FC14; Vino - can't seem to get it working
by Ron Leach
List, good afternoon,
Hopefully, I've overlooked something, but cannot think what.
Installed F14 on a Samsung NB30 netbook, from the RC2 XFCE CD. 'yum
update' last night (it updated nearly 450 programs/libraries).
Installed Vino (vino-2.31.91-1.fc14) but cannot log into into the
netbook's desktop from another machine.
(Had first tried vino-2.32.0-1.fc14 from 'test updates' repository,
but when I failed to log into that, reverted to this slightly earlier
version which is from the main F14 repository.)
Netbook is connected to local network, replies to pings, and can
access internet. Firewall set to 'trust' eth0 and wlan0; and tried
with firewall both enabled, and disabled. Same result, VNC client
reports failure to connect. (VNC client has unrestricted access to
the network, and can access all 4 other desktops on the network,
without problems.) A different VNC client (Krdc on Debian/KDE)
reports 'no server running at that address/port (5900)'.
Noticed that, on F13 (on another machine), had to run
'vino-preferences' before a VNC client could log in. Have run
'vino-preferences' on the netbook, allowed 'control of machine',
assigned a password, and tried with 'configure network to
automatically accept connections' either set, or unset; same results.
vino-preferences 'checks connectivity' and sometimes reports
(i) 'local network only, using name localhost' (which surprised me
because on the other machine using F13 it reports the machine name and
its IP address), or
(ii) it sometimes says the machine can be accessed using our external,
routable, IP address (which it cannot, because that's blocked at a
gateway and the internal network is NATted and there are no
port-forwards set).
Vino doesn't appear in the XFCE 'system services' graphical list.
Maybe it isn't running, just as KDE surmised.
Could I ask - how should I check if it is running, and is there a
specific command to start vino running? (Under F13, it seemed to run
after vino-preferences was run.)
Thanks for reading this far, grateful for any suggestions.
regards, Ron
12 years, 7 months
F14 RC3: WiFi problem on Samsung netbooks
by Ron Leach
List, a testing difficulty.
Installed F14 RC3 XFCE from the CD-sized image released by Kevin on
Sept 30. Netbook is Samsung NB30, and dual boots F14 RC3 or XPhome.
WiFi is built-in; there is no physical on/off button for it, but a
softkey combination, 'Function key' and F9, switch WiFi off and on in
Windows XPhome.
Under F14, Network manager does not seem to recognise any WiFi access
points and, after adding some, still does not see them to connect to.
The 'network icon' in the panel has a 'red cross' against it.
I have also tried F13 XFCE spin (live CD) and F13 does not find the
wireless system, either.
If I connect a wired Ethernet cable, the network connects using the
wired system. I wonder if the WiFi module is not switching on, or
being switched on?
On a different netbook, Acer AspireOne (on which F13 XFCE is
installed), while F13 does find the inbuilt wireless system and lights
a WiFi LED, the F14 RC3 XFCE liveCD does not find the wireless, and
the WiFi LED on the AspireOne does not light.
I'll do some more checks of dmesg to see how far F14 gets in finding
the WiFi system. Are there other files I should check?
regards, Ron
12 years, 7 months
F14 RC3: Bluetooth difficulty on Samsung netbook
by Ron Leach
List, good morning,
Thanks to Kevin for preparing a CD-sized spin of the beta, now testing
F14 RC3 XFCE on a Samsung Netbook NB30. This machine has Bluetooth
built in; it's always on, and has no physical button for on or off.
The netbook has dual OSs installed, F14-RC3, and XPhome; I think XP
reports the Bluetooth system as 'Widcomm'.
The F14 installation shows a Bluetooth icon, but always with a red
cross against it. The pop-up reports that Bluetooth is on, but it can
neither find any devices, nor can any devices find it. The
'properties' item lets you 'turn on Bluetooth' (but it's already on?)
but nothing seems to change.
F13 XFCE spin (live CD) finds the bluetooth. The Bluetooth icon is
shown, without a red cross against it. The popup menu in F13 is much
longer, with options such as 'make visible', 'send files ..', 'add new
device', etc. Devices can see the NB30, and it can find and connect
to devices such as a mobile phone, adding its name to the devices list
in the popup menu. I wondered if the Bluetooth manager in F14 is the
same version as in F13.
