The Case of the Missing Characters, revisited
by kwhiskerz kwhiskerz
I have noticed that when I am typing, the letters v,b,f,g,r,t,4,5 do
not always type, making it very difficult to write emails and enter
commands.The curious thing, as I just ascertained a moment ago, is
that the missing characters all line up diagonally on the keyboard.I
am using the pc105 character german keyboard setting with all dead
keys, and have the system set to use utf-8,
which is the default.I have also enabled the xkbd compose key option
on the useless key to the left of the right ctrl key.This has only occurred 2 or 3 times in the last 2 weeks.Could
there be some problem with keysim mappings or something?I thought
that, since the keys all line up, that there could be a problem with
the keyboard, but someone else reported the problem on fedoraforum about 2
weeks ago.kwhiskerz{
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17 years, 4 months
system hangs with all-generic-ide & irqpoll
by David Scriven
I am still battling with my Intel DG965 motherboard and getting Linux to
recognise the ide compnents - the DVD & 2nd hard drive.
I'm using the latest kernel 2.6.19, but that still doesn't recognise the
ide or PATA components. While using all-generic-ide & irqpoll does
allow those items to be recognised the system runs slower and
will freeze randomly, requiring a reboot. I use kde as my desktop.
Switching the SATA to AHCI is really not an option as that will
require reinstallation of systems (this is a dual boot system).
Incidentally, the much-loathed Windows works perfectly and
recognises everything.
I have applied the latest BIOS updates from Intel, so other
than wait for a kernel update, what to do?
DS
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17 years, 4 months
Undetected video card on xSeries 206m
by Federico Fanton
Hi everyone!
I have a little problem with FC6 running on an IBM xSeries 206m machine..
I can't get Xorg to detect the integrated video card (Radeon 7000/VE)
using the ati driver, while with FC4 and 5 everything was ok..
The fbdev driver works though, but it's a bit slow.
lspci output:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller
Hub (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to
CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host
Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host
Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02)
00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corporation 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable
Interrupt Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host
Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller
(rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6300ESB PATA Storage Controller
(rev 02)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SATA RAID
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547GI Gigabit Ethernet
Controller
04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY
[Radeon 7000/VE]
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Xorg log with ati driver (relevant parts, I hope :) ):
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X Window System Version 7.1.1
(...)
Current Operating System: Linux Havens.ibc.it 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP
(...)
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-47.fc6
(...)
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,2578 card 1014,02ae rev 02 class 06,00,00
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:03:0: chip 8086,257b card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,04,00
hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:06:0: chip 8086,257e card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 08,80,00
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1c:0: chip 8086,25ae card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,04,00
hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1d:0: chip 8086,25a9 card 1014,02ad rev 02 class 0c,03,00
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1d:1: chip 8086,25aa card 1014,02ad rev 02 class 0c,03,00
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:4: chip 8086,25ab card 1014,02ad rev 02 class 08,80,00
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:5: chip 8086,25ac card 1014,02ad rev 02 class 08,00,20
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:7: chip 8086,25ad card 1014,02ad rev 02 class 0c,03,20
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,244e card 0000,0000 rev 0a class 06,04,00
hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,25a1 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,01,00
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,25a2 card 1014,02ad rev 02 class 01,01,8a
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:2: chip 8086,25b0 card 1014,02ad rev 02 class 01,04,8f
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:3: chip 8086,25a4 card 1014,02ad rev 02 class 0c,05,00
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:01:0: chip 8086,1075 card 1014,02ad rev 00 class 02,00,00
hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Intel Bridge workaround enabled
(...)
(II) Primary Device is: ISA
(II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Videocard0".
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
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Looking at the PCI scan, it seems like Xorg misses the device
completely.. My xorg.conf Device section:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000"
Option "NoAccel"
EndSection
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I tried to install a new video card (ATI RageXL), but it doesn't detect
it either.. What could be wrong?
Many thanks for your attention, please ask if you need more information!
17 years, 4 months
Re: problems with mplayer
by Paulo Cavalcanti
> I don't get any error messages on screen. Which logs should I look at?
> and have any of you experienced this or cured it?
It worked fine for me. The URL has to be in a single line, though.
I heard an interview of a girl from the navy which posed for playboy in
2000.
I used mplayerplug-in-3.35 from freshrpms. cache size of 512 bytes.
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17 years, 4 months
Video conferencing
by Frank Pineau
When I travel on business, I like to set up video chat to talk to my
family at home. The problem is, home is behind a NAT firewall (a PIX to
be exact). I have limited IP addresses and cannot spare one to
statically assign to an endpoint inside my network for this purpose.
Regardless, I'd like to be able to connect to any node in my network,
depending on who I want to call. I never know what I'm going to be
behind, but it's usually also some sort of NAT firewall that I do not
control. I've tried ekiga (nee Gnome Meeting), and a few others with
almost no luck. I thought something like skype (which doesn't support
video under linux) or an instant messenger that uses an intermediary
server (Yahoo, ICQ, etc.) to get around the NAT issues but none of those
support video either. I've tried VPN to my PIX, but as I can't control
where I'm coming from, I haven't been able to configure a reliable VPN
client for linux.
In short, when trying to video conference under linux, I'm successful
around 5% of the time. It's almost always easier to boot into Windows
and do it from there. What do you use for mobile video chat and how
have you set it up?
17 years, 4 months
RE: The Case of the Missing Characters
by kwhiskerz kwhiskerz
I'm not using a windows machine. I don't use windows. I only use Linux, and basically, only Fedora. I install other distros now and again just to see, but I always use fedora.Yes, I notice that hotmail is not wrapping the lines correctly. They jsut go on and on. How come?I am not sure how to selectively disable html, but I will have a look at the options. I don't like this windoes live mail at all. It is very slow to reload and rebuild a page and doesn't seem to like firefox, or something. I keep getting errors. Maybe I'll have to create a google account, but I'm tired of having so many email accounts and want to consolidate.
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17 years, 4 months
Re: xmms fc6
by Paulo Cavalcanti
> There is no more /media/cdrom... and :media is empty, even if I load a
> cd/dvd/usb-key....
>> Where is the config for external media?
Hi,
I do not mount removable media automatically.
I use automount for that. I have a file auto.vol
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage
a -fstype=auto,rw,sync,umask=0 :/dev/fd0
d -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/hdd
e -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/hdc
Therefore, I use /vol/d or /vol/e for my two writers.
Another inconvenience with automatic mounting, is if
I have to rewrite a CD-RW in k3b. If it is already mounted, k3b
gives me an error, and I would have to umount it before writing.
The automount approach also solves this problem for me.
For audio CDs, I use cdfs (from ATrpms), which mount audio cds,
and If I want to play them in xmmx I see the files (in their mount point)
as .wav. I can either copy the .wav files as ordinary files, which is a form
of ripping.
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17 years, 4 months
Re: The Case of the Missing Characters
by kwhiskers{
Yeah, like ya sure have to be careful with knail about which identity is
sending! hahaha
I thought if I just set the smtp transport for the identity then all would be
fine, but kmail doesn't necessarily choose the correct identity when you hit
reply :-)
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17 years, 4 months
