Naturally being Linux I didn't need feel the need to reboot so wont find out if it's worked for a bit. Probably at the weekend in fact after my next photoshoot!
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Monday, 30 June 2008
Picassa issues
Following on from the Picassa bother in previous posts, last night I added the missing line to the config file as directed in the linked forum posts.
Naturally being Linux I didn't need feel the need to reboot so wont find out if it's worked for a bit. Probably at the weekend in fact after my next photoshoot!
Naturally being Linux I didn't need feel the need to reboot so wont find out if it's worked for a bit. Probably at the weekend in fact after my next photoshoot!
Sunday, 29 June 2008
SVN botheration...
I'm trying to persuade SVN to run on my FC8 PC so that I can keep my laptop codebase upto date easily so I can do some coding on that in front of TV...save the Mrs getting upset I spend all my time coding in the other room!
I'd hate to try this on Windows, this sort f thing is where Linux excels, but....
I've tried to follow instructions from here:
http://www.botsko.net/blog/2007/05/...on-fedora-core/
With some changes, but using the commands he gives.
When I browse to where I expected to see my repository (http://localhost:3690/svn/trunk) I get some text that suggests SVN is there and alive:
( success ( 1 2 ( ANONYMOUS ) ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries ) ) )
Now when I try to access SVN from Eclipse to do an import into SVN of existing project code I was expecting some authentication error message (I can't remember where SVN users are specified in Eclipse for connections), but instead get:
Error while creating module: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: RA layer request failed
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/trunk'
svn: PROPFIND of '/trunk': could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://localhost:3690)
Is that error about user credentials failing authentication or have I not set something up correctly?
Can anyone point me at any other decent tutorials on getting SVN working (with notes on Eclipse would be good
).
I'd hate to try this on Windows, this sort f thing is where Linux excels, but....
I've tried to follow instructions from here:
http://www.botsko.net/blog/2007/05/...on-fedora-core/
With some changes, but using the commands he gives.
When I browse to where I expected to see my repository (http://localhost:3690/svn/trunk) I get some text that suggests SVN is there and alive:
( success ( 1 2 ( ANONYMOUS ) ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries ) ) )
Now when I try to access SVN from Eclipse to do an import into SVN of existing project code I was expecting some authentication error message (I can't remember where SVN users are specified in Eclipse for connections), but instead get:
Error while creating module: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: RA layer request failed
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/trunk'
svn: PROPFIND of '/trunk': could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://localhost:3690)
Is that error about user credentials failing authentication or have I not set something up correctly?
Can anyone point me at any other decent tutorials on getting SVN working (with notes on Eclipse would be good
).
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Picasa seems to be fixed...
...kind of :/
Following instructions here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem
Reffered to from the discussion here:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_thread/thread/91d956e2d643cb19/9a025ba32fad6e60
It seems Wine had the problem which can be fixed with the instructions given above, unfortunately where the instructions say change the value of something in some config file, that variable doesn't seem to exist so for now I'll stick to issuing the command as I need to.
Following instructions here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem
Reffered to from the discussion here:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_thread/thread/91d956e2d643cb19/9a025ba32fad6e60
It seems Wine had the problem which can be fixed with the instructions given above, unfortunately where the instructions say change the value of something in some config file, that variable doesn't seem to exist so for now I'll stick to issuing the command as I need to.
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HELP!
Garrr...
A very promising first few months with Linux is starting to fall apart.
I've been tring to sort out realplayer plugin for my browser so I can listen to BBC 'listen again' stuff with no luck. So, thinking it was time to get away from things that are stressing me out I thought I'd have a go at sorting out my latest batch of photos.... some chance!
Seems now that when I try and start Picasa it fails abismaly to start without and error, or even any notification it failed to start.
I think Picasa runs under WINE rather than as a Linux program so it may be that WINE is having issues rather than Picasa itself. Where to start sorting this one out then?
Maybe I should try the Windows approach.. uninstall/reinstall, but I suspect that wont fix it :(
A very promising first few months with Linux is starting to fall apart.
I've been tring to sort out realplayer plugin for my browser so I can listen to BBC 'listen again' stuff with no luck. So, thinking it was time to get away from things that are stressing me out I thought I'd have a go at sorting out my latest batch of photos.... some chance!
Seems now that when I try and start Picasa it fails abismaly to start without and error, or even any notification it failed to start.
I think Picasa runs under WINE rather than as a Linux program so it may be that WINE is having issues rather than Picasa itself. Where to start sorting this one out then?
Maybe I should try the Windows approach.. uninstall/reinstall, but I suspect that wont fix it :(
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Sunday, 1 June 2008
Printers...
So I finally got round to looking into getting my printer setup and working.
It's a HP 3310 WiFi all-in-one jobby, nice machine. Only hope I can get it working under Fedora Core now!
I have switched off auto yum updates as on those occasions when my internet connection went down my computer would take ages to get going. Seems yum trying to connect (but failing) was the cause of the delay.
So run an update to make sure I'm up to date before looking to install printer gubbins.
