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Missing Codec in Fedora 13
by Marvin Kosmal 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi Just installed Fedora 13. Upgraded from 12.. My movie player will not work. Error message below.. The playback of this movie requires a Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) demuxer plugin which is not installed. Neither yum or the package manager could find it. I googled and got a 1000 hits.. After checking I am not sure who/what to trust... Is there a trusted Fedora site where I can get this codec?? TIA Marvin

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General desktop questions
by Alex 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, I have few questions about how to accomplish some things on the desktop, and hoped someone could help. - How can I change the highlighting of text using the mouse in a Terminal to automatically copy without having to right-click then Copy, and paste automatically by clicking the right-mouse button, similar to how putty works? - How can I attach a file to an email in Thunderbird that is on a samba share? I've mounted the share in the file browser, then dragged it over to the email, but Thunderbird responds with a permission denied type of error, like the file either isn't accessible in Thunderbird, or is only shared from within the File Browser. I've also tried going through Thunderbird, but there doesn't appear to be a way to connect to a network share, only the local disk. - How can I create the ability for a normal user from within GNOME to either be prompted once for the root password for administrative tasks, or be able to start X11 as a normal user, yet have the ability to perform root administrative functions like mount devices or create new printer shares? Thanks, Alex

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Problem with hibernation
by Timothy Murphy 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

My laptop has ceased hibernating. When I click on f=>Leave=>Hibernate the sleep-moon starts flashing and the small hyphen-like symbol on the top left comes on as usual, but as far as I can see nothing is written to disk. At this point it becomes impossible to communicate with the machine. Ctrl-Alt-F2 does bring on a text window, with a login: request, but if I enter my username and press Return I am not asked for a password. Whatever I type appears on the screen, but with no effect. I tried stopping the NetworkManager and openvpn services which seemed to me the most likely causes of the problem, but that had no effect. I wonder if anyone has had the same problem? And if so, whether there is a solution? I'm running the current kernel, but I tried the last 2 kernels without effect. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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printer problems F13
by Gregory Pittman 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Last week I was suddenly faced with the loss of all printers in my settings. This is on a netbook that I carry around and therefore have 5-6 printers set up for use. What I have noticed since then are the following features figured out with lots of trial and error, finally some success. 1. Plug-n-play automatic detection and setup of printers no longer happens. Other USB devices get found as usual. 2. trying to use the menu-based Printer configuration ends with it finding the printer, then telling packagekit to look for drivers, after which it says that the drivers are installed, and it quits with an error. 3. Using the menu-based HPLIP, it cannot find any printers connected to a USB interface, another show-stopper. 4. Using 'hp-setup' on the command line by root will allow for USB-USB printers to be set up. This will not work for USB-parallel connections, since this still cannot find any devices connected to the USB interface. 5. Using 'system-config-printer' on the command line by root will allow for setting up a USB-parallel connections printer. I've tried going back a couple of kernels to see if that made a difference, but it didn't. This is very annoying, and I wondering if anyone has any explanation for it. Greg Pittman

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Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12
by Ding Yi Chen 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Perhaps you can set the putty to use Chinese font, I used to use putty with Chinese BBS, should be all right. Or you may want to try pietty: http://ntu.csie.org/~piaip/pietty/ ----- "Quan Qiu" <quan.qiu.yz(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot. You are very right about this problem! Now, Fedora can display Chinese file names properly although the font doesn't look pretty. :-D > > One more question, when I used Putty to SSH the server, all files named in Chinese couldn't display properly. Is that because of the Putty doesn't support Chinese? If it is the case, which SSH tools do you suggest? > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Sam Varshavchik < mrsam(a)courier-mta.com > wrote: > Quan Qiu writes: > > « HTML content follows » > > Thanks for reply. > > 1. Where did the imported files come from? > > Those files were copied from Windows XP through ssh. > > 2. Are you certain that the file names are in UTF8 and not, for > example, GB2312? > > Most of files are .doc or .xls. Do you know how to convert them to GB2312 ? > > It's not the contents of your files being in UTF8, GB2312, or another character set. > > It's the filenames themselves being coded in the UTF8 or GB2312 character set. > > You say you've set your system locale to zh_CN.UTF8. This indicates that your filenames must be coded in UTF8 to be shown correctly on your terminal. > > Try this, in the directory with your files: > > ls -l | iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8 > > If you now see your files named in proper Chinese characters, this means that your filenames are coded in GB2312. You simply need to rename these files from GB2312 to UTF8. Probably something like this: > > ls | while read filename > do > mv -i "$filename" "`echo \"$filename\" | iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8`" > done > > > -- > users mailing list > users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > > > -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- Ding-Yi Chen Software Engineer Internationalization Group Red Hat, Inc. Register now for Red Hat Virtual Experience, December 9. Enterprise Linux, virtualization, cloud, and more. http://www.redhat.com/virtualexperience

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Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

> ls | while read filename > do > mv -i "$filename" "`echo \"$filename\" | iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8`" > done Or you can use the convmv tool (in fedora) to do that too.

