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xine vlc mplayer only has audio but without video - Finally resolved
by barry yu 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Same computer had been working fine with F8, lately I did a few fresh installation of F12 due to a few critical issues encountered, and this is one of them, after hackle and dig for a week finally get it resolved and hope could be of some help to others who suffering same; In my case f12 by default the video out of xine, vlc and mplayer are all not working and needs to be re selected - VLC VLC - Tools->Preferences->Video (Video Setting)->In Output box, select "X11 video output". And MPlayer - MPlayer - In Preference->Video tab->Select "X11 X11(Xlmage/Shm)" or "gl X11(OpenGL)" or "gl2 X11(OpenGL) - multiple textures version". Xine - Open the setup window "xine Setup", select "video" tab and in the "video driver to use" select "opengl" and then click "Apply" button. This may only happen to my computer (Motherboard, Intel made with sound and dual video on board)

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Assigning an action to to windows left button ("Super_L")
by Kevin Wilson 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Hello, I want to assign the action "Hide all normal windows and set focus to the desktop" to the windows left button ("Super_L"). I have Fedora 12 with Gnome and metacity. In previous Fedora releases, like 8 or 8 (or maybe also 10/11, not sure ), I could do this by simply going to system->Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts, and from there assign Super_L to "Hide all normal windows and set focus to the desktop" simply by pressing the left windows button when asked to enter a key for this action. With Fedora 12, this is not possible! When I press the windows left key, (Super_L), nothing happens ! it stays blank ! I am **able** to enter a combinatin of keys, however. When I press "windowskey + M" I get Mod4 + M and then , when I press the "windowskey + M" combination indeed I get a toggle of hiding/showing the desktop. I tried configuring with gconf-editor and also with editing /etc/X11/Xmodmap but it did not succeed. I would appreciate any advice on it. Regards, Kevin

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Is there some website to suggest programs to be supported on Fedora?
by Paul Smith 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Dear All, Is there some website to suggest programs to be supported on Fedora? Thanks in advance, Paul

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find /etc -size -1G return only empty files
by Alain Spineux 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Hello find /etc -size -1G should return all files less than 1Giga byte in /etc, but return a list of empty file (size=0) find /etc -size -2G work fine and return all the files This works the same on my fedora11 and my centos 5 ! Did I miss something or is it a bug ? Regards -- Alain Spineux | aspineux gmail com Your email 100% available | http://www.emailgency.com ntbackup and tar frontend sending mail report | http://www.magikmon.com/mkbackup/

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SSD alignment and mkfs
by Dr J Austin 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Hi I have googled extensively and posted elsewhere but I have not found an answer to the following. I have a 128GB SSD and have created the partitions such that they all have a modulo 512kB start and modulo 512kB length The first partition begins on cylinder 4 (counting from zero) Full details below. parted /dev/sdb shows the partitions to be as I asked - hopefully correct from the alignment point of view. However when an ext3 file system is created on the partitions they behave differently - dumpe2fs shows /dev/sdb1 First block: 1 /dev/sdb2 First block: 0 /dev/sdb3 First block: 0 It would seem that even though the partitions are aligned the ext3 file system on the first partition is not. I am assuming that the offset in the file system will negate the careful alignment of the first partition, is that true? I have checked on other disks (No LVM), even those with extended/logical partitions it is only the first partition on the disk that shows the First block: offset of 1 Do you know why this should be ? Is it because "everyone" assumes that the first partition always begins immediately after the MBR and MSDOS uses it somehow? Is there really some vital data at the front of the first partition irrespective of where the partition is located? Should mkfs.ext3 really treat the first partition differently? I realise that I could place a dummy partition at the beginning of the disk but that just doesn't feel right! Am I misunderstanding things? Any feedback would be appreciated John Appendix - Fully updated F12 - e2fsprogs the latest version 1.41.11 I used fdisk -H 224 -S 56 /dev/sdb to give [root@fuerte ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes 224 heads, 56 sectors/track, 19935 cylinders Units = cylinders of 12544 * 512 = 6422528 bytes Disk identifier: 0xfc656088 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 5 20 100352 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 21 6400 40015360 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 6401 19932 84872704 83 Linux ------------------------------------------------------- parted shows me Model: ATA C300-CTFDDAC128M (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 19935cyl Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 19935,224,56. Each cylinder is 6423kB. Partition Table: msdos Cylinders Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 4cyl 19cyl 16cyl primary ext3 2 20cyl 6399cyl 6380cyl primary ext3 3 6400cyl 19931cyl 13532cyl primary ext3 -------------------------------------------- chs Number Start End Type File system Flags 1 4,0,0 19,223,55 primary ext3 2 20,0,0 6399,223,55 primary ext3 3 6400,0,0 19931,223,55 primary ext3 -------------------------------------------- Sectors Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 50176s 250879s 200704s primary ext3 2 250880s 80281599s 80030720s primary ext3 3 80281600s 250027007s 169745408s primary ext3 -------------------------------------------- Bytes Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 25690112B 128450559B 102760448B primary ext3 2 128450560B 41104179199B 40975728640B primary ext3 3 41104179200B 128013828095B 86909648896B primary ext3 ############################################################### [root@fuerte ~]# dumpe2fs /dev/sdb1|less dumpe2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) Filesystem volume name: ssd1 Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 87e1674f-243b-4a32-83a9-2b3267525c2d Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 25168 Block count: 100352 Reserved block count: 5017 Free blocks: 91504 Free inodes: 25157 First block: 1 Block size: 1024 Fragment size: 1024 Reserved GDT blocks: 256 Blocks per group: 8192 Fragments per group: 8192 Inodes per group: 1936 Inode blocks per group: 242 ---------------------------------------------------------- dumpe2fs /dev/sdb2|less Filesystem volume name: ssd2 Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: f2e68b83-62fb-47a7-92d2-16476b3e0a57 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 2501856 Block count: 10003840 Reserved block count: 500192 Free blocks: 3914067 Free inodes: 2163571 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 1021 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8176 Inode blocks per group: 511 ############################################################### [root@fuerte ~]# hdparm -I /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: C300-CTFDDAC128MAG Serial Number: 00000000100500006CED Firmware Revision: 0001 Standards: Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0028) Supported: 8 7 6 5 Likely used: 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 250069680 LBA user addressable sectors: 250069680 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 250069680 Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 512 bytes Logical Sector-0 offset: 0 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 122104 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 128035 MBytes (128 GB) cache/buffer size = unknown Nominal Media Rotation Rate: Solid State Device

