random crashes
by Andras Simon
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
13 years, 1 month
Can not open Desktop effects on FC14
by Yunchi Wang
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!
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13 years, 1 month
k3b dvd burn problems with growisofs
by Brian Millett
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.
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"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."
13 years, 1 month
F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40" LCD TV
by barry yu
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?
13 years, 1 month
f14 - kudos
by Mike Wright
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]
13 years, 1 month
Bug in liveusb-creator.exe (Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.3.4.exe works for F14)
by Suresh Govindachar
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
13 years, 1 month
Re: Fedora Core 14 wireless issue with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200)
by Sebastian
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
>
>
>
13 years, 1 month
FEDORA and RHEL
by JD
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.
13 years, 1 month
PDF Modifier?
by Adel ESSAFI
Hello list
Is there any PDF modifier for linux?
Regards
Adel
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13 years, 1 month
Getting data off of a Palm Pilot IIIe
by Tod Thomas
I have a old palm pilot that I really don't use but still use its
windows client GUI. I can still sync it to the original palm pilot but
I'd like to get the data off of that platform onto something a little
more contemporary like Mozilla Sunbird etc.
Is there some sort of utility that I can use to transfer the palm pilot
information to another platform? I've looked around and haven't found
anything that really works well.
I've checked Sunbird but I'm open to suggestions if you could share your
experiences.
Thanks - Tod
13 years, 1 month
