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internet apps don't connect in FC14
by Jim Philips 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

I installed FC14 today on my laptop. I can connect to the Internet and download software. I can also ping sites out on the Internet from the command line. However, the browser refuses to load any pages and Evolution won't connect to a mail server. I tried turning off the firewall altogether and this made no difference. Any ideas on what the issue could be?

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Fedora 14 - can't change pointer theme
by Neil Bird 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

I updated from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 over the weekend, and now I can't change my pointer theme. I'm stuck using dmz-aa. The pointer preferences still show my custom pointer choice, it's just not being used. Well, mostly. Within Firefox and Thunderbird windows, my custom pointer is showing up. But window borders, the desktop and most apps only show the dmz-aa pointer. I can't find a ref. to dmx under ~/.gconf (but I can find my custom pointer selection: /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme I think). Any ideas where to look? I've seen mention of this elsewhere, but only WRT compiz (I use openbox), and it involved changing the system default, which I don't want to have to do. -- [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@fnx ~]# exit

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random crashes
by Andras Simon 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. Now I upgraded to Fedora 14, and this has only got worse: before, uptimes could be anything between 3 minutes and a month, now it's a few hours at most. I never found anything interesting in the logs. When running without X, during a crash I saw a message on the console mentioning mcelog, so I installed and used it as a daemon, and also via /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck0/trigger as described here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cpu/mce/README But it didn't report anything. I checked temperatures with sensors: nothing. Ran memtest86+ for hours: the same. Is there something else that I should check? Andras

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Can not open Desktop effects on FC14
by Yunchi Wang 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Hello everyone. After I installed the updates last night, I can not open Desktop Effects. Exactly when I choose System->Preferences->Desktop Effects, there is no window came out. Prior to this, everything is OK. I have installed graphics driver. My notebook is Acer 4741G. Thanks! -- a green hand of opensource and linux

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k3b dvd burn problems with growisofs
by Brian Millett 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

My system: fedora 14, dell e6500, TSSTcorp DVD +-RW TS-U633F With the default k3b that now uses growisofs to burn a dvd, it fails at 49% every time. Downloaded the k3b-2.0.2-2.fc14.src.rpm, disabled the patch51 which changes wodim to growisofs, recompiled and now I can burn a DVD iso image. -- Brian Millett - [ Garibaldi (re: spacing), "Revelations"] "They put you in an airlock, seal it, and then open the space door. You spend the next five minutes chewing vacuum until your lungs turn inside-out, your eyeballs freeze, and your heart explodes. It's the worst kind of death you can imagine. And when that day comes, I'll be there to push the button."

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F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40" LCD TV
by barry yu 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

I have an HP Pavilion dv3 AMD Tution x2 dual core, pre loaded Vista H Premium 64bit, the HDMI function works soon as the Vista starts booting into desktop, both sound and video works fine with Sony 40" LCD 16x9 TV through HDMI, I installed F14 to dual boot with Vista and Vista still still works fine with SONY TV, but will display "No sign input" when boot up the Fedora 14, in monitor setting F14 detected the SONY TV, no matter I configure to mirror both display or set one as extended, still SONY TV produced no signal input message, can someone help?

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f14 - kudos
by Mike Wright 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Hi all, I finally got a 64 bit processor and have had a chance to run f14, both x32 and x64. I cannot express enough how incredible f14 is compared to every other fedora/redhat distro that I've used before. It was a surprise to see that x64 had fewer issues than the x32 version (though I have to admit I was a virgin to both). I'm trying all the dog food. All GUI. All enforcing selinux. With the addition of remi's and rpmfusion's repos I ended up with a stunning, almost out of the box, system. Since the days when RH only supported Matrox video cards that cost the equivalent of an auto's down-payment I have never had a blow-your- socks-off multimedia experience on any Linux system, that is, until now. First and foremost: Once the monitor's HDMI video cable was connected to the onboard Intel video connector it came up in full resolution. First time since I bought it and never knew it was that nice! No xorg.conf, nothing. It just worked. Second: NetworkManager works for me. As a cmdline, static IP edit-your-own-ifcfg, loves iproute2 kind of person, I was amazed. Haven't tried wireless yet. Very impressive. I have noticed some oddities, not sure which side of the keyboard, but those are for a separate post. Awesome job everybody !!! [my mail is still behaving badly; originally posted about 2 hours ago]

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Bug in liveusb-creator.exe (Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.3.4.exe works for F14)
by Suresh Govindachar 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Hello, On Windows XP Pro, I was successful in creating a F14 Live USB using pendrivelinux.com's Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.3.4.exe. Before using this tool, I did try Fedora's own liveusb-creator.exe -- but it complained that it could not find 7z and told me to extract everything -- but everything was extracted, and all the extracted executables were in my path: for example, in a dos window, from any directory, I could just type 7z, and 7z's help message would print. In case it helps, I did not install liveusb-creator-3.10.0-setup.exe to the default location, viz., Program Files or some such place, but to c:\opt\LiveUSB Creator. --Suresh

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Re: Fedora Core 14 wireless issue with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200)
by Sebastian 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

OK, thanks Wey_yi for chiming in, however, even if i do get the card to work in linux by recompiling the kernel or do use it in windows, as you say, given that the EPROM is not to FCC standard, could I be putting other components of my computer and/or myself at any risk? On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:44 PM, wwguy <wey-yi.w.guy(a)intel.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 08:27 -0800, Sebastian wrote: > > Thanks John for the message. > > Did Wey-yi respond to your mail John? > > Is the "too old" Eprom, firmware conjecture reasonable, considering > > the card DOES work in Windows 7 as verified? > > Unfortunately swapping out the card is not feasible since it would > > have to travel to Australia from Argentina and then the new one back > > again, bad for the hip pocket and more importantly for the > > environment. > > > > Haven't been able to contact intel yet, although i've been trying hard > > for the last few days. > > I don't really want to build my own Kernel, since I have no > > experience, and heard it is a pain in the proverbial. > > So I think i'll try to run a live ubuntu CD to see what happens... or > > maybe buy a new card locally. > > > > > Hi Sebastian, > > Very sorry to know you have an "engineer sample" NIC, John is right, the > old EEPROM will have issue with regulatory compliance and Intel will not > support it. > > The only choice you have will be: > 1. swap out the card and replace with a good card > 2. modify the iwl-eeprom.c file and rebuild kernel which I don't really > recommend. > 3. switch to "Window" OS since Window driver don't check the EEPROM > version (Window driver's bug for not checking EEPROM version). > > > Wey > > >

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FEDORA and RHEL
by JD 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Can anyone point me to any docs or info on the process (and frequency) of updating RHEL with the bugfixes and new features added to the Fedora repos? Thanx for your help.

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