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Startup/Login screen resolution & F8 thinks webcam is an audio device...
by Raymond C. Rodgers 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi folks, As the subject implies, I have two separate problems that I'd like a bit of assistance with. I'm running Fedora 8 x86_64. First, I recently bought an HP w2207h wide screen LCD display, and it works pretty well with one exception: It doesn't particularly like non-widescreen resolutions, and will toss up an annoying on screen display stating that the resolution and/or refresh rate are out of range right in the center of the display, blocking anything there, until either a) the reolution/refresh rate is changed or b) it decides that you're not paying it any attention and puts itself to sleep. Its preferred resolution is 1680x1050 at 60 Hz, and I have no problem with the resolution once I'm logged in, but I'm not sure how to change the resolution for the start/boot-up process (in case I need to watch the details while booting up), or at the log-in screen. As you might guess, I'm not exactly an expert at poking around in xorg.conf; can anyone offer me some suggestions? The second problem is that I also just got a RocketFish webcam. It doesn't work by default under Fedora, and I'm not entirely concerned about that, but what is interesting is that as long as it's plugged into my system, Fedora fails to recognize my motherboard's built-in audio chipset (ADI AD1986A) which it normally has no problems with, and decides that what little audio support that is in the webcam (a built-in microphone) should be the default audio output device. This is obviously wrong. The simplest answer, I suppose would be to unplug the webcam when booting into Linux, but I'm sure there has to be a correct answer. Like I said, I'm not worried about getting the webcam to work properly under Fedora, I just want my sound working. The audio chipset doesn't even show in the sound device preference panel with the camera plugged in. Any suggestions on this one? Thank you for your time, Raymond

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PHP Warning: Failed to open stream: Permission Denied
by Matthew Benjamin 07 May '08

07 May '08

Does anyone have any experience with the following error message in PHP running on Linux "*PHP Warning: fopen(./text.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied*"? I am trying to create a text file on Linux via a website utilizing PHP. I have changed the ownership to apache:apache, and chmod 777 and 755 with no success. The meat of the code is as follows $myFile = "./text.txt"; $filehandle = fopen($myFile, 'w+') or die("can't open file"); $stringData .= "Hello Tux"; fwrite($filehandle, $stringData); fclose($filehandle); -- mB.

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How to get a list of packages installed since initial installation?
by Chris G 07 May '08

07 May '08

I'm sure someone told me how to do this but I can't see how to do it now. How can I get a list of packages installed since I first installed Fedora, or at least a list of the last n packages installed? -- Chris Green

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HP Scanner on F8
by Jonathan Allen 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi All, I'm trying to install a scanner in an F8 environment. The scanner is an HP 5590P scanner, 0x03f0/0x1705. As a relatively new device, this is not directly known to F8. But it is known to F9, so I 'force' installed sane-backends-1.0.19-10.fc9.i386 to bring it in. [root@marquee sane.d]# sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x1705 [hp scanjet scanner], chip=HP5550/5590/7650) at libusb:001:003 This shows that the scanner and model are known and there is a config file /etc/sane.d/hp5590.conf. I confirmed this with: [root@marquee sane.d]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:1705 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5590 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Card Reader Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 But: [root@marquee sane.d]# scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). [root@marquee sane.d]# xsane Where do I go next? 'xsane' also insists that there are no scanners available. But I haven't a clue how to make the backend available. Jonathan

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Re: using the internal modem on a Thinkpad T61
by Antonio Olivares 07 May '08

07 May '08

----- Original Message ---- From: Globe Trotter <itsme_410(a)yahoo.com> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 3:40:24 PM Subject: using the internal modem on a Thinkpad T61 Hi, Does anyone know how to use the internal modem on a Thinkpad in F8? I could not get it to be recognized. Many thanks, Trotter ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Trotter, You can download the scanModem utility and hopefully(*cross your fingers*), that your modem is supported. You can get it from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz copy it to your linux partition $ gunzip scanModem.gz $ chmod +x scanModem $ su - Password: run it as superuser # ./scanModem will create ModemData.txt. You can send it to me and I can relay it if needed to the discuss(a)linmodems.org Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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Slow propagation of updates to mirrors?
by Brian Morrison 07 May '08

