Question on screensaver/powersave in KDE F8
by mike cloaked
I wonder if anyone can give me any pointers to the following issues:
1) Dell D610 seems to go into screensaver mode far sooner than the kde
screensaver settings should allow. This happens maybe three or four times
and then it settles down and behaves normally after moving the mouse cursor
to get out of the screensaver each time it happens.
http://www.smolts.org/client/show?uuid=pub_d3106a99-890c-4da2-a911-d4f78b...
2) Another Dell this time a desktop Dimension 5150 - if I don't have
firefox running then the screensaver kicks in at the prescribed time,
and then the monitor goes into powersave at the prescribed timeout.
(There is no power management set in control center - if I set it then
X seems to crash at strange times). If firefox is running then the
screensaver comes in as normal but the monitor fails to enter powersave mode.
http://www.smolts.org/show?UUID=pub_8cb4b211-d13c-441d-ab8a-5bd25f5c3401
Both systems are fully updated F8 and running KDE 3.5 - these "features"
have been present for pretty for quite some time now and I wondered if
anyone has seen anything similar, or who might know a workaround?
16 years
Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
by Paul Shaffer
I didn't specify at the outset of this discussion, but I have only two complaints regarding this issue and neither of them have to do with software patents, GPL, multimedia and related issues. Those things are insignificant from my perspective. What I hate to see is Redhat going down. Whether any of you believe it or not, Goliath comments aside, they have given themselves a black eye in the minds of many loyal supporters over the past couple of years. For me personally, the #2 issue is system stability. In their quest to be bleeding edge or whatever you want call it, I think we have sacrificed way too much in reliability and stability. I understand the devlopment schedule, testing methodology etc, as justifiable reasons therein. Initially I thought it was a great thing and eagerly awaited every release looking forward to the things I would be able to see and test for the first time. However, lately that has degeneratde into a situation I cannot
accept as the seeming recklesss abandon with which thay've gone about it.
That's really all there is to it. I can easily deal with these issues and that's why you don't see me posting here asking for help. But it has reached the threshold for me that I am not really enjoying it any more. I don't use my PCs for anything unusual or complex, just ordinary home office servers and workstations, with pretty much last generation plain vanila hardware. Despite that, I have lost count of the number of times and hours I've spent in the last two years fixing really dumb stuff like having the network just stop working after an update. Sure it's easy enough to run the previous kernel for a few days or a week until the fix appears, but that gets tiring after awhile when it becomes a continuous ongoing fear of loading new kernels. Sorry, but to me, things like that (and there are MANY more), and the frequency whith which they are ocurring just don't cut it for something being offered to the public, I don't care what justification for
software philosophy you offer. Some of it just seems like sloppy work to me
So I'll cross my fingers and take another step into F9. If things don't improve, I suppose I'll just sigh and continue being a disgruntled Fedora user. But fewer of my machines are running it these days, and that trend seems likely to continue.
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ldconfig vs f8 ????
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
Can anyone explain the reason why F8, by default, does not
include /usr/local/lib in its working pathlist?
I just had to add another file naming it in /etc/ld.so.conf.d
I don't recall ever having to do that in any previous incarnations of fedora,
it was always there.
--
Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes
a-begging.
-- Martin Luther
16 years
Integrated bluetooth on Toshiba laptop wont work
by Zlatko
Hello to everybody, and greetings from Croatia (Europe)...
I need help...
Model of laptop: Toshiba Satellite P200-10C
My integrated bluetooth wont work, unless I do the following:
1. I start laptop with Windows Vista
2. I restart from Vista to Fedora
Each time I do this, bluetooth works fine. But, if I turn off computer,
and start it again directly to Fedora, bluetooth wont work, and system
wont recognize any bluetooth device.
I have described this problem on Fedora forum, also, but nobody answered
my question so far, even I have posted that post month ago.
Here is the link to that post:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=172988
If anybody knows how to handle this problem, I'll be very appreciated...
Also, my combination of pressing Fn + (F1-F9) wont work either...
Thanks
16 years
Howto get an automatic Wifi connection?
by Patrick Lists
Hi all,
I have a PC with F8 & a usb wifi dongle and I would like to configure
the PC that when it boots it will automagically negotiate a WPA2/PSK
802.11g link with my Access Point and get an IP address from the DHCP
server behind the AP.
Since the PC boots into runlevel 3 I can not use NetworkManager. Instead
I have the network service enabled. The kernel module for the wifi
dongle autoloads and the dongle is recognized, active and ready to go to
work.
Now how do I configure this WPA2/PSK link to my AP?
Your feedback is most appreciated.
Thanks,
Patrick
16 years
Sound input problems on Shuttle SN68PTG5
by Mike Evans
I'm running Fedora 8 on a Shuttle SN68PTG5 - and I've been very happy
with it so far.
The On-board sound is specified as: 7.1 channel High Definition Audio,
Realtek ALC888DD codec by the manufacturer. Soundcard detection shows:
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Model: MCP67 High Definition Audio
Module: snd-hda-intel
From what I can tell this implies that there is a Media and
Communications Processor (MCP) from nVidia, and that is consistent with
the manufacturer's details: Chipset: NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV and nForce
630a (Codename: MCP 68PVNT). I presume that the Realtek chips are
somehow used for sound under the control of this processor. Why one
says MCP67 and one MCP68 I don't understand.
The Soundcard detection only shows options for PCM device related to
ALC883. (Analog and Digital.) Sound output has been working fine with
ALC883 Analog.
My problem is when I try to use the sound input - either front mic or
line-in sockets. If I start Audacity I see -30dB noise on the left
channel only, even with no input source connected. If I feed in a
signal I see it on the left channel, in addition to the noise, and still
get nothing at all on the right channel.
