How to find/change machine name
by Bob Latham
Hi,
As predicted I'm back with another unbelievably trivial question but I
cannot find an answer. I am trying to get SAMBA shares working and failing
miserably and I wanted to check the server name but having looked in every
corner of the desktop and searched the help files I can find no clue as to
how to find it or better yet change it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Bob.
16 years
OT: Laptop Resources
by max
What's the best laptop resource you have found? I have to take these
things apart and many come apart in similar fashion but there is
always that odd ball!! In addition any links to good info on finding
parts, like dc jacks, screens, etc, Really any links to info on
laptops in general would be useful. It seems like everything is
scattered to the four corners of cyberspace but oddly enough its only
a click away!(Assuming you know where to click)
Thanks
Max
16 years
Fedora for the blind?
by Valent Turkovic
Hi,
does anybody have some information how Fedora and linux distros in
general are for usable for blind people?
I heard that speech recognition isn't really working on linux but what
is the state of screen readers/speech synthesis ?
How about braile printers and braile keyboards - how do they work on
fedora and linux in general?
Has anybody heard or some great story how linux is used by blind
people? Can you please share links and any info that you have.
My niece is 80% blind and she uses some really expensive software (on
windows) and hardware so that she can use the PC and at my former
university they are starting a class for educating blind people to use
PC-s but with windows and some additional expensive software for blind
people. I would like to make a project so that they use fedora as a
desktop instead if it is possible.
Thank you,
Valent.
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16 years
Re: Problem loading Fedora
by Richard England
>From: Darrick Fitzgerald Ward <dward(a)chicagogsb.edu>
>Date: 2008/04/29 Tue AM 10:17:32 CDT
>To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>Subject: Problem loading Fedora
>I am trying to load fedor 6 on my Dell Dimension 4300 and it keeps getting stuck at Formating/File System. I am trying to understand how to get pass this or if there is something I need to do.
>
>I know that fedora 6 is old but I could only find fedora 8 on dvd and my pc will not boot from a dvd. I used to have windows xp on this pc but it crashed and I no longer have any of my pc disc or windows disc after a move I made a year ago.
>
>I am a novice but I am smart and hopefully can start using linux and learn quickly.
>
>Thank you,
>
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Darrick,
You should give more details about what "stuck" means.
What messages are you seeing when this occurs?
What options did you select while going through the installation?
Did you elect to remove the XP partition, for instance?
What the hardware is (disk type and size, mother board, etc.)
What happened when your XP installation "crashed". It is possible that you have a permanent problem with your disk. Does XP still function in some damaged mode?
There are a lot of smart folks on this list but they need a better understanding of where you are and how you got there.
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16 years
system requirements for Fedora 9
by Antonio Olivares
Dear all,
I know that the release notes have not come out, but I
want to find out what are the bare minimum
requirements to get Fedora 9 installed onto a
computer.
I have seen Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS (Hardy Heron) being
released and they have a page with the system
requirements:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
I looked for the Fedora equivalent page but the
closest I have found is
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific
but it only specifies for installation purposes. I
would like to know the requirements because several of
my friends have become interested in linux and I told
them to install Fedora, one already installed *buntu
and he is loving it.
What are the requirements for KDE?
for Gnome?
XFce?
other DE if they also count?
Would Fedora 9 work ok with a machine with the
following specs
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 451.017
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips : 903.08
clflush size : 32
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 510372 kB
MemFree: 20152 kB
Buffers: 47824 kB
Cached: 276884 kB
SwapCached: 4 kB
Active: 203556 kB
Inactive: 241360 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 510372 kB
LowFree: 20152 kB
SwapTotal: 1052248 kB
SwapFree: 1052244 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 120204 kB
Mapped: 46632 kB
Slab: 25136 kB
SReclaimable: 15952 kB
SUnreclaim: 9184 kB
PageTables: 1368 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1307432 kB
Committed_AS: 257348 kB
VmallocTotal: 507896 kB
VmallocUsed: 13172 kB
VmallocChunk: 494600 kB
would a machine like this one run Fedora 9 ok or is
better to try something like Xubuntu?
I would like your recommendations for a friend.
