Can someone help me with installing drivers on F17 with Radeon HD 6870?
Ok so I am installing this driver... http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...2&lang=English I just opened the containing file and ran it with Gedit. It's being so dang slow to install. Is that how...
View ArticleProblems with MESS emulator after upgrade the 0.147
I'm having problems with MESS the multi system emulator not working after upgrading from rpmfusion. Despite no changes in the ini file, MESS is now refusing to find my MESS roms. The ini file is still...
View Articleresize partition
hi everyone i want to resize / partition but i guess it will be risky in my situation.my harddisk is 72GB but partitioned around 50GB. i dont know how can i do that? thanks in advance [root@app6 log]#...
View Articlemss mismatch with certain sites
I have been having this problem accessing certain sites (one of which is mozilla.org). In short, a tcp connection is established, but after that, all packets coming back from the remote site are...
View ArticleLinux kernel 3.6 and Bumblebee
So i recently upgraded to the new kernel and Bumblebee no longer works. I have a lenovo ideapad y570 and I installed bumblebee from here so i could use my nvidia GPU. Bumblebee normally survives a...
View ArticlePartition troubles (Trying to shrink the /home )
Hello all, looks like ran into my first problem that I couldn't solve myself. I had intention of with installing fedora to install it first so all its data goes towards the front of the drive ( I heard...
View ArticleFC17 Freezes on Boot
I have been having issues with Fedora 17 not booting after the latest round of updates. I am able to enter the pass for my disk encryption, the boot logo acts normally but after the animation is...
View ArticleWhen can we expect version 1.02 of Lazarus, the Free Pascal IDE, to appear in...
Fedora 17 ships version 0.9.30 of Lazarus, the Free Pascal IDE and GUI builder, and Fedora 18 seems to be set to ship the same version (http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/l.../commit/?h=f18). However,...
View ArticleUSB Game Pad is not working.
I have one of these. I could not get it to work. http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-PC-Doubl...item3cc4e83959 Any hints would be great. Thanks. I have tried some of these randomly, but not working....
View ArticleHow can I install canon ip1900 in Fedora 17, 64 bits?
I tried many ways to install my printer, but to no avail. Attempt 1: I downloaded its drivers, and installed two rpm files and its dependents files, e.g. Code: # rpm -i...
View ArticleHow can use shm memory for googe chrome on gnome-shell?
Fedora 18 :How can use shm memory for googe chrome on gnome-shell? Modify the google-chrome.desktop # cat google-chrome.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Google Chrome # Only KDE 4 seems to use...
View ArticleFuduntu vs. Fedora
Hi. I'm brand new here. I'm running the latest distro of Fuduntu and I like it very much. However, it's stuck with the Gnome 2 desktop -- I would love to have some of Gnome 3's dependencies resolved so...
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3.6.1 kernel update problem
Hello Fedora community, I have been using Fedora 17 x64 for few months now and everything was working perfectly until I updated to Linux 3.6.1, the gnome desktop takes few minutes to load completely...
View Article[SOLVED] yum and rpm fusion repo
I was wondering what the trouble is here.I have been having it for a week or so now.It seems that the repo is telling yum there is an update but when it goes to find the package it is not there.Is this...
View ArticleFirefox does not work
Hi, I have Fedora 16 32+ bit distro and for some reason completely unknown to me Firefox browser has stopped working, can you please help me? Thanks. Code: [root@localhost john]# yum list firefox...
View ArticleWhat's the purpose of Linux-libre?
A couple of distros have adopted Linux-libre as their default kernel (like Debian for example). I like this idea but I am wondering about why this is necessary (well in general, Debian's doing it to...
View ArticleFelix Baumgartner
Is anyone watching the live feed of this attempt to jump from 120000+ feet? I have it up in a Firefox tab here and on the laptop in the kitchen. You can find it all over the web. Here's one:...
View ArticleIcluding arbitrary files in a remix
Id like to include some miscellaneous files in my remix. For instance, id I have file1.txt in "Documents" in my home directory and Pic1.jpg in the "Pictures" folder and I'd like to have them be...
View ArticleHelp writing a patch
I feel a bit of a dolt but I've always muddled through writing patches and I don';t really know what I'm doing. I am trying to make changes to a rpm and feel I should be able to do this on my own, but...
View Articlerpmlint E: non-executable-script
I'm just create a rpm package for gmediafinder, the package builds, but rpmlint spits out a few bugs. gmediafinder.spec Code: Name: gmediafinder Version: 1.0.1 Release: 1%{?dist}...
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