Has anyone else experienced success or difficulty with Bluetooth on F14?
I'd be very happy to post details of logging files etc, but I need a
little guidance which files to look at. Perhaps I could reset and
restart the Bluetooth subsystem somehow.
regards, Ron
12 years, 8 months
F14 RC3 WLAN not working; F13 works fine
by Ron Leach
List, good morning,
On Acer AspireOne netbook, F14RC3 beta network manager does not see,
or allow connection to, wireless networks that exist. Network icon
has a red cross against it. Wireless networks do not show in the
network popup. Adding 'connections' via the popup still doesn't let
NM 'see' the active WLANs.
F13 (Goddard), on the same netbook, sees the networks and connects to
them without difficulty.
Machine: Acer AspireOne AOA150
WLAN: Atheros AR5001
F14: XFCE live CD, Sept 30 2010 release for CD
Updates: 'yum update' run 5 Oct 2010
Here an extract from lspci -v
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e008
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
> Memory at 35200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
> Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
> Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
> Kernel driver in use: ath5k
> Kernel modules: ath5k
This is quite odd, users won't be expecting things that worked on F13
to stop working on F14, so I'd like to help sort out what the problem
is.
Please let me know what information is needed to pin this down, or
whether I should try some other commands.
regards, Ron
12 years, 8 months
Non-default desktop validation testing for F14 final
by Adam Williamson
Hi, folks. Just an update on desktop validation testing for F14 final
(we'll hit the TC stage next week).
I've been chatting to a few people about the idea of having bugs in
desktop validation outside of GNOME block releases, and there turn out
to be quite a lot of questions involved in terms of how exactly the
project as a whole views the various spins and desktops. I'm happy to
discuss this in more detail (oh, so much boring detail) if anyone's
interested, but the upshot is that basically we're going to have to ask
the board for clarification on a few things about the exact status of
non-default desktops and spins.
In the meantime, given the conclusion, I agreed with others in the
release process (QA and releng) that for F14 Final (and we did this for
Beta too) we'll consider failures in the desktop validation testing for
LXDE and XFCE to be nice-to-have bugs under the new NTH process, rather
than blockers. That means we'll take fixes for them through the release
freeze, but won't hold the release for them. Failures in desktop
validation testing for GNOME and KDE will be considered blockers.
Once we have the wider questions sorted out one way or another, we'll
take another look at the status of failures in LXDE and XFCE, and any
other desktops/spins we extend validation testing to for F15 (I'm
looking at Sugar and Meego for that time). But for now, just a heads-up
that we'll be treating XFCE/LXDE validation issues as nice-to-have for
Final. Thanks!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years, 8 months
mixer
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
We have currently no mixer available in the default Xfce panel. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636227
Bug 636227: medium, low, ---, kevin, NEW, RFE: No mixer applet on XFCE desktop (F14 Beta RC3)
In the past gnome-media was pulled in and we used the
gnome-volume-control applet (which starts by default).
Do we want to now pull that in again?
Or just put xfce4-mixer in there?
Or something else?
Thoughts?
kevin
12 years, 8 months
F14 RC3: WiFi problem on Samsung netbooks
by Ron Leach
List, another testing difficulty.
Installed F14 RC3 XFCE from the CD-sized image released by Kevin on
Sept 30. Netbook is Samsung NB30, and dual boots F14 RC3 or XPhome.
WiFi is built-in; there is no physical on/off button for it, but a
softkey combination, 'Function key' and F9, switch WiFi off and on in
Windows XPhome.
Under F14, Network manager does not seem to recognise any WiFi access
points and, after adding some, still does not see them to connect to.
The 'network icon' in the panel has a 'red cross' against it.
I have also tried F13 XFCE spin (live CD) and F13 does not find the
wireless system, either.
If I connect a wired Ethernet cable, the network connects using the
wired system. I wonder if the WiFi module is not switching on, or
being switched on?
On a different netbook, Acer AspireOne (on which F13 XFCE is
installed), while F13 does find the inbuilt wireless system and lights
a WiFi LED, the F14 RC3 XFCE liveCD does not find the wireless, and
the WiFi LED on the AspireOne does not light.
I'll do some more checks of dmesg to see how far F14 gets in finding
the WiFi system. Are there other files I should check?
regards, Ron
12 years, 8 months
