Fedora 14 - Problem With External VGA Monitor
by Charlie McVeigh
I recently upgraded from fedora 13 to Fedora 14 on my Lenvo Thinkpad T61.
I primarily use my laptop with a Lenovo docking station and an
external VGA monitor.
The video card is an nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M.
While running Fedora 13 (and earlier versions) I was able to use my
external monitor and proprietary
nVIDIA drivers with no issues or problems whatsoever.
Using the external monitor with Fedora 14 is another story:
i) With the nouveau video drivers installed I can use my external
monitor, but I must leave my laptop display open while in the
docking station and I must press the Fn-F7 key to make sure the
external display is selected. If I leave my laptop case closed
as I was able to do Fedora 13 and every earlier version, I can watch
the system boot and once the system "acorn" completes and
the display switches to the GUI Logon dialog, the external monitor
goes blank and displays nothing.
Is there a setting to change that will allow the external monitor to
remain active once the GUI Logon starts and my laptop case is closed
while in the dock?
ii) I tried installing the proprietary nVIDIA drivers and the
situation is a bit worse than when using the nouveau drivers. With
nVIDIA
I can watch the system boot on the external VGA monitor, but I get a
character based progress bar across the bottom of the screen
instead of the graphical "acorn." Once the system switches to the GUI
logon there is no display whatsoever on the external monitor - it is
totally unusable.
iii) I personally would like to use the nVIDIA drivers as I have found
the nouveau drivers to be somewhat unstable. My system display locks
up and freezes
at least 3 times a week with a garbled display. I wish that I could
recreate the scenario that causes the garbled display but I can't, so
I can't submit a bug
report.
Any help in getting the the external VGA display working correctly
would be most appreciated.
Charlie
12 years, 12 months
gccsense in the yum repository?
by H Xu
Hello,
Could developers add gccsense to the yum repository? it's really
horrible to compile gccsense by oneself.
Thanks.
Regards,
H Xu
04/29/2011
12 years, 12 months
Resetting network devices between ifconfig level and desktop level
by Aaron Gray
I have got inconsistent eth devices between what Fedora Gnome Desktop
is telling me and what ifconfig is telling me and what 'service
network restart' is telling me.
Do I have to do a reinstall or is there some way of resetting things ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
13 years
Dealing with e-mail attachments with names containing spaces.
by Aaron Konstam
If you get an e-mail whose attachment has spaces in its name one has
problems dealing with the attachment in Linux. I found a way to deal
with them (such as open a pdf file attachment) but I wonder is anyone
has a more coherent way to deal with them than I have found.
My way is somewhat hoakie. I am using evolution to read mail.
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
13 years
How to get back the upper Gnome panel I deleted
by Aaron Konstam
I really screwed up now. By mistake I deleted the whole upper panel in
Gnome. The one with Applications, System, etc.
How can I get it back?
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smart and rich." -- Calvin Keegan
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
13 years
Installing Fedora on a Fedora machine
by Timothy Murphy
As a matter of interest,
are there "official" instructions anywhere
for installing a new version of Fedora on a spare partition
of a machine already running Fedora,
after downloading the DVD ISO to the machine?
13 years
smartd reporting disk failing
by Paolo Galtieri
I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as
NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is
failing. Specifically it's telling me that there are many bad sectors.
There are no messages in /var/log/messages indicating any failures.
Why is smartd claiming the disk is bad? This is the second drive (also
a Seagate Go) that I get reports that the drive is failing less than a
year after buying the drive. I can't believe that a drive would go bad
after a few months use. I have other Seagate drives that have been in
use for years without any issues. The problem seems to be specific to
drives that are powered via USB.
Any assistance in the matter is appreciated.
Paolo
13 years
