tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87806755609997879922025-04-05T02:13:28.734+01:00Just another Linux blogDaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-61883830067102885392018-06-05T08:35:00.000+01:002018-06-05T08:49:27.782+01:00

I'm not dead. You might have thought so with the infrequent nature of my posting here, but take that as a positive reflection on the state of Fedora as a Linux distro. My latest problem related to an upgrade of Fedora 27 to  Fedora 28. After conducting the upgrade via the dnf upgrade plugin process, when I came to reboot my machine would get to the graphical login screen then freeze.

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-35365375956671618982017-01-03T09:24:00.000+00:002017-01-03T09:24:00.255+00:00

After waiting a for an update to my Linux Kernel from the Fedora repos (I don't fancy building my own just yet) the open source drivers for for my Radeon RX460 were installed successfully. This seemed to sort out some of the issues I was having, the visual artifacts at higher resolutions particularly,  but didn't sort the issue of the screen going blank for periods of time. Which very

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I was hoping changing from HDMI to DisplayPort would sort out my screen issues. To a degree, it did. I can now use my screen at full resolution using the amdgpu driver from Fedora repositories but the intermittent, incredibly irritating, sporadic blank screen issues persists. Another suggestion that came up from a forum was to try X11 instead of Wayland to draw stuff, that helped with a wonky

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A while back I purchased a nice fat Benq BL2710. Besides the frustrating front panel buttons, it seems to be a really decent monitor, which I'd be really happy with if I could get Fedora Linux to drive it correctly. Initially I was using the onboard Intel graphics, which simply refused to offer the resolution(s) I want to run at (2560 x 1440). So I decided to try a seperate graphics card.

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-7404810807471346192016-08-29T17:15:00.000+01:002016-08-29T17:15:01.251+01:00

I've recently been battling with a Brother laser printer to get it to print from my Fedora (23) workstation. It had been working before, so compatability wasn't the issue, unless some library withing my system had changed. Turns out it was SELinux getting in the way (I usually have it off altogether as it causes me more headaches than I can be bothered with!). Running the command below seemed

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It's been a while since I posted here. Perhaps because I've lost interest in the idea of blogging about Linux or perhaps because it's because I've not had any interesting issues worth sharing. Thankfully , it's the latter. Fedora has been mostly good to me recently, now running on 23. I recently upgraded my hardware to an Intel i5 CPU and a Gigabyte 710X G1 Gaming 7 mainboard. A respectable

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-40725463092827672452014-04-17T20:42:00.000+01:002014-04-17T20:42:10.694+01:00

A while back I posted about trying (unsuccessfully) to run some ASP scripts on my Fedora (20) box using XSP. I knew nothing of ASP tech at the time, so I ended up doing a fair bit learning. Turns out ASP has been largely replaced by a newer version of the tech, ASPX. XSP has a half decent go at trying to run the scripts. I was still getting plenty of issues, so ended up installing a Microsoft

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I recently signed up to a new mobile contract, which came with a shiny new Xperia Z1 Android phone. The phone has been greate so far in the couple of months I've had it, but I've just encounted my first real irritation. Trying to get Banshee to sync music to the SD card in phone is proving tricky. When I run the sync I get bucket loads of errors in the Banshee log: "Error setting permissions:

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-68156109474935309652014-01-24T20:16:00.001+00:002014-01-24T20:16:49.094+00:00

It's been a while since I posted here. I've not given up on my project, in fact I'm still very happy with Linux and the Fedora distribution. I've just not been doing anything particularly interesting with it recently. So why the post? Well I've come into contact with an ASP project I need to make some changes to. PHP? fine, it runs under Apache. Java? no problem, I can run that under Tomcat.

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-25024855891448910272012-10-17T15:11:00.000+01:002012-10-17T15:11:14.754+01:00

I had a graphic designer produce a banner for me a while back. Of course the font he used isn't part of the standard Linux font packages (AFAIK), so I had find a way to add it to my machine. I was expecting a nice easy, drop into font directory style of installation. Well it was pretty much that easy. Copied the .ttf file to /usr/share/fonts As root, run fc-cache. Use the -v flag to get a list

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Since Picasa support for Linux has been withdrawn by Linux (it was only ever partial support tbh as it runs under Wine) I've been on the lookout for new photo management software. I've tried Shotwell, that seems to do a reasonable job but not comprehensive. It would be ok if I hadn't been pointed towards DigiKam by a blog entry somewere comparing packages. Both shotwell and digikam can be

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I forget why or how I ended up in the situation but I recently ended up switching from a downloaded Eclipse installation to using the Fedora repository version of Eclipse. So I'm now flying Juno Eclipse. Installed bunch of packages to let me do Java and PHP work in Eclipse: [root@bigfoot html]# rpm -qa | grep eclipse eclipse-pde-4.2.0-0.22.I201205031800.fc17.x86_64 eclipse-rcp-4.2.0-0.22.

