LCD via VGA port
by Paulo Cavalcanti
Hi,
I am having problems connecting an LCD to a nvidia card
using a VGA port in FC6. I only succeeded using
either a DVI port or a DVI-VGA adaptor. With a real CRT
everything is works fine.
I tried the VGA port approach in two different computers (GeForce 4 and
FX-5200)
with two different Samsung LCDs (510N and 710N), and got the same
result. With the nv driver, generally, the screen becomes black after a
logout
and X does not return. The nvidia driver is even worse. If I manage to
login,
the system hangs during a video intensive application.
I have never had any problem using FC5, what makes me believe that
the problem stems from xorg 7.1
Any suggestion will be really appreciated.
Thanks,
/Paulo
17 years, 4 months
Accounting Packages
by R. G. Newbury
I've used the same DOS based accounting package since 1992. My
accountant does not like the program and I cannot print directly from it
in Dosbox or qemu, and I cannot get it to run under Wine.
So, are there any nominations for a small business general accounting
package which will run under Linux, specifically FC6?
I need something more than Quickbooks/Quicken. This is for a business
nor balancing a checkbook.
Geoff
17 years, 4 months
google earth and slow frame rates
by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I'm trying to get FC6/x86_64 to run google earth on two different
systems. Neither one is usable.
system 1: a compaq v5000z: Google earth runs just fine under that
Redmond OS, but under FC6 it uses software emulation and is unusably
slow.
(--) PCI:*(1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) rev 0, Mem @ 0xc8000000/27, 0xc0100000/16, I/O @ 0x9000/8
system 2: amd64 desktop (tyan 2465 w. ATI x300):
(--) PCI: (1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL rev 39, Mem @ 0xfc000000/24, 0xfdfff000/12, I/O @ 0xac00/8
(--) PCI:*(5:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] rev 0, Mem @ 0xd8000000/27, 0xfe3f0000/16, I/O @ 0x6c00/8
(--) PCI: (5:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] rev 0, Mem @ 0xfe3e0000/16
This second system emits some gripes and then runs at approximately 1
frame per second which is also unusable.
bash-3.1$ googleearth
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 428
Software fallback:ctx->Line.SmoothFlag
***************************************************************************
Try R300_SPAN_DISABLE_LOCKING env var if this hangs.
*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File r300_state.c function r300Enable line 513
TODO - double side stencil !
***************************************************************************
Is there something I can do to get it to run faster? (Like turning
off the opengl things it was griping about?)
-wolfgang
--
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
17 years, 4 months
boot devices order problem
by Axel
Hello
I just tryied to install Fedora core 6, but stopped it before disk
partitionning.
I use a motherboard with 2 integrated raid controllers : one in the
nforce chipset, another one with a Silicon Image controller. My disk is
plugged in the silicon image controller.
I have also a firewire hard drive.
After boot, kernel messages tell me that the firewire hard drive is
known as /dev/sda and the internal S-ATA drive as /dev/sdb.
The fedora wizard wanted to use the /dev/sda drive as main drive. I can
easily use /dev/sdb instead of and manually modify grub paths in order
to have a clean boot.
I wonder : if I go with this setup (boot partitions on /dev/sdb), if I
don't have the external hard drive plugged or turned on while the kernel
load, my internal drive will be mapped to /dev/sda ? What would happen
during the mount of partition ? the root partition won't be mounted ?
I have not always the external hard drive , so I think the best
workaround would be to turn it off , install FC6, and never have the
external drive turned on if i want the boot to pass. Or maybe someone
has a better idea ?
Thanks in advance.
17 years, 4 months
OT Thin Clients
by maillist@sios.ca
A friend of mine and I were discussing setting up a server to service
our family members via a Thin Client from lap tops.
While a thin client into a linux server at a command line level is no
big issue, in this case the users must be able to log onto a gui
interface level and use their personal desktop. After looking at things
a bit it seems that it is possible for only one user at a time to log on
to an xinterface, we had thought that it might be possible to connect to
isolated workspaces, are we missing something in the process?
17 years, 4 months
Any good check printing programs?
by Tom Horsley
As an exercise in getting familiar with the Qt 4 toolkit, I'm working
on a program that seems to be missing from all the linux money
programs I can discover (gnucash, kmymoney, etc). None of 'em can
print real physical checks worth spit (or even at all for some).
