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How Do I?
by Art Giles 02 May '07

02 May '07

I need to know how to set my screen smaller. I'v gone in and set it one higher then the 800x600.It will not hold. It keeps going back to the 800x600.The screen is so big I can not find the Delete button.FC6 Thanks Oldtimer.

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Problem installing latest Livna NVidia packages
by Matthew Saltzman 02 May '07

02 May '07

Has anyone else had problems installing the latest Livna NVidia updates? Or do I have something screwed up? Here's what I get with the newest kernel installed (similar results the last few days with the previous kernel): $ sudo yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories livna 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 macromedia 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00 core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 109 kB 00:00 livna : ################################################## 463/463 Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i386 0:1.0.9755-4.lvn6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod >= 1.0.9755 for package: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for kmod-nvidia to pack into transaction set. kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2. 100% |=========================| 19 kB 00:00 ---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 0:1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2948.fc6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia i386 1.0.9755-4.lvn6 livna 4.9 M Installing for dependencies: kmod-nvidia i686 1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2948.fc6 livna 2.3 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 2 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 7.2 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/2): xorg-x11-drv-nvidi 100% |=========================| 4.9 MB 00:12 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-4.lvn6.i386…: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download Trying other mirror. http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/6/i386/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-4.lvn6.…: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror. http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/6/i386/xorg-x11-drv-nvidi…: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror. http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/xo…: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror. http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/6/i386/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-4…: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror. (1/2): xorg-x11-drv-nvidi 100% |=========================| 4.9 MB 00:00 ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia…: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download Trying other mirror. (2/2): kmod-nvidia-1.0.97 100% |=========================| 2.3 MB 00:06 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2948.fc6…: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download Trying other mirror. http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/6/i386/kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2948…: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Server: nginx/0.4.13 Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 01:48:30 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 169 Connection: keep-alive Trying other mirror. http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/6/i386/kmod-nvidia-1.0.97…: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 01:48:33 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Content-Length: 409 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Trying other mirror. http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/km…: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 01:48:34 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Fedora) Vary: accept-language,accept-charset Accept-Ranges: bytes Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Language: en Trying other mirror. http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/6/i386/kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_…: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 01:48:34 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Fedora) Content-Length: 349 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Trying other mirror. ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/kmod-nvidia-1.0.975…: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] Requested Range Not Satisfiable due to unobtainable file length. Trying other mirror. Error Downloading Packages: kmod-nvidia - 1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2948.fc6.i686: failure: kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2948.fc6.i686.rpm from livna: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. xorg-x11-drv-nvidia - 1.0.9755-4.lvn6.i386: failure: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-4.lvn6.i386.rpm from livna: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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A yum/KDE problem ? -
by Bob Goodwin 02 May '07

02 May '07

I had to do "yum update --disablerepo=kde-*" this morning to get the system update to run. Is there a yum/kde problem or is something broke in my system? Bob Goodwin

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Kernels removal.
by david walcroft 02 May '07

02 May '07

I have this setup in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf [main] enabled=1 # this sets the number of package versions which are kept tokeep=4 But installing the latest kernel removed all existing bar two kernels Any ideas why. Thanks david

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VMWare will not start, even after vmware-config.pl
by Dotan Cohen 02 May '07

02 May '07

Just today I have been unable to start my VMWare Workstation 1.0.2. I have not updated the system, and I ran vmware-config.pl anyway, but alas it will not start. When I click the VMWare menu item, the system slows to a half and then locks up, requiring four seconds on the power button to shut the system down. CTRL-ALT-BKSP does not kill the X server, theres nothing I can do. Note that the VMWare service starts fine at bootup. What should I start troubeshooting? Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/587/9_days.html http://the-fucking-manual.com

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problem with 1680x1050 resolution
by Phil 02 May '07

02 May '07

I am using FC6 and my video car is the Intel915 I cannot get my new E228WFP dell 22" monitor to work at it's recommended resolution. I have installed the latest i810 drivers for my card still no luck... Any help would be appreciated.

