Ruby, RVM, and the rubygem-rvm package
Hello all, I am new to Ruby and its installation. I've read the info out there and decided to use RVM. I use yum to see if there is a native, packaged version of RVM in the repositories. I find...
View ArticleEditing fstab... totally forgotten...
Right... feeling a bit special and have totally forgotten how to edit the fstab for automount... Do I need the uuid's of the drive? Or can I just put the following line in? Code: /dev/sdb1...
View ArticleFedora 18 Install will not recognize hard drive
I am tryin to do an install of Fedora 18 on a Core 2 Duo box. 64bit Fedora install, from an external DVD. I can get the live Fedora 18 up an running no problem. I can see the 160 GB SATA drive from...
View ArticleSynaptic finds broken packages, yum not
I've installed synaptic with yum, but as soon when synaptic is loaded, a message appears that there are broken packages. So if I choose broken packages, then a huge list is selected and i'm sure if I...
View ArticleProblem upgrading to F17
My desktop was in the ICU getting a brain transplant when F16 went EOL. Now, I'm trying to get it upgraded using preupgrade one last time. Preupgrade seemed to work fine, so I rebooted into the...
View ArticleProblems with kernel-3.8 and kernel-3.9 modesetting
I don't know if the problem lies with the kernel's nouveau module, Xorg's nouveau driver, or both of my older onboard Nvidia graphics systems (9100 and 6150LE), but any time I try to boot a version 3.8...
View ArticleDisplayLink
Hi, i have a Fedora 18 x64 and i put a DisplayLink USB 2.0 VGA, how can i configura and use it ? My DisplayLink up green light, but in monitor dont show anything.
View ArticleKdenlive 0.9.4 with fedora 17
Does anyone know how I can install the new version of kdenlive on fedora 17. Right now rpm fusion only has kdenlive 0.9.2 but the repo for fedora 18 has kdenlive 0.9.4 but I'd rather not upgrade to...
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Nyah, nyah ... Ya missed me ... Nyah, nyah nyah!
Obviously somebody over at fedora thought I wasn't paying attention ... but I was! <..:mad:..> Yumex is good for that. I suppose whatever else would be too, but in this case, Yumex did the deed,...
View ArticleLost LUKS partition on f17
My apologies if this is in the wrong thread, I am new here, and do hope someone can help me out. I recently purchased a new 3TB drive and connected it to my mac, and moved my 2 TB of data from my old...
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No keyboard layout widget
Hello all. I don't know how it's possible, but I has no keyboard layout switch widget on top panel :D I has two layouts and hotkey to switch it and it works fine. But widget ... it's gone somewhere....
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Revisiting an old e16 issue ...
... in particular the one here, (starting at post 43) regarding getting a functional menu entry for Suspend. As posted there, this works via the terminal: Code: su - (provide password) pm-suspend Or,...
View ArticleFast SSD read but slow write
Hi, I have a SSD where my Fedora 18 is booting from. It has the speed I would expect from it. But today I wrote a little test where I write a file with 1.5 GB to my HDD and my SSD. Surprisingly most of...
View ArticleFedora 18 forgot shebangs
Ever since I upgraded to Fedora 18, my system does not recognize shebangs. Note that these are files that worked in F17. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix? Thanks
View ArticleCauses of world war 1
Hi, Just found something that probable best summarizes the causes of world war 1. Thanks. http://americanhistory.about.com/od/...orld-war-1.htm Quote: Over time, countries throughout Europe made mutual...
View ArticleDo I need to install LIRC seperately in Fedora 18?
I just finished installing Fedora 18 and out of the box I noticed that it recognizes my IMON/MCE Remote control. I have had to make some changes to the rc_keymaps/imon_mce file to remap some of the...
View Articlemdadm raid6 mounting issue
Hi guys, new here, please be gentle! :> I'm currently running cinnamon desktop over fedora 18 and have a mdadm software raid6 array in place. My issue is that for some odd reason after reinstalling...
View ArticleHelp I'm trying to resize a flash game
I'm playing a game which uses flash and I want to shrink the game. I have tried but it just crops the game. Is this possible?
View Articletaking an idea from z/OS
Hi, I'm newhere (and also partly to Linux) and would like to know if there is a tool akin to System Automation / OPC/TWS on the IBM mainframe for Linux/Fedora. By which I mean that it would ve great if...
View ArticleLinux System Administrator Criteria
Aside from the basic skills I will list below, which criteria would you add as essential or necessary these days to be hired as a Linux Admin? bash programming configuring services apache configuration...
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