wither pnmtops and pnmcrop
by Michael Hennebry
Unable to figure out how to do what I wanted in gimp,
I went looking for pnmcrop.
I had gimp out because I hadn't been able to find pnmtops.
Cropping stumped me, so I went looking again.
Eventually I figured out that I didn't have the right package installed.
yum provides told me netpbm.
yum install netpbm ran to completion without complaint,
but I still don't have any netpbm tools.
I even did a find from / as root.
Not there.
What is going on and how do I fix it?
I'm running FC14.
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Optimist: The glass is half full.
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12 years, 5 months
what's the state of qemu-system-ppc virtualization in fedora 16?
by Robert P. J. Day
what little i know of PPC virtualization suggests that
qemu-system-ppc is still a work in progress, at least on ubuntu which
is what's running on one of my systems. so i'd like to switch back to
fedora for what will be an extended adventure in virtualization.
as a specific example, i have a lite5200 (MPC5200) board and i can
easily configure a kernel:
$ make ARCH=powerpc lite5200b_defconfig
build that kernel, download that using the board's u-boot and boot
that kernel, at least to the point where it falls over from lack of a
root filesystem. (for now, i just want to verify that the kernel
boots -- i'll worry about the root filesystem later.)
for fun, i'd like to run that kernel under qemu as well, but i
already know there will be problems. on the one hand, people suggest
that MCP5200 qemu support is pretty good:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-08/msg02757.html
on the other hand, i also had to download a debian package for
openbios-ppc just to attempt to run that kernel using qemu-system-ppc
under ubuntu, and that still didn't work (missing firmware).
so, if i install fedora 16 and i have my u-boot ready kernel image,
what are the chances of using qemu-system-ppc to simply start that
kernel? and where's the current state of kvm docs for fedora 16?
thanks.
rday
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12 years, 5 months
Nvidia driver installation problems
by Lawrence E Graves
Forgot to say that I have a Dell 9400 Inspiron with a FX2500m video card
running Fedora 16/64-bit.
--
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12 years, 5 months
Display resolution problems
by John Aldrich
I just did a fresh install of Fedora 16 on my system which has an integrated
Geforce video card ( GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a/PCI/SSE2) and I *know* my
monitor (flat panel 19" Dell LCD) is capable of 1280x1024, but I can't seem to
get it to go to that resolution. I know it works, because A) I do it on my
Dell Optiplex in Windows and B) I did it before in Fedora 15. Suddenly
1280x1024 is not an option. How do I fix this? I've installed the nVidia
drivers and rebooted, but I still can't get 1280x1024.
Can someone please help me? Thanks!
12 years, 5 months
Fedora 13 workspace switcher - no "Number of workspaces" option
by Darlene Wallach
In the preferences for workspace switcher there is no option for choosing
the number of workspaces.
yum list *switch* and yum list *workspace* doesn't give a workspace
switcher.
Does anyone know what I should be looking for or what Gnome applet I should
install?
I have an even older Fedora 9 on my desktop computer that has the option
for choosing the number of workspaces in workspace switcher, plus the help
says there should be an option for choosing the number of workspaces.
I know Fedora 13 is EOL. I haven't taken the time to install Fedora 15 yet.
Thank you for any advice, tips, information
Darlene Wallach
--
equal justice under law
12 years, 5 months
What is the capacity of a BD-R disk really?
by Tom Horsley
I thought I would test my blu-ray writer by backing up a bunch
of big files to a BD-R. I used k3b which imagines there is 25GB
of available space, so I added files till I was about to
overflow that.
Then I insert a blank BD-R disk (and hit bugzilla 742719), but
I go ahead and tell it to burn, and growisofs (I think) gives
an error saying that many files won't fit.
So, I've got k3b telling me 25GB before it sees the media,
2.1TB after it sees the media, and growisofs not telling
me a specific size, but saying I'm trying to write too much :-).
It would sure be nice if there were a consistent answer here.
Anyway, I keep pulling the smallest files out of the list
till growisofs finally thinks it can burn the BD-R, and that
runs for a while till it gets to about 98%, then gives
an error saying the files won't fit, so the check it was
doing earlier wasn't quite right. The last file it wrote
gives I/O errors if I try to read it (but at least I can
verify the checksums of all the other files).
So, does anyone have any pointers to information on the
actual capacity of BD-R disks? None of the tools on fedora
seem to agree, and none of them appear to be correct
either :-). (And web searches are remarkably fruitless
on this topic).
Is BD-R back to the days where you have to do a simulated
write before you can get an actual answer? Or is it simpler
just to provide about 3GB of slop to be sure everything fits?
12 years, 5 months
Fc15 writing an iso on a dvd with k3b - Unable to mount DVD-R
by Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone,
I have a FC15 system that I am trying to create an iso image of Fc16
using k3b. I can not get k3b to recognize a blank DVD-R disk. I can
mount and read other CD and DVD media without a problem, but I am unable
to get FC15 to recognize an unformatted DVD.
Are there other software packages besides k3b that allow creating disks
from iso images?
I am not sure if this is an fc15 problem or k3b, I am suspicious that
this is an FC15 problem.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Any solutions?
Greg Ennis
12 years, 5 months
system console redirection - all but boot messages redirected ttyS0?
by Morgan Read
Hello Folks
I'm running f14 (still)
I've successfully configured my machine (hp ml150 g3) to redirect bios,
grub menu and login prompt - but, between the grub menu and the login
prompt I'm missing the boot messages. If I remove "quiet" from
grub.conf's kernel line I get kernel messages reported to ttyS0, but
leaving "quiet" in boot messages are report to tty0 but not ttyS0.
Any pointers any one has would be much appreciated?
(The most up-to-date information I've found seems to be here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Dracut_problems#Configure_a_se...
Anything else out there?)
Regards,
Morgan.
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12 years, 5 months
wlan0 Problems
by mike
My wife's HP Pavilion is driving me crazy. It is a built in Wireless
setup (Centrino built-in chip). Every time I try to activate it in
fc14.X86_64 I get the "Unable to Activate due to RF-kill" message!
Yum info rfkill returns that rfkill is not installed. I am lost, do I
need to install rfkill and then issue an unblock command?
I have tried everything else but do not want to install something I do
not need.
Mike D.
12 years, 5 months
ext4lazyinit?
by Tom Horsley
I just reformatted a new 1TB USB 3.0 backup drive to
ext4, mounted it, and I'm watching constant disk
writes on my gkrellm display. I assume this is due
to the ext4lazyinit process which showed up when
I mounted the drive the first time.
Anyone know how long it is likely to be initializing
the tables? It has been running for about 20 minutes
already.
12 years, 5 months