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Updating Evolution to 2.4.x in FC4
by John Francis 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Are there any plans to update Evolution to a newer version (e.g. 2.4.x) in Fedora Core 4? There is a major bug in 2.2.3 when trying to use the "Convert to Task" feature on an email that causes Evolution to crash. -- Kind regards, John Francis

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grub or lilo installed?
by Omer Faruk Sen 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hi, How can I understand a remote system has lilo or grub installed as its boot manager? I have found that I can learn it from /root/anaconda-ks.cfg but what if I have deleted that file before? I have made a egrep -r -i $lilo\|grub$ /etc but found nothing.. -- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.faruk.net

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snort
by Chris Norman 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hi people, I have snort compiled and installed on my FC4 machine, but my question is, how do I get it to run in the back ground, and then have it come into the fourground and print to STDOut if and when it spots any problems? Cheers, Chris Norman  Selling cheap but functional shell accounts.

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VDQ : Error inserting acpi_cpufreq
by Beartooth 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

What I find on googling is way over my head, alas! I installed fedora 4 on three machines on my desk, way back when it was new. Everything worked fine. Ran nightly yum updates ever since. I now have well over a dozen kernels. Then I had to replace my flat panel monitor (a BenQ FP767, which died; the shop couldn't fix it) with another (a ViewSonic VG910b -- the only one, of several the shop had, which was listed under Main Menu > Desktop > System Settings > Display > Hardware > Configure). At first, my main machine and one old one took the canned settings, the main machine fine, the old one (a P2) usably; but the other old P2 was unusable. I fussed and fiddled, figuring out eventually for instance that any changes had to be made completely without the KVM switch : not only monitor but also keyboard and mouse plugged directly to the machine being changed. Finally I got the *other* old P2 to display usably -- and then the one that had been usable ceased to be. On the current problem machine, I get the error below when I reboot. It follows below "Checking for new hardware" (which gets marked OK) FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1653_FC4/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko):No such device. I've never done a blessed thing with kernels, beyond telling yum to update them; too fierce to contemplate, for such a duffer as me -- I could louse things up even worse than I often do as it is, right? I don't want to now, if I can help it. But last time I even tried to remove a kernel, I wrecked a machine to the point of having to re-install Fedora. So can someone tell me how to delete the problem one, or what to do instead? PS : I tried editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf one more time, making it match that on a machine where the display works; logged out and in; looked at the GUI display fixer; found no change; told it Cancel; looked at /etc/X11/xorg.conf with pico -w one more time, and found the changes had taken. I hit Ctrl-X to close pico with no changes, then rebooted. This time I chose the next to most recent kernel. The fatal error message did not appear -- but all else was as before. Again I rebooted, and chose one kernel earlier still, the next to next to most recent. All results the same : error message gone, display not changed (still failing to reflect the numbers in /etc/X11/xorg.conf), /etc/X11/xorg.conf not changed. I shut it down. Maybe I should go set it on a stump and minister unto it with a sledgehammer. -- Beartooth Oldfart, Double Retiree, Neo-Redneck, Linux Convert Remember, I have precious little idea what I am talking about.

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GNome Un-install?
by Ali Helmy 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hey I am currently using KDE on my FC4 system, and I dont need nor use Gnome 99% of the time, so I wanted to remove it form the system. The Add/Remove applications program can only remove certain packages from gnome, but not all of it, nor its core files. Is there anyway I can remove GNome DE? PS: how can i know a package name for a certain program? i mean if i have like, program x, or package x listed in the Add/Remove program, how do i get to know its package name to remove it with rpm? Thanks -- A. Helmy

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e1000 module not loaded at startup
by Omer Faruk Sen 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hi, I have a peculiar problem that I can't solve by my own. I have a server installed rhes es4.2. After a power problem machine got rebooted. After that e1000 eth module can't get loaded automaticly which was getting loaded perfectly before without any problem. I have no idea why that happens and want to ask why that might be. And will be glad if you show help me about this problem. Best Regards. -- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.faruk.net

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Re: Why questions don't get answered, or "No, I've already RTFM, tell me the answer!"
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

debian(a)herakles.homelinux.org wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >> Things like flash player, though free are not open source and are >> available in binary format only which creates an issue if distributed in >> conjunction with software that is GPL license. > > > Please, research this point and show is what the problem is. > > I believe there is not problem distributing GPL and non-free software > as part of the same collation. > > The problem Red Hat has is that it cannot support flash, java and > such. Red Hat got burned with CDE some years ago; I imagine this is a > factor in its current attitude. Other vendors do distribute varying > amounts of closed-source software. > >> >> Then there are patent issues as Rahul suggested with things like audio >> and video codecs/formats which could present a sticky wicket for a >> distribution. > > > I wonder how many Americans know what a sticky wicket is? > > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > 1aaaaaaa(a)computerdatasafe.com.au Z1aaaaaaa(a)computerdatasafe.com.au > Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ > > do not reply off-list > > See the thread on finding a replacement for pine and why pine isn't included with Fedora. The problem isn't so much one of distributing both open source and closed source so much as not distributing software that doesn't have a license that the Fedora packagers feel they can live with. This is usually worse for closed source but there are open source programs such as pine that don't meet the criteria. I'm also guessing that there is a level of not wanting to include any software that might be legally encumbered that makes including closed source especially problematic. If nothing else, any such program that isn't freely redistributable means someone within the Fedora organization has to go off and research the license and possibly negotiate a means for including the closed source program in Fedora. I'm thinking the Fedora folks have better things to do with their time and there is nothing to stop any of us users from deciding we can individually live with somebody's closed source licensing terms. Cheers, Dave

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Yum updates
by david walcroft 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Could someone tell what is needed to be done with this update bottleneck - I can't understand it. --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel for package: kdesdk-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-31.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel --> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0(WXGTK2_2.4) for package: scorched3d Matched wxGTK2 - 2.4.2-12.i386 to require for libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0(WXGTK2_2.4) --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel for package: gd-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-31.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel for package: openmotif-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-31.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel --> Processing Conflict: hplip conflicts hpijs < 1:0.9.5-1.1 --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel for package: Xaw3d-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-31.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel --> Processing Dependency: XFree86-devel for package: SDL-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-31.i386 to require for XFree86-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386 to require for XFree86-devel --> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 for package: scorched3d Matched wxGTK2 - 2.4.2-12.i386 to require for libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 --> Processing Dependency: libXft = 2.1.8-2 for package: libXft-devel --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel = 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 for package: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel for package: qt-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-31.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel Matched xorg-x11-devel - 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386 to require for xorg-x11-devel --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel is needed by package kdesdk-devel Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0(WXGTK2_2.4) is needed by package scorched3d Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel is needed by package gd-devel Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel is needed by package openmotif-devel Error: hplip conflicts with hpijs < 1:0.9.5-1.1 Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel is needed by package Xaw3d-devel Error: Missing Dependency: XFree86-devel is needed by package SDL-devel Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 is needed by package scorched3d Error: Missing Dependency: libXft = 2.1.8-2 is needed by package libXft-devel Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel = 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 is needed by package xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-devel is needed by package qt-devel [david@reddwarf ~]$ rpm -q xorg-x11-devel xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 Thanks david

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Ripping a CD to MP3
by SternData 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

I've installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3. I've followed the instructions from FedoraFAQ but I have two problems with Sound Juicer: 1. The MP3 settings don't appear in its preferences 2. It doesn't get any info about the CD. (CD Player, however, gets the title and all track names.) I'm without a clue right now. -- Steve

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How to rip Fedoracore disc download to dvd
by Michael Wright 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi all happy new year... ? how do i rip fedoracore to dvd.

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