RPM Fusion needs a maintainer for the package madwifi in F11 and later
by Thorsten Leemhuis
Attached mail FYI -- if you want to step us as maintainer for madwifi
please contact me (existing Fedora contributors or maintainers with
existing packaging skills would be ideal for the job). Madwifi will be
dropped from RPM Fusion for F11 and later if no one steps up to maintain
it. Feel free to forward this mail to other channels if you think it
makes sense to do so.
CU
knurd
15 years, 3 months
qemu-kvm: qns regarding network and usb keyboard setup
by Suvayu Ali
Hi all,
Recently I started experimenting with kvm with F10 as the host, and I
have been having some problems.
I need to login to my virtual machine from the shell from the host
itself and/or from another machine remotely over the internet. I went
through the man pages but couldn't make anything out of it. I am a
newbie so could someone please point me to a resource where I can read
up more on this which is a little more understandable?
As for my keyboard problem, I can't seem to use my arrow keys inside
the VM and for some odd reason the up arrow key seems to behave as the
print screen key. Neither can I go to a virtual terminal using
Ctrl+Alt+<Fn key>. everytime I press Ctrl+Alt it releases the keyboard
input and I am back in the host. However using Ctrl+Alt+f to go to
full screen works. So far I have tried this with F11-alpha,
Debian-lenny and a customized image of SL 4. (I posted about this
about a week back, there was one response but I couldn't really
understand what was said and there were no follow up posts. so
apologies for repeating this again)
Kernel: 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64
keyboard: Logitech Internet 350 (USB)
Thanks in advance.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
15 years, 3 months
F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?
by McGuffey, David C.
Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those occasional
Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools provides the best
(read most accurate) virtualization environment on F10? Which one is
the easiest to install and configure? I had problems with VMWare on F7,
and would prefer not to go that route again. I have no experience with
the other two.
Dave McGuffey
Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM
Save a Tree...Unless necessary don't print this e-mail
15 years, 3 months
Network Manager problem with wpa_supplicant
by John Wendel
On my newly installed F10 box, NM insists on starting wpa_supplicant,
but I don't have any wireless devices.
How can I configure NM so that it doesn't run wpa_supplicant?
Thanks,
John
15 years, 3 months
how to enable mysql on php interpreter
by David Antonio Garcia Campos
Hi everyone,
Im using fedora 10 ,mysql, apache and php are installed.
but everytime i use mysql_connect, my php script just dies.
from the phpinfo i see that mysql is not enabled:
'./configure' '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
'--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
'--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin'
'--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share'
'--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64'
'--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var'
'--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--cache-file=../config.cache'
'--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-config-file-path=/etc'
'--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' '--disable-debug' '--with-pic'
'--disable-rpath' '--without-pear' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl'
'--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr'
'--with-xpm-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-t1lib=/usr'
'--without-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv'
'--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-png' '--with-expat-dir=/usr'
'--with-pcre-regex=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-exif'
'--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem'
'--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-track-vars'
'--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-yp' '--enable-wddx' '--with-kerberos'
'--enable-ucd-snmp-hack' '--with-unixODBC=shared,/usr'
'--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dbx'
'--enable-dio' '--without-mime-magic' '--without-sqlite'
'--with-libxml-dir=/usr' '--with-xml' '--with-system-tzdata'
'--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--without-mysql' '--without-gd'
'--without-odbc' '--disable-dom' '--disable-dba' '--without-unixODBC'
'--disable-pdo' '--disable-xmlreader' '--disable-xmlwriter' '--disable-json'
'--without-pspell'
can anyone let me know how i can enable mysql on php?
Thanks,
Dave
15 years, 3 months
User unlock too frequent -
by Bob Goodwin
I'm trying to configure F-10 on a new computer, an effort that takes
considerable time. I collect information on this computer and then
when I turn back to the "new" computer it's sleeping and requires me
to jog the mouse and enter a long password again. I don't mind doing
that but over the course of a day I am repeating that pointless action
a "hundred times!"
There must be a way to extend the idle interval before this is happens?
How do I change it?
Bob
15 years, 3 months
Can I set DPI for login window (GDM)?
by Konstantin Svist
I connected my computer to a 52" TV (1920x1080, HDMI) - and it shows me
huge fonts on the login window. They're so large, that some of the text
runs off screen.
