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F15: two keys from keyboard not recognized on Acer TM6465 laptop
by Patrick Lists 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Hi, On my Acer TravelMate 6465WLMi laptop I have F15 x86_64 installed and updated. On the laptop there are two keys that don't do anything: one with the $ sign and another with the Euro sign (note: these are not the "4" key which has the "$" above the "4" or the "5"" key which has the Euro sign at the right of the "5" key). xev does not show anything when either key is pressed. At the time of F11 or F12 I could fix this by getting the keycode from xev and using setkeycode. But since xev does not register a keypress when either key is pressed this is not possible. Does anyone have an idea how I can make these keys work? Thanks! Patrick

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F15-64 update process out of sync
by Elliott Chapin 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Use of update repo's causes general update process to stall because some packages depend on rawhide. This situation needs to be fixed. At least F15 is working OK. -- http://clients.teksavvy.com/~echapin

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F15 fails to suspend/hibernate on Thinkpad W510+
by Darryl L. Pierce 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Whenever I try to put my laptop into either suspend or hibernate mode (i.e., close the lid when not plugged in) the laptop _seems_ to be trying to go to sleep but never quite gets there. The battery light stays on, the sleep light (crescent moon) light blinks, but there's no disk activity and the power light stays on. And nothing short of holding the power button down and forcing a power off works for bringing the laptop back out of htis state. Any ideas on what I should or could do to get suspend to work again? It's a PITA to have to hard shutdown the laptop when I accidentally shut the lid. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/

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Buttonless Touchpads
by Chris Tyler 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Many HP (and perhaps other) laptops are now shipping with 'buttonless' touchpads. There is a T-shaped line drawn on the pad dividing out two 'button areas' on the pad, but there is no physical button in each area. Instead, the entire touchpad is sensitive (you can move the cursor around even when your finger is in the 'button area') and the whole touchpad is apparently hinged at the top and clicks a button at bottom. Apparently the driver is supposed to: - detect the button press and combine that with the touch position to determine if the click should be interpreted as a left or right click - enable multi-touch so that it can properly handle click-n-drag However, in F14: - a click anywhere counts as a left-click (even in the 'right-click area') - multi-touch doesn't seem to work (multi-finger clicks and press-to-click-and-drag don't work) - gpointing-device-settings can be used to enable drag lock, which helps a bit, but no combination of settings seems to enable any click except left-click Questions: - Is there a better driver (or group of settings) available? - Is there any way to generate left- and middle-clicks on this type of touchpad at this point in time? (Additional info: HP model Pavillion dm1; touchpad does not show up in 'lsusb' listings (ps2 connection?) Any help or pointers appreciated. -Chris

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Re: tftp from home dir running under xinetd
by Marcos Ortiz Valmaseda 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

We need the /varlog/messages or the /var/log/audit/audit.log to see what happens on the system. CC to selinux list too Try to do this: 1- setenforce 0 to change to "permissive" mode 2- stop tftpd daemon: # service tftpd stop 3- unload any rules that silently deny access # semodule -DB 4- check the time: # date 5- start the tftpd service: # service tftpd start 6- Then, collect all the Access Vector Cache (ACV) denials that occured since you noted the system time. For example # ausearch -m avc -ts 15:00 7- Filter the log and try to generate a policy module using audit2allow: # grep "tftpd" /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M tftpd 8- Check the tftpd.{te,.fc} files, and if you have enough with it, you can install the policy module: # semodule -i tftpd.pp 9- Then, check if the avc denials persists Regards ----- Mensaje original ----- De: "Gene Smith" <gds(a)chartertn.net> Para: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Enviados: Lunes, 4 de Julio 2011 18:11:51 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlín / Berna / Roma / Estocolmo / Viena Asunto: Re: tftp from home dir running under xinetd Marcos Ortiz wrote, On 07/04/2011 02:02 AM: > Can you show here the error in the log? > Do you have SELinux enabled in enforcing mode? > Try to do this: getsetbool -a | grep tftpd to see all boolean related to > this service. > > Regards $ getsebool -a | grep tftp tftp_anon_write --> off I have set this bool to "on" via the selinux gui and it made no difference. (Also, I am not not trying to write via tftp, just read.) This is the error I see running with in full enforcing mode and it occurs each time the remote host (a bdi2000 jtag emulator) attempts to read its configuration file using tftp from the fedora box. Jul 4 00:36:33 wally xinetd[6013]: START: tftp pid=6706 from=192.168.1.21 Jul 4 00:36:33 wally in.tftpd[6706]: /home/gene/my_dir: Permission denied Jul 4 00:36:33 wally xinetd[6013]: EXIT: tftp status=66 pid=6706 duration=0(sec) When I change just the tftpd process to "permissive" using the selinux gui it fixes the problem. Note: If I put the files read by the emulator in the "standard" location, /var/lib/tftpd, it works OK in full enforcing mode. -gene > > On 07/04/2011 12:50 AM, Gene Smith wrote: >> I can manually run a tftp server that allows access to files in a >> directory under ~ with no problem. But when I try to run the server >> under xinetd using the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp configuration file a >> "permission denied" error shows up in /var/log/message with no >> indication it is selinux related. But if I make selinux permissive for >> tftpd it then works. >> >> Is there a quick way to configure selinux to allow this type of tftp >> access (just read-only) w/o resorting to a "permissive" setting? >> >> Thanks, >> -gene >> > > -- > Marcos Luís Ortíz Valmaseda > Software Engineer (UCI) > http://marcosluis2186.posterous.com > http://twitter.com/marcosluis2186 > -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- Marcos Luís Ortíz Valmaseda Software Engineer (Large-Scaled Distributed Systems) http://marcosluis2186.posterous.com

