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To: <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:36:57 -0500
You need to get the package with xft support. The package that appears most
readily does not have it. You will have to look around the downloadpage for
it.
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> 1. Re: Testing new software (Telmo Silva)
> 2. Re: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1 (John Rehmert)
> 3. RE: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1 (John Rehmert)
> 4. Re: Compilation general question -- FC1 in production (Justin
Churchey)
> 5. Re: help configuring spam assassin (Stephen Walton)
> 6. Re: samba file server slow (Dennis Gilmore)
> 7. Re: samba file server slow (Robin Laing)
> 8. Re: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1 (Chris Adams)
> 9. Re: Apt built against rpm 4.3? (Panu Matilainen)
> 10. Install Mozilla plugin (Telmo Silva)
> 11. RE: RWyse60 Terminal Interface (David L Norris)
> 12. Re: Install Mozilla plugin (Justin Churchey)
> 13. Re: installing grub fails (Rick Stevens)
> 14. Re: upgrading to fedora core 2 (STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT))
> 15. Re: Install Mozilla plugin (don)
> 16. Re: Install Mozilla plugin (Christoph Wickert)
> 17. Re: RWyse60 Terminal Interface (Leonard den Ottolander)
> 18. Re: installing grub fails (Rick Stevens)
> 19. Re: Install Mozilla plugin (Mike Frisch)
> 20. kernel 2.6.1+Nvidia twinview+fedora (of course) problem (Sergiu
Giurgiu)
> 21. RE: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1 (Ko Pu)
> 22. Re: Install Mozilla plugin (WA9ALS - John)
> 23. RE: RWyse60 Terminal Interface (Brian Fahrlander)
> 24. Re: problem removing Mozilla 1.4 which came with FC1 (Jeff Allison)
> 25. Re: Install Mozilla plugin (Christoph Wickert)
> 26. Re: Replacement for XMMS? (Stephan Schutter)
> 27. Re: Install Mozilla plugin (Keith)
> 28. Re: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1 (Keith)
> 29. Re: Install Mozilla plugin (Keith)
> 30. Default Moz install: Pretty, custom built: jaggy (Sean Kennedy)
> 31. performance tuning -- application start-up time (Fred Nastos)
>
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> Message: 1
> From: Telmo Silva <tsilva@zmail.pt>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Testing new software
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:05:17 +0000
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
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> Hi,
>
> you can had an entry like
>
> [updates-testing]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
> baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever
>
> I think this should work!
>
>
> Em Quinta 22 Janeiro 2004 20:56, o John Wendel escreveu:
> > I've got a shiny new box that I'd like to use for testing the latest
> > bleeding edge stuff.
> >
> > Can someone tell me what to add to yum.conf so it gets the test
> > packages.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
>
> - --
> Telmo Silva
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> Message: 2
> Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1
> From: John Rehmert <john.rehmert@speakeasy.net>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:04:48 -0500
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:47, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, john.rehmert@speakeasy.net
<john.rehmert@speakeasy.net> said:
> > > Is there a reason you're not using xpdf (X PDF Viewer) or gpdf (GNOME
PDF
> > > Viewer)?
> >
> > Maybe because they aren't all that good at reading PDFs, especially
> > compared to Adobe Acrobat Reader? Last time I checked, xpdf doesn't
> > have the form fill-out capability. It also doesn't render near as
> > nicely as acroread (which makes reading harder on the eyes) and doesn't
> > support rotating the page.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
> >
> Thanks for expressing your opinion, but I was asking Ko Pu for reasons
> for not using xpdf and/or gpdf. If there aren't any compelling reasons,
> then xpdf and/or gpdf are great alternatives.
>
> - John
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Subject: RE: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1
> From: John Rehmert <john.rehmert@speakeasy.net>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:06:01 -0500
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:47, Stephen Walton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 11:31, john.rehmert@speakeasy.net wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a reason you're not using xpdf (X PDF Viewer) or gpdf (GNOME
PDF
> > > Viewer)?
> >
> > I don't pretend to speak for the original poster, but a partial list for
> > me would include searching, bookmarks, and thumbnails, all of which are
> > in Acroread but not in XPDF or gpdf.
