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gnome-alsamixer for fc5/x86_64 ??? (help)
by William W. Austin 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

I recently added an x86_64 (AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+) system and in setting it up, I now have most things working pretty much as I wanted. I'm setting this system up for someone to take off to college and I have (almost) made it just under the wire on time. However, I have not been able to find a gnome-alsamixer for this box and attempting to build it from the fc3 src.rpm fails (this is the last version from the fc3 freshrpms directory). A web search has not proved very successful - has anyone got gnome- alsamixer working on an fc/x86_64 box? A pointer to a src.rpm (or x86_64 rpm) would be very useful. Yes, I looked in the archives, but I didn't find it... sorry. I would go into the code and fix the problem causing the build to fail, but I have only about 2 days left until I have to send this system off to school with my son and I have too many other things left to do in that time. Thanks in advance -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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What are /net and /srv and /misc for?
by Tom Horsley 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

I see /net was created by something on my FC5 system, but it isn't owned by any rpm and it is empty. I see /srv (another empty directory) is owned by the filesystem-2.3.7-1.2.1 rpm, and /misc is owned by autofs-4.1.4-29 I'm setting up backups for my system and wondering if these guys need backing up (I already know I probably shouldn't fool with /proc, /sys, and /dev). Speaking of backups, the only way I've though of to exclude NFS and cdrom and such is to go through the output from "mount" and build rsync exclude patterns for all non-local hard disk mounts. Is there an easier way to tell rsync "only local hard disks"?

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Re: Re: how to obtain single-line scroll with wheel mouse? (FC5)
by JJ 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Chris writes: <<What do you have in your xorg.conf (in the pointer section) for: Option "Protocol" Possibly try "Auto", "ExplorerPS/2", "usb"... My mouse scrolls appx 3 lines in gedit, but it's a completely different device.>> Thanks Tony, Chris, and Matthew: It appears that there is no way to adjust the mouse scroll rate in Gnome or X11. If any developers are reading this, it would be wonderful if one day a user could, with one setting, control the number of lines that a wheel mouse scrolls by per notch. As for me, I find the default setting rather irritating because it moves by too many lines per notch and I have a hard time adjusting my eyes to the new line location after a single scroll. It is enough of a problem that I question whether I can work efficiently using Linux. To answer your question, Chris, my xorg.conf file contains this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Starting dhcpd
by Norm 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

In a core 5 installation I can't seem to get dhcpd to start. Running "service dhcpd start" as su returns a failed message immediately -- Norm

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Getting Realtek PCIE Gigabit and Fast Ethernet NIC Driver
by Robert L Cochran 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hi, I just built a new computer based on the Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard which has a Realtek PCIE Gigabit and Fast Ethernet integrated network adapter. I then upgraded my Fedora Core 4 drive to Fedora Core 5 using the original Fedora Core 5 DVD. The system booted and decided my ethernet controller needs the tulip driver. Running lspci -vb lists the controller as "Unknown device 8168 (rev 01). It is very interesting to see it is listing a serial number as one of the capabilities. Is there a driver that works with this NIC and if so how do I install it? Thanks for your help, Bob Cochran

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Curious yum problem
by Timothy Murphy 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

I just installed FC-5 on a new disk, and when I tried "yum update" it failed because, it reported, kdebase required htdig . On the other hand, I can update kdebase on other FC-5 systems which I have kept up-to-date. It doesn't particularly matter - I as able to update nearly everything by "yum update [a-j]\*", etc, but I am puzzled why this problem arises, and interested to know if there is a simple way of determining exactly what is looking for what? (It seemed that other packages were looking for htdig.) -- 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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how to reset an expired root password ?
by Bruno Costacurta 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hello, how to reset an expired root password ? Thanks, Bruno

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Audit messages
by Walter Souto 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hi, Since I was upgrade to the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5xen0) on my FC5 box, I got messages from audit on console every time Xen network interfaces are created. It's not a real problem, but where this messages came from? I have no audit installed/enabled and SELinux is disabled in /etc/sysconfig/selinux. > cat /var/log/messages | grep audit Sep 2 11:12:58 xen kernel: audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) Sep 2 11:12:58 xen kernel: audit(1157206348.424:1): initialized Sep 2 11:12:59 xen kernel: audit(1157206360.612:2): selinux=0 auid=4294967295 Sep 2 11:13:00 xen kernel: audit(1157206379.546:3): dev=vif0.0 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=4294967295 Sep 2 11:13:00 xen kernel: audit(1157206380.618:4): dev=peth0 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=4294967295 Sep 2 11:13:02 xen kernel: audit(1157206382.858:5): dev=vif1.0 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=4294967295 Sep 2 11:13:05 xen kernel: audit(1157206385.354:6): dev=vif2.0 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=4294967295 Sep 2 11:13:07 xen kernel: audit(1157206387.858:7): dev=vif3.0 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=4294967295 Sep 2 11:13:12 xen kernel: audit(1157206392.951:8): dev=vif2.0 prom=0 old_prom=256 auid=4294967295 Sep 2 11:13:14 xen kernel: audit(1157206394.443:9): dev=vif4.0 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=4294967295 Sep 2 11:13:16 xen kernel: audit(1157206396.415:10): dev=vif5.0 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=4294967295 Thanks all, -- Walter.

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How to manage modules loaded on boot
by Walter Souto 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how modules get loaded on boot by the system, but got no clues. I just don't want to load sound modules (and some others) cause I don't need it for now. Where do I look? There's some docs about the process of load modules at boot that can help me? TIA, -- Walter.

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something I don't understand
by François Patte 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Bonjour, As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after creating it with fdisk. I run mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax then added this line in fstab: LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2 Then I rebooted the machine.... and, as there was a mistake in the fstab, I was dropped to a repair-partition prompt because fsck.ext3 didn't know what to do with LABEL "/home2".... I thought that there were no problem: I just type the root password and tried to comment the bad line in the fstab... Impossible: "the file is write protected" was the only answer I got from vi... I was root, the fstab file has write permission for root, but it was impossible to modify this file.... WHY? Thank you. PS. I recovered with reformating the partition with the right syntax. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris 5 - Paris http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

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