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Hello all,

I have an Acer Aspire One (AOA-150) In all the system runs very quickly (forget XP, takes 3 minutes to load anything on it, Ubuntu runs circles around it). The only issue I am having with it is that When I am in the KDE session, especially when opening either dolphin or firefox, it takes a long time to load and stalls the whole system. I have taken notice that the hard drive LED flashes a lot when this happens. I also have a Gnome and Xfce which are running flawlessly. Is there a way I can boost the speed?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

I installed F12 around the time it was released and it picked up my wireless
card and worked like a charm.....Suddenly last week everything stopped
working and I receive what appears to be a driver error when wlan0 tries to
load.

Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
invalid argument "if902c7885".

lspci reveals

Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN
Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI Card [1028:0005]

A quick google

Tried this on the OpenOffice.org users list, but no response yet. So,
I'm hoping someone here is familiar with Regular Expression & can help:

Hello,

I was trying to install Fedora 13 Alpha using BFO utility and I got an error
during the download of the install.img. I saw that the url for the
install.img is wrong:

URL that use BFO utility:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub

URL valid:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/

it works with the redhat url.

Do you know this error?

Thank you
salu2...
masch...

I recently used the wubi installer to dual boot windows and ubuntu 9.10. I upgraded today, and after the install I rebooted, but forgot to pay attention, and the autoselect loaded windows.

After rebooting again, when I select ubuntu to boot, the grub menu comes up, where as before it was the linux kernel list.

I'm pretty sure the not selecting ubuntu on the initial reboot is the problem.

My question is, am I supposed to load one of the linux kernels then ubuntu? Or is there a way to exclude the last upgrade, and return to the linux kernel list?

Thanks,
David

This Thursday, 2010-03-11, is webcam Test Day [1]. It's really pretty
simple: if you have a webcam we want you to boot up a recent Fedora and
check if it works. There's detailed instructions on the Wiki page but
that's really what it boils down to - fire up your webcam, run Cheese or
something like it, and make sure it all works well. If not, let us know
about it! As always, the Test Day runs all Thursday in #fedora-test-day
on Freenode IRC.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-11_webcams

From what I was told its not supposed to right now seeing how we are testing. But when u load it all works so that's good.

If you have a connection setup it *should* show up. Then the show more button does just that.

DW

Hello,

I couldn't find g++ in Ubuntu 9.10 so here is the output of the actions.

Please help.

Mir

@crash-06:~$ g++
The program 'g++' can be found in the following packages:
* g++
* pentium-builder
Try: sudo apt-get install
g++: command not found
@crash-06:~$ sudo apt-get install g++
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package g
@crash-06:~$

Hadn't seen this discussed yet (not really a big hardware geek), and
just saw an article about this today. Are we (linux as a whole) ready
for this or getting ready, or already using it? And If we bought a new
hd, via sata in my case within past year or newer computer in past year,
are we using the new 4kb sectors now or just able to handle it?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361156,00.asp

I assumed a flaw in the hard drive in my PC that caused the mouse
grabbing issue and I resorted to purchasing a brand new hard drive.
When the replacement and installment of Ubuntu 9.10 was done, the
problem recurred!! When I booted PC up straight from the Live CD,
....no problem. What next step should I do? Should I take the PC to a
shop for diagnosis? Are the technicians familiar with Linux based OSs?
I am scratching my head!
Jim

I just cam across vimeo (http://vimeo.com), which seems to be YouTube
for adults. Thing is when I click on a video the progress bar shows
it downloading but it never plays. I have tried pressing the play
button a few times. I can click on the progress bar and see single
frames but no moving video?

Any Ideas?

Ben

Hello

List,

The installation of FC-12 went very smoothly. I removed all external devices and unnecessary seated cards, to do the install. Then, the reboot screen appeared. I clicked on the reboot button, and the computer rebooted. During the reboot procedure, the yaboot (the apple macintosh boot loader) screen appeared. The following options were presented:

l linux
x macosx
o openfirmware
n network
c cdrom

I entered an l, at the boot prompt, and the booting procedure continued to boot linux.

During the boot process, an Oops! machine check 7... occurred.

Try clicking on the connection or the "show more" button. That should bring up more connections.

DW

Hello

List,

The installation of FC-12 went very smoothly. I removed all external devices and unnecessary seated cards, to do the install. Then, the reboot screen appeared. I clicked on the reboot button, and the computer rebooted. During the reboot procedure, the yaboot (the apple macintosh boot loader) screen appeared. The following options were presented:

l linux
x macosx
o openfirmware
n network
c cdrom

I entered an l, at the boot prompt, and the booting procedure continued to boot linux.

