Comments from a new user: what is Distrowatch complaining about?
by gilpel＠altern.org
Of course, there has been many updates since the final release, but I'm
using Fedora 11.1 x86_64 on an AMD X3 7200 system.
Installation went well. Only Brasero refused to work. It pretended to burn
a DVD, never complained till the end, but the DVD was left blank. A
similar problem is described here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476409
I never had much success with Brasero, even on an other PC, so I switched
to K3B, which never failed me. Big download though.
I'm a heavy clipboard user and I really don't like glipper slowly
unfolding its list when it gets longer than a screen. So, I wanted to
install klipper.
"yum install klipper" didn't produce any result, as urpmi klipper, in
Mandriva would.
Then I learned about the search option at FedoraFaqs and things went
better. But Mandriva's urpmi searches automatically and makes propositions
if it's not sure. Btter.
Why is groupinstall needed for XFCE, not for kdebase, for instance? No
groupinstall in Mandriva. Why groupinstall and check-updates (with an
hyphen)?
I would appreciate to see what Package Manager for GNOME is doing rather
than doing its thing and giving no info.
The application "Dictionary Look up" didn't close after a search, hiding
the tab I was using to write this.
Apparently, you better not click "Suspend" on a Desktop. First reboot
ended on a blank screen, the second on a green striped screen, only the
third succeeded. I suppose I shouldn't have done this, but what if the
children use the computer and click it, just to see what happened... like
I did? Maybe the option should be removed for desktops.
The Boot up splash screen doesn't appear unless I press "Enter", and
that's after I set it to stay for 12 seconds instead of 1, as seems to be
the default. I like the standard procedure better: give me the splash
screen!
BTW, getting to the login screen in less than 10 seconds is just
dumbfounding! It makes you machine look liek a tiger.
I couldn't install Abobe Flash as suggested by Fedorafaqs. Adobe's
instructions are much simpler and work very well:
Download the x86_64 package, un gzip it on the desktop, copy to:
/home/my_user_name/.mozilla/plugins
Restart Firefox, go to YouTube :)
Ok, I understand that all these are not show stoppers, like the "Out of
range" I received while rebooting the latest Mandriva x86_64, for
instance, but ironing out a few rough edges would certainly make new
users' experience more pleasant.
If this is what FreeBSD friendly Distrowatch calls the shop stoppers of a
bleeding edge distro, I'm all for bleeding edge.
P.s.: I'll have a few questions about installing NVIDIA drivers --
rpmfusion vs NVIDIA's own install program -- and watching evil WMV... on
state tv* -- God damn this rotten bunch of morons! -- in my next message.
*See for instance:
http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2008-2009/Reportage.asp?i...
This used to... kinda work with MediaPlayerConnectivity and mplayer,
sometimes editing URLs, but MPC is not available for Firefox 3.5 .
Of course, you have to understand that Microsoft is doing its best so that
Canadians can't watch the state television unless they buy Windows.
Tricky!
14 years, 10 months
Use foe Other login.
by Aaron Konstam
No matter how I try I can't see any productive use for the Other login
on the gdm login screen.
Can someone explain?
14 years, 10 months
Upgrade F10/XP -- best way?
by Beartooth
My #1 machine has F10 on one hard drive, and XPPro/SP2 on the
other. I very seldom boot the XP drive, and then only to get certain
proprietary map (mostly topo map) software to interface with my GPSs, and
to transfer data back and forth.
Finally -- after ten years of eager waiting -- I can now do that,
using wine-1.1.23-1.fc10.i386 and two of the four brands of proprietary
software I have. (Garmin's and Maptech's work; DeLorme's and Topo.com's
do not.)
I don't really know how #1 got the capability. All four of my
GPSs are from Garmin, and one day during a yum update, I noticed an rpm
being installed that included the string "garmin" in its name. I jumped
with joy, tried an install of Garmin map software, and it "just worked."
