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Fedora Scrolling Lag
by c. marlow 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Fresh Install of Fedora 20 installed last night. When browsing Facebook and I use the mouse wheel to scroll down, Firefox pauses before it jumps down ( meaning it pauses for a few sec before it finally gets the command that I scrolled down and the page finally goes down) I am using Fedora 20 Mate 2 gigs of ram custom built pc 250 gig Hardrive Installed last night full format since I was coming from Kubuntu Only programs open Evolution and Firefox Memory Usage currently: 357.2 MB ( 17.7 % ) Swap: 0 of 2 gigs fully updated last night ( and fresh update of 384 patches was slowwwwwwwwwww I had to let it run overnight on my 12 down 1 up sat connection) Thanks, Christopher

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Fedora and Garamond (LaTeX) fonts
by Ranjan Maitra 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hi, I have been trying my luck at using Garamond fonts in LaTeX with Fedora. From the repo, I found texlive-ebgaramond-svn30741.0.15__2013_05_22_-4.fc20.noarch and installed it. I got LaTeX to compile my document, however, I am unable to get the boldface fonts. Not sure why this is, so can someone suggest how I can get boldface fonts to work. According to this website (which uses garamond as opposed to ebgaramond fonts), I should be able to get it to work. (I wonder what the difference between the garamond and ebgaramond packages are, if any.) http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/garamond/index.html Can anyone please help with what I am missing? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more!

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Fedora helps with taxes :-).
by Tom Horsley 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

My tax software has endless lists of financial institutions it can import data from, and none of them are ever any of my financial institutions :-). So over the years, I've developed the habit of downloading the PDF tax forms so I can at least cut & paste the correct numbers with no transcription errors. Lo and Behold, this year everyone seems to have discovered the wonders of protected PDF files locked against cut & paste. Sigh... :-(. Enter the pdf2ps and ps2pdf tools on fedora! Convert the stoopid protected pdf to postscript then the postscript back to pdf and the furshlugginer protected flags are gone! Now I can cut & paste again...

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Steam on Fedora
by Patrick O'Callaghan 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

I'm not a gamer but I thought I'd check out the Steam engine on F20. This is on the RPMfusion nonfree repo and installed with no problems. However when running it I get a popup error saying: OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems. For more information visit https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9938-EYZB-7457. A glance at the above URL reveals that the problem is probably due to Steam being a 32-bit binary and I only have 64-bit libraries. I'm using a GT630 video card with the NVidia proprietary driver (also from RPMfusion). Is this solvable without jumping through many hoops? poc

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How do I select which monitor kdm will display login on?
by Robin Laing 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hello, I have a dual monitor, well, one monitor and one projector that I have configured for presentations. System is using F20. Presently when I start the computer, kdm's login prompt is on the projector instead of the monitor. There are no settings in the system settings configuration to select the monitor. The monitor order is selected for ease of use while doing the presentations. When dragging applications to the presentation, you drag towards the projector screen. Even with the projector powered off, the kdm screen is on the projector. I have played with the /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc with no success. If I don't get this changed, some will force a move to MS Windows. Thank you.

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video shimmer
by Claude Jones 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

I changed KVMs today, a more modern version of my IOGear USB switch. The three Windows machines on it look perfect. My Fedora machine has shimmering or vibrating effects around the edges of windows, fonts, and icons. The screen is viewable but really annoying. I'm running an NVidia 9500 card and it had been using the Nouveau driver - I tried switching to the NVidia driver from RPMFusion but there's no improvement. My resolution is 1920X1200 I'm using a Hanns-G monitor and it's being correctly detected. Can anyone offer a suggestion as to other trouble-shooting methods? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA

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death key combo
by Mike Wright 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi all, f18 Just had an inexplicable (to me) event occur. Accidentally typed "ctrl-alt-l" which caused a logout from my runlevel 5, but did NOT shut down the running processes. I was left with 6 running VMs, a host (not a pun) of other processes and a login prompt. Once authenticated the only thing that changed was that the login box disappeared. (beginning to hate that blue background, reminds of somebody else's bsod) I can ssh in from a remote but am hosed from the local console. No tty's available. No where to go, move along Lookie Lou. I always wondered how to log out and leave everything running awaiting with bated breath my eventual return. Now I know. But just how do I get back in? New one for me. Anybody out there that has found their way to the center of the earth and managed to get out??? Please, insight, magic key codes, valium... Mike Wright

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kernel-3.13.7-200.fc20.x86_64 update: wifi "No buffer space available" error.
by Rob 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi, My F20 PC currently has two kernels installed: kernel-3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64 and kernel-3.13.7-200.fc20.x86_64. With the latest kernel my wifi connection constantly breaks, while the NetworkManager still indicates a connected wifi; this happens with two different USB wifi gadgets. While pinging I suddenly get: ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available. This does not occur when I boot with kernel kernel-3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64; wifi is then stable. I'm afraid some bad wifi or network stuff came with the new kernel update! (I don't know whether the cable connections are also affected; I haven't checked that). One of the wifi's is: ID 0846:9041 NetGear, Inc. WNA1000M 802.11bgn [Realtek RTL8188CUS] Regards, R.L.

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Linux-compatible (micro) SD card
by Geoffrey Leach 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

I need to acquire a micro-SD card. Having been burned by compatibility problems once already, I thought I'd ask. Is there anywhere a list of SD specs that are supported by the current kernel? Thanks.

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fedup f19->f20 not working
by Martín Marqués 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

I was trying out the new fedup on my workstation at home. I did this: 1) fedup --network 20 # No errors 2) reboot 3) select System Upgrade (fedup) from grub 4) I boots f19 :( Strange thing, on tty2 I have a prompt that says "system-upgrade:/ " at the prompt. I tried rebooting several times, even getting rid of grub options like quiet. Thoughts? -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador

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