sound still not waking up from suspend on my Dell Latitude C840
by Globe Trotter
Hi,
I have not had sound wake up from a pm-suspend on my Dell Latitude C840 ever
since FC5. I filed on bugzilla, and after months, I was told that it is an alsa
problem. However, sound works just fine on xubuntu running the same alsa. By
the way, alsa on FC5-6 is outdated anyway, but I don't believe this is the
problem.
Actually, xine has not had sound from the middle of FC4. Mplayer works fine.
Both work as advertised on xubuntu.
I am still trying out the two distributions (FC6 vs xubuntu 6.10) and will
write up my thoughts in a while: I badly want to stick to FC, because I value
the Extras repo and also because I have grown up with FC so I hope this will be
fixed soon.
Best,
Trotter
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17 years, 6 months
is it possible to tell compiz to ignore certain windows
by Chris Jones
Hi,
When running compiz under kde, compiz does not seem to distinguish
between "normal" windows and the kde panels. It includes them in the "view
all windows" and "list windows" features, which is kind of annoying, and
sometimes causes them to vanish.
Is it possible to tell compiz to ignore these windows ? Or is there some other
way to work around this ?
cheers Chris
17 years, 6 months
New experience with sound card
by Aaron Konstam
I have run 5 versions of Fedora on this machine. FC6 is the first one
thast can't find my sound card. What do I do about that?
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17 years, 6 months
Re: FC5: Sendmail error: hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file...
by Paul Howarth
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 09:42 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just installed a fresh copy of FC5. I uncommented the network loopback so that
> it would accept email from all. Everything worked fine, but suddenly in my
> Logwatch this morning, on all my machines, I note this:
>
> hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: Permission denied
> WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases
> Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases
>
> When I manually type "newaliases" as root, it also gives me this message.
> After Googling, others have had the problem, but I couldn't find a resolution.
> My permissions on the files in question:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9961 May 20 00:10 aliases
> -rw-r----- 1 smmsp smmsp 24576 May 22 13:40 aliases.db
>
> Those are correct from what I can tell. Any ideas? Now, here's the kicker:
> When I remove aliases.db manually, and then type "newaliases" everything
> is as shown above EXCEPT the user is root for aliases.db, AND I don't get
> the silly error message anymore. (Scratches head)...I think I have owner
> or group permissions messed up somewhere, but I am not familiar with the
> inner workings of Sendmail to figure this out.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated!
It should be owned by root. If you look at the postinstall script in the
sendmail rpm, it even tries to fix this problem:
#
# Rebuild maps (next reboot will rebuild also)
#
{
chown
root /etc/aliases.db /etc/mail/access.db /etc/mail/mailertable.db \
/etc/mail/domaintable.db /etc/mail/virtusertable.db
/usr/bin/newaliases
for map in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do
if [ -f /etc/mail/${map} ]; then
/usr/bin/makemap hash /etc/mail/${map} < /etc/mail/${map}
fi
done
} > /dev/null 2>&1
Removing the .db files and recreating them from the text files is the
safe thing to do.
Paul.
17 years, 6 months
Re: How does Firefox 2 get added?
by Dustin Ratliffe
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>Joe Smith wrote:
>> Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> ...
>>> In short, there's no compelling reason to go to Firefox 2.0, and
>>> Fedora will
>>> probably skip it.
>>>
>>> Having gone ahead and installed Christopher Aillon's test packages on my
>>> devel-tree machine, this seems like a really good decision to me.
>>
>> He mentions technical reasons to avoid it, but I can't entirely follow
>> the discussion.
>>
>> Can anyone explain succinctly why my FC5 can process a dozen updates a
>> week, including kernel updates, but this one is "just too much trouble"?
>
>Fedora version of Firefox has pango related patches which enable better
>I18N support that would be need to be updated,tested and vetted through
>Mozilla for example. The decision of doing a major update like this is
>generally left to the software developer and maintainer of the package
>and obviously he doesnt believe that the current version is worth the
>effort to provide as a update in this case. Experimental versions have
>been posted to fedora-devel list. If users really want it, they can use
>that.
