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How to find KDE version
by Eric 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

Somebody posted a command that returns the version of KDE currently running. Now, I can't find it. Could someone please refresh my memory? (I know, I can use KDE Help->About, and that's what I've been doing up to now, but that assumes that the help has been kept up to date with the latest upgrade.) Thanks...

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open office 3.0
by William Biggs 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

I would like to know how to upgrade from open office 2.4 to 3.0

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old keyboard
by Hiisi 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Dear List! Recently I've found a nice old computer. It's called Convergent Technology. Some 80's machine without any decoration signs. The problem is I have only box with motherboard and processor and a keyboard - no display. The display was main link between keyboard and box. So, I can't run it. What I actually want to do, is to use its keyboard on my modern computer (Celeron 510 MHz with 256 MB memory running FC 7). The keyboard has some strange plug. It looks like network (LAN) plug, but board. Pictures of the keyboard and plug can be found at the address: http://kampela.ru/kuvat/index.php?offset=1 If I'll solder a PS or PS/2 plug to it is it possible to run this old beauty? I vainly googled for the information about old keyboards. And found only stuff of how to make a valet from it. Thanks for attention, Hiisi

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Problem with Konqueror 4.1.2
by Dave Feustel 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Some web pages I try to access with Konqueror display nothing at all. If I start Firefox from within Konqueror, the page displays pefectly. This seems to be a continuing problem with Konqueror, since it happened with 4.1.1 too. I also consistently get the message "high traffic" when I attempt to complete an amazon transaction via Konqueror. This problem does not occur with Firefox. This is not a plug for Firefox; it is an attempt to eliminate this problem from Konqueror.

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OpenOffice and .pps files -
by Bob Goodwin 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

I thought openoffice usually opens .pps files? Suddenly I have a file that it wont open. This is an up to the minute updated F-9 system created from the live CD so perhaps there is some appendage to OO that I need? This really has me puzzled because I thought it was working but perhaps I haven't tried this since installing F-9. Any thoughts on what I might have missed? Bob

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Wireless, Broadcom
by Vincent 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

12. Re: Wireless, Broadcom (Timothy Murphy) > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:24:08 +0100 > From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net> > Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom > To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com > Message-ID: <gc62hp$h2e$1(a)ger.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Vincent Onelli wrote: > > > [vinnyo@localhost ~]$ sudo apt-get install nddiswrapper-utils ndisgtk > > [sudo] password for vinnyo: (here I entered my root PW) > > Sorry, try again. > > [sudo] password for vinnyo: (here I entered my user PW) > > vinnyo is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. > > > > I could not even get start, What am I doing wrong? > > I think you are asking how to get on the sudoer list? > > The answer to that is to give the command "visudo" as root. > Personally, I then uncomment the "wheel without password" line, > and then run "vigr" and "vigr -s" to add myself > to the wheel group. > I don't know if that is the official route. > I am still try to learn Linux, so most of time I am lost like in this situation. While I was waiting for the answer I went to http://dnmouse.org/autoinstall.html I selected sudo with password it downloaded the autonine file running this file assigned the password automatically. Now when I repeat the command "sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common nddiswrapper-utils ndisgtk" it accept the password but it cannot find the "apt-get" is this a file that I need to get some where? Thank you Vinny > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > > > ------------------------------ > > End of fedora-list Digest, Vol 56, Issue 33 > *******************************************

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Nautilus troubles writing to CD
by brian 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Fedora 7 Nautilus 2.18.3 I'm unable to burn a CD using the Nautilus CD/DVD creator. The image seems to be created and shows the size at 665.6 MB. However, as soon as the writing process begins i get this error: -- snip -- Error writing to disc There was an error writing to the disc: The files selected did not fit on the CD. -- snip -- The only thing Google shows me are po translations of this error msg. There are a few pages online describing an error accessing the disc but nothing about files not fitting. I've tried removing about half the files and also changing discs with the same result. I'm really unsure of how to debug this. Anyone have any ideas? b

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F9 X11 mouse pointer grows hair and invisible screen boundaries
by Deron Meranda 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

I have a peculiar problem that just started on my Fedora 9 system where my mouse pointer will suddenly "grow hair"; it will get a lot of random black pixels surrounding the pointer graphic (probably contained within a 20x20 pixel area). Whenever the pointer graphic is changed by an application (like crossing over a scrollbar) the random pattern of attached hair will also change. More annoyingly, when this happens, the pointer appears to have lost track of the screen boundaries. You can move it in one direction and it will hit some invisible random wall, as if it was at the edge of the screen even though its not. Sometimes it will jump/warp to a different part of the screen and the location of these invisible walls will randomly change. This makes using applications or even accessing menus or close buttons very challenging. When I can manage to close down a lot of applications, the problem will often clear up; which makes me think it may be more likely during a low memory condition. Although I never do actually run out of free memory, and I have plenty of swap. This is a 32-bit kernel, version 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 The video card shows up in a system scan as: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9600 AS (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4153) The vendor's name on the box was: Diamond ATI Stealth X1050 (AGP 256MB) The Xorg driver chosen for this was: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so which is from package xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-19.fc9.i386 I've been running for a long time with an xorg.conf which turns off the DRI option to work around lockup problems with this particular card. But this pointer hair is a new problem. Option "DRI" "off" My screen is 1440 x 900 x 24, monitor is DELL E198WFP Any ideas? -- Deron Meranda

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Network performance utility query!
by Dan Track 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Hi Does anyone know of a program that I can use to test network performance. I've got to devices one linux and the other windows, I'd like to see if the linux device is getting nearly the max 100Mbit of performance when sending data to the windows box. Any thoughts? Thanks Dan

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out of range
by barclay982 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

i just installed fedora9 on this computer/shuttle ( http://us.shuttle.com/barebone/Models/SN68SG2.html : using the onboard video [NVIDIA 7025]) and all went well until the first re-boot and the monitor displayed '*out of range*'; however, the gui worked fine for the install process... any ideas? barclay

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