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If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this
by Valent Turkovic 23 May '09

23 May '09

http://keithp.com/blogs/Sharpening_the_Intel_Driver_Focus/ If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this article, it expains all complexities of Intel drivers and for me it shows hope that Intel drivers are becoming better. Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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Frustration with F10/KDE
by Jim 23 May '09

23 May '09

Trying to put Icons on Desktop. Dragging a app/icon from menu to Desktop, when you want to put a icon in a certain place, Kde moves it some place other than where you want it. You have no control of where you put Icons. This has nothing to do with Folder view

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Re:Someone with a good command construct ??
by Arne Chr. Jorgensen 22 May '09

22 May '09

hi, A counter may be nice too, as had to execute the line more then 20 times before I got Firefox up. Then it may be good for hours. It may eat memory, give all sort of funny problems. ( running radeon ) //ARNE

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Fedora-11 No sound
by Frank Murphy 22 May '09

22 May '09

No soundcard in preferences > hardware > sound Just internal audio. How do I add\make it work. #sudo lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Frank -- msn: frankly3d skype: frankly3d Mailing-List Reply to: Mailing-List Still Learning, Unicode where possible

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Someone with a good command construct ??
by Arne Chr. Jorgensen 22 May '09

22 May '09

hi, I am sure some of you can come up with some clever command. Here is what I would like to do: In (A) - I am executing the commands I came up with, but would like to have the dump that appear in (B) directed to a file. Then it should execute again as in (C)... (A) [root@----]# strace -o /dev/null -p `pgrep Xorg` Process 2469 attached - interrupt to quit (B) *** glibc detected *** strace: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0000000002129be0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3d00c77ec8] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3d00c7b561] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x98)[0x3d00c7ca38] strace[0x408728] strace[0x40598e] strace[0x404696] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x3d00c1e576] strace[0x401e69] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-00447000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 479722 /usr/bin/strace 00647000-00648000 rw-p 00047000 fd:00 479722 /usr/bin/strace 00648000-00656000 rw-p 00648000 00:00 0 00847000-00848000 rw-p 00047000 fd:00 479722 /usr/bin/strace 02129000-0214a000 rw-p 02129000 00:00 0 [heap] 3cff800000-3cff820000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 1667922 /lib64/ld-2.9.so 3cffa1f000-3cffa20000 r--p 0001f000 fd:00 1667922 /lib64/ld-2.9.so 3cffa20000-3cffa21000 rw-p 00020000 fd:00 1667922 /lib64/ld-2.9.so 3d00c00000-3d00d68000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 1667924 /lib64/libc-2.9.so 3d00d68000-3d00f68000 ---p 00168000 fd:00 1667924 /lib64/libc-2.9.so 3d00f68000-3d00f6c000 r--p 00168000 fd:00 1667924 /lib64/libc-2.9.so 3d00f6c000-3d00f6d000 rw-p 0016c000 fd:00 1667924 /lib64/libc-2.9.so 3d00f6d000-3d00f72000 rw-p 3d00f6d000 00:00 0 3d0e200000-3d0e216000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 1668144 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.3.2-20081105.so.1 3d0e216000-3d0e416000 ---p 00016000 fd:00 1668144 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.3.2-20081105.so.1 3d0e416000-3d0e417000 rw-p 00016000 fd:00 1668144 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.3.2-20081105.so.1 7f2710000000-7f2710021000 rw-p 7f2710000000 00:00 0 7f2710021000-7f2714000000 ---p 7f2710021000 00:00 0 7f27176c5000-7f27176c7000 rw-p 7f27176c5000 00:00 0 7f27176e5000-7f27176e8000 rw-p 7f27176e5000 00:00 0 7fff1f6d3000-7fff1f6e8000 rw-p 7ffffffea000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff1f7ff000-7fff1f800000 r-xp 7fff1f7ff000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Aborted (C) [root@.....]# strace -o /dev/null -p `pgrep Xorg` Process 2469 attached - interrupt to quit ---------------------------------------------- Sometimes it it failing like above, sometimes it is segmentation faults, and sometimes it may throw you out of the session. By writing to a tempory file instead of /dev/null, I have been running Rosegarden thet otherwise just threw me out of the session. ( As an example ) Perhaps there are better ways to do this ? //ARNE

