little icons go white/blank
by Fred Silsbee
after using F9 for a while, the little icons to the right of the 2X2
desktop matrix go blank (white)
These are
(1) volume
(2) network double monitor
(3) little plug for kpowersave
These are restored if I do
ctrl-alt F1
ctrl-alt F7 learned this from a leprechaun
$ kde4-config --version
Qt: 4.4.3
KDE: 4.1.2 (KDE 4.1.2)
kde4-config: 1.0
$ uname -r
2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686
yes I reported this to kde
15 years, 8 months
preparing for F10
by Fred Silsbee
when I installed F9, I encountered an equivocal question in the grub section ......something like this:
what HD do you want to boot to?
I must have given the wrong answer but did command line grub commands and straightened it out.
I have
(1) sda1 with XP Prof and the MBR where the grub thing resides...right?
on boot, the first drive encountered is sda1
(2) sdb1 with F9
I am guessing the right answer would be (2)
15 years, 8 months
Data Recovery:
by Jeff Maxwell
I had a problem with the install of Fedora 9 (Up grade from Fedora 8). I am attempting to use Fedora 9 Live to access my hard drive in order to recover any data - pictures, documents, etc.
It seems that Fedora 9 Live is unable to find my hard drive.
How do I get access to this data?
Or, if I simply attempt to install Fedora 9 (not upgrade from a prior version) will my data be left behind?
Thanks.
Jeff Maxwell
15 years, 8 months
BBC iPlayer stopped working
by Mike Fleetwood
Hi,
About a week ago BBC iPlayer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/) stopped
working for me. By stopped I mean the embeded flash video player
within the web pages just don't appear. I was very close to when I
upgraded flash-plugin from 9.0.124.0 to 10.0.12.36 so I though that
might have been the cause. However I have since downgraded
flash-plugin and it still fails.
YouTube videos work OK.
This is on my desktop with Fedora 9 ix86 and updates applied.
Has anyone else in the UK seen this?
How do I start debugging this?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
15 years, 8 months
Replace F9 Network Manager with old network initializer
by Dave Feustel
I just got the openSUSE 11 Bible and looked immediately for info on
NetworkManager, which I found on page 440. There is stated that NM is
primarily for wireless, while traditional network configuration should
be used for wired networks. Since I have a wired system, NM is probably
not right for me. What do I need to do to replace network manager with
the tradional method of configuring networks on F9?
>
(Note: so far as I have determined, Network Manager is not discussed at
all in the Fedora F9 Bible except for a note on page 19 saying that
NetworkManager is now the default for F9. Please correct me (with page
numbers) if I am wrong about that).
Thanks.
15 years, 8 months
Spontaneous pulseaudio death
by Rick Stevens
Hi gang. I've recently been having spontaneous pulseaudio daemon deaths
occuring. The daemon just quits. There is a trace of it in
/var/log/messages:
Oct 20 13:27:45 prophead pulseaudio[9301]: shm.c: shm_open() failed: No
such file or directory
Oct 20 13:27:45 prophead pulseaudio[9301]: pstream.c: Failed to import
memory block.
Just curious if anyone else is experiencing this. It may be related to
a vpnc issue as it seems to happen after I've had to do a couple of
vpnc...vpnc-disconnect cycles, but I can't confirm that as yet.
Oh, yeah, this is a fully updated F8 machine with pulseaudio 0.9.8 and
vpnc 0.5.1. Yes, I know F8 is old, but I need Xen for a couple of
things and F9's dom0 for Xen is a no-go (says so in the release notes
and confirmed by actual attempts to use it).
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15 years, 8 months
KDE4 Save Session
by Patrick O'Callaghan
One configuration option in KDE4 is to restore a manually saved desktop
session, however there doesn't seem to be a way to actually save the
session in the first place. This used to exist in KDE3. Is there
something I'm missing or is it a bug?
poc
15 years, 8 months
Odd one for sure
by Gene Heskett
Greetings:
System is a 4 core phenom, 4GB ram, F8 uptodate but vanilla 2.6.27.3 SMP & PAE
kernel. However this will also take place when booted to the next to last F8
kernel, so I don't believe its kernel related.
I'm not sure if my system is haunted or not, but in the early hours of the
morning (it will be fine later), if I click on the kmenu icon to bring up
that selector, the selector comes up, but only after the screen is blanked
which is instantly, but it will flash back on every few seconds for about 200
milliseconds. If I then move the mouse and click on an empty location of the
screen, which kills the kmenu, it comes back to normal.
Does any one have a clue?
Thanks
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Cursor, n.:
One whose program will not run.
-- Robb Russon
15 years, 8 months
Re: How to reset graphics driver to nv?
by Dennis Mattingly
>> I made a small system change, and now X-Windows doesn't start, and I only
>> get a command line login.
>> Any help that I can get with getting my system to graphical mode again
would
>> help.
>>
>> Description:
>> Sometimes my Fedora detects correct resolution at bootup. Other times it
>> doesn't, and forces me to 800X600. Well, I got tired of 800X600
resolution
>> so I went to menu System -> Administrator -> Display. One of the options
>> there had me running nv driver, so I selected "NVIDIA manufacturer"
option
>> and pressed okay. Now Fedora always dumps me to command line.
>>
>> Any advice?
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>
>
>start in text mode with a 3 at the end of boot line and then issue
>system-config-display.
>But if you can login you can issue same command just now
I didn't know about the system-config-display command. I'll try that next
time.
What I did was modify my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and changed the "NVIDIA" line
to "nv". It works for now so yay.
So I booted, and this time Fedora 9 found my correct resolution.
But next time I boot, Fedora may decide to lock me into 800X600
Would system-config-display help with my random 800X600 resolution problem?
Thanks
15 years, 8 months
F10: how can I set default locale settings
by Pavel Lisy
Hello
I have 2 problems.
First with setting default language and keyboard for GDM screen.
Now I have US language and czech keyboard but I want have it opposite
way. Where can I set it?
Second problem is, that I want have czech locales after login
but I cannot find place where I can set it?
Can anybody help me?
Pavel Lisy
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Pavel Lisy <pali(a)tmapy.cz>
15 years, 8 months
