Re: A New fedora user question
by Richard England
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Jeff Maxwell wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:24 +1030, Tim wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 19:46 +1100, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:
>>> 1- I installed the adobe flash player, but when I explore some
>>> intenet
>>> pages which require flash player, it says missing flash player. Any
>>> one knows how can I resolve this problem?
>
> I too have had issues with Adobe Flash player. I have visited web
> sites
> that say that I am missing this. I've gone to the the Adobe web site
> and have followed their instructions but still find that the yum or
> rpm
> process has not properly updated FireFox. Per the Adobe web site, if
> I
> check the plug ins, I should see that Adobe Flash is include after
> following the install instructions. Fedora 9 believes that it has
> installed it.
>
>>
>> That could just be badly authored sites, but you'd need to give us
>> some
>> examples. A common reason that sites reckon you don't have something
>> that you do have is that they do a stupid test via something *else*,
>> then make wrong assumptions based on those results (e.g. use
>> JavaScript
>> to check something, or try to set a cookie, or look at the version of
>> the browser that you're using and compare it with their short list).
>>
>> An example of a Flash-using site that work relatively painless for
>> me,
>> without having to install anything other than the Adobe Flash player
>> (via their repo), and the libflashsupport RPM: http://youtube.com/
>>
>>> 2- can anybody please tell me how to download and install latest
>>> nvida
>>> driver for my computer?
>>
>> Up until a day or so ago, I would have said add the Livna repo to
>> your
>> computer, and yum install akmod-nvidia (rebuilds itself after any new
>> kernel installations), *OR* kmod-nvidia (requires updating with an
>> updated kmod-nvidia RPM after any new kernel installations). But
>> Livna
>> has just merged into RPM fusion, and I'm not sure of the procedure
>> for
>> starting from scratch, now.
>>
>> I see no harm in installing the Livna repo RPM for Fedora 9, then
>> doing
>> yum update once or twice to let it sort itself out. Then yum install
>> the nvidia RPM that you want. See: <http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/>.
>> I'm sure it'd be a bit less messy to start off with the RPM Fusion
>> repo,
>> but I can't advise about doing something that I've not done, myself.
>>
>> The kmod-nvidia also had two variations, for 96xx series and legacy
>> graphics cards. See: http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/LivnaSwitcher
>>
>> --
>> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
>> 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686
>>
>> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I
>> read messages from the public lists.
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
I ran into a situation with Firefox where I had an older version of the
Adobe flash plugin loaded and loaded a newer one thinking it would
over-write the old one. It loaded in a new location and I ended up
having two of them installed
This showed up when I used "about:plugins" and looked at the plugins
Firefox reported. I then had to do some searching to find the older
version and remove it. This has been sometime about and I'm not at that
machine so I can't give any more details.
Hope this help a little.
~~R
15 years, 7 months
f9 and firefox
by Reg Clemens
I am just bringing up f9, and am having problems with FireFox.
Normal things seem to display OK, but film clips dont, rather I get a
screen saying that I need the flash player.
If I go thru the button pushing to get the flash player and try the
film clip again, Im right back where I started, being told that I need
to load the flash player.
Is this because I have a 64bit FireFox, and there is only a 32bit
plugin? If so I wish the system would either tell me that no plugin
exists, or warn me that its not going to load the plugin. Ive wasted
a lot of time on this one.
And, if this is the case what do I do?
Can I (somehow) load a 32bit firefox (why there is a 64bit one is not
clear), and then get the plugin to work -- deleting the 64bit one nach.
--
Reg.Clemens
reg(a)dwf.com
15 years, 7 months
Init partition mounting regression?
by Arthur Pemberton
For some reason (I think it's the fault of "suspend to disk" but have
no evidence) my JFS HDD got corrupted, and boot up just showed
partition mounting as failed, no useful errors could be found in
/var/log/messages or dmesg (by the way, not having boot.log still
sucks) There wasn't even an indication of which mount point failed --
I found out later when MythTv had failed to record several programs.
Anyways, what ever happened to the system reporting these kind of
issues somewhere? It was a bit extreme, but a machine wouldn't even
boot if a mount point was bad.
Is this a regression? Is this something I should bug? If so, against what?
--
Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin
( www.pembo13.com )
15 years, 7 months
F9 Sound Config
by GN
Hi All,
My laptop is a Medion, Core 2 Duo, 3Gb memory, Nvidia GeForce 8600m GS
and I'm not sure of the sound card except that it also has a winmodem as
part of it.
I am unable to find any way to configure it. There is no
system-config-sound or similar. alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386.rpm,
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386.rpm, alsa-utils-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386.rpm
and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.16-4.fc9.i386.rpm are installed.
Can anyone help me with this problem please?
dmesg output for 'sound' is as follows:
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1810: chipset global capabilities = 0x4401
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:749: codec_mask = 0x7
hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC883, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2857: autoconfig: line_outs=1
(0x1a/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2861: speaker_outs=1
(0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2865: hp_outs=1 (0x15/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2866: mono: mono_out=0x0
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2874: inputs: mic=0x18, fmic=0x19,
line=0x0, fline=0x0, cd=0x0, aux=0x0
hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC268, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2857: autoconfig: line_outs=0
(0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2861: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2865: hp_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2866: mono: mono_out=0x0
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2874: inputs: mic=0x0, fmic=0x0,
line=0x0, fline=0x0, cd=0x0, aux=0x0
hda_codec: Cannot set up configuration from BIOS. Using base mode...
