Unwanted movement of different windows and my mouse and keyboard are shaky. On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 16:57 -0400, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Send fedora-list mailing list submissions to > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fedora-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxx > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of fedora-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Upgrade from F8 to F9 failed with libnss3.so: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory (Arch Willingham) > 2. Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code > (Luis Orlindo Tedeschi) > 3. Re: CGI over C++ (Joe Klemmer) > 4. Re: noacpi,acpi=off kernel options (Mark Haney) > 5. Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ?? (William Case) > 6. Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code (Kevin J. Cummings) > 7. Re: Gnash and youtube (Bassel Safadi) > 8. Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ?? (Tom Horsley) > 9. Re: Gnash and youtube (Ian Chapman) > 10. Using the Fedora 9 KDE Live CD on unsupported video hardware > (Rance Hall) > 11. Re: Problem with system-config-printer.py (Chris Carlson) > 12. Scanner woes in F9 (Matthew Saltzman) > 13. Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code > (Christopher A. Williams) > 14. Re: CD/DVD writing (Chris Carlson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:04:46 -0400 > From: Arch Willingham <arch@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Upgrade from F8 to F9 failed with libnss3.so: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > To: "'fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx'" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <F3B98AF0D07E84428BBDE6B9EB1CF85438D033BE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I have tried upgrading two different machines from F8 to F9 but both failed. One I tired just upgrading from the DVD and the other I tired the preupgrade route. In each case, the upgrade acts like it worked. Once it was finished and rebooted was were the trouble started. In each case, the gui does not work and almost anything you try to run from the command line gives you this error: > > There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: > > libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly. > > It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: > 2.5.1 (r251:64863, June 15 2008, 23:59:20) > [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)] > > With the first machine, I just did a new install and ignored it but this time I thought I'd like to see if it is fixable. > > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > Arch > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:09:20 -0500 > From: Luis Orlindo Tedeschi <luis.tedeschi@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1215360560.3534.0.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Would the WPA problem affect the WEP? > > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 23:24 +0300, Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote: > > It is a bug in wpa_supplicant , see this Bugzilla Bug 453390: wifi > > problems with kernel 2.6.25.9-74 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453390 . > > > > Use the previous kernel, until kernel-2.6.25.9-81.fc9 rolls out . > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Luis Orlindo Tedeschi > > <luis.tedeschi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is how it goes... Networkmanager was working fine until I did the > > > first update of the system. From that day on, it seems to me NM ignores > > > the WEP key and keeps asking for the secrets again and again and again > > > and does not connect wireless. I already checked the key several times. > > > NM does find the wireless router (linksys) without problems. Does anyone > > > know how to reset NM and start over or does any one could shed some > > > light into this "black box"? Thanks a lot. Luis > > > > > > -- > > > Luis Orlindo Tedeschi <luis.tedeschi@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > -- > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Simone de Beauvoir - "To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job." > > > -- > > +----------------------------------------------------+ > Luis O. Tedeschi, PhD, PAS > Assistant Professor > Texas A&M University > > 230 Kleberg Center p. (+1) 979-845-5065 > 2471 TAMU f. (+1) 979-845-5292 > College Station, TX 77843-2471 > > http://nutritionmodels.tamu.edu > http://nutr.tamu.edu > http://people.tamu.edu/~luis.tedeschi > +----------------------------------------------------+ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:41:09 -0400 (EDT) > From: Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: CGI over C++ > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807061240300.12357@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Konstantin Svist wrote: > > >> Anybody knows how can I compile cgi web scripts after writing it on > >> C++??? Or how can C++ generate HTML code?? > > > > In your C++ application, you read in command line parameters (they > > correspond to URL query arguments), and stdin (postdata), then you spit > > out data into stdout - it will appear to the browser as main content > > (HTML or whatnot). It's not an efficient way to code your web apps, > > though, so few do it anymore. > > You might want to check freshmeat for C/C++ CGI libraries. > > -- > Interesting Boring Blog - http://x-nc.blogspot.com > A combination of insight and inanity for your reading pleasure > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:01:22 -0400 > From: "Mark Haney" <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: noacpi,acpi=off kernel options > To: <mcallman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "For users of