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Redefining udev permissions on a given device (/dev/isdninfo)
by Felix Schwarz 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hi, I'm using Fedora Core 6. My ISDN card (Fritz!Card PCI v2) was detected by Fedora and works flawlessly. Now, udev sets the permissions on /dev/isdninfo in a very secure way so that I can't access as a ordinary user. > [fs@ws2 ~]$ ls -la /dev/isdninfo > crw------- 1 root root 45, 255 28. Apr 13:23 /dev/isdninfo I like to have the permissions that way: > [fs@ws2 ~]$ ls -la /dev/isdninfo > crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 45, 255 28. Apr 13:23 /dev/isdninfo How can I configure udev so that the permissions will be set appropriately? I think the basic permissions are set in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules > [root@ws2 udev]# grep -R isdn /etc/udev/ > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="isdn*", NAME="%k", MODE="0660" > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="isdnctrl*", NAME="%k", MODE="0660" > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="isdnctrl0", SYMLINK+="isdnctrl" What I do understand is that /dev/isdninfo has the mode 0600 after booting (not 0660 as in the mode setting above). Changing /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules (even though this is discouraged) to > KERNEL=="isdn*", NAME="%k", MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout" showed no effect. Same goes with creating /etc/udev/rules.d/99-isdninfo.rules: > KERNEL="isdninfo", MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout" [1] ("Customizing Udev on Fedora" / "Permissions") suggests that one should create a .permissions file in /etc/udev/permissions.d/. According to [2] this is obsolete since udev 053 but I tried nevertheless: > [root@ws2 udev]# cat /etc/udev/permissions.d/99-isdninfo.permissions > isdninfo:root:dialout:0644 No effect either. So basically I am stuck and don't know how to redefine the permissions on /dev/isdninfo. Any help is appreciated! fs [1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/udev/ [2] http://www.jetico.com/linux/bcrypt-help/l_probl.htm

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To Internet-install or not to...
by Frode Petersen 02 May '07

02 May '07

From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution : > Download a single small CD and install from the Internet > > Under the distribution 'os' folder (mirror list), in a folder > named 'images', you can find a small boot.iso file, which can be > burned to CD and used to start an Internet-based install. Please > be aware that there are reliability concerns associated with this > installation method, and it should probably not be attempted by a > novice user or the faint-of-heart. This method is often of interest > to testers. Have anyone any experience with this method of installation? If I install from a DVD, then most of the packages would be updated from the internet anyway, so why not start there? I'd like to know what those 'reliability concerns' are, though. Pro and cons, anyone? :-) Frode

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2 questions about relay mail servers and secondary mail servers.
by Dan McCullough 02 May '07

02 May '07

I hope everyone is having a good day or evening depending on where you are, if I woke you I apologize. I am looking to add redundancy and solve some ongoing mail issues. My first issue is that I want to setup a second mail server to act as a fail over mail system, so that if the first one is unavailable there is a small fail-over until the other one is fixed, turned on, plugged in, whatever. Now for some information I am using Fedora, Postfix, Dovecot, etc for the mail server setup. Also the system does not store emails, except in the case that someone is out of the office, but as a rule very few people have mail stored on the server. Are there steps out there to follow? Are there pro's and con's? Any real experiences? The other thing that I am looking to do is for our satellite offices is installing small mail relay servers, that will allow internal staff to relay mail, rather then connecting to the vpn and sending mail that way. One thing that I have noticed is that the smaller offices are on DSL and have some issues when sending large > 5MB attachments, which is a lot of their mail, and we will have issues where the mail server here will not get all the data in time and drop the connection before it has finished. So my thinking was give them a relay mail server that would send mail here, if it dropped it would continue retrying until successful, unless I am missing the point. However I have been told that mail relay might be a problem with DSL connections as those typically get labeled as spam since they are dynamic IP addresses, technically our IP addresses are labeled dynamic even though their ISP consider them static. Any thoughts or suggestions?

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SMART errors - are they for real? or, BIOS weirdness?
by Thufir 02 May '07

02 May '07

I'm getting SMART errors, but I'm not sure how much credence to give them. It seems to be the same two e-mails over and over. I recently had to bring the pc to the shop because it wouldn't power on. I thought that the power supply had failed, but the guy did something to the BIOS. I don't have the hardware details at the moment, but could the error be more of a configuration thing rather than an actual hard drive thing? One of the e-mail's: PINE 4.64 MESSAGE TEXT Folder: INBOX Message 51 of 57 ALL Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:51:00 +0100 From: root <root(a)localhost.localdomain> To: root(a)localhost.localdomain Subject: SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host: localhost.localdomain This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: localhost.localdomain DNS domain: localdomain NIS domain: (none) The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/hdb, 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages). You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation. No additional email messages about this problem will be sent. Thanks, Thufir

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