During the boot process, an Oops! machine check 7... occurred.

Dear All,

When i run 'yum update', I get the following error:

Transaction Check Error:
installing package kernel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 needs 219KB on the
/boot filesystem

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

I'm running Fedora 10 with the gnome desktop. I installed the mpd
(music player daemon) on my file server (where all the music lives) and
gmpc on my laptop. These things come from rpmfusion.
Every sound application on my machine is able to make noise except
gmpc. It doesn't have a config panel so there doesn't seem to be any
way to choose between sound systems or any such nonsense. It displays
all the files on the server so communication is established.

A newer version of gdbm (1.8.0->1.8.3) has been pushed into rawhide
(devel) branch. This version changes libgdbm soname, so all packages
using gdbm _must be rebuilt_.

The soname change is needed as the new version moves dbm and ndbm
routines to separate library gdbm_compat.

The new version fixes a memory leak.

On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue:

If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not kick in. That is until I press CTRL-ALT to take focus from the RHEL instance back to my Fedora 12. Then the screen saver kicks in.

Apart form being a little annoying it is also probably a security issue. If I want the screen saver to kick-in after 5 or 10 min of idle time and require a password it is probably NOT a good idea for the KVM focus to somehow override this setting.

Regards,
William

/*Can anyone tell me where I can download the latest version of Lucid
for an i686 desktop live cd...

Thanks Larry
*/

Hi,

I tried to install this new Goddard thing on my laptop and it seems to be b0rken
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572243

Any chance to get graphical installer with vesa driver?

Regards,
Michal

I installed F12 on a desktop of a friend of mine.
She is experiencing freezing in particular during upgrades

Today during upgrades she got:

[root at Lella Lella]# yum-complete-transaction
Plugin caricati:presto, refresh-packagekit
No unfinished transactions left.
[root at Lella Lella]# yum clean all
Plugin caricati:presto, refresh-packagekit
Pulizia completa
0 delta-package files removed, by presto
[root at Lella Lella]# yum update
Plugin caricati:presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
adobe-linux-i386/primary

I do not mind, if it is installed by default, but I am not sure,
whether this is a good idea. Users will still need a FAS account,
install packages from updates-testing and know that it exist to use it.

Regards
Till

Fedora 12 with kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64
Processor is an AMD Opteron Quad Core.

Next week is the wiki freeze for Fedora 13 Release Notes.

If you have something important that needs to be in the release notes,
update the appropriate wiki beat.

Go to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats

and select the appropriate beat.

Hi

What source package provides kubuntu-debug-installer for lucid?
Would like to translate it nicely in time :)

All the best
Laur Mõtus

I tried using the default xz compression (level 6 according to the man
page) on Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso, and reduced it to 96.66% of the
original size, a savings of about 100 MB. Uncompressing took about 2
minutes. (Level 9 compression might do slightly better, but would have
taken much longer to run the test.)

I tried the same thing on a deltaiso, and it actually got slightly
bigger, so that's out. But deltaisos have the advantage that they use
delta compression relative to a similar ISO, so normally they should be
much smaller.

Dear fellow users,

I want to pose a quick questions. I know Mr. A Robatino posts deltaisos regularly which amounts to a certain amount of savings when one downloads a deltaiso. Although I have never downloaded one, I ask if one can save more bandwidth if we use lzma compression. I ask this question because TeXLive2009 comes in a iso.xz format which is lzma compression and saves some bandwidth.

I need the win32 codecs for kubuntu 9.10

I have a few systems on site which have common users installed with "wrong" UID
values from the rest of the machines, and particularly those installed from a
"live" CD which created one or more odd IDs when "install to disk" was used.

I remember using "UID mapping tables" to cause an NFS access from "joe" on the
client to use the UID of "joe" in the request sent to the NFS server. I can't
recall if that was in Linux, or some other OS, I was supporting Xenix, AIX,
Solaris, SunOS, and HP-UX at the time.

Hello

I`m a new ubuntu user, i installed the o.s from a usb drive using unetbootin since muy cpu does not have a cd drive.
My problem right now is that I need to install the drivers, so I can enter the internet, I don`t have acces to.
I have an old computer with windows xp and a cd room drive that works propperly.
I noticed that is not possible to install .exe files from ubuntu and look for a program that allow me to do it, I found "WINE" wich should be like pre-installed with the ubuntu system, but when i enter "sudo apt-get install wine" is not leting me do it, it shows that it could not f

Fedora 12 x86_64
I've being trying to get 'about:plugins' to recognize these .so files
libflashplayer.so nphelix.so nphelix.xpt nppdf.so, I copied them from
.mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins,other .so's files are
recognized.
what am I doing wrong

I bought this pci card for $9.00 and was surprised it now works.
The original pci serial port I was told was good cost $100.00 so one for
less than $10.00 was a surprise. This Oxford Semiconductor Ltd device
has a jumper that you can set to zero, 5 volts, or 12 volts. I decided
to try 12 volts but it would not work with my fldigi controller.

