Difficulty Installing Fedora 18 Dual Boot: not enough free space
Hello, I'm trying to install Fedora 18 x86 64 bit with Xfce. My computer is a HP laptop with Windows 7 installed, and I'd like to keep the Windows and have a dual boot. I downloaded the ISO image and...
View ArticleoVirt on Fedora or CentOS?
Long story short, I'm converting a standalone server (currently running Ubuntu LTS) to a VM host. I've tossed with the idea of ESXi but really would like to remain with a free (as in speech, although...
View ArticlePerl - Understanding Fedora's test stuff
OK - first, I'm not a perl guru. I don't use it a lot. What I'm doing, I am RPM bootstrapping a LFS 7.3 system (with some minor deviation, namely I'm using {,/usr}/lib64 I am writing my RPM spec files...
View Articleshortcut to open windows terminal
hi guys, first sorry for my english I'm a newbie about Linux, i've just installed fedora 18. A friend of mine that use fedora 17 told me that i can open windon terminal in fedora with these shortcats:...
View ArticleNew User
I've been a Linux Mint user for about a year. I just recently switched to Ubuntu GNOME remix. I decided to switch again, and I'm going with Fedora. I've grown accustomed to a lot of the things in...
View ArticleInspiron 7720 touchpad woes in F18
I have a Dell Inspiron 17R SE (7720) running F18. The touchpad works fine with tap to click and basic cursor movement but nothing else. I've been unable to find anything usefull. I tried changing...
View ArticleSystemTap problem on Fedora 18
hi i have problem with systemtap i installed it with yum and systemtap isn;t working corectly it compile only one program helloworld and other scripts are working, I get only error:semantic error but i...
View ArticleCant read dvd in linux, but works in windows
Hello everybody, I have a dvd containing some photos. It was written from a windows computer. It works on a windows system, but not on my linux system. Any Idea whats going wrong? Code: sudo mount...
View ArticlePhilips TUCam very poor image FC18
Hi has anyone one else got a Philips TUcam Model number PCVC840K/20 I've had it several years and always had good results, works well in low light conditions. BUT Its sat in a drawer for the last...
View Articleminicom stays offline
I have Fedora 15 PC and tried to open minicom for serial terminal access. However minicom stays offline even though I set serial device to the correct one, dev/ttyUSB0. I'm using usb uart adaptor with...
View Articlermp command
Hi i need again your help.. you can tell me if the command rpm -rvh packet_name it can be used to remove a packet? is tequivalent to: rpm -e packet_name
View ArticleCompiz on Fedora 18 with MATE
People keep saying that Compiz is dead. Compiz is not dead. You can still install it on Fedora with MATE, XFCE, LXDE, etc. I made it fairly straight forward, just copy/paste the commands in a terminal...
View ArticleFedora 19 and AMD; UNUSABLE
Hey guys! I was running Fedora 18 for some time now and have been super satisfied! So, I decided to try out 19 on a seperate partition. But, I didn't download a nightly image or anything, I simply...
View ArticleNew system call in kernel 3.8.2
I must add my own system call which will print this text: "hello world!" in terminal. There is a lot of guides and videos to add a new system call but they all are old and they aren't working above...
View ArticleIssues installing on hp envy
Hello all, New here, trying to install fedora 18 on my hp envy 15 laptop. When i begin to boot form the live CD (i've created a usb disk and dvd) it starts running through all the checks and one fails....
View ArticleThinkpad Volume, Brightness, ACPI non-functional after update
After a recent yum update, a lot of acpi control stopped functioning on my thinkpad. Brightness control, volume keys, suspend on lid closure all fail. Has anyone encountered this? I have some essential...
View ArticlePlugging in a USB device
Hey everyone, question time again... I'm running Fedora 17 and I'm wondering about how pluggable devices are mounted. I plug in my big 2TB hard drive into my linux box, and it gets mounted in /dev...
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Enabling ACLs for a directory (urgent) :(
Hello all! I am trying to enable ACL's for more safety but it seems i have no luck . It seems that i have to mount the folder that i need to work with ACLs , and i really dont know how to. I have tried...
View ArticleWifi driver isnt working
Well i formatted my hard disk and all of that but now i lost my wifi driver and i dont know how to install it or what to do, i have been using the optical fibre for some weeks but im tired of having to...
View ArticleIs there a 4U rackmount case with multiple mini-itx boards vertically mounted?
Is there a modified 4U rackmount case sold that can hold multiple mini-itx boards vertically?
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