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FC5 install freezes on IBM T23 laptop
by Nick Miller 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi All, I am trying to perform a clean install of FC5 from the DVD ISO but I seem to be having some weird issues. Every time I try to run the installer (both in text and graphical mode) my system locks up completely. It always happens when the installer is actually installing the RPMs and it is always on different packages. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem. Also tried doing a network install but the same issue occurs. Regards, Nick -- Nicholas Miller Web Developer / System Admin PressEnter! Internet 715-377-0746 nick(a)pressenter.com

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RE: slow FC4 to FC5 upgrade
by Henry Hartley 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

James Wilkinson wrote: >> The easiest way to check swap is to run free (from a command prompt). It >> reports: >> $ free >> total used free shared buffers cached >> Mem: 1025568 1012780 12788 0 74376 616300 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 322104 703464 >> Swap: 2024108 196 2023912 >> >> saying I have 2 GB of swap, of which 196K is used. Yes, that helps. Free reports: $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 256212 58400 197812 0 1912 28416 -/+ buffers/cache: 28072 228140 Swap: 524280 87600 436680 So it does look like I have swap turned on. Some further testing indicates that the removal of old kernel-devel packages (15 of them) is at least part of the problem. I tried running: $ package-cleanup --oldkernels from yum-utils. That resulted in the same error as did my big yum update (which was "memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL"). So I tried: $ yum remove kernel-devel-2.6.12-*_FC4 Figuring that 15 was too many to remove at once so just remove these 5. Same error. In fact, attempting to remove just one kernel-devel package resulted in this error. Is there another way to remove them that may work? -- Henry

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Preview Video content in Konqueror
by Greg Trounson 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi, Up until recently I have been able to use Konqueror to preview all sorts of files, including video. However since upgrading to FC4 I can no longer do this. Video previewing seems to have been totally removed from Konqueror altogether (though it still works fine on my Debian box). Normally one can just go to the View and select Preview->Video, but the Video menu item is no longer there. It has Sound Files, Images, Text Files, Font Files, Electronic Business Card Files (?!), but no mention of Video. I have read about other people having this problem and re-installing kdemultimedia or kdemultimedia-extras fixing it for them, but no such luck in my case. I have installed and re-installed mplayer, xine, kaffeine, kmplayer, kaboodle, noatun, et al ad nauseum with no effect. What can one do to get video previews back? thanks, Greg

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ATI Fire GL 5100 does not work under FC5
by John Ragnico 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi. Sorry I posted this under a wrong header, I post it again. I just installed FC5. No problems but for graphical mode screen. I have an ATI Fire GL V5100 card, and an HP 2335 23" screen. I cannot set in any way the correct resolution (1920x1200). I had to install in text mode, that worked: after that the computer will start in runmode 3, and changing the resolution has no effect (even at something lower than 1920x1200: it always stays, I believe, to the lowest resolution). Help and hints would be very appreciated... Thanks! ps manually changing the xorg config file to only leave the 1920x1200 line did not have any effect. pps I have used yum to install the new kernel (and all packets available at today), and nothing changes.

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Kernel recompiling error
by Chethiya K Ranaweera 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I am trying to recompile the 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 kernel. I followed the instructions given in the fedora core website but I get a bunch of errors in scripts/basic/fixdep.c file. Has anybody else experienced this problem?? -- CK

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Looking for the package with the KDE screensavers
by Paul Smith 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Dear All What is the package containing the KDE screensavers? Thanks in advance, Paul

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FC4 and Eclipse Issue
by Stephen Esquibel 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

All, I'm new to fedora, and Ihave an issue with Eclipse. Every time I start it up, I recieve a pop-up with this error message. JVM terminated. Exit code=1 /usr/bin/java -jar startup.jar -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -launcher /usr/bin/eclipse -name Eclipse -showsplash 600 -exitdata 140018 -vm /usr/bin/java -vmargs -jar startup.jar Here are the java links for my system lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 12 20:19 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Mar 19 22:14 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-sun/bin/java* Any thoughts?

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Media player
by Timothy Cantwell 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

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FC5 install & Princeton Synergy LCD monitor "Out of Timing" problem
by Bob St John 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Folks, Just did a new FC5 install on a brand new box (to be dual-booted with Windows XP). Install went perfectly (I think), but on first real boot (and subsequent retries) I see start of boot on my Princeton Synergy LCD monitor, then suddenly I get: "Out of Timing - V=65Hz - H=81Khx" on a black screen and nothing else. So I think the FC5 video set-up went wrong someplace, but I don't know how to fix this. Any advice? Thanks . . . Bob St. John

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broadcom wireless
by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I'm trying to get the built-in wireless working on a new Compag v5000z. lspci claims the following: 06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1470 DualBand WLAN (rev 02) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1358 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at c0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] I'd first assumed it was a BCM43xx card and followed the instructions on bcm43xx-fwcutter to get the card going. I never see an eth1 (or other new network device) show up under "ifconfig -a". Short of ripping the laptop apart and putting the wireless chips under a magnifying glass, how do I find out what chip this really is? (Or is "1470" the chip number? I had assumed it was a the mini-pci card's model number.) -wolfgang

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