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Dive Into Python.pdf
by Gene Heskett 01 May '10

01 May '10

Is there a way to set the text colors so they aren't the same as the background in this? Looking at it with AR. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) All newspaper editorial writers ever do is come down from the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

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Re: How can SATA power management feature be controlled?
by Peter van Hooft 01 May '10

01 May '10

> How can I control the automatic power management feature of my SATA disk > drives? Right now the heads are unloading so frequently that within > one year I will have exceeded the rated number of load/unload cycles for > the drives. The drives are Western Digital model WD10EADS. I tried > using "hdparm -B 254" and "hdparm -B 0", but neither works: > > # hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error > # hdparm -B 0 /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error > > My efforts to find anything useful with 'sdparm' have been fruitless. > Hi, I use both: hdparm -q -S 0 /dev/sda hdparm -q -B 255 /dev/sda which seems to work. peter

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3D and Nvidia
by Henry Wyatt 01 May '10

01 May '10

I have Nvidia Go 6150 card I assume f12 uses this. Does this card support 3d or accelerated graphics and how do I enable

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Fedora Community Gaming
by Bruno Wolff III 01 May '10

01 May '10

A suggestion was made to have game sessions for the community playing games available in Fedora. A pilot project has been started and the first session will be this Friday (or Saturday depending on timezone). For background you can find the original request at: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/18 A wiki page for this project is at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Gaming The first session will start this Friday at 9pm EDT (0100 UTC Saturday). We will be playing bzflag and attempting to use Fedora Talk (x2010) as a social channel, as chatting socially by typing, while playing bzflag seems hard to do. bzflag is a pretty light, chaotic game that allows for easy dropping in and out. The session will last at least 2 hours, but will go longer if people actually show up and want to keep playing. games1.wolff.to will be set up as a private server, but you will just be able to connect without any special password. Before we start playing we will be using the #fedora-games IRC channel to communicate in case there are problems. If you think it's likely you'll show up you can add you name in the wiki so we know how many people to expect. The week after we will be running a Wesnoth session, using the in game chat for socializing. That's a much different game and will probably appeal to a different group of people. After that, it depends on the response both a of players and people willing to sponsor games. At least initially we want to try a lot of different stuff. The first two being at the same time has to do with my schedule. I would hope that other people run game sessions at different times in order to be more accessible to other people.

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Brief rant on PXEboot
by Timothy Murphy 01 May '10

01 May '10

I acquired a new/old laptop (Thinkpad T43) yesterday, and decided to install Fedora-12 by PXEboot. I've done this before, and always found it relatively confusing, so I decided this time to follow the Installation Guide exactly. After following this for an hour or so, I've come to the conclusion that whoever wrote the sections on PXE boot has never tried out what he/she suggests. To start with, the section that purports to explain PXEboot (5.4) immediately tells you that you should be reading chapter 10 instead. Chapter 10 starts with the warning: "The instructions in this appendix configures an automated install server. The default configuration includes destruction of all existing data on all disks for hosts that install using this method." On perservering, I'm told that I must read /usr/share/doc/syslinux-version/syslinux.doc , which as far as I can see is all about floppy disks. What a mess. -- 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

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fedora 12 default turns bluetooth device on
by aaron lwe 01 May '10

01 May '10

sudo echo "options rfkill master_switch_mode=0" > /etc/modprobe.d/rfkill.conf will stop bluetooth device from activated during boot. Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549023

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EVGA GTX 295 not working
by BadMagic 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hi all (figured out the problem), I've had trouble installing Fedora for the last few releases. I don't have it installed at the moment so I can't offer much help BUT as I'm certain my prob relates to my EVGA GTX 295 Co-Op Edition graphics card and these are quite common cards, I'm sure the fix is quite widely known. Everything installs/boots okay until I get to the bit where I need to log in. I get the GDM graphical login screen but the mouse and keyboard seem to stop working. If I change to terminal view (Ctrl Alt F2 for memory) I can still type DMESG shows problems with the graphics card - can't remember specifics. I tried changing the xorg.conf to settings I know worked under other distros/BSD/Solaris (using xorg) to no avail. Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? Is there some GRUB switch I can throw in there that'll work - I tried some to no avail. My specs are as follows: ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard 4GB Kingston (compatible with mobo) RAM EVGA GTX 295 co-op edition graphics card Corsair HX 1000W (more than enough) That's about all Regards, Steve Laurie

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How can SATA power management feature be controlled?
by Robert Nichols 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

How can I control the automatic power management feature of my SATA disk drives? Right now the heads are unloading so frequently that within one year I will have exceeded the rated number of load/unload cycles for the drives. The drives are Western Digital model WD10EADS. I tried using "hdparm -B 254" and "hdparm -B 0", but neither works: # hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error # hdparm -B 0 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error My efforts to find anything useful with 'sdparm' have been fruitless. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.

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X-window to the remote Fedora system
by Siavoush Dastmalchi 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Dear List, I want to establish an X-window session from my PC to a Fedora (FC 5) OS Linux system using X-Win32 program, but so far no luck. I can do that to a remote Redhat system and SGI computer, but don't know what I am doing wrong in the case of Fedora system. Any suggestion much appreciated. Cheers, Siavoush

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Re: how would this work as a fedora laptop?
by Darr 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

> You know, if you go to Dell you can build a laptop that you > *know* will be supported by Linux for about the same as an > "off-the-shelf" laptop at TigerDirect. That's about what I was going to say, but I suggest starting at http://outlet.dell.com and one with 4GB of DD3, 500GB HDD, 17.3" 900p LCD and an i3 CPU can likely be had for the same price as that acer... I would UNcheck the scratch & dent selection and just look at the 'certified refurbished' and 'open-box/returns' (they call them 'previously ordered new') models. If you're patient (the selection changes daily, of course) you might find one there with 1080p LCD and a WiFi/WiMAXan combo card for slightly more.

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