> >
> Those would definitely be compelling reasons for installing Acrobat
> Reader. If Ko needs those, then xpdf and gpdf are not even viable
> options.
>
> - John
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:08:56 -0800 (PST)
> From: Justin Churchey <sajchurchey@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Compilation general question -- FC1 in production
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> To answer your questions,
>
> Yes, both the CPU and the OS are important when
> compiling source code (C/C++). It is insignificant
> with interpreted languages, like python, and Java.
> The number of CPUs only comes into play if you write
> SMP compatible software in the first place.
>
> I know for a fact that Windows-compiled binaries will
> not work in Linux and vice versa, but I'm not sure
> about using the same binaries across different Linux
> and other *nix machines.
>
> Check the information on your compiler, it may be
> possible to compile source code to a different CPU/OS.
>
>
> =====
>
>
> Justin Churchey
>
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>
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> Message: 5
> Subject: Re: help configuring spam assassin
> From: Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@csun.edu>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:14:35 -0800
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:42, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>
> > Am Do, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Walton um 20:43:
> > > I realize
> > > that the Mozilla tools work at the individual user level and not at
the
> > > server level, which was the original question.
> >
> > Spamassain does too: spamassassin = user app.
>
> Thanks for your help, and I know there are always lots of ways to do a
> task in Linux, one of its strengths. But my posting was unclear. Here,
> all of us read our e-mail while connected to the campus IMAP server, and
> our mail remains on the server. So none of the suggestions here work
> for us; our e-mail never goes through procmail (or whatever) on our FC1
> systems. I'd agree that the ideal situation would be for our campus IT
> folks to install a spam filter on the IMAP server itself, but they're
> understaffed and overworked, and this just isn't high on their list.
>
> This is another entire discussion, but IMHO downloading all your e-mail
> from an IMAP server to a local folder so procmail can handle it defeats
> 90% of the advantages of IMAP over POP, so don't bother suggesting it.
>
> --
> Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@csun.edu>
> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 6
> From: Dennis Gilmore <dennis@dgilmore.net>
> To: Jonathan Christison <jonbon_c@blueyonder.co.uk>,
fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: samba file server slow
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 07:16:33 +1000
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
>
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> Once upon a time Friday 23 January 2004 6:38 am, Jonathan Christison
wrote:
> > thanks for every one's help last time about this but its still slow... i
> > followed every ones advise and no change its still runs at 5mega bytes
> > per second over a 100 mega bits per second hub
> > then i realised when i was swaping files about on my fedora pc up stairs
> > on gkrellm the server is using rx not tx but yet there is a small amount
> > of tx packets flyin round my network.
> > do i need to configure my network card to use TX-100base some how ?
> > thanks for yore help again
> >
> > - Jonny
>
>
> Are you using a Hub or Switch? if your using a hub as stated above you
wil=
> l=20
> not get the full performance as only one machine can send traffic on the
wi=
> re=20
> at a time so it has to stop and wait for ACK's is your network running
ful=
> l=20
> duplex or half duplex?=20
>
> mii-tool
> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
>
> you should get something like the above if you run mii-tool as root that
is=
> =20
> 100Mbit per sec Full duplex =20
>
> Dennis
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:29:35 -0700
> From: Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
> Organization: Defence R&D Canada - Suffield
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: samba file server slow
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Jonathan Christison wrote:
> > thanks for every one's help last time about this but its still slow... i
> > followed every ones advise and no change its still runs at 5mega bytes
> > per second over a 100 mega bits per second hub
> > then i realised when i was swaping files about on my fedora pc up stairs
> > on gkrellm the server is using rx not tx but yet there is a small amount
> > of tx packets flyin round my network.
> > do i need to configure my network card to use TX-100base some how ?
> > thanks for yore help again
> >
> > - Jonny
> >
> >
>
> Don't confuse megabits and megabytes. You state both in the above.
>
> Look at <http://www.aplawrence.com/Words/2003_09_19.html> for a simple
> description.
>
> 5megabytes * 8bits-per-byte = 40megabits.
>
> From your description you are transfering about 40megabits of data
> per second which is close to the maximum of some harddrives. I would
> say that your network card is working at 100Mbits per second. You may
> be running into hardware limitations as well.
