Using HDMI with Radeon and fc17
by Alex
Hi,
I have a new fc17 x86_64 install with a Radeon HD5700 and the default
xorg drivers included with fc17. I have an HDTV connected to the HDMI
port and two monitors connected to each of the DVI ports.
When I start Xorg with the HDTV connected, just the default fc17
splash screen graphic is displayed on all three monitors with
apparently either no window manager running, or no visible method of
access the standard menus. The mouse is displayed, but the buttons
have no function and there is no menubar at the top.
I also don't see anything in the logs that could indicate what the
problem could be. How can I troubleshoot this? What could possibly be
the problem?
If I start Xorg without the HDMI port connected, it displays the
standard GNOME window manager with the menus present.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex
11 years, 5 months
loadbalance
by Francisco J. Penaranda
I would like to know how to loadbalance in Fedora17, and what kind of program I need to use, I have 3 Ethernets and one LAN
Thanks
--
Francisco J. Peñaranda F.
Jefe de Sistemas
Ministerio de Comunicación
Teléfono : 22004 3 0
Email: francisco.penaranda(a)comunicacion.gob.bo
webpage: www.comunicacion.gob.bo
11 years, 5 months
Suspected permssions problem on FC17 new installation - need help
by William W. Austin
I have just done an installation of fc17 on a machine which was previously
running 16 with no problems.
I actually replaced the disk on which the root file system was installed,
so I still have the fc16 root system installed and am able to boot from it
to make comparisons, etc. I have tried rebooting to the fc16 release, and all
of the problems go away when I do that, so I don't suspect a hardware problem.
The machine is current on ALL rpm updates as of this morning.
I recently did a clean install (new hd) of fc17, and I suspect I have a memory
problem, but I can't find it.
On fc16 I had/have NO problems with the X server (after the first few rounds of
patching, anyway), however, on fc17 I am seeing a pair of problems which may be
related. They cannot be duplicated on fc16.
If I log in as root, no problems crop up and everything works the way it's
expected to. (for instance xmms and xine run just fine, differing from their
behavior for a non-privileged user).
To me it sounds like a permissions problem, but after spending days trying
to track it down, I've run out of ideas - any suggestions will be greatly
appreciated.
I normally run the system in multiuser mode (via the symlink to
/etc/systemd/system/default.target from the multi-user target).
The machine is fairly fast with a 6-cpu phenom2, 8GB of ram, and 5.75 GB of
sata3 disks (and a high-end GeForce nvidia video card).
1) Root can easily & quickly start the xserver using startx. However for any
NON-privileged user there is a problem.
xauth times out multiple times first failing to open the .serverauth
file and then the .Xauthority file. The time between typing startx and
getting the initial X window is typically 6-10 minutes (permissions
on the directory and all directories above it in the tree are 755, and
the file is readable by everyone).
After that point, some things which ran/run smoothly under fc16 (i.e.,
without the problem) are also impacted - see next item.
2) Some programs, such as xmms 'run' but do not function. For instance
running xmms, I get an error message box saying (quoting):
Please check that:
Your soundcard is configured properly You have the correct output
plugin selected No other program is blocking the soundcard.
The weird thing about this particular message is that there is ONE
particular file (a ".wmv" copy of the audio tracks from the movie "The
Blues Brothers" in which Cab Calloway & his band do "Minnie the Moocher").
It plays properly every time, and NO OTHER .wav or .mp3 file will play
at all (root can play all of them, and yes I have the mp3 extension
loaded from rpmfusion). All of them play with the alsaplayer (I built
the package from the .srpm file).
As I said before, this works perfectly under fc16.
Several other programs (particlarly xine) also refuse to run or will work
on some files of a given type but not all. (For instance I have several
".flv" files which I made with the same camera to film a training course
I created. Each is just under 5 minutes long and there are 6 of them. While
all 6 of them play perfectly with xine under fc16, only 2 of them do under
fc17. And no, they aren't that large, running 25-30M each.) All of the
"affected" files play perfectly with xmovie or dragon.
Any suggestions as to a likely cause here will be greatly appreciated.
