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Desktop right-click menu
by Greg Woods 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Is there any way to modify the menu that comes up when you right click on the desktop? I would like to add an item. What I need is a way to invoke nvidia-settings from a blank desktop. This comes up on my new laptop. The LCD screen resolution is 1440x990, very nice but that resolution isn't supported by any of the monitors I connect it to, so it comes up in separate screen mode and the monitor screen is a blank desktop. I would like to be able to invoke nvidia-settings from there, without having to open the laptop lid and use that screen. Once I have nvidia-settings running, I can click a couple of buttons to change it to "clone" mode and use a supported resolution, which will give me access to the real desktop on the external monitor. Unfortunately the resolutions supported by the various monitors are not the same, so just hard-coding a resolution into Xorg.conf isn't a good option. I also want the laptop screen to come up in its maximum resolution by default for the cases where it is NOT plugged in to an external monitor, so programming a low resolution that would be supported by any monitor is also not a good option. --Greg

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Need advice for which photo printer to buy!
by Richard Shaw 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

I currently have a HP Photosmart C5580 which is a decent all-in-one printer that I only paid $99 for but the photo printing leaves something to be desired. My wife is a art hobbyist so I'm looking for a decent dedicated photo printer and I've found two in my price range (about $200). Since in general HP printers are well supported, one of the printers I'm looking at is the HP Photosmart B8550[1]. My inlaws have one of the Epson Artisan printers and it seems to do well so I'm also considering the Artisan 835[2]. Per this third party site[3] it says it has linux print drivers but I'd like to know if anyone has used this (or similar) printer under linux with good results? Do I need to download the driver from this site or is it in the Fedora repos already? Thanks, Richard [1] http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/printer/Photosmart/1/storefronts/CB981A%… [2] http://www.buy.com/prod/epson-artisan-835-all-in-one-color-inkjet-printer/q… [3] http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/download/lsb/epson-inkjet/escp/

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Build bash 3.2 rpm package
by Bruno Galindro da Costa 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Hi, How can I buid a rpm packge from bash 3.2 source ? I need to use rpmbuild or bash have a "make rpm" directive (like drbd -> http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-build-rpm.html) ? I´ve downloaded bash source from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.2.tar.gz -- Att. Bruno Galindro da Costa

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Ethernet Card Recommendations?
by KC8LDO 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

I'm looking at adding in a PCI Ethernet card to experiment with Ethernet bridging using the motherboard gigabit chipset with it. The motherboard chipset seems to be working OK and I would like a recommendation for an add in card that is known to work fine with Linux. A 10/100 or a 10/100/1000 card would be fine. I don't need anything fancy but it has to have a low profile bracket to fit in a Gateway or HP slimline case. Regards; Leland C. Scott KC8LDO

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F13: Unable to mount ntfs-3g, option: 'context=' no longer supported?
by Dan Thurman 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Some weeks ago, I have installed F13 on a system and for some time, I have successfully mounted all of my partitions as defined in my fstab file. But today, I have rebooted this F13 system and for some reason, it was unable to mount any of my ntfs filesystems with an error message: "ntfs-3g-mount: Invalid argument", for each ntfs partition defined in the /etc/fstab. I can manually mount a ntfs-3g partition to /mnt, I can see the contents and context and every thing seems fine for this ntfs partition. I did: # mount /dev/sdaX /mnt (it works) # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdaX /mnt (it works) # mount -t ntfs-3g -o context="system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0" /dev/sdaX /mnt (breaks!) The problem is that the context=XXX option is no longer recognized, or so it seems. The fstab entry breaks as well for ntfs: LABEL=Ap1WD1 /md/Ap1WD1 ntfs-3g context="system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0" 0 0 So what is the problem?

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Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
by JD 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

I continue to get email bounced back with: This is the mail system at host lists.fedoraproject.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to<postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The mail system <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>: mail forwarding loop for users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org So far, all my posts have returned with this delivery failure.

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Bash - file line to array
by Bruno Galindro da Costa 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi! Is there any other method to transform lines of a file to an array variable than these bellow? ### MY FILE CONTENT #### # cat file [SERVER1] IP=0.0.0.0 [SERVER2] IP=0.0.0.0 ### METHOD 1 #### # CONF=( $(cat file) ) ### METHOD 2 #### # CONF=( $(<file) ) If I execute these two methods on GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) (bash-3.0-31.el4.i386.rpm), I´ll give this result in array: # echo ${CONF[*]} 1 IP=0.0.0.0 [SERVER2] IP=0.0.0.0 If I execute these two methods on GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) (bash-3.1-16.1.el5.i386.rpm), I´ll give this result in array: # echo ${CONF[*]} [SERVER01] IP=0.0.0.0 [SERVER02] IP=0.0.0.0 See the diference? The version 3.00.16 replace the string [SERVER1] by 1, and the version 3.1.17 do nothing. Why??!! This is a BUG? -- Att. Bruno Galindro da Costa bruno.galindro(a)gmail.com

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error with package installation and updating
by Vivek Tiwari 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi, I was doing "yum"ing to update some packages and install a few ones. But for some reason i keep on getting the same message everytime: ****************************** ************ http://spot.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: chromium. Please verify its path and try again ****************************************** I dont know whether fedora has stopped supporting F 11 or not but the link does show packages only for versions >11 ( http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/) Anybody knows how to fix this bug ? -- Vivek Tiwari

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Whee, Xorg crash (Fedora 13 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686)!
by Kevin Martin 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

So I'm using the latest unstable version of Chrome browser, updated my kernel today, and BAM, when I try to view a video on cnn.com Xorg crashes. This just started happening today (I've been running this version of the chrome browser for a solid week or more). Here's the backtrace from the Xorg.0.log.old for anybody who's interested: Backtrace: [ 9854.608] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3c) [0x80ddfac] [ 9854.608] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x8047000+0x60826) [0x80a7826] [ 9854.608] 2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb6040c] [ 9854.608] 3: /usr/bin/X (miModifyPixmapHeader+0x2b) [0x81b8bfb] [ 9854.608] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x21d000+0x5fa1) [0x222fa1] [ 9854.608] 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x21d000+0x6368) [0x223368] [ 9854.608] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x8047000+0x4dbd1) [0x8094bd1] [ 9854.608] 7: /usr/bin/X (0x8047000+0x51ab7) [0x8098ab7] [ 9854.608] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x8047000+0x1b595) [0x8062595] [ 9854.608] 9: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x2b6cc6] [ 9854.608] 10: /usr/bin/X (0x8047000+0x1b181) [0x8062181] [ 9854.608] Segmentation fault at address (nil) [ 9854.608] Fatal server error: [ 9854.608] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting [ 9854.608] [ 9854.608] Please consult the Fedora Project support at http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/ for help. [ 9854.608] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 9854.608] [ 9854.613] (II) Power Button: Close [ 9854.613] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [ 9854.617] (II) Power Button: Close [ 9854.617] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [ 9854.621] (II) Sleep Button: Close [ 9854.621] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [ 9854.629] (II) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Close [ 9854.629] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [ 9854.633] (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close [ 9854.633] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [ 9854.644] (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics" [ 9854.644] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch Problem is, I don't think that abrtd is reporting the crash, but I'm not sure. How can I tell? Thanks Kevin Martin

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ALFA USB AWUS036H adapter
by Antonio M 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Is this wireless USB adapter working out of the box in Fedora?? any experience??? Tnx -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 SIP: antoniomontag(a)ekiga.net

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