07 May '08

Many times recently I've noticed that updates that are announced do not reach the mirrors for many days. This is particularly a problem with F7. Does anyone know what is happening regarding these delays? As an example, there are 49 F7 updates showing in my package-announce folder, none of them can be found on the mirrors AFAICS. -- Brian Morrison "Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in the mud; after a while you realize you are muddy and the pig is enjoying it."

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kernel-2.6.24.5-85.fc8: update fails
by Steven P. Ulrick 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello Everyone This seems to be a strange one to me, since I honestly don't see that anyone else on this list has had this issue yet. On April, 29th, the following update was released: kernel-2.6.24.5-85.fc8 When I run "yum update", I receive the following: [root@afolkey2 steve]# yum update Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "downloadonly" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "skip-broken" plugin Loading "changelog" plugin Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: mirror.steadfast.net * updates: ftp.linux.ncsu.edu fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00 Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.24.5-85.fc8 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.24.5-85.fc8 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: kernel i686 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 updates 17 M Updating: kernel-headers i386 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 updates 741 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 18 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/2): kernel-headers-2.6 100% |=========================| 741 kB 00:01 (2/2): kernel-2.6.24.5-85 100% |=========================| 17 MB 00:38 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: kernel ######################### [1/3] nash received SIGSEGV! Backtrace (11): /sbin/nash[0x805314a] [0x110440] /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x314ce13] /usr/lib/libbdevid.so.6.0.19(bdevid_module_unload_all+0x31)[0x8c3e37] /usr/lib/libbdevid.so.6.0.19(bdevid_destroy+0x2d)[0x8c357c] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.19[0x967174] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.19(nash_vitals_destroy_probes+0x3f)[0x9677ec] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.19(_nashFreeContext+0x1c)[0x957fc6] /sbin/nash[0x80536e4] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xafe390] /sbin/nash[0x804ae61] It just appears to hang right there. But if I hit "ctrl c", I get the following, and the update appears to exit: /sbin/nash[0x804ae61] error: %post(kernel-2.6.24.5-85.fc8.i686) scriptlet failed, signal 2 "rpm -qa | grep kernel" shows the following: [root@afolkey2 steve]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-headers-2.6.24.4-64.fc8 kernel-2.6.24.5-85.fc8 kernel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8 Any help that you can give me is greatly appreciated. Steven P. Ulrick

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Overly bright video with Intel 82865G
by Arthur Pemberton 07 May '08

07 May '08

I have an Intel 82865G connected to a display via VGA and every time i play video (VLC, mythfrontend playback) the video is overly (unusably) bright. The rest of the desktop (bootop, GDM, fluxbox, mythtfrontend) are all ok. This is with the 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel package. I would like to get video to play at or about the same brightness/contrast as the rest of the computer. Please assist. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )

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sshd keys not set up in FC9 Preview
by David R. Wilson 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello fellows, I noticed in FC9 Preview that the ssh keys are not set up by default. I cheated: ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key Any idea if this will be in setup scripts (or if we want those running sshd to do it their way)? It was slightly annoying to have to dig that out on a box I ssh to a good bit. Dave -- David R. Wilson <david(a)wwns.com>

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Monodevelop
by Paul F. Johnson 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi, I'm trying to find out why the texteditor from monodevelop has vanished and have tried plenty of things, none of which seem to be working. If you have a working copy of monodevelop, could you email me and tell me the version number and which Fedora your using (8, 9, rawhide etc) and the platform (x86, ppc, x86_64)? I really need to get this working so I can import it into F9 when F9 becomes open again. TTFN Paul monodevelop maintainer -- Sie können mich aufreizen und wirklich heiß machen!

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