>
> There is overhead in working on a 100Base-TX network that will use up
> extra bandwidth so a 10meg file may actually use 12meg of bandwidth.
>
> I have used a program called Netpipe to test network speeds. I havn't
> seen an rpm for it yet.
>
> --
> Robin Laing
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:29:41 -0600
> From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Once upon a time, John Rehmert <john.rehmert@speakeasy.net> said:
> > Thanks for expressing your opinion, but I was asking Ko Pu for reasons
> > for not using xpdf and/or gpdf.
>
> And I (and others) responded with compelling reasons.
>
> > If there aren't any compelling reasons,
> > then xpdf and/or gpdf are great alternatives.
>
> That is your opinion, which you are also free to express.
> --
> Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 9
> Subject: Re: Apt built against rpm 4.3?
> From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@welho.com>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:34:09 +0200
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:05, Mark Heslep wrote:
> > Can anybody point to an Apt built against the 4.3 rpm thats out in
> > development / rawhide now? Most current Apt I can find demands a 4.2
> > rpm library. Also I tried rebuilding apt from the srouce rpm on Dag's
> > site but it fails to build on fedora looking for '-lselinux'.
>
> In case you haven't already figured it out: you need to have
> libselinux-devel package installed to build apt on against the current
> development tree.
>
> - Panu -
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 10
> From: Telmo Silva <tsilva@zmail.pt>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Install Mozilla plugin
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:34:00 +0000
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
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> Hi,
>
> I tried to install Macromedia Flash Mozilla plugin, but it keeps asking me
the
> installation directory of mozilla, and I can't seem to find it. Anyone
knows
> where is mozilla insttaled on Fedora Core?
>
> Thanks
> - --
> Telmo Silva
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> Message: 11
> Subject: RE: RWyse60 Terminal Interface
> From: David L Norris <dave@webaugur.com>
> To: fedora list <fedora-list@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:29:51 -0500
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
>
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> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 10:24, Greg Ennis wrote:
> > Tiny Term does have a product with a Wyse60
> > interface for Linux systems but it does not allow 'on the fly'
programmin=
> g
> > of the special function keys, and has some other hard coded problems
that
> > can not be fixed by changing parameter files.
>
> Maybe PuTTY can do it? It works on Windows and Linux. It has a SCO
> mode under terminal options.
>
> PuTTY website:
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
>
> Dag Wieers has a Fedora RPM available here:
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/putty/
>
> --=20
> David Norris
> http://www.webaugur.com/dave/
> ICQ - 412039
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> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:40:11 -0800 (PST)
> From: Justin Churchey <sajchurchey@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Install Mozilla plugin
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> You should be able to install the plugin directly into
> the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder this should be the
> libflashplayer.so file (or some other similar *.so
> file) when you unpackage the tarball.
>
> =====
>
>
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>
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> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:42:12 -0800
> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens@vitalstream.com>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: installing grub fails
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Telmo Silva wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Don't know if it works has I've not tryed it. I think grub renames the
> > partitions, so hda in grub is labeled as hd0. So try with hd0 as the
> > parameter.
> >
> > Em Quinta 22 Janeiro 2004 18:37, o Diosnel Herrnsdorf escreveu:
> >
> >>On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:27, Linux4life wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>running the command
> >>>
> >>>grub-install /dev/hda
> >>>
> >>>fails and prints an error message
> >>>
> >>>/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS ...
> >>>
> >>>Does anyone know what is wrong?
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Ivo
> >>
> >>Try /dev/hda1 (your hard disk has at least two partitions and you need
> >>to tell the program in which one you want to install it)
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Diosnel
> >
> >
> > - --
> > Telmo Silva
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>
>
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> - -
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>
>
>
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>
> Message: 14
> From: "STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT)" <stymar@lucent.com>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: upgrading to fedora core 2
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:42:45 -0600
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
>
> >>Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> >> At 09:03 1/22/2004, you wrote:
> >>
> >>> In practice, there are some [issues with upgrading from RHL to Fedora
> >>> via apt/yum]:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg02421.html
> >>
> >> The original question was about upgrading from FC1 to FC2 via apt/yum.
