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RAGE XL Framebuffer
by Yanick Quirion 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all I know that is not a specific question about Fedora, but I can't find answer on the kernel mailing list. Is somebody having server with integrated ATI RAGE XL video card? Is it possible to patch the kernel to support this video card? If I add VGA=791 in my grub.conf, I will have a resolution of 1024x768 which is good, but the display is very slow (especially when the screen is scrolling). If I use I this: "video=aty128fb:1024x768@70" it will not work. I'm using kernel 2.4.22 but I will try 2.6.0-test11 today. If somebody has a patch, a link or anything else that can help me, it will be appreciated. Thanks for your help. Regards, ----------- Yanick Quirion Administrateur Réseau/Network Manager NEOKIMIA INC. Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke 3e étage (Édifice Z5) 3001 12e avenue Nord Sherbrooke, Québec CANADA J1H 5N4 Tél.: +1 819 820-6040 Direct: +1 819 820-6855 Fax.: +1 819 820-6841 email: Yanick.Quirion(a)neokimia.com

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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel
by Mike Fleetwood 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Hi, On my netbook I booted a test kernel 3.8.0-rc4+ I compiled. Now after booting back into my regular Fedora kernel 3.6.11-5.fc17.i686.PAE my wifi network device remains permanently disappeared. No wifi networks displayed in Network Manager gui. Also the Network Manager syslog messages make it look like the device has completely disappeared. Suggestions for restoring wifi welcome. Thanks Mike Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when working before --8<-- Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'. Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill2: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2) (driver ath9k) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill4: found WWAN radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill4) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Networking is enabled by state file ... Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): using nl80211 for WiFi device control Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <warn> (wlan0): driver supports Access Point (AP) mode Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath9k' ifindex: 3) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): now managed Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2] Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device. ... Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0) successful, device activated. Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) complete. Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when broken after --8<-- Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'. Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill2: found WWAN radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill2) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiFi disabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> Networking is enabled by state file No (wlan0) related NetworkManager syslog messages afterwards at all.

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losing WiFi Access - prompted for password
by SternData 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

F18... Over the last few days, I'm getting prompted to re-enter my password for my WiFi network. It's not the router because no other device on the network seems to be having problems. Potential changes on my system include May 07 21:39:32 Updated: 1:wpa_supplicant-1.1-1.fc18.x86_64 May 25 15:33:44 Installed: kernel-3.9.3-201.fc18.x86_64 May 27 08:06:42 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-glib-0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18.x86_64 May 27 08:06:47 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18.x86_64 May 27 08:06:53 Updated: network-manager-applet-0.9.8.1-4.git20130514.fc18.x86_64 Given that this has really started the day before yesterday, I suspect it has something to do with the NetworkManager update. Is anyone else having this problem? (Please -- do not tell me to "dump the evil NetworkManager". I'm trying to solve a problem here, not make some stand against the tide. Thanks.) -- -- Steve

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Re: Why some say "rpm hell"
by AP 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > It's still missing the headers. Give the other browser a try, and we'll > see if that change things. Likewise, you could try changing some of the > privacy settings. Well, I am replying from Opera browser right now. > There's little point in trying to be extremely > private with email on a mailing list, you're posting in public with your > email address. Perhaps they give you choices for certain websites > against others (I'm only familiar with NoScript - it does let you > customise it). Well, my target is not to be private with email but only to be secured with Malware during online web surfing and nothing more. Even when I know that it is Linux, but using those addo-ons just block the malwares and viruses (if), they guarantee that....

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qemu-system-x86 eat 400% CPU
by Franta Hanzlík 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

On Fedora 19/x86_64, Xeon 4cores/8threads, 8GB RAM I have in a VM installed windows 2000 (full qemu cmdline see below). What is weird, 'top' on host show that all 4 threads load CPU at 100% each. On guest are running only minimum processes and windows task manager show load 0-2%; virtual machine is almost idle. VM itself seems react well, its responses are fine. Please, how is possible debug this issue? /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -name w2kf19sp4N-ide -S -machine pc-i440fx-1.4,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 4096 -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=2,threads=4 -uuid 1934a452-a128-cf42-2b83-d8943cf9ad3e -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/w2kf19sp4N-ide.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/mnt/zalohy/virtualy/w2kf19sp2New-ide.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=24,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:54:ec:4f,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga std -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 TIA, Franta Hanzlik

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F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix
by Robert Moskowitz 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

An unintended consequence of no default MTA in f20 is no local deliver of system mail. It IS possible to just ignore (or leave it to the logs) stuff going on in a desktop system, but services like logwatch are very helpful to maintain a healthy system. Plus there is cron for regular tasks we like to perform. So no MTA seems good IF we can configure mailx to do the local deliveries. I am kind of assuming that some changes to /etc/mail.rc might do part of the job. Probably some /bin/sendmail script that maps sendmail arguments to a mailx call. Plus if you DO install sendmail or postfix, it should undo this setup. I suppose I should submit a bug report on this as the best way to get the developer's attention. But does anyone have any good recommendation(s) on how to do this? I kind of like no MTA on resource straped systems, but we need to address local delivery.

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announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing
by Ales Kozumplik 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

Hello, On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22. Please check out the blog post for more information: http://dnf.baseurl.org/2013/12/19/dnf-and-fedora-20/ We look forward to hear your feedback and kindly ask you to use bugzilla to report any issues found. Thank you, Ales Kozumplik, DNF project lead

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f20 - gedit
by Robert Moskowitz 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

Well here comes the questions on 'where is it now'. Of course since I skipped f18 & f19, these may be 'old' issues.... So with gedit, where 'preferences'? I need to turn off line wrap so I can use it to edit various config files. Meanwhile, back to vi.

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Different actions on different passwords?
by William Oliver 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

I guess this is more of a general linux question than a fedora one, but since I use fedora... A friend of mine (a Windows afficionado, but not experienced with linux), and I were talking about recent examples where folk were required by the court to provide the password for their laptop. That lead to a beer-induced thought problem: In linux, is it possible to dictate two different actions upon login with different passwords? For instance, given an encrypted file dat.txt, could one have a login such that: login: billo Password: Password1 Action: bring up shell login: billo Password: Password2 Action: delete dat.txt, then bring up shell Assume some arbitrary level of encryption. I guess with just file encryption (e.g. dat.gpg) it's not a loging problem. So assume there's encryption of the home directory or of the /home partition. I couldn't think of any. There are a thousand ways to delete a file on login, of course, but I couldn't think of a way to accept two different passwords. The closest I could come up with was to have two different accounts with the same userid but different usernames in /etc/password, with a different initial startup for each. But that would provide two different usernames... billo

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