Thanks in Advance,
Antonio
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16 years
Re: flatbed scanner?
by R. G. Newbury
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > The last time I got a new scanner I spent about a week
> > correlating the lists of scanners actually available for
> > purchase with the list of supported devices on the sane
> > web pages (99.999% of which are models that are out of
> > production :-) .
> >
> > Has anyone recently purchased a flatbed scanner with good
> > linux support? (I mostly want it for documents and such,
> > not photo or negative scanning).
> >
> > The Canoscan LIDE 60 I wound up with at the end of the first
> > painful search has apparently died the real death. It doesn't
> > show up as a USB device at all. If it had a fuse, I'd say
> > it had blown it :-) . Naturally they are up to LIDE 90 now
> > (60 no longer made), and the 90 isn't supported in sane.
> >
>I am working on a project where I wanted the imaging element out of a
>scanner. But not knowing which one, I bought two scanners off of
people >on craigslist. Both worked without me doing anything with Fedora.
> Just look here first:
>http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
>It doesn't look good for the Canoscan LIDE 90
>http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON
Or get a Hewlett Packard Multifunction Printer which also scans. I
picked up an HP 3055 about a year ago, as a network printer and copier,
not really expecting that the scanner/fax would be that usable. Not only
are there drivers, it works like a charm *over the network* with
scanimage. You call it with something like this (5 parameters in this
case which allows you to set the numbering of the file name):
export hpaio=hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_3055?ip=192.168.1.12
cd $1
scanimage --device-name=$hpaio --format=tiff --mode gray --resolution
300 -x 216 -y 280 -p -v batch=$2%d.tif --batch-start=$3 --batch-count=$4
--batch-increment=$5
The really nice thing is that the Auto Document Feeder works with this
setup. Really really nice for archiving stacks of documentation.
Geoff
16 years
How to get webcam working under Fedora Core 8
by Totally Burned
Hi,
I've installed Fedora Core 8. Got everything working fine but my webcam.
If I log in as root, Ekiga seems to find the attached device if I have V4L2
selected as video plug-in, but not if I select V4L. No other packages find
it (notably Skype and GYachE).
If I log in to a user account, not even Ekiga finds it, even if I select
V4L2.
I've tried installing the gspca driver via the livna repository, but it
didn't change anything. I'm not sure the gspca driver actually supports my
webcam.
I get this info if I run the v4l2-tool:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0ac8:303b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 WebCam
Does anyone have any tips/suggestions/solutions by any chance? Thanks if so
:)
David
16 years
[OT] trying to build glibc and test nptl/ under f8
by Robert P. J. Day
while this is primarily a glibc question, its symptom is showing up
under fedora 8 for me so, what the heck, i'll ask here.
i want to build glibc-2.7 from source on my fully-updated f8 system,
then run "make nptl/tests" as a start to experimenting with pthreads
programming. so start with downloading glibc-2.7.tar.bz2, untar,
create a separate build dir "glibc-build" and:
$ export CC="gcc -O2 -march=i486" (based on what i've read)
$ cd glibc-build
$ ../dl/glibc-2.7/configure --disable-sanity-checks
$ make
and away it goes, and finishes building successfully. so far, so
good.
at that point, i try:
$ make nptl/tests
... chug chug chug ...
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
Didn't expect signal from child: got `Aborted'
make[2]: *** [/home/rpjday/glibc-build/nptl/tst-mutex8.out] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rpjday/openwrt/wl-500gp/build/dl/glibc-2.7/nptl'
make[1]: *** [nptl/tests] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rpjday/openwrt/wl-500gp/build/dl/glibc-2.7'
make: *** [nptl/tests] Error 2
$
i've googled on that error, "libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for
pthread_cancel to work", but the most common cause is listed as not
having a recent enough version of libgcc. and yet:
$ rpm -q gcc
gcc-4.1.2-33
$ rpm -q libgcc
libgcc-4.1.2-33
$ rpm -ql libgcc
/lib/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20070925.so.1
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
/usr/sbin/libgcc_post_upgrade
/usr/share/doc/libgcc-4.1.2
/usr/share/doc/libgcc-4.1.2/COPYING.LIB
$ ls -l /lib/libgcc_s*
... /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20070925.so.1
... /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 -> libgcc_s-4.1.2-20070925.so.1
$
at this point, i'm puzzled and open to suggestions.
rday
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