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disable desktop background in fedora 13 (LXDE)
by Ranjan Maitra 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi, I was wondering how one does it: I have been looking at the Preferences -> Desktop but I can not find a way to have it take nothing as the background. Previously, in F10,11,12, I recall that there was a button somewhere which said no background. I can not find it here. Any help? Many thanks! Ranjan

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Enabling Airport wireless on Macbook Air with F12
by Colin Paul Adams 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

Thanks to Chris Smart, Peter Danenberg and others, I have been able to install Fedora 12 as the sole O/S on my Macbook Air (first generation). However the wirless networking is not enabled. I am following the instructions in http://docs.fedoraproject.org/wireless-guide/f12/en-US/html-single/#chap-Wi… . There was no wireless device shown in the network Configuration, so I clicked New and added a device for hardware Apple Airport. I also tried adding wireless device on the Hardware tab (eth0), but although it allows me to do this, after I save and then reopen the Network Configuration, the hardware only shows a device pan0 of Type Ethernet (which was there from the start). It does appear on the Devices tab (it didn't originally until I added it), but has staus of inactive, and no means to activate it. However, even after restarting the computer, the wireless icon on the panel says there are no network devices available. So I tried removing the device from control by NetworkManager, and activated it manually. But then I get: Device eth0 does seem to be present, delaying initalization. What do I need to do? -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire

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Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] btrfs for Fedora 12 and 13 LiveCD/DVD ?
by dexter 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

On 25 April 2010 19:47, Alan Pevec <apevec gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Valent Turkovic > <valent.turkovic gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> how to make Fedora 12 and Fedora 13 LiveCD/DVD that is btrfs formated >> and not ext4? >> What options need to be enables in kicstart file so that >> livecd-creator makes btrfs iso images? > > Didn't try it, but should be enough to change fstype in fedora-live-base.ks >> part / --size 3072 --fstype ext4 > > Alan CrossPosting: A quick scan reveals adjusting fstype will not be enuff, btrfs uses different userspace tools from ext[34] "btrfs-progs", so livecd-tools will need a patch. ...dex

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Heads up re: Users of RalinkTech Chipsets
by JD 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi All, Kernel 2.6.35 now supports RT2860 RT2870 RT2872 RT2883 RT3070 RT3071 RT3090 RT3390 RT3572 The device will be wlan0 instead of ra0 I just downloaded http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.35.3.tar.bz2 and built it and booted it. It found my Ralink 2860 based mini-pci and all is super-well. You will need to modify your /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant and replace ra0 with wlan0 Once you do that, you will need to System->Administration->Network and activate wlan0, and save it. That should create the ifcfg-wlan0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and should also create hard links to it in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices and in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default (unless of course these links are no longer needed). If you had set up your wifi with a fixed ip address, you will need to set that up too. Once done, then sudo ifup wlan0 and you are up and running. I have so far discovered that these rtx00 drivers are driving the card much much better than ralinktech's own driver. For example, the signal to noise ratio is increased by a factor of 10!!! No kidding!!! Factor of 10! i.e. signal strength went from around 5 or 6 to 60!!! Enjoy.

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gmail Video chat for fedora?
by L 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, Google recently announced the availability of GMail Video Chat for linux!, Unfortunately the sad part is that the released only for Ubuntu and Debian based systems! So the thing is we have a .deb. Is there a way we could get the .rpm for installation? anyone have this convert to rpm? thanks Y -- Linux Toys http://linuxishbell.wordpress.com/

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hibernate, then start Windows [SOLVED]
by Greg Woods 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

This is in regard to the issue that, when Linux is hibernated, upon reboot the thaw starts immediately and the grub menu is not presented. I am now absolutely convinced this is not a BIOS issue, it is a kernel or boot loader issue. I worked around it by adding a level of indirection to the boot process. To do this requires that you have at least one Linux partition that is not / or /boot. The basic idea is that Linux is booted with a chainloader, same as Windows. So the main grub menu gives you a choice of Linux or Windows, and both are implemented with "chainloader +1" stanzas. It works, but I don't recommend trying this unless you are fairly familiar with how the boot loader works, and are comfortable reinstalling the boot loader from a rescue CD/DVD if something goes wrong. The high-level instructions go like this: 1) In your extra Linux partition, create "boot" and "boot/grub" directories. 2) Copy the contents of /boot/grub to this new grub directory. 3) Edit the boot/grub/grub.conf file in this new directory so that Windows and Linux are presented as "chainloader +1" stanzas. 4) Install grub in the master boot record, pointing to this partition 5) Install grub in the first sector of your root partition, with the usual kernel choices. When this is done, at boot time you get a choice of Linux or Windows. If you select Linux, the second boot loader comes up with the usual choice of kernels. If Linux is hibernated, you can then boot and run Windows just fine (my Windows install doesn't have a hibernate option so I wasn't able to test hibernating Windows in this scenario). If you boot again and select Linux, instead of getting the choice of kernels, it immediately resumes the hibernated image. This is how I *want* it to work, so I have left it this way. Suppose you have this: /dev/sda1 Windows /dev/sda2 Linux root /dev/sda3 Linux /local Then /boot/grub gets copied to /local/boot/grub, then edit /local/boot/grub/grub.conf so that you have something like this: title Linux root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Then run: # grub [...] grub> root (hd0,2) grub> setup (hd0) This loads the master boot record that points to /dev/sda2, the chainloader configuration. Now edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove the Windows stanza (you don't need it here any more). Then run: # grub [...] grub> root (hd0,1) grub> setup (hd0,1) This loads grub into the first sector of the Linux root partition, pointing at that partition and presenting the usual choice of kernels. This has worked great for me. I can now hibernate Linux, boot into Windows, and later resume from the hibernated Linux image. --Greg

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Missing symbol in libatk-bridge.so
by Paul F. Johnson 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi, Quite a few apps on my machine are refusing to work as there is a symbol missing in libatk-bridge : g_module_make_resident What do I need to install to resolve this problem? TTFN Paul

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Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12
by Quan Qiu 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

I installed fedora 12 (English version) on a Dell R300 server, as well as SVN and Trac, after I imported files into Linux, all files named in Chinese became black squares or question marks when listing them, and there were additional strings "invalid encoding" attached after each filename. In addition, Chinese font in Firefox looks not pretty, some are big, and some are small. I installed cjkuni-fonts, cjkunifonts-uming fonts, and also setup locale to zh_CN.UTF8, but it didn't get me any luck. Could anyone help me with this? I appreciate any response.

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TVTime loses focus after installing F13
by Bill Case 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Hi; I have a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR 1800 tuner with an analog Cable TV (NTSC - Canada). In F12 I received a near perfect video picture from my cable TV. In F13, the picture is black and white with various degrees of interference lines depending on the tv channel. I have played with (used) TVTime quite a bit in the last 3 or 4 years so I am familiar with all the menu settings and the configuration file. No matter what I try, I can't get the proper reception back. I still have no analog sound for this tuner, but I see that as a separate Alsa problem. Any suggestions as to what I might be overlooking or might have mis-configured with the video? -- Regards Bill Fedora 13, Gnome 2.30.2 Evo.2.20.2, Emacs 23.2.1

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SELinux
by Patrick Dupre 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Hello, With fedora 13, when I use Math:GSL, I get an error message: Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so' for module Math::GSL::Errno: /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 200. if I do not switch SELinux to permissive !! IE I cannot use enforcing -- --- ========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384 The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516 Heslington | | York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: pd520(a)york.ac.uk ==========================================================================

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