Gnome shell with Intel 82865G rev 02
by Shaun Jones
Hello
I have been Googling all day and seem to get conflicting reports that this
Intel graphics will work with gnome shell or not. I have read a lot about
nomodeset either it needs to be there or doesn't. And even some posts about
creating a xorg.conf with Intel set as the driver. So what I want to know
is will gnome shell work with this graphics chip or am I barking up the
wrong tree here. Thanks
12 years, 5 months
systemd or selinux problem? CAP_SYS_MODULE/CAP_NET_ADMIN
by Ian Malone
Hi,
I've got quite a few of these during boot, anyone know what might be the cause?
Loading kernel module for a network device with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated).
Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias X instead.
Where X includes netdev-snd_ice1724, netdev-snd_ac97_codec, netdev-fat,
netdev-vfat, netdev-bluetooth, netdev-nf_conntrack and others. Think
they may all be netdev-. I've tried an autorelabel in case it's a
labelling issue.
This is F15 64bit with:
kernel-2.6.40.8-3.bz731672.fc15.x86_64
kernel-2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64
(both)
systemd-26-13.fc15.x86_64
selinux-policy-targeted-3.9.16-44.fc15.noarch
selinux-policy-3.9.16-44.fc15.noarch
$ getenforce
Enforcing
Thanks.
--
imalone
12 years, 5 months
Preupgrade b0rk Compiz on my laptop.
by Joe Zeff
Yesterday, I used preupgrade on my laptop to go from F14 to F16. When
it was done, I logged back in under XFCE and found that I didn't have a
window manager running. I've gotten xfwm4 working on it, now, but I'd
like to get Compiz-fusion back. I've tried creating and using a
different user, with the same results: fusion-icon won't run. I've
found this in ~/.xsession-errors more than once from my main login, but
not the secondary:
fusion-icon: error: option -s: invalid integer value: 'ession'
Also, If I run
fusion-icon -v & in a terminal, I get this:
[joe@barrayar Documents]$ * Detected Session: xfce
* Searching for installed applications...
-- /usr/bin/compiz
-- /usr/bin/metacity
-- /usr/bin/xfwm4
-- /usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator
-- /usr/bin/ccsm
* Opening CompizConfig context
Backend : ini
Integration : true
Profile : default
Initializing decor options...done
* No GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap with direct rendering context
... present with indirect rendering, exporting: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
* Using the GTK Interface
* Interface not installed
... Trying another interface
* Using the Qt4 Interface
...and when I press Enter, I'm notified of a Segmentation Fault in
fusion-icon. I've not done anything, yet, on my desktop, as I'd like to
know what to do if/when it happens again. I've asked about this on both
the Fedora and XFCE forums, but haven't had a response as yet. Anybody
know what's going on?
12 years, 5 months
rc.sysinit mystery
by Aaron Konstam
In the last section of the F16 System Administrator's Guide it says that
sysctl is run by executing the rc.sysinit script against the parameters
in sysctl.conf.
Now there is no /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script in F16 so that leaves me
with two questions:
1: Who should I send the suggestion to that the section should be
changed?
2. I know I have seen it somewhere but what system program runs sysctl
to set the kernel parameters?
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This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -- William Shakespeare,
"The Merchant of Venice"
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
12 years, 5 months
F16: second monitor is not detected.
by Steven F. LeBrun
Recently updated my laptop to Fedora 16. Fedora 16 is not detecting my
second, external, monitor. The Monitor connects with an HDMI connector
or a DVI connector through a USB docking station. Connecting it either
way does not make a difference. What is strange is that during the boot
process, the system will display the flash screen on the second monitor.
There was a bug filed about this before Fedora 15 was released. Does
this bug still exist in Fedora 16? Does anyone know if any work has
been done on it? The bug deals with the Intel Sandybridge chipset.
Note that the laptop screen works fine.
OS: Fedora 16 x86_64
Kernel: 3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64
Desktop: Gnome 3.0.1
System: Dell XPS 15R (i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz x 4)
Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile
Memory: 8 GB
Bug:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40592
--
Steven F. LeBrun
Quote: /"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog,
it's too dark to read."/
-- Groucho Marx
12 years, 5 months
mount command absurdly verbose?
by Timothy Murphy
Does anyone agree with me that the mount command
(when used simply to get information)
has become absurdly verbose?
I only use this command to determine
what hard disks are mounted.
Now I have to wade through large tracts of information
that make no sense to me, to find the few lines about hard disks.
Is there any way of getting the information one used to get,
short of saying something like "mount | grep sd"?
I think this change already took place in Fedora-15.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
12 years, 5 months
Message after printing
by Antonio M
Since latest updates, when I print I get on the bottom right corner a
message every time I print a message, and it is present also after
print completion.
Anybody else experiencing this??
--
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : amontag52
Linux Fedora 16 Verne
12 years, 5 months
Snap! A system snapshotter for Fedora / Ubuntu / Windows / and more
by Mo Morsi
Hey all, I'm looking for help testing a project I've been working on
over the last few months. Snap [1] is a cross-platform system snapshot
and restoration utility which uses the underlying package management
system to take snapshots of packages installed as well as files modified
outside of the package management system.
Only files modified post-installation and new-files (eg those not
tracked by the package system) are backed up so that snapshots are
lightweight and are able to be migrated across hosts. Currently
supported are RPM based distros (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS <./CentOS.html>),
Deb based distros (Debian, Ubutunu), and Windows
Also supported are service snapshots. For example postgres and mysql
db's will be backed up, as are Apache and IIS websites using the native
tooling. All of this is built ontop of a very modular / plugable system
which allows developers to extend Snap to take and restore snapshots of
any custom target.
My intention of this project was to make cross-virtualization-hypervisor
and cross-cloud-provider [2] snapshots a cinch, but it can also be used
for general system backup and recovery.
I've tried to harden it up as much as I could up to this point,
writing an extensive test suite, and conducting full integration testing
on various platforms but am looking for more widespread testing,
especially in alternative environments. Also I would like to start
forming a community around this project, to write backends to support
snapshots on a variety of platforms and of a variety of services.
The project is as open source as it gets, written in Python and licensed
under the GPLv3. I've submitted Snap to Fedora [3] and Debian / Ubuntu
[4], any package reviews would be more than appreciated.
Thanks for reading so far!
-Mo Morsi
[1] https://github.com/movitto/snap
[2] http://mo.morsi.org/blog/node/347
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755890
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649585
12 years, 5 months
Having a large desktop. (Font, icon and application sizes)
by linux guy
I use my Dell Duo, running F16, as a car PC, where I want the fonts
icons and running applications to be LARGE so that I can see and
control them from a distance.
In KDE, how do I adjust the size of the desktop so that this happens ?
Thanks
12 years, 5 months
How to make temperature applet report in celsius
by Jonathan Ryshpan
The KDE temperature panel widget on my system reports the temperatures
in degrees F. I would prefer it to report in degrees C, since all the
literature about max safe temperature, etc. gives values in degrees C.
How can the thermometer scale be controlled?
System is Fedora-16 running on an x86_64 system. KDE version is 4.7.3;
temperature widget version is 2.0.
Thanks - jon
12 years, 5 months