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Where is a Camera Mount Point?
by Stephen Morris 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

I have plugged a digital camera into my usb port and mounted it using the popup displayed from the auto detect via konqueror (this annoys me as well). When konqueror is launched it displays the contents via Camera:/ which is okay, but subsequently I can't find any entries under /run that represent the camera. I assumed there would be a mount point under /run like there is for a usb flash disk. Given that there appears to not be a mount point under /run, where is it mounted in Fedora 20, so that I can point dolphin (which is what should be launched from the 'Open with File Manager' prompt, not Konqueror) at the mount point rather than having to manually type Camera:/ into the address bar. regards, Steve

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"Input out of Range"
by Beartooth 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

I normally run three or four computers behind a 4-way KVM switch; one of them is an old Dell PowerEdge SC1420, which began life as a server, configured with RAID of some sort. It has long since been re- purposed and re-configured, and is now an ordinary old PC. I ran CentOS 6 on it for years, but recently installed F 20 instead. When I boot it, the HP w2207h widescreen flat panel monitor gives me a message saying "Input out of Range" and tells me to reset to 1680x1050. I can ssh in -- but what little I recall of such efforts years ago, when the monitor was new, is no help; and I can't seem to find the setting I need to change. When I've had this problem in recent years, I could shut everything down, swap cables around like a crazed beaver, ending up with the Dell, and only the Dell, connected to the peripherals -- directly connected, without the KVM switch between -- and simply reboot. Either CentOS or earlier releases of Fedora would find the monitor, change the setting, and be fine. That now fails. What file do I need to get into to tell the machine 1680x1050?? When I do once get into that file, do I simply find lines that look similar to 1680x1050 and change them? Or is something fancier going on?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

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gnutls, openssl and compiling mutt
by AV 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Does it make any difference if mutt is compiled with '--with-gnutls' enabled or with '--with-openssl' enabled. Mutt (Fed20/21/Rawhide package) shows that '--with-gnutls' is used. I ask because I have no problem connecting to my ISP Ziggo with mutt when using Fedora. With the following in .muttrc: set ssl_starttls = yes set smtp_url = "smtp://volovics@ziggo.nl@smtp.ziggo.nl:587 the TLS connection is established successfully and I am asked to accept the certificate. Everything works OK from then on. But this does not work on a MacBook Pro with OsX Yosemite. I use the Homebrew mutt. This mutt is compiled with '--with-openssl', linked to 'openssl-1.0.1j'. Using the same .muttrc file I use in fedora the TLS connection 'aborts' and I get the error message: "SSL failed, I/O error. Could not negotiate TLS connection". The openssl-1.0.1j from Homebrew seems to be the same as in Fedora Rawhide though I have not checked all the patches. (Of course mutt in Fedora is compiled with gcc and the Homebrew mutt with LLVM Clang. Ziggo seems to be using TLSv1) AV

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A Linux for the totally maintenance free
by JD 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which, in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusable. So, since she is not technically savvy, I was thinking of finding a linux distro that is practically self maintaining, as she has zero tech savvy for doing things like updates, configurations, fililing abrt reports, .....etc. Any ideas what linux to use for such a person? Thanx.

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Driver for RTL8192su chipset
by JD 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Hi I have a usb wifi dongle which uses the RTL8192su chipset. I found the following drivers in the current kernel: $ find /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi -name \*.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723com/rtl8723-common.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/rtl8723be.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192de/rtl8192de.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/rtl8192ce.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl_usb.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtlwifi.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/rtl8192se.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/rtl8192c-common.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl_pci.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/btcoexist/btcoexist.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/rtl8723ae.ko None of these drivers supports the RTL8192su chipset. I found the URL: https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su but they want you to use their git wireless kernel source to build the driver: "...Currently, only kernels built from the latest wireless-testing.git are supported...." The driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=48&Lev… does not compile as it was made for a much older kernel. Wondering is anyone has a working driver for fc20 for this chipset. Thanx!

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OpenGL crashes Radeon R7
by Jonathan Ryshpan 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

I have just installed a Sapphire AMD Radeon R7 240 graphics card on my desktop system, which runs OK except that invoking Kinfocenter->Graphical Information->OpenGL appears to crash the graphics driver. The symptom is that the session restarts with a large number (8) of crash warnings reported by Drkonqi, the KDE Crash Handler. None of these error messages seems to be very informative, however here is part of the output of the 1st one: Details: Executable: akonadi_maildispatcher_agent PID: 4234 Signal: Aborted (6) Time: 11/01/14 10:18:16 PM The system is Fedora-20 with all upgrades running on a 4 CPU x86_64 system. The graphics hardware identifies itself as: $ lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240] The video drivers are: $ lsmod | grep radeon radeon 1415819 3 i2c_algo_bit 13257 1 radeon ttm 80807 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 58041 1 radeon drm 291361 6 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon i2c_core 55486 7 drm,i2c_piix4,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,v4l2_common,radeon,videodev Before I install the proprietary drivers from AMD, I'd like to see if the open source drivers can be got to work. Any advice is welcome. Thanks

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Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free
by Ed Greshko 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

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smplayer nagware
by Tim 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

I thought I'd escaped from this sort of crap when I shifted to Linux, all those years ago. I've just started up smplayer and got a pop-up saying "you can support SMPlayer by sending a donation or sharing it with your friends," with buttons to donate with paypal, and so something with facebook or twitter. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.16.6-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 15 13:48:38 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.

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