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Re: mounting encrypted linux partition on windows
by Damián Rodríguez Sánchez 22 May '09

22 May '09

That's an interesting idea. Maybe not just character coding, but also keyboard setup: I have a brazilian portuguese keyboard that's working fine under Windows and Linux graphic mode, but quite possibly being used as a standard US keyboard outside X, which is where I enter my password before starting Fedora. I'll have a look at that, since I use some non alphanumerical characters in my password. Damian. Robin Laing escreveu: > Damián Rodríguez Sánchez wrote: >> >> Robin Laing escreveu: >>> Damián Rodríguez Sánchez wrote: >>>> >>>> I recently decided to encrypt the / Linux partition (ext3) on my >>>> dual boot PC (Windows Vista - Fedora 10). >>>> >>>> I used to mount it with "Ext2 Installable File System for Windows" >>>> (http://www.fs-driver.org) when using Windows, but now that the >>>> partition is encrypted, its contents (obviously) appear unreadable >>>> and I'm offered to format it. >>>> >>>> I was told that software like FreeOTFE and TrueCrypt should let me >>>> mount the encrypted partition under Windows if I have the ext3 driver, >>>> but it didn't work for me. Will I necessarily have to create a new >>>> encrypted volume with one of those programs and then reinstall Fedora >>>> (or Windows) in it instead of simply mounting the existing encrypted >>>> partition? >>>> >>> >>> I have this bookmarked but I have not tried it as I do not have any >>> windows computers to try it with. It was a "Just in case". >>> >>> Mounting LUKS / dm-crypt Partitions in Microsoft Windows >>> http://blog.yibble.org/2009/01/29/mounting-luks-dm-crypt-partitions-in-micr… >>> >>> >>> Full procedure to use Ext2fsd and FreeOTFE. >>> >> >> >> > > > Thank you, but that's exactly what I had done > > and it kept saying my key was incorrect. > > > > I'll have a better look at my Luks configurations. > > > > I wonder if your having an issue in character coding between Windows and > Linux. Try setting a second key that is basic for testing and see if it > works. You can delete it later. > > luksAddKey > luksRemoveKey or luksKillSlot > >

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Revisor trouble
by Beartooth 22 May '09

22 May '09

Following http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/15/create-your-own- version-of-fedora-with-revisor/#more-12825 I did yum install revisor, launched it, and started trying to add repos. I opened /etc/yum.repos.d, started with rpmfusion-free.repo, and used c&p after the equal sign to get entries for each box; I checked gpgcheck and Save to Configuration. It hung. I cancelled, started over, and used whole lines -- including the # in the line for the baseurl. It hung again. I must be missing something obvious. What?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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Re: f10 install, still no X
by Jackson Byers 22 May '09

