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DD not working
by Karl Larsen 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

I have been trying to use the F7 that I copied to the new Hard Drive but instead I'm getting very strange results. With just the new Hard Drive mounted I set up Grub and changed grub.conf so the proper root was showing. But it would not boot and the error was file system not good. So DD copy must have ruined the file system I put on. So back to the Old Hard Drive and it has some weird stuff going. I wanted to fix the /dev/sdb5 file system and here is what happend: [root@k5di ~]# fsck /dev/sdb5 fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007) e2fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007) /dev/sdb5 is mounted. WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? yes f7: recovering journal f7: clean, 174545/10246368 files, 3132553/10239421 blocks [root@k5di ~]# mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb5 /mnt mount: /dev/sdb5 already mounted or /mnt busy The last 2 lines say that /dev/sdb5 is mounted to this Old Hard Drive somehow. I did not do this. /etc/fsack did not do this. So not sure what is going on. And last the /etc/grub.conf has been changed by something to the wrong on this computer. Weird! -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org.

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Gnome won't start after upgrade to FC7
by Edward DeMeulle 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Just recently noticed that after upgrading to FC7, X-windows starts and just sits there with an X cursor with just the FC wallpaper (I normally use/play through SSH). I'm not familiar enough with the connection between X and Gnome to know where to look next. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to proceed? -- Edward DeMeulle <ed(a)demeulle.org>

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Re: Turning on Sub-pixel hinting
by Michael Klinosky 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Martin: > How can I turn on sub-pixel hinting? In F7, Preferences/Font - 'Details', there are options for subpixel and hinting. Icim - I use gnome. I used FC5 & 6, which also had this.

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reset power saver modes?
by Tom Horsley 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

I get the impression that sometimes mplayer disables the power saver mode that would turn off the screen after 10 minutes (or whatever the default is), then forgets to re-enable it on exit (perhaps when it crashes, which happens occasionally). What commands could I run (other than "reboot") to setup the power saver modes again when I notice the monitor hasn't shut itself off for half a day? Is the "xset" command the only one I'd need, or are there 47 different helpful subsystems involved each one of which needs to be individually reset? :-).

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vaio's screen brightness
by Andre Kirchner 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Hi all, I have just installed Fedora Core 6 in a Vaio laptop, and everything is fine except for the screen's brightness, which is too dark. Does anyone know how do I adjust it, or where can I find more information about it? Thanks, Andre ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz

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Mplayer
by Art Giles 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Hi How do you associate Mplayer with Dvd's?? Thanks Art

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Multiple linuxes with grub and one boot partition
by Cliff Avey 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

I've got an FC3 system build with /boot (and grub) on hda1, swap on hda2, / (root) on hda5 (extended partition) and /var on hda6. I'd like to install a separately booted FC7 on this box and add it to my main grub menu. I'm thinking the following would work, but I'd appreciate some advice if this is a reasonable way to go. I thought I'd create new hda7 and hda8 partitions for the root of the new FC7 and /var respectively and install FC7 there, with no separate partition for /boot. I'd then copy the kernel from /boot on hda7 by hand to hda1, update the grub menu on hda1, delete the /boot dir on hda7 and edit the fstab on the FC7 system to mount hda1 as /boot. Is there a more straightforward way to accomplish this, or is this the way to do it? Alternatively, can I make the FC7 installer to add its kernel to my existing boot (hda1 partition), not reformat that partition or erase the other kernels, and not blow away my existing grub menu? Or do I really want to create a second boot partition (maybe on hda3) for FC7?

