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Odd problem with Logitech Cordless Elite keyboard
by Kelly Miller 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

In case no one knows, the Cordless Elite has a bunch of media keys at the top; Play, Stop, a volume knob, Mute, etc. I have all the keys working and picked up by Fedora; however, Fedora doesn't react to the volume knob being turned up at all. Oddly enough, if I use xev, the knob IS deteched and given the correct key event, and I can even set it using KHotkeys. However, the system never does anything when I use it outside of those situations. -- http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - Get Firefox! http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ - Reclaim Your Inbox! Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Can't play Midi music.
by Jim 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

FC6, Sound card is detected and I get sound, but I can't play midi music. went into Control Panel and midi player has alsa as default player. Hardware is set to Autodetect . Jim

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Abiword Printing Problem
by Brian Chadwick 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hi, I am using Abiword on FC6, with cups driving a Kyocera FS-1010 Postscript Printer. When I write a document on Abiword, and then use Print Preview, the document looks correct for printing. When printed however, the document is moved down the page, with excessive whitespace above the beginning of the document, and not in accordance with the Page Setup margins. If I save the document in Word 97 format, and then reprint it using OpenOfficeOrg Writer, the top margin is correct. I have looked through all possible margin settings and previous mailing list posts and cannot find any reference to this problem. Can anyone help? Cheers Brian

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Beryl
by Gene Lapointe 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

I'm trying to run beryl on my fc6 install. Most of the functionality doesn't appear to work and I get this message. Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display ":0.0" Any Ideas. Sorry, I'm a noob.

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RE: Updating mplayer and possible rolling back
by Roberto Malinverni 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

There's an interesting article about this here http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034 > -----Messaggio originale----- > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:31:45 +0300 > From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Updating mplayer and possible rolling back > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> > Message-ID: > <880dece00704020231rcd84f7dj69d8d04588bdac5(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > I recently had a nice hard two-day battle getting mplayer > functioning correctly by mixing and matching repos. Yum > desperatly wants to update my freshrpms mplayer installation > with new packages from livna, that had failed me in the past. > So I'm updating the system with "--exclude=mplayer*" to > preserve my installation. > > Is there a way that I can _try_ the new livna packages and > rollback if they don't work? I don't want to go through the > repo soup again, yet the freshrpms mplayer does not seem to > be capable of fullscreen playback (I may need to install a > quartz video output driver). How does one configure 'rollback' points? > > Thanks in advance. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/computer.html > http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/lyrics/13/402/pink_floyd/animals.html > > > > ------------------------------ -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto.

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emacs problem
by François Patte 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I have a problem with Emacs and as I ask the question on usenet emacs lists and as other people using other linux distro do not have this problem, I ask my question here: 1- Clipboard: it seems that there is a specific clipboard for Emacs under Fedora/Gnome; I am unable to copy something from any other application and paste it in emacs. It is always the last thing copied/cut *in* emacs which is pasted in emacs whatever you could have selected and copied in other windows (say: terminal, acroread...) 2- The dead key circumflex/trema of my french keyboard is not working in Emacs: the sequence ^a doesn't give â but a (same with ^e,^i,...). Thanks for any suggestion. - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université René Descartes http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGAMLxdE6C2dhV2JURAvGqAJ0UEICtRZYgiJnFu9LqBIfKkvP48wCfUNY+ 8iXGF5xUGwuRSqmeNZUb/78= =oEZf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: VNC Problem
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Gene Lapointe" <gene(a)thelapointefamily.com> wrote: > Make sure your firewall rules allow a connection from port 590x (x = the > > VNC server running so 5901 for the first one). > > I have the firewall set up to accept connections on 5900-5905 and I have the ports forwarded to my fedora machine on my router. > Just making sure. How about the firewall on the Fedora machine? If nothing else, try doing a "service iptables stop" on the Fedora box until you get things working. Any chance of trying to get vnc working from a system inside your router/firewall first? I always like to minimize the number of unknowns when something isn't working the way I'd expect. >> > If you want the remote desktop to look like a console login, you'll need >> > something like the following: >> > >> > [dave@fraud ~]# cat .vnc/xstartup >> > #!/bin/sh >> > >> > # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: >> > unset SESSION_MANAGER >> > exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc >> > >> > [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources >> > # xsetroot -solid grey >> > # vncconfig -iconic & >> > # xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & >> > gnome-session >> > > In my xstartup file, i also had this line > [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup. > My xstartup may have been carried forward from a previous release. Seems to work fine though. The main thing is to comment out the xsetroot, vncconfig, and xterm entries. These won't affect just getting things working but the default is minimal. You might want to check that /etc/vnc/xstartup exists and is executable by your VNC user (none of my systems with vnc-server installed have that file). If not, try using the relevant portion of the .vnc/xstartup I provided instead. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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Re: VNC Problem
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

