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Quake 4 unplayable with FC6
by Andy Campbell 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

I played Quake 4 on FC5 quite happily 20+ FPS @1600x1200, now under FC6 I'm lucky if I can get above 10FPS. Details ... + FC6 64bit + Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS + AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ + xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.lvn6 + Fresh install of FC6, I've still got FC5 on a different partition if you need any details. + FC5 was a 32bit install + I've turned Desktop effects off + glxgears gives ~4200FPS I've tried reducing the resolution to 1280x1024 - its not much better. I've also noticed text and the pointer don't seem to get rendered properly now either - which make it look the driver to me. Anyone had similar issues ? I'm trying to decide if its the 9xxx drivers - not that easy to try the 8xxx drivers as they don't exist in livna for the current kernels, and the there are the warnings of the potential problems with the NVidia installer and Fedora. Or perhaps its because I decided to try 64bit Fedora this time - not convinced. Or something else ? Thanks Andy

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US summer time change for 2007
by Sam Varshavchik 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Does FC4 have the updated locale files that reflect the change in summer time start/end for 2007; if not, what files do I need to copy from FC6 to FC4, to fix that?

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LCD via VGA port
by Paulo Cavalcanti 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Hi, I am having problems connecting an LCD to a nvidia card using a VGA port in FC6. I only succeeded using either a DVI port or a DVI-VGA adaptor. With a real CRT everything is works fine. I tried the VGA port approach in two different computers (GeForce 4 and FX-5200) with two different Samsung LCDs (510N and 710N), and got the same result. With the nv driver, generally, the screen becomes black after a logout and X does not return. The nvidia driver is even worse. If I manage to login, the system hangs during a video intensive application. I have never had any problem using FC5, what makes me believe that the problem stems from xorg 7.1 Any suggestion will be really appreciated. Thanks, /Paulo

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Accounting Packages
by R. G. Newbury 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

I've used the same DOS based accounting package since 1992. My accountant does not like the program and I cannot print directly from it in Dosbox or qemu, and I cannot get it to run under Wine. So, are there any nominations for a small business general accounting package which will run under Linux, specifically FC6? I need something more than Quickbooks/Quicken. This is for a business nor balancing a checkbook. Geoff

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google earth and slow frame rates
by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

I'm trying to get FC6/x86_64 to run google earth on two different systems. Neither one is usable. system 1: a compaq v5000z: Google earth runs just fine under that Redmond OS, but under FC6 it uses software emulation and is unusably slow. (--) PCI:*(1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) rev 0, Mem @ 0xc8000000/27, 0xc0100000/16, I/O @ 0x9000/8 system 2: amd64 desktop (tyan 2465 w. ATI x300): (--) PCI: (1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL rev 39, Mem @ 0xfc000000/24, 0xfdfff000/12, I/O @ 0xac00/8 (--) PCI:*(5:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] rev 0, Mem @ 0xd8000000/27, 0xfe3f0000/16, I/O @ 0x6c00/8 (--) PCI: (5:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] rev 0, Mem @ 0xfe3e0000/16 This second system emits some gripes and then runs at approximately 1 frame per second which is also unusable. bash-3.1$ googleearth libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b *********************************WARN_ONCE********************************* File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 428 Software fallback:ctx->Line.SmoothFlag *************************************************************************** Try R300_SPAN_DISABLE_LOCKING env var if this hangs. *********************************WARN_ONCE********************************* File r300_state.c function r300Enable line 513 TODO - double side stencil ! *************************************************************************** Is there something I can do to get it to run faster? (Like turning off the opengl things it was griping about?) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/

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boot devices order problem
by Axel 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Hello I just tryied to install Fedora core 6, but stopped it before disk partitionning. I use a motherboard with 2 integrated raid controllers : one in the nforce chipset, another one with a Silicon Image controller. My disk is plugged in the silicon image controller. I have also a firewire hard drive. After boot, kernel messages tell me that the firewire hard drive is known as /dev/sda and the internal S-ATA drive as /dev/sdb. The fedora wizard wanted to use the /dev/sda drive as main drive. I can easily use /dev/sdb instead of and manually modify grub paths in order to have a clean boot. I wonder : if I go with this setup (boot partitions on /dev/sdb), if I don't have the external hard drive plugged or turned on while the kernel load, my internal drive will be mapped to /dev/sda ? What would happen during the mount of partition ? the root partition won't be mounted ? I have not always the external hard drive , so I think the best workaround would be to turn it off , install FC6, and never have the external drive turned on if i want the boot to pass. Or maybe someone has a better idea ? Thanks in advance.

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OT Thin Clients
by maillist＠sios.ca 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

A friend of mine and I were discussing setting up a server to service our family members via a Thin Client from lap tops. While a thin client into a linux server at a command line level is no big issue, in this case the users must be able to log onto a gui interface level and use their personal desktop. After looking at things a bit it seems that it is possible for only one user at a time to log on to an xinterface, we had thought that it might be possible to connect to isolated workspaces, are we missing something in the process?

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Any good check printing programs?
by Tom Horsley 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

As an exercise in getting familiar with the Qt 4 toolkit, I'm working on a program that seems to be missing from all the linux money programs I can discover (gnucash, kmymoney, etc). None of 'em can print real physical checks worth spit (or even at all for some). I figure I can just make this a stand alone program that prints checks and generates .qif files at the same time, which I can then import into the money program of my choice. Does this sound remotely useful? Have I missed some program that does a good job of check printing (quicken does, of course, but the point is to get away from windows). Is it worth aiming to make this thing release quality, or should I just stick with the learning exercise? :-).

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OS Future now that Fedora Legacy defunct
by Justin Willmert 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Yesterday I read that Fedora Legacy has become defunct and I'm guessing that means it won't be pushing any updates anymore. As that stands, it probably means I have even more reasons to upgrade to a newer version. With that, I was wondering if anybody has any inside knowledge of when Red Hat might be releasing RHEL 5 (I know this isn't strictly a Fedora question, but I know there are various Fedora users who also work for RH and might know). Once it's released, I'd like to get the equivalent version of CentOS for my server, but if it's going to be a while (say, longer than a month from now), I'll just upgrade my server to Fedora Core 6 during Christmas break. Any enlightenment would be helpful. Thanks, Justin W

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Is NetworkManager working for you?
by Timothy Murphy 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

I'm running NetworkManager (NM) under Fedora-6 with KDE, but am not entirely happy with it, and I'm wondering what the general experience of Fedora/KDE users is with NM? What worries me is that NM is completely unpredictable, in my experience. This morning, for instance, on re-booting my ThinkPad laptop NetworkManager said it was connected to my Linksys WRT54GL access point, but in fact I could not access my WiFi LAN. I have tried running "service NetworkManager restart" but that has never succeeded when NetworkManager has failed. In fact it seems to send my PCMCIA Orinoco Gold WiFi card into a state of complete stupor, with the main light on the card (showing it is working) turned off. NetworkManager does have some advantages over the basic Fedora wireless network setup, which I also found extremely unsatisfactory. In particular the profile setup never worked for me. But I'm wondering whether to persist with NM, or to try to get some other WiFi software working. (Someone mentioned wifi-radar - I don't know if there is anything else.) The WiFi setup under Fedora is really appallingly bad. There is no proper documentation, and such Help files as are provided seem completely useless. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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