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screen + vim + paste -> not happy
by Bryn M. Reeves 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi Folks, I've hit an odd problem when pasting large amounts of text into vim running inside a screen session. Steps to reproduce: 1. open a new file in vim (e.g. vim /tmp/foo) and enter insert mode 2. select a large amount of text (a few hundred lines or so) 3. paste (middle click or ctrl-c/ctrl-v) into the editor At this point, Xorg CPU usage shoots up to close to 100%, the desktop feels very unresponsive and the terminal window that vim is running in flashes between a blue background with black borders and all-black. A few minutes later, some or all of the text will appear (possibly with some whitespace changes) in the editor and life goes back to normal. I'm seeing this on two different systems with different graphics drivers (i945 & nv). I cannot reproduce this behaviour outside of screen and I've also managed to make vim lock up a couple of times while running within screen on f9 (I don't have exact steps to reproduce this - it seems like some keystroke sequences trigger it but I can't make it happen at will). I'll open a bugzilla for this, but figured I'd post it here in case anyone's seen something similar. Regards, Bryn.

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mplayer dependencies on RPM Fusion
by Andras Simon 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

It seems that mplayer's dependencies on RPM Fusion include (perhaps indirectly) mencoder, samba-common and samba-winbind. Are these really necessary? This does matter on a netbook with 4G SSD. Andras

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Wireless Cards & Drivers
by GN 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi All, I am one of the lucky laptop owners with a wireless network card that the manufacturers supply a Linux driver for, Ralink Technology. The driver comes in a tarball and when compiled the driver is rt2860sta.ko I currently load this driver with a script as follows: #! /bin/bash # Script to load and activate ra0 wireless driver sudo /sbin/insmod /home/graeme/Download/2008_0918_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.8.0.0/os/linux/rt2860sta.ko sudo /sbin/ifconfig ra0 up I used NetworkManager to configure ra0 for my AP and after that NetworkManager automatically connects to my AP as soon as I activate the driver with the above script. My question to the list is; How can I load and activate the driver as the machine boots? In what directory do I put the driver? -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ... Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Logic is an organised way of going wrong with confidence. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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How to stop loading sata_mv driver for HighPoint RocketRAID 2220 to install Fedora 9
by sfzhou 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi, I have a RocketRAID 2220 controller, and I also prepare the driver from the open source But when I start to install Fedora 9 to the controller, it always loads sata_mv.ko and conflict with the driver from highpoint, what could I type from the command line to not load the sata_mv driver? On openSUSE, I can add brokenmodules=sata_mv to the boot option, is it possible for Fedora?

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New RPMFusion dependency problem
by Kevin Cummings 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