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Adding a user and login from "X"
by Mark Ryden 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Hello, I run fedora 12 with gnome. By default, I boot into gnome with Xwindows. When I add a user ("useradd xyz"), I see that user in the login dialog immediately after boot. (there is a list of all users in the system). I sometimes add some users for tests, like "test1", "test2",..., "test10". Is there a way to prevent specific users (like "test1","test2") from showing up in this dialog ? Rgs, Mark

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Re: smartcard user authentication
by Leslie S Satenstein 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

john wendel wrote: > Anyone know how to configure Fedora to use a smartcard for user > login/authentication? > > I know that pam has a smartcard module, but I have no idea how to use > it. Documentation on the web seems to be pretty old, probably obsolete. > > A pointer to a web site with working instructions would be much > appreciated. I can ditch my Windows box at work if I can get this working. > > Regards, > > John > Hi John, Could you tell us more about the smart card device? How is it hooked up to yur computer? Is it a part of the computer? More details would be helpful, -David PS: Maybe with what you learn in this experience, you could write an up-to-date guide. I know of two devices. A smart card reader and a USB plug in smart card device (www.spyrus.com or other vendor). You have to start the Fedora smart card driver, and then use the smart card interface software that comes with the card, or you have to write your own. The one I use is the USB device (with windows). An API was written to interface to the device. One has a protocol to respect. The actual communication with the card is via the Fedora interface. ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein mailto leslies(a)itbms.biz www.itbms.biz

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Re: Fedora & Solaris 7
by Wade Hampton 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

I hope it's not hardware as I can't get service on the Solaris box.... I am trying to use ndd but the /dev/elx driver does not work with NDD AFIK. I have tried several TCP tuning options but still keep locking up the Solaris network stack: rmem_default=32768 rmem_max=65536 tcp_window_scaling=0 tcp_sack=0 tcp_fack=0 Thanks, -- Wade Hampton

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midori in LXDE/F-12 spin
by Ranjan Maitra 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

Hi, I have been using LXDE since the F-12 spin and it has been working great. I have also been using midori which seems to also work fine, but I got concerned recently when I got a message from some site saying that my browser did not support 128- (or was it 256-)bit strong encryption. Reading about it some more, it appears that midori suffers from IMO a fatal flaw, namely that it does not tell the user when security works and when it does not. See this bug report here: http://www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=743 I wonder if the default choice of midori to ship with the LXDE spin should not be reconsidered? There is no easy alternative for an answer: should it be Big-bloated Firefox or chromium? Ranjan

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Re: Re: Fedora & Solaris 7 (Action Required)
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27 Mar '10

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