On this machine, that is. All my others are already running F11,
and I've been having poor luck with my attempts to duplicate the
capability on any of them. I've called up PackageKit, first to search and
destroy wine; then to search and install rpms containing "gps" or
"garmin"; then to re-install wine. Then I've tried a/o am still trying to
install Garmin's TopoUSA2008, without success so far ...
So I'm looking at two opposite projects.
If/when I can count on doing the transfers with Fedora/Wine, I
will take gleeful delight in having a clean (i.e., M$-free) house again
-- and, of course, also in getting another 75 GB of routinely available
storage on machine #1 -- by wiping the XP drive and putting F11 on both.
If I get a success or two with the map software, I'll want to be
sure the upgrade takes over the whole second hard drive (the one
currently available for XP).
If I get flat and repeated failures, I'll want the opposite -- to
be sure upgrading F10 does not touch the XP drive.
So far, I've had better success with preupgrade than with an F11
DVD -- but always on single-boot machines. And the partitioner in
anaconda seems to be particularly fragile at present.
Which upgrade is to be preferred in each case -- preupgrade, or
DVD??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
14 years, 10 months
Auto-installed HP printer not working due to missing hpijs
by Daniel Roesen
Hi,
while installing Fedora 11, my HP PhotoSmart PSC 2610 (USB+Ethernet) got
automatically detected and installed as USB printer. So far so nice and
shiny. Unfortunately, any attempt to print a test page results in a
failure, stating that foomatic-rip failed. No indication in any syslog
why and how it failed.
I then added the printer again as ethernet network printer in the GNOME
GUI, _there_ it said that this printer needs hpijs to work and that I
should install it.
Now, question is to which Bugzilla component I should log this problem.
As far as I can see, this problem is not a bug of a specific component,
but a systemic problem in that printers get auto-installed without the
necessary drivers being available in the base installation, and no
proper reporting done to the user about this fact.
Any clues how to proceed on that?
Best regards,
Daniel
PS: printer (USB and network) working fine after manually installing
hpijs and its dependencies.
--
CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr(a)cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
14 years, 10 months
Re: [OT] See USB pen drive with linux FS on Windows
by Antonio Olivares
> > Can it read ext4 formatted disks?
> >
> > If so, then I can proceed to check it out, otherwise
> it is useless for Fedora 11 users that may want to view
> their files in Window$
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antonio
>
> The FAQ [1] mentions support for ext2 and ext3 only. I
> tested the
> utility and it works as advertised.
> With ext4 being so new, it would be quite a lot to ask ;-)
>
> What's important to know is that *there is* a way. For a
> friend of
> mine this is truly a lifesaver for gathering and reading
> data on
> the fly... literally.
>
> [1] http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html
>
> --
Still thanks for sharing this. The reason I write back is that I have a friend that tells me that if a utility can't do it all, then it is no GOOD. I have to kind of agree with him. He is a window$ user and I wanted to share some files with him, but the usb was formatted in ext3 filesystem and Window$ wanted to format it :(, but with this program it is a head start.
It is like LiveCD's there are very good ones out there, but they can't read EXT4 filesystem, so to my friend they are no GOOD.
What features are *not* supported?
Inodes that are larger than 128 bytes are not supported.
Access rights are not maintained. All users can access all the directories and files of an Ext2 volume. If a new file or directory is created, it inherits all the permissions, the GID and the UID from the directory where it has been created. There is one exception to this rule: a file (but not a directory) the driver has created always has cleared "x" permissions, it inherits the "r" and the "w" permissions only. See also section "What limitations arise from not maintaining access rights?".
The driver does not allow accessing special files at Ext2 volumes, the access will be always denied. (Special files are sockets, soft links, block devices, character devices and pipes.)
Alternate 8.3-DOS names are not supported (just because there is no place to store them in an Ext2 file system). This can prevent legacy DOS applications, executed by the NTVDM of Windows, from accessing some files or directories.
Currently the driver does not implement defragging support. So defragmentation applications will neither show fragmentation information nor defragment any Ext2 volume.