I tried to update my F8 system with the new RPMFusion repository today. On DVDAuthorWizard, I got the following: > ]# yum update DVDAuthorWizard > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, stablemirror > stablemirror: the easily edited stablemirror file is "/var/cache/yum/stablemirrors" > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * atrpms: dl.atrpms.net > * livna: mirror.atrpms.net > * rpmfusion-free-updates: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com > * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com > * rpmfusion-free: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com > * updates-newkey: mirrors.usu.edu > * fedora: mirrors.usu.edu > * rpmfusion-nonfree: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com > Excluding Packages from ATrpms - Stable > Finished > Excluding Packages from Livna for Fedora Core 8 - i386 - Base > Finished > Setting up Update Process > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package DVDAuthorWizard.noarch 0:1.4.6-2.fc8 set to be updated > --> Processing Dependency: soc for package: DVDAuthorWizard > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > DVDAuthorWizard-1.4.6-2.fc8.noarch from rpmfusion-free-updates has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: soc is needed by package DVDAuthorWizard-1.4.6-2.fc8.noarch (rpmfusion-free-updates) > Error: Missing Dependency: soc is needed by package DVDAuthorWizard-1.4.6-2.fc8.noarch (rpmfusion-free-updates) I can't find any information on what "soc" is. Its not a package name, yum whatprovides soc returns: > yum whatprovides soc > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, stablemirror > stablemirror: the easily edited stablemirror file is "/var/cache/yum/stablemirrors" > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * atrpms: dl.atrpms.net > * livna: mirror.atrpms.net > * rpmfusion-free-updates: ftp.upjs.sk > * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: ftp.upjs.sk > * rpmfusion-free: ftp.upjs.sk > * updates-newkey: mirrors.usu.edu > * fedora: mirrors.usu.edu > * rpmfusion-nonfree: ftp.upjs.sk > atrpms | 951 B 00:00 > livna | 2.1 kB 00:00 > google | 951 B 00:00 > dribble | 951 B 00:00 > rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00 > rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00 > rpmfusion-free | 951 B 00:00 > adobe-linux-i386 | 972 B 00:00 > updates-newkey | 2.3 kB 00:00 > freshrpms | 2.4 kB 00:00 > fedora | 2.1 kB 00:00 > rpmfusion-nonfree | 951 B 00:00 > Excluding Packages from ATrpms - Stable > Finished > Excluding Packages from Livna for Fedora Core 8 - i386 - Base > Finished > Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erronously match against filenames. > You can use "*/soc" and/or "*bin/soc" to get that behaviour > No Matches found No matches found? yum search soc returns: > yum search soc > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, stablemirror > stablemirror: the easily edited stablemirror file is "/var/cache/yum/stablemirrors" > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * atrpms: dl.atrpms.net > * livna: mirror.atrpms.net > * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.transact.net.au > * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.transact.net.au > * rpmfusion-free: mirror.transact.net.au > * updates-newkey: mirrors.usu.edu > * fedora: mirrors.usu.edu > * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.transact.net.au > Excluding Packages from ATrpms - Stable > Finished > Excluding Packages from Livna for Fedora Core 8 - i386 - Base > Finished > ======================================================================== Matched: soc ======================================================================== > apmd.i386 : Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS utilities for laptops. > dmidecode.i386 : Tool to analyse BIOS DMI data. > mod_ssl.i386 : SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP Server > wpa_supplicant.i386 : WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant > 3dm2.i386 : 3ware? Disk Manager > Io-language-extras.i386 : Io extra addons > afflib.i386 : Library to support the Advanced Forensic Format > aplus-fsf.i386 : Advanced APL interpreter with s interface > ax25-apps.i386 : AX.25 ham radio applications > binutils-devel.i386 : BFD and opcodes static libraries and header files > bitmap.i386 : Bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System > bolzplatz2006.i386 : Slam Soccer 2006 is a funny football game in 3D-comic-style > bygfoot.i386 : Bygfoot Football Manager > clamav-milter.i386 : Sendmail-milter for the Clam Antivirus scanner > clisp.i386 : Common Lisp (ANSI CL) implementation > commoncpp2.i386 : GNU Common C++ class framework > compat-expat1.i386 : A library for parsing XML documents > conexus.i386 : C++ network and serial communication library > conexusmm.i386 : Network and serial communication widgets for Gtkmm > connect-proxy.i386 : SSH Proxy command helper > dhcp-forwarder.i386 : DHCP relay agent > e-uae.i386 : A powerful Amiga Emulator, based on UAE > exim-clamav.i386 : Clam Antivirus scanner d?mon configuration for use with Exim > expat.i386 : An XML parser library > festival-devel.i386 : Development files for the Festival speech synthesis system > fsh.i386 : A tool for fast remote command execution > geda-gattrib.i386 : Attribute editor for gEDA > gfs-artemisia-fonts.noarch : GFS Artemisia fonts > gfs-baskerville-fonts.noarch : GFS Baskerville Greek font > gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts.noarch : GFS Bodoni Classic oblique Greek font > gfs-bodoni-fonts.noarch : GFS Bodoni fonts > gfs-complutum-fonts.noarch : GFS Complutum Greek font > gfs-didot-classic-fonts.noarch : GFS Didot Classic Greek font > gfs-didot-fonts.noarch : GFS Didot fonts > gfs-gazis-fonts.noarch : GFS Gazis Greek font > gfs-neohellenic-fonts.noarch : GFS Neohellenic fonts > gfs-olga-fonts.noarch : GFS Olga experimental oblique Greek font > gfs-porson-fonts.noarch : GFS Porson Greek font > gfs-solomos-fonts.noarch : GFS Solomos oblique Greek font > gfs-theokritos-fonts.noarch : GFS Theokritos decorative font > gnomesword.i386 : GNOME-based Bible research tool > gnotime.i386 : Tracks and reports time spent > gnustep-make.i386 : GNUstep makefile package > gprolog.i386 : GNU Prolog is a free Prolog compiler > hawknl.i386 : Game oriented network library > horde-enhanced.noarch : Adds extra functionality to the horde framework > immix.i386 : Immix, an