22 May '09

> jackson byers wrote: >> may 20-may21 still cant get X going, despite several attempts >> at reinstalling using purchased f10 dvd. >does sound like you have hardware problems. >have you tried f10 live cd? >if it works, that is, you boot to a desktop and all is well, install >it to hard drive and run your updates. >i do suggest that before you run updates, install only yumex and >yum-utilities first. >them go thru what was loaded from cd and remove what you do not want >on your system. >I had problems with an f10 install due to video card and was able to >use live cd and get a now working system. ================ hardware problem? maybe so but I did install centos5.3 on this same cptr, no trouble at all. So if hardware, something conflicting with f10 not centos. the video card seems to be recognized yes, I have tried f10livecd and it does come up in desktop. But, trying the livecd install I have very similar failure as I did from dvd. fwiw here is "mga" lines from firstboot.X from my dvd failure [root@localhost tmp]# grep -i mga firstbootX.log (--) PCI:*(0@1:0:0) Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP rev 1, Mem @ 0xf600000/0, 0xf5000000/0, 0xf4800000/0, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072 (==) Matched mga for the autoconfigured driver New driver is "mga" Identifier "Builtin Default mga Device 0" Driver "mga" Identifier "Builtin Default mga Screen 0" Device "Builtin Default mga Device 0" Screen "Builtin Default mga Screen 0" (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default mga Screen 0" (0) (**) | |-->Device "Builtin Default mga Device 0" (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default mga Screen 0". (II) LoadModule: "mga" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//mga_drv.so (II) Module mga: vendor="X.Org Foundation" (II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI, mgag200 SE A PCI, mgag200 SE B PCI, mgag200 Maxim, mgag200 Winbond, mgag400, mgag550 (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag550" (II) MGA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section "Builtin Default mga Screen 0" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 (==) MGA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) MGA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) MGA(0): Using AGP 1x mode (==) MGA(0): Using HW cursor (==) MGA(0): Using XAA acceleration ....many more lines, lots of Modeline.... (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 32 depth: 24 (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2200+664: 2864 (II) [drm] loaded kernel module for "mga" driver. (II) MGA(0): [drm] Using the DRM lock SAREA also for drawables. (II) MGA(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xf6000000 (II) MGA(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) MGA(0): X context handle = 0x1 (II) MGA(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) MGA(0): [dri] visual configs initialized (II) MGA(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1600,2399) (II) MGA(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1600 x 1199 (II) MGA(0): Reserved back buffer at offset 0xea6000 (II) MGA(0): Reserved depth buffer at offset 0x15f9000 (II) MGA(0): Reserved 2768 kb for textures at offset 0x1d4c000 (II) MGA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) (==) MGA(0): Backing store disabled (==) MGA(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) MGA(0): DPMS enabled (II) MGA(0): Using overlay video (II) MGA(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) MGA(0): [drm] Mapped 128 DMA buffers (II) MGA(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 16 (II) MGA(0): Direct rendering enabled (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/mga_dri.so (II) MGA(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) MGA(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xfaa65000 at 0xb7fe0000 (II) MGA(0): [drm] Closed DRM master. [root@localhost tmp]# thanks for response Jack

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Obscure .eh_frame debug info question.
by Tom Horsley 22 May '09

22 May '09

I was just wondering if there is anyone out there in redhat land who can shed more light on the use of dwarf register 16 for a virtual "return address" in .eh_frame info, probably hand generated .eh_frame info in the vicinity of the pthreads library mutex locking code. It is briefly mentioned in one place in the x86_64 abi with no clue as to how it is used. Google finds zillions of patches where it was inserted in the library, but no actual explanation. The .eh_frame dumps of the pthread library via readelf make no sense to me at all. And it will clearly take me at least 15 years to trace through the code in gdb and figure out what it actually does, so if anyone out there knows, please tell me :-).

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Can I force it? F9 >> F10 (the F9 kernel is newer than F10s) ...
by Joe Kazura 22 May '09

22 May '09

Here's the actual message: Transaction Check Error: package kernel-2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64) is already installed I have not custom built or patched the fc9 kernel, I have always just taken what the repo offers. I'm sure the CURRENT f10 kernel is much newer, which is why I was thinking is there a way to force it? Head check me on this, please. Thanks, -- +----------------------------[ Joe.Kazura(a)UNH.EDU ]---+ | Joe Kazura | | CIS/TCS -- 1 Leavitt Lane PHONE: +1-603-862-2012 | | University of New Hampshire | | Durham, NH 03824-3512 USA "docendo discimus" | | | +-----------------[ http://www.unh.edu/tcs/ ]---------+ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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