nVidia or ATI?
by SternData
I'm about to buy a new desktop computer, probably a Dell Dimension 8400.
The video options in my price range are
128MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon™ X300 SE or
256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800
I see post after post about issues with nVidia cards. Is this still an
issue with FC3? I'm not doing any gaming or advanced graphics, just
general computer stuff. My goal is to have a quality video experience
that works just as well in Linux as it does in Windows on the 17"
ultrasharp monitor.
19 years, 3 months
Editing the dictionary?
by Lloyd Hayes
This one has stumped me. I accidently saved several words which were
mis-spelled using Evolution. (Got something in my eye with one hand on
the mouse.) Next, I went to edit the dictionary and I can't find the
location to edit it. Nor does it seem to be in the Docs.
My temporary solution has been to switch to Mozilla-Thunderbird. But in
looking at the menus, I don't see where to edit the dictionary with
Thunderbird either.
Is the spell checker dictionaries classified or what? How do you get to
them to edit them?
Using FC3.
--
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19 years, 3 months
Refresh Rate Problem
by Ahmed Abdel-Aliem
How Can i Change the refresh rate of the monitor
i use fedora core 3
my screen resolution is 1280 X 1024
when i go to Applications --> Preferences --> Screen Resolution
i find that there is only one value for the refresh rate which is 60
Hz & i can't change it
i went to the file /etc/x11/xorg.conf
i found this section :
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "710E"
DisplaySize 330 250
HorizSync 30.0 - 71.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
what should i do to increase the refresh rate of my monitor from 60 Hz
to 90 Hz or 100 Hz ??
can anyone help me with this please ?
--
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Web Developer
www.ApexScript.com
0101108551
registered Linux user number 382789
19 years, 3 months
Sound question again
by Lloyd Hayes
In the past I have noticed a lot of people posting questions about their
sound systems not working. I hadn't paid attention to the answers to
these questions.
I have a couple of older Gateway Solo laptops. I was running Red Hat 9
one of them and using one of the Sound Blaster drivers for it. I put FC3
on it the other day without SeLinux. It now runs as fast as RH9, only
without any sound.
I think that it has a NeoMagic 128(?) sound card. FC3 can not
automatically configure the sound system on this computer.
Any help here?
--
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19 years, 3 months
migrating 2.4->2.6 & binutils
by Douglas Frank
I'm migrating an RH9 laptop to the 2.6 kernel and I have a question re.
making binutils. I want 'make install' to overwrite the old 2.13 bits
with the new 2.15 stuff, right? And to do that, I need to 'configure --
prefix=/usr', right?
...just looking for the warm fuzzies that I'm on the right track, or a
dope slap otherwise.
thx
--
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603-884-0501 Nashua, NH USA 03062 the better I was.
19 years, 3 months
Apache on boot up?
by Jay Paulson
I need to get apache to start up on boot up. How do I get add this to
the boot up sequence?
Thanks!
Jay Paulson
19 years, 3 months
RE: FC 3 -- Ready for Production Deploymnet??
by Timothy A. Holmes
>
> Production deployment doing what? Maybe you can tell us a little bit
> more information for what your plans are. For example, I might run
> RHEL for a super-high traffic web server, hosting an ecommerce site
> with secure SSL transactions, etc. I might use Fedora for a local
> print server and/or file server. In my opinion there are lots of uses
> like this, that are still in a production environment, and for these
> uses I think Fedora is more than ready.
>
> Marc
>
[Tim Holmes wrote]
When I finally deploy it, it will power 2 webservers running apache -
one a development server, and one the production box -- the production
box has 6 websites on it totaling maybe 200 hits a day with some
database calls etc (external MySQL box), 1 database server with MySQL
(has about 5 small databases on it right now -- this will be increasing)
and one 1/2 tb file server that has about 60gb of data on it right now.
The file server runs samba. I will also be deploying it as a print
server in the near future, as well as it runs my monitoring boxes which
have Nagios (one machine) and Cacti (one machine) as well as a
listserver that is planned for the near future which will run Mailman.
