defaullt directory for terminals.
by Aaron Konstam
Does anyone want to defend the change to ~/Desktop as the default
directory in opened terminals, thus throwing away 20 or 30 years of
Unix, Linux and Microsoft tradition?
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15 years, 8 months
post installation problem of fedora 9 on asus motherboard and amd quardcore...9550 processor
by nikhil mehta
it shows errror::acpi error:device not attached:
this line 4 times it shows after uncompressing linux...and it then continues
with booting..............then a blank screen comes which shows just "hz"
floating around.
how to solve this problem ...please help
2nd problem is that it says not found memory hole....64 mb it should
costs.......
please check mmu io settings..............in bios settings......what should
be done .....
pls help
15 years, 8 months
livcecd-iso-to-disk: USB key do not boot (BIOS setup is fine)
by Bruno Costacurta
Hello,
I'm trying to build a USB bootable key with file 'Fedora-9-i686-Live-KDE.iso'
Command is :
sudo livecd-iso-to disk Fedora-9-i686-Live-KDE.iso /dev/sdd1
which runs fine, boot loader included, and reports that USB key is
ready for use ... however the key is not ignored during boot (the sequence
continue correctly with following drive in the BIOS boot order).
I'm using an Asus eee pc (model 900) which is correctly configured to boot via
USB key as I tried it with a Debian bootable USB key which boots fine.
I also tried another .iso, (precisely the EEdora dedicated to Asus eee) but
got same problem.
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fdisk -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 1030 MB, 1030750208 bytes
32 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1014 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1984 * 512 = 1015808 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb0bcd68e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 1014 1005857 6 FAT16
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which looks correct.
So opparently the problem come from livecd command whatever final report OK.
Is there some knwon problem with livecd-iso-to-disk ? I'm using Fedora-9.
Or can I build a USB key using another as a workaround ?
Many thanks for attention and any clue.
Bye,
Bruno
15 years, 8 months
No space for new partition on SATA drive, but 61GBfreespace
by Nigel Henry
This is the first time that I've used SATA harddrives on this new machine that
I've built, so am a bit in the dark.
Fedora 8 is using sda1 for / , and sda2 for /home. sda3 is swap
sda4 (the 4th primary is the extended partition)
sda5, and 6, are / , and /home for another linux distro
sda7, and 8, are / , and /home for another linux distro
sda9, and 10, are / , and /home for yet another linux distro
sda11, and 12, are / , and /home for another linux distro
There is still showing 61020 MB of free space on the drive, but trying to
create a new partition for the install of Fedora 9, with 10000MB for / I get
the following output. Written in freehand.
Error Partitioning
ould not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: Could not
allocate partitions as primary partitions. Not enough space left to create
partition for /.
I'm sure I've seen some stuff about partition limits on SATA drives, but can't
remember where. If there are limits, are there any workarounds so that I can
use this 61+GB of freespace.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Nigel.
15 years, 8 months
F8 is a problem
by Karl Larsen
Yes I know Fedora is a testing ground. Yes I know most of you tigers
think I am stupid and for some good grounds. But I am a muli-million
dollar person who worries not about gasoline prices or where the next
meal comes from.
But I DO worry why I can't get F8 to work. It works a few days and
then goes to hell. So I am back here on F7 which seems to work well. At
least the audio is good and I can do things I must.
Karl
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15 years, 8 months
HP 2133 Mini-Note w/Fedora, anyone?
by Matthew Miller
I'm looking to replace my aging Sony Vaio U101 ultramini notebook. I've been
watching the EEE and friends with interest, but I'm not going to take a step
back in screen resolution from what I bought five years ago. The HP 2133
looks like the first thing that fits the bill, at 1280x768. It's relatively
huge (almost half again as wide as the U101), but looks like if you go
smaller than that these days it's basically chicklet-keyboards and
'smartphone' designs.
I've seen some guides for getting this going on Ubuntu and on Gentoo, but
I'm wondering if there's any Fedora-specific information -- particularly
regarding the big laptop troublemakers: wireless, video, and audio.
Thanks!
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15 years, 9 months
SElinux and Brother printer driver problem on F8
by Bernd Bartmann
Hi,
I installed the CUPS printer drivers for my MFC-9840CDW on my F8
system and followed the instructions from
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/linux_faq-2.html#30
to update the SElinux rules.
Printing itself works fine, but the page size is not correct. I need
A4, but all prints come out as Letter altough A4 is set in the printer
config tool. Now, whenever I print something I get a SElinux warning:
SELinux is preventing brprintconf_mfc (cupsd_t) "write" to ./inf (usr_t).
I had a look at the files under
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc9840cdw/inf/ and they all contain the
wrong "Letter" setting. I suspect that the printer drivers want to
change the settings in these files to "A4", but fails due to the
SElinux issue.
What rule do I have to put where to solve this issue?
Best regards,
Bernd
15 years, 9 months
Annoyance: upper right corner
by Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
Hi :)
I have the desktop effects activated. But when I touch, by mistake, the
upper right corner with the mouse pointer, the windows picker starts.
Googled, installed ccsm, deactivated the option (ccsm/Window
Management/Scale/bindings/Initiate Window Picker: all disabled), but it
still keeps the same nasty behaviour.
Where can I disable this window picker?
Thanks a lot.
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15 years, 9 months
