F22 - Xfce monitor mirroring
by Robert Moskowitz
When I plug my external monitor in, the mirroring option is greyed out.
This worked fine in F21.
I DO have a challenge in that my Belkin KVM is only seems to be allowing
1024x768, eventhough the manual says it supports higher resolution. But
this worked fine in F21. And even if I force the laptop panel to
1024x768, mirroring is still not available.
Where might I find a control to fix this?
8 years, 9 months
F22: KDE to Gnome?
by Rich Emberson
Upgraded from F20 KDE environment using
fedup --network 22 --product=nonproduct
and X/KDE has rendering/refresh/redraw issues.
Application widgets and KDE pop menus are not draw, or,
at best some edge or corner is drawn. In an xterm,
the line being entered is drawn, but nothing else -
move the window and the content disappears.
System description at bottom.
Information points:
1) With F20, KDE worked fine on this machine.
2) Upgraded KDE system has above rendering issues
3) Remotely logging into broken system and launching X application
which displays on remote machine works just fine.
4) Booting from a F22 KDE Live dvd has *SAME* rendering issue.
5) Booting from a F22 Gnome Workstation Live dvd has *NO* rendering
issues.
Information point 2: Seems to imply that the X.org SW is working fine; the
X protocol (X <-> app) is good.
Information point 4: Yea, the F22 Workstation dvd seems to work.
Question: Do the two Live dvds (KDE and Gnome) use the same nouveau driver?
If the two dvds use the same nouveau driver, then
it might be argued that its a KDE issue.
The machine has a Nvidia graphics board, but it is not being used;
was not used with F20 KDE and not being used for broken F22 KDE.
So, if it is a KDE issue (on this particular machine) then what to do?
In particular, it looks like on this machine I will be using Gnome
or some other window manager but not KDE for F22.
Options:
1) Attempt to use Nvidia graphics on broken F22 KDE machine.
There are many sites that describe how to disable nouveau
and enable Nvidia. But, 1) there does not seem to be a site
specifically addressing what to do when using F22 and 2) the sites
are not consistent (use rpmfusion vs Nvidia site for driver,
what needs to be done to disable nouveau (grub/blacklist,...), etc.).
Also, there is no guarantee that a KDE rendering issue will be
fixed by switching to Nvidia card.
2) Attempt to install F22 Workstation on existing broken F22 KDE machine.
If one uses the F22 Gnome Workstation dvd to "install to harddrive"
will it allow you to select which disk to install on
(my /home has already been backed up)?
I assume this will set Gnome as the desktop into which the system
boots.
Or, is there some dnf command which will install the Workstation
so that the system boots into Gnome.
3) Re-install F20 (KDE) and then upgrade to F22 Workstation.
This is the most time consuming, but it appears to be rather
straight forward.
install F20 from dvd
fedup --network 22 --product=workstation
Question: Which option above is the most likely to succeed?
Question: Once the system is working as F22 Gnome Workstation, can I then
install and try out other window managers (e.g., xfce)?
Advice sought.
Thanks
Richard
System:
> uname -a
Linux olympia 4.1.3-201.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29 19:50:22 UTC 2015
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
hardware (board, cpu, Nvidia graphics board (not used), etc.)
# /sbin/lshw -c display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G73 [GeForce 7300 GT]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master
cap_listrom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:29 memory:fd000000-fdffffff
memory:d0000000-dfffffff
memory:fc000000-fcffffff ioport:bc00(size=128)
memory:fe8e0000-fe8fffff
Display driver
> rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n' | grep nouv
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau 1.0.11-2.fc22 x86_64
X.org software
libX11 1.6.3-1.fc22 x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg 1.17.2-2.fc22 x86_64
etc.
Desktop (KDE, Gnome, etc.)
kde-runtime-libs 15.04.2-1.fc22 x86_64
kde-runtime 15.04.2-1.fc22 x86_64
etc.
Monitor
Early on, I swapped out the monitor to a different one and still
got the same problem
8 years, 9 months
F22 Android phone access
by Robert Moskowitz
In F21, I attached my Samsung SG4 via USB (making sure it was unlocked)
and waited. First it should mounting the Verizon Install CD, then this
timed out and the phone was accessable.
Now in F22 (with Xfce), after the Verizon Install CD, nothing.
Perhaps there was something I installed on advise here, but I can't find
any notes on it.
Anyone have the magic goo for accessing your phone on F22?
