Battery life issue with fedora 18
I have an old laptop(5+ years) running fedora 18, It has core2duo processor and I have recently replaced its battery. With Windows battery life is about 3-3.5 hrs but with fedora 18 running gnome-shell...
View Articletransmission-daemon service fails following update
did a clean install of f19 the other day. transmission-daemon 2.77 worked fine. this got updated to 2.80 and now the service fails to start. journalctl -b -u transmission-daemon returns: Code: Jul 17...
View ArticleWiping Hard drive
Hi All, The standard way I wipe a HDD is to use Code: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX many places say that this is not enough and that you need to use /dev/(u)random instead. This however increases the...
View ArticleAndroid 4.2 file access from Fedora 19 via MTP.
I recently purchased an S4. I wanted to mount it on my Fedora 19 machine so that I browse and transfer files from Dolphin. For those not aware, USB Mass Storage mode has been removed as a connection...
View ArticleCannot install suggested security updates
When I attempt to install the suggested security updates, I get Trabsaction error An unspecified transaction error has occured with the details below could not add package update for...
View ArticleF19 rEFInd Windows 8 not detected problem
Well basically , I instailled Ubuntu alongside my Windows 8 on my lenovo laptop that came with Windows 8 installed on it. Ubuntu wasn't recognizing Windows 8 for some reason on the GRUB screen and I...
View ArticleSound from games won't play
Fedora 19 KDE X86-64 I have a Nvidia GTX 650Ti with HDMI out. The video redirects fine, however- sound will only play out of my computer speakers. When I choose for all audio to come out of my TV, the...
View ArticleUpgrade failure from 17 -> 19, system wont boot, sad fedora face
Ran all yum updates on fedora 17 and then ran fedup-cli -network 19 and let it download. Rebooted and it went through 2095/2353 updates, but on selinux-policy-targeted-3.12.1-63.fc19 the next lines are...
View ArticleFedora 19 and fedup
Tried http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...e/ch18s02.html >fedup --network 19 --debuglog fedupdebug.log [error on page corrected, s/18/19/] tells me I'm up to date? I'm running 18 and want to...
View ArticleFind - locating newer directories
Fedora 16 (I think the release is irrelevant though) I have little space in /home and Gnome now tells me when the space runs low. So I thought I'd practise my Ruby on writing a script that determines...
View Article[Script] Fedora Post Installation
Fedora Post Installation is a simple script to install and configure Fedora operating system. Just download (from GitHub) and run it as root… Code: $ git clone...
View ArticleF19 freezing when restarting or logging out
Fedora 19, KDE and Nvidia proprietary drivers in HP notebook. # /sbin/lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [GeForce G 105M] (rev a2) When I restart before...
View ArticleDSL permits me to use some websites
The DSL connection from Network Connections permits me to use some websites like: speedtest.net, opera.com. When i use ethernet, i can access any site, but with DSL some are permited. How to fix this?
View ArticleUsing Qt on Fedora 19 KDE?
New to Qt and to Fedora. I installed the KDE version of Fedora on my netbook. Everything is fine except for a few issue.. One of them is using Qt. Code: yum install qt qt-devel gives, Package...
View ArticleProblem with FreeIPA
Hi, I am a beginner of FreeIpa application. I'm trying to configure ldap authentication on Alfresco with bind user. I have created a bind user as: dn: uid=ajaxplorer,cn=sysaccounts,cn=etc,dc=XXXXXXXXX,...
View ArticleLost Video After Upgrade
When I used fedup F17 > F18 on my desktop and laptop boxes it worked flawlessly. Yesterday I used fedup on my desktop F18 > F19... oops. It boots F19 or any of 3 F18 kernels but no video. This...
View ArticleInstall to logical volume error
I'm trying to install Fedora-Live-XFCE-x86_64-19-1.iso on a logical partition. I'm multi-booting a few linux distros while learning. Grub2 is installed on my Debian partition. After installing Fedora...
View ArticleSkype sync with online accouts?
or at least is there a way to control skype through the online messenger thingy?:confused: oh yeah... Fedora 19, Gnome 3, Skype 4.2... umm....
View ArticleHow to enable RPMFusion (free and nonfree) and sign the RPMFusion download
Hello everyone, Note that this guide is for Fedora 19. The RPMFusion website states ways to download the repository without signing the package. Signing the RPMFusion download before installing and...
View ArticleF19 and NVidia issue
Guys, I followed this guide to install Nvidia driver I am using PAE kernel on my Fedora 19 my system boots but when I try to login I see blank screen and then "All plugin disabled, something went wrong...
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