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PPT files in Openoffice on FC
by Jim 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Has anyone ever seen OpenOffice 2 or 3 screw up the Format of a PPT file. My niece called me up last night and said she loaded a PPT file onto two different Linux boxes with OO-2 and OO-3 and the format of the file was all screwed up . I have received many PPT files from people and never had problems with one to open in OO-2 FC8. I maybe missing something. I have got a young girl here that she is trying to convince her Mother and Father that she needs a Vista Laptop that they can't afford, because all her friends have a Vista Laptop. and she needs one to, and because her parents don't understand anything about Software. Their Son has used the Fedora 10 box I have setup for them and done his studies without any problems, I even setup IE6 on linux with ie4linux so he could connect to his School computers to do his studies, and she goes to the same school. Anyhow I was just wondering if there was something I could fix, that is a problem. I have tried to use User Agent Switcher in Firefox to connect to his school computers but it just won't work.

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Setting up a machine with no Login.
by Reg Clemens 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Im setting up a machine as a frontend for MythTV, and I want it to boot up all the way to usermode (as the user mythtv) with no login along the line. I ASSUME that I should be doing something in /etc/inittab, but its not obvious what. Someone out there must have setup a system like this before (no login) can you give me some pointers??? -- Reg.Clemens reg(a)dwf.com

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ethernet comes up at wrong speed.
by Reg Clemens 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

This is an irritant with the boot o a diskless machine. I have two ethernets on one of my machines, they are both Gigabit ethernet adapters, one Intel, the DLink. eth0 is the Intel, and on the ethernet with my other machines, it seems to come up correctly whenever I boot. The 2nd adapter, eth1, goes ONLY to a diskless machine, which also has a Gigabit adapter, it 'comes up' during the diskless boot. Now SOMETIMES when you boot the diskless machine, everything works just fine. On other occoasions, the HOST machine shows its eth1 coming up at 10MBps rather than 1000MBps, and the boot hangs. Pushing the boot button on the diskless machine again usually brings the HOST ethernet adapter up at 1000Bps and the boot procedes. But one has usually had to go examine some log files to see what has failed, and thats a pain. So, WHY is the adapter coming up at the wrong speed (OK, hardware will do that). AND is there any way to tell it to ONLY try 1000Mbps, so that it doesn't get confused and try the wrong speed??? Hopefully there are some options for ifcfg-eth1 (or elsewhere) that I dont know about. -- Reg.Clemens reg(a)dwf.com

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gdm hangs when switching users
by Mike Wohlgemuth 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

I'm running F10 64 bit on a laptop that I upgraded from F9 via preupgrade and is currently up to date with all the current updates. After the last update, gdm now hangs when I try to switch users. It works fine logging in as the first user, but when I attempt to switch users, gdm starts up but hangs before it completes drawing the screen. Most of the time it will show Other... with the lower panel half displayed, but sometimes the display doesn't get even that far. The mouse can still move, but no click will do any good. I've not had a chance to try to ssh into the box, but the only thing I've found to get out of the situation is to power cycle the box. I can log out and log in multiple times as different users without issue, so it is only the user switching that seems affected. Is any one else seeing this behavior? I've searched and not really found anything that looks similar, so maybe it's something about my configuration, but I've really got no idea where to start debugging. Thanks Woogie

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Accidentally removed the non-gnome X display config tool
by Dan Thurman 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

I had a display setting icon that appeared in the Notification area that allowed me to set my desktop resolution but this specific tool also allowed me to set the vertical refresh rate which is not provided by the Gnome display tool, as far as I can tell. Can someone please tell me what the package is so that I can get it back? What happened is that I followed the instructions in the fedorafaq.org site and proceeded to install the nvidia drivers and livna-config-display and gotten myself into a jam. Seems that this package messed things up. Kind regards! Dan

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fedora on acer aspire one 150 .. please advise..
by Gregory Machin 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Hi I'm getting an Acer aspire one (150) as there is a model that ships running linux it obviously runs Linux ...daaa .. lol. And after some googling there are others that have gentoo and Ubunto running on it. can any. Thus i conclude that it should run fedora 10 i386 .. can anyone make recommendations. I would obviously like to recompile the the kernel, to squeeze all I can out of it. Where could i find a good example config file to start with. should I be using i386 ? Thanks for you help. Regards Gregory Machin Email: gmachin(a)techconcepts.co.za Cell: +27 (0) 72 524 5098 gtalk: gmachin.techconcepts(a)gmail.com Support helpdesk(a)techconcepts.co.za Tell: +27 (0) 11 803 2169 Fax: +27 (0) 11 803 2189 After Hours Cell: +27 (0) 82 790 0796

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keyboard in FC6
by Patrick Dupre 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Hello, For some reasons that I do not understand, now my laptop boots with the wrong keyboard (qwerty). After I log in mode text and startx a XW session, it becomes correct. Even if I use system-config-keyboard and set the right one, it still boots with the wrong one. Could you tell me where the keyboard is set up during the boot ? Regards. -- --- ========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384 The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516 Heslington | | York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: pd520(a)york.ac.uk ==========================================================================

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[OT] pjl escape sequences from linux
by Gianluca Cecchi 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Hello, I have a F9 system where I copied an old program that prints directly to the parallel port where an hp lj 1100 is connected. I have to set a smaller font than default on that printer, so that what to be printed fits on page. It seems that when the printer is powered off it resets to fabric default that is not ok for the app. I found this page so that I can send an escape sequence to set the font and other parameters: http://www.verypdf.com/pcltools/pjl_command.htm But it is intended for dos systems. Does anyone know how to send the referred "escape sequence (Ec)" from a script or linux file? To enter the escape sequence (Ec), press CTRL then P. No character will appear on the screen at this point. Let up on both keys and press ESC. A Left Arrow will be displayed on the screen. So for example I have to set 14 as the font size and I should send to the parallel port this sequence: Ec%-12345X@PJL SET LPARM : PCL PITCH=14 Ec%-12345X any hint? Thanks in advance, Gianluca

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Kalarm autostart.
by Erik P. Olsen 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

I don't seem to be able to autostart kalarm on Fedora 10. If I manually start kalarm --tray I get this message: [erik@epohost ~]$ kalarm --tray kalarm(31573)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed: "The name org.kde.kded was not provided by any .service files" kalarm works OK aftyer that though. But how can I autostart kalarm? -- Erik.

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re: Fedora 10 login screen
by Gianluca Cecchi 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:26 AM Margaret Doll wrote: > How can I change the login screen? I either want to remove the partial list of users on the systems or extend the list to all the users. You can either run as root the command: gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true or install gconf-editor package and run the gconf-editor command as root; then in the gui-tree go under /apps/gdm/simple-greeter and check the "disable_user_list" key log out and then you don't get the user list (but unfortunately you still get the "Other..." line ) HIH, Gianluca

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