Seems hplip is what I want:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149981
But before installing that, I think I'll check with yum that it doesn't know where to get it first:
[root@yeti ~]# yum whatprovides *hplip*
Seems yum doe know about hplip, results from aboove:
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
filelists.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 5.8 MB 00:23
hpijs.i386 : HP Printer Drivers
hplip.i386 : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
hplip-gui.i386 : HPLIP graphical tools
hplip-gui.i386 : HPLIP graphical tools
hplip.i386 : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
hpijs.i386 : HP Printer Drivers
hpijs.i386 : HP Printer Drivers
hplip.i386 : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
Of those, only hplip-gui.i386 was not already on my system, so added it (# yum install hplip-gui.i386).
Now to get the computer talking to printer using those packages.
Tried launching the GUI setup from the HP item in the fedora menu, but that failed with an error about su/sudo so figure it must be a permission thing. So rather than try and sort it properly, I return to the command line....
[dafoot@yeti ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@yeti ~]# hp-setup
That started a GUI that took me through the process and successfully printed a test page. It failed to detect my printer automatically though, but once I told the GUI setup the IP for the printer, the rest was straight forward.
It's a HP 3310 WiFi all-in-one jobby, nice machine. Only hope I can get it working under Fedora Core now!
I have switched off auto yum updates as on those occasions when my internet connection went down my computer would take ages to get going. Seems yum trying to connect (but failing) was the cause of the delay.
So run an update to make sure I'm up to date before looking to install printer gubbins.
Seems hplip is what I want:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149981
But before installing that, I think I'll check with yum that it doesn't know where to get it first:
[root@yeti ~]# yum whatprovides *hplip*
Seems yum doe know about hplip, results from aboove:
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
filelists.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 5.8 MB 00:23
hpijs.i386 : HP Printer Drivers
hplip.i386 : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
hplip-gui.i386 : HPLIP graphical tools
hplip-gui.i386 : HPLIP graphical tools
hplip.i386 : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
hpijs.i386 : HP Printer Drivers
hpijs.i386 : HP Printer Drivers
hplip.i386 : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
Of those, only hplip-gui.i386 was not already on my system, so added it (# yum install hplip-gui.i386).
Now to get the computer talking to printer using those packages.
Tried launching the GUI setup from the HP item in the fedora menu, but that failed with an error about su/sudo so figure it must be a permission thing. So rather than try and sort it properly, I return to the command line....
[dafoot@yeti ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@yeti ~]# hp-setup
That started a GUI that took me through the process and successfully printed a test page. It failed to detect my printer automatically though, but once I told the GUI setup the IP for the printer, the rest was straight forward.
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Saturday, 10 May 2008
That was a mistake!
In my friggin about with the system to get DVDs playing (see previous post) it would appear somehow I've managed to break BBC liveplayer support :(
Flock also seems to refuse to accept that Youtube contains videos. Largely because it hasn't figured out how to play flash content...
Flock also seems to refuse to accept that Youtube contains videos. Largely because it hasn't figured out how to play flash content...
Found a new headache...
DVDs!
Something that is taken for granted by so many in Windows land looks like it may cause headaches in Linux land.
Apparently Linux distros don't ship with DVD playing software by default, something to do with regionality/encryption/copyright stuff.
There are plenty of players out there it seems though...
Totem (installed by default)
MPlayer
gXine (Gnome GUI version of xine)
...are all now installed on my machine, but still unable to play the DVD I have to hand (Red Dwarf). While trying to open the DVD for playback with command line mplayer I noticed a comment about something not being supported by the graphics card and causing it to die. So I aquired new graphics card drivers from ATI website (radeon 9600 card), installed painlessly and ran the auto config tool.
Now once X restarts hopefully I will be using the new drivers....or it'll all die horribly. See you on the flip side!
I've also now added Flock. A browser, based on Firefox with a bunch of extra bits and bobs. To get it working I needed to install and extra file with yum ([root@yeti ~]# yum install libstdc++.so.5) and so now I can run Flock from /usr/local/flock/flock.
Not ideal, so a right click on the Gnome panel and a bit of input later and I have a working 'open Flock' button on my Panel. Just a shame Flock didn't come with an installer that added it to menus etc for me.
Something that is taken for granted by so many in Windows land looks like it may cause headaches in Linux land.
Apparently Linux distros don't ship with DVD playing software by default, something to do with regionality/encryption/copyright stuff.
There are plenty of players out there it seems though...
Totem (installed by default)
MPlayer
gXine (Gnome GUI version of xine)
...are all now installed on my machine, but still unable to play the DVD I have to hand (Red Dwarf). While trying to open the DVD for playback with command line mplayer I noticed a comment about something not being supported by the graphics card and causing it to die. So I aquired new graphics card drivers from ATI website (radeon 9600 card), installed painlessly and ran the auto config tool.
Now once X restarts hopefully I will be using the new drivers....or it'll all die horribly. See you on the flip side!
I've also now added Flock. A browser, based on Firefox with a bunch of extra bits and bobs. To get it working I needed to install and extra file with yum ([root@yeti ~]# yum install libstdc++.so.5) and so now I can run Flock from /usr/local/flock/flock.
Not ideal, so a right click on the Gnome panel and a bit of input later and I have a working 'open Flock' button on my Panel. Just a shame Flock didn't come with an installer that added it to menus etc for me.
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