default users configuration
by Eric Tanguy
I have 2 main user group : teachers and students. I would like that each
student have a specific Applications menu in gnome and each teacher have
another one. I would like also this will be true for actual users but
also when i will create a new account.
Do you know if it is possible and how ?
I'm not sure to explain well what i need so ...
Thanks
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Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) sur athlon kernel 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4
18 years, 8 months
speedtouch driver generates errors
by Motor
I filed this bug report last night:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172083
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/fedora/
After following the instructions for getting a Thompson/Alcatel
Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem running under Fedora Core 4, the system
functions correctly, connects just fine and runs without problems.
After using the system/connection for a while, when I use "dmesg" I
find occasional error messages in the log:
ATM dev 0: error -110 fetching device status
However, this does not appear to stop the ADSL modem from working
normally (and the device functions apparently perfectly under Windows
98SE also). I'm working under the (naive) assumption that is a
non-critical bug in the speedtouch driver and reporting it, although I
do realise this report doesn't narrow things down much. :)
... the advice given is that "-110 is a timeout" and to keep an eye on
/proc/slabinfo for relevant growth. Can anyone:
1. Let me know if you've seen this error yourself
2. What should I be looking for in /proc/slabinfo? At the moment I'm just
planning to cat /proc/slabinfo >dayX and then see what I can see on Friday.
Thanks.
18 years, 8 months
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18 years, 8 months
choosing default font for a locale
by venkata ramana
Hi list,
I use telugu (te_IN) unicode names for some of my files and menu
items. I recently installed some new fonts and one of these newly
installed fonts made itself as default for telugu unicode characters.
Is there anyway for specifying which of the fonts I have, should be
associated with the characters in my language?
regards,
ramana.
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18 years, 8 months
A bug in the text based ISO installation CDs?
by Rob Prowel
In choosing to (keep) a previously formatted root
partition (albeit an empty one) the installation
procedure tells me that not enough space exists on the
target partition to install the selected packages? I
selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is
3000MB in size?
%smirk on.
Is my math faulty?
%smirk off.
cheers,
Prowel
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18 years, 8 months
SmartLink Modem Family Woes (Snap Snap)
by Lane Hill
I bought a Creative ModemBlaster USB DE5671 recently, due to me getting
troubles with getting a working modem for Fedora 4 (so far I've tried 5
different ones, and this is the first external I tried). Of course, Fedora
doesn't recognize it offhand, so I did some research. It uses a chipset
that's in the same Family as the SmartLink SmartUSB56 (or something or
another). The greater news is that SmartLink has a driver available!
So, first I tried to make an rpm out of the tar.gz file. According to the
terminal, rpm -ta is not a real command, although that's what the readme
says to type.
So, I decided to try to do the MakeFile instructions. However, this was
unsuccessful, due to a static declaration of "sregs_init" bieng followed by
a nonstatic declaration, and then there was a previous declaration elsewhere
in the file "modem.c"
Having some C/C++ expierence, I tried to fix this, but it wouldn't work.
So, I tried going out and finding some of RPMs on the internet. I did, and
apparantly it required the kernel package, which I'm pretty sure I am,
considering Fedora can't really work without it.
So, I'm completely lost, confused and a bit pissed off due to the fact that
all I want to do is use this computer (I'm using my mom's currently) for
school, yet I have to live with crappy 56k, and that no modem I've tried
worked successfully with Fedora.
All I'm asking is this: Can someone pinpoint to me a good RPM to use for
this modem, or can someone recommend a good modem (internal or external)
that can work flawlessly or near flawlessly with Fedora?
18 years, 8 months
New PC
by Guillermo Garron
Hi all,
I am a returning user of linux after 3 or 4 years :).
I am just about to buy a new PC i am thinking in a pentium IV Intel with
an Intel M.B. and with 1 Gb RAM.
About the NIC, sound and Graphics controller and also modem.
what considerations should i have in order to have no problems
installing Fedora 4?
is there any URL with a description of the compatible peripherials?
thanks a lot,
best regards,
Guillermo.
18 years, 8 months
Fedora update info
by Derek Martin
Hi folks,
I was wondering where I can find the equivalent of Red Hat errata
and/or security notices for Fedora Core. For example, today I noticed
that kernel-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 was just released, whereas
kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3 was released pretty recently too. I'd like
to know where I can find out WHY updates are released. I did poke
around a little on the fedora website, but didn't find what I was
looking for.
Thanks!
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18 years, 8 months
need to be able to create a (clone) installation for a different platform
by Rob Prowel
some background:
I have a xeon machine running suse8.2 and fc4 dialects
of linux, an LFS (linux from scratch) instance, plus
doze-xp, all booting thru grub, and I write linux
c/c++ code for autonomous robots, so I know a wee
little bit about what's going on behind the bling
bling.
My new housing situation allows me to piggyback my
landlord's wireless cable internet connection but my
computer room has terrible link signal because the
access point is way on the other side of the
house...plus my dual xeon doesn't work well in smp or
hyperthreading mode with the limited support b/g
wireless cards that are available for linux. I ended
up having to use the rt2500 in non-smp mode: a
non-optimal solution!
Anyway, my solution is to install a bare linux distro
on a legacy MB8500-TVX mobo (pentium classic) that
will sit in an optimum wireless reception point in my
apartment. Then I'll use that machine as a firewall
and wireless ethernet bridge: wireless on one side and
wired 100bt on the other. The machine will provide
iptables firewalling/NAT, caching only DNS, mail
server, etc. The target platform is pentium classic,
there is no working floppy controller on the machine
(presumable fried by the previous owner because there
was no key on the ribbon connector port), and the old
1995 BIOS is too buggy to allow booting the CDROM.
That leaves me with only one option if I intend to use
that machine: I must prepare the hard disk on my xeon
machine and move it to the target platform.
I don't have time or motivation to recompile my LFS
distro for the pentium classic because I originally
prepared it specifically for the xeon and that took me
two months. Enter option 2) I tried to use the FC4
distro CDs (on my xeon) to install on a usb2 connected
hard disk that I would move to the target machine as
the primary IDE hard disk.
It seems that even though the FC4 CDs are listed as
pentium friendly the folks who prepared them may have
generated kernels that don't work on the pentium
classic, or at lease the penium classic in combination
with an ISA/PCI combination architecture. OOPS! I
tried a workaround of genning my own 2.6.11 kernel and
sticking it into the target disk as a bootable grub
image, but then once the kernel is running it cannot
run init which resides on an ext3 partition...All I
did was take the stock CD kernel and change the target
platform setting to pentium classic. Again, I suspect
compilation that was done for the higher end pentium
platforms to be on the CDs.
After reading the FC4 release notes the indication is
that pentium classic (should) be supported...so, the
question is: did the guys who prepared the ISOs make a
goof? Did they test the ISOs on all supported
platforms before releasing them? and I'm quite
hesitant to suggest the last option because it makes
an easy out even if it isn't true: Did the CD install
procedure that I did on the xeon pick a kernel package
that was optimized to what it thought my platform was?
Comments, questions, suggestions?
tanks
-Prowel
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18 years, 8 months
FC4 Can't use Nautilus burn:
by Martin, AA6E
I want to use the burn:/// feature in Nautilus. This used to work for
me, but lately all I can do is write the image to a file, not to my
/dev/dvdwriter = /dev/cdwriter = /dev/cdrom = /dev/hdc. It's as if
Nautilus doesn't see the device. cdwriter works fine on its own.
Any suggestions how to burn to my device?
TIA, Martin
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