Lenovo laptop media keys
by Konstantin Svist
Is there a way to fix keys that don't generate "release" event?
My Lenovo laptop has touch-sensitive media keys that apparently only
send "press" events (as seen by showkey) and don't send "release"
events. As a result, pressing VolumeUp once starts an infinite loop of
increasing volume.. causing all kinds of trouble.
"Press" even repeats if the button is held down, but "release" never works.
11 years, 3 months
Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers
by Philip Rhoades
People,
> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:18:40 -0500
> From: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25(a)gmail.com>
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers
> Message-ID: <51058BA0.8020509(a)GMail.com>
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> On 01/23/2013 02:59 PM, James Freer wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
>>> On 01/23/2013 06:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>> because first new anaconda was approved and integration
>>>> all over the distribution started and after that damage
>>>> was done people realized "hm new anaconda is not ready"
>>>
>>> So what you're saying is, it was approved before it was ready.
>>> Judging from
>>> what else you wrote, the devs didn't realize it when they approved
>>> it. This
>>> suggests to me that approval came too early in the process, before
>>> proper
>>> testing was done and that important parts of the program hadn't been
>>> completed. If so, is there anything that can be done to prevent
>>> this from
>>> happening yet again?
>> I have the greatest respect for the developer's that put in
>> considerable effort for each release. The problem with 6 month
>> release
>> cycle is too little time. I've used linux now for almost 6 years with
>> Ubuntu and Fedora. Some distros use a two year release which is too
>> long. One or two use an annual release which i think is about
>> right...
>> development and testing can fully take place. Why not consider an
>> annual release which would give appropriate time for all to take
>> place?
>>
>> james
> I would have to agree with you James, it might not be a bad idea for
> them to stretch their release time out a bit? I would have positives
> from all sides. First,....the developers would be able to REALLY put
> their apps and what-not through a GRUELING testing session, this
> way...when they say it works.....IT WORKS! Second,.....the public
> wouldn't find themselves scurrying to acquire the latest version, and
> slamming it onto their machines without knowing that things won't
> crash
> & burn un-necessarily......also it would give the public time to
> "adapt"
> and become comfortable with the latest release, instead of going into
> shock at the arrival of a new desktop environment...or new
> feature-sets
> that were not there before. I guess it's just a matter of someone (or
> a
> LOT of someone's) voicing their opinion loud enough to be heard by the
> higher-ups? I don't know that they would actually change things around
> like that....(it would be NICE!) but eventually they might get
> restless
> enough to completely flip thing around and have longer time frames
> between releases.
Maybe we should try out, say, a nine month cycle and if it doesn't suit
- go back to six months? I am conscious though of the human tendency to
put off things when there is more time to get them done . .
Regards,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
11 years, 3 months
Upgrade disaster F16->F17 (planned to go to F18)
by Wade Hampton
I finally decided to update my main home computer to F18.
It was F16 so I had to use preupgrade to go to F17. After
several reboots it is up, sort-of, on the F16 kernel. I have
had the following problems.
1) Preupgrade crashed due to moodle -- removed and update proceeded.
2) After update, I still saw option for update to F17 in Grub and none of
the
other kernels would boot (other than dracut errors). I did the F17
update
again and it seemed to fix Grub. However....
3) I now have options for:
3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64
-- booting this sends me to a command prompt in dracut
3.6.11-1.fc16.x86_64
-- this boots but has issues
I am currently running the mostly-updated system with the F16 kernel
3.6.11-1.fc16.x86_64. I can not run YUM so I can't even attempt
to try going to F18 (unless I manually get the RPMs...).
Any idea on how I can fix YUM?
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
# yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora/16/x86_64.
Please verify its path and try again
Any idea how I can fix grub to boot into the F17 kernel?
Should I just punt and load F18 (keeping my partitions /home, /data, etc.)?
I have several other computers I plan on updating this weekend. I may just
have
to reload each of them....
Thanks,
--
Wade Hampton
11 years, 3 months
telnetd mystery ....
by Ed Greshko
First.... No need to bring up the ssh v.s. telnet stuff.....
Has anyone configured telnetd for use on F18? Running 64 bit....but this shouldn't make a difference. Anyway, I did the normal procedure.....
1. yum install telnet-service
2. opened telnet port on the firewall (not that it mattered since local also fails)
3. chkconfig telnet on
4. systemctl restart xinetd.service
When I telnet in (remote or local) I get this....
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ telnet f18x
Trying 192.168.0.168...
Connected to f18x.
Escape character is '^]'.
Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
Kernel 3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64 on an x86_64 (3)
Connection closed by foreign host.
And this ends up in /var/log/messages....
Jan 29 11:41:29 f18x xinetd[4488]: START: telnet pid=4665 from=192.168.0.18
Jan 29 11:41:29 f18x xinetd[4488]: EXIT: telnet status=0 pid=4665 duration=0(sec)
However, if I add
server_args = -D options
to the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file it "works". But, of course, I get debug info that I don't want....
The same procedure in F17 works fine....
What could I be missing?
--
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
11 years, 3 months
former windows 7 boot manager still showing
by Rafnews
Hi,
i formatted my HDD where before i had windows 7 installed, in order to
install new fedora 18.
however after fedora installation, HDD does not boot on grub but still on
former windows boot manager.
How ca i do to REALLY remove this stupid windows 7 boot manager ?
thx
--
Alain
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Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 17 x64
MySQL 5.5.28
Apache 2.4.3 / OpenSSL 1.0.1c
Tomcat 7.17
PHP 5.4.8
11 years, 3 months
Sending a Link from Chrome Browser
by Mickey
|F17 / KDE / Google Chrome
In Chrome I have Added Page to Bookmark Bar as such
Name: Send Link
URL:
||javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT='+document.title+'&BODY='+escape(location.href);|
And it opens my Thunderbird New Write Message, but it does not show the
link I'm presently at. Foxnews.com in body of email like it does in
Firefox. The New email also has no Subject like in Firefox.
What am I not doing wrong ?
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11 years, 3 months
Optimization Start Up of Fedora
by carachi diego
Hi everbody,
I would like to know if someone knows where I can find some guide,
tutorial that can help me to improve the performance of Fedora on my
laptop in start up.
I think that I need to recompile the kernel and dress it on my computer and
remove all unnecessary services. It is true?
Where I can find some additional information??
Thank you very much
Bye
--
http://www.2dd.it
11 years, 3 months
McAfee Endpoint Encryption installed, now I can't boot Fedora
by Richard Shaw
Google didn't turn up anything relevant for my particular situation...
I was dual booting my work laptop with Windows XP and Fedora 17 w/
GRUB2. Last week my laptop got McAfee Endpoint Encryption forced upon
it. Interestingly enough I can authenticate McAfee and still get to
the GRUB menu. If I choose Windows XP then single sign-on works. If I
choose Fedora it loads the initrd and then dumps into some sort of
dracut shell. It doesn't appear to be able to find the LVM volumes.
Can I assume they got encrypted as well?
Thanks,
Richard
11 years, 3 months