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F15 intermittent kernel dump with skge network driver for D-Link DGE-530T card
by Deron Meranda 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

I have a PCI network card that intermittently stops transmitting traffic under Fedora 15, perhaps once every couple days. The network traffic is not necessarily high when this randomly occurs, and usually the machine is relatively idle. Kernel: 2.6.38.8-32.fc15.x86_64 Driver: skge Network card: D-Link DGE-530T gigabit PCI card, firmware rev 11 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H Rev 1.3 I do have multiple network cards, but all the others use the r8169 driver, and are seemingly unaffected. To get the network working again, I either have to reboot, or if I can unload (rmmod) and reload (modprobe) the skge driver then it will resume operating again. The kernel trace dump message is included below. I have tried to research this and found a couple other reports over the past 6 months or so of almost identical problems with this skge driver/D-Link card combination - but unfortunately I could find no responses. Does anybody have any idea what may be wrong (a driver bug, or just bad hardware)? Or if there is anything more I can do to provide information to anybody willing to look into this issue. Thanks. At time 01:01:31 kernel: [263718.926261] skge 0000:03:06.0: PCI error cmd=0x7 status=0x22b0 kernel: [263718.926278] skge 0000:03:06.0: unable to clear error (so ignoring them) At time 01:02:18 kernel: [263765.712081] ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel: [263765.712103] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:256 dev_watchdog+0x108/0x17c() kernel: [263765.712111] Hardware name: GA-880GM-UD2H kernel: [263765.712117] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (skge): transmit queue 0 timed out kernel: [263765.712122] Modules linked in: vfat fat tun md4 nls_utf8 cifs fscache tcp_lp sco bnep l2cap bluetooth rfk\ ill fuse ebtable_nat ebtables ipt_MASQUERADE xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle bridge stp llc cpufreq_ondemand sunrpc powern\ ow_k8 freq_table mperf ipt_LOG xt_physdev xt_owner ip6t_REJECT xt_multiport nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 iptable_\ nat nf_nat ip6table_filter ip6_tables sha256_generic xts gf128mul dm_crypt snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek s\ nd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm joydev wacom snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_all\ oc sp5100_tco i2c_piix4 edac_core edac_mce_amd r8169 skge serio_raw mii wmi shpchp k10temp microcode virtio_net kvm_a\ md kvm ipv6 pata_acpi ata_generic firewire_ohci pata_atiixp firewire_core crc_itu_t uas usb_storage radeon ttm drm_km\ s_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] kernel: [263765.712269] Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 2.6.38.8-32.fc15.x86_64 #1 kernel: [263765.712275] Call Trace: kernel: [263765.712280] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8105511a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9b kernel: [263765.712301] [<ffffffff810551d5>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48 kernel: [263765.712311] [<ffffffff813db469>] ? netif_tx_lock+0x4a/0x7c kernel: [263765.712321] [<ffffffff813db5f7>] dev_watchdog+0x108/0x17c kernel: [263765.712331] [<ffffffff8100fd1b>] ? read_tsc+0x9/0x19 kernel: [263765.712341] [<ffffffff81076a8c>] ? timekeeping_get_ns+0x18/0x3a kernel: [263765.712351] [<ffffffff81028801>] ? hpet_legacy_next_event+0x10/0x12 kernel: [263765.712361] [<ffffffff8107a42b>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x8e/0x90 kernel: [263765.712371] [<ffffffff81061378>] run_timer_softirq+0x1a4/0x266 kernel: [263765.712379] [<ffffffff81010150>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0xd kernel: [263765.712387] [<ffffffff813db4ef>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x17c kernel: [263765.712398] [<ffffffff8105ae4c>] __do_softirq+0xd2/0x19d kernel: [263765.712407] [<ffffffff8100fc99>] ? paravirt_read_tsc+0x9/0xd kernel: [263765.712414] [<ffffffff81010150>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0xd kernel: [263765.712423] [<ffffffff8100aadc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 kernel: [263765.712431] [<ffffffff8100c101>] do_softirq+0x46/0x81 kernel: [263765.712440] [<ffffffff8105afd0>] irq_exit+0x49/0x8b kernel: [263765.712450] [<ffffffff8147c006>] do_IRQ+0x8e/0xa5 kernel: [263765.712459] [<ffffffff81475f13>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x15 kernel: [263765.712465] <EOI> [<ffffffff8102a145>] ? native_safe_halt+0xb/0xd kernel: [263765.712480] [<ffffffff81010d36>] default_idle+0x4e/0x86 kernel: [263765.712488] [<ffffffff81010e31>] c1e_idle+0xc3/0xe4 kernel: [263765.712497] [<ffffffff81008321>] cpu_idle+0xa5/0xdf kernel: [263765.712507] [<ffffffff81464dba>] start_secondary+0x20c/0x20e kernel: [263765.712514] ---[ end trace cb39d09abd048c62 ]--- -- Deron Meranda http://deron.meranda.us/

