Yum Update Problem
by Keith
i did a yum update via the command line in FC 5 and the yum update was
about half way through down loading yum stopped working and I did a
control-c. Now the downloaded updates are gone and yum says that all
updates have been applied. What do i do to fix this problem.
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Uniden BC246T TCL/TK Toolkit Program & Control Tool
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17 years, 8 months
Another Problem with 2.6.17 Fedora kernels DVD::rip SoundJuicer
by Phil Meyer
These symptoms appeared upon the first release of the 2.6.27 kernel
series in FC%, and are still present.
The problem is replicatable in more than one way, but here is how I do it:
Try to rip a CDROM or DVD.
I have tried three IDE drives, and one in a usb enclosure on two
different systems, and can produce the exact same errors. Therefore,
this is a real problem and not just me imagining that all my hardware is
going bad at the same time:
On any digital read of a CD or DVD, these messages start occurring, and
the read will 'hang' the device driver, forcing a reboot to recover.
Both mother boards tested have SATA connections.
1. ASUS-SLI Premium has SATA disabled.
2. DELL INSPIRON 9400 has the kernel parameter: combined_mode=libata
(without this, DVD playback is very very bad)
All tests on both systems with internal and external drives produced the
same results.
Here is a snippet from dmesg from an attempt using an external USB2
drive, thus eliminating the IDE driver from the equation:
usb-storage: device scan complete
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/62x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
sr 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x8000002
sr0: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Additional sense: L-EC uncorrectable error
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 935072
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 116884
sr 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x8000002
sr0: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Additional sense: L-EC uncorrectable error
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 935080
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 116885
Did I miss a bug report on this?
17 years, 8 months
Re: Re: how to obtain single-line scroll with wheel mouse? (FC5)
by JJ
<<Take this with a lump of salt:
http://katze-mit-wut.azundris.com/archives/126-Microsoft-IntelliMouse-Exp...
Chris>>
Thanks Chris. But the only thing in the article that
discussed the wheel scroll rate was the following for
firefox:
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action value=0
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines
value=2
I did make this change, but of course it did not
affect the scroll rate in other Gnome programs like
Gedit or in a terminal window. Any other ideas on how
to reduce the scroll rate (#lines per wheel notch)?
John
--- JJ <josh8912(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:50:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: JJ <josh8912(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: how to obtain single-line scroll with
> wheel mouse? (FC5)
> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>
> I should have said, I use the Gnome desktop and my
> mice are MS Basic Optical Wheel. Thanks.
>
> > Hello All:
> > I use FC5 on three different desktop computers and
> > on
> > all of them the scroll wheel on my mouse moves
> about
> > 8
> > lines per notch. To me, this is too much and I
> > would
> > like the mouse to scroll only one or two lines.
> The
> > mouse behaves this way in a variety of programs
> > (python command window, gedit, Lyx, and so on).
> > Does
> > anyone know how to change the scroll rate of a
> wheel
> > mouse? You can not do it through the Mouse
> > Preferences dialog box. Do you have to change
> > something in the Fedora code and rebuild the
> system?
> >
> >
> > Thanks. John
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17 years, 8 months
Calcomp Calgraphics Plotter
by Brian D. McGrew
Anyone gotten this to run under Fedora? We've got one that we need and
it's too old for any of the Windows drivers (98/NT was the latest). So
I'm thinking I could make a PDF from my Windows application and print it
on Fedora if I can get the plotter to work. I read something in the
documentation for it that said it requires a vector driver. How can I
make this beast work?
Thanks!
:b!
17 years, 8 months
Re: What is the language "British"?
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
(Sorry, I was overzealous in cleaning my maildir and can't find the
beginning of this thread) but I seem to remember that the OP objected to
the use of "British" as opposed to "English".
Granted, this is from an American dictionary but it does show that
"British" is an acceptable American usage.
From Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary:
Briticism, n. ...peculiar to British English.
British, n.
1. British English
2. the language of the ancient Britons
And certain to fan flames:
Since we were also discussing the -our vs. -or we have this. An excerpt
from H. L. Mencken's 1921 "American English"
The logical superiority of American spelling is well exhibited by its
persistent advance in the face of all this hostility at home and abroad.
