FC5 - mozilla help needed
by Dean S. Messing
I'm unable to get Adobe `acroread' to run within Mozilla.
Would someone who knows give me some pointers please?
I'm running an up-to-date FC5 system. Selinux is disabled. Both
`acroread' and `mozilla-acroread' are installed (from the Dries
repository). And I've verified that acroread works from the
commandline.
Yet when I try to view a .pdf from w/in mozilla, I get nothing. On a
large .pdf, I can see mozilla taking time to read the file in, but
then I just get a blank mozilla window. acroread is not being started
at all.
How do I begin to debug this?
Thanks
Dean
17 years, 8 months
Keyboard Problem in Fedora Core 4
by Manish Kathuria
I have installed FC4 on a Pentium 200 MX system having an AT keyboard.
The keyboard is working perfectly on other systems. However it does not
work on this system when FC4 is running. However it works well while
booting up and when FC4 is run in single user mode. Any suggestions ?
Thanks,
Manish
17 years, 8 months
Re: Fonts Gone Wild
by John Miller
David Fletcher wrote:
> Yeah it looks like crap.
>
> Is it worth hanging on for a yum correct the fonts or better to just change it
> to something else I wonder.
>
All that's necessary is to go into the KDE control panel and tell it
(pardon the double negative) not to turn off anti-aliasing for the
mid-sized range of fonts.
--
John Miller
All is well that ends well.
-John Heywood
17 years, 8 months
DM problems with latest FC5 kernel
by Kevin K
I recently installed FC5 on my AMD XP2400 system, without any issues,
until I updated the system to the latest available versions.
Unfortunately, with the 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 kernel, my system no longer
boots. It gets to loading the dm-snapshot.ko, and stops. Even when
left alone for a couple hours.
It still works when I choose the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernel.
I have 3 hard drives installed, the boot drive on hda, a DVD RAM
drive on hdc, and 2 160GB drives on my motherboard promise controller:
PDC20276: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PDC20276: chipset revision 1
PDC20276: 100% native mode on irq 16
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
Probing IDE interface ide2...
hde: HDS722516VLAT80, ATA DISK drive
ide2 at 0xe000-0xe007,0xdc02 on irq 16
Probing IDE interface ide3...
hdg: WDC WD1600JB-00DUA1, ATA DISK drive
ide3 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xd402 on irq 16
setup in RAID (striping) mode in the BIOS.
If I disable the controller in the BIOS, the system boots up until it
stops and complains it cannot find the filesystem /home, and drops me
to a shell to fix.
Any ideas of where I can troubleshoot? What other information would
be helpful?
Thanks,
Kevin
17 years, 8 months
FC5 Installation Killing Computers
by Robert Gann
I have a most distressing problem. I am a faculty member in the computer
and information sciences department at a liberal arts college.
We have a lab with a number of computers with two AMD 32 bit CPUs and a few
computers with two AMD 64 bit CPUs.
Two years ago we ran FC4 on both types of these computers with no problem.
However, attempting to install FC5 has killed several computers. We have
now burned out two of the 64 bit computers and two of the 32 bit computers.
Generally, the behavior is that they go a ways into the installation process
and hang. After retrying the installation another time, the computer is
basically dead; when I tried a Knoppix CD-ROM one of them could not get past
the screen telling you to press a key to boot Knoppix. One of the 64 bit
computers went "poof", and I smelled smoke. It is,of course, completely
dead.
I've used Google to see if I could find out about a problem to no avail.
We're getting pretty desperate. Can anyone offer any guidance? At this
point, we're even afraid to try another distribution. We're starting to
install Windows to get the remaining computers working.
I'll be glad to provide more details if they will help.
Thank you in advance..
17 years, 8 months
No drives listed at "computer:///"
by Joachim Selke
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Hi,
when I open the "computer:///"-location in GNOME there should be a list
of all my drives (CD drive, floppy, ...). On my system I only see the
list entries "filesystem" and "network". My DVD recorder and my floppy
drive are not listed. But I can mount and access them manually per
/dev/dvd (symlink to /dev/scd0)and /dev/floppy-fd0 (symlink to
/dev/fd0). Automounting of medias inserted into the DVD drive does not
work either. I did a fresh install of FC5 and made a complete update via
yum.
Do you have any hints about what's going wrong?
My mainboard is an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe (x86_64, NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI
MCP chipset). My DVD recorder is a Plextor PX-760SA (SATA).
I would like to file this bug in Bugzilla but I don't now what component
is affected. Is this a GNOME related bug?
Joachim
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17 years, 8 months
Where is the "bold" in the terminal ?
by Alain PORTAL
Hi,
I updated my FC5 yesterday with yum (particulary kde-3.5.4), and when I
started my computer today, I saw that there is no more bold formatting when I
have a look to the man pages.
Can somebody tell me why?
Regards,
Alain.
--
Les pages de manuel Linux en français
http://manpagesfr.free.fr/
17 years, 8 months
32 bit chroot
by Steve Searle
Can anyone point me at any instructions for creating a 32 bit chroot for
firefox on a FC5 64 bit system?
Cheers
Steve
--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?
12:57:47 up 8 days, 14:23, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
17 years, 8 months
Ethernet Card not detected
by Smith, Herb
All,
I successfully helped my son get FC5 running on one of his machines
yesterday (Intel Celeron, 256MB Ram). It seems to be mostly fine except
that it did not recognize the 3Com Etherlink III card (it is fairly old,
but I don't know if that basic technology has changed or not). When I
go to Network Device Control, there is no device indicated.
Is there a log from the boot process that I can check to see if an error
was encountered in the detection process?
Is there a tool to detect and/or test the ethernet card?
I just need some idea where to start debugging what the issues are.
Although not a complete bonehead, I'm a pretty big newbie when it comes
to this network stuff, so any info would be helpful.
TIA,
Herb Smith
17 years, 8 months
Port Redirection in Fedora
by R. G. Newbury
I ran OS/2 for many years, although I had some DOS programs which I
continued to use inside a VDM (Virtual Display Monitor).
A DOS VDM could not actually access the hardware.
I would set up a print under OS/2 to 'talk' to LPT1. Then I could set up
a virtual printer, the same as real one, aimed at LPT2, and then
re-direct the LPT2 output to LPT1.
The DOS program thought that it was talking to LPT2, as it was actually
dealing with the re-direction code.
The same thing can be done under Windows with a program called RedMon,
so that you can 'print' to Ghostscript and get PDF output.
My question.
How do you re-direct output from a virtual port to a real printer spool,
under Fedora?
Geoff
17 years, 8 months
