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OK, I have a strange one for you - grub
by jdow 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

I need some help with an obscure problem that I think grub can solve. I have a motherboard that has replaced an old ECS board that blew its caps. It's an FIC motherboard which refuses to boot off the main IDE hard disk when the Promise raid system that the machine should have is installed. We desperately need to get data off the Promise card. So the kicker is I must chain load to the /dev/hd0 boot from a floppy to overcome the BIOS's attempt to boot from the RAID array. (It was present solely to store audio files.) I can create a floppy with stage1 and stage2 per the documentation. But I am creating it NOT on the system that I must boot. So what I need to know is what next steps are necessary to create a floppy which will chain on over to boot off the MBR of /dev/hd0. There seems to be missing steps in the grub documentation in this regard. Is this even possible? And if not, is it possible with lilo instead? {^_^} Joanne

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cups/system-config-printer ppd file - removing?
by Jonathan Underwood 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi Is it possible to remove ppd files after they have been imported with system-config-printer - i.e. remove them from the list of printers that one sees in system-config-printer? Or, in other words, where is the information that system-config-printer is using to generate the list of printers? Cheers, Jonathan

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Ext3-fs error - Start_transaction journal has aborted
by Franco 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi every week i receive this error from server with FC2. After 2 or 3 reboot with fsck it come back up but after about a week it appear again. Any ideas?

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Re: strange nfs problem
by Steve Dickson 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Neil Dugan wrote: > Sep 2 13:18:40 mini-cl rpc.idmapd: nfsdreopen: Opening '' failed: errno 2 (No such file or directory) This was a memory corruption problem that was found late in the FC4 release cycle. Update will take care of this... steved.

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squid proxy question
by freejay＠tri-isys.com 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi, I noticed that whenever I go to a particular ftp site (e.g. ftp://ftp.somewhere.com) using my browser, it returns an error message. This happens whenever the proxy server is enabled in my browser. There is a firewall between my machine and the internet and it is configured to allow my PC to perfrom ftp download from any ftp site. I was able to do a workaround for this by putting ftp.somewhere.com in the browser's proxy setting's exceptions list. But I'm thinking this is so much hassle just to add URLs at the exceptions list. Is there a way to configure it in the proxy server's side so that I do not have to add URL's in the exceptions list? Thanks

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ACPI issues in kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4
by Steve Parker 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi, In addition to the matrox_w1 messages I'm seeing with this kernel, I'm also seeing the following ACPI errors in syslog: ACPI-0287: *** Error: Region SystemIO(1) has no handler ACPI-0127: *** Error: acpi_load_tables: Could not load namespace: AE_NOT_EXIST ACPI-0136: *** Error: acpi_load_tables: Could not load tables: AE_NOT_EXIST ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050729 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. ACPI-0171: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PWRB._HID] (Node f7ec9b20), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND ACPI-0171: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.SLPB._HID] (Node f7ec9ac0), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND ACPI-0171: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.MEM_._HID] (Node f7ec9a40), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND ACPI-0171: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.FWH_._HID] (Node f7ec99e0), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND ACPI-0171: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0._HID] (Node f7ec9980), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND ACPI-0171: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_TZ_.FAN_._HID] (Node f7ec9da0), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND Anyone else getting these? Anyone know how to resolve this? Thanks in advance! -Steve

