What's Happened at fcp.surfsite.org
by Robert McBroom
What has happened to the Fedora Community Portal at fcp.surfsite.org? There haven't seemed to be updates since the 21st of January. It was very nice to keep track of the lists in a manner that wasn't obvious to IT.
Robert McBroom
16 years, 2 months
Yum repair
by Timothy Murphy
I upgraded FC-6 to F-7 on an Athlon64 machine,
and the process hung several (3 I think) times during installation.
Each time I re-started the machine,
the number of packages was greatly reduced: 950 ... 400 ... 50.
The system works fine,
but it is pretty clear all the packages were not properly installed.
Eg when I ran "yum update" after the installation
only 30 or so packages were downloaded,
while on other systems the number was 300-400.
Is there any way of checking that everything has been downloaded?
Or is there even a command like "yum --force install"
to force a re-installation of a particular package?
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16 years, 2 months
Burning CDs
by Phil Bass
First, apologies if this has been asked before. I did look at the
fedora-list archives, but they're arranged by date and I don't know
which month(s) to look at. (Is there a search facility somewhere?)
I'm using Fedora 7 with all updates applied (except for a very recent
Perl update that the update program couldn't find).
I have been using xcdroast to save photos onto CDs. I always write
multi-session CDs so that I can keep adding photos until the disk is
nearly full. Some time over the past 5 months xcdroast seems to have
stopped working. After some Googling I found that a kernel update was
(probably) responsible and that it works when run as root. That would be
an acceptable temporary solution, but for me it doesn't work. xcdroast
starts up but never sees a CD in the CD-writer. Asking xcdroast to scan
for devices causes it to hang. This is true for both ordinary users and
root.
After further investigation I found an alternative CD burning program
called graveman and tried it. It hangs on startup for both ordinary
users and root.
Finally I tried to use the CD burning facility built in to Nautilus. The
trouble now is that I can't find out whether Nautilus will write a new
session to a multi-session CD. There's no option to control that AFAICS.
So I haven't clicked the write-to-disc button to see if it works.
If necessary I could learn how to use cdrecord (or is it wodim now?),
but that's far more complicated than I need and I'm fast losing the will
to live. ;-) Any suggestions?
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Phil Bass (phil(a)stoneymanor.demon.co.uk)
16 years, 2 months
Cups doesn't end print jobs.
by John Thompson
I'm running Fedora8 x86-64 with cups-1.3.6-2fc8 and print to an Epson
C88 printer attached to an EpsonNet print server. Other machines on my
home network (Vista, slackware, FreeBSD) can print just fine with this
setup, but for some reason on the Fedora8 machine print jobs are never
removed from the queue after the print job completes. The job just sits
there as "active" (even though the entire document has printed), and
blocks subsequent print jobs until I manually "lprm" the job. Then the
next job prints, and again sits there until I lprm that job, and so on.
Cups is configured identically on my slackware machine but on that
machine the jobs are removed properly.
What should I be looking for to fix this?
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John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)
16 years, 2 months
quicker updates - use presto
by Valent Turkovic
Hi,
how many of you use presto plugin for yum that does deltarpms
downloads and now whole rpms while updating?
How do you find it? I find it excellent! I have a fast internet
connection and I still find it really helpful - I can't imagine how is
it to update on a slow internet connections without presto.
If you look at the link:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePresto
you can see that it will be on by default on Fedora 9 - nice :)
Valent.
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16 years, 2 months
Webcam support
by arunbkn＠aol.in
Dear All,
I have webcam which is not working on my FC8
details of webcam is as follows:
[root@itqs-arun ~]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:6270 Microdia U-CAM PC Camera NE878
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000?
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000?
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000?
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000?
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:1d17 Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1320
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000?
[root@itqs-arun ~]#
After lot of googling I found that, this webcam is not supported by Linux (I doubt ??) and finally lend up to the following site :
https://groups.google.com/group/microdia
where lots of users are waiting for support ...................
hope some one linux expert can help us
Arun
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16 years, 2 months
Verizon EVDO 5750 Broadband Card
by max
I originally started this under the Archive Search thread but i wanted to
put in an appropriate subject line.
I was having trouble getting the Verizon EVDO 5750 Broadband Card to work.
There are several how to's out there but some are, of course, different from
others. The one that set me sailing was :
http://www.linux.com/feature/52729
This article uses the 5740 but taking that into account in the initial
steps, all the scripts that follow worked as is.
Thanks again for the suggestions and links.
Max
16 years, 2 months
