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Disable the session lock under F7?
by Steven W. Orr 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

I have an F7 box that automatically starts the session lock after some number of minutes of inactivity. How can I disable this? Thanks. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net

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Installing Fedora7 in a VirtualPC2007 guest?
by Bo Berglund 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

This is a more appropriate subject for the thread where I would like to get some advice on how to actually succeed in getting Fdora7 to run in a virtual machine under Microsoft VPC2007. I started a thread about editing xorg.conf on a command prompt and this thread evolved into a more general discussion on various problems in running F7 in a VPC2007 machine. I have not yet suceeded in getting it to work, unfortunately.... To summarize the problems concerning using VPC2007: 1) VPC2007 emulates a Trio64 video card, but unfortunately not 100%. The 24 bit color depth mode is not supported unless the VESA driver is used. The S3 Trio64 driver's usage of 24 bit color breaks the display completely. 2) VPC2007 emulates the keyboard and mouse as PS/2 devices. THis was not a problem until recently when the Linux kernel acquired a bug of sorts when it does not recognize the PS/2 mouse out of the box. No mouse means no install... The workarounds I have found so far are these: A) On initial install from the Fedora 7 install DVD (I use the iso image for this) one needs to use the TAB key on the start screen to edit the start parameters by adding: vesa i8042.noloop psmouse.proto=imps clock=pit vga=771 With this the install shows a good graphics screen and the install proceeds well until the final screen where the "Restart now" button is located. B) At this point one has to capture the DVD iso image in VPC again so it starts off the DVD for the first boot after install. Select Repair and go to the prompt. Then give command chroot /mnt/sysimage and use "nano etc/X11/xorg.conf" to edit that file. Change the color depth from 24 to 16 (two places) and save the file. Then release the DVD and exit twice and then the installed image will boot up. C) On this startup again use TAB to change the start options and add the same parameters as above. This makes the initial text based boot screen show the Penguin and a number of commands and the target is to get it into X with a good screen. This is where I don't get further now. I see a black screen with an X cursor for a while then the cursor disappears and it is all black. The window resizes a couple of times with intermittent mouse cursor display and then settles into an all black screen without mouse cursor. As a variation on this theme my first attempt missed the step C (change start parameters after editing xorg.conf). That time the following screens were all garbled and I finally just reset the virtual machine and on the subsequent start I added the start parameters described above. This time it got me all the way into Fedora as root and I could add myself as a normal user account (using the normal tools because the first boot sequence of wizard-like screens were not shown). Anyway I also accepted the updates Fedora found on the Internet and at the end of that it suggested a reboot, which I did. After the reboot I was again stuck in the graphics nightmare! Garbled screen twice the width it should be and no clue as to what I could do... So this is where I am and I think there are mote VPC2007 users that also have the same problems. Is there anyone here who has gotten this up and running properly in VPC2007 and if so how? Bo Berglund

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DD Rules
by Karl Larsen 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

If you want to copy something big from one partition to another the old dd method is for you. You have to do it right. This means that: 1. The destination partition MUST be at least a byte larger than the source partition where the data is coming from. This is essential! 2. The dd copies everything including the file system. 3. Be ready to check the file system of the copy with fsck. 4. If you are making a copy of an entire working Fedora system make sure you change all the entries in /etc/grub.conf and /etc/fstab files to the new partitions of the copy before you try to run it. 5. To copy a partition from the source, called /dev/source to a destination partition called /dev/destination use the standard dd form: # dd if=/dev/source of=/dev/destination 6. Always run dd in the source computer. 7. Take your time doing all this. It will save you problems later. There are a lot of ways to make errors. 8. Think of how dd works this way, dd see's the source partition as just a pile of bytes. It takes a few bytes each cycle and puts those bytes on the destination partition. When done dd reports how many bytes it found and how many it put on destination. They are the same large number. -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org.

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Re: using Miro
by kwhiskerz 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

I can't seem to get it to work, either. When I run from the command line, I get: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus_bindings.py:1: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is not public API and will go away soon. Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2). Then later on: INFO *** Launching Downloader Daemon **** WARNING Menu item action "CheckVersion" not implemented WARNING Menu item action "RenameVideo" not implemented WARNING Menu item action "FastForward" not implemented WARNING Menu item action "Rewind" not implemented WARNING Menu item action "UpVolume" not implemented WARNING Menu item action "DownVolume" not implemented WARNING Volume changed before videoDisplay created And finally, just before it crashes: INFO *** Daemon ready *** INFO got https://www.miroguide.com/ TIMING feed update for: http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/quicktime-large too slow (0.189 secs) TIMING feed update for: http://jetset.blip.tv/?skin=rss too slow (0.134 secs) /usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /opt/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: PR_NewMonitor WARNING downloader: connection closed -- quitting INFO Shutting down downloaders... Does anyone have any ideas?

