Laptop gets heated up very early
by Goudar Vishwanathappa Manu
Hello,
I use Compaq Presario V3133AU which has AMD Turion 64bit processor
with Nvidia C51 chipset. I run 64bit F7 and it gets heated up early.
If I keep it on without running anything also it heats up and most of
the time fan is running. Is this normal?
I get the following output when I run
$ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info
processor id: 0
acpi id: 0
bus mastering control: yes
power management: no
throttling control: yes
limit interface: yes
I am not understanding why power management is no.
I will be thankful for your help.
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G V Manu
16 years, 10 months
Can not run Programs that Require Root Access
by Ashley Pritchard
hello,
I have recently installed Fedora 7 on my machine & got it working for the
most part ie...adding DVD, mp3 support etc...but now when I login to my user
account from GDM into Gnome I am not able to use any programs that require
root access. If the Package updater pops up with updates I click on view
packages & it asks for my root password. I enter it & nothing happens & it
does the same thing for all programs that need root access.
I have tried disabling selinux, not installing selinux updates, deleting the
user account & creating a completely new user account with a different user
name & I have also reinstalled the OS because of this issue and here I am
back full circle. I have tried running the program through a terminal. Loged
in as root from my user account I tried running the command 'pup' for the
package updater & I get the following info:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 31, in <module>
import gtk
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76, in
<module>
_init()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in
_init
_gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display
It was suggested to me from someone on a listserve to try this command
'xhost +localhost' & 'kdesu pup' so I did & got the following info:
[awp@localhost ~]$ xhost +localhost
localhost being added to access control list
[awp@localhost ~]$ su root
Password:
[root@localhost awp]# xhost +localhost
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
xhost: unable to open display ":0.0"
[root@localhost awp]# kdesu pup
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
kdesu: cannot connect to X server :0.0
so neither command resolved the issue.
Then it was suggested to that I was actually logging into root the wrong
way. Do not ask me how since 'su root' has been the way i logged into root
since the old red hat days. So they said I should try 'su - root' so I did.
Well it turns out that 'su - root' does the same thing as 'su root' which is
logs me into root & when I run the command 'pup ' or 'kdesu pup' I get the
same result as above. Then they suggested useing just 'su' or just 'su -' to
login to root. Well that does the same thing as 'su root' which is log me
into root but when running 'pup' I get the same result as above. Please do
not give me more ways to login as root.
I can login to Gnome from GDM as root & run all programs that need root
access.
How do I get back access to root from my user account?
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Diolch yn fawr, Ashley
16 years, 10 months
The new gimp in core (6)
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
Warning, here I am going to repeat some parts of a rant I've made before.
Several times in fact.
Like many who run Epson printers simply because the output color quality is
worth it, I find I am stuck in a catch 22. I cannot update my gimp install
with your new packages.
Why?
The new gimp packaging is apparently hard coded in its dependencies to
absolutely depend on gimp-print-4.2.7-23 and its plugin of the same version
number.
I installed, using checkinstall, gutenprint-5.1.0 which includes this renamed
plugin, back in February as it fixed many long standing bugs such as the
bottom of the page color fades, and now allows flawless borderless printing
too. I am not about to screw up my printing ability by allowing a working
very well installation to be over-written with broken code by false
dependencies such as this.
gimp-print has essentially been frozen in time at version 4.2.7 for at least 2
years, maybe longer, and any support is totally up to the individual distro,
so I fail to see any logic or reasoning behind the redhat/fedora reticence in
adopting gutenprint in its place. It simply doesn't grok here.
Short of downloading the new gimp and installing it --nodeps --force, all by
hand, which will work for me I'm sure, or building it from the tarball which
I've also been known to do when fedora ignores known problems for months at a
time, how do I convince TPTB that gimp-print is a deadend that should be
deprecated and gutenprint used to replace it?
Or, perhaps better yet, give those of us with the ability to DO something
about the ancient gimp-print by installing gutenprint, the ability to do it
cleanly by removing the patently _false_ dependencies on gimp-print from the
gimp packaging. That would be the ideal situation since there is not in fact
an actual, gimp won't run without it, cross dependency. Gimp will in fact
use any plugin it finds to print through, or if there is none, the print
dialog is removed, but no other function in gimp needs it or references it.
Thanks for reading.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
-- Mark Twain
16 years, 10 months
Grub CD-Rom works
by Karl Larsen
I find that with the instruction from a web page I can replace the
grub loader on any hard drive on my computer from grub on the CD-rom.
What I did was boot on the cd-rom and all you get is a grub system. From
the information I gathered I did these things and they worked.
grub> root (hd4)
Here I got some info about (hd4)
grub> setup (hd1)
Here I see a lot of information about the setting up of the second hard
drive (hd1) with a grub loader. So it did work fine.
