Change permissions on /dev file?
by Toralf Lund
How can I update permissions on a device file on an FC4 setup? I mean, I
know I can use chmod, of course, but the problem is that for /dev
special files, the changes are lost on reboot.
More specifically, I have a SCSI scanner, and I (obviously) want to
access it as a regular user, but by default /dev/sg* can be read and
written only by root. How do I change that? (And why don't devices like
this automatically get user accessible?)
- T
18 years, 1 month
I'm having trouble booting from the CD
by Tyler
Hello everyone. I have a problem I was hoping someone could help me
with. When I try to boot my Fedora CD I get this message
ISOLINUX 2.06 2003-08-22 isolinux: disk error 01, AX = 4293, 9F
I have no idea what it means or what to do. Any help that someone could
give me would be appreciated.
18 years, 2 months
Updated FC4 install disk(s)?
by David Niemi
A few months ago there were some messages about an updated version of
the install CDs or the DVD, is this still available from someone's site
or on bittorent?
The June FC4 CDs/DVD do not have adequate support for my motherboard
(Biostar TForce 6100-939) with the nForce-4 chipset so the on-board
network card (RTL8201BL/RTL8201CL) and other things aren't found. FC5-T1
just keeps rebooting after the install too fast to see what the problem
is and I've tried many of the kernel options.
SUSE 10 works great though but I'd rather run Fedora. I'll probably try
FC5-T2 next week if I can't get FC4 installed.
Agreed, I could download all of the base, updates, and extras with SUSE
then do a local yum update with the hobbled FC4 and see if that works.
Thanks for the information / suggestions.
18 years, 2 months
Fedora Core 4 On mini mac
by Hill, Richard D
(sorry if this is the wrong place to post this)
For days I have been trying to install Fedora core 4 (ppc) on my Mini Mac I have repartitioned destroyed partitions etc and every time it errors with ignore or cancel messages about partition blocks I can press ignore and go on but it generally bombs out when it comes to the actual formatting of the new partitions I've defined and the copy of files part , on one occasion it seemed to actually install but on reboot it failed to load kernel image
There is nothing wrong with the hdd I have no issues at all installing tiger back on the Mini Mac , but do what I will it actively refuses to have anything to do with Fedora.
Has anyone else experienced this problem ?
Richard
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Nautilus missing sidebar, address bar [solved] (Steven Stern)
2. Re: Logins (Paul Howarth)
3. Re: Newbie. Java Path in Fedora not found (Tatxe)
4. Re: Newbie. Java Path in Fedora not found (Craig Thomas)
5. Re: smb mounts (Tim)
6. Re: transfer master Windows DNS to slave BIND DNS (Les Mikesell)
7. how to instal RHFC to run on i386 (Gavin Li)
8. RE: Spam assassin Gui required (Brian Gaynor)
9. Re: Spam assassin Gui required (Les Mikesell)
10. Re: how to instal RHFC to run on i386 (Jakub Jelinek)
11. Re: Updated FC3 KDM issues? (Rex Dieter)
12. Re: smb mounts (Neal Becker)
13. Re: disable shutdown/reboot in GNOME logout menu (Bryn Reeves)
14. VCD help (arnuld fraser)
15. Re: Logins (Dave Mitchell)
16. Re: mplayer as dependency error (Robin Laing)
17. Burnt ISO using k3b (Linux Newbee)
18. Re: Newbie. Java Path in Fedora not found (akonstam(a)trinity.edu)
19. Re: Lexmark printer drivers (Robin Laing)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:14:19 -0500
From: Steven Stern <subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com>
Subject: Re: Nautilus missing sidebar, address bar [solved]
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Message-ID: <42FC929B.8060103(a)sterndata.com>
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Steven Stern wrote:
> My Nautilus windows are missing the sidebar and address bar as well as
> the options to turn them on/off from the VIEW menu. The help system says:
>
> You can show and hide file browser window components as follows:
>
> To hide the side pane, choose View-> Side Pane. To display the side pane
> again, choose View -> Side Pane again.
> To hide the toolbar, choose View -> Toolbar. To display the toolbar
> again, choose View -> Toolbar again.
> To hide the location bar, choose View -> Location Bar. To display the
> location bar again, choose View -> Location Bar again.
> To hide the statusbar, choose View -> Statusbar. To display the
> statusbar again, choose View -> Statusbar again
>
> but there are no such items on the View menu.
>
> I don't know how they got removed. How do I get them back?
Never mind....
EDIT -> PREFERENCES -> BEHAVIOR -> Always open in browser window was
unchecked. I checked it and the sidebar is back.
--
Steve
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:28:32 +0100
From: Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org>
Subject: Re: Logins
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
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Ted Gervais wrote:
> Before upgrading to FC4 I used to be able to turn on my computer and up would
> come FC3 with any need to login. It would sit there at the 'desktop' waiting
> for me to do something. But I never had to enter a username and password.
