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memory stick not recognized
by Geoffrey Leach 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora 19 does not recognize it -- lsblk does not show it, dmesg reports nothing. It's writable by Windows 7, which reports the device as "JMCR MS SCSI Disk Device" Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora? Thanks.

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NVidia driver installation under UEFI+CSM mode
by WangWentao 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

I got a HP dv4 5306tx laptop with the UEFI+CSM mode enabled, and succeeded in installation of fedora 18 i686. However, I failed to install nvidia driver. After I installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86-319.60.run(no error), the X cannot be started until I restore open source driver. I have no idea about the exact reason for this. Does UEFI+CSM prohibit loading of Nvidia driver? AFAIK, the CSM mode is compatible with untrusted soft, and my fedora is not installed in UEFI mode. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Frozen
by Patrick Dupre 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Hello, Every time that I have an USB key plugged inside my computer, if it switches to screensaver mode, I lost the access to the graphics session. gnome3 on fedora18 The only way that I found to recover is to open a text session and to kill the graphic session. Thank for your help. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===========================================================================

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Many open windows make Firefox scroll **very** slowly
by Jonathan Ryshpan 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

As I open more windows or tabs in Firefox it becomes slower and slower, finally unusable. It can take as long as 20 seconds to scroll the screen, which tends to scroll in large jumps, even when smooth scroll is enabled. The problem is worse when smooth scrolling is enabled, but is bad enough even when it is not. Other applications seem to have scrolling slowed somewhat when Firefox has many windows open. The problem seems to be related to flash, since when I kill xulrunner/flash, graphics performance gets better, but still does not always become acceptable. Swapping between Firefox windows and tabs is normal. It looks to me like a memory swapping issue, but I have no evidence beyond my gut. Right now Firefox has 30 tabs open on all its windows. Performance is bad, though not intolerable. The system is: 4 processor x86_64 system Fedora-19 with all updates installed, Firefox-25.0, Nvidia GeForce 8400GS with the proprietary driver. Any ideas what's going on, or how to investigate?

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Fedora Magazine
by Timothy Murphy 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

The Fedora Newsletter used to contain short articles dealing with a single topic, say WiFi, with information and advice on that topic. I found this very useful. This ended several years ago, and the newsletter became a record of meetings held, decisions taken, etc. I did not find this interesting or useful. As far as I can see, the newsletter has now been replaced by the Fedora Magazine <http://fedoramagazine.org/>. I hoped when I saw this that this meant a return to the old newsletter model, with articles dealing with specific topics, from a user-support point of view. Unfortunately, I don't see anything like that in the magazine. Is there any plan to offer something along those lines in the future? I see there is an AskFedora section, but it appears to be empty, apart from an introductory article which seems to be by Rahul Sundaram, although that is not entirely clear. Amything by Rahul would be very welcome, since I've always found his comments extremely useful and to the point. But I haven't seen any for some time. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Strange lockup on Mini9 after suspend to RAM
by Morgan Gangwere 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

I'm running into a strange problem during resume on a Dell mini 9 (inspiron 910) when running F19. After coming from Debian and having a flawless suspend, this seems strange. I have removed the @gnome group and added @xfce Process: * Suspend to RAM * Resume from RAM * Xscreensaver hangs for about a minute, then pops out an authentication prompt. * System is slow and sluggish -- Networking is disabled and lots of things seem broken. * attempt to look at dmesg to see if something is wrong * dmesg spits out nothing related to suspend/resume * Check journald, which hangs and - Segfaults, - exits 0, - or responds that D-Bus is gone and it doesnt know what happened. * Attempt to restart - calling 'halt' immediately fails - calling 'shutdown -h 0' never does anything (took 1 hour to respond that D-Bus had gone away. - magic SysReq doesn't work (USB keyboard) - Sometimes if X is running, I get punted back to a broken login prompt in Lightdm * Kill power and hard restart. Attached is journald recording the failure. -- Morgan Gangwere <indrora(a)earfolds.com>

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yum-updateonboot critical-path
by Frank Murphy 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

On my Fedora boxes I still use yum-updateonboot. started with a custom .service file. Is there any method I can get it to reboot if a critpath rpm is updated, I have as yet found an easy method, without typing all installed @critpath into /etc/sysconfig/yum-updateonboot, -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com

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How to make Xorg listen to tcp (lightdm)
by Clemens Eisserer 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Hi, I am running Fedora-19 + latest updates and would like to make Xorg listen to tcp connections for development. I already set "xserver-allow-tcp=true" in /etc/lightdm/lightdm and executed "xhost +", however I still get connection refused when starting x-clients with DSIPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 :/ Any idea where this secret switch is hidden these days? Thank you in advance, Clemens

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xcolorsel
by lee 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Hi, what's the replacement or alternative for xcolorsel in Fedora? -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)

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link error compiling GIMP plugin
by Frank McCormick 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

I am trying to compile the FocusBlue plugin for GIMP on Fedora 19. The make file spits out this error when linking: /usr/bin/ld: diffusion.o: undefined reference to symbol 'expf@@GLIBC_2.0' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'expf@@GLIBC_2.0' is defined in DSO /lib/libm.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line /lib/libm.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation Can anyone help? Thanks

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