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Laptop VGA Dual Output Resolution Configuration and Switching
by Ketut Mahaindra 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

I have a Dell Latitude D610 running FC5 with all latest updates and also kmod-fglrx to support the ATI card on the laptop. At work I need from time to time to switch between the laptop LCD display to an external monitor and vice versa. This normally facilitated with a shortcut key on the keyboard Fn+F8. However, I have not been able to get it working with FC5 so far. If I connected the external monitor to the laptop VGA output port I always have both the laptop LCD and the external monitor displaying at the same time. And the laptop LCD is working at 1400 x 1050 pixels while the external monitor can only support 1280 x 1025 which causes the desktop display to be cropped. Any clues on how to make the configuration so that FC5 will be able to switch normally between the display and to make it support different resolution automatically? Thanks in advance -- Best regards, *Ketut Mahaindra (Ito)* ///"The race for perfection has no finish line"/

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How to connect FC4 PC with windows PC
by ravisagar＠gmail.com 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

I have two boxes at home. One running windows xp and other running FC4. I would like to connect them two together in a network using cross wire RJ45. Can I connect them using the usual method by assigning 192.168.0.1 to the first and 192.168.0.2 to the second. With Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Regards, -- Ravi Sagar www.ravisagar.tk

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IBM 6549 G96 CRT Monitor Help
by Edmund C. Daulton 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

I am attempting to install Fedora Core 5 on a Dell Dimension 9100 with an IBM 6549 G96 CRT monitor and I need help. The installer states that I have an "unknown monitor type" and then all I get on the monitor are vertical lines on my screen. Can anyone help me with this??

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Re: IBM 6549 G96 CRT Monitor Help
by Jeff Vian 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 18:44 -0400, Edmund C. Daulton wrote: > I am attempting to install Fedora Core 5 on a Dell Dimension 9100 with > an IBM 6549 G96 CRT monitor and I need help. The installer states > that I have an “unknown monitor type” and then all I get on the > monitor are vertical lines on my screen. Can anyone help me with > this?? > First, _Please_ do not post in HTML to the list. To answer your question: You state that you are doing an install. If the graphics install does not work, try a text install by entering "linux text" at the boot> prompt. HTH Jeff

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weird messages in /var/log/messages, FC4
by Joachim Backes 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Having a lot of weird messages in /var/log/messages in my FC4 machine such as Jul 2 10:08:43 lindb gconfd (backes-8188): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Jul 2 10:08:43 lindb gconfd (backes-8188): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/usr/people/backes/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 Jul 2 10:08:43 lindb gconfd (backes-8188): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 Jul 2 10:08:46 lindb gconfd (backes-8188): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/usr/people/backes/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0 I guess it has to do with gnome. Does somebody know what this means? Many thanks. -- Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK], Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html

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Re: Re: How Do I?
by Eugene Poole 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Both answers from Sam Varshavchik and Gene Heskett go 90% toward solving my situation due to me not providing all of the physical environment explanation. I use all 4 IDE ports - and not in the normal configuration. However, when I've completed this hard drive install it will be normal. I'll post the final solution when I've completed the install. Thanks Loads Gene

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GDI laser printers
by Henk Altena 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Recently I installed fc5_64. I want to replace my HPDeskjet with a monochrome laser printer: Brother HL2030 or Samsung ML1610/1710. These are so called GDI printers (not postscript or pcl6). In CUPS these printers are NOT listed however there is an item 'GDI printers'. This means that all GDI printers do work ? Henk -- H. Altena Lutterweg 1 7152 CC Eibergen skipper(a)zinix.nl ================================================ De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door het bericht te retourneren. ================================================ The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. Should you receive this message unintentionally, please do not use the contents herein and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail.

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Serious LDAP Authentication Issues[Scanned]
by Chris Bradford 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hi guys, I posted a while back about an LDAP authentication error I am getting, now I've since found a work around but its messy to say the least. I'm hoping this will catch one of the developers attention. If I configure LDAP authentication to my Windows Server 2003 Domain via Services For Unix 3.5, the majority of my users cannot log into the system, there is an error like this that flashes up: login:../../../libraries/liblber/sockbuf.c:89: ber_sockbuf_ctrl: Assertion ' ( (sb)->sb_opts.lbo_valid == 0x3)' failed If I run "id %username%" - ie "id chrisbradford" i get: id: ../../../libraries/liblber/sockbuf.c:89: ber_sockbuf_ctrl: Assertion `( (sb)->sb_opts.lbo_valid == 0x3 )' failed. uid=10010(chrisbradford) gid=10000(LinuxUsers)Aborted So this appears to be a problem when obtaining the secondary group information as submitted in this bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187448 Now, what I've noticed is that this seems to be a problem with the newer nss_ldap libraries (ie 249 & 250), I say this because FC4 *does not* have these problems, and neither does Ubuntu 5.05/6.06 (which uses libnss-ldap 238) The latest version of OpenSuse *is* however affected by this issue and it has a more recent version of nss-ldap The workaround under FC5 is to install BerkelyDB, OpenLDAP and then nss_ldap-250. The catch is that the ldap libraries only work for a short while before these problems arise again, thus they have to be re-installed via a cron job *every hour*. This is madness! The setup of all this adds around 2 hours to a basic install. Has anyone else experienced these issues, and if so have you found a more permanent solution, and one that does not take so long? I'm determined after getting a fix going that I would help get this fixed. I imagine its a pretty serious issue, as an enterprise of around 500 workstations we're keen to use Linux, and I'm keen to push FC5, but this is hindering our roll-outs. Many thanks, Chris Bradford This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl - www.blackspider.com

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Re: kmod-nvidia not working in kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5
by Scott R. Godin 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 18:02:00 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > But I did the nvidia installation as instructed in > http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc5.html#nvidia > > I checked if kmod-nvidia is really installed or not through rpm and it > says > it is installed. > ------------------ > $ rpm -q kmod-nvidia > kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-2.2.6.17_1.2139_FC5 > ---------------------- > > Now I am confused. > what you should be paying attention to is the installation instructions from the livna repo instead: http://rpm.livna.org/ also note that the news post from March 29th points out that the steps necessary have changed. (hopefully they'll get around to updating or appending the original instructions to reflect the change) This having been said, I should warn you that with the current kmod-nvidia I experienced quite a bit of error WRT memory corruption that reflected back into swap, which reflected back into what actually got onto / -- I wound up having to manually fsck /, redo my swap partition, and uninstall kmod-nvidia, after which my problems went away. Fortunately I was able to get quite a bit of debuginfo that will get forwarded on to the lovely nvidia folks with a pound of thanks for not open-sourcing their drivers so things like this could get caught sooner. =P my advice: live without kmod-nvidia for now. It's *not* ready for prime-time; not because of livna but because of nvidia themselves. Many thanks to Mike Harris for straightening me on this, and for assistance with the recovery process. Cheers dude, where do I send the beer? :)

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Package to represent network traffic
by Anne Wilson 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

I once had an installed package that gave a graphical representation of traffic on the network, but I can't remember its name. I've tried searching yum with a few guesses, without success. Can anyone help? Anne

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