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-14719956235636263202012-06-01T10:54:00.000+01:002012-06-01T10:54:23.729+01:00

I used use a handy feature of Gnome 3 (there is something about it I like!) which let me use the power key (aka windows key) to perform a quick search for the file by it's name. So when I knew the filename pressing that key and typing the filename would open it quickly instead of ploughing through directories in my file explorer. It seems either the Fedora17 upgrade or the Gnome 3.4 upgrade that

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-63329290204781116962012-05-30T12:33:00.000+01:002012-05-30T12:49:44.438+01:00

I have been running Fedora Linux for a reason. It tends to get new + shiny stuff before other distros. New & Shiny = good. Of course to offset the goodness of new and shiny you will occasionally get issues. The upgrade from FC16 to FC17 seems to create its fair share of issues! After running the preupgrade process and rebooting: Only FC16 kernels listed in grub menu Some aspects of system

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-27045652117808289522011-09-15T09:45:00.000+01:002011-09-15T09:45:27.606+01:00

Anyone out there able to help get 2 way sync working properly in Banshee 2.0.1 on Fedora 15? Here is my situation, 2 PCs and a USB thumbdrive. I want to be able to use the thumbdrive to sync the 2 PCs, the thumbdrive also gets used in the car. So if I buy some music via the Banshee Amazon plugin on one machine, sync to the thumbdrive I then want that file to automatically find its way into the

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-88226859500786797702011-05-26T08:37:00.000+01:002011-05-26T08:37:38.599+01:00

My main machine(s) are now all running Fedora 15, complete with the Gnome 3 desktop interface. After a few niggles to get things running (getting latest nvidia drivers for one machine, issues with NTFS formatted disk on another) I can happily say if feels quicker and more responsive than my Fedora 14 experience and that was pretty good. Installed on Fedora 15 launch day (yesterday, 25 May 2011)

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-3369389958498437402011-01-31T08:41:00.000+00:002011-01-31T08:41:51.237+00:00

Times they are a changing. I've considered myself a Linux user for quite a number of years at a basic level, but since moving to a fulltime Linux setup on all my machines I've learnt so much more as a user of course but more still about the Linux world in general and sysadmin side of things. Even to the point where I have become the goto person for Linux (Fedora) help for a few folks now. Now I

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-69427020439746502202009-11-12T07:42:00.001+00:002009-11-12T07:44:36.435+00:00

Seems the graphics driver thing has caused more than just the odd yum glitch...https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01178.htmlIn short, because of the way ATI bundled the driver, I will probably have to reinstall the X server and stuff that goes with it. That doesn't sound like it will be a fun job at all. :(

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Turns out switching on the rpmfusion-free-update repository sorted out a lot of the issues with doing a yum update.Now left with ....[root@yeti yum.repos.d]# yum updateLoaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekitSetting up Update ProcessResolving Dependencies--> Running transaction check--> Processing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 for package: iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586--->

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-7437705592238737942009-11-11T16:28:00.002+00:002009-11-11T16:35:38.373+00:00

Recently ran through the upgrade process of Fedora 10-11. Preupgrade went smoothly but no upgrade, so had a look at grub.conf and discovered I had to select the upgrade option there during boot. Duly done and complete, kind of.A $yum update gives me a bunch of dependency issues, here are a couple....Error: Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-46082749205190900452009-07-20T08:18:00.002+01:002009-07-20T08:20:07.059+01:00

My hunch anout Evolution recurring appointment bug being the problem seems incorrect. Opened Evolution today, it has been updated to 2.6.3 which fixes that bug.Tested and indeed I can now create recurring appointments without a crash, but it hasn't sorted my mobile phone sync issues. Back to the drawing board :(

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-61578965599419957502009-07-16T15:25:00.003+01:002009-07-16T15:32:54.667+01:00

Time has come to try to figure out synchronising my mobile with my Fedora desktop calendar program.For no reason other than it's the default in Fedora, I'm using Evolution as my local calendar program. I have a Nokia N85 and a Google calendar.Somehow I want to get them all talking/synchronised with each other.Using open sync and some other stuff (http://www.dafoot.co.uk/index.php?option=

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-26167840091300253252009-07-01T09:45:00.002+01:002009-07-01T09:50:08.148+01:00

Finally got round to looking into getting my Nokia N85 to synchronise its data with my (Fedora) Linux PCs.After much scrabbling about and fighting with it, it seems to be working now for both my Calendar and my contacts, syncing between the phone and the Evolution Outlook-a-like program.I've put some notes on the hows and and whys on my personal website:http://www.dafoot.co.uk/index.php?option=

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-61577876343594620822009-06-29T09:24:00.002+01:002009-06-29T09:37:03.118+01:00

Been a while since posting here, learnt a few things during that time.Booting into runlevel 3 by default can have some odd side effects when you've spent time building scripts in runlevel 5.Namely, I discovered my backup script wouldn't work for some reason when I tried to fire it off from the command line. I had taken the command generated by GRsync GUI and put it in a #! script so I could run

DaFoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865593287491108340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780675560999787992.post-44982032711419643372009-06-03T11:20:00.003+01:002009-06-03T11:22:43.341+01:00

Turns out I was looking in the wrong place in my router config. I was expecting it to live under the firewall options and open a port there, but instead it is actually under 'Virtual servers'.Ahh well, either way it works now and I can get CLI access from anywhere to my home machine via SSH :)

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