Fedora" > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <4870FA62.5060005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > Mark C. Allman wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:01 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > >> It seems with the newer kernels these options no longer work, or there's > >> some syntactical change that is killing my kernels on boot. I have one > >> server here that just refuses to play nice with ACPI. It won't cut the > >> fan on/off and it fills up my log and eventually the HDD. So normally I > >> use something like this: > >> > >> title Fedora (2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686) > >> root (hd0,2) > >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 ro > >> root=UUID=9f669bab-aff8-4855-aa5f-c683bf60744a noacpi,acpi=off > >> initrd /initrd-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686.img > >> > >> In grub, but for some reason when I boot with this kernel it hang every > >> time until I remove the noacpi,acpi=off options. > >> > >> So, what's the correct option(s) for shutting off acpi on boot now? > >> > >> -- > >> Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar > >> > >> > >> Mark Haney > >> Sr. Systems Administrator > >> ERC Broadband > >> (828) 350-2415 > >> > >> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support > >> > > Try it without the "noacpi," string. Just use "acpi=off". > > > > I just tried that option, after take a few days to hang out with the > family. And when I use that option on either kernel I have installed, > the system hangs at 'creating /dev'. When I use noacpi, it boots > properly, but I don't know if that option is being ignored or if it's > the correct one, I'll dig through syslog to find out. > > > > > -- > Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar > > > Mark Haney > Sr. Systems Administrator > ERC Broadband > (828) 350-2415 > > Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:05:06 -0400 > From: William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ?? > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1215363906.6563.145.camel@CASE> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi Max and Patrick; > > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 10:40 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 10:16 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > Hi Bill, > > > > > Just wondering about a few things: > > > > > > 1) I noticed a program in the latest update list called 'augeas' for > > > editing config files. I have gone to their site etc.-- looks > > > interesting. Has anyone have experience using it and would like to > > > comment? > > > Installing it now to check it out. Nice idea, as long as they can keep > > the config file descriptions in sync with the various packages. > > > > Let me and others know how it turns out. > > > > 2) I have just installed kmod-nvidia from livnia. I have been watching > > > the discussion here on its effectiveness re: Xorg etc. It seems to work > > > fine for me. Now the question is: which is the best 3D application > > > (window manager??) to use with it? Compiz? > > > > No opinion. I presume if you have a fancy graphics card you got it for > > some sepcific reason, otherwise you don't need it. Nowadays onboard > > video chipsets are more than enough for everyday use, for many values of > > "everyday" (I can even run Compiz on my Intel 965, I just can't be > > bothered). > > > It wasn't purchased for a specific purpose. It is a C51PV GeForce 6150 > integrated in my newly installed M2NPV-VM motherboard. I just thought I > would try out 3D for a bit of time to see what I get. > > > > > 3) My project for the next while is to work out how various multimedia > > > work. The more I delve into the subject the more confusing it gets. > > > I can find lots of info on the various pieces of hardware used, but then > > > what? How do various software components fit together e.g. gstreamer, > > > xine, Totem, ripping, burning, editing, codecs, audio (drivers), video > > > (drivers), etc., etc. Info and howtos on individual pieces of software > > > exist, but I can't seem to find anything online or a textbook that puts > > > it all together in an overview. Wikipedia, for example, is full of > > > stubs on this subject. > > > > Good luck with that (really). It's a definite hole that needs to be > > filled. I'm sure if you do it collaboratively, maybe as a Wiki, people > > will be glad to contribute what they know. > > I have been thinking about your suggestions all morning. I have decided > to develop the following strategy. If you have a better suggestion let > me know. > > 1) Start by using mainly cut and paste from wherever I can find info. > 2) Using NoteCase in conjunction with FreeMind to begin organizing data > conceptually and storing the details. > 3) Begin with hardware (and perhaps the prerequisite drivers even if > drivers are technically software) so that I can develop a basic > understanding of the physical limitations and problems that software has > to overcome for each different type of use. > 4) As I go through the hardware list, perhaps I will pickup the > applicability and use of various pieces of software. > 5) So far I have the following list of hardware, off the top of my head, > that seems to play a role: > RJ45; Twisted Pair Cable > CATV; Coaxial Cable > USB > Wireless > NIC > RAM (how used for sockets, caches, DMA etc. by media hardware) > Audio Card/Chip > Video Card/chip > CD/DVD Drive > CD Disk > DVD Disk > Digital Still Picture Camera > Digital Video Camera > WebCam > TV Tuners > > Any suggestions of additions or deletions gratefully accepted. > > 6) So far, my software list consists of: > Drivers; not a analysis of specific drivers (unless necessary); > but a discussion of generically what the driver for a hardware > component should