This software does not achieve booting a Windows operating system from an Ext2 volume.
LVM volumes are not supported, so it is not possible to access them.^[1]
Regards,
Antonio
[1] This one is a big dissapointment because by default Fedora installs to LVM partions and this powerful utility can't even see them which is is a pita :(
But nonetheless thank you for sharing this. Some users out there do appreciate it.
14 years, 10 months
Audio woes on F11
by Chris
Hi, I've got an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card (ICE1712 chip) running on
an AMD 64 bit CPU (can't remember exact model right now). I originally
installed F11 x86_64 and had a few sound problems, but it worked if I
disabled pulse audio.
I've just had to install the 32-bit version of Fedora 11 due to some
work constraints (long story!). Now I can't get audio to work at all.
Firstly, my user was not part of the pulse-rt group so I added myself
manually. This didn't happen when I installed the x86_64 version on
the same PC which seems strange.
Secondly, I can't get audio to work at all. I've checked the Advance
Volume Control and turned everything up. /var/log/messages shows the
following:
Jun 30 21:33:20 localhost pulseaudio[2106]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed
to find a working profile.
Jun 30 21:33:20 localhost pulseaudio[2106]: module.c: Failed to load
module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id=0
name=usb_device_944_103_noserial_if0_sound_card_0
card_name=alsa_card.usb_device_944_103_noserial_if0_sound_card_0
tsched=1"): initialization failed.
Not quite sure why it mentions USB device since it's a PCI card.
lsmod shows the right module amongst the others although it's not used:
snd_ice1712 52724 0
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 2956 1 snd_ice1712
snd_ak4xxx_adda 7040 2 snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_cs8427 6652 1 snd_ice1712
snd_ac97_codec 91576 1 snd_ice1712
snd_usb_audio 74972 0
snd_pcm 62632 3 snd_ice1712,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio
snd_timer 17888 1 snd_pcm
ac97_bus 1400 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_i2c 4336 2 snd_ice1712,snd_cs8427
snd_page_alloc 7644 1 snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 6316 1 snd_ice1712
snd_usb_lib 14128 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 18728 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_device 5988 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep 6584 1 snd_usb_audio
snd 49056 13
snd_ice1712,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_cs8427,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_i2c,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep
soundcore 5404 1 snd
Whenever I try to run alsamixer or pavucontrol when pulse is not
running, I get this:
shm_open() failed: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection
efused
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused
Maybe that's expected since pulse is not running.
I should also mention that I dual-boot Windows and it works fine there.
So, any ideas or recommendations for how to investigate?
Thanks in advance, Chris.
14 years, 10 months
Totem Movie Player
by Jerry Feldman
I have never been able to get Totem (X86_64) to work on things like .wmv
files. However, I do have SMplayer working fine. When I try to run the
Totem Movie Player it tells me that I need the Advanced Streaming Format
demuxer plugin installed.
This is not a biggie, but it is a minor pain.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
14 years, 10 months
One more bites the DUST
by Jim
Today a friend gave me his computer and told me to
wipe out Vista and install Fedora 11.
I ask him if he didn't want to dual boot, he said no, that he didn't
like Vista.
Slowly but surely we will get them all.
14 years, 10 months
Using Unallocated space for /home
by Jim
FC11, Using Gparted
I have 5gb unallocated space that I want to give to /home , how would I
do it , (Detail Please)
Below is how my partitions are laid out below;
sda1 /boot
sda2 /home
sda3 /
unallocated 5gb
sda4 extended
sda5 swap
14 years, 10 months
last and IPv6
by Jeffrey Ross
How can I get the full IP address of a user logging in via IPv6 with the
last command (or equivalent information elsewhere)
With an IPv4 address I can simply type "last -i" and the hostname (which
is usually truncated) is replaced with the IP address.
Problem is an IPv6 address being 128 bits long is too long to fit in the
provided field and is truncated after 16 characters, just like the
hostname.
Thanks, Jeff
14 years, 10 months
