Video distortion
by max
I had previously installed and removed the ati driver (from livna) because
it was causing some distortion on my desktop. I did not have time to deal
with the problem then so its been on the back burner for awhile now. Just
yesterday i reinstalled but nothing appears to have changed. The difference
is now I would like/ want to use 3d acceleration. The distortion appears on
the bottom of the desktop. The top of my screen is reappearing over the
bottom 2 or 3 inches of the screen. The computer remains usable but some
programs are affected more than others by this phenomenon. Obviously I would
like the distortion to go away. I haven't seen this issue using the livna
drivers with other Fedora boxes but those have different video cards than
this one.
My video card is an ATI Radeon X1800 256MB. Is there some modification that
can be made to xorg.conf that will fix this? Has anyone seen this problem?
can anyone point me to a solution? I am in the process of researching a
solution using google, bugzilla, and this list. Any and all responses
welcome.
Max
16 years, 3 months
quicker updates - use presto
by Valent Turkovic
Hi,
how many of you use presto plugin for yum that does deltarpms
downloads and now whole rpms while updating?
How do you find it? I find it excellent! I have a fast internet
connection and I still find it really helpful - I can't imagine how is
it to update on a slow internet connections without presto.
If you look at the link:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePresto
you can see that it will be on by default on Fedora 9 - nice :)
Valent.
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16 years, 3 months
Re: Burning a kernel
by MK
ric moore brags:
>> ps. you are not BURNING a new kernel, you are COMPILING one. but
>> call
>> it "rolling" and you might be ok
>
> heheheh, back when I would install the latest and greatest on my 486
> DX2/66, rolling did not have the eclat of the word "burning" as it
> took forever, made my head hurt and my eyes burn from watching it.
> But, back when, the speed up was noticeable when I did that.
wow, thanks for this piece of etymology, i thot you waz just ignorant.
i do seem to remember watching text scRoll for hours, it seemed cool at
the time and gave me some to eat noodles.
> What's got me into a
> kernel "compiling" mood is that playing a movie DVD and my system
> talking to the serial port to my stinkin' modem ain't cutting it.
> Damn, you would think an Athlon64-3200, running a 32bit OS with 2 gigs
> of memory could handle it. It happens whether I use Xine, VLC or any
> other player.
well ric i am running a P4 with 440 megs, downloading (thru a serial
port), writing this in balsa, and ignoring "dodgeball" on xine plus a
few other things and everything runs peachy with less than half the
memory used and the CPU @ 30-70%. I almost always run root. I'd be
pissed off if i couldn't customize the kernel, it may bear some
responsibilities.
16 years, 3 months
Re: whole path in nautilus title bar?
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: klybear <klybear(a)gmail.com>
|
| On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:58:55 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
|
| > I rarely use Nautilus. But every time I do, I wonder why the window
| > title bar only includes that last component of the current path.
|
| I think it's a setting Hugh. Assuming I read your question right?
|
| Make sure the location bar option is ticked under the view menu; then
| click the icon that looks like a pen writing on paper and the path
| appears. At least it does here.
I don't always want to waste the space for a "location bar". I want
the path in the window title bar. The title bar isn't doing anything
else interesting -- just showing the last component of the path is
dumb.
The pen-writing-on-paper icon of the location bar just toggles between
two ways of displaying the path: pure editable text or a scrollable
row clickable blobs, one for each path component. Both modes would seem to
have merits.
There seems to be some important but unclear option:
Edit: Preferences: Behavior: Always open in browser windows.
If I tick that, I get a lot more "stuff" (wasting space) in new
nautilus windows.
16 years, 3 months
yum: "gocr dependency missing"
by Aldo Foot
I was updating my system using my local yum repo, and everything
was ok except for the e2fsprogs updates; yum complained "gocr
dependency missing"
and it would bail out.
So in my local repo I disabled the Base part of it and left the
Updates enabled and then
selected the actual Fedora Base repo. With this the gocr dependency
was installed.
The same thing happened for several kdegraphics packages.
Why did the gocr needed the "real" F8 Base package repository to install?
16 years, 3 months
Where is default character encoding set?
by Chris G
My gnome-terminal windows are defaulting to iso-8859-1 rather than
utf-8 because the "Current Locale" is iso-8859-1.
This may well be because I set my Fedora 7 locale to iso-8859-1 and
the setting has got carried across to my Fedora 8 installation.
However I can't see where it's set.
How do I get everything to be UTF-8?
--
Chris Green
16 years, 3 months
whole path in nautilus title bar?
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
I rarely use Nautilus. But every time I do, I wonder why the window
title bar only includes that last component of the current path.
Even Microsoft's Windows Explorer has an option to show the complete
path in the title bar. I don't see such an option under Edit:
preferences.
This debian bugs list message suggests that they have fixed it (for
2.14.3). But that fix doesn't seem to be in nautilus-2.18.3-1.fc7
(the one on my f7 system):
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg310815.html
Am I missing some feature, perhaps with a secret configuration tool?
16 years, 3 months
Slow boot for unconnected LAN
by tns1
FC8:
There is a long timeout (> 10sec) when booting without a LAN connection.
I am not sure if this only waiting for a dhcp response or if it would
happen even if my IP was static.
The behavior I'd like is to default to a specific static IP if I don't
get a dynamic assignment in 3 secs or so. Can I get this without a
kernel rebuild?
Also how do I set the default tabstops from 8 to 4 in vim? There is no
.vimrc file.
thanks
16 years, 3 months
Can one force yum to install something that's already installed?
by Chris G
Is there any way to force yum to re-install a package that has got
corrupted (well, *may* have got corrupted)?
Obviously I could do:-
yum remove <package>
yum install <package>
but it seems like there ought to be an easier way to do it.
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Chris Green
16 years, 3 months