firefox issue after recent updates
I have fc18 running on two computers x86_64 and i386 I first noticed the problem on the 64 bit system after a yum update in the last few days. I try to start firefox see the little timer circle but...
View ArticleWifi connection only during live cd
Hello, I came to fedora because Arch Linux didn't work out properly with my usb wifi dongle. I could not connect to my router. I always got a "failed" message becuase of WPA Authenticatio error. Then I...
View ArticleError: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
Does anybody know what the hell the following error means??? I'm sick and tired every time a new kernel is released to try to guess what has broken and my nvidia GPU cannot be used! Quote: $ glxgears...
View Articlelaptop chargers and cpu freq scaling
Not sure if this is the right place for this if not my bad. Yeah just got my first laptop installed F17 nice right ? My problem ? At the in-laws for the week and I forgot my charger..:doh: They have a...
View ArticleOperation not permitted...sort of
I'm having a really frustrating problem. I maintain a realtime application that uses the RTAI extensions. Before you tell me to go post on their list please read the whole post and know that I already...
View Articlevideo not work please help!
Hi, I would really appreciate if some one could help. Here is the problem Just replaced motherboard and processor (upgraded to i5) Was hoping to just use the intel graphics card on the board so i did...
View ArticleThinkpad w520 with optimus graphics too hot
Hi everyone I am new to Fedora and am having some heat issues with my Lenovoe Thinkpad w520 it has intel HD graphics and nvidiea graphics using optimus. It is running much hotter than it was in Windows...
View ArticleFedora17 virtual machine & 2 GPUs
i have a fedora17 VM. it is currently making use of the vmware virtual VGA adapter. the host has a radeon GPU that i passed through to the linux guest. the linux guest sees both adapters according to...
View ArticleF18 Dependency Error-exactly what?
Fedora 18- 64 bit. At terminal keep getting these errors when updating: Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: glibc-2.16-24.fc18.i686 (fedora) Requires: glibc-common = 2.16-24.fc18 Installed:...
View Articleseeking advice on partition planning
Hi all, HD capacity 2TB RAM 16G host Fedora 17 desktop 64bit virtualizer KVM VMs about 50~60 (not all running at the same time, only 5 VMs running max) The box is mainly for testing purpose and for...
View ArticleLaptop mode / hard drive wakeups
I'm using F18 on a brand new Lenovo B590 laptop, on which F18 installed without a hitch. The system seems to be running in laptop mode and the hard drive spins down and up very frequently. I tried to...
View Article[SOLVED] [BASH]: Issue with sed to change grub theme.
Hello Community I'd like to simplify the change of the GRUB theme. By default (for F18) there are only 2 installed, but i assume in the future more to come. To ease the change, i tried to write a...
View ArticleFedora 15- Xorg uses VESA instead of Intel
I'm new to linux, and I had to google around a lot to figure out what the problem with my Fedora 15 Installation was. Fedora 15 boots up in fallback mode on my PC. The problem seems to be that it uses...
View Articleno torrent downloading..HELP!!
Ive never had an issue with this before, ive installed fedora many many times on different peoples computers, Anyway im running fedora 17, that i just installed, didnt do anything different that i...
View Articlefirewalld and Ekiga
Hello everyone. Currently I use the latest version of Ekiga on Fedora 18 Spherical Cow. My internet connection implicates an outdoor antenna equipped with a management software that includes a firewall...
View ArticleNeed help with dual booting Fedora 17 and Solaris 11
Using the gparted live CD I created a partition for Solaris 11 and left unallocated space for Fedora 17 but my issue is when I install Solaris on the partition I made then install Fedora on the...
View Article[SOLVED] Stopped printer
I have a HP 5510 and FC#16. While printing a job, got frustrated at several extra unnecessary pages that were being printed, and, unable to somehow tell the printer to only print the pages required,...
View ArticleKde
Does anyone know of any good books or guides on KDE? For some reason my search isn't working on this site and I couldn't find any books online. Any help would be appreciated.
View ArticleFedora 17, where to put stuff I used to have in inittab
The daemontools package adds this line to inittab so that svscan will *always* be running: SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot I've used this with earlier versions of Fedora with great success. Since...
View ArticleFedora 17 doesn't recognise Windows installation CD?
Hello! I'm sorry if this isn't the right forum, I'm actually a real noob. The story is: I have an old MacBook Pro that I got secondhand a few years ago; it was running Ubuntu when I got it, and at some...
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