The English objection to our simplifications, as Brander Matthews once
pointed out, is not wholly or even chiefly etymological; its roots lie,
to borrow James Russell Lowell’s phrase, in an esthetic hatred burning
“with as fierce a flame as ever did theological hatred.” There is
something inordinately offensive to English purists in the very thought
of taking lessons from this side of the water, particularly in the
mother-tongue.
Ouch!
:m)
17 years, 8 months
FC3 on a Dell Latitude D820 / Network
by Brian D. McGrew
Anyone know a quick and dirty way to get the onboard nic working?
:b!
Brian D. McGrew { brian(a)visionpro.com || brian(a)doubledimension.com }
--
> This is a test. This is only a test!
Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been
told to cancel this test and seek professional assistance!
17 years, 8 months
Seven Percent
by Andy Green
Results from the 2006 Desktop Linux Survey
15,000 voters... still, self-selected. Anyway -->
''...
Ubuntu, with 29.2 percent of the vote, has been the hottest community
Linux since early 2005. While this Linux has had its problems lately,
such as the update fiasco on August 21st and 22nd, users continue to
download, install, and love it.
And, why not? It's an excellent distribution. It's not just users who
think this; reviewers have also labeled it the Desktop Linux Champ.
A little closer peek at the data, and some comparison with the
Distrowatch page hit list, reveals that "classic" Ubuntu with the GNOME
interface is the real winner. Kubuntu, with its KDE desktop, and the
educational Edubuntu distributions have their fans, but Ubuntu is what a
plurality of Linux desktop users appear to be running today.
In a distant second place, with 12.2 percent, we find Ubuntu's ancestor,
Debian. Close behind it, there's openSUSE with 10.1 percent of the
users. If you included in openSUSE's totals its corporate big brother,
Novell's SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) numbers, 2.9 percent, the
SUSE-twins would be in second place with 13 percent.
After this, we come to what I think of as the first surprise in our
survey. Gentoo took fourth place with a total of 9.6 percent. Gentoo, to
me, is a Linux expert's Linux. I know many serious Linux users who work
with Gentoo to better understand Linux, but almost no one who uses it as
their first choice for day-to-day work.
In fifth place, we find Fedora, Red Hat's community distribution.
Fedora, while still somewhat popular with 7 percent of the vote, seems
to have lost some of its charm to users in the last year.
...''
http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5816278551.html
Does it matter, so long as there is some arbitrary population of users?
Is ubuntu up there, with basically the same stuff in it as Fedora, due
to PR alone? Should Fedora compete, does it having any meaning with a
Free OS?
17 years, 8 months
TEST:IGNORE
by sysadmin
This is just a test mail to test whether my A/C is working..coz i aven't recieved any mail from the list since yesterday.!!
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David Maina.
Systems/Network Administrator.
PdE-Kenya.
P. O. Box 1239 - 20100.
Nakuru, Kenya.
Telephone:+254-51-850298/850333.
Cell:+254-721-950073.
Registered Linux User #407239.
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"By golly, I'm beginning to think Linux really *is* the best thing since sliced bread."
17 years, 8 months
RE: Calcomp Calgraphics Plotter
by Brian D. McGrew
The beast is speaking HP/GL and I still have no idea what to do with it.
I'd just as soon make a PDF in Windows move it to Linux, convert as
needed and go that route.
Thanks.
:b!
Brian D. McGrew { brian(a)visionpro.com || brian(a)doubledimension.com }
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Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been
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-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chris Mohler
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:49 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Calcomp Calgraphics Plotter
As one that has had to struggle with ancient plotters:
What does the "beast" speak?
Common answers would be: PTL (plotter transfer lang), HP-GL (hp
graphics lang), PS (postscript, duh..), or possibly HP-RTL(hp raster
tranfer lang).
I'd wish for PS and do "cat file.ps > dev/lp0" and see what happens.
Never seen a Calgraphics, so you probably won't be *that* lucky. I
guess what I'm getting at is: if you can figure out what format the
plotter wants it's input in, there are a number of ways to make it
happen in cups, ghostscript, etc....
Were you lucky enough to get a "sample file" with the plotter drivers
...?
Chris
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17 years, 8 months
script that logs to syslog
by Mark Haney
I have a need for one of my bash scripts to log to syslog instead of
it's own file. I've googled various ways and found very little to help
me. Is there a down-and-dirty way to do this?
--
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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415
17 years, 8 months
