Kernel tainted message
Having received an message about my kernel being tainted I did a dmesg | -i grep taint and got [13247.190943] Pid: 1070, comm: java Tainted: G C O 3.6.7-4.fc17.i686.PAE #1 so I presume this was caused...
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Audio sound through internal speaker but from headset output
Hi all. I'm running fedora 17 in a Lenovo ThinkCentre M81 and I have a very annoying bug: sound comes from the internal speaker but not through audio headset. I have attached the smolt output with...
View Articlecinnamon installation from F18 netinstall iso - package differences
I have been installing F18 using netinstall isos at different stages just for testing purposes. In some of these installation I selected cinnamon desktop for installation. One of the things I noticed...
View Articlehow modify file system folders
I need some help. i am wanting to add a new .conf file to one of my file system /etc folders, but i cannot figure out how to do that. Says i need to be logged in as owner? i am running f17. a for...
View Articlekeyboard problem after login
I am writing this from another working system I have been using f17 for some time now and this is the first time with this problem. f17 is current with updates I can boot the system and login but after...
View ArticleHelp me please. Problem with read only files
Hi, I am newbie in Linux and becouse of this I may look stupid asking this question. So I have useless files on my USB Pen (Flash Memory) and I have to delete them. But when I try to do this the system...
View Articleflat cables vs normal circular cables
Do flat cables have any advantage over normal circular cables? I was looking at this. http://www.ebay.com/itm/6FT-2M-Flat-...item20cc74047f
View Articlenvidia update question
I got a new video card and downloaded the latest drivers from the nvidia site and installed them outside of yum. (Yeah - probably not the right thing looking back). Now I saw the following messages in...
View ArticleBios Flash
Running Freedos on a 4GB cruzer bootable USBflashdrive and with afudos engineering version the following commands trying to flash p01-a3 to another version of p01-a3 for the MOBO Gateway FX 6840:::...
View ArticleNFS server the way to go?
Hi All, I haven't messed around with a home server before, but now I have a spare PC that I think an NFS server could help me. Basically I have a couple external hard drives that house various media,...
View ArticleMy Adventures with C++
As many know. I am teaching myself C++. I bought a great book called, "Sams Teach Yourself C++ In One Hour a Day. by Siddhartha Rao." I also downloaded a pdf version of a different C++ tutorial as well...
View ArticleVisual Boy Advance
Hello, this thread is about the title itself. It would be nice if this thread could help everyone who has the same doubts as me. How can we make the vba work on Fedora (I'm on 17). I've downloaded he...
View ArticleI found it! I found it!
Nautilus preferences that is. I've seen a lot of banter about the newest Nautilus so I started poking around. Actually I was looking for alternative file managers. Strictly by chance, while running...
View ArticleRaid 1 after an reinstall of fedora 17
A while back, I set up an old box I had with Fedora to use a machine to store my backups. I had 3 drives, a 500gb and 2x 2TB. I installed Fedora 15 on the 500gb, set the 2TB drives in a software raid...
View ArticleBuild DRBD 8.4.2 on Fedora 17
1. fetch sources http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ch-b...g-drbd-sources says to use wget http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-latest.tar.gz but you get a 404 and you really need wget...
View Article/usr/sbin/grub2-probe can't find "pv1"
Hi, I am running F17 x86 on a ASUS X73SV, LVM and dualboot with win7. I recently did a : Code: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg which lead to a : Code: /usr/sbin/grub2-probe : warning : entry «...
View Articlerpm -a --setugids; rpm -a --setperms; GURU needed
Code: [bull:~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/ping -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 40912 Jan 25 2012 /usr/bin/ping [bull:~]$ sudo rpm --setugids iputils [sudo] password for bull: [bull:~]$ ping -c 2...
View ArticleAnaconda - protecting existing partitions
I have had a preliminary look at Anaconda. I appreciate what is being attempted here so I am not going to fire broadsides. BUT, before I attempt an install, I would appreciate some guidance as to how...
View ArticleRAID 1 SW of Windows 7
Hi all, Before start, thanks to try help me, I am new into fedora and i try to mount an RAID 1 of Software created by Windows 7 into my Fedora 17, i don't have idea how i can get it, I've searched a...
View ArticleWhy does my clock go back one hr ahead after rebooting
Ever since the DST a couple of weeks back (when the computer's time didn't adjust on its own), whenever I reboot, the clock goes back to the old time and I have to adjust it manually. It's annoying as...
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