mouse versus touchpad, or cursor placement wars...
by Tim
Is there an easy way to get FC7 to ignore a touchpad while a mouse is
plugged in, then go back to using the touchpad when the mouse is
unplugged, automatically?
Try as I might, I cannot stop my system from randomly doing something
with the touchpad while typing, even though I'm not anywhere near
contacting it, and the simplest solution would be to just plug in a
mouse.
The laptop came with two disable touchpad hotkeys (Fn + F9, and an extra
special key), but naturally they don't work. They don't actually do any
disabling, they just send a keypress to trigger something else to do the
work in software. It's an Asus PRO31J F3JC Laptop.
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16 years, 4 months
java again really
by Karl Larsen
I am going nuts with F8. I want to get jedit to work and the java is
bad. I installed the latest version 6 but removed it to learn I am
trying to use this java:
java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-17.fc8
I didn't load this special. It comes with F8. It has 30 dependencies
:-) I find when I try to delete it. By the way I HAVE deleted the
icedtea rpm's that F8 loads. It appears that F8 has some java built in
but it is too old to support jedit, or not big enough, or both.
A friend who has jedit working has these java files:
glib-java-0.2.6-3.fc6
libvte-java-0.12.1-6.el5
libglade-java-2.12.5-3.fc6
cairo-java-1.0.5-3.fc6
libgtk-java-2.8.7-3.el5
revamp_java-0.0-3.rhis
libgconf-java-2.12.4-6.el5
java-1.5.0-sun-plugin-1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5
libgnome-java-2.12.4-3.fc6
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.112
java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5
Does anyone know how I can get this list on my F8?
Karl
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16 years, 4 months
Google Earth reports "drmWaitVBlank returned -1"
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I've just loaded the latest version of Google Earth. About 3 seconds
after I start it from a console the following message appears on the
console:
do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly.
Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH unset.
After about a minute Google Earth starts and appears to run OK.
Does anyone know what this message means? How can it be avoided?
Could it be related to X-Windows driver problems? Every few days my
monitor puts our a message that it's out of sync and goes dark; the
message (and going dark) are exactly what appear when the computer is
turned off. I can get the screen back by going to a non-X console (ie.
by pressing CTL-ALT-F1) and then going back to X-Windows (ie. by
pressing ALT-F7).
Thanks - jon
16 years, 4 months
small machine needs a small linux.
by Ric Moore
Anyone know offhand if there is a "small linux" distro that also uses
rpms? I've got some PII's and PIII's to install to, and then give them
away to our charity. So, I'd like something that can make use of these
old machines and include a CD with each of them. Thanks in advance, Ric
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16 years, 4 months
dynamic dns dhcp dealing with invalid host names
by Tim Alberts
I'm running dhcpd with dynamic DNS for the network and I regularly get
errors such as:
Jan 4 13:04:14 msi2 named[18496]: zone example.com/IN: IMac\0321.example.com
/A: bad owner name (check-names)
Jan 4 13:04:14 msi2 dhcpd: Unable to add forward map from IMac 1.example.com
to 192.168.0.185: timed out
The fix is to change the client hostname to remove the space character.
However, clients refuse to follow the naming conventions and keep
putting space characters in the host name.
Can I configure DHCP/DNS to accept this or better yet, refuse to get
them an address if the name is invalid?
16 years, 4 months
C development package for Fedora?
by Steven Jones
I just installed Fedora 8 from the "live" cd. Much to my dismay gcc
was not included. I am not a C programmer but occasionally compile
third party programs. I can install gcc easily enough but what about
all of the support libraries? Is there a yum "meta" package to
install the libraries in one easy step?
On a somewhat related note I have been unable to find a list of Fedora
packages by category.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/collections/id/14 is nice but it
only list packages alphabetically Any suggestions.
Thanks
16 years, 4 months
cvs maillist merge
by Ric Moore
Anyone know of a good way to merge two cvs lists that have duplicate
entries?? Thanx, Ric
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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
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Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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16 years, 4 months
Printer sharing over network
by Mike Chambers
If you have a printer installed, and set it to "sharing" on it's
properties, is that enough for another computer (windows vista or linux)
to be able to find/recognize it and use it? Or do you have to setup
samba as well?
Hrm, have thought bout a way to use (if there is one) a printer router
type thing to plug it into to (has usb cable) let all computers connect
to it via printer server or something along those lines (already have
linksys wireless router)?
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Madisonville, KY
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16 years, 4 months
yum updates corrupting rpmdb
by Joe Smith
This is the second update in as many days that has resulted in a
corrupted rpm database for me. I was able to fix yesterday's with a
--rebuilddb and 'yum clean all' but before I go through that little
exercise again, is anyone else seeing problems? Any suggestions how to
debug this?
# yum update
( lists a dozen or so packages to update, including firefox...
...I say 'y'...
...10 minutes later the terminal history is filled with:
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
and yum won't die except by 'kill -9'
# rpm -qa
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Not out of space...
# df /var/lib/rpm
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb7 497829 205804 266323 44% /var
and there are no kernel disk error messages.
Is there some "run recovery" that's different than --rebuilddb?
<Joe
16 years, 4 months
My /var/log/ directory contents dissapeared!
by thomas Armstrong
Hi.
Using Fedora Core 2, I've just noticed that my /var/log/ directory
contents dissapeared. If I type 'last' I get this message:
-------
last: /var/log/wtmp: No such file or directory
Perhaps this file was removed by the operator to prevent logging last info.
--------
and I've got these contents when 'll' at '/var/log':
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total 252
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 240568 Jan 4 09:48 mysqld.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13758 Jan 4 04:02 rpmpkgs
drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Dec 18 2004 samba
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This server is exposed to Internet, and '/var/log' directory contained
lot of files some days ago :(
Any suggestion? Thank you very much.
16 years, 4 months