Problem with display (John Mahowald)

Fri Sep 2 18:56:29 UTC 2005

hi 
thanks for ur reply.
My system has Intel 810 graphics card.

Tanish

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1. Make yum not to delete the downloaded rpm(s) (Fajar Priyanto)
2. Re: RHN subscription (Tom Diehl)
3. Wireless Network Connection (R L)
4. Re: Make yum not to delete the downloaded rpm(s) (Tom Diehl)
5. Re: Make yum not to delete the downloaded rpm(s) (Fajar Priyanto)
6. recompiling the kernel (Chethiya K Ranaweera)
7. Re: Login screen not showing up (Michael Lai)
8. RE: FC4 Ready for primt time? (Les Mikesell)
9. Re: Problem with display (John Mahowald)
10. strange nfs problem (Neil Dugan)
11. Can't type in Gnome in FC4 after yum update (Steven Stern)
12. slow evince and remote X (Norman Gaywood)
13. Re: Re: Feedback invited for Inspiron 6000 w/ ATI MOBILITYT
RADEON? X300 64MB HyperMemoryT (Steffen Kluge)
14. FC4 USB opti-mouse goes wild (Martin, AA6E)
15. Re: Can't type in Gnome in FC4 after yum update [solved, but
not understood] (Steven Stern)
16. Re: A really clean text editor (Marc Blanc)
17. Re: Problem with latest Kernel (2.6.12-1.1447_FC4)
(Anil Kumar Sharma)
From: Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at cbn.net.id>
Subject: Make yum not to delete the downloaded rpm(s)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:20:48 +0700
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

Hi all,
Can I make yum NOT to delete the downloaded rpm(s)? What option should I use?
I want to make it copy the rpm(s) to my other box too.
Thanks.
-- 
Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org
09:20:24 up 2:15, 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 GNU/Linux 
public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key

From: Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com>
Subject: Re: RHN subscription
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:24:21 -0400 (EDT)
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Tony Nelson wrote:

> At 3:40 PM -0500 9/1/05, Jeff Vian wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 03:39 +0930, Tim wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>
> >> > If you want to check for updates, try "yum check-update" instead.
> >>
> >> Which takes several minutes to complete (fetch new information, and
> >> parse local files, etc.). Yet RHN would let you know in a few seconds
> >> that there were some updates, and would only go through the long process
> >> of working out what, *if* you wanted to follow it up.
> >>
> >> I miss that aspect of RHN.
> >>
> >
> >The RHN alert icon is on the panel for me by default. All it takes is a
> >few seconds to configure it and it works to do exactly what you suggest.
> 
> I think many people on this list would like to know how exactly to
> configure RHN to work on FC4.

You can't. RHN does not nor has it ever supported FC anything. Besides why
would you want to? (its a rhetorical question, do not answer it I do not really
care) :-) You have a perfectly good updating system with yum. All you need to do
is READ one of the many documents on it and away you go. It is not really that
hard as long as you are willing to take a few minutes to learn about it.

Regards,

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com

From: R L <fedora26 at gmail.com>
Subject: Wireless Network Connection
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:26:50 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

I have a real interesting problem.  Note this worked great before I had to reformat/reinstall.  I have a Netgear Wireless G PC Card for my laptop. I have the madwifi driver compiled and installed.  I put this in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

iwconfig ath0 essid Qf734EdTu8W
iwpriv ath0 mode 3
iwconfig ath0 key 684D083EECE11F6DC18D187749
iwconfig ath0 192.168.1.13  255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.1.1

However, when I boot into Fedora, it doesn't connect unless I take out the PC Card, put it back in, and then give it the essid and iwpriv commands again.  It then connects.  Anyone have any ideas?  I thought perhaps I'm missing something in my custom kernel (2.6.13) I made. But I have all modules for PC Card support and such. 
From: Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com>
Subject: Re: Make yum not to delete the downloaded rpm(s)
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:27:35 -0400 (EDT)
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Fajar Priyanto wrote:

> Hi all,
> Can I make yum NOT to delete the downloaded rpm(s)? What option should I use?

yum does NOT delete the downloaded rpms. There is a weekly cron job that calls
yum to delete them. Simply disable it. Look at /etc/cron.weekly/yum*

> I want to make it copy the rpm(s) to my other box too.

Yum will not copy it to the other box. You need to set up something to
do that for you.

Regards,

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com

From: Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at cbn.net.id>
Subject: Re: Make yum not to delete the downloaded rpm(s)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:38:53 +0700
To: fedora-list at redhat.com

On Friday 02 September 2005 09:27, Tom Diehl wrote:
> yum does NOT delete the downloaded rpms. There is a weekly cron job that
> calls yum to delete them. Simply disable it. Look at /etc/cron.weekly/yum*

> Yum will not copy it to the other box. You need to set up something to
> do that for you.

