Games
by Ali Helmy
Hey,
Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source
fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a
deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is
impossible to continue my life normally without them...
So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) that I
can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work only on my
laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?
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A. Helmy
18 years, 3 months
/dev/null strangeness
by akonstam@trinity.edu
I have a FC4 system that every time it reboots the permissions on
/dev/null change from 0666 to 0660. This causes boot errors and the
system will not boot.
That seemed to me to be a udev error so I looked in:
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
and the mode of null seems correct.
Am I looking in the wrong place or what can I do to fix this problem?
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If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for.
-- W.C. Fields
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
telephone: (210)-999-7484
18 years, 3 months
is evolution really dependent on spamassassin?
by Tim
Hi,
I don't use spamassassin, I find it more of a hindrance than a help, so
I wanted to remove it.
yum remove spamassassin
...[snip]...
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
spamassassin i386 3.0.4-2.fc4 installed 1.8 M
Removing for dependencies:
evolution i386 2.2.3-2.fc4 installed 24 M
And trying "rpm -e spamassassin" produces the same sort of response.
Surely this is a stupid dependency? It's supposedly *optional* whether
you use anti-spam filtering in Evolution (I've never allowed it's junk
mail checking), why should it *have* to be present?
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Yum errors reported by cron
by Philip Prindeville
I'm seeing the following from some of my FC3 machines... on a
daily basis. Was wondering what the fix for this was.
>/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
>
>//var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
>This site is a Mirror for:
>^
>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
>Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml
>
>
18 years, 3 months
RE: Configuring Fedora Core 4 & USB Flash drives?
by tlhackque
OK, here's fstab. Vanilla - untouched by human hands.
This IS with the
drive in & (manually) mounted. So fstab-sync isn't
making a "managed" entry
for some reason.
Not clear how to make an entry, as drives seem to get
different sd? names
assigned. Wouldn't mind the blue drive always being a
certain mount point.
Of course, some are vfat, some aren't - so "auto"
would be the fstype of
choice.
Doesn't matter if the mount point exists or not.
So is the "USB Flash Driver" in your rule a generic
answer for all USB Flash
devices, or is it a function of the specific
model/mfgr that one plugs in?
That is, do I have to connect "LEXAR BLAH" to that
driver for this part of
configuration to work? (Some part of the connection
is made since maual
mounts work.)
Looking at the reference material - wow! Infinitely
flexible, but all I
wanted was to just plug in my drive and have it work.
Looks like I have a
lot of digging to do (and yet another scriping
language to learn.) Thanks
for the pointer; I guess I'll figure it out.
#cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man
fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3
defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3
defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs
defaults 0 0
none /proc proc
defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs
defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap
defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
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if any, on the matters discussed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim [mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 09:06
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Configuring Fedora Core 4 & USB Flash
drives?
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 05:08 -0800, tlhackque wrote:
> Fedora Core 4. Plug in a USB thumb drive.
> Successfully recognized by the kernel & a SCSI
"drive" is created.
> But it doesn't get mounted put on the desktop.
CDROMs/DVDs do. I
> have the desktop->preferences->removable
drives->{mount drives when
> hot-plugged, media when inserted clicked. A manual
mount does work;
> the device then appears on the desktop as expected.
>
> So something in the hotplug chain is deciding not to
do the mount. I
> got lost in the hal/hotplug/automount scripts.
> Someone's been here before. What's the easiest way
to track this down?
> (Or the recipe for configuring this device?)
Show us your /etc/fstab file.
I've just been experimenting with the same thing
myself. If I made no entry
for the drive in my fstab file, nor created the mount
point directory, the
system took care of everything itself (including
mounting an icon on the
desktop). But if I did make an fstab entry, I had to
make one in the same
fashion as it did (the auto-mounting routine), and I
had to create the mount
point diretory, for it to work.
e.g. Here's mine:
/dev/flashdrive /media/flashdrive vfat
pamconsole,noexec,nodev,noauto,dmask=0002,fmask=0113,fscontext=system_u:obje
ct_r:removable_t 0 0
(Note the fscontext details. The mask options are
just to suit my needs; I
don't want files with executable bits set.)
The flashdrive device was set up by a rule in
/etc/udev/rules.d/. I've a
"10-local.rules" file, in there, with this in it:
BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{model}=="USB Flash Driver",
SYMLINK="flashdrive"
Some reference material about this:
<http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html>
I've almost got the mounting the way I want it. What
I don't want is an
icon on the desktop, or an entry in Nautilus, saying
"131M Removeable
Media", I want to pick the name myself. I haven't
worked out where that's
set.
And why do I care about that? Because my digital
camera auto mounts with
almost the same title (128M instead of 131M). I want
names that mean
something to me.
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18 years, 3 months
download FC4
by Amrit ahuja
I try to download FC4, but every time it's timeouts.
Can any body suggest me, how to successfully download
FC4 from the site.
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18 years, 3 months
k3b, kde frustrations - venting.
by Robin Laing
I usually am very happy and can easily point out the virtues of Linux
over Windows. Come today and I find that I am hit with this k3b, kde
problem and it dumps me in a major mess.
I need to copy 3 DVD and I cannot get k3b to do it. It won't eject
the media. Crashes each time I try to burn an image and I am in a
rush as this had to be done before lunch in 10 minutes.
As I try to burn just the files, I get a Error every time.
It gets to Updating RMA
Then I get growisofs did not exit cleanly.
While copying the CD's, it would give me an error that it cannot eject
the media after reading the CD. Of course this is the same if I try
to copy a DVD.
Now that I vented, have a
Merry Christmas :)
18 years, 3 months