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Fedora 14 - Problem With External VGA Monitor
by Charlie McVeigh 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

I recently upgraded from fedora 13 to Fedora 14 on my Lenvo Thinkpad T61. I primarily use my laptop with a Lenovo docking station and an external VGA monitor. The video card is an nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M. While running Fedora 13 (and earlier versions) I was able to use my external monitor and proprietary nVIDIA drivers with no issues or problems whatsoever. Using the external monitor with Fedora 14 is another story: i) With the nouveau video drivers installed I can use my external monitor, but I must leave my laptop display open while in the docking station and I must press the Fn-F7 key to make sure the external display is selected. If I leave my laptop case closed as I was able to do Fedora 13 and every earlier version, I can watch the system boot and once the system "acorn" completes and the display switches to the GUI Logon dialog, the external monitor goes blank and displays nothing. Is there a setting to change that will allow the external monitor to remain active once the GUI Logon starts and my laptop case is closed while in the dock? ii) I tried installing the proprietary nVIDIA drivers and the situation is a bit worse than when using the nouveau drivers. With nVIDIA I can watch the system boot on the external VGA monitor, but I get a character based progress bar across the bottom of the screen instead of the graphical "acorn." Once the system switches to the GUI logon there is no display whatsoever on the external monitor - it is totally unusable. iii) I personally would like to use the nVIDIA drivers as I have found the nouveau drivers to be somewhat unstable. My system display locks up and freezes at least 3 times a week with a garbled display. I wish that I could recreate the scenario that causes the garbled display but I can't, so I can't submit a bug report. Any help in getting the the external VGA display working correctly would be most appreciated. Charlie

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gccsense in the yum repository?
by H Xu 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

Hello, Could developers add gccsense to the yum repository? it's really horrible to compile gccsense by oneself. Thanks. Regards, H Xu 04/29/2011

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Dropbox-like client for Fedora People storage?
by Zoltan Hoppar 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

Hi guys, Is there any dropbox-like client for Fedora people storage? Thx Zoltan -- PGP: 06853DF7

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Fedora-list, Win Rs. 50,000 this april!
by Chinni Mr 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

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Resetting network devices between ifconfig level and desktop level
by Aaron Gray 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

I have got inconsistent eth devices between what Fedora Gnome Desktop is telling me and what ifconfig is telling me and what 'service network restart' is telling me. Do I have to do a reinstall or is there some way of resetting things ? Many thanks in advance, Aaron

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Dealing with e-mail attachments with names containing spaces.
by Aaron Konstam 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

If you get an e-mail whose attachment has spaces in its name one has problems dealing with the attachment in Linux. I found a way to deal with them (such as open a pdf file attachment) but I wonder is anyone has a more coherent way to deal with them than I have found. My way is somewhat hoakie. I am using evolution to read mail. -- ======================================================================= There seems no plan because it is all plan. -- C.S. Lewis ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

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How to get back the upper Gnome panel I deleted
by Aaron Konstam 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

I really screwed up now. By mistake I deleted the whole upper panel in Gnome. The one with Applications, System, etc. How can I get it back? -- ======================================================================= "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because I'm beautiful, smart and rich." -- Calvin Keegan ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

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Question about upcomming Fedora releases
by JD 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Is there a web link which lists, discusses what features/changes are planned for future releases of Fedora 16, 17 ...etc.

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Installing Fedora on a Fedora machine
by Timothy Murphy 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

As a matter of interest, are there "official" instructions anywhere for installing a new version of Fedora on a spare partition of a machine already running Fedora, after downloading the DVD ISO to the machine?

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smartd reporting disk failing
by Paolo Galtieri 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is failing. Specifically it's telling me that there are many bad sectors. There are no messages in /var/log/messages indicating any failures. Why is smartd claiming the disk is bad? This is the second drive (also a Seagate Go) that I get reports that the drive is failing less than a year after buying the drive. I can't believe that a drive would go bad after a few months use. I have other Seagate drives that have been in use for years without any issues. The problem seems to be specific to drives that are powered via USB. Any assistance in the matter is appreciated. Paolo

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