Broken video DVDs (no executable bits on *_TS folders)
by Axel Thimm
Hi,
some home made DVDs by some software is creating *_TS folders with
0400 permissions. This means that only root can really change into
these folders.
Is there a way to tell Fedora to always paste executional bits onto
video DVDs?
I'm trying to convert some people to use Fedora for their home systems
and when they find out that Fedora will ignore their home made DVDs
they don't really care that their Wincrap software generated a bad DVD
("after all it runs on the DVD player").
So while Fedora is actually doing The Right Thing, it is hindering its
own acceptance. :(
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
15 years
TV-out with nvidia drivers in Fedora 10
by James Allsopp
Hi,
I'm trying to get the TV out from my GeForce FX5200 to work. I'd ideally
like it to be on at the same time as my flat screen and with my desktop
extended onto it. I've been searching around for some information, but
most of it seems quite out of date. I've got the proprietary Nvidia
drivers installed at the moment.
I've checked all this and got working under Windows, just need it to
work in Linux.
Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve this,
Much appreciated,
James Allsopp
15 years
Re-enable graphical boot in Fedora 11, switch between Plymouth themes
by Jud Craft
Hey there. Installed F11 preview, really like it. Intel 965GM
graphics card, by the way.
When I first set it up, I was delighted to find that plymouth and the
new graphical boot splash, Compiz, and redirected direct rendering all
work perfectly. I was very glad that at least for my card model,
graphics are doing okay.
However, I installed some system updates -- and a new kernel. For the
heck of it, I also installed one or two other Plymouth themes, like
the Solar theme.
When I did, I no longer get the graphical boot on startup. Kernel
modesetting still works, because even though I get the text-mode boot,
it's a very sharp, high-res text mode boot.
How can I get the graphical splashes back? When I ran grub with my
old kernel, it used the graphical splash just fine. But when I
compare the lines of the original kernel and the update kernel in
grub.conf, they look exactly the same to me (with the "rhgb" and
"quiet" options), so I'm not sure why I'm not getting the splash on my
new kernel.
And, by the by...how exactly do you switch between Plymouth themes
when you have more than one installed?
15 years
Linksys WVC210 Webcam in FC10
by Jim
Fedora 10
I have a Linksys WVC210 Webcam using the ZoneMinder App.
using HTTP, it will work fine in the Firefox with a IP address.
Can I get it to work in VLC ?
I have tried all the settings I know in VLC but can't get it to display.
I setup the network connection in VLC, http, 172.16.1.36 but I can't
get it to work.
As far as ZoneMinder, it is setup and running.
15 years
Selinux, Fail2ban, iptables BUG
by Jim
FC10/KDE
Has anyone run across this problem run across this while running
fail2ban-0.8.3-18.fc10.noarch ??
there are two Redhat bug reports on this same problem and they seem to
think it's fixed, but it isn't.
Bug #
499674
491444
15 years
Can't boot after an update
by DB
Evening All - at least here in Austria it's evening!
On my other machine, I have Fedora10 (preupgraded from a clean F9),
initially working with Gnome, but since January happily running KDE.
For months now, no problems.....
Until yesterday evening! Applied the recommended updates with Yumex &
now cannot login. When I try to login normally, I give in my Username &
password, the login screen goes away, the little circle woergles away
and pouf! back to the login screen.
Tried selecting Gnome instead of KDE at the login, nothing appears to
happen. At the login window, I cannot specify keyboard nor language.
Got myself to a CLI, logged on as root, edited inittab to start in level
3. Login under my normal username is accepted, try startx, screen
flashes some text (something about authority, I think from the bit I can
see), screen goes black then comes back to the CLI with several repeats
of a message about keyboard not compiling, error not fatal, waiting for
X to terminate. Logon as root is accepted, gives a grey screen & then a
Gnome window comes up & seems to work OK.
Tried the Live CD. The original non-KDE one works OK, the KDE CD comes
up to a login window wanting a password for "liveuser" (which it never
did before - this system was installed from the F10-live-kde disc
without any problem); I've tried all the passwords I can think of & it
just keeps coming back to the login screen.....
Anyone got any thoughts as to what might have happened & how I might get
past this %&&(%$$ login??
Many thanks (again) for any help
Dave
15 years
Troubles with gnome-format
by Beartooth
I was using a geekstick (Sandisk Cruzer 4 GB) when the power went
out suddenly. It doesn't boot any more.
My thought was to format it, and re-install the bootable Crunchee
(clone of crunchbang linux) that it had before.
Inserted into this machine, it automounts, and Properties shows
it as /media/disk. When I try to format it, either to FAT or to ext2, it
pops up an error saying permission is denied -- for /dev/sdc
I ran both chown -r btth:btth both against /media/disk and
against /dev/sdc; it seemed to complete normally (or at least, without
any message) both times.
But gnome-format still fails, still with the same error.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
15 years
F9: Kernel kernel-2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.i686 installed May 19th 2009, a problem?
by Dan Thurman
From: /var/log/yum.log:
===================
May 19 14:13:01 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.i686
May 19 14:18:25 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.i686
I noticed strange behaviour with the kernels above, first that it appears
to be installed twice from some reason, but that may not be the issue.
The issue I am seeing is that my Core-2 Duo system is a fast system
before this kernel was installed and was performing fabulously, until
now. It seems to spend an inordinate amount of time loading files
from the disk (disk access is high) for a much longer length of time
and greatly slows the performance of the system. What is also odd,
I note is that gkrellm is showing very little, almost no disk activity
when it is obvious that my system HD LEDs are showing a solid
red activity when the disk accessed.
I also noticed that when I am away from my computer and the screen
locks, unlocking it takes an extraordinary amount of time to respond
(the screen remains blacked out for quite some time) before displaying
my desktop, and also note that my 2GB RAM, 5GB swap is hitting
very hard and this has never-ever happened before this kernel was installed
and in fact I had zero swap activity all this time since I had this new
Mobo installed. The previous kernel when the screen was unlocked,
snapped on much quicker.
Has anyone else seen anything different with this new kernel?
Kind regards,
Dan
15 years
Re:Someone with a good command construct ??
by Arne Chr. Jorgensen
hi,
Not been well lately, and I have not done much clever thinking.
And so, - was the idea without any purpose at all ?
I know that I have messed up a lot, and it took me a long time to
grasp some of of the "new" ideas. And I am not sure I got it right
either.
But all the time I have had examples of "non-recognized-state-changes",
and to attach strace to Xorg, did seem to coincide with some of the
trouble. There may part of programs still running as a process,
and it has to be killed before you try to start up a program again.
Comments ?
//ARNE
- it is getting better, but there are room for improvement ;)
15 years