scrambled panel
by charles f. zeitler
this sunday my xga monitor started acting up,
the screen goes out & drops me to a login screen.
i switched to my back-up monitor, and same scene.
after re-attaching my xga monitor, i find my upper
panel scrambled, "apps" "places" and "system'
are now right-center, launchers to the right,
clock left-center... and the 'move' function
is greyed out...
is there some way to restore order to this sitch?
thanks
charles zeitler
: Do What Thou Wilt :
: Shall Be :
: The Whole of The Law :
--Aleister Crowley--
16 years, 9 months
How to mount USB drive at boot time
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I have a USB drive that is usually, though not always, connected to my
desktop system.
If it is connected to the system at boot time, the device path should be
created and the drive should be mounted immediately, i.e. BEFORE any
user logs in.
If it is not connected at boot time, there should be no serious problem.
If the drive is connected to a running system (on which it had not been
previously connected), the device path should be created, and it should
be mounted by root.
Root should be able to unmount the drive, when it is mounted.
I assume this should be done by either udev or hal -- HOW?
Thanks - jon
16 years, 9 months
evolution paper size
by Craig White
Have an issue with newly installed F7 and evolution with a cups print
server for the network.
Nowhere in evolution can you choose page size when you print - as far as
I can tell.
It appears the default page size is A4 and that setting is somewhere in
the bowels of GNOME and I cannot figure out how to switch it to US
Letter.
Anyone want to toss me a bone...it would seem to be a simple thing but I
have 30 minutes chasing my tail around and I can't figure out how to get
at something like this - even with the most crude gconftool-2
TIA
--
Craig White <craig(a)tobyhouse.com>
16 years, 9 months
How to prune out old rpm files from fedora repository?
by Paul Johnson
I run a server that has updates of RPMs I build for our lab. The
packages directory is getting too big and fat with 10 or 15 versions
of some RPMS. I wonder if somebody has a script that can clean out
the older versions? Something that cooperates with the createRepo
script?
pj
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
16 years, 9 months
why is my wireless totally borked in f7?
by Robert P. J. Day
the short question: what is it about upgrading from fc6 to f7 that
completely destroyed my wireless?
the long form: ever since upgrading to f7 (actually, a fresh
install), i've been unable to get wireless access, which i've had
without problems for at least the last couple releases. i've asked
about this before and i've been fighting with this on and off lately,
and i plan on spending time this weekend going at this again. but,
really, has anyone else gone through this and can explain what it is
about f7 that just sucks WRT wireless?
my main system is a dell inspiron 9200 in which i use a linksys
pcmcia card (WPC11-V31) which worked flawlessly with my linksys WAP
until f7. i also have a gateway MX7120 with onboard wireless running
f7 which also utterly fails to connect.
wireless used to be an absolute no-brainer until f7 -- the total
failure. is there something simple i'm overlooking? i can't be more
detailed until i go at this over the weekend but if there's something
stupidly trivial i might have overlooked WRT f7, by all means, make a
suggestion. thanks.
rday
--
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
========================================================================
16 years, 9 months
Why does yum want to install kernel i586 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 fedora 15 M
by Antonio Olivares
Dear all,
I know that is is one of FC6 common bugs which I got around using direct links which I will do the same again, but I thought this problem was taken care off already, I know that there might be nothing more to do. But here we go
[olivares@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa kernel*
kernel-headers-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.21-1.3226.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
kernel-2.6.21-1.3226.fc7
[olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -iprm
2.6.21-1.3226.fc7 i686 i686 i386
[olivares@localhost ~]$
I have been running kernel-2.6.21-1.3226 instead of 3228 because I had tried to install it directly using yum but something bad happened several times, one time the computer froze and did not download anything another time a call was coming in and took me out of the internet. I will try this time to update again and this is what happens
[olivares@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install kernel kernel-devel kernel-headers
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 3.8 MB 13:09
updates 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.0 MB 03:51
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
filelists.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 2.5 MB 09:03
---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.22.1-27.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.22.1-27.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.22.1-27.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel-devel.i586 0:2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: mkinitrd >= 6.0.9-7.1 for package: kernel
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mkinitrd.i386 0:6.0.9-7.1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: nash = 6.0.9-7.1 for package: mkinitrd
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package nash.i386 0:6.0.9-7.1 set to be updated
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
kernel i686 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 updates 16 M
kernel i586 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 fedora 15 M
kernel-devel i686 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 updates 4.7 M
kernel-devel i586 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 fedora 4.6 M
Updating:
kernel-headers i386 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 updates 651 k
Updating for dependencies:
mkinitrd i386 6.0.9-7.1 updates 91 k
nash i386 6.0.9-7.1 updates 158 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 4 Package(s)
Update 3 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 42 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
Now why do I need that kernel 2.6.21-1.3194 i586, if I have the other one already?
