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OT: Should Abiword really be kicked out of core?
by Markus Huber 02 May '05

02 May '05

Sorry for being a bit OT, but there is an interesting article about using PDF with blackend textparts (some of you might already know the story): http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/01/1314216&tid=172&tid=103 I tried to reproduce a similar behaviour with OpenOffice.org and Abiword. Result: PDFs created through OpenOffice.org are readable when the text is blackend (copying, pdftotext, pdftohtml). It does not matter which way one is creating a PDF. PDFs created through Abiword ("Create a PDF document" in the printing menue) are absolutely unreadable when a passage is blackend. No copying, no pdftotext, no pdftohtml works. I myself have sometimes to blacken names (not high-security, just lists of students), and I always created PNGs to do that. Knowing that Abiword can do that through PDFs might be very conveniant. That might be a feature to keep Abiword. At least: it's quite noticable and it's in the media right now. -- Regards Markus Huber PS: Sorry, it's late and English is not my first language, so I am not shure, if the grammar of my text is very correct.

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[Solved] Gnome Pilot: Initalize palmOne Treo under FC3
by Chuck White 02 May '05

02 May '05

Your rules file did the trick without me having to go any farther. Thanks! Chuck > Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:54:18 -0600 > From: kevin.kempter(a)dataintellect.com > Subject: Re: Gnome Pilot: Initalize palmOne Treo under FC3 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> > Message-ID: <200505021254.18365.kevin.kempter(a)dataintellect.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > .... > If it's a udev issue (i.e. the device goes away when not in use) then > this may > help: > > Try creating a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules with this > content: > > BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", > SYMLINK="pilot" > > Seemed to do the trick for me. If it doesn't work, you can also try > adding a > file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions with this > content: > > ttyUSB1:$local:uucp:0660 > > For more info, look at this site: > > http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096 > >

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how to view gif picture in linux?
by yufan 02 May '05

02 May '05

i can open the gif picutres,but cannot see any animation.any one know how to solve this prob?

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Floppy disk (filesystem size)
by Fred Nussbaum 02 May '05

02 May '05

Hi, I'need to write 1440 (1K blocks) to a floppy disk. This is the size of a driver for the hardware, that I need to be able to install FC3 (from an (FC3-)ISO image) . How do I create a floppy that can hold 1440 (1K blocks)? Or what alternative do I have? Thanks! Fred Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Strange name resolution
by Patrick Nelson 02 May '05

02 May '05

FC2 Up to date. I run a master and slave DNS service for an intranet (.mynet) and 8 FQDN internet. I can not seem to figure out what is happening a thought I would throw it to our list. Here are the facts: On my intranet domain I have systems named as cities like newyork.mynet. My DNS resolves these fine. I also have CNAMEs like svn.mynet in my say newyork.mynet A set. When ever I move one of my CNAMEs in my primary intranet zone. Say svn.mynet now points to windycity.mynet. I basically do a rndc flush & reload on the master and a rndc flush, reload, and refresh mynet on the slave. If I check it with dig svn.mynet @dns1.mynet and dig svn.mynet @dns2.mynet the resolution is as I would expect: pointing to windycity.mynet. However, if I do a ping from all my systems every system pings windycity.mynet except dns1.mynet (the master DNS). Here is what I have tried: I have checked the hosts file and I'm not running any other name resolution. I have stopped and started both master and slave DNSs. And I've ever rebooted these systems. No matter what I do it keeps point the svn.mynet to newyork.mynet on dns1.mynet and this is driving me crazy. So I must not fully understand something. I had given up on it and inserted a svn1.mynet SVNROOT variable in all systems .bash.profile and added it as a CNAME of windycity.mynet in my DNS zone. Everything works now except... I pinged the svn.mynet on dns1.mynet and now the darn thing has resolved to windycity.mynet. Argggg! This is exactly one week after I made the change. Anyone have any idea what is happening? It sure appears to be a cache issue but I'm not sure what are how to clear it. Note also this has happened before so it is not isolated. TIA

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Graphic problems after FC3 startup process.
by luis.bermudez＠att.net 02 May '05

02 May '05

Over the weekend I removed Windows XP and tried to install FC3 on my brand new Dell Inspiron 600m. I succeeded, even in getting the modem working (thanks to Linuxant), except for a small problem. Sometimes after I switch on the machine and it goes through the startup process, either in graphical or text mode (it doesn't matter), and before getting the login screen, the windows freezes and I loose control over the laptop leaving me the only option of switching it off. Sometimes the screen freezes just when the status bar gets the 100% of processes done and some other times it gets blank right after this and without showing the mouse. After re-starting the machine (improperly switch off) I check the file system integrity and then it normally goes through the start up processes and reaches the login screen allowing me then to log on. During the installation I selected the Generic LCD monitor with a 1400x1050 resolution (although I am using 1280x1024). The FC3 distribution I installed comes with the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel and a brief description of the hardware I got in this laptop is: Intel Pentium M Processor 745 (1.80 GHz/400 MHz) 14.1 Inches SXGA+ 64Mb Video (ATI Technologies Inc. Radeon Mobility 9000 M9) Memory 1.024 Mb DDR 266MHz SDRAM 2 Dimms Hard drive 60 Gb Although I use Linux every day, I am a user and my knowledge of system administration is very limited. That is why I am sending you this e-mail with the hope you know what is going on and can help me to fix this annoying problem. Thanks. - Luis

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KDE RPM installation problem
by Dumping Ground 02 May '05

02 May '05

Hi, I am facing a problem while installing any RPM application. Just to tell you I am using Fedora Core 3 on KDE 3.3 environment. Whenever I double click on any RPM it opens up the archieve manager instead of installation manager... but if I double click on the same RPM from GNOME it gets installed, i tried to google this problem but have not got any answer as of now.... Now whenever I have to install any application I have to do it from Command Line. Also to tell u the same thing works from GNOME but not from KDE.I am sure that there must be some setting to make this work on GUI. Earlier when I was using Redhat 9.2 I was able to install the packages from KDE. Is there any particular setting to enable this feature. Thanks & Regards, Prabodh

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HELP: Presentations with FC3 (again...)
by Gustavo Seabra 02 May '05

02 May '05

Hi, I need to make a presentation using OO Impress under FC3, in about 3 hours from now. I followed some suggestions I got here, and this is what I got so far: - I boot the computer, then connect the projector. Pressing Fcn+F8 sends the image to the projector, but doesn't "loop" display|projector|both as it should. It's either display or projector. - The image on the projector is always cut at the left end. I can never get the whole image there. - When I press Fcn+F8 to get back to the computer display, it always comes back with the image larger, and only half fits the screen, so I have to press CTRL+ALT+F7 to get the display back to normal. - Definition: The display is using 1152 x 864 definition. The projector seems to recognize that, and all works fine there, except for the left are, which is cut out. I tried everything with the projector, there just seems to be no way to make this left area appear. (I already moved the horizontal all I could) - Booting with the projector already connected makes no difference at all. Does anyone knows if I need to change any configuration to get it to work right? I just wanted the whole slide to appear! (The part too...) Also, do I have to change anything to get the Fcn+F8 to llop correctly (including the display+projector part) ? Thanks! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gustavo Seabra Graduate Student Chemistry Dept. Kansas State University Registered Linux user number 381680 Say NO! to software patents: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If at first you don't succeed... ...skydiving is not for you.

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Gnome Pilot: Initalize palmOne Treo under FC3
by Chuck White 02 May '05

02 May '05

I'm a newbie to Linux using Fedora Core 3 and a palmOne Treo (Palm OS 5.2.1). I've Googled, searched the fedora-list archive, and executed instruction found at http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gnome-pilot/. Two error messages follow: Error Message 1: [root@localhost chuck]# pilot-xfer -l No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given. Defaulting to '/dev/pilot' ERROR: No such file or directory (2) Error accessing: '/dev/pilot'. Does '/dev/pilot' exist? Please use --help for more information Error Message 2 (obtained from '/dev/pilot'): This link can't be used, because its target "/dev/ttyUSB1" doesn't exist. Additional Background: FC3 Machine: Sony Vaio PCG-GRX520 (Laptop with no old style serial ports) FC3 Updates: All installed using up2date Random Observation on '/dev/': Browsing the directory, I don't see any ttyUSBx. If you've read this far, you're a real trooper! Thanks for your time and I hope you can help. Chuck

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Xorg configuration
by Mark Haney 02 May '05

02 May '05

Kind of a stupid question, but it's my first time dealing with this issue with Xorg. I installed a server here at work and initially had it CLI only. Now, however, a few mouse-dependent people requested GUI access to it, so I yum'd the gnome packages down. But I've not configured X and I don't know how from this setup. Any help? -- otium cum dignitate Mark Haney Network Engineer, Uptime Computer Sales and Service 828-681-8030 markh at uptimecomputer dot net

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