firefox file download help apps?
by Lonni J Friedman
I've got a bizarre problem with firefox (2.0), where I want to be able
to tell firefox which helper application to spawn when encountering
specific file types. I can't figure out any way to add new types to
its seemingly hardcoded list. I could have sworn that there used to
be an extension that provided this functionality, but i can't find it
now either. Anyone know?
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17 years, 5 months
Make compiz fly!
by Christian Nolte
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Hi!
I just want to share some tweak for compiz with you. I have successfully
installed compiz and it works perfectly. The only drawback I've had were
performance issues when the system was under heavy load (e.g. compiling,
or running java apps). I've had to disable compiz to be able to use the
system again.
However, I have found a solution: I use schedtool to give X highest
round-robin priority. Rendering is now incredibly fast. Here is what you
have to do:
1. Download and build schedtool (make sure you have installed
kernel-devel). Use "make no_affinity" to build schedtool.
http://freequaos.host.sk/schedtool/schedtool-1.1.2.tar.bz2
2. Run schedtool as root and give X highest priority (perhaps a bit
much, especially if you use other real-time apps):
schedtool -R -p 1 `pgrep Xorg`
Notice the improvement...
Best regards!
Christian
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17 years, 5 months
"Pocket Printserver" Dongle doesn't work with (64 bit) Fedora 6
by David Liguori
Through previous editions of Fedora and Red Hat I have blundered into
making this Ethernet to parallel printer box work (on a Laserjet 6MP).
For some reason, now it doesn't. I believed it was a Dlink product,
although all it says on the box is "Model PRS-301PE. I used
system-config-printer and set up an LPR connection using the box's fixed
IP address (of which I am certain) and port number 9100, of which I am
reasonably sure). When I click on the "print test page" box there is no
indication of any kind of error situation, other than nothing happening
with the printer.
Just to try something different I selected "Samba" instead of "LPR" and
used the address of the box that appears in Windows and Samba. Again,
nothing.
Below is the resulting printers.conf file:
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.2.4
# Written by cupsd on 2006-10-29 22:28
<DefaultPrinter LaserPrinter>
Info HPLJ6MP
DeviceURI lpd://192.168.1.20/9100
State Stopped
StateMessage Connected to 192.168.1.20...
StateTime 1162083935
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<Printer SMBLJ6MP>
Info SMBLJ6MP
DeviceURI smb://PS-5619D6/p1
State Idle
StateTime 1162178926
Accepting Yes
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I tried temporarily relaxing SE Linux, to no avail.
For reference, yes this setup works, and has always worked, with various
flavors of Windoze.
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David Liguori
17 years, 6 months
Reading mbox mail on Thunderbird (FC5)
by Gordon Charrick
I've set up Thunderbird with 2 different accounts. One is a pop account
from my ISP, and the other is a regular mbox account for local email.
The pop account works just fine. I get notified when new mail shows up.
The problem is that I get no notification when I get local email. If I
select the inbox for the local mail and click the "Get Mail" button, it
shows up immediately. Under the server settings I have it set to check
for new mail every 5 minutes but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone else
see this problem and have a solution?
The reason I need this to work is because I'm using the mailbox alert
extension to play a different sound when pop mail comes in versus local
mail.
17 years, 6 months
FC6: can't print to USB HP printer
by Dave Mitchell
I have a USB-based HP printer (HP PSC 2355) that worked fine under FC5,
but refuses to print under FC6.
The system-config-printer tool auto-configured this as:
Description: Added by HAL
Location:
Device URI: hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4911_HU4AFBR2HZKJ_if1_printer_HU4AFBR2HZKJ
make and model: HP PSC 2350 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
But doing a simple 'lpr /etc/rpc' from the command gives, in
/var/log/cups/error_log,
E [31/Oct/2006:22:42:33 +0000] [Job 7] Unable to open HAL device "hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4911_HU4AFBR2HZKJ_if1_printer_HU4AFBR2HZKJ"
E [31/Oct/2006:22:42:33 +0000] PID 4183 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/hal) stopped with status 1!
Any ideas?
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is against him, pounds on the facts; when the facts are against him,
pounds on the law; and when both the facts and the law are against him,
pounds on the table.
-- Eben Moglen referring to SCO
17 years, 6 months
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block
by M. Lewis
I have a HD that refuses to mount with a 'bad magic number in super-block'.
[root@moe ~]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc /Big-Drive/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
To get a listing of all the superblocks, I did:
[root@moe ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/hdc
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
30539776 inodes, 61049646 blocks
3052482 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
1864 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632,
2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872
Next, I tried:
[root@moe ~]# e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hdc
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdc
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Subsequently I tried the above command and substituted each of the
superblocks listed above with the same results.
Have I missed something? Is there any hope at all for my data?
Thanks for any pointers!
Mike
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17 years, 6 months
gemi yum repository rebuilt for FC6
by Gérard Milmeister
The packages in the gemi repository at
http://math.ifi.unizh.ch/fedora/
have been rebuilt for FC6.
They are waiting for being picked up and submitted to FE. Some packages,
such as Squeak, would have to go to livna or dribble, however.
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17 years, 6 months
Does Anyone Know How To Get VMware Server Working in Fedora Core 6?
by Jeffrey D. Yuille
Hello,
Has anyone been able to get VMware server working in Fedora Core
6? I have VMware-server-1.0.1-29996 that I would like to install. It
gets to the point near the end of the installation where it aborts. Any
clues as to how to fix this?
Jeff
17 years, 6 months
what partitioning rule am I not aware of?
by Tom Horsley
In an excess of energy I decided to see how many different OSes I
could install to compare their behavior with a weird X bug I
encountered in FC6:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8790
I figured 20 gig was about enough for each root, and decided to
create 7 small /boot partitions near the front of the disk (since
so many boot loaders have problems with big addresses) and 7 20
gig partitions after that for different kernels (my disk is a 160
gig sata drive).
Windows has no problems doing this, but fdisk -l won't print any
info about partitions after /dev/sda15 and if I try to install
FC5 on a system that actually has an sda16 and sda17 partition
(even if I don't try to use them for anything), anaconda blows up
at the partitioning stage when it is about to try to partition
and install.
If I go back to windows, delete the last two partitions, and
re-install, all goes smoothly.
Is there some rule I don't know about on the number of
partitions? Or is it a rule about the starting address of a
partition (can't be too big maybe)?
Its really very irritating that they keep making disks bigger and
bigger and software never seems to know what to do with them :-).
17 years, 6 months