"Gene Lapointe" <gene(a)thelapointefamily.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get vnc-server working, but can't seem to get there. > Whenever i try to connect from a remote windows machine, i get failed > to connect to server. If needed, I can post any config files needed. > I've searched everywhere and haven't found a thing. Thanks in advance. > -- Gene Lapointe Make sure your firewall rules allow a connection from port 590x (x = the VNC server running so 5901 for the first one). If you want the remote desktop to look like a console login, you'll need something like the following: [dave@fraud ~]# cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources # xsetroot -solid grey # vncconfig -iconic & # xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & gnome-session The default is very simple and ugly (the comment lines above are the default). Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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yum problem
by frank wang 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hi, I tried to use yum install kernel-devel in fedora 6. However, it gaves: Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up install Process Setting up repositories Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirros.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-6&arch=i386 error was Does anyone know what happens here? I have both fedora 5 and fedora 6 installed on VMWare on the same machine. fedora 5 yum works file. On both machines I can use firefox to get online. Thanks Frank

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Re: Glxgears on ATI rage Pro
by Gilboa Davara 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:09 -0400, Brendan Kempf wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:01 -0700, Les wrote: > > > >> Hi, everyone, the ongoing battle of the graphics cards. My "good" read > >> high speed full development system runs well. However I want to use an > >> older system with Croquet. Problem: the older system appears > >> misconficured somehow. > >> It has an ATI Rage Pro graphics chip set according to lspci, And the > >> graphics configuration for X sets it up as a Rage board OK. I have > >> attempted to down load the latest ATI driver for it, but unsuccessfully, > >> so I suspect I will have to attempt that late tonight when there is less > >> traffic. In the mean time, I am working to discover what I can about > >> the current setup that is bad. I went throght the configuration on > >> Finley's site, and it appeared to work OK, then when I rebooted, it > >> began to reconfigure the graphics on every reboot. And I still have low > >> performance, and moreover seem to have lost a bit of software from the > >> graphics interface. Here is the output from glxgears: > >> [lesh@localhost ~]$ glxgears > >> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". > >> 541 frames in 6.1 seconds = 89.342 FPS > >> 452 frames in 5.6 seconds = 80.584 FPS > >> > > [snip] > > > >> Does anyone have any idea of what I should try next? Or where I could > >> look for debugging this program? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Les H > >> > > > > Sadly enough, there's no easy solution for your problem. > > For the time being I'm forced to download/patch/build/install the DRI > > drivers (and the mesa RPM) for my mach64 based laptop display by hand. > > On the upside, the next kernel - libDRI sync will most likely include > > the latest mach64/rage/rage128 drivers paving the pay to a > > out-of-the-box experience. > > > > In the mean time, if you're willing to put an effort into it, do the > > following: > > A. Download the latest rage128 snapshot from freedesktop [1]. You'll > > need to patch it to make it compatible withe latest kernel. (Let me know > > if you need help.) > > B. Build and install the rage128 DRI kernel module using the build-in > > install.sh script. > > C. As far as I remember, the mesa RPM already includes the user-land > > rage128 DRI driver, so there's no need to patch and rebuild the mesa > > SRPM. (One of my least favorite tasks :() > > > > - Gilboa > > [1] http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/ > > > > > Have you made sure that composite has been turned off? That was the > trick to making my mobility x700 work perfectly and after running > fglrxinfo show that it was in fact using ati libraries. Naah. This is not a configuration problem - its a missing driver problem. - Gilboa

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