F18 installation on HP laptop envy dv7 dual boot with Win 8
by Vinny Onelli
Hello,
I installed F18 on HP LAPTOP ENVY dv7 in a second drive in the end still
boot the windows without show the boot menu. I then interchange the two
HD I put Fedora HD on slat 1 and windows HD in slat two, still boot
windows 8. To run F18 I had to disconnect the windows HD then the F18
boot and also shows the boot menu.
I am not using windows very often, but I do ave programs that do not run
on Fedora, so for now I need both
Any suggestion as how to fix it? If not can I install Win8 in a virtual
machine, but I do not were to start
Vinny
11 years
update issue on F18
by Vinny Onelli
Hello,
I am running f18 on HP laptop envy dv7, during one the previous update
it left a message, "one of important update did not got installed" and
now i get that message every time I reboot. Is the a way to fix that?
I will appreciate and thank you.
Vinny
11 years
How to recreate a destroyed boot-partition?
by Regina Anger
Hi
I have accidentially deleted all contents oft my Boot partition. the system is still running so is there any cure which allows recreating the content there?
i already ran dracut but that only recreated the initramfs file .
THX reggi
11 years
"This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 3 Printer"
by Sam Varshavchik
So I need to ship back some defective merchandize. The vendor sends me a
link to a UPS return label, I open it in Firefox, and try to print it. The
printer is an HP 1320.
When I try to print it, the printer blinks happily for a few seconds, but
stays quiet, and Fedora tells me that the print job completed succesfully.
I try a few variations. Tell Firefox to print to a PDF file, then open it in
evince, and try to print it. Same results. Tried having Firefox print to a
PS file. Tried using pdf2ps on the PDF file. Tried a few other things. I
forget exactly what I tried, but on one particular attempt the printer woke
up. I got all excited, until the printer ejected a single page, with a
single sentence "This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 3
Printer", and completely blank otherwise. Very funny.
I finally got the label to come out by having Firefox print to an SVG file,
opening it in document viewer, and printing it. That worked.
HP 1320 is a postscript printer, but it looks to me like some PDFs (not all,
I can print most PDFs without any issues) contain Postscript features that
the printer does not support. Anyone know if there's a way to get CUPS to
handle that correctly.
11 years
Nvidia Drivers
by Lawrence E Graves
Are the nvidia drivers suppose to be working? If so, what is the secret?
Also, I have a dualband router and I am not able to connect to my 5g
network. Please advise.
--
All things are workable but don't all things work. Prov. 3:5 & 6
11 years
F18 - dual screen problem
by Robin Laing
After an update, my dual display started having problems and I don't
know where to look.
A clean install of Fedora using KDE spin worked wonderfully with this
setup. On one upgrade, the Fedora boot process is mirrored on both
displays and stays mirrored after X starts which is configured as side
by side.
When I do a power on boot, the bios display is only on Display 1. Once
Fedora picks the kernel, the display changes to mirrored and any
comments or splash screens are the same on both screens.
If I use CTRL+ALT+F3 for example, the terminal is mirrored to both displays.
Screen saver password request box comes up on both screens but the data
only goes in on one screen. I can use either box to enter the password.
X runs slower under this configuration as I think it competes for
control and if I try to run some applications (games) the display really
gets screwed up if they require full screen, such as Tuxracer. This
will be displayed on both screens in a mirrored mode and then won't go
back to side by side until I reset the configuration.
I have tried to search through the grub2 settings to find where the
screen resolution is set but have not succeeded in configuring this.
I am using Nvidia video card with the Nouveau driver.
Is adding the following to the /etc/default/grub the correct way to fix
problems?
GRUB_GFXMODE=3840x1080x32
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
11 years
Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?
by Regina Anger
Greetings,
Because F17 and F18 installers have bugs when installing with encryption enabled for "/" on my notebook (and the F18 respin does not start installation at all) I decided to give F19-alpha a try.
However, the system runs very slow (compared to F17 on the same notebook) - XOrg performs poorly and larger applications (firefox) take a lot more time for startup than on F17.
I guess this is because of debugging options (run-time checks etc) enabled. Is there any way to avoid this additional debugging overhead somehow, like some kernel parameters or ....
Thx, Regina
11 years
I must be missing something basic
by Dave Stevens
I want to transfer a dvd image from my laptop (ubuntu 12.04.2) to my fedora 18 box that has selinux disabled. Wired connection to my router allows F18 to browse to U12 and see the file and right click copy, but trying to paste into a folder in my /home/dave directory gives a terse 'permission denied.'
Ideas? will Read TFM if pointed.
D
--
Dave Stevens <geek(a)uniserve.com>
The problem with being cynical is you can't keep up!
-- anon. philosopher
11 years
Configuring emacs in F18
by Lain Cortés González
Hey, hi, I was trying to customize the theme color of emacs itself and I
don't know why it doesn't work, I really mean it I don't have any idea of
what is wrong
My .emacs looked like in first place
;; .emacs
>
> (custom-set-variables
> ;; uncomment to always end a file with a newline
> '(require-final-newline t)
> ;; uncomment to disable loading of "default.el" at startup
> '(inhibit-default-init t)
> ;; default to unified diffs
> '(diff-switches "-u"))
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")
>
> ;;; uncomment for CJK utf-8 support for non-Asian users
> ;; (require 'un-define)
>
>
then I add this to it to add a little of _good_ taste:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")
>
> (defun color-theme-nice ()
> (interactive)
> (color-theme-install
> '(color-theme-nice
> ((background-color . "#101e2e")
> (background-mode . light)
> (border-color . "#1a1a1a")
> (cursor-color . "#fce94f")
> (foreground-color . "#eeeeec")
> (mouse-color . "black"))
> (fringe ((t (:background "#1a1a1a"))))
> (mode-line ((t (:foreground "#eeeeec" :background "#555753"))))
> (region ((t (:background "#0d4519"))))
> (font-lock-builtin-face ((t (:foreground "#729fcf"))))
> (font-lock-comment-face ((t (:foreground "#888a85"))))
> (font-lock-function-name-face ((t (:foreground "#edd400"))))
> (font-lock-keyword-face ((t (:foreground "#729fcf"))))
> (font-lock-string-face ((t (:foreground "#ad7fa8"))))
> (font-lock-type-face ((t (:foreground"#8ae234"))))
> (font-lock-constant-face ((t (:foreground "#eeeeec"))))
> (font-lock-variable-name-face ((t (:foreground "#eeeeec"))))
> (minibuffer-prompt ((t (:foreground "#729fcf" :bold t))))
> (font-lock-warning-face ((t (:foreground "red" :bold t))))
> )))
> (provide 'color-theme-nice)
>
> (require 'color-theme)
> (color-theme-initialize)
> (color-theme-nice)
>
But when I open emacs nothing happens the default theme is loaded with its
boring color scheme, I don't know whatever is its *real* init file. Some
help will be absolutely welcomed
-Isaac
11 years