Karl
16 years, 10 months
Re: [Gimp-print-devel] I have an update problem.
by Gene Heskett
On Saturday 30 June 2007, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:12:35 -0400
> From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net>
>
> Greetings all;
>
> Precisely, I would like to update to the next gimp, which is now
> available for fedora Core 6.
>
> Unforch, it seems to have hard coded dependencies on
> gimp-print-4.2.7 and friends. So smart won't update gimp without
> installing gimp-print. But AFAIK, none of the fixes we put in the
> epson drivers, such as borderless printing, have been backported to
> 4.2.7 that I'm aware of.
>
> I've been running gutenprint-5.1.0-20070207, installed by
> checkinstall since back in February, and I have no intention of
> giving the quality and utility of that up without a lot of kicking
> and screaming.
>
> So, what do I do? Go ahead and let the package manager install the
> old stuff, and then re-install my gutenprint build with a --nodeps
> --force?
>
>You should be able to have both versions of Gutenprint installed
>concurrently. Whether the RPM's are built that way is another matter.
That's my point in the fedora list which I've added to the To: list
But, we're talking about gimp-print-4.2.7-23 over-writing my gutenprint-5.10-6
install with what is to me, broken code for my epson printer(s)
It sounds as if you telling me that gimp-print-4.2.7-23 and gutenprint-5.10
can co-exist without cross-talk?
>Personally, I'd build the new version of GIMP from source, and then
>not have to worry about the whole mess.
I did that with virtually the whole print thing including a whole new kde by
way of konstruct back on FC2, when fedora ignored the screams from the I
can't print crowd because they were all kde users & the official line is we
support gnome. Just hovering the mouse over a print related item in the kde
menu killed half the desktop & required an x restart as the minimum fix.
That looked like a kde problem so I built it from scratch. Nope. The real
fix turned out to be a homebuilt cups of a more recent vintage, something
that fedora never _fixed_ to my knowledge, but all that lead to so much
dependency hell that the system became un-maintainable even though it
actually worked great.
>But that's just me. Or
>install the newer version of GIMP with --nodeps --force.
And then I'm still doing like now, the rest of the system upgrades one or 2
packages at a time because if I click on the update all button, it will fsck
up my printing again. And that _ain't_ _gonna_ _happen_ until someone from
fedora tells me that ALL the stuff in gutenprint-5.10 has been back-ported to
gimp-print. And that it ALL just works. The fedora track record in that
dept. concerning printing is spotty at best. Printing in general seems to be
something that sits on the back burner, with a _very_ limited gas supply (eg
priority) at fedora.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know
nothing about.
16 years, 10 months
A vlc question
by Aaron Konstam
I was trying to use vlc to play some video DVDs. It worked on two of
them but failed on two. All of them were commercial DVDs. I remember
someone previously stated a rule for which DVDs vlc will not play.
Could someone restate the rule?
I could not find any other application to play them either. Is there
such an application?
--
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I have had my television aerials removed. It's the moral equivalent of a
prostate operation. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
=======================================================================
Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
16 years, 10 months
George Carroll/MSRC is out of the office.
by gecarroll@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
I will be out of the office starting 06/30/2007 and will not return until
07/09/2007.
I will respond to your message when I return.
16 years, 10 months
a question about finding a couple of packages
by Scott Berry
Hello there,
I am looking for a couple of packages for edns. These are the packages I need are they installed by default if not what are the actual names of the packages? I am unsure which ones to get.
use MIME::Base64;
use IO::Socket;
Scott
16 years, 10 months
Playing Midi files for Intel AC'97
by Chu Jeang Tan
I've a Dell 4550 with Intel integrated AC'97 sound card.
# lspci
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
# aplaymidi -l
Port Client name Port name
14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0
Based on above aplaymidi output, does that mean my card does not have a
on-board sound table of sort, so, there isn't a virtual port that allows
me to send midi commands to, and have it played through dsp?
Currently, I'm able to use Timidity to process a midi file, translate it
to wave and output to dsp. However, I believe this approach is not
integrated to alsa. As a result, I think, Audacious isn't able to play
midi, because alsa system isn't setup to play midi.
Below is lsmod output, I'm not sure if I missed loading some modules.
# lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0 35549 1
snd_ac97_codec 93413 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 6465 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0
snd_seq_oss 33601 0
snd_seq_midi_event 11201 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 51249 5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 11853 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 43617 0
snd_mixer_oss 19393 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 75205 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25157 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 53829 11
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 11681 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 13769 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
16 years, 10 months
Re: boot problem i think
by Rogue Spider
ok tryed vt's but no good
its realy hung there are no vt's to go to
it just says "starting udev:"
which is part of boot
i dont think its even gotten far enough along to have
virtual terminals yet.
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16 years, 10 months