Fedora18 change desktop from Gnome to KDE
Hi I have gnome running with nvidia video driver installed via easylife. Now I need to change my desktop to KDE. How do I do this? Will I need to reinstall the nvidia video driver? What is a simple way...
View ArticleYum install problem
New to fedora and have installed v17. While trying to add packages I have received the following error File contains no section headers. file: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/fedorautils.repo, line: 1...
View ArticleUnable to install 32bit firefox for webex
Hello all I need to install 32bit firefox so as I can use webex and desktop sharing via webex for work. I managed to have this working fine with fedora 14 - 17 but now that I am using 18 I am...
View Articlevirt-manager cannot start
after last night i cannot start virt-manager from desktop on my fedora 18, i can start my guests with virsh, and i can list them, but thats all i can do....i tried with /usr/bin/virt-manager and it...
View ArticleF19 tc5 and nvidia
I install drivers nvidia from rpmfusion, and I have problem : enable openGl in kde is impossible Code: [dominique@host ~]$ glxinfo name of display: :0 libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast libGL...
View ArticleRasberry Pi - Remix 18 - Samba Help
I've got Fedora Remix 18 Final installed on a Rasberry Pi and I'm trying to get to get to my Windows server shares. I installed Samba and Samba-Client but keep getting the below error when running the...
View Articledhcp server config in FC18
Hi, has the method of configuring a dhcp server changed ? Looking at the notes on configuring dhcp.conf, it refers to a dhcp.conf.sample to copy across. I cant find any dhcp.conf anywhere. I still want...
View ArticleLoading Broadcom 4312 drivers at startup?
I'm new to Fedora and am currently running a Broadcom 4312 wi-fi card. I have to manually install the drivers from a Terminal whenever I want to use it, using the following process as root from the...
View ArticleNetwork printing after moving from 17 to 18
I'd been printing (via wireless router) from my F17 laptop to my upstairs F17 desktop with USB printer for over a year. Once I moved to F18 (using fedup) a week ago (both machines), I now get "CUPS...
View Article[SOLVED] F18 x64 Skype/Nvidia conflict
I'm trying to run skype on fedora 18 x64, but my proprietary nvidia driver is causing a segmentation fault. Over on some ubuntu questions, I found this answer...
View ArticleXfce Synaptics Touchpad Scroll
Just installed Xfce and using the Synaptics Touchpad for an Acer Aspire Laptop mouse works tap on touchpad works for click scroll not working something strange: if I make contact with the left side of...
View ArticleJolla Brings Wayland Atop Android GPU Drivers
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTM0OTE Quote: Jolla, the start-up company built around former Nokia N9 engineers developing the Sailfish OS for mobile phones, might be dating...
View ArticleF18 Netinstall: URL for IInstallation Source?
One of many problems I've had with the anaconda for F18: I've downloaded the netinstall CD. When attempting to choose the software installation source, I type in the proper URL for the http address,...
View ArticleUEFI and booting multiple distros.
Do I understand this correctly? When you install multiple distros on a UEFI system you only have to share the ESP. Each distro will use its own Grub. The finished /boot/efi/EFI will contain a folder...
View ArticleFedora 18 mate desktop not turning off back-light.
Helllo. I have a issue with turning off the monitor back-light. When the monitor is turn off automatic after setting the time in power management the back-light remain open.how can I turn off the...
View ArticleBug report with ' Atheros Communications, Inc' usb dongal
I have a USB Wirless dongal that has a AR9271 802.11n chipset. I have encounted a bug that I would report myself but I'm unsure what package the dirver is in. The bug is that after I resume form...
View ArticleHow to copy a file from Windows to Fedora Image
Hello :) I'm using Windows 7 and VMware Player with Fedora 18 LXDE Spin. I want to copy a file from my Windows desktop to the Fedora VM. I've tried that with Ubuntu and it worked. But it doesn't work...
View ArticleF18 tigervnc server setup
Configuring the vnc server has been an absolute nightmare, so hopefully someone can help me!?! I originally started with the gnome desktop, but after some issues and research I found bug number 896648...
View ArticleF18 : NFS and rc.local
I am mounting a couple of NFS drives in the fstab. The problem is that when /etc/rc.d/rc.local is being executed none of the NFS drives are mounted. When needs to be done to ensure the NFS drives are...
View ArticleUsing different gcc versions simultaneously
Hello community, I am using fc18 with gcc-4.7.2 and I need to compile a program specifically with another gcc version (4.4) Is there an easy way of installing this lower version and use it just to...
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