HP 6930p: mute button doesn't work properly
by Hoang Le
( I send this again in a new topic, thank to Patrick for telling me not to reply
an existing mail )
Hi friends,
I need help on my problem with HP 6930p multimedia keys
- When built-in speakers are used, the button works correctly
- When using external speakers/earphone, sound is always on ( even when mute
button is on ). If I unplug, sound is back to the mute button's current state
- In any case, system tray icon doesn't change ( even If internal speakers are
used, mute button works, the sound state doesn't change to "mute" when sound is
off )
I also notice that the microphone volume is very low compared to output sound.
So when I use a recording program ( particularly Audacity ), the playback sound
is unexpectedly low. I don't know if these problems are related, just in case
they are ...
Thank you,
Hoang Le
13 years, 7 months
Fedora 13 installation over vnc - Xvnc refuses connection
by Ambarish Sridharanarayanan
I'm trying to install Fedora 13 over VNC [1], with TigerVNC on Windows as the VNC client. In the middle, my connection dropped; when reconnecting, TigerVNC tells me "The server is already in use". Looking at the sources, it looks like the XVnc thinks there's an active connection, and it looks like was passed on a -nevershared option. And IdleTimeout=0 is also passed in. Any way to reconnect to the running Anaconda to complete the installation? I'd like to not have to run through Anaconda again.
Thanks,
Ambarish
[1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/sn-...
13 years, 7 months
err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting
by Joshua C.
Hi
I needed to use wineconsole and after installing the latest available
packages (1.3.1-1) I got the following message when trying to start
wineconsole cmd:
err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting
Installing different fonts and "export LANG= en_US.UTF-8" didn't help.
Does anyone have any idea? trying f13 and f14 gave me the same results
although the current packages in f13 are v.1.2.0.
--joshua
13 years, 7 months
Fedora 13-unable to boot from another SATA-1 ERR=22 displayed
by Sriranga(77yrsold)
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold) <withblessings(a)gmail.com
> wrote:
> On Dell optiplex-330 i have installed winXP sp3 on sata-0 and on sata-1 I
> had installed Fedora 13 - Even though grub installed - unable to boot Fedora
> 13.
> i have installed Ubuntu 10-04 easily installed within windows itself using
> wubi.exe. Till today I am able to boot winXP as well as ubuntu but unable to
> boot Fedora13 In bios if I set sata-1 as first drive Fedora-13 will boot
> otherwise no. since mosf of my work on winxP I am not position to use
> Fedora13 even though installed. Everytime when started computer grub display
> Err 22 - press any key... then to windows/ubuntu for selection.
>
> Now I repenting for having installed Fedora13. Now I am afraid to install
> next versions of Fedora14 and decided to not experiment because I have
> re-installed Fedora13 atleast 5 or 6 times resulting hard disk may damage.
> DELL technical people are not co-operative to solve the problem of bios and
> help to set right the bios so that user can choose any of harddisk using
> boot sequence - instead of meddling with the hardware setup.
>
13 years, 7 months
Scrub free disk blocks
by JD
Is there a Linux util to scrub free disk blocks and keep everything
else intact ??
13 years, 7 months
DeltaISOs
by David
Is it possible to make a deltaiso without having both the older ISO and
the Newer ISO on a local system.
Example. Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso was downloaded. A
Fedora-14-Alpha-2-x86_64-Live.iso is availible for download.
Can a deltaiso be made without downloading the newer ISO?
makedeltaiso Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso
http://path/to/folder/containing/Fedora-14-Alpha-2-x86_64-Live.iso deltaiso
--
David
13 years, 7 months
Unpatched major kernel
by Marcel Rieux
eldavojohn writes
"On June 17th, the X.org team was notified by Invisible Things Lab of
a critical security flaw (PDF) that affected both x86_32 and x86_64
platforms. The flaw deals with escalated privileges of a user process
that has access to the X server. The founder of ITL said of the flaw,
'The attack allows a (unpriviliged) user process that has access to
the X server (so, any GUI application) to unconditionally escalate to
root (but again, it doesn't take advantage of any bug in the X
server!). In other words: any GUI application (think e.g. sandboxed
PDF viewer), if compromised (e.g. via malicious PDF document) can
bypass all the Linux fancy security mechanisms, and escalate to root,
and compromise the whole system.' This has apparently been a security
flaw since kernel 2.6 was released. From the article, 'On 13 August,
Linus Torvalds committed an initial fix, but several patches were
added afterward for various reasons. The problem has been addressed in
versions 2.6.27.52, 2.6.32.19, 2.6.34.4 and 2.6.35.2 of the kernel.'"
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/18/1534258/Linux-Xorg-Critical-Secur...
==============
August 13 is 10 days ago. Kernel.org now says the latest stable version is:
stable: 2.6.32.20 2010-08-20
http://www.all.kernel.org/
It was out 3 days ago.
Any reason Fedora is not updating the kernel on what looks like a major flaw.
13 years, 7 months
Fedora 13 & screen resolution
by Gregory Hosler
Hi All,
I just installed Fedora 13 on my home system.
Previously I had Fedora 11 running there (and 13 on my laptop for quite some
time now).
My H/W configuration:
Shuttle, with Intel i915 chipset
Monitor: Dell P1110
Both F-11 and F-13 detect and use the intel x11 driver, and monitor.
I use the same xorg.conf on both systems (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf)
F-11 will give me 1600x1200 resolution, F-13 will only give me 1024x768
I've checked the Xorg.0.log -- it almost looks like F-13 is NOT looking at my
xorg.conf file (where I specify the resolutions in my Screen section). When it
comes to the mode lines, it is not seeing anything above 1024x768
I'm at a loss as to what to look for, or how to fix this.
I should mention ...
If I I take the modeline info from the F-11 Xorg.0.log, generated the equivalent
Modelines, put them into my xorg.conf, and X will quite happily display at
1600x1200. But system-config-display will not let me select above 1024x768, and
also X will not rotate between the various modes (control-shift-+) even though
all the modelines are in my new xorg.conf.
Any thoughts / suggestions / urls ?
Many thanks in advance, and all the best,
-Greg Hosler
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Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.
(from /var/log/Xorg.setup.log)
| Greg Hosler ghosler(a)redhat.com |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
13 years, 7 months
Easier Dual Boot Install For Fedora 14?
by Jesse Palser
Hi,
Can the dev team make it easier to install Fedora 14
when Windows is already installed on the same hard drive?
To be honest I use Ubuntu 10.04 and it does this automatically
when installing(it shrinks Windows partition during install)
I installed F13 on a hard drive with Windows XP on it already
and was disappointed that F13 had no option to shrink
the Windows partition during F13 install.
I installed F13 on my test computer for software testing.
Thanks...
Jesse
13 years, 7 months
