users June 2010

users@lists.fedoraproject.org

381 participants
520 discussions

Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb
by Luigi Castro Cardeles 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Hi list, I use fedora 12 on a dell inspiron 1545 laptop. (2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64). i have a external usb hd and i can't make it connect like a usb 2.0 device. this device is ntfs format I check if the device is using ehci (dmesg after i plug the device) [root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep USB usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 I check if this device is connected on a usb 2.0 [root@localhost ~]# lsusb Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 015: ID 0471:2021 Philips Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub I mount the device with this options: /dev/sdc1 on /media/hd_backup type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) but when i use cp, mv or rsync, the max speed i get is max 6MB/s (a lot 800kB/s). If i use this device on Windows (tested with Vista and Seven), i get much high transfer rate. I read about sync and async options, but if i put sync or async on fstab, it does not alter the transfer rate. Is this the normal upload transfer rate? I am doing something wrong? []'s Luigi Castro Cardeles

10 32

How can I make local dnsmasq play nicely with NetworkManager?
by Robert Nichols 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

I am trying to set up dnsmasq as a local resolver cache on my F-12 laptop, and can't find any way to pass the nameservers returned by DHCP to dnsmasq as upstream nameservers and still have 127.0.0.1 appear as the primary nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf. NetworkManager creates a resolv.conf file that contains only the servers returned by DHCP. That does not allow queries from local processes to be routed through the local caching resolver. Without NetworkManager, I would just put a line in dhclient.conf to prepend "127.0.0.1" to the list of nameservers returned by DHCP. dnsmasq would then read resolv.conf, nicely ignore that entry, and use the other nameserver entries as upstream servers. NetworkManager always invokes dhclient with a custom config file that is created anew for each invocation, and gives no means to add this customization. If I configure NetworkManager to put "127.0.0.1" as a nameserver in resolv.conf, then _only_ that nameserver will appear, and dnsmasq has no way to discover the upstream servers. I cannot simply hard code the upstream servers in /etc/dnsmasq.conf because that would ignore what DHCP returns. I can put a script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ to modify resolv.conf to my liking, but that script does not get invoked for lease renewals, at which time dhclient would undo my changes. Getting rid of NetworkManager really isn't a viable option for a laptop that needs to connect to various WiFi networks. I find it hard to believe nobody's run into this before, but my searches on Google have been fruitless. Looking for suggestions before I go complain on the NetworkManager developers list. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.

3 7

Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?
by linux guy 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

I need to back up 20 GB of Windows data from a hard drive onto DVDs so that a Windows user can access it. I can read the Windows hard drive just fine. What software might I use to automagically split the data into DVD sized chunks and write it to a DVD ? It would be nice if it didn't put half of one dir on one DVD and the second half on another. I know this will happen with any dir that is larger than a DVD, but it would be nice if it didn't do that for the rest. Thanks

4 17

system-config-display issue Fedora13 RC3
by davidapr＠gmail.com 25 Jul '10

25 Jul '10

Hey im having problems when i try to execute system-config-display in my fedora13 RC3 The message im gettin is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in <module> dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, videocard.VideoCardInfo()) File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 640, in __init__ if len(self.xconfig.layout[0].adjacencies) > 1: IndexError: index out-of-bounds Any ideas why im having this issue? Thanks -- --------------------------------------------- David A. Paredes R.

2 4

DNS services no longer work due to missing files
by Paolo Galtieri 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

I just updated one of my Fedora 12 system. This particular system is running a local dns server. When I try to restart named on the system I get: Starting named: Error in named configuration: /etc/pki/dnssec-keys//named.dnssec.keys:1: open: /etc/pki/dnssec-keys//production/bg.conf: file not found rpm -qf /etc/pki/dnssec-keys/named.dnssec.keys file /etc/pki/dnssec-keys/named.dnssec.keys is not owned by any package yum provides /etc/pki/dnssec-keys//production/se.conf Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: mirror.stanford.edu * rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu * updates: ftp.usf.edu No Matches found So what do I do to restore things to a working configuration? Paolo

