why is fedora/npviewer.bin crippling my system?
by Robert P. J. Day
it's always been bad but now it's gotten worse -- over the last few
weeks, the combination of firefox and npviewer.bin is just crushing my
machine in terms of response.
"top" shows that the combo of those two programs is regularly
chewing up from 100 to 150 per cent of my CPU (if not more). is this
normal? is this what others are seeing? because if firefox 3 turns
out to be the same kind of processor hog, it's going to be time to
dump firefox for good.
rday
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16 years, 3 months
No more hibernate with kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8
by Laurent Vaills
Hi,
I am using F8 on a DELL system at work. Until now I had the feature of
hibernating my machine during the week-end which was very nice and useful.
But with the last kernel update (2.6.24.3-12.fc8) I do not have this feature
anymore ?
How can it be possible ? Is it regression of this new kernel ?
To get back the hibernate feature, do I have to downgrade my kernel ?
Regards,
Laurent
16 years, 3 months
Re: How do I deactivate the X11 video device auto-settings?
by Bob Marcan
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:15:33 +1030
Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 07:07 -0500, pursley1(a)netscape.net wrote:
> > I need to know if someone can tell me that will force X11 to default
> > to a specific display mode (24 bit color w/ 1024x768 resolution) when
> > it starts up. I am using an LCD display that is not very forgiving in
> > other graphic video modes and for some reason, even though I have that
> > listed as the only option in xorg.conf, it still switches to another
> > video mode when it first starts up.
>
> You *might* want to play with the DDC option in your xorg.conf, to stop
> it probing your hardware for settings, so it just uses what you,
> configure yourself.
>
> e.g. Option "DDC" "off"
>
> You can try reading the man files for your graphics chipset, e.g. "man
> i810" (substituting whatever yours actually is), but I've found that
> some of the options mentioned in these man files were completely
> ignored.
>
Environment:
Fedora 8
xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.6-1.fc8
Nvidia NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) connected with
digital to analog converter (supplied by card vendor) to Compaq KVM
(don't know exact model) to (analog to analog) Dell FP2405FPW LCD monitor.
This solved my problem.
On FC4 everything was working properly.
On F8 i tried nvidia proprietary driver and it worked only in 1920x1080.
With nv driver and this setup i got 1920x1200 back again :-)
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Dell 2405FPW (Analog)"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 60.0
Option "dpms"
Option "DDC" "off"
Option "ReducedBlanking" "on"
ModeLine "1920x1200" 154.0 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235
+hsync -vsync
ModeLine "1600x1200" 161.0 1600 1704 1880 2160 1200 1201 1204 1242
-hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1280x1024" 138.5 1280 1368 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1069
-hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1152x864" 105.0 1152 1224 1352 1552 864 865 868 902 -hsync
+vsync
ModeLine "1024x768" 81.8 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772 802 -hsync
+vsync
ModeLine "800x600" 48.9 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 627 -hsync
+vsync
ModeLine "640x480" 30.7 640 664 728 816 480 481 484 502 -hsync
+vsync
EndSection
Tnx for the tip & best regards, Bob
16 years, 3 months
gecko crashed while watching video on youtube
by potat0
Hi,
the application gecko crashed while I was watching a video on youtube,
this is not the first time that this happens. My computer could gather some data about this crash, but it is not known for Bug buddy. Here the report:
System: Linux 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Mar 12 18:17:20 EDT 2008 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: Enforcing
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Nodoka
Icon Theme: Fedora
Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0
----------- .xsession-errors (1472 sec old) ---------------------
(rhythmbox:3489): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad mpegaudioparse0:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
(rhythmbox:3489): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad mpegaudioparse0:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
(rhythmbox:3489): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to stop mDNS browsing: MDNS service is not running
(rhythmbox:3515): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Failed to invoke RequestName: Connection ":1.24" is not allowed to own the service "org.gnome.Rhythmbox" due to SELinux policy
(rhythmbox:3515): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Got unhandled reply 11601605 from RequestName
(rhythmbox:3515): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to start mDNS browsing: MDNS service is not running
(rhythmbox:3515): Rhythmbox-CRITICAL **: rb_player_gst_play: assertion `mp->priv->playbin != NULL' failed
(rhythmbox:3515): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to stop mDNS browsing: MDNS service is not running
--------------------------------------------------
[... edited by fcp maintainer: deleted way too much debugging information ...]
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16 years, 3 months
Fedora 8 won't remember bluetooth mouse, hidd not running by default
by Adalbert Prokop
Hello everybody!
Today I've migrated a laptop from FC6 to F8. I had some issues with the
bluetooth mouse.
F8 would not remember the pairing to the mouse. I had to type
hidd --connect <...> after each reboot. The hidd daemon was not running
by default and there was no file /etc/init.d/hidd. I solved this problem
by copying the hidd service file from the old FC6 installation, but I
have a suspition there must be another way to get a BT mouse working.