image mixer > iptraf.i386 : A console-based network monitoring utility > irda-utils.i386 : Utilities for infrared communication between devices > iso-codes.noarch : ISO code lists and translations > iso-codes-devel.noarch : Files for development using iso-codes > keepalived.i386 : HA monitor built upon LVS, VRRP and service pollers > kgtk.i386 : Allows Gtk and Qt applications to use KDE's file dialogs > lapack.i386 : The LAPACK libraries for numerical linear algebra. > libHX.i386 : General-purpose library > libapreq2.i386 : Apache HTTP request library > libcapsimage.i686 : Provides IPF support, primarily for UAE/E-UAE > libical.i386 : Reference implementation of the iCalendar data type and serialization format > libical-devel.i386 : Development files for libical > libiec61883.i386 : Streaming library for IEEE1394 > libnl.i386 : Convenience library for kernel netlink sockets > libshout.i386 : icecast source streaming library > libvoikko.i386 : Voikko is a library for spellcheckers and hyphenators > lsscsi.i386 : List SCSI devices (or hosts) and associated information > lua.i386 : Powerful light-weight programming language > lua-logging.noarch : A simple API to use logging features in Lua > lua-socket.i386 : Network support for the Lua language > mailcap.noarch : Associates helper applications with particular file types > malaga.i386 : A programming language for automatic language analysis > mod_nss.i386 : SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP server > mugshot.i386 : Companion software for mugshot.org > multiget.i386 : An easy-to-use GUI file downloader > netembryo.i386 : Network abstraction library > ninja.i386 : Text based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client > openhpi.i386 : openhpi Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) library and tools > openssl096.i386 : Secure Sockets Layer Toolkit. > pcmciautils.i386 : PCMCIA utilities and initialization programs > perl-CGI-Ajax.noarch : Perl-specific system for writing Asynchronous web applications > perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo.noarch : CPAN::DistnameInfo Perl module > perl-Class-Loader.noarch : Load modules and create objects on demand > perl-Danga-Socket.noarch : Event loop and event-driven async socket base class > perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime.noarch : Parse and format strp and strf time patterns > perl-File-Slurp.noarch : Efficient Reading/Writing of Complete Files > perl-Graph.noarch : Perl module for dealing with graphs, the abstract data structures > perl-IO-All.noarch : IO::All Perl module > perl-IO-Interface.i386 : Perl extension for accessing network card configuration information > perl-IO-Multiplex.noarch : IO-Multiplex module for perl > perl-IO-Socket-INET6.noarch : Perl Object interface for AF_INET|AF_INET6 domain sockets > perl-IO-Socket-SSL.noarch : Perl library for transparent SSL > perl-Mail-IMAPClient.noarch : An IMAP Client API > perl-Net-NBName.noarch : NetBIOS Name Service Requests > perl-POE-Component-Client-LDAP.noarch : Async LDAP access for POE > perl-Socket6.i386 : IPv6 related part of the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators > perl-Spoon.noarch : Spiffy Application Building Framework > perl-Tie-DBI.noarch : Tie hashes to DBI relational databases > perl-Tie-EncryptedHash.noarch : Hashes (and objects based on hashes) with encrypting fields > perl-Tie-IxHash.noarch : Ordered associative arrays for Perl > perl-X11-Protocol.noarch : X11-Protocol - Raw interface to X Window System servers > perl-XML-Xerces.i386 : Perl API to Xerces XML parser > pgbouncer.i386 : Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL > php-pear-DB.noarch : PEAR: Database Abstraction Layer > php-pear-Net-SMTP.noarch : Provides an implementation of the SMTP protocol > php-pear-Net-Socket.noarch : Network Socket Interface > php-shout.i386 : PHP module for communicating with Icecast servers > pl.i386 : SWI-Prolog - Edinburgh compatible Prolog compiler > player.i386 : Cross-platform robot device interface and server > pyOpenSSL.i386 : Python wrapper module around the OpenSSL library > python-twisted-names.i386 : A Twisted DNS implementation > qps.i386 : Visual process manager > rcssbase.i386 : Robocup 2D Soccer Simulation Base Library > rcsslogplayer.i386 : RoboCup Soccer Simulator LogPlayer > rcssmonitor.i386 : RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulator Monitor > rcssserver.i386 : Robocup 2D Soccer Simulation Server > rcssserver-gui.i386 : A simple way to run 2D Soccer Simulation on a single machine > rcssserver3d.i386 : Robocup 3D Soccer Simulation Server > ruby-aws.noarch : Ruby interface to Amazon Web Services > rudesocket.i386 : Library (C++ API) for creating client sockets > rudesocket-devel.i386 : Development files for rudesocket > sendmail-milter-spf.noarch : Milter to enable SPF checking in sendmail > shapelib.i386 : API in "C" for Shapefile handling > sipp.i386 : SIP test tool / traffic generator > skstream.i386 : C++ I/O library for WorldForge clients/servers > socat.i386 : Bidirectional data relay between two data channels ('netcat++') > ss5.i386 : Socks Server 5 > strace.i386 : Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process > struts.i386 : Web application framework > stunnel.i386 : An SSL-encrypting socket wrapper > sword.i386 : Free Bible Software Project > tcl-snack.i386 : Sound toolkit > tcl-tcludp.i386 : Tcl extension for UDP support > tcputils.i386 : Utilities for TCP programming in shell-scripts > tomcat-native.i386 : Tomcat native library > tomcat5-jasper.i386 : Compiler JARs and associated scripts for tomcat5 > tor.i386 : Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router) > trickle.i386 : Portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper > usbsink.i386 : USBSink is a GNOME program for automatic file synchronization over USB > wbxml2.i386 : Library and tools to parse, encode and handle WBXML documents > wifi-radar.noarch : A utility for managing WiFi profiles > wordwarvi.i386 : Side-scrolling shoot 'em up '80s style arcade game > xarchon.i386 : Arcade board game > xbae.i386 : Motif matrix, caption and text input widgets > xerces-c.i386 : Validating XML Parser > xmms-acme.i386 : XMMS plugin to use special multimedia keys in GNOME or through acme Which is way too much information. Can anyone help me out here. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome(a)rcn.com cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)