I figure I can just make this a stand alone program that prints
checks and generates .qif files at the same time, which I can then
import into the money program of my choice.
Does this sound remotely useful? Have I missed some program that does
a good job of check printing (quicken does, of course, but the point
is to get away from windows).
Is it worth aiming to make this thing release quality, or should
I just stick with the learning exercise? :-).
17 years, 4 months
OS Future now that Fedora Legacy defunct
by Justin Willmert
Yesterday I read that Fedora Legacy has become defunct and I'm guessing
that means it won't be pushing any updates anymore. As that stands, it
probably means I have even more reasons to upgrade to a newer version.
With that, I was wondering if anybody has any inside knowledge of when
Red Hat might be releasing RHEL 5 (I know this isn't strictly a Fedora
question, but I know there are various Fedora users who also work for RH
and might know). Once it's released, I'd like to get the equivalent
version of CentOS for my server, but if it's going to be a while (say,
longer than a month from now), I'll just upgrade my server to Fedora
Core 6 during Christmas break.
Any enlightenment would be helpful.
Thanks,
Justin W
17 years, 4 months
Is NetworkManager working for you?
by Timothy Murphy
I'm running NetworkManager (NM) under Fedora-6 with KDE,
but am not entirely happy with it,
and I'm wondering what the general experience
of Fedora/KDE users is with NM?
What worries me is that NM is completely unpredictable,
in my experience.
This morning, for instance, on re-booting my ThinkPad laptop
NetworkManager said it was connected to my Linksys WRT54GL access point,
but in fact I could not access my WiFi LAN.
I have tried running "service NetworkManager restart"
but that has never succeeded when NetworkManager has failed.
In fact it seems to send my PCMCIA Orinoco Gold WiFi card
into a state of complete stupor,
with the main light on the card (showing it is working)
turned off.
NetworkManager does have some advantages over the basic
Fedora wireless network setup,
which I also found extremely unsatisfactory.
In particular the profile setup never worked for me.
But I'm wondering whether to persist with NM,
or to try to get some other WiFi software working.
(Someone mentioned wifi-radar -
I don't know if there is anything else.)
The WiFi setup under Fedora is really appallingly bad.
There is no proper documentation,
and such Help files as are provided seem completely useless.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
17 years, 4 months
Re: Is NetworkManager working for you?
by R. G. Newbury
>
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 09:26, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I'm running NetworkManager (NM) under Fedora-6 with KDE,
>> but am not entirely happy with it,
>
> Ditto - what I suspect we need is something like IBM's access connections
> (on windows - yes I know) - its outstanding.
>
> I move my laptop between wired, wireless, static and dhcp, at work at
> several locations and at home as well as on the road (hotels, t-mobile and so
> on). I found NM lacking in my situation when I last tried (i have not looked
> at the latest version - maybe it can handle all this now)
>
> My solution was to create a little sudo script to setup what I need then I
> bound them to a KDE little slider panel. Click panel - it opens i click icon
> for my location and it runs the script <location> - wired or wireless. Script
> updates resolv.conf, network settings and keys, DNS (if neeeded), ntp,
> sendmail etc. The scripts map the name given as an argument to a directory
> and uses whatever is in there - resolv.conf, ifcfg-eth0 etc. So quite easy to
> add new location info.
>
> This is simple and works for me. But I concur it would be nice to have
> something that is easy to set up out of the box and gives you control to set
> up the things that need changing - without having to know where to put
> keys.eth1 and so on.
That sounds good and exactly what I need. Could you post the script(s)
please?
And maybe post them as a page at linux on laptops (linux-laptop.net).
Geoff
17 years, 4 months
PAE kernel default with 1.5gb of ram?
by Frank Cox
I just updated a machine with FC4 to use FC6 and it now defaults to this kernel:
2.6.18-1.2868.fc6PAE #1 SMP
The computer has only 1.5gb of ram in it; why would it want to use a PAE
kernel? The "regular" kernel is also installed and I tried both, and didn't
see any difference in performance during the minute or two that I played with
it.
I could easily change the default to the regular kernel, but I want to know why
the machine figures it should be using a PAE kernel.
--
MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
17 years, 4 months