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Evolution - Leafnode: how do they work together?
by Gianluca Turconi 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi *, I post here a message I originally sent to some usenet groups without answer. I hope I've more luck in this list. :) If it's a question already answered please point me to the right web resources. ***original message*** I'm trying to use Evolution 2.2 email client and leafnode newsserver on a single PC. I've used leafnode since RH 8.0 with other clients and it worked really fine. On Fedora Core 4 the newsserver works with each client I tested (knode, pan, mozilla mail and thunderbird) exept Evolution, which I'd like to use both for mail and news even if it has not many advanced features. Here what I did so far: 1) I've compiled leafnode 1.11.3 from sources (i've tried the rpm provided by FC extras with no luck too :( 2) I've changed hosts.allow and hosts.deny acconding to the sources instructions. In hosts.allow I added: leafnode: 127.0.0.1 In hosts.deny: leafnode: ALL When I used the rpm version I commented the two lines above out and used this script for xinetd: service nntp { disable = no socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = news server = /usr/sbin/leafnode bind = 127.0.0.1 } 3) I can connect to my remote newsserver (with a password access) and download newsgroup list and articles. 4) I can locally connect Evolution to leafnode server on 127.0.0.1 and download newsgroup list and articles. 5) I'm **really** not able to locally post a new article or reply to an old one from Evolution. My messages simply disappear once sent!!! I was used to find the outgoing messages into /var/spool/news/out.going directory. With other clients my messages are there and they are remotely posted when leafnode connects to the Internet. Instead with Evolution, I don't know where they go. This is what I read in my reply's headings (I read them in the message copy I found in the "sent" folder of Evolution) to another usenet user's message I can locally see. X-Evolution-PostTo: nntp://127.0.0.1/it.test X-Evolution-Format: text/plain X-Evolution-Account: 1125408653.17990.0(a)localhost.localdomain X-Evolution-Transport: smtp://<name of my smtp provider>/;use_ssl=never X-Evolution-Fcc: mbox:/home/gt/.evolution/mail/local#Sent I posted this reply from Evolution to leafnode and literally vanished. It seems Evolution is trying to use smtp protocol to post to the local newsserver and it's really strange, since I don't receive any error message from Evolution client while the post should be rejected. In addition, leafnode should reject it because of the "@localhost.localdomain" part (this is another issue I'll try to solve once I'll succeed in having at least an error message from Evolution...) I've spent several hours googling with no success, so anybody has any hints? Is Evolution usable as newsreader at all? (BTW, I've not discovered how to post a new message to a newsgroup. Evolution opens the new mail editor and still use the smtp protocol with my news account! Thanks in advance for any help. Best Regards, Gianluca

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dvips options
by Michael A. Peters 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

To go from latex to pdf I use dvips and the adobe online encoding. I can't use pdflatex or PDFTex because my documents use gnuplot generated tex files that contain postscript (this allows me to have LaTeX render the text part of the graphs, and makes it easier to adjust the axis labeling, which on 3D plots sometimes conflict with the axis and need to be moved, depending upon the view perspective). I go from ps to pdf via Adobe online encoding because sometimes ghostscript (ps2pdf) messes up, and you often can't tell until you have printed it - but sometimes its really obvious (like putting letters on top of each other). Distiller (online encoding) gets it right. I have a prosper class latex document (PDF slide show). It needs to be A4 landscape. It also must be done dvi -> pd -> pdf because prosper uses pstricks When I use dvips -Ppdf I get a landscape but it is letter, right side of slides chopped. If I use dvips -Ppdf -t a4 It does get done a4 by online - but portrait, so I have to rotate it to properly view it. If I use dvips -Ppdf -t a4 -t landscape I still get portrait A4 -=- Does anyone know either a) A proper option sequence to give to dvips to get A4 landscape out of Adobe online encoding b) A proper way to modify the output of dvips (the postscript file) to make sure it really is landscape a4 c) A way to modify an existing PDF file so that it is landscape by default Either one of those (a would obviously be best) would solve my problem. Thanks for suggestions.

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ATI & nVidia
by Robert Bell 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

I think I'm finally going to ditch my Radeon in favor of an nVidia card. Can someone recommend an nvidia card comparable to my Radeon 9800 that plays nice with FC4? Thanks

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weired keycodes in xorg-x11 of fedora core 4
by JHB 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

hi, I found xorg-x11 server reports wrong keycodes in Fedora core 4 on: kernel: 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 glib: glib-1.2.10-16 glib2: glib2-2.6.4-1 xorg-x11: 6.8.2-37.FC4.45 iiimf-x: 12.2-4.fc4.2 And, keyboard configurations of my 'xorg.conf' are: Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" My system setting is: LANG=ko_KR.eucKR XMODIFIERS=@im=iiimx While key pressed, X server reports wrong key codes of following keys: key symbols gdkkeysyms.h actual -------------- ----------- ----------------- GDK_KP_Home 0xFF95 0xffb7, KP_7 GDK_KP_Left 0xFF96 0xffb4, KP_4 GDK_KP_Up 0xFF97 0xffb8, KP_8 GDK_KP_Right 0xFF98 0xffb6, KP_6 GDK_KP_Down 0xFF99 0xffb2, KP_2 GDK_KP_Prior 0xFF9A 0xffb9, KP_9 GDK_KP_Next 0xFF9B 0xffb3, KP_3 GDK_KP_End 0xFF9C 0xffb1, KP_1 GDK_KP_Begin 0xFF9D 0xffb5, KP_5 GDK_KP_Insert 0xFF9E 0xffb0, KP_0 GDK_KP_Delete 0xFF9F 0xffae, KP_Decimal GDK_Print 0xFF61 0xff20, Multi_key These weird behaviors are observed all xlib, gtk2 and gtk programs. It seems not related with specific locale or language module because it is still occurred when I set system locale to en_US. How can I solve this problem? Regard,

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