enabling broadcom-wl on F17
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I installed F17 from scratch on a Dell with one of those proprietary
wireless cards. I last installed Fedora ( would have been F14 or F15 on
this machine) more than a year ago. At that time, I had to install
broadcom-wl from rpmfusion (non-free) and wireless became accessible
from what I recall. But no such luck with installing broadcom-wl on
F17. Is there something additionally that has to be done beyond
installing broadcom-wl to enable wireless. Network Manager does not
even show the enable wireless button so I am thinking that something
else has to be turned on.
(For the record, there is a switch for wireless: turning it either way
has no effect.) I can provide the exact specs of the machine if
needed.
Many thanks,
Ranjan
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11 years, 2 months
Install fails with Xorg segfault on fc17
by Alex
Hi,
I'm trying to install fc17 from a USB key and the graphical install
crashes with a segfault and falls back to text-mode install. I have an
Asus P8B-M motherboard with an onboard "Aspeed AST2050 with 16MB VRAM"
video chip.
How can I copy the /tmp/X.org log file to the USB key so I can attempt
to find out what's wrong? Would it even benefit anyone or help with
getting it installed on my system?
What are my options right now? I know I could probably go back to fc16
or wait until fc18 and hope it's fixed, or buy another video card, but
I'd like to see if there's something I'm missing that I can do right
now. Text mode isn't an option for me, because I need better control
over the disk formatting options.
Ideas greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex
11 years, 2 months
FC16 or 17 Live USB not working on laptop
by Bill Davidsen
I'm ready to update a laptop from fc11 to something current (kernel and some
apps are upgraded by hand). I want to boot from Live-CD just to be sure the
hardware like me, and sure enough it doesn't.
I started with the fc16 version, 64bit, and it came up to the GNOME3 wallpaper,
moved the cursor to the upper left corner, and stopped. I never got the rest of
the shell, although the cursor moves in response to the touchpad. I checked,
terminal access was up, nothing I saw in logs told me anything.
Since I had an fc17 32bit USB also in my pocket I tried that. Same response, the
"throbbing meatball" graphic boot, wallpaper, active cursor, no apps. Terminal
is active and looks fine. FC17 has a basic graphics boot option, so I tried
that, which uses the vesa driver for X. This time I got the "marching squares"
boot display, followed by the same problem.
I booted again, using the radeon driver (radeon 1250 hardware) and not change at
all, other than the boot was now the graphic one again. Played with nomodeset
boot option, didn't help. Did a power cycle cold boot each time to be sure the
graphics card is clean.
So, I know that useful radeon support is provided by the vendor driver from
rpmfusion, and I have no issue with that other than how do I install so I can
use the driver? Anyone have a trick I missed? I did all previous installs using
the vesa driver and had no issue, so what now? I can run FC17 in a VM using KVM,
but that's hardly a solution, just a data point.
Thoughts?
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11 years, 2 months
Appointments & tasks
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
In gnome 3 (fedora 16 and 17), in the top taskbar, I have the date
visible.
When I come close, it says: Click to view your Appointments and tasks,
When I click, I can get the calendar, but I do not see any appointement
that
I can set or see.
how can I fix this issue?
Thank.
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11 years, 2 months
many crashes of X server, what should I investigate?
by Frédéric Bron
I run F17 with regular updates.
I have many crashes of the X server:
- freezing when switching between user
- freezing when starting a session
Many times, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does not work, also Ctrl+Alt+F[1-9]
does not work either so that I cannot even start a terminal session to
see what happens. I find it difficult to justify my choice of linux
over windows in front of the familiy...
I would like to investigate but I do not know what to look at. Could
you help? Are there some logs that I can look at after the crash?
I used to run GDM + Gnome sessions. I changed to KDM + Kde but still
have issues.
Thanks for helping,
Regards,
Frédéric
11 years, 2 months
repo problems with 18
by Frank McCormick
Hi
I am relatively new to Fedora and to YUM...so I guess that's why I am having
these problems
I noticed recently that 18 wasn't updating very often..there was little being
updated so I went through the repository list in /etc/yum.repos.d and enabled
some rawhide repositories that were disabled.
Now when I yum check-update and yum update...I get a bunch of dependency errors
because yum is trying to pull in fedora 19 files ??
I sort it out by running yum --skip-broken update....but I'd like to fix what
I messed up .
These are the repos.
/etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
These are the defaults that 18 put in place...but some had been disabled...
Can anyone help ?
Thanks
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11 years, 2 months