I set it to 0 volts and the thing works fine. I could not imagine 0
volts was right but it is. So I am now ready to work the digital world
again.

73 Karl

I need help here too. The problem ist here the cmake don´t compile the
.pc file (pkgconfig file)
And upstream don´t will fix that :(.
I have talked about this with cwickert and he have said it is patchable
but he don´t have the time to make it.
Can any other please help me?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549051

Hi all.
I'd like to jumpstart Solaris 10 from my Ubuntu 9.10 installation.

Which are the steps to do so?
I have already setup in a Solaris VM the solaris Jumpstart Enterprise
toolkit which it works but now I want to try from Ubuntu.

Thanks

Fred

I downloaded the disc image and burned it in a DVD, then i booted Fedora,
but the screen turns dark and the dvd stops, should i download the fedora
image and burn it again?? or what else should i do??

I have a Ubuntu 9.10 installed on X200 Tablet thinkpad
and the Ctrl+ mouse left click for picking separate items / spreadsheet
rows or columns doesn't work, (it works on the windows xp) any suggestions?
Thanks

Need help with this FTBFS fife bug. It don´t find boost for compiling.
But with F-13 ist works not in devel (F-14)

Can anyone please help to find out why please?

Hi,

I have a bug sofware related which happens every single time (as opposed to
being intermittent):
output of syslog --> segfault at decafbad ip 0063d003 sp bf99e450 error 5 in
libclutter-glx-1.0.so.0.0.6[61d000+ab000]

it happens when I am on the desktop in files & folders in Ubuntu Remix 9.10.
My Screen goes completely green (actually nice color) and then I lose all my
icons for a little while.

I am trying to get a pci-serial-port to work on Ubuntu 10.04
computer. It looked like it was ready to work, but read a web page that
said this device has to have the serial port set to 115200 baud to make
it work. To do this I had to get the software "setserial" and I
discovered it had to be root to actually work on /dev/ttyS*. It appears
to have done this but I have no way to check even this.

I have been able to set up and mostly use Ubuntu 9.10. One of my
remaining problems is that i cannot send mail. My provider uses a non-
standard SMTP server number. Surely the option to change the default
in Evolution is there and i just haven't seen it? I have looked
reeeeeal hard. Can anyone provide info on this?

Many thanks!

-bill

FC12/KDE-4.4

Where is the Compatibility list for Nvidia cards in Nouveau ?

Hello,

Is there a free SVG to PDF converter available that actually works?

Inkscape produces PDF files of extremely large size and extremely
bad quality. Batik introduces artefacts (e.g. a huge black rectangle
in the middle of the graphic, labels have shifted, corners rendered
incorrectly).

Thanks!

Take care
Oliver

Do a scantv -a -c /dev/video0 -C /dev/video0
(or wherever your tv tuner is placed)

This solves your problem instantly
The scanning process takes an awfull lot of time, but must be done only once.
It is thorough and accurate. That's it, just try... and watch...!!

P.S.: Type scanTV -? for all available options

Hi.

I'm new to Ubuntu, which I installed on two laptops that also have
Windows (XP on one, 7 on the other). Everything was fine while I was
running 2.6.31.14, but I ran into problems when I (or rather the update
manager) updated to 2.6.31.20.
1. The dual-boot system with XP starts grub and I can't get it to do
anything beyond that point. (I can't get much out of grub anyway.)
2. The dual-boot system with W7 proceeds to the point where I can choose
which version to load.

Hello,

I have been (together with the QA team) working on a 'Package
update policy' proposal. Because Matthew Garrett yesterday
presented his own proposal regarding this topic, we decided
to also present our proposal, albeit still unfinished.

The proposal is here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kparal/Proposal:Package_update_policy

I would like to stress that it is still in development and
heavily discussed (see Discussion page). The terminology
may not be correct, because I'm not a native speaker.

Dear All:

I want to install GNS3 on Fedora 12. Can anyone provide me the step by step
guidelines for this?

Regards
Arefin

New generation laptop - or rather rolltop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0K1k54t6A

Compose started at Tue Mar 9 08:15:08 UTC 2010

Broken deps for i386

The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the
free operating system that shows off the best new technology of
tomorrow? You can see the future now at:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13a

== What is the Alpha release? ==

The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 13 in a form that
anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps
us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta
release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very
strong resemblance to the third and final release.