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Unable to set txpower on wifi card
by JD 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

F13, latest updates. wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 The Datasheet says: Output Power 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11b: 17dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11g: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11an: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11gn: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm I am running in g mode (54megabits/s) $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Deleted" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=8 dBm <<<===== Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:on Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=58 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I tried to set txpower to 14 per datasheet spec: $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 txpower 14dBm Error for wireless request "Set Tx Power" (8B26) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. The drivers that are loaded for this wifi card are: rt2800pci 7931 0 rt2800lib 27818 1 rt2800pci rt2x00pci 5799 1 rt2800pci rt2x00lib 25936 3 rt2800pci,rt2800lib,rt2x00pci mac80211 182154 2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib cfg80211 135626 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211 eeprom_93cx6 1305 1 rt2800pci crc_ccitt 1311 2 rt2800pci,irda Is this an issue with the wext driver or with the rt2XXXXX drivers?

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Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome
by Gianluca Cecchi 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hello, two days ago I updated my FC13 x86_64 from Jul 28 08:52:35 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64 to Aug 28 16:20:47 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13.x86_64 and now I'm noticing I'm not able to disable wireless any more. My nm-applet process is active gcecchi 2306 2167 0 07:46 ? 00:00:00 nm-applet --sm-disable and I see the double-monitor icon, but usually I right-clicked on nm-applet window and checked out the "enable wireless" option. Now I see that the first two lines are enabled but greyed out.... Is this expected behaviour from update? I don't see a reference inside the rpm changelog... I remember some past threads (probably in FC11 time...) where it was requested to keep wireless state as last session. It worked for some time but then nm-applet came back to be always enabled, so that I have to manually disable each time I didn't need it... any news on this? Was this "remembering last state for wireless on next reboot" feature abandoned, or do I have to open a bug? BTW: I wanted to make a screenshot but if I right click and then press the stamp button I do not have the "save screenshot" pop-up... any way to do it (without a digicamera.. ;-) Thanks, Gianluca

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re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless
by Gianluca Cecchi 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

On Mon Aug 30 12:01:10 UTC 2010 Genes MailLists wrote: > Today - that option along with the disable netowrking option are > grayed out and I can not uncheck the 'emable wireless/networking radio > buttons. Hi, I posted same problem a few hours ago: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-August/381764.html let's keep only one thread on this open, for simpler following Best regards, Gianluca

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Advanced Format drives + RAID5 + LVM + EXT4 = migraine
by Jake Peavy 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hey all, I'm going a little off my rocker here trying to understand how to best configure a 3-drive RAID5 array using the new Western Digital 4k sector drives. I've got 3xWD15EARS (1.5T 4k sector advanced format drives). If I was using the drive as-is, my understanding is I should create a partition starting at sector 64. This would solve all my problems. But I want to put them into a RAID5 array, so currently I didn't partition at all and just passed mdadm the whole drive. Not sure if this is the best approach. I used 512kB as chunk size. Then I want to create LVM on the array. I didn't pass any special parms to {pv,vg,lv}create (should I?) Lastly, I want to create an EXT4 filesystem on the array. I used the stride calculator at http://busybox.net/~aldot/mkfs_stride.html<http://busybox.net/%7Ealdot/mkfs_stride.html> with raid level = 5, devices = 3, chunk size = 512 and filesystem blocks = 4 (?) which suggested I use mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -E stride=128,stripe-width=256 (which I did). After doing all this, I get writes to my filesystem of only 38MB/s. Reads of 119MB/s. [root@morbo opt]# hdparm -Tt /dev/mapper/array_vg-lv_opt /dev/mapper/array_vg-lv_opt: Timing cached reads: 1574 MB in 2.00 seconds = 786.85 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 332 MB in 3.00 seconds = 110.57 MB/sec [root@morbo opt]# time (dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile bs=1M count=8192; sync) 8192+0 records in 8192+0 records out 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 226.646 s, 37.9 MB/s real 3m51.062s user 0m0.072s sys 0m39.794s [root@morbo opt]# dd if=zerofile of=/dev/null bs=1M 8192+0 records in 8192+0 records out 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 72.4094 s, 119 MB/s I have a feeling my array should perform much better than this and it's probably because I haven't taken the 4k sector size into account and I'm bleeding performance. Can anyone comment? If I need to take the 4k sector size into account, where should I do so? With partitions? In pvcreate? Some other place? Or multiple places? TIA, -- -jp If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised. deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com

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