Requiest for News Reader Recommendation
by Styma, Robert E (Robert)
I have been using Thunderbird for my home email client
and news reader for a long time. Ever since I loaded
FC6, things have been going downhill reading news. I
have one newsgroup account through the ISP and one
through usenetserver.com. The usenetserver.com account
requires a login and password, the ISP (Cox) does not.
The usenetserver account usually gets a password failed
message and then makes me reenter the long login and
password. Often, it just gets errors connecting with
the server. At first, I suspected the server site, but
a program I wrote which uses NNTP to download files
off newsgroups connects just fine. I tried deleting my
mail and news password file and rebuilding it, but that
did not help.
One options is to bring up Wire Shark and try to track
down the problem. The other it to find a different
newsgroup reader. Most of the time at home I am looking at either
comics or the railroad pictures newsgroups so binary
processing is a required.
Any recommendations of news readers you like?
Bob Styma
Phoenix, AZ, USA
16 years, 6 months
Top Posting Question
by Jonathan Allen
Dear List,
Given that the preference on this list is trimming and
bottom/mid-posting, and that Thunderbird is one of the principle mail
agents used in the Fedora and Linux world, why does it always open
incoming emails at the top, and compose new emails with the cursor at
the top immediately ready to top-post? Moreover, thunderbird appears to
have no user options to bottom post and view emails from the bottom (or
Usenet articles either).
I am trying to persuade a colleague of the evil of top-posting and he
has just beaten me up on exactly this point - *if* the Linux community
is to keen to discourage bottom posting, why don't the standard tools
work that way. I was flabbergasted to find that he was right. Why
doesn't thunderbird open at the bottom by default, with a user-option to
open at the top if you really want to ?
Jonathan
16 years, 6 months
nvidia GeForce 8600GT video problems
by David Kramer
I just built a computer with a eVGA nvidia GeForce 8600GT video card. I
installed F7 x86_64. Video worked fine, but I ran into lots of other
problems, so I wiped that out and tried to install F7 i386.
When I loaded Fedora 7 i386, X wouldn't start, but I managed to get over
to a tty where I changed inittab so the runlevel was 3. I rebooted and
did a yum -y update then rebooted again.
In the end, "root" could run startx successfully, but "david" couldn't.
When "david" ran startx, I just get a blank screen until I
Ctl-Alt-Backspace.
The stdout and stderr from root can be seen at
http://thekramers.net/tmp/goodkde_f7_root.eml
The stdout and stderr from david can be seen at
http://thekramers.net/tmp/badkde_f7_david.eml
I didn't see any errors in one that weren't in the other, but maybe
someone else will. I find it odd that F7 x86_64 had no video problems,
but i386 did, let alone root working but david didn't.
I might try a reinstall tonight with a lot fewer packages, but I don't
expect that to fix it.
Perhaps I should find a better-supported video card. I thought this one
was, but further research (and empirical testing) shows that not to be
the case. Can someone recommend a well-supported NVidia PCI-E X16 card
with a decent amount of memory? I'm not above throwing money at it, if
I know the card will work for sure.
Thanks.
16 years, 6 months
Help with Kickstart on FC7
by Gary Schlachter
I am having great difficulty trying to load FC7 via kickstart on a new
server. Here is the process I have followed:
1) Loaded FC7 on the server via Live-CD with no issues.
2) Copied initrd.img from server to my DHCP/tftp kickstart server
along with vmlinuz
3) Created new ks.cfg for this server based on anaconda.cfg from /root
on server
4) Booted the server.
The results:
1) I can see my kernel and init.img files downloaded to the new server.
2) Vast amounts of information displayed on console ending with the
following:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
grow_buffers: requested out-of-ranger block BIGNUMBERHERE for
device ram0
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=ram0, iso_blknum=17 block=...
No filesystem could mount root, tried: iso9660
kernel panic ...
I have tried loading additional modules into initrd.img but no
joy. Any and all thoughts are greatly appreciated!
Gary
16 years, 6 months
Porblems In Yum Install Solved!!
