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Problems with 3COM 3C900Combo
by Christian Moller 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all Fedora users, I have just joined this list. I am running the latest Fedora but I can't get my 3C900Combo networking card to work. I can see that the card is installed but no IP-address is asigned to it and I can't set it. So I think that there is a bug in that driver. Any other user out there who have a solution for this? Best regards and thanks, Christian

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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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Tablet hardware
by Florian Weimer 09 May '15

09 May '15

Is there any tablet-like hardware which is well-supported by Fedora 20 and later? Something with a high-resolution display? I don't need 3D acceleration beyond what's needed to run a typical desktop environment, but I'd like to have lots of RAM, a bit of CPU power (perhaps even a current Core i7) and an SSD with decent read speed.

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RPM build error
by Ranjan Maitra 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hello, I am trying to build an RPM for sylfilter available at http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylfilter/src/sylfilter-%{?version}.tar.gz with the attached .spec file but I get the following errors: ..... error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/include/sylfilter/bayes-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/blacklist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-gdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-qdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-sqlite.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-manager.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-utils.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/ngram-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/textcontent-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/whitelist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/wordsep-filter.h /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.a /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.la /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0 /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0 RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/include/sylfilter/bayes-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/blacklist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-gdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-qdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-sqlite.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-manager.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-utils.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/ngram-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/textcontent-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/whitelist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/wordsep-filter.h /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.a /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.la /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0 /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0 Not sure what the issue is, but wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features! Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more!

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Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20
by Gregory P. Ennis 03 Jan '15

03 Jan '15

Everyone, I have about 6 desktop's running F20 with evolution 3.10.4 that have had problems related to the desktop gui 'freezing'. I can go to a terminal interface by hitting <cntrl><alt>F2, and when I toggle back to the gui it is still not usable. The screen is filled with the last object displayed in this case it is always evolution that does not respond, and I am unable to switch to anything else on the gui. All panels are unaddressable. At first I thought the problem was gpaste so I removed it on a test desktop. The symptoms appeared less often but were still present. It seems to hang with evolution. Has anyone else had this problem? Can anyone help me debug this. Thank you for your help. Greg Ennis

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Latest systemd news
by Sam Varshavchik 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Making the rounds of various technical mailing lists yesterday, with a subject that's typically a variation of "Just for yucks, and giggles" is a link to a commit to systemd's git, adding DNS caching to systemd; in one, huge 857 line glop. Here's its entire commit message: "resolved: add DNS cache". And, it's beauty to read. Made me teary-eyed to know that systemd will cache my DNS queries. Not sure why systemd, all of a sudden, needs to make DNS queries. But if it does, it's going to cache them now! Such a sight to behold makes my heart skip a beat: now, not just bind, or pretty much every DNS server that automatically caches DNS for you – but so will systemd! But, seriously folks, systemd's DNS caching achieves absolutely 100% nothing. Really. Surprised? Well, you'll be shocked to know that the DNS server that systemd queries for that DNS RR, such as the stock "bind", already automatically caches all recursive DNS replies!! systemd's own caching produces absolutely zero useful results. On the oft chance that it sends a query for a non-cached RR, the local DNS server will cache the response, before returning it to systemd, and then use the cached response for all future queries. That's what DNS servers do: provide caching for local clients. It's inherent in DNS's design: DNS was explicitly designed to use aggressive caching, it's an internet-wide, distributed, locally cached database. Isn't modern technology amazing? I'm willing to consider the possibility that I missed something obvious, some obvious value-added result from caching DNS RRs directly by systemd, and I'll stick around for someone to enlighten me; or if Occam's razor applies, and the author of that commit had no idea that bind already automatically caches DNS responses, and, more importantly, that its caching algorithms are a result of painful lessons learned from various DNS cache poisoning attacks, that have circulated around the intertubes, for the last couple of years. The only possible use case for this kind of caching approach would be if: A) You do not have a local DNS server nearby; and you have non-negligible latencies to whatever DNS server you use. B) Your queries tend to be for domains that your DNS servers are not authoritative for, so they'll benefit from local caching. So, can someone explain to me how likely this is going to be the case in a typical deployment scenario that systemd is targeted for; in an average corporate environment where systemd's alleged benefits will supposedly shine? I would guess that a typical systemd deployment, in a corporate/business environment, will certainly have multiple, low-latency DNS servers nearby, won't that be the case? And, if so, then this is just another potentially exploitable security hole in systemd, nothing more. P.S. After I wrote the above, poking around, Google dumped this onto my screen: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/592 Mental note to myself: go back and check the timestamp of the systemd git commit – before, or after, this was disclosed…

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how to set LC_TIME in gnome?
by Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

How can I set LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 for all users, to get a sensible ISO date format in most programs? Setting /etc/locale.conf doesn't help: [mjc@xena ~]$ more /etc/locale.conf LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 After rebooting, and launching a terminal in gnome-shell, LC_TIME is stuck at en_US: [mjc@xena ~]$ locale | grep LC_TIME LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

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Configuring a printer on a server without a GUI
by Robert Moskowitz 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

I have a server here that has no GUI installed. No gnome, xfce, or any other. And I want to install a printer. It is an HP8610 and I have the url for it. I strangely thought that system-config-printer would work, but that also requires more than just a text window as I get: # system-config-printer Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (system-config-printer.py:15388): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Oh, yes, no monitor at ALL. Only a serial console or SSH terminal.

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Is my USB drive dying?
by Robert Moskowitz 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Logwatch says: --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------ WARNING: Kernel Errors Present EXT4-fs error (device sdc1): e ...: 80 Time(s) sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descr ...: 14 Time(s) ---------------------- Kernel End ------------------------- And in /var/log/messages I see: Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descriptor] Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: 72 01 04 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 00 3a a6 Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: 00 32 00 06 40 50 Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x1d Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descriptor] Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: 72 01 04 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 00 3a 00 Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: 00 4f 00 c2 00 50 Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x1d This is both my backup drive and where my repos are located. So given this is the time of the 'big sales' is this drive failing and it is time to buy a replacement?

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