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GRUB problem
by Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Hello everyone, I'm having problems with booting Fedora 14 X64 after I clone the hard disk with Clonezilla. Disk imaging goes nices until it reaches the end, when it tries to reinstall GRUB on the target hard disk. It hangs, but I can boot that disk one time. Once the machine is restarted, I lose the boot loader. Tried to repair it through Fedora Live CD following this guide - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=845741 -, but it hangs on "GRUB Loading, please wait...". Any ideas on why is this happening? Thanks! Best regards, Bruno Martins Assistente Técnico / Technical Assistant GALILEU Lisboa bmartins(a)galileu.pt <mailto:bmartins@galileu.pt> (+351) 213612222 (+351) 933612205 <http://www.galileu.pt/> <http://www.galileu.pt/> Formação / Training Açores <http://acores.galileu.pt/> | Algarve <http://algarve.galileu.pt/> | Aveiro <http://aveiro.galileu.pt/> | Beja <http://beja.galileu.pt/> | Braga <http://braga.galileu.pt/> | Leiria <http://leiria.galileu.pt/> | Lisboa <http://lisboa.galileu.pt/> | Porto <http://porto.galileu.pt/> Educação / Education Escola Profissional Ruiz Costa <http://erc.galileu.pt/> Consulting GALILEU Consulting <http://consulting.galileu.pt/> www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt <http://www.galileu.pt/> GALILEU Lisboa Alcântara Rio Rua Fradesso da Silveira, 6 - Bloco C - 1º A/B 1300-609 LISBOA - Portugal Tel: +351 21 3612200 Fax: +351 21 3612238

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Re: GRUB problem
by Antonio Olivares 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

--- On Mon, 7/4/11, Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA <bmartins(a)galileu.pt> wrote: From: Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA <bmartins(a)galileu.pt> Subject: GRUB problem To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Monday, July 4, 2011, 4:22 AM Hello everyone, I’m having problems with booting Fedora 14 X64 after I clone the hard disk with Clonezilla. Disk imaging goes nices until it reaches the end, when it tries to reinstall GRUB on the target hard disk. It hangs, but I can boot that disk one time. Once the machine is restarted, I lose the boot loader. Tried to repair it through Fedora Live CD following this guide - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=845741 -, but it hangs on “GRUB Loading, please wait…”. Any ideas on why is this happening? Thanks! Best regards, Bruno Martins Assistente Técnico / Technical Assistant GALILEU Lisboa bmartins(a)galileu.pt (+351) 213612222 (+351) 933612205 /// This is a bug with clonezilla since it uses grub 2 from debian testing: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.clonezilla.live/1047 to remedy the problem you may use older version(s) of clonezilla or use alternative cd. Regards, Antonio Formação / Training Açores | Algarve | Aveiro | Beja | Braga | Leiria | Lisboa | Porto Educação / Education Escola Profissional Ruiz Costa Consulting GALILEU Consulting www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt www.galileu.pt GALILEU Lisboa Alcântara Rio Rua Fradesso da Silveira, 6 - Bloco C - 1º A/B 1300-609 LISBOA - Portugal Tel: +351 21 3612200 Fax: +351 21 3612238 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

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Laptop processor.
by Johan Scheepers 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Good day, Looking to buy a new laptop. This does not happen often. 2 laptops in 10 yrs. Say processor speed about 2 gig. There is a lot of variations. Version i3 or i5 or i7. Now there is AMD and Intel. Would like to buy the best for my budget. Kindly some pointers please. Thanks Johan S

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Laptop Graphics
by Johan Scheepers 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Good day, Looking around to buy a new laptop. Now I see some conflicting opinions on the lists between Nvidia and ATI. Will be using Fedora and Ubuntu latest versions. Now I am confused. Kindly some advice please. Thanks. Johan S

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