I
> >> think the original answer of "in theory, no problem" may or may not be
> >> right but is reasonable. The fact that X or Y problem existed upgrading
> >> from a previous (not even the latest) version of RHL is not relevant to
> >> that question, nor does it imply that the same problems will continue
to
> >> exist.
> >
> >Yes, that is true. And in fact I get the impression few people have had
> >trouble with "yum upgrade"s so far. But I merely report the fact some
> >people have pointed out that problems are theoretically possible.
> >
> >The article I quoted doesn't refer to problems with a previous upgrade,
> >it discusses the issues that *are* likely to arise in the future.
> >Specifically, if there is a major update of Python or glibc or anything
> >else that yum (or up2date or apt) depends upon that causes it to break
> >during the upgrade process, you're up the proverbial creek (at least
> >until you pop in the CD and fire up anaconda).
> >
> >It might not happen; it appears not to have happened for 8 -> 9 or
> >9 -> FC1. But it *could* happen in the future, and AFAIK the developers
> >haven't designed a system to specifically prevent it. (Please correct
> >me if I'm wrong!)
> >
> >--
> > Matt
>
> This sort of problem can happen any time pieces of the tool doing the
updating
> might get updated. A decision would have to be made by the person
maintaining
> yum (or up2date or apt) to link that program together statically. This
way you
> would be either running the new copy or the old copy of the updater, but
never
> pieces of both. On many UNIX flavors /sbin/sh is set up this way, so that
root
> can get in even if the system is pretty trashed.
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 15
> From: don <don@drussell.dnsalias.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:47:42 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: Re: Install Mozilla plugin
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Telmo Silva said:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to install Macromedia Flash Mozilla plugin, but it keeps asking
me
> > the
> > installation directory of mozilla, and I can't seem to find it. Anyone
> > knows
> > where is mozilla insttaled on Fedora Core?
>
> Use the "whereis" command...
> whereis mozilla
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 16
> Subject: Re: Install Mozilla plugin
> From: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@web.de>
> To: fedora-list <fedora-list@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:53:53 +0100
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Am Do, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Telmo Silva um 22:34:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to install Macromedia Flash Mozilla plugin, but it keeps asking
me the
> > installation directory of mozilla, and I can't seem to find it. Anyone
knows
> > where is mozilla insttaled on Fedora Core?
>
> /usr/lib/mozilla, but why not use the FC1 rpm from
> http://macromedia.mplug.org/
>
> More info: http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#Flash
>
> Christoph
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 17
> Subject: Re: RWyse60 Terminal Interface
> From: Leonard den Ottolander <leonard@den.ottolander.nl>
> To: Fedora List <fedora-list@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:56:03 +0100
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Hello Greg,
>
> You might want to join the ncurses mailing list (see
> http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/ncurses.html). Thomas Dickey is also
> the maintainer of terminfo, so I guess you can ask question relating to
> terminal issues on bug-ncurses@gnu.org as well.
>
> Bye,
> Leonard.
>
> --
> mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research
>
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:58:30 -0800
> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens@vitalstream.com>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: installing grub fails
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Oops! Hit "Send" too soon. Please ignore my previous post.
>
> Telmo Silva wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Don't know if it works has I've not tryed it. I think grub renames the
> > partitions, so hda in grub is labeled as hd0. So try with hd0 as the
> > parameter.
>
> Bottom post, guys, please!
>
> grub-install uses Linux device names (/dev/hda, etc.), NOT BIOS names
> (hd0,0). grub uses BIOS names internally.
>
> > Em Quinta 22 Janeiro 2004 18:37, o Diosnel Herrnsdorf escreveu:
> >
> >>On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:27, Linux4life wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>running the command
> >>>
> >>>grub-install /dev/hda
> >>>
> >>>fails and prints an error message
> >>>
> >>>/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS ...
> >>>
> >>>Does anyone know what is wrong?
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Ivo
> >>
> >>Try /dev/hda1 (your hard disk has at least two partitions and you need
> >>to tell the program in which one you want to install it)
>
> No, that will install it to the partition, not the MBR.
>
> The error message indicates that the BIOS doesn't know about the drive.