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F9 gdm theme?
by Frank Cox 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

I just did a "yum upgrade" on this computer (my main desktop) from F8 to Fedora 9. Took the plunge thanks to the efforts of the chaps at RPMFusion, which has me impressed all to hell by the way. (Great job on that, chaps! My sincere thanks for all of your efforts.) Anyway, my first issue is that I would like to install a custom gdm theme and my google-fu tells me that it can't be done. Is that still the case? If so, are things going to be "back to normal" when F10 is released? Or are we dealing with long-term breakage of some kind? Completely off the subject at hand, I just purchased one of those cute little Acer Aspire One mini-laptops earlier this afternoon. I got the one that comes with Windows XP because it was was on sale ($379.00 plus tax at Staples in Yorkton, 20 miles down the road from here). It apparently has 1gb of ram and 160gb hard drive. I booted it once with the Windows that it came with to make sure that it works (it does) and now my next project is to blow that away and install a real operating system. My reading indicates that the F10 Beta "just works" when it's installed on this unit, so I'm downloading the Live CD right now and will slap 'er on there later tonight. New toy. Should be the real thing for reading e-books on, and for playing around with Commodore 64 software. (Anyone who started out with a C64 and hasn't tried Vice, you don't know what you're missing.) -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com

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Preventing USB automount
by Steve Berg 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

