[SOLVED] Anaconda frustrations- grub install on a partition
Maybe I missed the obvious, but when installing F19 to a single partition on my hard drive, I saw no way to install grub2 to that same partition. Am I missing something, or has anaconda lost the...
View Articlemacbook pro Keyboard / Trackpad power consumption
Hi, I have macbook pro (Fedora 18) and this the keyboard/trackpad consumption . 16.8 W 100.0% Device USB device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Apple Inc.) It is a little bit too much :). Is there...
View ArticleAccording to yum catalyst driver ist up to date, glxinfo states it's not
Hello everyone, up till a few days the catalyst-driver was working properly for me. The I got some crashes of gnome3, and some which are reproducible when trying to use crossover-office. I started to...
View Article[SOLVED] Issue with freenx server
Hi, ALL, This is on freshly installed Fedora 18. I successfully installed freenx-server from the repo. Then following the tutorial I installed it. Then I started ssh on this machine. And finally trying...
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Fedora 18 won't boot latest kernel 3.9
Greetings, Been using Fedora 18 for a few months now. Have never really had an issue until the latest kernel updates. Neither kernel 3.9.2 or 3.9.4 will boot. The boot process gets stuck at loading...
View ArticleRead This Article Before Updating Your Arch Linux
Anyone using Arch better be careful... Quote: Allan McRae announced a few days ago that the Arch developers are preparing the merge of /lib, /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin and /usr/lib, in order...
View ArticleFedora 18: Lenovo Dolby Surround Sound Problem
Hi all In my Lenovo G480 laptop, I get a very low quality sound in fedora, while comparing it with Windows OS. Here is the output of: lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7...
View ArticleHow Safe Am I?
Thought I'd throw this in the wind, to see if I could catch some of the expertise that I've found on this forum. I'm a recent convert to Linux (circa November 2012), currently running F18, fully...
View Articlelost evrything after installing nvidia
Followed all instructions religiously from Dan but now F18 won't start. Had no errors while installing. Had the grub issue but that's not the problem. Starts updating and hangs on *Started GNOME...
View Articlejre1.7.0_21 and gogole chrome
Hi guys, I just installed java 1.7.0_21 on my laptop. The I installed the java plugin in chrome. But everytime java is launched in the browser I get an warning that it is outdated and should be...
View ArticleCinnamon weather applet 5-day forecast not working?
Hello, Is it just me, and someone else I have compared notes with, is the Cinnamon 5-day forecast not working? It used to work fine and recently it stopped. I'm running F17 x64. So I tried installing...
View ArticleHow I can run root commands without using sudo ?
Hello guys, i want to know if exists any way to run root commands with a regular user(Ex: Leandro) without using sudo every time I run a command. Ex: yum install xxx instead of: sudo yum install xx Iḿ...
View ArticleReturn to initial config page
Hi Just installed [paulj@smartos1 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 19 (Schrödingers Cat) [paulj@smartos1 ~]$ uname -a Linux smartos1.humanities.manchester.ac.uk 3.9.4-301.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP...
View ArticleGetting Firefox to play bird calls
Does Firefox need a plugin to be able to play MP3 files such as the audio for the mourning dove call on the page http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bw...rning-dove.php ? I have no problem playing the...
View ArticleConverting .rtf Documents to .pdf
Does anyone know of a program for converting word processing documents to .pdf format? Thanks for any information!
View ArticleSamba Server Share Problem
Dear all, i have installed Fedora 18 and have successfully installed and configured samba server onto it. i have a share folder with the path media/samba/public having visible and write permissions. i...
View ArticleSphinUX OS Claims To Be ~150% Faster Than GNU/Linux
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTM4NDI although, this os is not linux-based, but posix-based, post here anyway. Quote: SphinUX OS is an open-source POSIX-compatible operating system...
View Article[SOLVED] F18 - CCC Fails to Recognize 2nd Monitor
Hello all, I just recently moved to Fedora 18 and cannot seem to get my 2nd monitor to work. I installed the ATI proprietary drivers and have CCC setup. I have two AMD HD 6450's, each hooked to a...
View ArticleFedora 19 installer for Google Nexus 4
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTM4NDY https://github.com/freedreno/nexus4-fedora
View ArticleSSD filled until it's full
Dear Fedora users, I have an annoyig issue with my fedora 17 KDE spin. I have an 258Gb SSD drive filled with around 65Gb of useful data (193Gb free). When I switch on my computer, linux slowly fills...
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