do. > Licencing; > ALSA; pulseAlsa > gstreamer; > Flash; > > As of yet, a very sparse list indeed. I am unsure of the relationship > between various software components and sub-components (e.g. mySQL, > Apache etc.). Fixing that lack of knowledge is, after all, the point of > the exercise. > > Any tentative suggestions for main or generic types of software, > preferably in some logical tree order, are not only welcome, but, in > fact, begged for. > > I agree with Patrick, that if in fact, no one has yet put such a summary > together, I should create a Wiki site. However, it is probably best > that I assemble the basic information that is readily available first. > > References to the M$ Windows counterpart would be useful; although my > main objective is for Linux, Windows seems to have been there first for > most media uses and seems (from what I have read) to act as a touchstone > for comparisons. > > Any quick remarks as to how these categories of investigation should > line up will help get things started. > > Tom, I will organize quantum theory and end all war after I get this > project done. > -- > Regards Bill; > Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 > Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:42:59 -0400 > From: "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <48710423.30905@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Luis Orlindo Tedeschi wrote: > > Would the WPA problem affect the WEP? > > (For those who have forgotten, my laptop is running F9 x86_64. > Up-to-date through yum daily. It has ipw3945 hardware, and I'm using > the iwl3945 wifi drivers.) > > I read through *all* the duplicate bugs and the comments in 453390, and > many people claimed that while WPA/WPA2 was whacked, WEP still worked > for them. The general claim is that it was a bug in wpa_supplicant. If > so, it should have *no* effect on WEP, which is implemented elsewhere > (isn't it?). > > I find this really strange, because, I booted the new .9-76 kernel > yesterday, and it connected to my AP right away. My AP is a wrt54g, > V3.0, still running its original firmware. And I'm using WPA-AES > encryption, (though I've been thinking of moving to WPA-TKIP and maybe > changing my channel B^). This appears to be the opposite behaviour from > everyone who did a me2 on that bug report! What works for them fails > for me, and what fails for them works for me. Really strange. > > 2-3 weeks ago, I took a long holiday away from home. Brought the laptop > with me because the inn claimed to have free WiFi. In fact, they had a > small Airport AP running 40-bit WEP. (while I was still running the > .6-55 kernel) NetworkManager found the AP just fine, but wouldn't > connect. It just kept re-prompting me for the passphrase. Well, > actually, it had encoded the passphrase and prompted me to reenter the > encrypted 40/128 bit encoding, which was a hex string. Nothing I tried > would connect. So, when I retired to my room for the night, to my > surprise, the laptop found the open wireless from the house across the > street! Bing, bada boom, it connected (I didn't even *ask* it to)! (no > encryption, not WEP, not WPA, nothing). > > When I got back home, I was able to re-connect to my house. WPA-AES. > It connected first try. Really strange! > > Now, after seeing all of the complaints about .9-76, I waited until I > tried to view a DVD, and my system panicked. When I re-booted, it was > the latest kernel, and I expected the WiFi to fail. "Surprise, > surprise, surprise Sergeant Carter!" It connected first time. I even > suspended my lappie overnight, and when I re-booted, it connected again! > > So, maybe I don't know what the bug is, but maybe its related to > WPA/WPA2, but not WPA-AES? > > And I have no clue as what's wrong with WEP, as a lot of the people > commenting on the bug claims they have no problems using WEP! > > So, here I am, not a general user of WEP, having problems getting it to > work at all. Its not one of my "standard" setups. I only expect to use > it rarely. But, I expect it to work when I do, so when it doesn't, it > makes it really hard to fix (How do you fix your internet connection > when you can't get it to work????) How am I supposed to then google for > the answers?! > > -- > Kevin J. Cummings > kjchome@xxxxxxx > cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:10:08 +0300 > From: "Bassel Safadi" <bassel.safadi@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Gnash and youtube > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <317223670807061110g3ea9da3em6d5329067858cc32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On 7/3/08, Ian Chapman <packages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Is gnash in F9 actually supposed to work with sites like youtube? It worked > > for me in F8 but I cannot get it to work in F9, despite having all the > > codecs installed including those from livna. Just curious if anyone has it > > working and what they did, particularly from PPC users. It works with flash > > in general just not with video streaming for some reason. > > > > -- > > Ian Chapman. > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > Some people will not agree with me, but from my point of view, opera 9.5 is > better than firefox in f9, specialy for flash, it have built in adobe flash > player. > > it's not open source, but you consider testing it.. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20080706/0c87fde8/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:33:43 -0400 > From: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ?? > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <20080706143343.46fc99fb@zooty> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:05:06 -0400 > William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > WebCam > > UVC is a (relatively) new standard for webcams. I see the latest > fedora 8 kernel (and fedora 9) includes the uvcvideo driver by > default (previously I had to build it myself). It seems to work > fine for me with my logitech cam, and the theory behind standards > is that all UVC compliant cams will work (insert insane chuckling > here). > > The gotcha is determining which cams are UVC compliant - most > manufacturers don't actually advertise it as a feature. On mine I > discovered a support web page for macintosh that mentioned UVC > compliance :-). > > The other gotcha with UVC is that the driver only supports version > 2 of video for linux (V4L2), so only software that is V4L2 aware > can talk to UVC video drivers (I guess linux decided they absolutely > had to copy windows with the multiple incompatible versions > of video for windows that Microsoft went through :-). > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:01:08 +0100 > From: Ian Chapman <packages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Gnash and youtube > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <48711674.9020109@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Bassel Safadi wrote: > > > Is gnash in F9 actually supposed to work with sites like youtube? It.... > > > Some people will not agree with me, but from my point of view, opera 9.5 > > is better than firefox in f9, specialy for flash, it have built in adobe > > flash player. > > > > it's not open source, but you consider testing it.. > > Well actually I do mainly use Opera as my preferred web browser and have > done since around version 4 or so when I moved from Netscape because it > was so horribly unstable on linux. I believe the built-in flash is only > in the mobile editions of opera? I'm using a powerpc machine so I don't > have the option of using Adobe's official flash plugin but Gnash works > reasonably well for most flash, just not streaming which is a bit > annoying because it used to. > > -- > Ian Chapman. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:16:27 -0500 > From: "Rance Hall" <ranceh@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Using the Fedora 9 KDE Live CD on unsupported video hardware > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <845c0f80807061216j22a6ee99lc520929131b32d90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hey gang, > > I hope this question has a lot more meat on its bones as Ive learned a > great deal about altering the video parameters that are being fed to > the kernel. > > Problem: On my mobo the integrated video card (a via chrome9 based > card) and monitor (an old Samsung SyncMaster 955DF) Fedora 9 cant > figure out what video combination to use and when it screws up, it > locks up the system tight. Only a hard boot will fix it. > > On an install cd anaconda will accept the xdriver=vesa option and > graphical install works fine, The only real issue is that in my > experience Anaconda notoriously uses low resolution so as to hide > problems with a video setup till the actual system is installed. > > So taking what I know and applying that to a LIVE CD (specifically the > KDE one, as Im a KDE guy and dont have much use for Gnome, etc (please > no flames, is a personal preference, I didnt - and wont - say gnome > sucks - it doesnt, just that I dont like it.) > > OK, the Live CD doesnt have anaconda on it (nor should it) but I need > a way to apply what Ive learned about telling the system to use VESA > till I can figure out the details of why my hardware is not working > corectly. > > First, the kernel will accept a vga=xxx code that affects the terminal > consoles, but that doesnt seem to have any affect on X. > > The kernel command line can be altered by adding something like > "video=vesafb:mode:1280x1024-75" > > This seems to really help my situation, but not enough. > > without this alteration the LiveCD will crash and lockup hard within 5 > seconds or so after udev starts. > with this alteration the LiveCD boots successfully and displays a > login prompt (which is further than I ever got before) but the > keyboard is still locked and about 5 seconds or so later I get a funny > horizontal image on the screen that is indicative of overstating the > capability of the video hardware at some level. > > I know I'm on the right track here, but I cant seem to finish the job, > any help much appreciated. > > I need a hint or a pointer to let me know what Im missing please. > > Thanks all > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:44:53 -0700 > From: Chris Carlson <cwcarlson@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Problem with system-config-printer.py > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <487120B5.7060003@xxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Again, thank you for your response. > > The LD_LIBRARY_PATH as my user is set to /usr/local/lib. This is the > default setting by a default user with F9. There are no libraries in > /usr/local/lib, so there isn't a conflict. > > Since this is repeatable simply by trying to set up a printer from the > desktop, I would think others would be running into it as well. Am I > the only one? Or does everyone else know the manual process so well > that no one bothers to test/fix the wizard? This is not meant as a > criticism. I'm just looking for a solution, and I want to know the odds > of finding someone that has figured it out or is working on it. > > Thanks again, > Chris > > > > > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:50:16 -0700, Chris Carlson wrote: > > > > > >> Thank you, Michael, for responding. > >> > >> Here's what I get when I enter the commands you suggested: > >> > >> [root@rolf ~]# rpm -q libpng > >> libpng-1.2.29-1.fc9.i386 > >> [root@rolf ~]# rpm -V libpng > >> [root@rolf ~]# ldd /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 | grep libpng > >> libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x00ab0000) > >> [root@rolf ~]# objdump -T /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 | grep expand > >> 00ac5a50 g DF .text 0000001d PNG12_0 png_set_expand > >> 00ac5a90 g DF .text 0000001d PNG12_0 png_set_expand_gray_1_2_4_to_8 > >> > >> I hope that helps. > >> > > > > It looks okay. However, you should have executed those commands > > as your normal user, not "root". Most often, when I've seen such > > an error message, which you refer to, the reason was a modified > > $LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to incompatible libs in /usr/local/lib. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:48:08 -0400 > From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Scanner woes in F9 > To: fedora-list <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1215373688.16455.49.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Apparently, scanner configuration is now handled through HAL rather than > UDEV, which means I have no idea how to get my scanner set up. > > I have an Epson Expression 800 SCSI scanner. It is detected with no > problem as /dev/sg0 and gets user root, group lp and permissions > -rw-rw---. So root can see the scanner, but regular users and network > users can't see it. Changing the permissions to -rw-rw-rw by hand makes > the scanner accessible to local users, but still not over the LAN. And > of course, it won't be preserved across reboots. > > I added the network IP range to /etc/sane.d/saned.conf and added > localhost to /etc/sane.d/net.conf, configured /etc/xinetd.d/sane-daemon > as it was when it worked in F8, and opened port 6566 in the firewall. > > Any idea what I'm missing? > > I have sane-backends-1.0.19-10.fc9.i386. The HAL configuration for > scanners is in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/19-libsane.fdi. > > TIA. > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:30:57 -0600 > From: "Christopher A. Williams" <chriswfedora@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1215376257.4594.6.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:42 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > Luis Orlindo Tedeschi wrote: > > > Would the WPA problem affect the WEP? > > > > (For those who have forgotten, my laptop is running F9 x86_64. > > Up-to-date through yum daily. It has ipw3945 hardware, and I'm using > > the iwl3945 wifi drivers.) > > I'm running F9 x86_64 as well with the same wireless adapter. You're > not alone. > > My WPA router at home connects up immediately and always has. WEP, OTOH, > has been so bad for me that my laptop locks up hard when trying to > connect to my church's 128-bit WEP network. I can only do a hard reset > to get anything working. > > Any attempt to connect to a WEP router fails - and usually with a hard > system lockup. > > > > > So, maybe I don't know what the bug is, but maybe its related to > > WPA/WPA2, but not WPA-AES? > > > > And I have no clue as what's wrong with WEP, as a lot of the people > > commenting on the bug claims they have no problems using WEP! > > > > So, here I am, not a general user of WEP, having problems getting it to > > work at all. Its not one of my "standard" setups. I only expect to use > > it rarely. But, I expect it to work when I do, so when it doesn't, it > > makes it really hard to fix (How do you fix your internet connection > > when you can't get it to work????) How am I supposed to then google for > > the answers?! > > Same here - I plan to upgrade our church network to WPA soon, but for > now I can't even attempt to connect at risk of a hard system lockup. I > haven't found any answers for this either. > > I booted up an original F9 x86_64 live CD from a USB pen drive just for > grins and connected up to the WEP network with no issues at all. It's > definitely something that has changed along the way. > > > -- > ==================================================== > > By all means marry; > If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. > If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. > > --Socrates > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 14 > Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:56:22 -0700 > From: Chris Carlson <cwcarlson@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: CD/DVD writing > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <48713176.50901@xxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Actually, there have been some complaints. I found that doing it > manually with mkisofs and wodim, I could write to my CD. Doing it with > the GUI failed 100% of the time without any error messages at all. > Nothing on the screen as to why, nothing in /var/log/messages, just > "Error!" in a popup. > > I haven't had the time to debug the GUI, yet. > > Chris > > > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Jeffrey Ross writes: > > > >> Is it just me or did something get broken in the last kernel for F9 > >> (x86_64) for CD/DVD writing? > >> > >> I am unable to write to DVD's with 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64 but I have > >> no problems with 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 > >> > >> K3B complains that it is unable to prevent disk ejection (or > >> something like that) > >> > >> Thoughts? > > > > Come on. If everyone's DVD burning stopped working with the new > > kernel, I'd expect to hear people screaming about it a long time ago. > > Obviously this issue affects your particular hardware/software > > configuration. But, since you neglected to describe your hardware, and > > did not post what, if anything, you get in your log files > > (/var/log/messages, etc..) your chances of getting help are rather slim. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > End of fedora-list Digest, Vol 53, Issue 45 > ******************************************* -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