Thanks Tom, you're right.
And I'm glad yum doesn't delete them.
-- 
Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org
09:38:49 up 2:33, 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 GNU/Linux 
public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key

From: Chethiya K Ranaweera <ckranaweera at gmail.com>
Subject: recompiling the kernel
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:00:29 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

Hello,
I want to know how to recomplie a kernel. Can somebody guide me or give me a good link?

-- 
Chet
From: Michael Lai <ml at michael.lai.name>
Subject: Re: Login screen not showing up
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:03:45 +0800
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

gb spam wrote:

>>>Actually, I am using putty from Windows XP.
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>And no, I don't have cygwin.
>> 
>>
>
>from putty, run "telinit 3" that should stop X running and you should 
>have a text login on your linux host. log in as root, then run
>system-config-display. after that, "telinit 5" will restart X
>

I tried running system-config-display from the prompt. I get a blank 
screen and this is what I get after a while:

audit(:11480588): major=252 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (1)
audit(:11480564): major=113 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (2)
audit(:11481406): major=252 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (1)
audit(:11481394): major=113 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (2)
audit(:11482535): major=252 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (1)
audit(:11482480): major=113 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (2)
Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':17.0';
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the window manager.
audit(:11729076): major=252 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (1)
audit(:11514059): major=113 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (2)

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
Subject: RE: FC4 Ready for primt time?
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:09:25 -0500
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 07:48, Joey wrote:
> OK so I'm seeing that the focus of FC is different then lets say Redhat
> prior to the commercial days such as 7.x, 8.x etc.
> I have run production stuff under FC2 & FC3 and possibly made a mistake to
> jump over to FC4.
> 
> Do I have any "production" options in respect to Redhat that are open
> source, or simply stick to something like FC3 and stay back a bit when the
> new versions come out?

RedHat Enterprise Linux is the "production" version. It is open source
except for their artwork and trademarked name and only available with
paid support. The Centos project http://www.centos.org rebuilds
the open source components into a distribution available without
support.

-- 
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com

From: John Mahowald <jpmahowald at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with display
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:12:05 -0500
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

On 9/1/05, tanish srivastava wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I recently installed Fedora core 3 on my PC. Installation was perfectly ok,
> but while working the display is not proper. I tried to fix the problem but
> not able. But when i installed the Fedora on my friend's pc it was working
> ok. Can anyone help to get out pf this problem. Is the compaq presario MV
> 540 monitor not compbatible or some other problem ? 
> 

Which video card does your system have?

From: Neil Dugan <fedora at butterflystitches.com.au>
Subject: strange nfs problem
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:29:07 +1000
To: fedora-list at redhat.com

Hi,

I have just installed FC4 (minimum install) on a computer I intend to
setup as a server.

When I went to enable the NFS, I can't get it to work properly.
The important error message is :=

# /etc/init.d/nfs start
# tail /var/log/messages
Sep 2 13:18:40 mini-cl exportfs[2524]: can't open /etc/exports for reading
Sep 2 13:18:40 mini-cl kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
Sep 2 13:18:40 mini-cl kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev nfsd, type nfsd), uses genfs_contexts
Sep 2 13:18:40 mini-cl rpc.idmapd: nfsdreopen: Opening '' failed: errno 2 (No such file or directory)

And on the client use
# mount mini-cl:/mnt/storage storage
mount: mini-cl:/mnt/storage failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

# exportfs -a
# tail /var/log/messages
Sep 2 13:21:30 mini-cl exportfs[2592]: can't open /etc/exports for reading

# ls -l /etc/exports
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27 Sep 2 11:46 /etc/exports

# cat /etc/exports
/mnt/storage 192.168.0.0/16(rw)

# cat /etc/hosts.deny
portmap:ALL

# cat /etc/hosts.allow
portmap: 192.168.

If I use exportfs to bypass the /etc/exports file with
# exportfs -o rw 192.168.0.0/16:/mnt/storage

and on the client use
# mount mini-cl:/mnt/storage storage

Every thing works fine.

Any help appreciated.

Regards Neil.

From: Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>
Subject: Can't type in Gnome in FC4 after yum update
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:34:54 -0500
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

I just did an update in FC4 and picked up all the new X11 stuff. When I
boot into Gnome and open a terminal session, gedit, or other application
like that, I can't type. The cursor doesn't move and no letters appear
on screen.

I can type in the login box to get logged in, and I can type when I need
to use a root level application. However, that's about all.

If I switch to KDE, everything operates normally.

Is anyone experiencing anything like this?

