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wine dxdiag - shows nothing
by AlannY 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

Hi there. Recently, I've used Gentoo and runs Wine for games on it. But now, I switched to Fedora 12 x86_64. I've installed wine successfuly: %# yum instal wine.i686 After that, I've installed directx9 and gecko with winetricks script. Set up wine is OK: %# winecfg Some win-programs already works. Then, I need to test graphics: %# wine dxdiag But, this command shows nothing. Exit code ($?) is 0 (which means everything ok). What to do? I cannot play games with wine-directx on Fedora, but can on Gentoo. I've fell in love with Fedora and don't want to switch back. P.S. Are you playing win-games in Fedora? -- )\._.,--....,'``. /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

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Fedora 12 Second Monitor issue
by John Clark 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

Hey everyone, I may just not be seeing this topic and if so I am sorry. I just started running Fedora 12 with two monitors. The main display is fine, but my second display will not give me more than 800X600 resolution. It is a HP vs19 LCD, and I know it is capable of more. Is there any solution to this?

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how can I capture my desktop (video)??
by Adel ESSAFI 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php Hi list, I want to make capture for my desktop. xvidcap is a good tool but it is not suitable for capturing all the screen. Have you any idea about the tool that was used to capture the video in the link above? Thanks Adel -- http://ilovefedora.blogspot.com/ -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address BP 108, Bureau de poste Tunis republique 1001 Tunis Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 fax: +216 71 391 166

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Fedora 11/12 kernels as xen domU
by Norman Gaywood 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

Is anyone having any stability with the fedora kernels running as a Xen DomU. Dom0 is a Centos 5.4 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5xen kernel. These fedora kernels seem to lockup (processes get stuck in D state) whenever put under any load: kernel-2.6.30.10-105.fc11.x86_64 kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 Yes, I tried a fedora 11 kernel on a fedora 12 system. This is the most stable for me. Here are some bugzilla entries (one posted by me) that point to this problem: kernel 2.6.31 processes lock up in D state https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550724 FC12 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 hangs under heavy disk I/O https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551552 -- Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia ngaywood(a)une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 3337 http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Sansa mp3 player support
by Robert Moskowitz 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

I have a Sansa Connect player that has a number of the setup functions disabled (for example the wifi is turned off). I cannot get it into the mode where it appears as a USB drive to non-M$ systems that have itunes installed on it. I just installed FC12 on this notebook. When I plug the Sansa player in, it displays messages about geting Ablum and song info and then comes up in its regular Music Library. On my FC12 system, I cannot find any mounted device (like in /media) and RythmBox (which was running at the time) does not show any of the songs on the player. help?

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Calendar with recurring tasks?
by Gordon Charrick 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

It's been a while since I went looking for a calendar that handles this simple task only to be repeatedly disappointed. This is one feature that (uggh) Outlook handles right. I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that recur. Assume it's Jan 1st and you have three bills due this month. You look at your task list and see the three bills along with the date they're due. You pay bill A and check off the task for that bill. Now you look at your task list and see 2 bills still due in January and one due in February. Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found any Linux apps that can handle this task. Anyone have any

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whence RPCBIND_ARGS?
by Robert P. J. Day 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

i'm tracing the execution of rpcbind on my f12 system, and in the common code, i read: prog="rpcbind" [ -f /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$prog while in the start() function, there is: daemon $prog $RPCBIND_ARGS $1 i'm curious about this since: 1) there's no apparent documentation for setting/using $RPCBIND_ARGS 2) there's no /etc/sysconfig/rpcbind file for initial config 3) there's no mention of RPCBIND_ARGS in the rpcbind man page admittedly, that doesn't make any of this *wrong*, it just seems that $RPCBIND_ARGS is kind of hanging out there, without anyone making an effort to explain what might be done with it or why it would be useful. thoughts? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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fedorafaq?
by Dave Stevens 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

anybody know what happened to fedorafaq.org? Still showing F10 as their current version. Dave -- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Krishnamurti

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Where did my penguins go?
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

I modified /etc/grub.conf on my ThinkPad W700 to show the boot-up process as text. I did this by commenting out "hiddenmenu" and removing "rhgb" and "quiet" from the kernel spec line. The W700 has trouble with a tickless kernel in F12 and needs "nohz=off". The first stanza is shown below. The W700 has an nVidia display and uses the nouveau driver. Immediately after the menu screen in F10 and F11 I'd see 4 penguins (quad core) as the initialization began. It was kinda neat, but in F12 there's just black space where those penguins would be. Where'd they go? Is this an artifact of the nouveau driver? #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu # # Kernel 0 title Fedora 12 (Constantine) [Update 3] (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 ro root=UUID=blah-blah-blah LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us nohz=off initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64.img --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL

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xen winxp guest image under fedora11 kvm host
by mantra UNIX 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

Hi all, I have a xen geust image (winxp) which i would like to use it under fedora 11/12 under kvm. I know that i can use it, it works BUT its dam slow, dose any one know of the tricks that would make it perform the same as it were under the Xen0 -- Regards, mantra - Instrument of Thought

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