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Help with aspect ratio issues - Fedora
by johhny_at_poland77 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

I have a: Compaq 610 VC275EA 15,6" WXGA i CELERON T1500 and I installed Fedora 14 on it. Everything is great, except one: the aspect ratio of the screen is not very good :\ http://bit.ly/e18LgF Can someone please say, that it cannot be fixed, or say: yes, it could be fixed, do xy, read xy, etc. :\ This is an issue for me for months now.. :\ Please help

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help setting umask corrently
by Gregory Machin 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi. I have a hack that sets the usmak for users in /etc/bashrc umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r The problem with this is that at logon it echo's "u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r" out. This breaks things like scp . What is the correct umask . I have read a number of doc's on this and still can't seem to get it correct. Please help . Thanks

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rebuild kernel add syscall
by 嘉谟 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

I want to and a new syscall 1 add .long sys_mysyscall in arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S 2 add #define __NR_mysyscall 341 in arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32. 3. add asmlinkage int sys_mysyscall(char* sourceFile,char* destFile) { int source=sys_open(sourceFile,O_RDONLY,0); int dest=sys_open(destFile,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC,0600); char buf[1024]; mm_segment_t fs; fs = get_fs(); set_fs(get_ds()); int nread; if(source>0 && dest>0) { while((nread=sys_read(source,buf,1024)) > 0) sys_write(dest,buf,read); } else { printk("Error!"); } sys_close(source); sys_close(dest); set_fs(fs); return 0; } in kerrnel/sys.c 4. make menuconfig 5. make all 6 make modules_install reboot Now I want just do it one time How can i make sure the new syscall here is mysyscall work fine ?

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Thunderbird Misbehaviour f14
by Jonathan Allen 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi All, I've just taken the plunge with a f14 upgrade. Almost everything seems sensible. One rather annoying oddity is the behaviour of thunderbird with links in emails. It detects that they are links (by colouring them and the cursor change on mouse-over) but when I click, nothing happens. I opened the thunderbird error console and it seems to be generating some kind of chrome error. Any clues as to what this might be and how I get to work properly? Jonathan

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automatic menus for window managers
by Piscium 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I am currently using a full desktop environment (Gnome) but am considering using instead a window manager. There are dozens of them around, so I have been exploring and comparing. I noticed that for many of the window managers that I install in Debian (examples: fluxbox, openbox, awesome) there is an application menu tree that can be easily accessed with the mouse from the desktop, and this tree has - as far as I can tell - the same applications in the Gnome menu, though usually organized differently. If I install the same window managers in Fedora I do not get the menu tree. I like the way things work in Debian because this means less work is needed in creating menus for some rarely used applications (for programs that I use often I don't mind spending some time to create some sort of launcher). I tried to understand how the window managers in Debian get the application menus. It seems that it all happens as result of a Debian package called "menu", which keeps the menus automagically up-to-date for the window managers that bother to look at them with tools such as "update-menus" and "install-menu". I looked through Fedora packages and I have not found anything equivalent, but maybe I missed it. Any ideas?

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rpm with biblatex.sty?
by Ranjan Maitra 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Does anyone know if there is a package containing biblatex.sty on any of the unofficial repos for F14? Thanks very much for your help! Best wishes, Ranjan

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X won't start - segmentations fault
by Oliver Ruebenacker 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hello, Since this morning, X Windows on F14 on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop won't start up. It may or may not be since the first reboot after the latest updates during Sunday. It says "Segmentation fault at address 0x3f" I don't know whether it plays a role here, but in the log file, it also says that "Custom HAL configuration [...] If you have such configuration you will need to update it to the new format." with reference to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration. I have no idea what HAL is, and even after reading this page, I still have no idea whether this applies to me or what I would need to do if it does. What can I do? Thanks! Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist Systems Biology Linker at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/sybil) Turning Knowledge Data into Models Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org

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Suggestion for a smartphone running natively LINUX? :)
by johhny_at_poland77 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

not android! Debian, Fedora, or anything (natively = not in chroot) I'm not sure, but the Nokia N900 can run Debian http://openattitude.com/2010/03/19/easy-and-amazing-debian-for-the-n900/ I just need Linux because i need: - iptables/netfilter - an openvpn client - a good browser (google chrome with notscript+wot extension) - flash player!!! - "KISS" principle - so that it could be more secure if i only install what i really want - remote desktop client (to access windows machines remotely) it must not be a little distro, i need a big one (e.g.: Debian - the more eyes seeing it the better is it) - not a little one, that could contain a backdoor!!!! or android is a good solution? can i run chrome on it? is it a "safe" distro? important: i would only use the phone for surfing the net. thanks for any help regarding these questions.

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[OT] Problems with Adobe Flash Player
by Jerry Feldman 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

There are a number of web sites, such as Speakeasy Speed Test (http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/) that does not work with the latest Adobe Flashplayer 10 Square: flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz But it does run fine under some older versions of flashplayer 10: libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz I'm also seeing some web sites that run properly under Square, but not under the old version. I'd much rather use Gnash, but it does not have the functionality for some websites. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced the same issues. Since these are closed source, they are not available in Fedora or RPM Fusion so I'm marking this as OT. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

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Fedora/KDE contact lists - looking for advice:
by Timothy Murphy 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I've been trying for some time (years in fact) to find a good way of storing email and phone contacts on a LAN-wide basis. I'm currently running OpenLDAP and dovecot/IMAP on my CentOS-5.5 server, and access this with KMail/KAddressBook/Kontact on my laptops. This works, but I don't find it entirely satisfactory, perhaps because I don't understand how to use it properly. Some of the unsatisfactory features of this setup are: When I run Kontact on my Fedora-14 laptop, under Address Books is listed Personal Contacts, but highlighting, and left- or right-clicking on this has no effect. There is a line at the top which says "Search" but putting anything in there has no effect. My LDAP server is listed when I click on File=>Import=>Import from LDAP server=>Configure LDAP Servers but clicking on OK appears to have no effect. The Kontact Help/Handbook is fairly useless, at least for my purpose, since it says that KAddressBook is the "KDE contact manager", but also says that there is no documentation for this. However, when I go to KMail=>New on the laptop and enter part of a name, it seems to find the name at once in the LDAP server. KMail=>Tools=>KAddressBook seems to bring up more or less the same window as Kontact, with the same lack of response to any input. Actually, even if Kontact worked reasonably well with OpenLDAP I would not be entirely satisfied, since I find the LDAP setup rather constrained, with a very rigid format for InetOrgPerson, which seems the standard entry type to use for contacts. Also, I've never found a way of getting mobile phone contact lists to combine (eg with Bluetooth) in any way with anything on the computer. But this must be an issue that many people have faced. How do you all keep your contacts available on different machines? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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