FC3 and ghostscript
by Bill R. Williams
I went straight from FC1 to FC3 and something ugly has appeared.
(I mention this because it might have appeared in FC2, but I wouldn't
know.
The ghostscript output UGLY! Big clunky-looking font.
Easy to create example: (using yum startup -- any [ba]sh script will do.)
$ enscript -p out.ps -G -C --color --pretty-print=sh /etc/init.d/yum
$ gv out.ps # or whatever GS viewer you use
The above example you can do a perl script (--pretty-print=perl) or
whatever.
Part of the problem is easy to notice that because there is COLOR in
out.ps the gv display will have some text "backed-up" over preceding
characters. Not so noticeable for those who don't do a lot of
'enscript' of scripts, is that the font is big and clunky and runs off
the right-hand side of the "page".
I do quite a bit of programming in various scripts and sometimes
C/C++, and I have a need to produce nice program listings.
I have used 'enscript' for years; from RH v7.x through FC1 it produced
exactly what I needed. With FC3, it is just unusable for my purposes.
Note that NO FONT is specified, so I am used to getting the default
which is mono-spaced resulting in output that has all characters lined
up as they should be. (No variable-width character adjustment.
Kerning?) I have tried many variations specifying a font to get back
to what I want. If I specify something which produces variable-width
characters, the output is "correct" in that there is no "backed-up"
text due to the color specification; however, this type of font is no
good for program listing purposes.
I have determined that the problem is with ghostscript! (Any utility
I use which displays postscript uses ghostscript.) I can produce my
standard enscript output on my FC3 system at home, take it to my
office and look at it on my RH 7.3 system with gv and it is as I want
it to be.
This problem is significant to me for several reasons, and affects my
intention to upgrade my system at work to FC3.
Help will REALLY be appreciated!
(Including the proper "official" place to post this.)
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Bill R. Williams <brwilliams AT chartertn DOT net>
18 years, 9 months
software to read BIOS values
by dballester@kernpharma.com
Hi to all:
Some time ago I saw a Linux application capable to read BIOS values,
something like <Register> <Content> . Now i don't remember where andf when
i saw this app, and google can't help me very much.
May be the reference was done here in this list. Anybofy remeber it,
or knows what I am talking about?
As usual, a lot of TIAs
David Ballester Montolio
GNU/Linux user #206389
GNU/Linux - Unices Sysadmin
Oracle DBA
SAP-BC
Kern Pharma - Grupo Indukern
www.kernpharma.com
18 years, 9 months
create a restricted user
by Zacharie Elcor
I want to create a restricted user without password that can only use
a web browser.
I added a user named "visitor" and created in his home dir a file
.xsession that contains:
firefox
so that when he logs in, firefox is launched, and when he closes
firefox, he is logged out.
This works fine but he is still able to ctrl+alt+F(1-6) and log in to
browse the file system.
To prevent that, I tried to set /bin/false as the default shell for
that user in /etc/passwd but this also prevented him to log in
graphically.
Is there a way to be sure that "visitor" will only be able to browse
the web and not the file system ? any security issues ?
Thanks for help
18 years, 10 months
Looking for a good music editor software.
by Kyle Lagonegro (Student-Lagone37)
Is there any good music editor software, maybe that also has some sounds and stuff you can put in, much like Frooty Loops for Windows? Just wondering what the good ones are before I start downloading. I'm hoping to find one for free, as I just want to play around with it. Thanks.
18 years, 10 months
FC3 and ATI Digital video
by Gene Czarcinski
I am having problem when I use digital (DVI) versus analog video.
The hardware:
ASUS SK8V motherboard with an Opteron 140 and 2GB ram. The video is an ATI
9100 with both digital and analog video output (radeon driver). The monitor
is a Dell 2000FP (LCD) which can handle both analog and digital (DVI) input
selectable on the monitor. The is also a Belkin Omnicube 4 port KVM.
When I first started using the ASUS/Opteron system in my setup, I found that I
could not use the analog video through the KVM ... the ASUS BIOS "overdrove"
the monitor and it cut out. However, FC1 did work OK for both install and
running using this analog configuration.
My solution to the problem was to not use the analog/KVM setup but instead to
connect the monitor to the ATI 9100 using the digital (DVI) interface and
then use the selection on the monitor to switch to DVI input when I selected
that ASUS/Opteron. This worked fine with FC1 and FC2 (both i386 and x86_64).
I skipped this round of testing so my first exposure to FC3 was the final
release. I first installed it on another system and that went fine. I then
tried installing on the ASUS/Opteron ... oops, black screen and then the
monitor went into powersave mode (turned off). After several tries, I gave
up and did a text everything install. Install and bootup ... oops, X fails
to start again. OK, reboot and come up in non-X (3). I ran
system-config-display from another system via ssh and everything looked like
it configured properly but X did not display.
After some fooling around, I switch to using the analog/KVM setup instead of
the digital (DVI) setup. That worked fine. With this setup I also then
installed the x86_64 FC3 and it worked fine too.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139023
I noticed some laptops are also having problems and wonder if that problem is
related.
Question: Is anyone using digital (DVI) video, an ATI video card and the
radeon driver? Does it work? IS anyone having problems?
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Gene
18 years, 11 months
Grub loading stage2 error
by jery_wang
I've just installed FC3 on hdb1 and I've got XP on hda1.
On the first reboot (and a couple that followed) the following comes up on screen and then just sits there:
GRUB Loading stage2...
I've had a look around a few forums and everyone keeps suggesting booting from the second installation disk or typing in this, that or the other. But it tries to load Grub before trying to boot from the CD drive even though I've got the CD drive infront of the HD in the boot order.
I'm an utter rookie with all this, so I have no idea what information is needed to work out what's going on. Be gentle with me...
Thank you.
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18 years, 11 months
2GB limit on samba and nfs?
by Mike Burger
Sorry for the cross post, but the environment calls for it.
I'm running a RHL9 server, and an FC2 client.
Whether by NFS or SMB, I'm running into the same problem.
On my FC2 client system, I'm trying to create a 3.5GB file on the RHL9 based
server. Every time I try, though, I get stuck at the 2GB mark.
At present, I'm attempting to do this via x-cd-roast, which, of course, makes
use of cdrecord(-prodvd).
I'm stuck...I've got the ProDVD key working, as I'm writing more than 1GB,
and I'm not aware of any limitations on x-cd-roast. The mounted filesystem
has 40+GB free on it, so that's not an issue, and I'm running SGI's XFS, to
which I've written files larger than 2GB, before...but directly on the
RHL9 system, as opposed to via networked filesystem.
The system is up to date, as I'm using apt-get against the fedoralegacy
servers for the RHL9 system, and am using both up2date and apt-get for the
FC2 system.
I'm at a bit of an impasse.
Is anyone aware of nfs/smbfs limits that I should be aware of?
18 years, 11 months
Re: dud commands
by jery_wang
thank you very much you two...i am reading up on the http://linuxcommand.org/ tutorial site on the command line and after that i will check out your suggestion www.tldp.org thierry. if anything learning to get fedora up and running will teach me a helluva lot!!
Michael,
less /etc/resolv.conf returned a blank screen
less /etc/host.conf returned an all but blank screen with "order hosts, bind" at the bottom.
i'll be reading up on this but all help is graciously appreciated.
Chris
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18 years, 11 months
ACPI suspend et al
by Mark Panen
Hi
Anyone have suspend or hibernate working on a laptop in FC 3 ?
I tried it last night and it suspended all right but when i tried to
come out she frooze and had to do a hard reboot.
18 years, 11 months