Fedora support for laplets
by Bill Davidsen
I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a touch screen
which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can be used in a number of ways,
including as a tablet. Has anyone gotten experience with using Fedora on such a
machine, and if so how (if at all) was the touch feature supported?
I've seen reasonably nice units from Dell and Lenovo, but no nice salespeople
who would let me boot them from thumb drive.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
11 years, 6 months
Print Job Not getting to Printer
by Mickey
Fedora 17 Samsung CLX3175FX, CLX3170 Series driver.
The driver for this printer does work in Fedora 17 on about ten other
boxes with Fedora 17.
But not on this HP Pavilion S5510F PC, in Fedora 17 , I had it working
on Fedora 15.
Here is some simple commands I have run and the printer in seen .
The Router even sees the printer at 192.168.1.127.
Cupsd is running in Services.
The Printer will print using my laptop with Fedora 17 installed on same
Network
Job 12 is in print Queue but is Stopped.
root@BigOne mickey# lpq
Samsung-CLX-3170 is ready
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
1st mickey 12 (stdin) 5120 bytes
root@BigOne mickey# lpq -P Samsung-CLX-3170
Samsung-CLX-3170 is ready
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
1st mickey 12 (stdin) 5120 bytes
root@BigOne mickey# lpq mickey
Samsung-CLX-3170 is ready
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
1st mickey 12 (stdin
11 years, 6 months
perl-Hash-Merge-0.12-7.fc16.noarch
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I used to use Hash::Merge, but now I get the following error message:
/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error:
/usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Clone/Clone.so: undefined symbol:
Perl_Gthr_key_ptr
This is the code giving the error:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Hash::Merge qw( merge );
my %a = (
'foo' => 1,
'bar' => [ qw( a b e ) ],
'querty' => { 'bob' => 'alice' },
);
my %b = (
'foo' => 2,
'bar' => [ qw(c d) ],
'querty' => { 'ted' => 'margeret' },
);
print "call\n" ;
my %c = %{ merge( \%a, \%b ) };
Any idea?
Thank.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org
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11 years, 6 months
Multiple default routes, same subnet
by Fernando Lozano
Hi,
I have two internet links, from different ISPs for my office network,
each one with it's own router (which is a linux PC) so I don't loose
internet connectivity easily. One ISP has a much higher bandwitch, so
usually all my computers use it as the default gateway. The other one is
intended as a contingency link.
Today I have to manually change the default gateway on all computers
when the main link goes down. I want an automated way to do this.
All how-to's I could find on google were such as:
http://www.generationip.com/documentation/network-documentation/93-howto-...
Where they use iproute2 so a single router/computer can switch between
two internet links. While I can undersand this scenario, the single
computer becomes a single point of failure. I don't want to setup a
"cluster" using heartbeat, cluster suite and similars just to provide a
router failover. It looks overkill.
Other problem, all iproute2 samples I find thave those two gateways on
different subnets and use the source address to route properly and avoid
problems like "onion routing".
I'd like to have two routers/computers on the same subnet, each one
connected to it's own internet link, and have the network computers
switch from the main one to the contingency one when needed.
So a computer would have two default gateways on the same subnet. I
can't find how to change the iproute2 samples setup so the gateways can
be on the same subnet and everything works. I allways end up having all
traffic going though one link and when it fails I loose internet
connectivity.
[]s, Fernando Lozano
11 years, 6 months
nVidia support and due diligence failure
by Ed Greshko
I had to replace my video card as it was causing system crashes and finally died. My old card had a GT 230 chip. I check and brought http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeName with me shopping. I noted that my card was in the NV50 family. This seems to have good support and I had not problems. So, I figured I'd a new card in the same family.
I got a GT215/GT240. Imagine my surprise when it hung on booting into graphical mode with the Fedora Icon displayed. The /var/log/messages file shows lots of
Nov 15 13:55:26 meimei kernel: [ 69.226738] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011fde03 0x00145b4d 0x0000002d 0x0034db40
Nov 15 13:55:34 meimei kernel: [ 75.562699] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Failed to idle channel 2.
messages.
Anyway, I really need to get my system up and running so I just installed kmod-nvidia from rpmfusion and had done with it.
I thought I did all I needed to do to come out with a working system running nouveau. Either I missed something or buying the right nVidia card supported by nouveau is hit or miss. Yes, I know there is no love lost between "Linux" and nVidia.
--
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
11 years, 6 months
Can't change resolution in VNC on F17
by thomas cameron
Howdy -
Following the instructions at
http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/setting-up-vncserver-on-fedora-16/,
I changed my /usr/lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service file so it looks
like:
[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'
ExecStart=/sbin/runuser -l tcameron -c "/usr/bin/vncserver %i -geometry
1024x768"
ExecStop=/sbin/runuser -l tcameron -c "/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i"
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
But no matter what I do, the resolution seems to be stuck at the native
resolution of the laptop I'm connecting to, 1600x900.
How the heck do I change the resolution to something else?
TC
11 years, 6 months
firewall configuring
by Tim
Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system
settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17?
In older versions, system-config-firewall was in the menus, and readily
apparent as the thing you went to, to adjust your firewall. But there's
nothing, obvious as the way to adjust it, now. You'd have to know about
the old tool, or manually write iptables rules. But in this, modern
everything is done in the GUI, system, there's nothing showing.
I became particularly peeved about this, when CUPS didn't find any
printers (or print servers) on my LAN, when it should. And the first
port of call, in the past, would be to open up the firewall and allow
IPP printing/serving options, as appropriate. But there being no
apparent way to the newbie to do this.
Gnome developers may well think there's no need for users to fiddle with
their firewall, but when the printing doesn't work because the default
rules forbid it, not providing any configurator, nor even any clues,
smacks of incompetence.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.6.6-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 5 21:59:35 UTC 2012 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
11 years, 6 months