My questions are:
1. How do I pair a BT mouse in F8 *permanently*?
2. Why is the hidd service missing in F8 and what is its substitute?
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bye,
Adalbert
In order to dial out, it is necessary to broaden one's dimension.
16 years, 3 months
Re: Linux group question
by Patrick O'Callaghan
Please don't hijack existing threads to talk about unrelated topics.
This question should be a new thread.
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:14 -0600, kevin kempter wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> I have 2 users which both have need to access various database related
> files.I've created a new group called 'dba'. Most of the time I want
> the users to create files with their default user:group perms, however
> when I'm working on these sql / db files I want the files to be
> created with the default user as the owner but dba as the group.
The standard way of doing this is for the DB software to run setgid as
the dba group. Since you don't say what the DB software is, it's hard to
say if that's appropriate in your case.
poc
16 years, 3 months
/dev/dm-x????
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
I have just used the command fidsk -l in order to see what was my
partitionning system.
I discovered a lot of /dev/dm-x disks without any "valid partition table"
But, if I mount them (mount /dev/dm-9 /mnt) they are mounted without any
problems and these discks are only the partitions allready mounted under
another name (this /dev/dm-9 is /home...)
What does this mean?
I am using lvm
Thanks for lights.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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16 years, 3 months
Re: Re: NFS problem
by Richard England
>From: Gerhard Magnus <magnus(a)agora.rdrop.com>
>Date: 2008/03/24 Mon PM 02:17:50 CDT
>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: NFS problem
>
>On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 13:49 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
>> Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 12:55 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
>> >> Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>> >>> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 10:38 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> >>>> No route to host sounds more like a connection problem. You can ssh between the machines?
>> >>>> --
>> >>> ssh works fine. I've been googling this problem and found that other
>> >>> people have had it and it may be a serious bug. Could it be that NFS
>> >>> doesn't work in fedora and that everybody uses samba anyway?
>> >>>
>> >> Nope, NFS works fine in FC8, both the default kernel, and a number of the
>> >> upgrade kernels, no one in their right mind uses SAMBA within a group of
>> >> Linux/Unix machines, Samba is typically only used when exporting Linux/Unix disk
>> >> to machines that don't have NFS support.
>> >>
>> >> "no route to host" *IS* a connection problem, run the commands "netstat -r" and
>> >> "ifconfig -a" on both the server and client machine, and return the output.
>> >>
>> >> Roger
>> >>
>> > OK... Here's the server:
>> >
>>
>> >
>> > ...and the client:
>> >
>In trying to fix this, I've since run "service iptables stop" on both
>boxes to shut down the firewalls. Then I was able to mount the shared
>directory on the client without problems. I started iptables again and
>can still see the shared directory on the client.
>
>> I don't see anything in either that stands out as wrong, both machines are
>> plugged into the "LAN" ports of the router?
>yes
>>
>> Try "arp -a" on both the client and server, and see what returns.
>Here's the server:
>magnusg@PuteF Mon Mar 24 12:04:28
>[270] ~ $ arp -a
>PuteB.SMAssociates.com (192.168.1.13) at 00:13:20:8C:8D:D2 [ether] on
>eth0
>...and the client:
>magnusg@PuteB Mon Mar 24 12:11:05
>[583] /mnt/PuteF $ arp -a
>PuteF.SMAssociates.com (192.168.1.14) at 00:16:76:C2:73:01 [ether] on
>eth0
>? (192.168.1.1) at 00:06:25:09:6C:22 [ether] on eth0
>
>> If the arp command does not show the other machine, try pinging the other
>> machine and rerun the "arp -a".
>"arp -a" on the server shows the client, while "arp -a" on the client
>shows the server.
>
>> And can you both ping and ssh both directions? client -> server and server ->
>> client?
>yes, both ping and ssh work fine. Is there some other port I need to
>open to get this to work?
>
Take a look at:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2008-01/msg00138.html
~~R
16 years, 3 months
Howto get/build kernel docs from kernel-doc rpm?
by Neal Becker
I want to get the kernel man9 pages.
I have kernel-doc-2.6.24 rpm installed.
In /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.24/Documentation/DocBook/ is a Makefile,
but it doesn't seem to work as-is:
make pdfdocs
make: *** No rule to make target `/scripts/kernel-doc', needed by
`/wanbook.xml'. Stop.
16 years, 3 months
acroread cursor in document
by Frank Cox
I read a lot of documents using acroread in "reading mode". (How many times
can I get the word "read" in one sentence...)
Most of the time, I can use cursor-right (or space) and cursor-left to move
back and forth through my document, page by page. Quite infrequently, though,
for reasons I've not yet figured out, I somehow get a cursor in my document and
cursor-right and cursor-left just move that cursor right and left through the
text on the page instead of moving me to the next/previous page as usual.
I haven't figured out either what causes that cursor to appear, or how to get
rid of it once it does. The only way I have found to get things back to normal
is to close and re-open my document.
These are mostly PDF's that I create myself from OpenOffice or with CUPS-PDF.
What's going on and how can I make it stop?
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16 years, 3 months