Is there a way I can tell it to use the normal (96?) DPI?
Thanks
15 years, 3 months
Re: kubuntu vs fedora initrd init files
by Jackson Byers
Mikkel responded:
To tell if Ubuntu does the same thing, you would have to do the same
type of install. The reordering of the disks is because of two
reasons. The first is because of the BIOS, and affects Grub. When
you boot from a USB device, that device becomes BIOS drive 80, or
Grub drive hd0. This is because what ever hard drive you boot from
is automatically set to BIOS drive 80. This is also true when you
tell the BIOS to boot from the second hard drive in the machine.
The other reason affects the kernel ordering. How the kernel assigns
drives depends on the module loading order. Because you have to load
the usb_storage module from the initrd, the USB drive is the first
controller scanned. (There are ways to change that, but it not
easy.) This affects any kernel, or distribution that uses modules.
You run into the same thing when you install Ubuntu to a USB drive.
That is why a USB install is only offered as an expert install.
Mikkel
------------------
ikkel,
thanks for response. As is often the case, your response if full of info.
I am trying to absorb it all.
> To tell if Ubuntu does the same thing, you would have to do the same
> type of install.
First, let's be sure we are on same page.
What I did was to boot a usbexternaldisk copy of main fc5.
(this was not an anaconda install to the usbdisk)
I did this 2ways, each with its own grub.conf stanza
1) using kernel,initrd from a kubuntu 6.06 dapper
this boots, disks are _not_ reordered ie usb is seen as sdc
2) using the kernel,initrd of the fc5copy(same as in mainfc5)
this boots, disks _are_ reordered ie usb is seen as sda
But, my bios does not see the usb disk, so in _both_ cases
I copied the /boot files from the fc5copy into sdb3 = (hd1,2)
This makes it some kind of usb/scsi hybrid bc the /boot files are on sdb
So when you say "have to do same type of install"
I think you mean, make a usbdisk copy of the kubuntu install (now on sdb5)
and then use the kubuntu kernel,initrd to boot this.
Then, if this again results in disks _not_ reordered,
only then will be able to see "if ubuntu does the same thing".
Correct me if I am not understanding you.
this will take some time, but I want to go thru with it.
I first have to mv the fc5copy out of the topdir of the usb(its one large
partn)
and have my backup scripts do the copy of the kubuntu install to
topdir of usb.
Jack
15 years, 3 months
F10: hal/fdi/policy fdi files not working?
by wwp
Hello all,
after I installed Fedora 10, I copied my HAL policy files
(/etc/hal/fdi/policy/*.fdi) from my old Fedora 8 so that my external
USB disks get mounted as there were previously. I restarted hald,
but inserting disks don't mount them automatically.
According to lshal, the keys defined in my .fdi files should
match. I pruned /var/log/message for hal output but nothing appears
there, thus I started hald manually with --verbose=yes --use-syslog,
but even if hald activity is shown, it doesn't show any error or talk
about .fdi files.
Any hint? Did something change in the way hal can be used to automount
devices since Fedora 8 or did I miss something?
Regards,
--
wwp
15 years, 3 months
Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes
by Vijay Gill
Hi
I just came across this issue on my server at home which complained
about the lack of space which I knew was wrong. It was supposed to
have atleast 3.5 gig free. On investigating I found that there a few
lines showing the following behaviour.
Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that
the file is a lot smaller. Also I am sure the the cluster size is not
512M (or am I wrong there?).
I have provided the relevant information from fstab, du, ls and uname
and if more info is needed, I can provide that too. But is there a
solution to this problem?
Vijay
/dev/sda2 / xfs
noatime,nodiratime,async,allocsize=1M,noikeep 0 0
[root@aria ~]# du -sh /var/log/httpd/* | grep M
512M /var/log/httpd/webserver-access_log
[root@aria ~]# ls -l /var/log/httpd/webserver-access_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2884214 2009-02-15 16:18
/var/log/httpd/webserver-access_log
[root@aria ~]# xfs_info /dev/sda2
meta-data=/dev/root isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=524121 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2
data = bsize=4096 blocks=2096482, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0
log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
[root@aria ~]# uname -a
Linux aria 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 02:09:37 EST
2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
15 years, 3 months