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Surround Playback
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Center Playback
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave LFE Playback
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Side Playback
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Mono Playback
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Line-Out Playback
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Surround Playback
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Center Playback
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave LFE Playback
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Side Playback
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Mono Playback
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Front Playback Volume:0 is
already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Front Playback Switch:0 is
already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Headphone Playback Volume:0
is already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Headphone Playback Switch:0
is already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Mic Boost:0 is already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Front Mic Boost:0 is
already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Capture Volume:0 is already
present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Capture Switch:0 is already
present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Input Source:0 is already
present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:IEC958 Playback Con Mask:0
is already present
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1b.0 disabled
Thanks.
--
Kind regards,
Graeme Nichols.
...
Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/)
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15 years, 7 months
Re: Vampire Instance of Kaffiene becomes Kaf-fiend
by R. G. Newbury
R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > I tried to play something with Kaffeine, then used File->Quit to
dismiss
> > it. IT KEEPS COMING BACK! When I boot the machine (Thinkpad T40 Fedora
> > 8) I get an instance of Kaffeine. (I have on occasion also gotten an
> > instance of Firefox). This is with clean shutdowns, not forced
power-down.
> >
> > Where is this information stored, and how do I stop it?
>If you're using kde, session information is stored in
>~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc
>nuke/edit that to suit.
Thanks, I've now done that.
Geoff
15 years, 7 months
Error starting Gnome Settings Daemon?
by Richard Shaw
I just logged into my F9 laptop after some recent updates I got an error
"Error Starting Gnome Settings Daemon". Relogging nor rebooting helped. I
tried moving my .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome2 directories and letting gnome
recreate them but it didn't help.
I searched the web but most everything I found was from 2006 or earlier.
Anyone else having this problem or have suggestions?
I did update with the new rpmfusion repo but not sure if that's the cause. I
reviewed my yum.log but none of the packages that updated on that day jumped
out at me.
BTW, what is the name of the executable or the Gnome Settings daemon? I was
expecting something like gnome-settings but didn't find anything like that.
Richard
15 years, 7 months
fedora 9 toshiba satellite A300 display brightness and screensaver
by Govind Chandra
Hi,
Just installed fedora 9 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 1G0.
Everything is fine except that if the screen saver kicks in and then I
reactivate the display by either by the keyboard or by moving the
mouse, the brightness is back to 100 percent and I have to reduce it
again using the Fn F6 key combination. I have set the brightness to be
around 15% via the System -> Preferences -> System -> Power
Management. When the laptop first boots up it has the right
brightness. Only when it wakes up after the screen saver has kicked in
that the brightness is back to 100%. The screen saver is set to Blank
Screen.
Grateful for any suggestions.
Govind
15 years, 7 months
Hang coming out of suspend
by Geoffrey Leach
ASUS Z84F. When I suspend (with appropriate quirks) under
kernel-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686, half of the time the system hangs on
coming out of the suspend, requiring reboot. Things appear to start out
well, then, before the display and keyboard are enabled, the system
hangs. Earlier 2.6.26 kernels and kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 (now in
use) work fine. Neither /var/log/messages nor dmesg show anything
wrong.
Fedora 9 is up-to-date.
Before I submit to Bugzilla, (a) is anyone having a similar problem and
(b) any suggestions for data gathering?
Thanks.
15 years, 7 months
Kernel 2.6.27 for iwl5000 to be work well
by Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Hi all,
I read that the iwl5000 Wifi card is not usable with Fedora 9 (kernel
2.6.26 now).
I'm unable to make it working also with ndiswrapper.
I have a Sony Vaio FW11E.
Someone has the wifi working on it?
Tnx to all
Ambrogio
15 years, 7 months
Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 57, Issue 42
by Vincent
> 1. Re: Wireless, Broadcom (Patrick O'Callaghan)
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:22:14 -0430
> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom
> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
> Message-ID: <1225986734.594.35.camel(a)bree.homelinux.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 05:28 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
> > > Look at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96
> >
> > I could not connect to the above link a message came on give me 2
> > choice
> > "get me out of here" and "add exception" adding exception indicate
> > high
> > security risk, I decided not to go forward. any advice? thank you.
> >
>
> It just means Firefox didn't recognize the site certificate. Which is
> normal for sites that don't want to pay an exorbitant fee to Verisign or
> whatever. I wouldn't worry about in this case since the RPMs are signed
> anyway. I would worry if it was your bank.
Thank you, but I bump in some more problems. I followed OK up to step 6 blacklisting,
on step 7 "remove the old module and activate the new one", did not work for me.
First it could not find rmmod so I used /sbin/rmmod then could not find
modprobe so I used the /sbin/modprobe but now it could not find wl. plese help.
15 years, 7 months