Kde problems
by david walcroft
Hi,
I've reposted as I need to try and get a response as it's a ridiculous
situation reinstalling because I cannot get kde to work as it should.
I'm using fc12-86_64,my problem is when ever I logout/login or
shut-down/reboot I lose kde,it will not start,only a blue screen.
and no desktop.Sometimes I get the error 'cannot access
/usr/bin/autorun: no such file or directory' so I cp -r /usr/bin/autorun
from my backup and logout/login with no result.
An install a while ago my sys. booted into a default desktop not my
usual desktop,I found out that kde was not reading my ~/.kde file,I cp
-r a copy from ~.kde.old ~.kde but on logging out/in the ~.kde file was
over written.The only solution I've had is to reinstall the system.
I've got no idea how to troubleshoot these problems.Help would be
appreciated.
david
14 years, 4 months
no sound with real play on fedora 12
by Ralph Blach
I have a fedor 12 x86_64 installion with and it is almost working perfectly.
Skype works, with a little help from google, and everything pretty much
works. the 32 bit wrapped flash play works, and mozplugger works.
When I installed the lastest realplayer the video works great but no
sound comes out.
I get the message,
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1010:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
I am sure this is a library issue. Does anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks Chip
14 years, 4 months
What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?
by linux guy
My wife is a busy professional person. The organization she works for
uses Microsoft applications for scheduling and email. The users access
their information via web browsers. She is using the Safari browser on
her iPhone to gain access to her information.
My wife needs better access to her schedule and email. Right now if she
doesn't have an Internet connection she doesn't have access. And the
web user interface was designed to be used with a desktop computer with
a large monitor, not a small handheld device like an iPhone.
There must be a better way.
I understand that some of the OS desktop apps (Evolution and Kontact)
are going to be working with Microsoft Exchange. I suspect that when
they do she will be able to access her information via them.
So what is the smallest practical device that will run F12 ?
How else could one run apps like Evolution and Contact on a small
device ? Could they be made to run on a Symbian device ? What about
Android ?
Thanks
14 years, 4 months
Fedora 11 network share browsing using Natuilus with Samba - Fixed?
by KC8LDO
I did an awful lot of research using Google on the network file share
browsing issue I had with Fedora 11 using Nautilus. The two things that
stand out are something the ISP's are doing and also with the NetBIOS name
resolution order done by Samba.
It seems many ISP's are now using "DNS redirection" in place of simply
returning an error message that the URL can't be found with the appropriate
error code. Instead they redirect bad URL's to some advert site or offer to
do a search for a similar URL. This redirection seems to really screw with
Samba's NetBIOS name resolution method. Fortunately for me Comcast has a
way through the user account preferences to turn this "feature" OFF. Various
posts on the 'net claim this violates the documented way DNS look ups work.
The suggestion is to either turn it off if you can, which may involve a
phone call to your ISP, if not then LOUDLY complain about it screwing up you
network.
The second item is the NetBIOS name resolution order in Samba. I have the
following line in my samba.conf file:
name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host dhcp
Anybody care to comment about this?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/389909
Right now browsing for local shares using Samba through Nautilus's "Network"
option seems to be working, for now.
Regards;
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO
14 years, 4 months
Fedora 12 nvidia seg fault
by Kevin Kempter
Hi All;
I just upgraded my Dell M6400 to Fedora 12
I ran into the KDE delay when you click on the task bar bug so I went out and
grabbed the (not yet released) xorg server files:
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.3-5.fc12.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.3-5.fc12.x86_64
This in fact fixed the delay on click issue. However now when I boot my laptop
I see this in the boot.log:
Checking for module nvidia.ko: [ OK ]
Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 520: 1248
Segmentation fault "$@"
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance
14 years, 4 months
Printing problem w. Photosmart 8450.
by Erik P. Olsen
I have an HP Photosmart 8450 installed on fedora 12. It prints beautifully when
it comes to colour pages on plain paper format A4. However, when printing photos
it fails. I simply cannot force it to print 4 by 6 inch borderless photos. The
printer test page comes out in the correct size but the printer does not accept
that the photo tray is activated and when I activate the A4 plain paper tray the
4 by 6 inch test page comes out on A4 paper.