TIM
19 years, 3 months
Communication of kernel modules...
by BZ Benny
Hi,
I have an application that i want to build like a
module of my kernel.
How do two modules communicate each other in the
kernel?
regards
benny
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19 years, 3 months
ATI driver update problems (old driver for XFree86 4.3.x to new driver for Xorg 6.8.1)
by Sven
Hi,
I'm running Fedora Core 3 with Xorg 6.8.1 and kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3.
I updated from Fedora Core 1 a few weeks ago.
I had the old ATI driver installed with fc1.
Today I tried to play a game and noticed that there wasn't any 3d
acceleration.
fglrxinfo returned:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)
I entered rpm -q fglrx to see if the driver was still installed.
fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.5
But this driver is for XFree86 4.3.x and I have Xorg 6.8.1.
So I downloaded the new driver "fglrx_6_8_0-8.10.19-1.i386.rpm" from the
ati page.
I tried to install it:
[root@linux downloads]# rpm -Uh fglrx_6_8_0-8.10.19-1.i386.rpm
Error: Failed dependencies:
fglrx-glc22 conflicts with fglrx_6_8_0-8.10.19-1.i386
Looks like this drive conflicts with the old driver.
I tried deleting the old one:
[root@linux downloads]# rpm -e fglrx-glc22
Error: Failed dependencies:
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) winex-20021008-1.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) chromium-0.9.12-24.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) xawtv-3.88-6.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) xtraceroute-0.9.1-3.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) winex3-3.3.1-1.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) gstreamer-
plugins-0.8.5-1.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) tuxracer-0.61-28.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) xmms-1.2.10-9.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) xscreensaver-4.18-4.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) PyQt-3.13-1.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-
libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-Mesa-
libGLU-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) xorg-
x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) kdebindings-3.3.1-1.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) kdeartwork-3.3.1-1.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-
tools-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
Now my question:
Can I delete the old one with rpm -e --force without destroying xorg and
all the other above listed rpms?
Or shall i update using rpm rpm -Uh --nodeps
fglrx_6_8_0-8.10.19-1.i386.rpm?
I think i can remove the old and install the new driver because the new
old *should* install a new libGL.so.1 but I'm not sure.
And I do not want to destroy xorg or any other packet ;)
Thanks
19 years, 3 months
window size in FC2
by Beartooth
I've just installed FC2 from CDs, upgrading FC1, on a 1998 p2 with 350
MHz, 393MB RAM, two hard drives 20GB and 30GB. Two of my applications have
sizes which I can't get to fit my screens. (I use everything in the
intermediate size, whatever it's called, neither max nor min; that little
bit ob desktop background peeking around the edges helps me keep track
which machine I'm on.) Pan insists on being so wide I can't get to the
scrolling tools on both sides without shifting the whole window back and
forth. The Preferences window for Konqueror (which I run under Gnome, not
in KDE) insists on being so tall that I can't get to the buttons at the
bottom at all, and thus can't tweak Konqueror -- rendering it unusable.
This problem has turned up repeatedly with these apps under successive
OSs, both upgraded and clean-installed, and has always eventually gone
away. How do you *make* it go away?
The CDs were newly downloaded, in case that matters; I ran both yum update
and up2date, first on yum and on up2date themselves, then against
everything, till both reported nothing new to update. Ran updatedb and rpm
--rebuilddb, and ran both again. I keep the up2date icon on a panel, and
have nightly yum update enabled under Sessions. It seems as if by now this
hassle oughtta remove itself ....
Oh, one more hardware note: I'm using a BenQ FP767 monitor, behind a KVM
switch on both the FC2 machine and two others; but the same problem
appeared with RH9 or FC1 at first, when I had never heard of BenQ nor KVM
switches; so surely it *shouldn't* be either ...
--
Beartooth Implacable, Linux Evangelist & Gadfly
neo-redneck, curmudgeonly codger with FC1 & 2, YDL 4.0
Pine 4.62, Pan 0.14.2; Privoxy 3.0.1; Opera 7.54, Firefox 1.0
Bear in mind that I have little idea what I am talking about.
19 years, 3 months