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Fedora 20 and Dell Latitude e6400
by Brian Johnson 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Hello all, I was recently gifted an old Dell Latitude E6400 laptop and, given its age and what I've read, I thought getting Fedora 20 going on it would be smooth. And, to some extent, it was. I was primarily concerned with the wireless, but that seems to have been fixed for some time. Sadly, it wasn't without issues. I'm currently having issues getting my trackpad and my webcam going. I've done some looking around with no luck. For the touchpad, I get basic functionality. I can "tap to click" and use the pointer, but I can't use the scroll areas on the side/bottom for scrolling. Clicking both physical buttons don't perform a middle-click, and tapping with 2-fingers don't give me a "right" click. Going under "mouse & touchpad" in Settings only gives me very basic options. Running "xinput list" shows it being seen as a "PS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad". Searching for Fedora and this don't yield much/anything. I'm running Fedora 20 updated as of today. Kernel is 3.15.10-200.fc20.x86_64. I also would like to get the webcam going. When I try to run Cheese, I get a "no device found" error. Running lsusb doesn't show a camera attached. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Brian

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Fedora on MacBook Pro: need to disable graphical boot screen
by Where Where 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Hello everyone! I'm attempting to switch to Linux from Mac OS on a Macbook Pro model number MacBookPro10,1 with the latest BIOS and firmware. I need to have full-disk encryption for work, so I allowed the fedora installer to set up an encrypted LVM volume alongside my Mac partition (I'm dual-booting). But alas! Upon booting for the first time, I get this error message: (In yellow) [3.226029] pci 0000:00:01.0: ASPM: Could not configure common clock [4.258867] i915 0000:00:02.0: Invalid ROM contents The boot then hangs...and nothing happens. i915 refers to the graphics chipset on my laptop. I had previously tried Ubuntu (which didn't end up being what I was looking for) and found that when I installed the server version, without the graphical boot, Ubuntu booted, but when I installed the desktop version, with a graphical boot, it did not. So I currently wish to disable graphical boot in Fedora. I'd also be happy to do a new installation to get rid of the graphical boot if that's what it takes. Any kind advice? Daniel

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OT: Stop Firefox from asking to install flash
by Mike Wright 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Hi all, When using firefox I'm repeatedly confronted by a popup asking if I want to install flash (usually to view some advertising). This must happen dozens of times a day. Does anybody know if it is possible to stop that, and if so, how to do it? TIA, Mike Wright

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Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda
by Peter Skensved 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

> > On my old system I use 1TB disks, with /boot as raid1, and grub > boot-loader installed on all disks. On that one I can boot the system > from any of disks. Which is quite handy. > > The problem here seem to be that due to the disks being large (larger > than 1TB) they are setup as GPT (GUID Partition Table), and they then > also need a BIOS boot partition to work on non UEFI based systems (if I > have understood it correctly). > > So, to be able to boot from any of the disks, I need a BIOS boot > partition on all disks, but anaconda seem to only install it on one of > the disks (i.e. I want the exactly identical partition tables on all disks). > > Lars gdisk will seamlessly convert an existing DOS partition table made by say fdisk, parted, gparted, ... to GPT format on the fly without disturbing the any actual parttions ( you may want to back up first though ... ) . Additionally, I have not had any problems getting 3-4 year old standard dumb BIOS to boot from a 3TB drive . Never tried with UEFI though. peter

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2nd IP address on an interface
by Robert Moskowitz 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

This is on a F20 arm system. It SHOULD follow F20 rules... first: cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules # Added by 'write_udev' for detected device 'eth0'. SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="02:67:15:00:01:78", NAME="eth0" First IP address is: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE="eth0" BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT="yes" TYPE="Ethernet" NAME="System eth0" MACADDR=02:67:15:00:01:63 MTU=1500 DNS1=208.83.67.188 GATEWAY="208.83.67.161" IPADDR="208.83.67.163" NETMASK="255.255.255.240" HOSTNAME="miredo.htt-consult.com" IPV6INIT="yes" DNS2=2607:f4b8:3:3:9254:5400:0:188 this works fine. But now for the second IP address I add: # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 DEVICE="eth0:0" BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT="yes" TYPE="Ethernet" NAME="System eth0" MTU=1500 GATEWAY="208.83.67.161" IPADDR="208.83.67.164" NETMASK="255.255.255.240" But no second IP address is shown: ]# ifconfig eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 208.83.67.163 netmask 255.255.255.240 broadcast 208.83.67.175 inet6 fe80::67:15ff:fe00:163 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether 02:67:15:00:01:63 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 21 bytes 2556 (2.4 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 12 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 147 bytes 11726 (11.4 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 87 base 0x6000 lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback) RX packets 90 bytes 8076 (7.8 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 90 bytes 8076 (7.8 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 So what is missing? Do I need a 70-persistent-net.rules for eth0:0 ?? Or something else?

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Chrome not exiting
by SternData 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Is it just me? After closing Chrome, ps -ef |grep chrome shows a chrome process running for each tab I had open. I have unchecked the option to allow background processes to run after closing chrome. killall chrome does not kill them. -- -- Steve

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recovering lost files
by g 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

greetings, i have 3 drives i need to recover that have damaged boot tracks. on the 3rd drive are boot track back ups that i need to recover. within the past year, a poster was needing to recover a file. a replier suggested a boot iso that recovered files and labeled them with a file label of file's size, instead of an arbitrary number. if the poster/replier, or anyone else recognizes iso i am inquiring about, i greatly appreciate their replying. i searched archives, did not find post. i have never found a good way to search archives. is there a page to make searching easier than opening individual archives? TIA for any and all help. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc.hago. g .

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Fedora 21 release schedule, etc.
by Jonathan Ryshpan 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Up to Fedora 21, releases have occurred at roughly 6 month intervals. Fedora 21 is scheduled to be released about 11 months after Fedora 20. Is the intention to schedule future releases at roughly 12 month intervals, or is the long interval for Fedora 21 only (or whatever)? Will Fedora 20 be supported till Fedora 22 is released, or for about 13 months after it was released, i.e. about January 2015 (or whatever)? Sorry if this has already been discussed; I haven't been following the list carefully.

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exfat on SD card getting mounted read-only
by JD 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

My flash card slot in the laptop is (per lspci): 03:01.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21) I insert into it a SanDisk 16GB Extreme SD card. This card is not marked as a secure card. At least, it does not say so on the card. It gets automounted read only as: /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /run/media/jd/3D90-BEAB type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096) # umount -f /dev/mmcblk0p1 # /sbin/mount.exfat -o rw /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mmcblk0p1 FUSE exfat 1.0.1 WARN: `/dev/mmcblk0p1' is write-protected, mounting read-only. So, what is causing it to be mountable read-only, and not get mounted read/write? PS: If I insert the card into a USB flash card adapter, I can then mount it RW.

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Dicom image -
by Bob Goodwin 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Is there a Linux application that will display a dicom image file? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE

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