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by S. Cesaretti 02 May '06

02 May '06

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test
by S. Cesaretti 02 May '06

02 May '06

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Control of USB modem
by William Murray 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hello all, I have a USB modem (running eciadsl) for my home connection, with some scripts I hacked to switch it on at power up and monitor that it is still working. If it does down (happens every few days) it is restarted automatically However, sometimes it hangs, power on, and does not respond stop commands. I am trying to work out how to detect failure, and if possible reset the device. I think a reboot of the whole machine will do the trick, but is there a less-destructive way? Thank you, Bill Murray

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List Configured Printers
by Tony Crouch 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi All, I am always forgetting the names of configured printers on my FC5 system. Is there a command I can run via terminal to output the names of configured printers? Cheers, Tony Crouch -- GPG Key fingerprint = EEB2 6364 791C 3BE2 A008 22D0 C469 950C 7C5A EE77

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FC5 - Can't start X with vanilla kernel
by Paul Rolland 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hello, I've installed FC5, and I'm running X (KDE) without any problem. Yesterday, I decided to migrate up to 2.6.16.11, and also tried 2.6.17-rc3. So, I downloaded kernel from kernel.org, built it, applied the 'udev migration' procedure (as I'm not using initrd with vanilla kernels), and restarted the machine. Good news, it is running fine, except that X doesn't work anymore... It does start, I can 'hear' it changing the resolution (I have a CRT not an LCD screen), but the screen stays black, no cursor, and X goes eating 100% of the CPU, being unkillable (though the machine can still be used, I can network-connect without problem except latencies...). Checking /var/log/messages, I can find : May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Badness. Don't know which AGP mode to set. [bridge_agpstat:1f000a0a vga_agpstat:ff00021b fell back to:- bridge_agpstat:1f000208 vga_agpstat:ff00021b] May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Bridge couldn't do AGP x4. May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 0x mode May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 0x mode May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: [drm] Setting GART location based on old memory map May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: [drm] writeback test failed which is very likely the reasons for my problems, but I can't find why... Before running FC5, I was an FC4 user, and I was also running a vanilla kernel with X without such a problem... Who should I blame for X not working ? Kernel, as it is the one part I changed, or X, as this was running fine before with the X from FC4 ? lspci says : 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) 00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02) 00:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13) 00:0c.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11G Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01) 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) 00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 ?? [Radeon 9550] (Secondary) Please help, Thanks a lot, Paul

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Re:Wired Ethernet Connection at Hotel
by Rick Bilonick 02 May '06

02 May '06

Sorry but I have to use pine via telnet to respond to the replies. I expected to be re-directed to a startup web page when I tried to use the browser but that did not happen - nothing happened the first time. I couldn't get to any web pages or use telnet or ssh. Yet route -r showed there was some sort of connection and the indicator for the ethernet connection showed there was some sort of connection (it was flashing and packets were being sent and received). I guessed at the gateway and dns and was able to ping them but that was as far as I could go until I used a route command to specify a default route to the gateway. I can tell from resolv.conf that dhcp is specifying the dns (yet I wasn't originally able to surf web pages unles I specified the ip address). An IT came up last night with his laptop (running Windows of course) and was immediately able to connect. It stays connected but for some reason the DNS gets lost and I have to repeatedly re-activate through the gui network interface. How can I look at dhcp? When I used to type in all the commands manually to connect (either wired or wirelessly using ifconfig, iwconfig, dhclient) dhclient would give me info on the leases. But for some time it doesn't give me any indication of what is going on. I'm going to try the service and dig example (but I wanted to send this first in case it causes any problems with connecting). Thanks. Rick B. Rick Bilonick mailto:rab@nauticom.net http://www.nauticom.net/users/rab

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php4 on fc5 ppc ?
by chuck clark 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hello, I need php 4 on fedora core 5 ppc (well fc5 is not required but wanted :) ) anyway i followed this site to compile the php4 rpm and it fails. php 5 was removed, all dependencys were installed php4 begins to compile and then fails. I am not at home so can't be more specific but fails on this rpmbuild --rebuild php-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.src.rpm all the examples are for i386, so my question is whether i should do something differently or in addition to this guide to get it to compile for ppc ? thanks, chuck

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Flash player installation support?
by Mike Chalmers 01 May '06

01 May '06

When trying to install Flash Player following instuctions at http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html, I run into a problem: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@dhcppc0 ~]# yum -y install flash-plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories dries [1/5] dries 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 core [2/5] http://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedora/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> Trying other mirror. core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates [3/5] updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 freshrpms [4/5] freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras [5/5] http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/rep…: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> Trying other mirror. extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 608 kB 00:10 dries : ################################################## 2584/2584 Added 2584 new packages, deleted 0 old in 9.98 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 249 kB 00:04 updates : ################################################## 805/805 Added 413 new packages, deleted 0 old in 3.47 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 55 kB 00:03 freshrpms : ################################################## 171/171 Added 171 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.98 seconds Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: flash-plugin Nothing to do ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any suggestions?

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Fedora 5 x86_64 Firefox & plugins.
by "Malcolm Candlish" 01 May '06

01 May '06

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Dell Inspiron 8300 and FC5 1280x800 resolution
by jery_wang 01 May '06

01 May '06

Hello, I installed FC5 on my laptop which is a Dell Inspiron 8300. (Almost) everything worked perfectly, only one small important thing is not working and I dont know how to solve this problem. While the system permits to change the resolution to 1280x800, when I try to do that, the scren like devides in two and basically we can't read anything. I never had this problem with FC4, Please, any help would be apreciated. Congratulations on FC5, I noticed that the menu options are MUCH faster to access. When I have my screen problem resolved, I will notice another diferences. Cheers Martinho -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=74089&topic_id…

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