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Compiz shortcuts
by Marcelo Magno T. Sales 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

People, How do I change compiz shortcuts? Thanks, Marcelo

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Tips for passing the media check
by Matthew J. Roth 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

List members, I downloaded the FC6 installation images to my Windows XP machine and used Nero to burn them to CDs, but the media check kept failing. After some research, I found a reliable method for burning installation CDs that pass the media check. 1) Boot into Knoppix using the following boot options - knoppix 2 toram dma 2) Stop the automount service - /etc/init.d/autofs stop 3) Unmount the CD burner - umount /mnt/cdrom 4) Mount the drive containing the FC6 images - mount /dev/hda1 5) Change to the directory containing the FC6 images - cd /mnt/hda1/FC6/i386 6) Burn the images to CD - cdrecord -v -pad -dao speed=16 -eject dev=/dev/cdrom FC-6-i386-disc1.iso Of course, any Linux distribution should work, but I just happened to have my Knoppix 4.0.2 CD handy. The important part is invoking cdrecord with the -pad and -dao options. In order to determine the right speed setting for your machine, you can use the -dummy option to perform test runs. Good luck, Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketing Solutions Software Engineer and Systems Developer

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To upgrade or not to upgrade....
by Smith, Herb 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

All, I have just noticed that FC6 is available and the question is how does the upgrade process work? More specifically, is there anything that sets out which directories are not affected by the upgrade process. I have a number of applications installed in /opt and other places and wondered if these would be affected. I admit that I probably haven't handled that process as well as I could have in all cases, but that is due to my own lack of understanding sometimes. I assume that /home will be unaffected, but it is not clear if the files located in some of these other locations that are not part of the Fedora distribution will be disturbed. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks in advance, Herb

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Re: Fedora Core 6 Install Problem on dual boot Thinkpad
by Charles Curley 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:22:39PM -0400, Brian Kaye wrote: > > > Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:18:10PM -0400, bdk(a)unb.ca wrote: > >> as to where to look. > > > > What exactly are you trying to do on the Thinkpad? Install over the > > existing FC5 installation, upgrade the existing FC5 installation, or > > install to a partition so that you will have FC5, FC6 and Windows > > cohabiting? > > Upgrade from FC5 to FC6. Just stuck the CD in and tried an upgrade. It > said it could not recognize the boot configuration. Hmm, not exactly concise. Next time you try, when you get to this, hit CTL-ALT-F3 (and then CTL-ALT-F[1-7] in sequence), and see if anything jumps out at you as an error message. If you still have the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg from your original installation, you might look at that and see if that gives you any ideas. But that's a long shot. Just for the halibut, I rebooted my machine into the upgrade process, and got all the way past the dependencies process. > > > > > > What exactly did Anaconda complain about? What does your present > > grub.conf show? Do you install grub to the MBR or to the partition's > > boot record? What does "fdisk -l /dev/hda" return. Please copy the > > exact results into your reply. > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 40635 20480008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. This by itself should not be a problem. > /dev/hda2 40636 49935 4687200 12 Compaq diagnostics > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/hda3 49949 50953 506047+ 83 Linux > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. There is a small gap between hda2 and hda3. This is not a problem. > /dev/hda4 50953 116280 32925217+ 5 Extended > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. This MAY be a problem. Notice that hda4 starts on the same cylinder as the one on which hda3 ends. This is probably a result of not ending the previous partition on a cylinder boundary. I wonder if Anaconda is rejecting it for that reason? I built my partitions by hand with Linux' fdisk. I have no idea what Anaconda uses. Anyway, one thing to do is rerun fdisk with -u and make sure no two partitions overlap. > /dev/hda5 50953 71273 10241406 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 71273 91593 10241406 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 91593 101745 5116671 83 Linux > /dev/hda8 101746 103833 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda ... > chainloader +1 All of this looks good to me. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB

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HP PSC all in one and workaround solutions.
by Jim Cornette 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

As two threads referenced two problems being present with the FC6 release and printing. The first problem referencing not being able to scan. The second problem referencing not being able to print. For the first problem, I found that resetting the all in one after logged into the terminal will allow the ability to successfully launch the scanner. It seems that the device gets in a state where the device is set to a poor state, possibly when you dual boot and access windows. Anyway, I was able to successfully scan in both FC6 and current development by pressing the on/resume button to turn off the device and then pressing the on/resume button again to restart the device. When I pressed the scanner tool, it launched and I was able to scan with the device. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213187 Now for the problem with not being able to print. It seems that HAL adds an entry for printers which does not work. Also, hp-setup will create another entry which will not work either. If yo choose to add a manual entry, then choose HP followed by the PSC model that you have (1210 in my case with a model 1209) you should be able to get a working printer with the manual entry. I chose the default driver for it which was a foomatic gimp-print type of driver. I don't know why the automatic HAL or the hp-setup entry do not work. They just do not work for my system. The manual entry does though. Maybe a little help or maybe some added problems with this workaround solution. Bug in progress of being isolated though. Jim -- [ ] Safeguard this message - it is an important historical document. [ ] Delete after reading -- Subversive Literature. [ ] Ignore and go back to what you were doing.

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Anyone using SeaMonkey mail?
by Anne Wilson 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

While I couldn't use kmail I used seamonkey mail when I wanted to reply from this box, but one thing really annoyed me. I couldn't get it to remember to display messages threaded. Every time I opened it, I had to re-set it to threaded. Do others find the same? Anne

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What is better to install for Core duos & FC6 either i686 or x86_64?
by Thomas Fischer 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hello all, I would like a frank opinion and what are the plus or minus of installing either the i686 version or x86_64 version of FC6 on an Intel Core (or Core2) Duo platform? I've read different articles that say that using the x86_64 version comes with a fair bit of downsides including lack of support for lots of software... I plan to use this installation as a Desktop machine for every day work. Thanks for your inputs...

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Fedora & KDE questions ?
by lostson 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hello All, I have been looking through the fedora wiki for fedora lists that deal with fedora and kde and have not found anything. I am interested to know would it be advisable or possible to create fedora-kde mailing list and irc channel to match. I know alot of us use KDE and I think this would be a great benefit. If we have enough interest would be the ultimate question I guess. I started to ponder this after reading all the emails that came through with tag of "is KDE on Fedora really that bad" There seems to be alot of work going on with KDE and Fedora and that email sparked alot of conversation and has piqued my interest in getting involved with the KDE on Fedora. Hopefully we can make this happen. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org

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FC5 - dual display w/ GeForce2
by Jamie Bohr 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hello All, I put a GeForce2 MX/MX 400 NVidia card in a FC5 system today, a gift from from a friend. I am trying to get dual display working and am not having any luck. From the articles I've read the card is capable of supporting dual displays. I installed the NVidia driver (from NVidia). When X starts the second display flickers them stops. I have two HP p1110 displays attached. I have attached my xorg.conf file for reference and a screen shot of the display settings. If I set the monitor types in "Display Settings" X will refuse to start. I can send the error logs if they would be helpful. I have googled and tried a few things, none worked. I would like to use two displays if I can. Thank you for your help, -- Jamie Bohr

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OT: Good Linux script book ?
by Kim Lux 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Sorry for the off topic post. Does anyone know of a really good book that covers writing scripts ? Preferably this book will have lots of examples and covers some of the more esoteric and hidden stuff. Is this one any good ? http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Shell-Script-Programming-Meadors/dp/0619159200 And no, I don't want to Perl for this stuff. Thanks. -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.

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