These are the packages that changed:

Sep 01 19:11:42 Updated: xorg-x11-libs.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:11:43 Updated: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:11:43 Updated: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:11:44 Updated: xorg-x11-font-utils.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:11:44 Updated: poppler.i386 0.4.1-1.1
Sep 01 19:11:44 Updated: xorg-x11-xauth.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:11:45 Updated: xorg-x11-xfs.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:11:55 Updated: xorg-x11.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:12:03 Updated: xorg-x11-devel.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:12:03 Updated: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:12:04 Updated: xorg-x11-xdm.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:12:05 Updated: xorg-x11-tools.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:12:12 Updated: evince.i386 0.4.0-1.2
Sep 01 19:12:13 Updated: xorg-x11-twm.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45
Sep 01 19:12:13 Updated: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.45

-- 

Steve

From: Norman Gaywood <norm at turing.une.edu.au>
Subject: slow evince and remote X
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:31:35 +1000
To: fedora-list at redhat.com

evince, and other postscript/pdf display programs are extremely slow
over remote X displays. This is on a 10M/bit switched network.

ghostview in FC1 also was also slow compared to what it was around RH 7
but the new evince (0.4.0-1.2 and older) are so slow that they are not
usable for remote displays. kghostview and kpdf are slightly better
but still slow.

Other programs like ooffice and even "gs -sDEVICE=x11" work very well
with remote X.

Anyone else seeing this?
-- 
Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia

norm at turing.une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412
http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

From: Steffen Kluge <kluge at fujitsu.com.au>
Subject: Re: Re: Feedback invited for Inspiron 6000 w/ ATI MOBILITYT RADEON® X300 64MB HyperMemory
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:40:47 +1000
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:46 -0500, Reshat Sabiq wrote:
> But again, i'd
> appreciate any feedback from actual users of X300 on laptops.

Ok, since you asked...

The proprietary ATI driver, as obtained from Livna, works for my laptop
(Fujitsu N3510, X300 64MB video RAM, 1280x800). 3D performance is much
better than expected (i.e. better than my desktop: Athlon 2600+ w/
Nvidia GeForce 5200) and TV out works as well. I haven't tried an
external VGA monitor yet.

The only thing I haven't gotten to work is ACPI resume, but the complete
lack of ACPI action scripts in FC4 has me a bit lost there anyway. I
fished a few scripts off the web but they all fail somewhere else. To be
fair, I haven't put much effort into it yet, since it's not high
priority for me. Anyway, this is the one thing I found not to work with
the ATI driver.

Hope this helps,
Steffen.

From: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing at gmail.com>
Subject: FC4 USB opti-mouse goes wild
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:53:54 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

I have a Logitech M-BT85 optical USB mouse (with wheel). It works
fine with FC4 [Linux version 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4] most of the time. See
lsusb output below FWIW.

Occasionally, when I'm mousing around doing nothing special, the
cursor takes off like crazy across the screen and lands somewhere at
the edge. Really annoying! My mouse preferences are all set to
middle values.

Have I got a bad mouse, or do we have USB / driver problems? Is it a
known problem? Should I declare a bug?

Thanks for any clues.
-- 
martin.ewing at gmail.com
http://blog.aa6e.net
----------------------
lsusb:
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c03f Logitech, Inc.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x046d Logitech, Inc.
idProduct 0xc03f
bcdDevice 20.00
iManufacturer 1 Logitech
iProduct 2 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 34
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xa0
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 98mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Devices
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 2 Mouse
iInterface 0
HID Device Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 33
bcdHID 1.10
bCountryCode 0 Not supported
bNumDescriptors 1
bDescriptorType 34 Report
wDescriptorLength 50
Report Descriptors:
** UNAVAILABLE **
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0004 1x 4 bytes
bInterval 10

From: Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>
Subject: Re: Can't type in Gnome in FC4 after yum update [solved, but not understood
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:16:44 -0500
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

Steven Stern wrote:
> I just did an update in FC4 and picked up all the new X11 stuff. When I
> boot into Gnome and open a terminal session, gedit, or other application
> like that, I can't type. The cursor doesn't move and no letters appear
> on screen.
> 
> I can type in the login box to get logged in, and I can type when I need
> to use a root level application. However, that's about all.
> 
> If I switch to KDE, everything operates normally.
> 
> Is anyone experiencing anything like this?

I don't know what happened, but I deleted ~/.gconf and the problem went 
away.

-- 

Steve

From: Marc Blanc <arsace at wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: A really clean text editor
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 06:36:07 +0200
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:44:05 +0100
Paul Smith 
wrote:

> I agree and recommend Emacs.

Or XEmacs :)

-- 
M.B

From: Anil Kumar Sharma <xplusaks at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with latest Kernel (2.6.12-1.1447_FC4)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:53:30 +0530
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

1   With 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4(smp) usbkey 128MB is detected and mounted even if inserted before boot. 
2   However there is a different problem (that is continuing with all previous kernels) -
21    If a second usbkey is inserted it does not show up as a new desktop icon. I can mount the second key manually.
22   Strangely if the two usbkeys have different format like one fat (default OEM) and other fat32 (forced formatted) they both show up on desktop at least when login is root.
 3  Suggestions sought to make usbkeys work in default mode. 
Thanks

On 9/2/05, oldman <talbotscott at cox.net> wrote: 
   The USB section apparently does not look for devices when it first
comes up, at least my 128MB usbkey will not mount until I unplug and 
re-plug in the device.
   I'll look for a Bugzilla on this, though I know this has happened
periodically on various kernels over the last 6 months

   Scott

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