to 2.6.*. Now, when I boot, it gives me a choice on which to boot with, but it always defaults to the old one. How can I change which Kernel is default. Additionally, can I simply remove the older one? I'm certain these are extremely basic questions, but I'm a poor slovenly newbie. Thanks! :-) --Steven

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