Wireless Connection Keeps Disappearing
Hello all. I've been searching for a solution to this problem forever now but I can't seem to find any solution that works. I just installed Fedora 17 and was working on getting the wireless drivers...
View ArticleCannot mount ATA Hard drive with external USB enclosure
I have a ATA hard drive with one of those USB external enclosures but cannot find the device to be able to mount it. I am working under Fedora 17. In /var/log/messages, I see the these lines when I...
View Articlecalling .bash_profile from .bashrc f16
Hi, I have a bunch of aliases in my bash_profile and some exports. The only way I can make my .bash_profile live currently is to issue source ~/.bash_profile. I would like to modify my .bashrc so that...
View ArticleWant to learn python
so ive been learning c++ for half a year and since i use linux all the time, with the exseption is at school and other places that use windows. so here is what i learned in c++: int char void (the...
View ArticleIs there a way to change the email header format
Thunderbird 17 tends to put the Address Book names for people in for the "From:" and "To:" labels. Is there a way to get it to stop that and instead put the actual address in there? Currently, you can...
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audio/video players not controlling well the audio level
Any audio/video player I tried has this "behavior": when I increase the audio level it's increasing the master audio level as well. But when I decrease the audio level, the master level stays at 100%....
View ArticleEC _REG object broken bios error in F17
After selecting the os in grub got an error: "fail in evaluating the _REG object of EC device. Broken bios is suspected." Fedora seems to load but when I try to login it displays a black screen with...
View ArticleHardware terminal issue
Not sure if this belongs in the hardware or software forum, but the problem i've been having is as follows, i have fedora 16 x86-64 installed on my primary machine, attached to that machine an via...
View ArticleKDE PIM fails to display contact images on email headers
Hi all, I have been using Fedora since 16th edition. One thing I really liked about KDE 3 back in the time when I was on Mandrake flavour of things was that the picture the contact sending an email...
View ArticleDec 21 2012 .still here
It's over 2 hours into Dec 21, 2012 So is everyone still here? No disasters or ending of the world :) UPDATE -- Oops, OK they say it's not to end until the Solstice so I was about 4 hours too early:...
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Awesome DE, live-media, non-foss
Hello Community, tonight i accomplished the (my) first live spin with modified login manager settings. As there is now some basic bling bling, i'd call the kickstart ready for beta. However, the iso is...
View Articleautomount and autologin
I noticed that automount at login doesn't work when autologin is enabled. This is done intentionally (for security reasons) or it's just a bug...?
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Upgrade F16 -> F17 doesn't find F16 LVM installation
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from F16 to F17 (both 64 Bit) but F17's anaconda doesn't find my F16 LVM installation (tried both preupgrade as well as DVD upgrade). My layout is quite simple: /dev/sdb1 on...
View ArticleHow to view multi page tiff....in firefox(installed imagegick)
Hi all... I'm newbie for fedora, after install imagemagick...it was fine to view the tiff in the firefox. But the problem is, it always show last page of the tiff. How can i view it (tiff) start from...
View ArticleXen Pcipassthrough project
Hello @ All I started a new Xmas holday Project, setting up a Xen Linux system that's capable of running a Windows domU with a working Graphics adapter. Therefore i have spent a little money and put to...
View ArticleKVM and bridged Networking
Hi, On older versions, it was recommended, to install bridges for libvirt manually and to disable NetworkManager. How is this under F18? Can i use just "standard" here? Virt-manager would support it,...
View ArticleCan't resume after suspend
Hi, I am running Fedora 17 on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo li1718 laptop with Radeon Xpress 200m graphics card. When trying to resume after suspend I just get a blank screen. Also the wireless light goes...
View ArticleFedora 15 - puppet not creating home dir when it ought to
I'm playing around with Puppet using two (physical) computers, the puppetmaster running Scientific Linux 6.3, the other Fedora 15. When puppet agent runs, the following very simple test manifest...
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Disk Issue with F17, F13
Hi, back again. I'm having trouble with my Fedora 17 LVM partition. I had about 30 things running (literally, I kid you not), Wine was acting up, so I had to boot into XP to run a program designed for...
View ArticleAre Linux Distros incomplete?
So I am reading a good bash fest on Linux Distros vs Windows 8 and Mac os X. Here is a link to the original event GNU bearing gifts. The article, and comments following the article, about Linux falling...
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