> This IS an IDE drive, isn't it? We'd need to see your drive layout to
> better answer this.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
> - -
> - Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? -
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 19
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:00:13 -0500
> From: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@isurfer.ca>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Install Mozilla plugin
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:34:00PM +0000, Telmo Silva wrote:
> > I tried to install Macromedia Flash Mozilla plugin, but it keeps
> > asking me the installation directory of mozilla, and I can't seem to
> > find it. Anyone knows where is mozilla insttaled on Fedora Core?
>
> Whenever you run in the issue of not knowing where something is
> installed, just view the contents of the RPM:
>
> rpm -ql mozilla
>
> >From that you can see where mozilla resides when it's installed.
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 20
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:56:25 +0200
> From: Sergiu Giurgiu <gsergiu@rdslink.ro>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: kernel 2.6.1+Nvidia twinview+fedora (of course) problem
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Hi,
> I don't know if this is the most appropriate place to ask this question,
> since i believe is not related with fedora only, but with kernel 2.6.1
> and/or nvidia latest drivers, but i desperate need some help.
> since i've installed kernel 2.6.1 (i didn't try with 2.6.0 or the -testx
> series) whenever i try to enable tv-out (in clone mode usually), and
> startx the monitor is blank, and instead the images appear on TV only.
> Why is this happening. what can i do about it (i need my monitor so i
> can start the programs, mplayer to be exact, with the right options, and
> not to be forced to go to the TV, witch is 5 meters away, to see what
> i've typed). Does anybody knows about this problem??? What can i do
> about it (except booting with 2.4 kernel)?
>
> Here is the relevant part from my XF86config file:
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "Monitor Model"
> HorizSync 30-85
> VertRefresh 48-120
> Option "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> # no known options
> Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
> BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
> Option "NoLogo" "on"
> Option "TwinView" "on"
> Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
> Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
> Option "MetaModes" "1024x768,1024x768;800x600,800x600"
> #Option "MetaModes" "800x600,800x600"
> Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT,TV"
> Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
> Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> Option "CursorShadow" "on"
> #Option "NvAGP" "1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 16
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
>
> Thank you very much for your time.
> Sergiu.
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 21
> From: "Ko Pu" <ko_pu@hotmail.com>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:08:10 -0800
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Thanks so much for all your replies, I downloaded the 5.07 file from
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/acroread/, installed it and it's working
> fine. Thanks again for all of your help.
>
> Thanks in advance for your comment/suggestion
>
> Ko Fei Pu
> mailto:ko_pu@nospamhotmail.com
>
>
>
>
> >From: Marius Andreiana <mandreiana@rdslink.ro>
> >Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> >To: fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com>
> >Subject: RE: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1
> >Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:16:54 +0200
> >
> >On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:31, john.rehmert@speakeasy.net wrote:
> > > -->
> > > --> Has anybody succeded in making AR5.08 working under FC1? I
> > > --> downloaded the
> > > --> file from Adobe and installed several times, but it still
> > > --> won't work.
> >get a rpm whenever possible
> >google gives this
> >http://dag.wieers.com/packages/acroread/
> >you want the ones wih 'fc1' and 'i386' in filename
> >
> > > Is there a reason you're not using xpdf (X PDF Viewer) or gpdf (GNOME
> >PDF
> > > Viewer)?
> >adobe is simply much more comfortable to use. It has bookmarks, you can
> >read documents by pressing page-down and not miss anything (gnome pdf
> >moves an entire page, even if it doesn't fit into screen), printing
> >works as expected, rendering is faster.
> >
> >This is an example where 'simple' proprietary applications are better
> >than open source ones, which usually don't have some basic features
> >(copy-paste working properly, or Search in nautilus text view).
> >
> >A good example where OSS is better than proprietary at simple desktop
> >applications is gaim vs. yahoo messenger (which on linux sucks at
> >usability and features).
> >
> >Unfortunately criticism like this, coming from regular end-users, is
> >usually not well received by OSS developers (ignored or "do it
> >yourself")
> >
> >--
> >Marius Andreiana
> >Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
> >http://www.galuna.ro
> >
> >
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>
> Message: 22
> Subject: Re: Install Mozilla plugin
> From: WA9ALS - John <ham_reflectors@wa9als.com>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:24:24 -0500
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 16:40, Justin Churchey wrote:
> > You should be able to install the plugin directly into
> > the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder this should be the
> > libflashplayer.so file (or some other similar *.so
> > file) when you unpackage the tarball.
