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RAGE XL Framebuffer
by Yanick Quirion 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all I know that is not a specific question about Fedora, but I can't find answer on the kernel mailing list. Is somebody having server with integrated ATI RAGE XL video card? Is it possible to patch the kernel to support this video card? If I add VGA=791 in my grub.conf, I will have a resolution of 1024x768 which is good, but the display is very slow (especially when the screen is scrolling). If I use I this: "video=aty128fb:1024x768@70" it will not work. I'm using kernel 2.4.22 but I will try 2.6.0-test11 today. If somebody has a patch, a link or anything else that can help me, it will be appreciated. Thanks for your help. Regards, ----------- Yanick Quirion Administrateur Réseau/Network Manager NEOKIMIA INC. Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke 3e étage (Édifice Z5) 3001 12e avenue Nord Sherbrooke, Québec CANADA J1H 5N4 Tél.: +1 819 820-6040 Direct: +1 819 820-6855 Fax.: +1 819 820-6841 email: Yanick.Quirion(a)neokimia.com

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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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Tablet hardware
by Florian Weimer 09 May '15

09 May '15

Is there any tablet-like hardware which is well-supported by Fedora 20 and later? Something with a high-resolution display? I don't need 3D acceleration beyond what's needed to run a typical desktop environment, but I'd like to have lots of RAM, a bit of CPU power (perhaps even a current Core i7) and an SSD with decent read speed.

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CurrentPendingSector
by Patrick Dupre 03 May '15

03 May '15

Hello, I get: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How can I manage this issue? Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===========================================================================

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help - Fedup F20 to F21 through firewall
by Robin Laing 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

Fedup won't use the proxy server where I work. I can download packages and do yum updates by command line or yumex on the machine for updates. sudo yum update works as expected. I cannot run fedup. I get error messages for every server tried as 403'd. This is from the log file. [ 4.623] (II) fedup.yum:log_grab_failure() http://fedora.mirror.gtcomm.net/releases/21/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/5…: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden I can access the archives via web browser and download files from the sites so they are not blocked when using Firefox. So from this, I am assuming that fedup isn't using the proxy settings in the yum configuration files or I have something configured wrong that I am missing. I really don't want to have to upgrade manually again. Robin

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Crashes of tainted kernels
by JD 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Many of us need akmods for our hardware. But when the kernel crashes or ooops'es, we are unable to send the crash report. Since none of the crashes occur in the modules inserted via akmods, why is the fedora abrt not allowing thes ending of such reports? At least provide a way for us to send them to the place we got them from, namely rpmfusion in this case, or other repos in other cases. All abrt has to do is ask for the user's login id and password and have it submit the report there.

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Most likely OT: rsync to cifs mount
by Ranjan Maitra 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Hi, I am at my wits end with this, so I thought I would post here to see if anyone had any thoughts. The only connection with F21 (updated in all installed components) is that everything is on a F21 machine. So, I have a cifs share mounted onto /mnt/space using the usual mount.cifs option with sec=ntlmv2. I wanted to copy the following directory (kmeans) onto /mnt/space -- because I wanted to preserve permissions and structure, I tried rsync: rsync -avSz --delete --progress kmeans/. /mnt/space/kmnsinit So here is the problem: The original directory has size: % du -sh kmeans 156G kmeans But the copying has continued on and on with no sign of ending (and we are at 378GB). % du -sh kmnsinit 378G kmnsinit I also tried without the . after the kmeans/ in the rsync command (though not sure why it would matter) but to no avail. (Same story, and note that it is not ending at 378G but going on, and chances are will go on for some more.) Is it possible that since all things Windoze are bad, the cifs puts stuff all over the place and represents large files differently. Is it possible to however make it behave? Does anyone have an explanation and solution for the above? I apologize again for the largely OT nature of this post. Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth

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cdrecord (schilling's) and wodim : Warning: Cannot read drive buffer.
by JD 04 Apr '15

04 Apr '15

How do I fix this? The drive is: $ dmesg | egrep -i 'cdrom|dvd|optical|optiarc' [ 1.614989] ata2.00: ATAPI: Optiarc DVD+/-RW AD-7930H, 100A, max UDMA/100 [ 1.637908] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-7930H 100A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 1.669987] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/62x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 1.670229] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Thanx!

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sticky keys
by Stuart McGraw 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

And yet another problem with Fedora-21... When I press my Shift keys quickly a few times (which I often do unconsciously while thinking about what to type), I get a notification that "sticky keys have been enabled". I then get a lot of odd keyboard effects such as every word typed being capitalized or the keyboard acting like the control key is permanently pressed. Googling seems to indicate this is an old problem going back to the mid-2000's. I tried one of the solutions I found: install xkbset and run "xkbset -a" at login time via Application Autostart tab in the Settings and Startup dialog (this is Xfce). That seemed to work for a while but the problem's come back. The auto-startup setting is still there, still enabled. While I was typing this, something called "slow keys became enabled making it impossible to continue typing this message until I logged out and back in again. None of the options in the accessibility applet are enabled (I'm pretty sure, having worked around the problem of dialogs not showing checkmarks). What do I need to do to permanently put a stake in the throat of this nasty little Sticky Keys virus? <rant> I seldom rant in public but I've got to say that installing Fedotra-21 was the worst experience I have ever had installing Linux (in terms of the endless amount of brokeness) -- and I have been using Redhat going back to the 3.x days (that's *Redhat*, not Redhat Enterprise; not Fedora). I don't think it is me. I did a pretty plain vanilla install and except for some of the usual audio/video stuff from rpmfusion, am using packages straight out of the Fedora-21 repo. Plain vanilla hardware that ran Fedora-15 fine for several years. Has Fedora become too focused on release schedules and lost interest in quality control? Or are all these problems coming from xfce?

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SAMBA on Fedora 21
by Angelo Moreschini 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi, I am learning Linux and, just in order to do exercises, I wanted to monitor the functioning of services that, I thing, should run on fedora. So, with the command : service *smartd* status I got : Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status *smartd.service* ● smartd.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smartd.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2015-03-31 07:48:18 IDT; 10h ago Main PID: 701 (smartd) CGroup: /system.slice/smartd.service └─701 /usr/sbin/smartd -n -q never the same for *cups*.... ● cups.service - CUPS Printing Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2015-03-31 07:48:51 IDT; 10h ago ............................. .............................. but I was wonder that services as : *DHCP, SAMBA*, ..... was not working.... : the command : sudo service *samba* status give me : Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status samba.service ● samba.service Loaded: not-found (Reason:* No such file or directory*) Active: inactive (dead) for *SAMBA* I give a look to check if it is installed, and I found: sudo yum list installed | grep samba samba-client.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-common.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-libs.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-winbind.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-winbind-clients.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-winbind-modules.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates So, ... after this test I am confuse ....... What is the reason why some important services are not running by default on Fedora 21? Could I have an explanation ? Thank you regards Angelo

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