I'm having a hard time getting up to speed on how udev and hal handle removeable USB devices. I need to configure a system so it will not automount USB sticks or external USB harddrives. I do need all other USB devices such as CAC readers, keyboards, mice etc to function normally. Just the mass storage stuff needs to be locked out. Is there an easy rule to create for udev that will turn off that function? -- * Stephen Berg * * sberg(a)mississippi.com * * http://iceberg.3c0x1.com * * Sinners can repent, * * But stupid is forever. *

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Information
by citi zen 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Dear read hat, i got the message but i not understand that question what is the CUPS. i first using windows now i training the fedora 9 i want the basic notes. Pleas 1. I need all information for fedora 9 2. how can i work in fedora 9 3. how can i main ten the system 4. what is the different between window vs Linux. Thanks Velu

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grokking kickstart partitioning
by Ryan Sawhill 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

So I'm trying to edit a (fully-automated) kickstart file that I've used to set up RHEL machines with no problems in the past. The problem is that it makes some assumptions about how big the drive is supposed to be, and though drive space is cheap, my laptop apparently doesn't have enough and I'd like to have this accessible now as a VM running for training purposes. So long story short, I'm hoping for a little help in understanding the following part from the %pre section of the ks, which I believe to be the culprit: cat > /tmp/partitioning <<EOF zerombr yes clearpart --all part /boot --start 1 --end 16 --ondisk sda part /var/ftp/pub --start 17 --end 5017 --ondisk sda part pv.1 --size=27648 --ondisk=sda volgroup vg0 --pesize=32768 pv.1 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=lv.root --vgname=vg0 --size=20480 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=lv.swap --vgname=vg0 --recommended logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --name=lv.tmp --vgname=vg0 --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=2048 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=lv.var --vgname=vg0 --size=2048 --grow --maxsize=2048 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=lv.home --vgname=vg0 --size=512 --grow --maxsize=1024 EOF This of course is included with an '%include /tmp/partitioning' line at the beginning of the ks. Parsing through this, I would expect the part "pv.1 --size=27648" line to create a 27GB partition and it seems that as long as the drive has more than that, this whole process should be successful, but not so. Which leaves me confused, SOOO I'm searching elsewhere and starting to play with this, but I thought I'd through out a line in the meantime. :) Thanks to anyone who has some insight!

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Third and last step of the transition from Livna to RPM Fusion begins: Enabling RPM Fusion for all livna users!
by Thorsten Leemhuis 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi! As you'll likely have heard by now: RPM Fusion (http://rpmfusion.org) the merger of Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna was finally launched today. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-November/msg00003… for details. All Livna users will be migrated automatically to RPM Fusion from now on. The process works like this: I added the rpmfusion-release packages for RPM Fusion's free and nonfree repos to the livna repo for F8 and F9; a updated livna-release packages in the livna repos for F8 and F9 tracks those two rpmfusion-release packages into your system with a RPM dependency. That way all users that installed livna properly (e.g. by installing the livna-release package) will now get RPM Fusion enabled automatically. Note, all of Livna's packages that still have a maintainer that takes care of the package have been imported and built for RPM Fusion -- there is just one one major exception: RPM Fusion chose to not ship one package that is used when you play DVD, as that library is a bit more complicated then all the others software in Livna/RPM Fusion. So you should leave livna repos enabled if you still want that package; Livna (or maybe some other repo that does not exist yet) will continue to ship that package for the foreseeable future. If you want to enable RPM Fusion on new installs use this command: > rpm -ivh \ > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.no… \ > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-sta… Please note that you need different release rpms if you use rawhide or Fedora alpha/beta/preview releases: > rpm -ivh \ > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-rawhide.n… \ > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-raw… RPM Fusion's Bugtracker (please report all issues here and not on the mailing lists!): http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ Mailing lists for RPM Fusion users: http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmfusion-users Please spread the news! tia! CU knurd P.S.: Some people will wonder why the nvidia drivers 177.80 are not yet in the RPM Fusion repos for F8 and F9. The reason is dead simple: Nvidia dropped support for the GeForce 5 series in the 177 driver series. Hence if we'd ship the drivers as regular update then we'd break the setup for all users that currently use the livna drivers together with a GeForce 5. A solution is in the works, but not yet finished.

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