f14 gnome unusable
by Brian Ericson
Just upgraded to f14.
The upgrade itself was smooth (thanks!), but Gnome's (UI) performance
has completely and utterly tanked. If I open a terminal and a second
tab in the terminal, switching between tabs takes upwards of 4 seconds.
Same thing with FireFox tabs (Chrome/Chrome tabs are fine, though). The
blue highlighting of Gnome menus is incapable of following even a
slow-moving mouse, alt-tab takes forever, and repainting minimized
windows is awful.
Basically, I got better GUI performance out of f13 with all my CPUs and
drives pegged than I'm getting now on an idle system.
Interestingly, KDE isn't impacted at all by any of this and even Gnome
apps (like terminal) are snappy. I even went so far as to create a new
user to see if some f13 Gnome configuration is the culprit, but the new
user has exactly the same issues.
Has anyone else encountered this? Anyone know what to do to fix it?
13 years, 6 months
Network connection in fc14
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Since I upgrade from fc13 to fc14, I cannot connect to the network !
I get:
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: Active connection state: activating
Active connection path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3
(process:2184): WARNING **: _nm_object_get_property: Error getting 'State'
for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3: (19) Method "Get"
with signature "ss" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't
exist
Could you please tell me what is going wrong ?
Thank.
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13 years, 6 months
Re: Dell Adamo
by d p
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:57:48 +0000
users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Frank Cox <theatre(a)sasktel.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:12:36 +1030
> > dp wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone run F13 on this laptop? If so, could you indicate
> > > if vital things work ok?
> >
> > Not a direct answer to your question, but it's my understanding
> > that Dell computers can change their components over the course of
> > time. So the Dell Adamo you buy today may not be the same as one
> > that someone bought yesterday.
> >
> >
>
> Yes components change or can be modified before it ships by the end
> user during the sale.
> It looks from what I can see that it has an Intel chipset and so
> *should* probably work without issue.
> Best to see what options it has and pay special attention to the
> chipset and then see what or how well
> the chipset may be supported by Linux. Generally speaking if the
> chipset is supported then most of the features *should* work.YMMV.
> They offer a broadband card(Dell card) and if that is of interest
> then try to find out if that is supported because I am pretty sure
> Intel is not making them, I have never had an issue with the Intel
> chipsets or wifi running on Linux though I know others have
> experienced some hiccups. Dell also had that horrible media direct
> button....
Thanks for your response.. I see that care is needed before making a
purchase!
DP
13 years, 6 months
Is pulseaudio required for audio playback and capture?
by Kevin Martin
The subject says it all. Is pulseaudio required for audio playback and capture?
I have a Toshiba Qosmio that has a built-in microphone that I can't get to work and I'm about half convince my problem is pulseaudio
related.
Thanks.
Kevin
13 years, 6 months
Why is Fedora continuing to propagate FF 3.5 on F12?
by Paolo Galtieri
F12 updated FF to version 3.5.15, however, when you start up FF on F12
it tells you that FF 3.5 is out of date and you should instead download
version 3.6.
If FF 3.5 is out of date why continue to update it? Why not replace it
with version 3.6?
Paolo
13 years, 6 months
FC14 mouse-window problem
by Mickey
FC14 / KDE
When right clicking on Desktop to get a Window open to "Leave"
OR
Left Clicking on K Menu
The windows disappears one Second after you click on them , you can't
keep them open long enough to click on anything.
This happens while using a PS/2 or USB mouse.
It also happens on any other Users Desktop you open.
This has occured on a new install.
13 years, 6 months
Problems exporting directories from Fedora 8
by Doll, Margaret Ann
I had to install Fedora 8 on a system because its version of glibc was
necessary for some third party software that we needed to use.
I am trying to export some of the directories from the Fedora system, so
that I can get the files backed up.
My server to which I am trying to export the files is a RedHat system which
already has RedHat and Umbuntu directories mounted on it. So the problem is
not with the RedHat system.
Fedora 8 no longer has portmap but uses rpcbind instead. The error message
that I get when rpcbind is started up implies that I should start rpcbind as
"rpcbind -w". I changed the /etc/init.d/rpcbind file to do this.
Then I get an error message saying that the /var/...rpcbind.file has the
wrong permissions. I changed the permissions to rwxrw rw. I still get the
permissions problem.
On the server, the "mount filesystem" gives me no error message, but
nothing is mounted.
How does one get Fedora 8 to export directories?
Thanks
13 years, 6 months
I have lost the ability to save music in MP3 format
by Paul Otheim
Hello,
I have been out of the loop with the latest news on Fedora and open source
for sometime. Maybe a month ago, I lost the ability to create MP3's.
I though initially it was just affecting Rhythmbox but Sound Juicer also can
no longer save music in an MP3 format. I did some light
searching via google but have yet to find a solution. I scanned the archives
for the last few months but if anyone else is having this issue
then I have missed it. It was working one day then it wasn't , I have the
gstreamer plugins ugly and bad, ffmpeg. Anyway it was working and I
have not removed any packages, so I am not sure what happened.
On a free software note, aside from rockbox, which doesn't support my music
player, does anyone know of another similar alternative that works across
a larger hardware base. I am not particularly fond of mp3's and would prefer
to just rip in ogg format anyway, assuming I could get my player to play
them of course.
Thanks,
Paul
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Oh my oh my have I got a story for you
There's a cat, a dog, and a hat
A neat trick if you watch through the act
Only so many ways to pass the days
A storm cloud, a lightning bolt, and a thunderous fact
Squinting through the wind and sleet
I saw a lovely lady dancing naked across the plain
A smile on her face and a song on her lips ....
If only there was more time and the sig wasn't costing me mine
13 years, 6 months
Random FC13 to FC14 upgrade issues
by Robert Myers
1. X output through ssh tunnel from upgraded FC14 to FC13 crashed an
FC13 X-server (but not a Cygwin X-server). Upgrading the FC13 client
to FC14 "fixed" this problem.
2. FC13 to FC14 "upgraded" using an installation disk wound up with a
long list of yum errors from which no apparent recovery was possible.
3. FC13 to FC14 upgraded using preupgrade (different computer) went smoothly.
Robert.
13 years, 6 months
Dell Adamo
by d p
Has anyone run F13 on this laptop? If so, could you indicate
if vital things work ok?
Thanks
13 years, 6 months
