Help with Research
by Iffat Jabeen
Dear users of Gnu/Linux,
Do you use Gnu/Linux? Do you consider yourself part of a larger
Gnu/Linux free and open source software community? Whether you've just
starting clicking around in Ubuntu or you've been tweaking your kernel
for years, we are interested in learning about if, and how, you've
learned (and possibly taught) as part of the Gnu/Linux community.
As part of our graduate studies, we, Don Davis and Iffat Jabeen, are
compiling a survey of Gnu/Linux users and their possible learning
experiences within the context of the Gnu/Linux FOSS community. The
results of the study will be presented to other Education Technologists
and may further the education world's understanding of the Gnu/Linux
community.
Please share your experiences via the following link:
http://survey.education.txstate.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=LPP
Your assistance in distributing the survey link to LUGs and Gnu/Linux
oriented forums is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
Don Davis and Iffat Jabeen
13 years, 10 months
Problem with tarring out a tar file
by JD
Hi,
I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it.
No problems.
The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so
they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file names
and directory names, like
Barrè
Mächter
among others.
So I tarred out the whole directory into a tar file.
Later I moved that tar file to another mounted partition.
I cd'ed to the mounted partition and tried to untar it:
tar xpvf my-tar-ball.tar
For every file in the tarball, tar outputs the message
<.....long.......file........name>: No such file or directory.
Any clues why this is happening?
Thanx,
JD
13 years, 10 months
FYI, Updated Adobe Air Now Works
by Fedora User
For those of you who wanted to install TweetDeck of Seesmic, with a
recent update, Adobe Air now works perfectly on F13, BTW, I still
prefer Choquok.
13 years, 10 months
Trying to find startup script that loads appliecations in the gnome-sessons app ?!?
by Bill Case
Hi;
I want to add a line to the script that starts the programs listed in
gnome-session-manager. There must be (??) an rc.d script or something
like it that starts a list of startup programs kept somewhere. I can't
find it.
I have had the following script line suggested to me.
xev | grep -m 1 ReparentNotify; firefox & xchat-gnome &
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 13, Gnome 2.30.2
Evo.2.20.2, Emacs 23.2.1
13 years, 10 months
Paltalk on Fedora
by Mike Chambers
Has anyone gotten paltalk scene to install/work on fedora, and assuming
wine? I must be an idiot cuz I got wine installed but it wouldn't
install the/any programs, as kept getting "couldnt' start/run start.exe"
or something along those lines.
I used to use the paltalk express to get on, using flash 10.0.45 I think
but paltalk doesn't seem to recognize that version the last week or so.
And if I try to install flash 10.1 (on a 64 bit system) using
nspluginwrapper it eventually gets on, but the number pad on my keyboard
stopped working and few other things. Just didn't seem like everything
worked doing it that way.
And no pidgin doesn't work with paltalk as have seen on the internet
while googling this problem.
Soo, any ideas?
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"Best lil town on Earth!"
13 years, 10 months
Fedora 13 - Shutdown works, but Restart Freezes??
by Michael D. Setzer II
I installed Fedora 13 on a Gateway E2000 and have found that restart/reboot
freezes, but a shutdown does a full power down correctly.
By default goes to the graphical screen, the same for both, but with
shutdown, it says shutting down and then powers off. The restart shows the
restarting message, but then stops responding. No keyboard lights change,
no CTRL-ALT-DEL, nothing. Only a forced power off gets the machine going.
Tried it from a terminal window same results.
Tried reboot -f same results.
Even loaded busybox and used busybox reboot -f
Don't see anything in the log files...
It doesn't come up with an error on the reboot, so it seems to be shutting
down correctly, but just not doing the final reboot process.
Thanks.
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13 years, 10 months
Re: Problem loading linux drivers for audio on motherboard
by Stephen Gallagher
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On 07/08/2010 03:09 PM, Alan Nicoll wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestiono but:
>
> [root@NN audiodrvrs]# yum install kernel-devel
> Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit, remove-with-leaves
> Setting up Install Process
> Package kernel-devel-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 already installed and
> latest version
> Nothing to do
> [root@NN audiodrvrs]#
>
> I removed the bad links to build and source in
> /lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 and tried it again with the same
> results.
>
Note that the two kernel versions there do not match. Chances are you
have a newer kernel installed that you haven't yet rebooted to take
advantage of. When you attempt to build the module, it's trying to build
against the running kernel, but the headers are only available for the
newer kernel.
- --
Stephen Gallagher
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13 years, 10 months
Problem loading linux drivers for audio on motherboard
by Alan Nicoll
I have determined my sound problem (no S/PDIF output) is due to not having
the right drivers loaded. The install.sh file that comes with the
motherboard will not run; this code fails:
#Check if user have installed the kernel source
echo "Second, please make sure you have installed the kernel source."
if [ -L /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VER/source -a -L /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VER/build
]
then echo "It's OK."
else echo "You haven't installed the kernel source." && exit 1
fi
This fails because the links to 'source' and 'build' in
/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 are broken:
This link cannot be used, because its target
"../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64" doesn't exist.
So now I'm a little lost as to what I need to do next. My searches for info
have returned some instructions for how to build a 'hello world' smple
kernel module but I'm more interested in figuring out what module(s) are
missing and how to install them.
Nick
13 years, 10 months
Server hangs
by Srinivasan
Dear all,
We have installed Fedora Linux 8.0 on our server and we have a web based
application running on DB MySql. The server hangs very frequently(atleast
once a day). All operations come to stand still including the keyboard and
mouse etc.. We need to hard boot the system again to make the server up and
running.
Please help us to overcome this issue.
Regards
J.Srinivasan
Chief Executive Officer
Sosaley Technologies Private Limited
Mobile: +91-9840298411
Phone: +91-44-26182638
URL: www.sosaley.com
13 years, 10 months
Floating point exception (core dumped) when exec busybox in Fedora 13
by Jerry Wang
the busybox is 1.16.2, build on Fedora 13 as static linked. It results
floating point exception when I exec it as:
[jerryw@localhost busybox-1.16.2]$ ./busybox ping www.google.com
Floating point exception (core dumped)
[jerryw@localhost busybox-1.16.2]$ rpm -qa | grep gcc
gcc-c++-4.4.4-10.fc13.i686
gcc-4.4.4-10.fc13.i686
libgcc-4.4.4-10.fc13.i686
[jerryw@localhost busybox-1.16.2]$ file ./busybox
./busybox: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(GNU/Linux), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped
I need static link busybox. Any suggestion?
13 years, 10 months