I know this is a bug but I do not know which BZ# it is. I get around this problems by using direct names, as I will do this again, I have to using dialup.
This is the command yum will give me the correct kernel, kernel-devel and kernel-headers package
[root@localhost ~]# yum install kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 kernel-devel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 kernel-headers-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 -y
Thanks,
Antonio
Linux Counter # 381662
http://counter.li.org
Home Page(s)
http://www20.brinkster.com/olivares/
http://www.geocities.com/olivares14031/
Use Fedora 6, Fedora 7, Rawhide and Slax Linux Live CD
[olivares@localhost ~]$ uptime
22:55:53 up 4:42, 3 users, load average: 0.66, 0.67, 0.67
[olivares@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
[olivares@localhost ~]$
____________________________________________________________________________________
Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7
16 years, 9 months
Can't listen to HID control channel. Address already in use
by Jesus Jr M Salvo
Just installed F7 on my Compaq Presario V6107AU notebook., which
previously had FC6.
During startup, it says:
Starting hidd Can't listen to HID control channel. Address already in
use [FAILED]
The only reference I could find via google is in french. Also, dmesg
does not show anything useful that would give more explanation of the
problem:
[jsalvo@c210-49-15-141 ~]$ dmesg | grep -i -C5 hidd
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
However, I do have this in /var/log/messages:
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: irq 7: nobody cared (try
booting with the "irqpoll" option)
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: Call Trace:
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: <IRQ> [<ffffffff802ae114>]
__report_bad_irq+0x30/0x72
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff802ae323>]
note_interrupt+0x1cd/0x20e
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff802aedfd>]
handle_level_irq+0xb9/0xf1
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff802582ac>]
call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff80265498>] do_IRQ+0xf1/0x15f
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff80263d5d>]
default_idle+0x0/0x3d
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff80257631>]
ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: <EOI> [<ffffffff8022dfb7>]
unix_poll+0x0/0x96
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff80263d86>]
default_idle+0x29/0x3d
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff8024423b>] cpu_idle+0x8c/0xaf
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: handlers:
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff803b431f>]
(usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x52)
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: Disabling IRQ #7
The only way I could get rid of the above trace is by removing
"noapic" from the kernel boot parameter, but if I remove "noapic", I
would get lockups and my notebook would freeze under a few seconds /
minutes even before the startup completes. So I have to leave the
"noapic" option added.
Furthermore, my Olympus digital camera when plugged-in to the USB port
is not recognised in F7, but it did with FC6.
When my Olympus digital camera is plugged-in to the USB port, the
camera displays the options "PC, PRINT, EXIT". When I select "PC", it
displays "ONE MOMENT" and nothing happens. Under FC6, after displaying
'ONE MOMENT", the LEDs on the camera would light up and eventually a
new mount point is shown on the notebook.
It is as if the digital camera is waiting for some input or signal
from the notebook.
Any ideas ?
Regards,
J
16 years, 9 months
Prevent /u from showing up on users desktops in F7
by Darryl
How do I prevent filesystems/folders from showing up on user's gnome
desktops? I have /u being mounted out of /etc/fstab at boot time but do
not want it on the user desktop. Other filesystems such as /var and
/boot are somehow excluded so there must be some kind of configuration
file to adjust this behavior but I can't seem to locate it :-(.
16 years, 9 months
Back Again
by Karl Larsen
I am back from running Umbutu which failed to live up to it's press
releases. It does have all my wanted applications and apt-get install
works faster than yum install. I guess there storage computer is closer.
The major problem is X Windows. I tried several ways to focus the
screen but nothing worked. And it was too bright. Also I was able to get
the VLC media player but no way to get the codex lib so it worked. Also
it takes over the computer.
So back to F7 and while some things do not work perhaps in a while they
will. At least the screen looks real nice.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
16 years, 9 months