Converting HTML to PDF Problem in FC5
by Hosea Phiri
I have a problem here, I want to convert html files to pdf file. In the past on RH the following steps used to work fine:
html2ps file.html > file.ps
ps2pdf file.ps > file.pdf
rm file.ps
However I have a problem with html2ps command which does not exist on FC5.
How can I have this command installed or is there a way of converting direct from html to pdf from command line?
Hosea
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17 years, 5 months
toshiba_acpi AWOL?
by Tim Jackson
In recent kernels (I'm running 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6) the toshiba_acpi
module seems to have gone walkabouts. Nothing I can see in the changelog.
Does anyone know if this is intentional? I have searched around a bit
and found some recent patches, but nothing indicating why it's not there.
Thanks
Tim
17 years, 5 months
Triple boot Fedora, XP, and Vista
by Thomas Paine
I did some googling earlier looking for info on triple booting Fedora,
XP and Vista. I found some good info where everything is contained all
on one drive, but I have 4 sata drives that I'll be using.
I have an 80G for XP, and 80G for Vista, a 160 for Fedora, and a 250
for data storage.
Has anyone else worked at triple booting in this way?
The one guide suggests using the windows bootloader to let you handle
xp and vista and grub can get you into fedora. Ideally I'l like to use
grub for all three.Should I make my fedora drive sda then in this
case?
Anyone else done this and have ideas?
Thanks.
--
-=/>Thom
17 years, 5 months
Bash problems?
by Tomas Larsson
Dear group.
How do I do to, within a scrip, check if a directory I empty or not.
Cant find a way to do this in a simple way.
With best regards
Tomas Larsson
Sweden
Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
17 years, 5 months
Feeling real grumpy !
by Bill Case
Hi;
I have a friend staying with me for a couple of weeks. He is moving
here from another city and waiting for his new house purchase to close
and for his furniture with his computer to arrive. A perfect captive
audience to sell Linux and Fedora to.
My Fedora Core 6 i386 doesn't work.
"Np problem" says I to my friend, "I am on one of the most friendly and
helpful mailing lists in the world. You won't find anything like it for
help on Windows."
I send off a post describing my problem. No reply.
I try to show him the new compiz. It doesn't work.
I send a post describing my problem. No reply
I dig around and find that my video card using r128 driver doesn't work.
I send a post asking when it might be fixed. No reply.
I go to my backed up FC5 /etc/X11/xorg.conf and copy some of the
elements to my FC6 xorg.conf. I am not sure this will work, so I send a
post to this list asking if I will break anything. No reply.
I search Red Hat bugzilla for Fedora. I find a bug that is similar to
mine and add appropriate comments. No reply
I run into other problems that may be window manager related. I send
off a post. No reply.
"Well" I say to my friend "in the meantime, lets get some other things
working." I try to set up Gnomeradio. It doesn't work. I send a post to
the Gnome mailing list, wait a few days, then post the same problem to
the Fedora mailing list. No reply.
Sessions manager doesn't work. Several other applications are wonky. I
send off a list of wonky applications. No reply.
This morning my friend says that he is going out to look for a new Mac
computer.
No reply from me. I have googled and searched and found all kinds of
stories and comments about the failure/disagreement over AIGLX on r128
type video cards. Most of the comments seem outdated.
Can someone tell me:
Is this being fixed?
Is there a workaround?
Do I need a new video card?
Have I in someway in the past offended everybody on this list?
If I prepare a list of things-no-longer-working correctly, can someone
tell which ones are video card related?
I understand this is an all volunteer list. I have tried to give advice
when I could. I understand that FC6 is cutting edge and could have
bugs. I have been through the growing pains for FC3, FC4 and FC5.
Luckily, I have some work that has to be done I M$ Excel for today. But
I would like to show my friend more than half a Linux system.
--
Regards Bill
17 years, 5 months
Cross compilation
by Fernando Apesteguía
Helo list,
I'm using FC6 for x86_64. I need to compile a program for linux 32
bits. I tried with the -m32 flag to gcc, but I got:
core_recv.c:(.text+0x130): undefined reference to `__umoddi3'
and tons of ld warnings:
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `main.o' is
incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
I searched in Google, but couldn't find the solution. For the
undefinded references I suppose it is because some missing i386
libraries right?
And what about the other things? How can I compile a 32 bit
application under a 64 bit system?
Thanks in advance.
17 years, 5 months
Notebook
by Andrea Bencini
I would like to buy a notebook and to install FC6.
Which one of these is the best to install FC6?
HP
ASUS
ACER
Toshiba
Thank
Andrea
17 years, 5 months
Re: Directory Size problem
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
"Dan Track" <dan.track(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a directory /var/spool/mqueue that is at 3.6G. The problem is
> that I've deleted everything in the directory but the size reported
> from du -hs is still reported as 3.6G. I've shutdown all potential
> sevices that could possibly be using teh directory e.g sendmail,
> httpd, syslog but it hasn't helped if I run an lsof or fuser against
> the directory I get no connections listed.
>
> Could someone please help me figure this weird problem out.
Is it the directory itself that still shows 3.6G? That is, what does ls
-lh /var/spool show for the mqueue directory? Since you've already
disabled all of the services that may access the directory, why not nuke
it (rm -rf /var/spool/mqueue) and then re-create it? Just make sure you
get the ownership and permissions right.
If the directory contained a large number of small files, it's possible
that it's just taking the file system some time to "catch up." At a
previous job I had to wipe clean a very bushy directory structure with
several hundred thousand files between test runs. If we could, we would
put this directory structure on a separate file system since it was
faster to unmount it, format it and remount it than it was to rm -rf the
directory structure. Could something like this be going on?
Cheers,
Dave
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17 years, 5 months
FC6 SATA-install on MSI K9AGM
by Kenn Thyrsted
Hi list.
FC6 will not install on sataII due to unreckognized device ATI SB600.
Any hints, workarounds etc. would be appreciated ;-)
- please....
Regards
Kenn
17 years, 5 months
RE: How to encrypt and burn to dvdr my home dir?
by Christian Burger
>Robin Laing wrote:
>>
>> What about truecrypt?
>>
>> http://www.truecrypt.org/
>>
>> If I was making a backup, I would tar and encrypt as explained before
>> and then RAR the files to make the files sizes easier to deal with.
>>
>> Just a thought.
>
>After encryption, it isn't going to compress.
>
>Mike
Nope not much if any... but rar will chunk it into 650 meg or whatever size
chunks that are desired....
17 years, 5 months