>
>Rahul
Can someone add that last part to:
Fedora Core 6 - Common Bugs and Known Issues
( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common )
Perhaps, something like:
ISSUE: How to install Firefox 2.0
---------------------------------
For a variety of reasons, we are not planning to update to Firefox
2.0. We are instead focusing resources on Firefox 3.0, which will
provide much more substantial benefits. We understand that some
users will be willing to accept the risk of running Firefox 2.0 to
gain compatibility with new extensions (e.g., Zotero and
Halfnote). We have made available an experimental version of
Firefox 2.0. However, we must stress that we believe the best
experience for Fedora users will be to stay with Firefox 1.5 and
wait for the Firefox 3.0 update. The experimental development
version is available here:
http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/fc7/
Alternatively, it might make more sense to point users to the parallel
install package submitted for review for inclusion in EXTRAS:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211807
Having FF2.0 coexist with FF1.5 would make it easier for users to
safely evaluate whether FF2.0 is ready to meet their needs (e.g., is
compatibible with their favorite extensions).
See also this bug that tracks the general issue of best recommendation
to give users wishing to install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6.:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213177
Thanks
Dustin Ratliffe
17 years, 6 months
[FC-6 x86_64] Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 woes
by HomerJ
Hello. First time posting here but figured I'd give it a shot since
I've not had luck yet at the fedoraforum ...
I just bought HP dv2120 laptop which has a broadcom wireless card
(lspci -vvv and -n output below). I did a fresh install of FC-6 GOLD
x86_64, kernel is 2.6.18-1.2798 and everything seems to work great
except the wireless. From my googling it appears that this card
should be supported by the bcm43xx module. I've read the bcm43xx
HOWTO in fedoraforum, as well as the excellent HOWTO David Woodhouse
x-posted to the fedora lists, however no luck thus far. The bcm43xx
module loads just fine, no errors in syslog or dmesg. I've tried a
handful of the drivers listed in the bcm43xx-fwcutter README, and the
fwcutter tool seems to extract the firmware fine. But NetworkManager
isn't seeing any wireless devices, and attempting to manually bring up
the interface also states that the device isn't present:
[dave@smithers ~]$ ifup eth1
bcm43xx device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Is this possibly related to running the x86_64 spin of FC6? I'm
considering doing an x86 install but would prefer not to as I really
was hoping to run 64-bit on this laptop.
I'm not sure how to further troubleshoot this problem. Any/all advice
is greatly appreciated!
~Homer~
-----
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390
WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1363
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at c3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 00000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag+
Device: Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited
Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Port 0
Link: Latency L0s <4us, L1 <64us
Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk- ExtSynch-
Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
-----
[dave@smithers ~]$ lspci -n
01:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01)
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17 years, 6 months
Lost anti-aliasing
by Matthias Bauw
hi there,
I am using Fedora 5 for quite a while now, I have always used gnome but
recently I started playing around with
KDE and XFCE. But when I logged in in Gnome again I lost anti-aliasing on
the desktop of the user with wich I have logged in in both
other systems. On all the other users nothing is wrong.
I have added some screenshots for you to see, maybe someone knows a solution
for this?
Thanks a lot
Matt.
17 years, 6 months
Strange kmail problem
by Anne Wilson
I installed FC6 on this box yesterday, with only minor problems, except...
KMail is totally unstable, crashing every few minutes and often causing
system freezes. I don't see how I can file a bug report, because I have
a laptop that ran rawhide and converted to FC6 and kmail is perfectly
stable there.
Can anyone suggest any starting points for investigation?
Anne
17 years, 6 months
FC6 Install No go :(
by Kip Thomas
please help!
I always get
"db4 error run database recovery"
this happens in various places. Sometimes after installing perl, sometimes
after ncurse. As a result, no bootloader was installed (hangs there). I
mounted in rescue mode and found that no kernel was installed. This is
understandable because the db4 error occured earlier on and affect
installation of the packages following it.
i was successful in select a minimal install "base system" and got just the
character console. I'm tempted to start an rpm loop to install all packages
but I think I'd be missing the usual routines performed by anaconda.
is there any hope for me? I love the FC6 compile option for performance but
it seems i'm out of options. I've tried so many variations of installation
and numerous trickery but still no go.
i guess i could restart the minimal install, install X, then minimal
KDE/GNOME and anaconda then add packages. Any help on how to go about this?
This is an IBM NetVista 6833-61U 768MB RAM
17 years, 6 months
Skype working on Ubuntu and not working on FC(5|6)
by Przemyslaw Gawronski
Hi, for some time I haven't managed to get Skype to work under FC5. On
another partition I've installed FC6 and also no success. Yet on another
partition I've got Ubuntu installed and there Skype worked out of the
box. I've setup everything in gnome-volume-control exactly the same as
it is in Ubuntu, but still it isn't working :(
Of course in both setups I us ALSA.
I've attached the output of amixer.
I would be very thankful for suggestions!
Przemek
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17 years, 6 months