Fedora 9 X dual monitor problem
by David Kramer
I recently "upgraded" my laptop from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. As always, I
backed up the old system and started from reformatted drives. I never
upgrade my OS in place. This is on my Dell Latitude D820 with a 15.4
inch 1680x1050 screen, using the proprietary Nvidia driver. I've had
quite a few problems with F9. I don't know how much of my pain is coming
from KDE4 being fresh out of the oven, and how much of it is F9 itself.
When I was running F8, I was able to sucessfully hook up the external
video port to my Sony Bravia TV's PC port. It does 1380x768. This is
essential functionality for me, so I can watch MythTV on the TV while
using my internal screen for email/web/etc. I used separate Xs, not
TwinView or Xinerama (I experimented with those, but windows would
launch on the TV when it wasn't hooked up, so I couldn't get to them).
And all was right in the world
After I loaded F9, I'm not able to get the TV to display anything. I see
a crosshatch pattern over the screen, and if I move the mouse to that
screen, I see the cursor, but I can't right click or left click. I even
tried the exact xorg.conf from F8, and that didn't work either. Instead
of the crosshatch pattern, the TV was just black.
I have a complete writeup, with links to the config and log files at:
http://www.thekramers.net/tmp/xproblem/
Someone suggested that X wasn't starting on that screen (:1), and to try
to start it separately, but that didn't work.
[david@lexa ~]$ export DISPLAY=:1
[david@lexa ~]$ echo $DISPLAY
:1
[david@lexa ~]$ kwin
kwin: FATAL ERROR while trying to open display :1
[david@lexa ~]$ metacity
Window manager error: Unable to open X display :1
[david@lexa ~]$
* Config file two screens, worked in F8, but not F9
* Log file (from F9), two screens, worked in F8 but not in F9
* Log file, single screen, works
* Config file, single screen, works
* Log file, two screens, broken
* Config file, two screens, broken
Some other related problems I'm having:
* nvidia-settings puts an entry in xorg.conf for RgbPath, and X
fails to start, claiming it's invalid. I have to remove that line every
time I rerun nvidia-settings.
* It says it can't load the module type1, but I can't see any
packages (using yum or yumex) having to do with type1 fonts that isn't
installed.
* It looks like glx is loading when you look at some parts of the
log files, and that it isn't in others. How can I tell for sure, and how
can I fix it if it isn't loading?
* The fonts applications and KDE use seem very inconsistent. I have
Firefox and Thunderbird to use font sized 10 and 12 for most things, but
sometimes they will show text using a font that looks like it's at least
20, and sometimes emails appear in a font too small to easily read, and
in light grey. I have it set to view in plain text and quoted lines in
black in the same font. I know that sounds like a Thunderbird problem,
but since I'm having font troubles in general, I'm not sure. Also not
sure if it's related to the type1 module problem above.
Thanks.
15 years, 12 months
Does one have to be a sound engineer?
by Timothy Murphy
I installed Fedora-9 (from the KDE Live CD)
on a big new disk on my laptop (ThinkPad T43) yesterday,
and found that sound was not working.
I noticed on left-clicking on the sound icon in the panel
that the sound mixer was muted,
and the sound was set at minimal level as well.
Why?
Surely the rational setup would be to have sound working
at a reasonably high level when one logs on?
Anyway, after unmuting the sound and increasing the level
I found there was still no sound.
Left-clicking on the sound icon, and then left clicking on the word "Mixer"
in the small window that appeared brought up a KMix window.
I noticed that the "Front" slider was set at the minimal level in this,
and pushing it up started sound working.
What exactly does "Front" mean?
Windows XP seems to get by without all this sophistication.
As far as I can see, all I can do under Windows
is make the sound stronger or weaker.
I must say that is all I want.
Am I alone in feeling there is too much expertise,
and not enough common sense, in the Linux sound community?
15 years, 12 months
RedHat F8 OpenOffice - Has Stopped Recognizing EPS Graphics
by Rick Bilonick
I'm running F8 (since January) and using openoffice 2.3 (RedHat's rpms).
Now all of a sudden I cannot insert eps graphics nor convert them using
draw to emf. It says it doesn't recognize the file format. It had also
started saying my personal files were locked but re-booting has seemed
to stop this. How can I fix this?
Rick B.
15 years, 12 months
solved vmware kills syslog fish, fedora users archive fishing
by Dave Burns
I solved this issue myself, but thought I'd send this message anyhow.
Indulge me.
toss me a fish:
There was a thread recently that discussed a problem whose symptom was
that syslog died and the logs were deleted. Turns out that installing
vmware had something to do with it. I thought I carefully saved this
thread, can't find it now. I wanted to know how did OP restore syslog
to good health? /sbin/restorecon /etc/services was the fish.
teach me to fish:
How could I search the archive at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ to find this, since I
know not the thread, author, or date? I tried googling:
site:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ vmware syslog
And got a lot of hits from January and February. I constrained the
search to the past two months, got nothing, which I know is wrong.
Tried:
site:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ vmware syslogd
and hit paydirt. Yay me! Woe to the person who doesn't half-know the
solution already - without the 'vmware' term in there, much harder to
find the solution.
And mahalo to the list for making me so utterly knowledgeable!
Dave
15 years, 12 months
BOINC again !?
by Bill Case
Hi;
I am having newbie problems with boinc, ports and SELinux -- I think.
Networks and SELinux are two subjects I have put off learning to any
rudimentary depth. So here goes.
I can get Boinc to connect to the World Community Grid immediately after
first download and install. (I have removed it and re-installed to test
this). But after a reboot I can no longer connect to any of the project
sites.
I went to the WCG forum and explained my problem. The response was --
open ports 80 and 443.
'netstat' does not list 80 or 443 as present, i.e, as active.
SELinux is in permissible mode.
SELinux gives the following for those two ports.
http_port_t tcp s0 80
http_port_t tcp s0 443
So ... where do I go from here?
--
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1
15 years, 12 months
Re: formatting an e-book
by Steve Blackwell
---- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2008, Steve wrote:
> >I just bought a 1TB My Book external HD with the idea of using it to back up
> > both my Fedora box and my wife's Vista laptop. I was going to partition
> > half of it as NTFS and the other half ext3. The documentation says that it
> > comes preformatted with a single FAT32 partition but this looks strange to
> > me
> >
> ># mount
> >...
> >/dev/sdc1 on /media/My Book type vfat
> > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500)
> >
> ># fdisk -l /dev/sdc1
>
> Wrong, you wanted the base device, probably /dev/sdc, not some partition on it.
Doh!! That's the 2nd time I've made that mistake recently.
]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xxxxxxxxx
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 121601 976760001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
That's better!
Now I think I need to upgrade my BIOS so that I can boot with this thing plugged in.
Thanks,
Steve
15 years, 12 months
formatting an e-book
by Steve Blackwell
I just bought a 1TB My Book external HD with the idea of using it to back up both my Fedora box and my wife's Vista laptop. I was going to partition half of it as NTFS and the other half ext3. The documentation says that it comes preformatted with a single FAT32 partition but this looks strange to me
# mount
...
/dev/sdc1 on /media/My Book type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500)
# fdisk -l /dev/sdc1
Disk /dev/sdc1: 1000.2 GB, 1000202241024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121600 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xxxxxxxxxx
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1p1 ? 119512 153402 272218546+ 20 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc1p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 6b Unknown
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc1p4 * 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Anybody else had any experience with one if these?
Steve
15 years, 12 months