> >
> > =====
> >
> >
> > Justin Churchey
> >
> > sajchurchey@yahoo.com
> >
> >
> > Check out My Website: http://sajchurchey.htmlplanet.com
> > Join the Forums: http://www.computertechnology2k.com
> >
> > __________________________________
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
> > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
> >
>
> I'm having the same problem right now. My working java plugin is in
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins, so I directed flash installer to put it
> there. No errors, but when I check About Plugins, it's not there.
> (Following instructions at the Macromedia site.) - John
>
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 23
> Subject: RE: RWyse60 Terminal Interface
> From: Brian Fahrlander <Brian@fahrlander.net>
> To: Fedora List <fedora-list@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:22:04 -0600
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
>
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 15:29, David L Norris wrote:
>
> > Maybe PuTTY can do it? It works on Windows and Linux. It has a SCO
> > mode under terminal options.
> >=20
> > PuTTY website:
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
> >=20
> > Dag Wieers has a Fedora RPM available here:
> > http://dag.wieers.com/packages/putty/
>
> Wait....there's a linux version of putty? That's a new one on me.=20
> Putty's good...it has SSH abilities...I can honestly say, though, that I
> never looked to see if it had simple telnet.
>
> Good call, Dave!
>
> --=20
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Brian Fahrl=C3=A4nder Researcher, Conservative, and
Technom=
> ad
> Evansville, IN http://Fahrlander.net
> ICQ 5119262 Microsoft never invented email; that was Unix.
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>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 24
> Subject: Re: problem removing Mozilla 1.4 which came with FC1
> From: Jeff Allison <jeff.allison@allygray.2y.net>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:41:57 +1100
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> I had this problem removing mozilla on two machines on one I removed
> both mozilla and open-office and mozilla and install open office using
> the installer from their site and on the other I left mozilla installed
> and added it to the hold list in apt. I don't appear to be missing any
> functionality. (By the way firebird is my browser of choice.)
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 25
> Subject: Re: Install Mozilla plugin
> From: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@web.de>
> To: fedora-list <fedora-list@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:43:25 +0100
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Am Do, den 22.01.2004 schrieb WA9ALS - John um 23:24:
>
> >
> > I'm having the same problem right now. My working java plugin is in
> > /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins,
>
> 1. use /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (not mozilla-<version>), this is where
> mozilla is looking for plugins.
>
> 2. Why not use the rpms???
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/j2re/j2re-1.4.2-4.rhfc1.dag.i586.rpm
> and
>
http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/fedora/1/RPMS.macromedia/flash-plugin-6.0.79-2.i386.rpm
>
> no more configuration necessary.
>
> Please read the FAQs, thats's what they are for...
> http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#Java
> http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#Flash
>
> And perhaps you should also search the archives of this list.
>
> Christoph
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 26
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:54:25 -0600 (CST)
> From: Stephan Schutter <rhl@farorbit.com>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Replacement for XMMS?
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> go to freshrpms.net and install apt...
> apt-get update
> apt-get install synaptic
>
>
> then don't use up2date anymore...
>
> select the packages that you want there. There are a lot of additional
> sources that you can add as well..
>
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Mike Klinke wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 21:17, Brian Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:11, Mike Klinke wrote:
> > >
> > > Admittedly, I didn't look at the package list, but when I tried to
> > > run the command, I received the message:
> > >
> > > "Due to patent licensing, and conflicts between such patent
> > > licenses and the licenses of application source code, MPEG-1/2
> > > audio layer 3 (MP3) support has been removed from this application
> > > by Red Hat, Inc. We apologize for this inconvenience."
> > >
> >
> > Ah, you're looking for a different xmms RPM than the one provided.
> >
> > Stand by, I'm sure someone will pipe up and point out the solution as
> > I'm pretty sure I've seen this addressed in the past. Have you
> > searched the archives?