I have set the following options:
Media Size: Photo Borderless 4x6 in
Media source: Photo tray
Output Mode: Color
Media Type: Photo Paper
Print Quality: High-Resolution Photo
Installed Inks: Photo + Color
The driver is: hpcups 3.8.9
Does anyone know what is wrong?
--
Erik.
14 years, 4 months
re: F12 installation ruins booting partition where Windows dual booting
by Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:31:41 -0800 Barry Yu wrote:
> I started F12 installation and everything seamed going well, finally the F12 finished and
> to reboot, after the BIOS process and then the system got stuck: only the cursor
> blinking a top left, entire screen is black, and that's it, can't go any further.
I think you met this bug I opened:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533658
It should have been solved but in rawhide, so ready for F13.
For F12 a workaround: after install and before clicking on reboot
button, you can make an Alt+F2 switching to a console screen and use
fdisk to restore correct bootable flag to your windows partition and
removing the one set up by Fedora.
HIH,
Gianluca
14 years, 4 months
F12 installation making system won't boot
by barry yu
I have a system dual boot xp with windows 7 which working fine, I installed the F12 into this system, after first part of the installation complete, and then reboot, the BIOS check finished, and the system got stuck, only the cursor kept blinking at top left and won't go further, fortunately before f12 installation I made an image of the XP which was in first partiontion of hard drive, primary active, so I used the image to recover XP and then reboot, this time the F12 can come back on and finished the 2nd half installation.
Here is my hard drive layout ;
1st partition primary active for XP.
the rest of hard drive is extended partition in following order; Windows 7, F12 /boot,F12 swap, F12 / all in ext3, and the grub was put in mbr of hard drive.
Looks like the F12 installation chaged something in primary of hard drive so it won't boot up until I used the XP image to recover it. Can someone tell me what happened?
14 years, 4 months
Re: Installation plays hardball
by R. G. Newbury
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:10:37 +1030, Tim wrote
>It makes almost no sense to use it on laptops, where you can only have
> single drive (adding an outboard drive is quite impractical, you'd end
> up with a box of bits all cabled together). And you face the
> difficulty of finding recovery tools for LVM (I haven't seen any) for
> any repair jobs, but there are widely written about tools for
rescuing > data from ext3 partitions.
>The only advantage I found for using LVM on my laptop was encryption.
> I could have the encompassing LVM volume encrypted, and as many
> partitions as I liked, and only have to unlock the outer container.
> Using various ext3 partitions, I had to type in the password numerous
> times to boot up the computer.
> If you're the sort that uses one huge partition for everything (and
> that does seem to be the recommendation, these days), *and* you never
> intend to add a second drive, then LVM is pointless to you.
ONE HUGE PARTITION? I'd like to know who is crazy enough to recommend
that, because I would want to stay well away from him. That's *almost*
as bad as win(spit!).
I always set up my boxen with separate partitions for /boot, /home,
/tmp, /var and /.
And /var/lib/mysql is a symlink into /home/misc, as is /var/www/html.
That way if /tmp or /var ever fill from error messages, it is simple to
clean up and get running again. Also, with /home as a separate
partition, it is dead simple to install again, or install a new version
or distro without destroying all your data.
Most installs seem to want to over-write /var too, even if/when you say
'Don't format', which is why /var/lib/mysql and /var/www/html are
symlinked elsewhere. (You *DO* want to lose your Nolapro accounting
setup and accounting data too in one swell foop?).
On this desktop I also have a partition for /usr/local, for all my *own*
programs and scripts.
Geoff
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14 years, 4 months
any fundamental difference between fedora and suse NFSv4?
by Robert P. J. Day
i'm currently reviewing a doc on suse linux enterprise 11, the
section on NFS, but i don't have a SLES 11 machine in front of me.
could anyone who uses both SLES 11 and fedora 12 comment on how
indistinguishable the NFS setups are across those two distros?
so far, i haven't seen a lot that's massively incompatible, and i
wouldn't expect to. obviously, the fundamental files are going to be
the same.
rday
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14 years, 4 months