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Broken video DVDs (no executable bits on *_TS folders)
by Axel Thimm 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hi, some home made DVDs by some software is creating *_TS folders with 0400 permissions. This means that only root can really change into these folders. Is there a way to tell Fedora to always paste executional bits onto video DVDs? I'm trying to convert some people to use Fedora for their home systems and when they find out that Fedora will ignore their home made DVDs they don't really care that their Wincrap software generated a bad DVD ("after all it runs on the DVD player"). So while Fedora is actually doing The Right Thing, it is hindering its own acceptance. :( -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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TV-out with nvidia drivers in Fedora 10
by James Allsopp 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hi, I'm trying to get the TV out from my GeForce FX5200 to work. I'd ideally like it to be on at the same time as my flat screen and with my desktop extended onto it. I've been searching around for some information, but most of it seems quite out of date. I've got the proprietary Nvidia drivers installed at the moment. I've checked all this and got working under Windows, just need it to work in Linux. Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve this, Much appreciated, James Allsopp

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Re-enable graphical boot in Fedora 11, switch between Plymouth themes
by Jud Craft 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hey there. Installed F11 preview, really like it. Intel 965GM graphics card, by the way. When I first set it up, I was delighted to find that plymouth and the new graphical boot splash, Compiz, and redirected direct rendering all work perfectly. I was very glad that at least for my card model, graphics are doing okay. However, I installed some system updates -- and a new kernel. For the heck of it, I also installed one or two other Plymouth themes, like the Solar theme. When I did, I no longer get the graphical boot on startup. Kernel modesetting still works, because even though I get the text-mode boot, it's a very sharp, high-res text mode boot. How can I get the graphical splashes back? When I ran grub with my old kernel, it used the graphical splash just fine. But when I compare the lines of the original kernel and the update kernel in grub.conf, they look exactly the same to me (with the "rhgb" and "quiet" options), so I'm not sure why I'm not getting the splash on my new kernel. And, by the by...how exactly do you switch between Plymouth themes when you have more than one installed?

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Linksys WVC210 Webcam in FC10
by Jim 24 May '09

24 May '09

Fedora 10 I have a Linksys WVC210 Webcam using the ZoneMinder App. using HTTP, it will work fine in the Firefox with a IP address. Can I get it to work in VLC ? I have tried all the settings I know in VLC but can't get it to display. I setup the network connection in VLC, http, 172.16.1.36 but I can't get it to work. As far as ZoneMinder, it is setup and running.

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Which html editor you would suggest in the latest Fedora?
by Jerry 24 May '09

24 May '09

-- Jerry Wong

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Selinux, Fail2ban, iptables BUG
by Jim 23 May '09

23 May '09

FC10/KDE Has anyone run across this problem run across this while running fail2ban-0.8.3-18.fc10.noarch ?? there are two Redhat bug reports on this same problem and they seem to think it's fixed, but it isn't. Bug # 499674 491444

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Can't boot after an update
by DB 23 May '09

23 May '09

Evening All - at least here in Austria it's evening! On my other machine, I have Fedora10 (preupgraded from a clean F9), initially working with Gnome, but since January happily running KDE. For months now, no problems..... Until yesterday evening! Applied the recommended updates with Yumex & now cannot login. When I try to login normally, I give in my Username & password, the login screen goes away, the little circle woergles away and pouf! back to the login screen. Tried selecting Gnome instead of KDE at the login, nothing appears to happen. At the login window, I cannot specify keyboard nor language. Got myself to a CLI, logged on as root, edited inittab to start in level 3. Login under my normal username is accepted, try startx, screen flashes some text (something about authority, I think from the bit I can see), screen goes black then comes back to the CLI with several repeats of a message about keyboard not compiling, error not fatal, waiting for X to terminate. Logon as root is accepted, gives a grey screen & then a Gnome window comes up & seems to work OK. Tried the Live CD. The original non-KDE one works OK, the KDE CD comes up to a login window wanting a password for "liveuser" (which it never did before - this system was installed from the F10-live-kde disc without any problem); I've tried all the passwords I can think of & it just keeps coming back to the login screen..... Anyone got any thoughts as to what might have happened & how I might get past this %&&(%$$ login?? Many thanks (again) for any help Dave

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Troubles with gnome-format
by Beartooth 23 May '09

23 May '09

I was using a geekstick (Sandisk Cruzer 4 GB) when the power went out suddenly. It doesn't boot any more. My thought was to format it, and re-install the bootable Crunchee (clone of crunchbang linux) that it had before. Inserted into this machine, it automounts, and Properties shows it as /media/disk. When I try to format it, either to FAT or to ext2, it pops up an error saying permission is denied -- for /dev/sdc I ran both chown -r btth:btth both against /media/disk and against /dev/sdc; it seemed to complete normally (or at least, without any message) both times. But gnome-format still fails, still with the same error. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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F9: Kernel kernel-2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.i686 installed May 19th 2009, a problem?
by Dan Thurman 23 May '09

23 May '09

From: /var/log/yum.log: =================== May 19 14:13:01 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.i686 May 19 14:18:25 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.i686 I noticed strange behaviour with the kernels above, first that it appears to be installed twice from some reason, but that may not be the issue. The issue I am seeing is that my Core-2 Duo system is a fast system before this kernel was installed and was performing fabulously, until now. It seems to spend an inordinate amount of time loading files from the disk (disk access is high) for a much longer length of time and greatly slows the performance of the system. What is also odd, I note is that gkrellm is showing very little, almost no disk activity when it is obvious that my system HD LEDs are showing a solid red activity when the disk accessed. I also noticed that when I am away from my computer and the screen locks, unlocking it takes an extraordinary amount of time to respond (the screen remains blacked out for quite some time) before displaying my desktop, and also note that my 2GB RAM, 5GB swap is hitting very hard and this has never-ever happened before this kernel was installed and in fact I had zero swap activity all this time since I had this new Mobo installed. The previous kernel when the screen was unlocked, snapped on much quicker. Has anyone else seen anything different with this new kernel? Kind regards, Dan

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Re:Someone with a good command construct ??
by Arne Chr. Jorgensen 23 May '09

23 May '09

hi, Not been well lately, and I have not done much clever thinking. And so, - was the idea without any purpose at all ? I know that I have messed up a lot, and it took me a long time to grasp some of of the "new" ideas. And I am not sure I got it right either. But all the time I have had examples of "non-recognized-state-changes", and to attach strace to Xorg, did seem to coincide with some of the trouble. There may part of programs still running as a process, and it has to be killed before you try to start up a program again. Comments ? //ARNE - it is getting better, but there are room for improvement ;)

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