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2
> >
> >
> > Regards, Mike Klinke
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 27
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:00:11 -0800 (PST)
> From: Keith <ac7xc-lnx@earthlink.net>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Install Mozilla plugin
> Organization: http://kilowatt-radio.org NW OR Radio Page
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Telmo Silva wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to install Macromedia Flash Mozilla plugin, but it keeps asking
me the
> > installation directory of mozilla, and I can't seem to find it. Anyone
knows
> > where is mozilla insttaled on Fedora Core?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> locate mozilla
>
>
> --
> Best Regards, Keith
> NW Oregon Radio http://kilowatt-radio.org/
> http://linux.com http://freebsd.org http://apple.com
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 28
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:03:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: Keith <ac7xc-lnx@earthlink.net>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1
> Organization: http://kilowatt-radio.org NW OR Radio Page
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Ko Pu wrote:
>
> > Has anybody succeded in making AR5.08 working under FC1? I downloaded
the
> > file from Adobe and installed several times, but it still won't work. I
even
> > tried to just open the application in both locations
> > (/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread and
> > /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread) but nothing happened, is there
anything
> > that I need to do? I think if this part is not working, the plugin won't
> > work either.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your comment/suggestion
>
>
> Have you tried running the program from a gnome-terminal, xterm or KDE
> Konsole command line? Any errors will be listed if the start up fails.
> One thing to check is the permissions and ownership for the files.
>
>
> --
> Best Regards, Keith
> NW Oregon Radio http://kilowatt-radio.org/
> http://linux.com http://freebsd.org http://apple.com
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 29
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:06:35 -0800 (PST)
> From: Keith <ac7xc-lnx@earthlink.net>
> To: RedHat FEDORA Group <fedora-list@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Install Mozilla plugin
> Organization: http://kilowatt-radio.org NW OR Radio Page
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Keith wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Telmo Silva wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I tried to install Macromedia Flash Mozilla plugin, but it keeps
asking me the
> > > installation directory of mozilla, and I can't seem to find it. Anyone
knows
> > > where is mozilla insttaled on Fedora Core?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > locate mozilla
> >
>
> Sorry, you should type 'locate mozilla' on the command line.
>
>
> --
> Best Regards, Keith
> NW Oregon Radio http://kilowatt-radio.org/
> http://linux.com http://freebsd.org http://apple.com
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 30
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:12:51 -0800
> From: Sean Kennedy <skennedy@tpno.org>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Default Moz install: Pretty, custom built: jaggy
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
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> Ok, this is probably a small thing, but damn it, I want it pretty!
>
> So the default install of FC1 has a 1.4 moz install that has non-jaggy
> fonts. I want the latest version of Moz, so I download and install it,
> but the fonts here are very jaggy.
>
> Can someone tell me how to make the new version look like the old
> version, and why this is like it is?
>
> Thank you
>
> Sean
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>
> Message: 31
> From: Fred Nastos <nastos@physics.utoronto.ca>
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: performance tuning -- application start-up time
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:17:13 -0500
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Fedora Core 1 on a system with an
> Athlon XP 2500+ on an ASUS A7V600 motherboard, with
> 512 MB PC3200 400MHz RAM, and Maxtor 120G
> A133/7200RPM hard disk.
>
> I followed some hints on here:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg02148.html
> to get the ethernet recognized and network working.
>
> The only problem I have now is that it takes a noticeably long
> time for applications to start up, and I'm not talking about
> apps like OpenOffice. For example, it takes about 8 seconds
> for konsole or terminal to startup. Once the apps start-up they
> are as responsive as I'd expect.
>
> I searched the list, and I've seen a lot of comments that getting
> RPMs built on Athlons doesn't getting the execution speed much,
> but could they help the start-up times? I'd just go ahead and check
> myself, but I can't seem to find anywhere where I can find such
> rpms for Fedora. Must I roll my own?
>
> On another Athlon XP 2500, but on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard
> and again with 512 MB RAM (PC2700 333 MHz) and a Maxtor
> (80G A133/7200RPM), the application start-up times are very
> impressive. Since the only major difference between the systems
> is the motherboard (the video cards are the same also), could the
> motherboard possibly be the reason?
>
> Also, on two intels, and old athlon 1200, again Fedora shines.
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
>
>
>
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