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system-config-securitylevel-tui vs system-config-securitylevel
by Zoltan Boszormenyi 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Hi, why aren't the trusted and masquerade settings implemented in the GUI? At least keep the settings that were saved from the console conterpart. Thanks, Zoltán Böszörményi

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Problem with bcm43xx-80211 Revisited Again
by awrobinson-ml＠nc.rr.com 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Sorry I dropped off the thread, but Time Warner lost my Internet connection for the better part of the week. I appreciate everyone's eyes and help so far. To summarize, I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.22.2-42.fc6 and then had to upgrade to bcm43xx-80211 and version 4 of the drivers for my wireless. Now after booting up, the radio is configured (iwconfig) and the adapter is configured (ifconfig), but I cannot connect to the Internet. If I run 'ifup eth1', my network then works. It is as if 'ifconfig' was run before 'iwconfig' during the bootup process. While my Internet connection was out, I created a work-around. I created an init.d script that runs 'ifup' and set it to run just before the netfs script. I added 'ifconfig', 'iwconfig', 'iwlist' and 'ping' commands before and after the 'ifup' to try to capture the state of the interface before and after the 'ifup'. The results are listed below. I don't see anything in there to indicate the problem. If any of you guys do, please let me know. Thanks! Andrew Robinson Before ifup *** iwlist eth1 scan *** Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20. Some things may be broken... eth1 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0 ESSID:"robinson" Mode:Master Channel:6 Frequency:2.437 GHz Quality=49/100 Signal level=-49 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Extra:tsf=000005d6632d8026 Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:DB:0B:8C ESSID:"robinson" Mode:Master Channel:6 Frequency:2.437 GHz Quality=43/100 Signal level=-58 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Extra:tsf=00000027bf2dd0d8 *** iwconfig *** lo no wireless extensions. wmaster0 no wireless extensions. Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20. Some things may be broken... eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"robinson" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0 Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:4138-9E74-82F5-7848-53EF-79E1-FE Link Quality=49/100 Signal level=-48 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 *** ifconfig *** eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:79:86:70 inet addr:192.168.1.25 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe79:8670/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:108 (108.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:747 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:747 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1541708 (1.4 MiB) TX bytes:1541708 (1.4 MiB) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-90-96-79-86-70-E8-1B-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) *** ping *** PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 1998ms , pipe 3 After ifup *** iwlist eth1 scan *** Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20. Some things may be broken... eth1 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0 ESSID:"robinson" Mode:Master Channel:6 Frequency:2.437 GHz Quality=46/100 Signal level=-54 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Extra:tsf=000005d6636d05d4 Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:DB:0B:8C ESSID:"robinson" Mode:Master Channel:6 Frequency:2.437 GHz Quality=44/100 Signal level=-57 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Extra:tsf=00000027bf6d744b *** iwconfig *** lo no wireless extensions. wmaster0 no wireless extensions. Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20. Some things may be broken... eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"robinson" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0 Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:4138-9E74-82F5-7848-53EF-79E1-FE Link Quality=53/100 Signal level=-41 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 *** ifconfig *** eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:79:86:70 inet addr:192.168.1.25 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe79:8670/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:174 (174.0 b) TX bytes:532 (532.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:886 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:886 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1700068 (1.6 MiB) TX bytes:1700068 (1.6 MiB) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-90-96-79-86-70-78-FA-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) *** ping *** PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=87.9 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=72.7 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.32 ms --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.328/54.664/87.904/36.823 ms

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100% CPU useage with ZynAddSubFx. (Fedora 7)
by Nigel Henry 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Out of interest has anyone got ZynAddSubFx working on Fedora 7. Each time I launch it freezes up . I can still launch a terminal, and top shows xorg having jumped from 5% to about 43%, and Gkrellm is showing 100% CPU useage. I've a hell of a job to shutdown ZynAddSubFx, apart from killing it in ps auxw. Fernando at planetccrma used to sort out these music apps, but have appeared to be taken over by maintainers at Fedora now, who appear to be making a crap job of making sure that the app actually works. I even tried DL'ing the tarball for it from sourceforge, but there is bugger all info for installing it on Linux. Plenty of advice if you want to install on Windoze though. I've no problem with running ZynAddSubFx. I've plenty of other distro's where it works ok. On Fedora7 though it does not work. This is in no way directed at users on the list. I hope that some maintainers may be reading this list also, and may get their shit together, and fix the app. Just a bit pished off at the moment. Nigel.

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