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default users configuration
by Eric Tanguy 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

I have 2 main user group : teachers and students. I would like that each student have a specific Applications menu in gnome and each teacher have another one. I would like also this will be true for actual users but also when i will create a new account. Do you know if it is possible and how ? I'm not sure to explain well what i need so ... Thanks -- Eric Tanguy | Nantes, France <eric.tanguy(a)univ-nantes.fr> Key : A4B8368F | Key Server : subkeys.pgp.net Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) sur athlon kernel 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4

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speedtouch driver generates errors
by Motor 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

I filed this bug report last night: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172083 http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/fedora/ After following the instructions for getting a Thompson/Alcatel Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem running under Fedora Core 4, the system functions correctly, connects just fine and runs without problems. After using the system/connection for a while, when I use "dmesg" I find occasional error messages in the log: ATM dev 0: error -110 fetching device status However, this does not appear to stop the ADSL modem from working normally (and the device functions apparently perfectly under Windows 98SE also). I'm working under the (naive) assumption that is a non-critical bug in the speedtouch driver and reporting it, although I do realise this report doesn't narrow things down much. :) ... the advice given is that "-110 is a timeout" and to keep an eye on /proc/slabinfo for relevant growth. Can anyone: 1. Let me know if you've seen this error yourself 2. What should I be looking for in /proc/slabinfo? At the moment I'm just planning to cat /proc/slabinfo >dayX and then see what I can see on Friday. Thanks.

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31 Oct '05

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choosing default font for a locale
by venkata ramana 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Hi list, I use telugu (te_IN) unicode names for some of my files and menu items. I recently installed some new fonts and one of these newly installed fonts made itself as default for telugu unicode characters. Is there anyway for specifying which of the fonts I have, should be associated with the characters in my language? regards, ramana. -- రమణ

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A bug in the text based ISO installation CDs?
by Rob Prowel 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

In choosing to (keep) a previously formatted root partition (albeit an empty one) the installation procedure tells me that not enough space exists on the target partition to install the selected packages? I selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is 3000MB in size? %smirk on. Is my math faulty? %smirk off. cheers, Prowel __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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SmartLink Modem Family Woes (Snap Snap)
by Lane Hill 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

I bought a Creative ModemBlaster USB DE5671 recently, due to me getting troubles with getting a working modem for Fedora 4 (so far I've tried 5 different ones, and this is the first external I tried). Of course, Fedora doesn't recognize it offhand, so I did some research. It uses a chipset that's in the same Family as the SmartLink SmartUSB56 (or something or another). The greater news is that SmartLink has a driver available! So, first I tried to make an rpm out of the tar.gz file. According to the terminal, rpm -ta is not a real command, although that's what the readme says to type. So, I decided to try to do the MakeFile instructions. However, this was unsuccessful, due to a static declaration of "sregs_init" bieng followed by a nonstatic declaration, and then there was a previous declaration elsewhere in the file "modem.c" Having some C/C++ expierence, I tried to fix this, but it wouldn't work. So, I tried going out and finding some of RPMs on the internet. I did, and apparantly it required the kernel package, which I'm pretty sure I am, considering Fedora can't really work without it. So, I'm completely lost, confused and a bit pissed off due to the fact that all I want to do is use this computer (I'm using my mom's currently) for school, yet I have to live with crappy 56k, and that no modem I've tried worked successfully with Fedora. All I'm asking is this: Can someone pinpoint to me a good RPM to use for this modem, or can someone recommend a good modem (internal or external) that can work flawlessly or near flawlessly with Fedora?

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New PC
by Guillermo Garron 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Hi all, I am a returning user of linux after 3 or 4 years :). I am just about to buy a new PC i am thinking in a pentium IV Intel with an Intel M.B. and with 1 Gb RAM. About the NIC, sound and Graphics controller and also modem. what considerations should i have in order to have no problems installing Fedora 4? is there any URL with a description of the compatible peripherials? thanks a lot, best regards, Guillermo.

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Fedora update info
by Derek Martin 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Hi folks, I was wondering where I can find the equivalent of Red Hat errata and/or security notices for Fedora Core. For example, today I noticed that kernel-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 was just released, whereas kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3 was released pretty recently too. I'd like to know where I can find out WHY updates are released. I did poke around a little on the fedora website, but didn't find what I was looking for. Thanks! -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D

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need to be able to create a (clone) installation for a different platform
by Rob Prowel 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

some background: I have a xeon machine running suse8.2 and fc4 dialects of linux, an LFS (linux from scratch) instance, plus doze-xp, all booting thru grub, and I write linux c/c++ code for autonomous robots, so I know a wee little bit about what's going on behind the bling bling. My new housing situation allows me to piggyback my landlord's wireless cable internet connection but my computer room has terrible link signal because the access point is way on the other side of the house...plus my dual xeon doesn't work well in smp or hyperthreading mode with the limited support b/g wireless cards that are available for linux. I ended up having to use the rt2500 in non-smp mode: a non-optimal solution! Anyway, my solution is to install a bare linux distro on a legacy MB8500-TVX mobo (pentium classic) that will sit in an optimum wireless reception point in my apartment. Then I'll use that machine as a firewall and wireless ethernet bridge: wireless on one side and wired 100bt on the other. The machine will provide iptables firewalling/NAT, caching only DNS, mail server, etc. The target platform is pentium classic, there is no working floppy controller on the machine (presumable fried by the previous owner because there was no key on the ribbon connector port), and the old 1995 BIOS is too buggy to allow booting the CDROM. That leaves me with only one option if I intend to use that machine: I must prepare the hard disk on my xeon machine and move it to the target platform. I don't have time or motivation to recompile my LFS distro for the pentium classic because I originally prepared it specifically for the xeon and that took me two months. Enter option 2) I tried to use the FC4 distro CDs (on my xeon) to install on a usb2 connected hard disk that I would move to the target machine as the primary IDE hard disk. It seems that even though the FC4 CDs are listed as pentium friendly the folks who prepared them may have generated kernels that don't work on the pentium classic, or at lease the penium classic in combination with an ISA/PCI combination architecture. OOPS! I tried a workaround of genning my own 2.6.11 kernel and sticking it into the target disk as a bootable grub image, but then once the kernel is running it cannot run init which resides on an ext3 partition...All I did was take the stock CD kernel and change the target platform setting to pentium classic. Again, I suspect compilation that was done for the higher end pentium platforms to be on the CDs. After reading the FC4 release notes the indication is that pentium classic (should) be supported...so, the question is: did the guys who prepared the ISOs make a goof? Did they test the ISOs on all supported platforms before releasing them? and I'm quite hesitant to suggest the last option because it makes an easy out even if it isn't true: Did the CD install procedure that I did on the xeon pick a kernel package that was optimized to what it thought my platform was? Comments, questions, suggestions? tanks -Prowel __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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FC4 Can't use Nautilus burn:
by Martin, AA6E 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

I want to use the burn:/// feature in Nautilus. This used to work for me, but lately all I can do is write the image to a file, not to my /dev/dvdwriter = /dev/cdwriter = /dev/cdrom = /dev/hdc. It's as if Nautilus doesn't see the device. cdwriter works fine on its own. Any suggestions how to burn to my device? TIA, Martin -- martin.ewing(a)gmail.com http://blog.aa6e.net

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