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touchpad
by Peter G. 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

I just plugged in my brand new Logitech Wireless T650 touchpad. The cursor moves, but I am unable to get any other response: no tapping, etc. I have the xorg synaptics driver and kcm_touchpad installed, but it is greyed out and there is no way for me to activate it. How do I do this?

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con I use fedup with 3.6 kernel?
by Maurizio Marini 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Hello I have at the moment runing kernel evrsion Linux tikal 3.6.7-4.fc17.x86_64 I can't use 3.7 as it does not work w/ my radeon card, sadly. I am reading instruction about fedup: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.… 1. Do a full system update and reboot to ensure that any kernel changes are running Can I have some issue w/ 3.6 kernel? many thnx -m

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Getting updates to Fedora 15
by Mickey 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

I have a live CD for Fedora 15, can I still get the updates for Fedora 15. The Print drivers I have for My Samsung Color Laser CLX-3175FN just won't work in Fedora 17 or 18 because of Glibc updated packages. The printer worked great on Fedora 15. The foo2qpdl driver will work for this printer but it doesn't print in Color, Got to have Color. Ghostscript won't even work with foo2qpdl anymore.

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Xsane scans only 8.5 x 11 inches of 8.5 x 14 inch documents
by Jonathan Ryshpan 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

When an 8.5 x 14 in document is put into my scanner, xsane scans only the top 8.4 x 14 in portion of it. How can I change this behavior? (It's not easy.) Simple scan scans the entire document, so the problem is not with the scanner nor with the sane backend. Scanner: FUJITSU ScanSnap S1300 Xsane version: 0.998 Sane version: 1.0.23 simple-scan version: 3.6.0 KDE: 4.10.1 Fedora-18 with all updates. Thanks - jon

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I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?
by Peter G. 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

I have been looking at smartphones and tablets (I presently own neither, due to outrageous monthly fees and lengthy contracts), as I am starting to feel that I no longer want to do without mobility. However, how does Fedora fit into this? Is there a way to put Fedora onto a tablet or smartphone? Ubuntu offers an intriguing compromise, for users of an Android phone. Hook up a keyboard and monitor and run Ubuntu, so you don't exactly have your full system in your hand, but you _do_ have it in your pocket. Pretty cool, but it's not KDE-Fedora! How do you go about it?

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Getting rshd
by Aaron Konstam 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

How do you get rshd to run? How are the .rhosts files created along the way? -- ======================================================================= ignorance, n.: When you don't know anything, and someone else finds out. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

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Upgrading Fedora 16 to 17 or 18 Problems.
by Michael D. Setzer II 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

I've got a lab of about 8 year old AMD FX-55 64 bit machines with 2G of Ram and Nvidia 5200 cards. I've had previous versions of Fedora up to the current Fedora 16. The other day, was going to do a test of upgrading machine and doing a clean install to see the differences. Ran into some problems. Tried preupgrade, and for some reason it would only offer the upgrade to 17 and not 18? I then did the upgrade, and it went thru the whold process, and finished with the message to reboot, but the boot menu never had an option to do the upgrade. Just the same old Fedora 16 kernels? The files were in the boot directory, but nothing in the grub.cfg files? I then burned a Fedora 18 DVD, and booted the machine, and was expecting it to prompt for doing an upgrade or clean install. Then all of the sudden it was doing a clean install, and had repartitioned the disk with no prompting that it would wipe existing file system. Good news the system seems to work, but we have a number of apps that we have always added to the desktop to run programs, but doesn't seem to be a way to do that other than using gnome-tweak-tool and setup options there, and I have copied the shortcuts from other systems. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 14218605.002906 | EINSTEIN 10490614.849852 ROSETTA 6592470.615767 | ABC 15903416.868091

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Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18 [SOLVED]
by Andre Costa 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Some follow up on this: found on this thread<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1064095/comments…>that setting CLUTTER_VBLANK=none makes it a *whole* lot better. In fact, AFAICS the problem is gone -- even if NVidia driver is still set to sync to vblank. Other performance problems which were also very noticeable on GNOME 3.6 (eg. moving windows around) are also gone. Not sure if this is a GNOME or a NVidia bug (or both), will dive deeper into it later. Regards, Andre On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Andre Costa <blueser(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote: > >> On 02/06/2013 04:26 AM, Andre Costa wrote: >> >>> Quite the contrary: this is a 8-core i7 desktop with a GeForce GT9800. >>> It should handle any videos just fine ;-) (as it always has done until >>> F18). There's clearly something wrong, I just don't know exactly what it >>> is. CPU usage doesn't spike too much while watching videos >>> >> >> Have you tried running top in a terminal while this is going on? It >> can't hurt to know what process is using most of your CPU time when the >> videos slow down. > > > Thks Joe, I'll try that. But it doesn't look like it's a high CPU usage > issue, it looks as if video decoding is buggy. > > I just tested getting rid of totem-mozplugin and installing > gecko-mediaplayer (which uses MPlayer). Firefox is now able to play videos > just fine, so it does seem to be some issue with Totem (or, more > specifically, GStreamer?). However, gecko-mediaplayer doesn't get along > well with Chrome, it simply can't load the plugin. So, either I switch back > to Firefox or I use it only when I want to watch Quicktime movies. > > Damn :-/ >

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Badblocks Fedora 17
by Frank Murphy 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

I have a swap drive (/dev/sdf 20gb) that is giving some read errors during boot-up. What would be most suitable options badblocks -svwfBX -o /boot/badblocks/sdf.log from the same pc with swap unmounted. -- Regards, Frank http//www.frankly3d.com

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Fedora 18 security questions.
by William Mattison 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

I have a single desktop connected only to the internet. It's dual-boot: Fedora 18 and windows 7 home. In Fedora, it has more than one user id. I skimmed/read through the Fedora 18 security guide, and much of the Fedora 18 installation guide and the Fedora 18 sys. admin. guide. As best as I can tell, the only thing that I need to do is make sure the default firewall is active as per this section of the security guide: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Security_Guide/sect-Secu… and make sure the system stays up-to-date ("yum" seems to be doing that). But my experience, understanding of computer security and sys. admin. are extremely poor and beginners level. I'm assuming that what these guides say about multi-computer systems, LANs, WANs, servers, etc. does not apply to my system. Any thoughts or suggestions? Windows has security essentials and malwarebytes scanning browser traffic to detect and block malware, and scanning the hard drive to find and remove malware. What does Linux have corresponding to that? I'm just about certain that my old Linux system is infected with working spyware. I'd like to have something like security essentials, malwarebytes, etc. on my new Linux system. Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill.

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