--
william w. austin airedad(a)att.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
11 years, 5 months
netbook vs tablet
by Robert Moskowitz
I am debating getting a netbook to replace my ee701 as a sometime
machine or a tablet. There are a number of options but basically it
comes down to what this second device is for.
What is the progress of Fedora on 'cheap' tablets, as I would like this
effort to come in under $100? I did see one interesting page on Fedora
on a tablet:
https://nohats.ca/wordpress/blog/2012/07/05/the-chinese-g101-tablet-and-f...
I can't find a price for this, though I could probably get one of my
colleagues from Heuwei or China Mobile to bring one to the next IEEE
meeting. Are there affordable atom based tablets? Seems not. Sigh.
So the other approach is to just get an Android Tablet referbed and use
it for its limited use, to get familiar with tablets already.
But it sure would be interesting to have a working, cheap, Fedora tablet!
11 years, 5 months
Disk
by JD
which info retrieved by sdparam or hdparam would indicate
that the drive is reaching it's EOL.
I'm getting a lot of these errors:
[12152.032068] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
frozen
[12152.032082] ata4.00: failed command: READ DMA
[12152.032101] ata4.00: cmd c8/00:08:27:14:3e/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0
dma 4096 in
[12152.032101] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
0x4 (timeout)
[12152.032108] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
[12152.032123] ata4: hard resetting link
[12152.592066] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[12152.601327] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
[12152.601344] ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[12152.601370] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc]
[12152.601375] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[12152.601381] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc]
[12152.601385] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor]
[12152.601393] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[12152.601397] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[12152.601416] 00 00 00 00
[12152.601427] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc]
[12152.601432] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[12152.601439] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB:
[12152.601442] Read(10): 28 00 01 3e 14 27 00 00 08 00
[12152.601460] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 20845607
[12152.601506] ata4: EH complete
11 years, 5 months
Iced Tea out of date?
by SternData
I just hit a website that has a java plugin and Chrome displayed a big
box with "Iced Tea is Out of Date". It seems that I have
icedtea-web-1.3.1-1.fc17.x86_64 and
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1.x86_64 installed.
Is this just a Chrome glitch?
--
-- Steve
11 years, 5 months
Brother HL5250 vs. Cups
by Jonathan Ryshpan
Frequently when I try to print double sided to this printer I get a
single page reading:
ERROR NAME;
stackunderflow
COMMAND;
pop
OPERAND STACK;
Has anyone else seen this? What's the problem? How can I fix it?
System is Fedora-17 fully up to date, running on x86_64 hardware. The
ppd file appears to come from:
foomatic-db-ppds-4.0-31.20120103.fc17.noarch
Thanks in advance - jon
11 years, 5 months
SCP problem -
by Bob Goodwin
Is there something wrong with this command?
[root@box9 simple]# scp -r bobg@box8:/home/bobg/
/run/media/bobg/Simple/Box8BkU
I would like to copy the contents [roughly 44G per du -h] of
/home/bobg/ on box8 to an external USB 500G hard drive. The problem
is that it appears to be trying to keep recopying the files until
the 500 gigs is reached. I let it run until the end yesterday and it
quit protesting it had run out of space.
I thought I had made an error entering the command and started again
from scratch [after rm -fr] but it looks like it was doing the same
thing now and I stopped it. Watching the screen I can see it is
recopying the same files, du -h shows 228G on the external drive and
it was still going when I stopped it. The source drive shows 44G ...
What am I doing wrong?
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box7
11 years, 5 months
UEFI is a POS
by Michael Cronenworth
-Saw an update for my motherboard[1]. Cool!
-Downloaded the update and applied it.
-System wouldn't boot. Cannot find a boot drive. Hard drive
is detected... but won't boot?
-Downgrade to old UEFI, play with settings. Still won't boot.
-Google.
-Find http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/installation.html
Section "Announcing the Boot Loader to the EFI"
-Boot into rescue mode on my F17 USB installer.
-Type: efibootmgr -c
-Reboot. System boots now.
So, beware: BIOS updates are no longer an easy operation. There is a
default location for the EFI loader that Fedora is not using (but is for
USB/CD). Why is Fedora not using the default location? To play nice with
other OSes?
[1] http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77I_DELUXE/
11 years, 5 months