>
> However, I DO have to do that now with FC4? Obviously there is a setting
> somewhere that can fix that but where is it?
Having to log in is the default; before upgrading you must have
configured autologin yourself.
See the AutomaticLoginEnable and AutomaticLogin keywords (documented at
http://yippi.hypermall.com/gdm/gdm-documentation/x241.html) in
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf to set it up again.
Paul.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:42:12 +0200
From: Tatxe <tatxe(a)tatxe.org>
Subject: Re: Newbie. Java Path in Fedora not found
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
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El vie, 12-08-2005 a las 11:42 +0100, Clive at Rational escribió:
Try this:
instead of
/etc/profile.d/java.sh
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_08/bin
use this:
export PATH=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_08/bin:$PATH
And the system look first in the SUN java before than de gnu java :)
> Hi,
>
> I am running Oxygen XML successfully under Fedora 4
> kernel 2.6.12
>
> However, before I run the program I have to issue
> the following command
>
> export PATH=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_08/bin:$PATH
>
> otherwise I get lots of error messages and OXygen
> does not run.
>
> Now I have searched around and found the following
> file and entry
>
> /etc/profile.d/java.sh
> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_08/bin
>
> However, this entry does not seem "sufficient" to
> define a path to Java. What do I need to do to the
> java.sh entry so I do not need to run the export
> command every time I want to run Oxygen?
>
> Thanks
>
> Clive
>
18 years, 2 months
dual head on fedora
by Jim Patterson
I was trying to set up a computer with dual head and install an ATI 9250
AGP card and an ATI 9250 PCI card. When I go to display and select Dual
Head I can setup the card resolution and Color Depth and the monitor,
but even after reboot the second screen still doesn't show anything. It
just stays blank. Is there anything else I should look at.
following is xorg.conf
--------------------------------------------
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name
of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "G810-5"
DisplaySize 410 300
HorizSync 30.0 - 97.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 180.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "KDS Visual Sensations VS-190/VS-195e/VS-195i"
HorizSync 30.0 - 95.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 9200PRO"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 9200PRO"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1400x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
18 years, 2 months
Gnome panel clock
by David Boles
I was asked why the GNOME panel clock calendar displays weeks that begin with
Monday.
The other questions are. Ccan it be changed to begin with Sunday? And, of
course if possible, how to change it?
--
David
18 years, 2 months
Private Mirror/Repository
by Jonathan Allen
Hi there !
A client has a number of machines on their internal LAN, all running FC4.
To keep them all up2date takes quite a lot time and bandwidth because
even at 512M broadband speeds the stuff has to be downloaded for all
the machines on the network. Could I set them up with their firewall
machine holding a mirror of the Fedora Core and Extras repositories and
have all the network machines point to the firewall for repositories ?
Any pointers to doing this and gotchas to beware of would be welcome ...
Jonathan
18 years, 3 months
VDQ : Firefox, Fedora -- and yum?
by Beartooth
I run FC4 on four (sometimes five), and have just had to re-install it on
one I had managed to foul up (another story); so I *think* this is right :
FC4 not only installs Ffx by default, but makes it the default browser;
but to update Ffx you have to go through nine yards of tarballs, and
things to fierce to mention to MS users, most of whom haven't heard of
tarballs and would either fall asleep or climb the walls in panic if you
tried to tell them.
Yet apparently Firefox appeals to MS users.
"yum update firefox" certainly doesn't work, at least not with the default
configurations on a new install. Nor on any install of mine.
Need these things be?
Is there a way I've missed to make "yum update firefox" work? Is there
hope it will in FC5 -- or even FC6?
Or is the trouble something in Firefox itself?
As for me, I use Ffx as little as I conveniently can, just because I can
keep Opera -- which has as many bills & whistles, some of them better --
up to snuff so much more readily. It tells me when a new release is
available, asks if I want it, and if I tell it yes the worst that can
happen is that I have to run an rpm command. And Opera is also
cross-platform ....
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Linux Enthusiast
A wanderstaff like an Elvish rope should be long,
and strong, and light. And gentle to the hand.
18 years, 3 months
Good TV/VHS card for Fedora Core?
by dondi_2006
Hello,
I have a microatx PC with on board graphics more than adequate
for my needs. The only thing I want to add now is a TV capture card to encode and copy on DVD my home videos from a VHS VCR.
I *might*, some time in the future, use the same box for
recording analog and satellite TV shows, but that is quite
unlikely, so it's not required. Right now, all I need is a
card that gives no trouble with Fedora, has coax or SCART
input and HW (PAL) video encoding to copy my movies faster.
I have already made a bit of research. The three models below seems the easiest to buy around here, and OK with Linux,
but I'd really appreciate your opinion (quality, ease of use,
best Fedora driver support, anything) or suggestions for other
models of course:
Hauppage Win-TV PVR 250
Sapphire Theatrix 550 pro
Sapphire Theatrix 300
Thanks in advance for any feedback,
Webber
18 years, 3 months