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Re: setting X windows display back?
by Mikkel 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a box running fedora core 2. I cannot set the display back > to this box when I'm on another machine. Here is what > > I type: > > berry:/home/paula: xhost + > > then I open up a terminal and ssh to another machine. When I get > to the other machine, I type, > > straws:/home/paula: setenv DISPLAY berry:0.0 > permission denied > > > and it does not work. There is no selinux or firewalls up, so it > isn't a security issue. Does someone know something about this? I > don't have this trouble on any of my other boxes. > > Many thanks, > Paula > > Paul, by default, Fedora is set to "Deny TCP connections to X server". You can change this by going to System --> Administration --> Login Screen --> Security. There is a check box for it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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Nvidia legacy drivers allowing unconfined executable?
by Michael Angell 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

I changed over to nvidia-96xx driver to improve game speed as it was so slow they were unplayable. That fixed the gaming problem but then... I found Selinux memory protection allowing unconfined executable to make stack executable and to map memory region as executable and writable. Should this be done? Anyway without allowing it the desktop wont load xorg.config. Selinux says to report any executable to bugzilla that call upon this type of executable. I hesitate to report a bug because really I am not qualified to make this kind of determination after only 2 weeks using linux.

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Ode to Karl Larsen
by Peter Connolly 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Subtitled: It just takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel... Subsubtitled: Against stupidity, the gods themselves rally in vain. --von Schiller There once was a ham--k5di, who thought himself quite the Linux guy. He blogged every thought to Fedora. Yes! Every pointless minutia! Every day, we of fedora-list, suffer his posts with content bereft. When kind folks do try to help him out, he starts flaming and acts quite the lout. He'll tell them they are stupid (and start yet another thread). It would have been much better, had he had his own "Blogger". But no! He'll happily blather 'til we've been whipped to a lather. Fie upon thee, Karl Larsen! Always will you plague Fedorans. ---------- Fedora Mailing List Guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

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Regd Installation of FC- 6
by pavan kumar 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hi Experts I am trying to dual boot FC -6 on my Windows XP, Intel Core 2 Duo m/c with 512 MB Ram .. I have 20 GB free Space on Windows XP ... I got strucked up during Installing Saying "Unable to Create Primary Partition (/) .. No Freee space on the disk" ... Plz help me out ... Thanks and Regards Pavan Kumar. N _________________________________________________________________ Download the latest version of Windows Live Messenger NOW! http://get.live.com/en-ie/messenger/overview

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No sound on ASUS notebook
by Astakhov Peter 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Greetings! I bought ASUS A7M notebook. Fedora installed ok, but no sound. Everything looks good, but sound not working. What shall I do? Peter Astakhov Module Size Used by fuse 46293 2 autofs4 24773 2 hidp 26688 2 rfcomm 44377 0 l2cap 30401 10 hidp,rfcomm bluetooth 57893 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap sunrpc 161981 1 ipv6 277957 22 cpufreq_ondemand 12237 1 dm_multipath 21961 0 video 21065 0 sbs 22729 0 button 12113 0 dock 13921 0 battery 14149 0 ac 9285 0 snd_usb_audio 79553 0 snd_usb_lib 19777 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi 26817 1 snd_usb_lib snd_hwdep 13125 1 snd_usb_audio snd_hda_intel 243417 8 snd_seq_dummy 7877 0 snd_seq_oss 33473 0 snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 50609 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 11981 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 43457 0 snd_mixer_oss 19521 2 snd_pcm_oss wlan_scan_sta 16512 1 snd_pcm 74949 5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss ath_rate_sample 15872 1 sr_mod 20837 0 nvidia 7253108 26 snd_timer 24901 4 snd_seq,snd_pcm cdrom 37089 1 sr_mod ath_pci 92832 0 firewire_ohci 20801 0 sdhci 20941 0 snd 53317 21 snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer r8169 33097 0 firewire_core 43137 1 firewire_ohci crc_itu_t 6337 1 firewire_core soundcore 11681 2 snd snd_page_alloc 13769 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm i2c_nforce2 9921 0 rtc_cmos 12001 0 joydev 13825 0 pata_amd 16581 0 serio_raw 10821 0 wlan 186948 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci mmc_core 30149 1 sdhci k8temp 9537 0 i2c_core 27841 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2 hwmon 7365 1 k8temp ath_hal 195536 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci usb_storage 77057 0 sg 37469 0 dm_snapshot 20709 0 dm_zero 6209 0 dm_mirror 25153 0 dm_mod 56833 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror sata_nv 22853 3 ata_generic 11589 0 libata 119985 3 pata_amd,sata_nv,ata_generic sd_mod 31297 4 scsi_mod 140749 5 sr_mod,usb_storage,sg,libata,sd_mod ext3 125513 2 jbd 59881 1 ext3 mbcache 12485 1 ext3 ehci_hcd 35405 0 ohci_hcd 23877 0 uhci_hcd 27089 0 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2) 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI-X GeForce Go 6100 (rev a2) 00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3) 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3) 00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3) 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1) 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1) 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 05:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller 05:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) 05:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01) 05:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a) 05:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05) alias ath0 ath_pci #alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel #options snd-hda-intel model=asus options snd cards_limit=8 alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel index=0 alias snd-card-7 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=7

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yum update
by tony.chamberlain＠lemko.com 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

"yum update" gave me this. Any ideas how to fix it? -- [root@chamberl chamberl]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat/centos/4/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: crash-hat failure: repodata/repomd.xml from crash-hat: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from crash-hat: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

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