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16 years, 6 months
Can Galeon still run under Fedora 7 (or 8)?
by Beartooth
When I tried to run "yum update" under F7, it choked on Galeon,
because of a gecko-libs dependency. I told it "yum remove gecko-libs" ;
it took a whole bunch of other stuff with it; then I told it "yum install
<other stuff>", in two or three stages.
It installed all the other stuff except Galeon.
I tried things like "yum install gecko-libs," and it told me that
was supplied by some other app -- but not which.
Neither rpm -q, nor slocate, nor find, nor beagle-gui can find
it. I have Firefox and Epiphany running. So I tried installing Seamonkey.
That succeeded.
But I still get this Catch-22 :
[root@localhost ~]# yum install galeon
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package galeon.i386 0:2.0.3-11.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: galeon
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 is needed by package
galeon
[root@localhost ~]# yum update gecko-libs
Setting up Update Process
Could not find update match for gecko-libs
No Packages marked for Update
[root@localhost ~]#
Is there hope?? I do see a couple of threads on
gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general about firefox and about dependencies
that mention what seems essentially the same trouble; but they only
confuse me the more, alas!
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.
16 years, 6 months
nvidia blues
by Karl Larsen
I had nvidia running fine on this computer using the kmod-nvidia
files that come from fedora. Then I was told about better nvidia
software from their web site. I got it and tried to install it on this
computer. It did not install and it ruined the older nvidia.
I find init has nvidia in it and it comes up broken. It writes
FAILED in red letters on bootup. It complains it can't find a python
config file and it is not there, I checked.
Now what I would really like to do is eliminate that entry in init
so I can use the newer nvidia. Failing in that I need to find out what
sets up the nvidia with the kmod-nvidia files.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
16 years, 6 months
Getting 'Out Of Range' Message at boot
by Gene Poole
Some time back I reported getting a 'out of range' message on my monitor
when installing FC6. As I reported, this does not occur when installing
F7.
I'd like to thank everyone on this list for their help and responses. I
was referred to the 'Personal Fedora Core 6 Installation Guide' and the
'Install nVidia Driver' contained there. That along with the basic
instructions on altering the xorg.conf to get a basic boot has totally
solved my problems.
I've also determined the RCA for these issues:
The first install on this machine the built-in video was used.
After the install the nVidia card was added and configured to use my
Viewsonic VA550 monitor (after all it's a server and doesn't need all
that video).
The second install the nVidia card was in place and that's when these
errors came about.
The the problem was 'User Error' by not documenting all of the changes over
time.
BTW, I normally skip a release when installing (RH9; FC2; FC4; FC6, so the
next will be F8), I seem to get better stability this way. But whatever the
release, I'll install it to get KDE4!
Thanks,
Gene Poole
gene.poole(a)macys.com
16 years, 6 months
Backup with rsync
by Timothy Murphy
I've been using rsync to backup my desktop
to another machine linked by ethernet.
Actually, to date I have only been backing up
my own files, and have had no problems.
But I was thinking of backing up the whole system,
and I discovered that I would have to allow
root login with ssh.
I know how to do this in the sshd config
but would prefer not to do it if possible.
Is there a simple way round this?
16 years, 6 months
Re: DHCP & DNS [OT]
by Steve Blackwell
---- John Summerfield <debian(a)herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> zephod(a)cfl.rr.com wrote:
> > As promised, here are the results of my experiments on putting a DNS server on my Linksys router.
>
>8---snip---8<
> As one who has a Linksys wrt54g (one of those revisions that's
> compatible) I'm very interested in this, and any more information you
> can offer.
>
> In particular, what can you do now that you couldn't before?
>
> I've been sorely tempted to upgrade it to non-linksys firmware; one of
> the problems I have is it tends to die under load, requiring a reset,
> and if there's nobody around, a reset is fairly inconvenient.
>
I have an old the WRT54G that used to have v2.04.4 Linksys firmware.
The one thing I know I can do now that I couldn't do before is have DNS lookup for the machines on my local network. That feature is why I tried this.
You can go to the DD-WRT web site, the to the About page of the Wiki that will give an overview of the features. I am thinking of upgrading further from the mini version to the standard version because I think I might be able to create a bridge between the wireless network and the LAN. I need to do some more reading first.
So far no problems with the new firmware.
Steve.
16 years, 6 months