8 years, 9 months
A plea to users who report bugs
by Michael Schwendt
In many bugs reports, one can observe that the reporters don't tell
- whether a problem is reproducible,
- how often it occurs,
- how to reproduce it (if known).
In lots of other cases, bug reporters are completely silent and don't
give any background details at all. They only let ABRT dump files into
bugzilla.
We -- the Fedora Community -- can do better than that.
Everyone, *please* spend a few seconds on mentioning a few details,
even if you only confirm that it has been a spontaneous crash that
happened only once.
8 years, 9 months
Moving Firefox settings from F21 to F22
by Robert Moskowitz
My cheat sheet that I used in going from F20 to F21 is not working on
F21 to F22.
To restore Firefox:
~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/
move:
places.sqlite
permissions.sqlite
formhistory.sqlite
cookies.sqlite
cert8.db
mimeTypes.rdf
save-session: sessionstore.js
===============
No sessionstore.js actually anymore in F21 to move. My bookmarks,
history, etc. Do not seem to be moved.
I cannot find any F22 help on this, and interestingly Firefox on my F21
is 39.0.0 and on F22 it is 39.0.3 (of course don't know what originally
came with F21).
8 years, 9 months
backup snapshot
by Diogene Laerce
Hi,
After a sad experience with a system update, I would like to ask
if there is a software on Fedora or more generally on Linux
which would allow me to make a complete snapshot of the system ?
Something as easy of use as the snapshot feature in VirtualBox
would be great.. But near would do as well.
Kind regards,
--
“One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.”
“Le vrai n'est pas plus sûr que le probable.”
Diogene Laerce
8 years, 9 months
[Slightly OT] The Linux Vendor Firmware Project needs 15 minutes of your time
by Richard Hughes
Hi all,
For the LVFS project, I need vendors making hardware to submit
firmware files with carefully written metadata so that they can be
downloaded in Fedora 23 securely and automatically. I also need those
vendors to either use a standardized flashing protocol (e.g. DFU or
UEFI) or to open the device specifications enough to allow flashing
firmware without signing an NDA.
Over the last couple of months I’ve been emailing various tech
companies trying to get hold of the right people to implement this. So
far the reaction from companies has been enthusiastic and apathetic in
equal measures. I’ve had a few vendors testing the process, but I
can’t share those names just yet as most companies have been testing
with unreleased hardware.
This is where you come in. On your Linux computer right now, think
about what hardware you own that works in Linux that you know has
user-flashable firmware? What about your BIOS, your mouse, or your
USB3 hub? Your network card, your RAID card, or your video card?
Things I want you to do:
* Find the vendor on the internet, and either raise a support case or
send an email. Try and find a technical contact, not just some sales
or marketing person
* Tell the vendor that you would like firmware updates when using
Linux, and that you’re not able to update the firmware booting to
Windows or OS-X
* Tell the vendor that you’re more likely to buy from them again if
firmware updates work on Linux
* Inform the vendor about the LVFS project : https://beta-lvfs.rhcloud.com/
At all times I need you to be polite and courteous, after all we’re
asking the vendor to spend time (money) on doing something extra for a
small fraction of their userbase. Ignoring one email from me is easy,
but getting tens or hundreds of support tickets about the same issue
is a great way to get an issue escalated up to the people that can
actually make changes.
So please, spend 15 minutes opening a support ticket or sending an
email to a vendor now.
Happy to take questions or comments, thanks.
Richard.
8 years, 9 months
Does DNF use yum.repo.d?
by Robert Moskowitz
Where does dnf keep its repo configuration, or does it use
/etc/yum.repo.d? Which I see is still there. As I want to change it to
use my local repos.
8 years, 9 months
F22 workstation install - Xfce desktop
by Robert Moskowitz
I am attempting a workstation installation on my rebuilt Lenovo x120e
notebook.
I want the Xfce desktop. I download the workstation netinstall x86_64
iso and built a DVD.
I downloaded:
mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/22/Workstation/x86_64/os/
to my repos server and also:
mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/22/x86_64/ (less debug and drpms
directories)
I booted the install image, set up the partitions as I like (smaller /,
larger swap and /home).
I specific my local OS repo and the updates as 'update'. I selected the
Xfce desktop (deselecting all additional groups for starters) and get an
error:
Error checking software selection.
So how do I do a local install of Xfce?
thank you.
8 years, 9 months
Search Engines of TB
by JD
TB 38.1.0:
The list of available search engines is limited,
and provides no way for the user to add other search engines.
8 years, 9 months