Thinking this was a connection or board problem I visited the supplier's
offices today. They installed a copy of Vista on it temporarily and it
worked perfectly. This led me to believe that the problem must be with
the drivers. I was up-to-date with the alsa drivers, lib and utilities
from the fedora repos at 1.0.15. On the Realtek site I found a linux
driver set dated February 20th. I backed up
/lib/modules/.../kernel/sound and a few other bits and pieces and
installed it. It compiled new versions of alsa-lib and utils but they
are still 1.0.15. The drivers however are 1.0.16 and soundcard
detection shows that it is picking those up. Unfortunately no improvement.
Any suggestions on how to progress further please. Yes I know I could
get a separate sound card, but I'd like to get this one working if I
can, especially as it works well for output.
Thanks,
Mike Evans
16 years
Aaron Konstam: Re: Network strangeness
by David L. Gehrt
> I have two machines on a home network:
> cyrus - wireless
> saturn - wired
>
> On cyrus : ping saturn and host saturn both fail saying saturn can't
> be
> found. However, ssh saturn works.
>
> On saturn: ping cyrus works but host cyrus fails.
> ssh cyrus, works
>
> I don't use iptables. Any explanations for this behavior?
>
> Errors are like:
> ** server can't find saturn: NXDOMAIN
>
> I suspect that some things use the local /etc/host bu others do not.
Have you checked the configuration on the wireless access point or
router? My Linksys router has a firewall built into it. I have not
modified its settings and it blocks inbound ICMP.
dlg
<snip>
This should've gone out ~5 hours ago. I Hope there is still a chance it
might be useful.
dlg
16 years
Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
by Paul Shaffer
--- On Sat, 4/26/08, Francis Earl <lunitik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Why should they pay around $15 per user for software the user didn't pay for, just so they can play codecs that aren't relevant to the people making them their money?
It's called "mindshare." And since when do you define relevance for Redhat's customers? Sounds rather presumptuous, to me. You mention the mindshare concept later, but don't seem to understand it works both ways. And it's a huge advantage in a competitive marketplace.
>There are even legal ways to get codecs (fluendo) and other equally easy ways.
What's easy to you is not easy for the vast majority of users. Computer use for virtually everything these days is taken for granted. Computer knowledge about how they work should not be.
>Today, Linux is big business, and is really making strides even on the home desktop.
Ya think? Ok "strides" compared to what - the over 90% share M$ enjoys? Methinks we got alot more stridin' to do.
>...makes an effort to ensure the industry can't rape users anymore.
I suppose Redhat more prefers neglect to rape. Or maybe passive coercion. But this approach is doomed to failure as we've already seen by Ubuntu's success. Redhat's ability to ensure anything in this industry is doubtful and becoming less a factor all the time as long as they and people like you decry the "ignorant" society and people who can't add a repo. Fedora has become a niche oddity in the Linux distro field because they view the vast majority of potential users as scapegoats for some holier than thou OS delusion.
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16 years
mutt can't lock nfs mounted 'sent' on fedora 8
by Dave Burns
Did fc8 change the default compilation or configuration of mutt in
some way that affects file locking? Or does mutt 1.5 have a new
default behavior?.
I have some cron jobs that use mutt to send attachments. (Mutt does
this better than mail or mailx.) My home dir is NFS mounted. On fc7
and previous, no problem. On fc8, when I execute:
# echo 'test email using mutt'|mutt -s 'test email using mutt'
<myemailaddress>
it hangs up for a while (can't interrupt it with cntl-c or background
it with cntl-z and bg) and then produces this error message:
fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37)
Couldn't lock /<myhomedirpath>/sent
When I run
# echo 'test email using mail'|mail -s 'test email using mutt'
<myemailaddress>
from the same context, it works immediately. So I am pretty sure it
is not sendmail causing the problem.
I don't really care whether my outgoing email gets saved in ~/send.
In fact I prefer not to save it. I tried asking about this on the
mutt list, got a cryptic response "use maildir". Mutt man page doesn't
mention "sent" folder locking, stuff about maildir no help.
Wish I could just get rid of NFS, but it owns me. Is there some
.muttrc setting I could tweak? man muttrc not unhelpful.
Thanks,
Dave
16 years
Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 50, Issue 223
by Vincent
> 1. Lost fc7 boot loader: (Vincent Onelli)
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:48:25 -0430
> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Lost fc7 boot loader:
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1209496705.27290.42.camel(a)bree.homelinux.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:59 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any way to restore the boot loader? I made dome error,
>> reinstalled the windows XP without first back up all the data in
>> fedora.
>> I have an HP Pavilion zv6000 with AMD athlon 64, 80 GB and 1GB of
>> memory dual boot with windows and Fedora 7 (fc8 will not install in
>> this computer, I also posted this problem but I did not get any
>> answer) the HD is partition at 40GB each. I try to restore using fc7
>> original disk used for installation but it does not restore the boot
>> loader.
>
> Do you have a Rescue disk? If so, use it to boot, do
> "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and then "/sbin/grub-install". If your
> old /boot/grub.conf file is OK, grub should install the bootloader. You
> might want to check that grub.conf has an entry for Windows so your dual
> boot will still work.
> poc
>
Thank you so much for the answer.
On the command /sbin/grub-install it return a message:
"install device not specified
USAGE grub-install [OPTION] install device
so I entered: "/sbin/grub-install fedora7"
this time was ok, but on reboot start the windows only.
what am I doing wrong?
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> End of fedora-list Digest, Vol 50, Issue 223
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>
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