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Removing Gnome from F11
by John Wendel 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

I'm happily using LXDE on my F11 system, and I thought I'd remove Gnome, using "yum remove gnome\*". Well, it was not to be. Yum decide to remove parts of LXDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, Java, abiword, most of the "system" admin utilities, and about 50 other programs that I would think have nothing to do with Gnome. Am I stupid or what? Why would Fedora's Firefox have a Gnome dependency when I'm sure that the Mozilla version doesn't? Are these "real" dependencies or packaging artifacts? I don't think I like this disto as much as I once did. John

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So, how are the laptops (MBP, W500, XPS 16)?
by Brian Ericson 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

I'm contemplating a laptop purchase and my current "top three" candidates are a MBP 17, Lenovo W500 (WUXGA/ATI Mobility FireGL V5700 (512MB)), and a Dell XPS 16 (1080p/ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4670 (1G)). I get the impression -- were I to go with the Lenovo or Dell -- that I'm pretty much stuck with the 2D radeon drivers, which seems a shame (I confess I like Compiz). Can anyone comment on their experiences with these laptops? o How well does video work? o Sound? o Sleep/resume? o Fan noise? My only two data points are the T61p I tried (shortly after Hardy Heron released; back then, they were using an NVIDIA card) and my wife's MBP. Hardy Heron wanted to run the T61p's (loud) fan constantly and sleep/resume, when it worked, took "forever" (over a minute to re-establish wireless connectivity). I found it unusable next to my wife's MBP which is generally quiet, resumes instantly, and rarely gets rebooted (despite both of us being constantly logged onto it). I'm hoping to hear that Linux has come a long way since my last attempt and would work well with either the Lenovo or the Dell. But, if ATI is still to be avoided, does anyone have have any experience with "The Beast" (Lenovo W700), which ships with an NVIDIA card? Seems too big, but I'll bet the screen is much nicer than the almost-too-dim W500's.

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Unable to install libX11
by SriLatha 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hey i found that two files in /etc/yum.repos.d which are adobe-linux-i386.repo and yum-iisc-f11.repo. Also try looking in the directory /etc/yum.repos.d/ Do you have the following two files there? fedora.repo fedora-updates.repo What are their contents? As the other responders said, you haven't shown us the real error yet. K.Srilatha Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. Click here http://cricket.yahoo.com

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problems posting
by Paul Allen Newell 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Over the last 3 months, I noticed that I have posted and not gotten any responses. Fair enough, maybe the posts aren't worth it. But I just did a check of the archives and I don't see any of my posts. Don't know if I am incorrectly posting or, in worse case, blacklisted. So, I am sending out a test with the hopes that someone at least tells me that it was seen. I posted this on 27jul09 and didn't hear anything, so I dug in a bit deeper with my email provider and think I have it sorted out. So, I am cut-and-pasting (with the addition of this paragraph) and trying again. If no answer, then at least I have something to go back to the fedora-lists and/or my email provider to go "huh?" Thanks in advance, Paul

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Fedora update using preugrade with 2 arch.
by Luc MAIGNAN 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi, Is it safe to "preupgrade" a F7 32 bits to a F11 64 bits ? BR

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Re: convert ico to svg or png
by Hiisi 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Gerhard Magnus Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:20:42 -0700 > >Does anyone know a program for FC11 that will convert Windows icon files >(.ico) into a format accepted by gnome (.svg or .png)? > I asked nearly the same question recently on this list. I was suggested to use mogrify. It's a part of image-magick project (www.imagemagick.org) Works excellent! It is in fedora' repos. -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/

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Re: X wont start for install on an hp pavilion HDX-16 1370us
by Steven I Usdansky 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

I had a similar problem with my HP S3707c desktop (GeForce 9100M graphics). Ended up booting into text mode with kernel parameter nouveau.modeset=0, logged in as root (no password), ran Xorg -configure, edited the resulting file to use the vesa driver and copied it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then ran startx.

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using ant-conrib.rpm
by Christoph Höger 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi, has anybody any idea how to use the ant-contrib.rpm? It sits there in /usr/share/java but ant reports an error on: <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/> Suggestions? Thanks Christoph

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Fedora 11 boot fails on md with two HBAs
by S Murthy Kambhampaty 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

[Fixed typo in header line, etc.; added info at end.] With Fedora 11 on IBM x3650 M2 (x86_64), I am having problems booting after adding a second, add-in, SAS controller with 12 SAS disks in an external enclosure. Without the add-in SAS controller, the system boots fine and provides file sharing over samba, etc. The main problem with this machine is that it has an EFI BIOS which appears to bind the external/add-on SAS HBA before the internal one on which the system drives are hosted (they are both LSI SAS 3801e HBAs - the internal one has an IBM part number, while the external one is LSI). Changing the BIOS order in the option ROMs and disabling boot services on the external/add-on HBA does not seem to affect the adapter binding order, and the EFI BIOS does not provide any mechanism for controlling this. Which brings us to the bootup issues. Note that after booting into rescue mode from the installer image mdadm works as expected, with raid arrays detected and started without any problems on the disks located on both controllers. The md configuration is : /boot is on /dev/md0 with devices /dev/sd[mn]3, raid1 /root is on /dev/md1 with devices /dev/sd[op]1, raid1 /usr, /var and swap are on an LVM vg on /dev/md2 with devices /dev/sd[m-p]2, raid10 /boot/efi is on /dev/md64 with devices /dev/sd[mn]2, raid1 A separate vg for the data volume is on /dev/md127 with devices /dev/sd[a-l], raid6 (whole disks) /dev/sd[m-p] are hosted on the internal HBA, and appear as /dev/sd[a-d] when the add-in HBA is disabled. /dev/sd[a-l] hang of the add-in HBA. Note that in rescue mode, the disks start at /dev/sdc, as I'm booting from a virtual console, and /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are assigned to virtual USB disks. The problem seems to be that during bootup the raid arrays are autodetected rather than using mdadm. If the raid456 module is not included in the initrd image, booting fails with raid6 personality not detected, when the boot process tries to start /dev/md1 incrementally with /dev/sda as its first member. (This appears not to reference /etc/mdadm.conf in the initrd at all.) If the raid456 module is included in the initrd image (using --with=raid456), booting fails with /dev/sda added incrementally to /dev/md1 and /dev/sdb added incrementally to /dev/md2; it appears autodetect fails because the raid device was built from rescue mode, so the components are listed with different letters in the superblock. If I put a line in /etc/mdadm.conf in the initird image, to only scan partitioned disks (DEVICE /dev/sd*[1234]), boot hangs after loading the raid modules. (Potentially on the call to mkblkdevs after scsi_wait_scan is rmmod-ed.) Partitioning /dev/sd[a-l] and setting the partition type to other than 'raid' does not seem to make any difference, during bootup the kernel still tries to assemble the root raid device (/dev/md1) from /dev/sda (though it is on /dev/md[op]1. This seems to suggest that the md devices are being started by kernel raid autodetection rather than mdadm. Simply switching to mdamd would likely solve the problem, given it works fine in rescue mode. Alternative suggestions are welcome, of course. Thanks for the help, Murthy

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X wont start for install on an hp pavilion HDX-16 1370us
by Kevin Kempter 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi all; My son bought an hp Pavilion (HDX-16 1370us) laptop, with a 16" screen. Upon trying to start the anaconda installer Fedora 10 says 'X failed to start reverting back to text mode" Thoughts? anyone have any hp experience similar they can share (hopefully with solutions)? Thanks in advance

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