installed but weird keyboard problems
by Guy Schlosser
Hi all, got a wierd keyboard problem here, and I'm hoping someone has
a clue on how to solve it, because I'm truly stumped. I'm running
Fedora Core on an Abit ai7 motherboard with a 2.8 GB hyperthread
processor. My keyboard is a microsoft keyboard, that has connectors
for both USB and PS2. Under Windows, my keyboard works on either
connection. Under linux:
1. When I have my keyboard hooked up with the USB connector, I cannot
use it to make grub boot choices. I've already setup my bios so that
USB keyboard support is via BIOS, not OS.
2. If I disconnect the USB connector and connect the PS-2, I can
select which OS to boot with grub, but when the linux kernel takes
over, I lose all keyboard functionality. Anyone have any
suggestions? I would love to use my keyboard as a USB device if
there's any way I can, but if not, why can't I use it once I'm in
Linux? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Guy
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17 years, 8 months
xdvi: cannot zoom in with the keyboard
by Paul Smith
Dear All
Regarding xdvi, can you zoom in with ctrl-+ ? In my case, it does not
work. it only works with the mouse.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
17 years, 8 months
"Bad gnome" after last updates
by Petr Fischer
Hi,
I updated FC5 system with yum.
Error and some other problems occurs after graphical login.
Where si system menu, taskbar, how is my icon panel positioned?
Alt+Tab don't work, window manager works bad with mouse...
What is wrong?
Every 2-3rd update is total pain for me.
Thanks for suggestions, pf
17 years, 8 months
Hard drive going bad ...?
by Paul Michael Reilly
The smartd daemon (Fedora Rawhide) is starting to indicate that the
hard drive has pending unreadable sectors:
Sep 3 08:01:43 roamer smartd[2032]: Device: /dev/hda, 9 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
These have been occurring over the past few days on my (~3 year old)
A31p Thinkpad. My first take is that the system is trying to tell me
that it is time to replace the hard drive. Before ordering a new
drive, I figured I'd bounce this off the lists for second opinions.
Thanks,
-pmr
17 years, 8 months
Need help connecting to VPN
by Arthur Pemberton
Hello Guys,
I have the need to connect to a Windows VPN I think getting the
requred details for the actual connection should be too hard. It is to
my school network. They distribute a Windows .exe which does all the
configuring, so details are not immediately obvious. But I want the
VPN to start right after my inet comes up. And most importantly, I
only want IPs in the schools IP block to route thoguh it.
Generic instructions will do, I should be able to fill in the details.
Thanks.
Arthur
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17 years, 8 months
automounting usb hardrive on bootup?
by Ferindo Middleton
I have an external usb hard drive. When I login using gnome it appears in
"Places" in the "Computer" icon but it doesn't appear to automount itself to
the file system because in I have it as an Samba share and it is only
available to Samba connections to the device until after someone tries to
use it locally from the server itself. How do I get it to automount itself
to the server on bootup, and further, how do I limit access to only the root
account or people in the root group?
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17 years, 8 months
RE: can't boot single user in FC5
by Macintyre, Ross A
Thanks Tim, you pointed me in the right direction.
My problem was that I was just typing 'a' to add the word 'single' to
the whole 'thing'. I hadn't realised that this xen kernel had the kernel
down as a module! I had to choose the module line and *then* edit that
line and add the word 'single'.
I should look a bit closer when assume things :-)
Thanks,
Ross
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces(a)redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tim
> Sent: 04 September 2006 14:19
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: can't boot single user in FC5
>
> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:13 +0100, Macintyre, Ross A wrote:
> > I've just upgraded a lab of machines to FC5 from FC2.
> >
> > In FC2 I could just add 'single' to the boot options at the grub
> > prompt, but when I try this in FC5 it just boots up as normal.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > I read that you might use these additions to the boot prompt: S, s,
1,
> > single, e.
> >
> > None of them work.
>
> In what way did you try adding them?
>
> Taking FC4 as an example, but the same thing worked on a friend's FC5
> box - if I hit the e key to temporarily edit the GRUB menu options
> before booting, and add a 1 to the end of this line, it works:
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda7 acpi=force
>
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17 years, 8 months
can't boot single user in FC5
by Macintyre, Ross A
I've just upgraded a lab of machines to FC5 from FC2.
In FC2 I could just add 'single' to the boot options at the grub prompt,
but when I try this in FC5 it just boots up as normal.
Am I missing something?
I read that you might use these additions to the boot prompt: S, s, 1,
single, e.
None of them work.
Thanks in advance,
Ross
Ross Macintyre
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
Tel: 0131 451 3417
R.A.Macintyre(a)hw.ac.uk (raz(a)macs.hw.ac.uk)
Paintings at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~raz/paintings/
17 years, 8 months
MSI K9NGM2-FID Kernal won't boot after upgrade to 2174
by Tom Bishop
I am using fc5 on a brand new MSI MSI K9NGM2-FID AM2 pc, I have installed
the x_64 vers and the installation went smoothly. However, once I booted
and performed a yum upgrade, the latest kernel (2.6 2174) will not boot, I
get the following error:
pci:bios bug;mmcfgarea@e0000000 is not e820-reserved
pci:not using mmconfig
This happens shortly after selecting in grub and the system just hangs. I
can however boot the orginal kernel 2.6.15 and I don't receive these
messages. Since this is a new board MSI doesn't have a newer bios to test,
has anyone seen this? Is there a workaround? Thanks.
17 years, 8 months
Cyrus SASL + LDAP
by Chong Yu Meng
Hi all,
Not strictly a Fedora issue.
I'm trying to get my head around the following configuration:
I want to setup Cyrus SASL such that it will look up a OpenLDAP
directory tree to retrieve the password for authentication. Cyrus SASL
and OpenLDAP will provide authentication services for Cyrus IMAP as well
as Postfix.
From Googling about for the last 3 hours, I have been able to gather
that I should define the following inside /etc/saslauthd.conf:
ldap_servers
ldap_bind_dn
ldap_bind_pw
ldap_search_base
But this will only work if the username is a UID in the tree. For my
purposes, I need SASL to look up the mail attribute and get the
corresponding password.
Is there a parameter that will allow me to define a LDAP search string?
Thanks in advance !
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