5 7

eSATA removable drive
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

I have an eSATA external hard drive case. I want to hotplug / unplug it. My system is Fedora 11. I added an external eSATA port on my desktop computer by adding a bracket (with an internal cable connected to one of the ordinary SATA sockets on the motherboard.) The SATA controller is an intel ICH9R. To make hotplug work, I needed to go the computer's BIOS and change the SATA mode to AHCI (it was IDE). I can now hotplug the drive. I cannot unplug the drive. If I tell the system to eject the drive, it complains: # eject /dev/sdi eject: device "/dev/sdi" doesn't have a removable or hotpluggable flag # cat /sys/block/sdi/removable 0 (I don't know where or what a hotpluggable flag is.) I guess that makes sense: the system doesn't know that I added an eSATA bracket. What are the reasonable ways to tell the system that that SATA port is an eSATA port and should allow for hotplugging/unplugging? My guess is some kind of HAL rule but I'm not an initiate. Maybe something in here would work: <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_UltraBay_devices> Surely lots of people have already encountered this issue. If so, there ought to be a non-wizard way to handle it.

4 9

hp-setup and samba printin g to a Windows 7 machine
by Aaron Konstam 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

I am trying to setup F13 machine to print to a Windows 7 machine using samba. I use system-cups-printer and setup the HP Laserjet 1020 printer using the samba command: smb://<username>:<passwd>@WORKGROUP/<machinename>/<printername> F13 has hp 1020 as a device choice. The printed file appears in the Windows 7 printer queue but no printing occurs. Instead I get the following error: Printer 'HPLaserJ' : printer requires a binary plugin. run 'hp-setup' I am mystified what to do. There is no man page for hp-setup and I can't find any options to use to deal with this error. Can anyone make a suggestion? -- ======================================================================= Fortune finishes the great quotations, #9 A word to the wise is often enough to start an argument. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

2 3

F12 installs report here.
by linux guy 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Subject says it all. Tell us about your experience. LG

24 26

dual head intel graphics card problems (laptop + docking station)
by Natxo Asenjo 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

hi again, since I upgraded to f13 getting to start my laptop at work in a docking station is really painful. Setup: dell latitude e6500 with fedora amd64. At work, docking station with 2 20´' monitors. With Fedora 12, this worked flawlessly. Plug laptop in dockinstation, turn on with lid down, set it up once, work since then with the 2 external monitors when I am at the office, just the laptop monitor when not there. Now it takes me between 10 minutes to half an hour to get my dual head working every morning. It's getting on my nerves, to be honest ;) What happens is either: 1) I plug laptop on docking station, turn it on and when the gdm screen should appear I just see 1/4 of left screen, the rest is not available (black). I can go to a VT, go to runlevel 3, back to 5 and see if it works. Rinse and repeat until it does; 2) turn it on outside the docking station, login, plug it in the dockin station, pray that it detects the monitors. If it does not, then it effectively hangs, I cannot change to a VT, I have to power cycle it. Rinse and repeat until it works. My question is: until fedora 13, the standard behaviour was not to mirror the monitors. How can I have this behaviour now? What extra info can I supply you with? lspci -v: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 024f Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31 Memory at f6c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at ef98 [size=8] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) Subsystem: Dell Device 024f Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at f6b00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: <access denied> -- Groeten, J.Asenjo

2 2

F13: Delay in screen refresh
by Marco Guazzone 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi, I've noticed that there is a some kind of "delay" in the screen refresh. For instance, under VIM when I move the cursor (that is a black rectangle) under a character, it takes between 1 and 4 secs before the character appears inside the cursor. I've experienced the same issue under OpenOffice and FireFox. This is really annoying. :( Under F12 no problem Does any other experienced this behaviour? My system is: * OS: F13 x86_64 - up-to-dated * WM: OpenBox * CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo * GPU: Intel GM965/GL960 * RAM: 2GB Thank you so much! -- Marco

3 9

← Newer
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
...
52
Older →

Jump to page: