Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Fred Smith
g > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Fred Smit

Re: GNOME 3.30.0 megaupdate

2018-09-05 Thread Fred Smith
in > >this megaupdate which we need early to test. > > > >Parag. > > [...] > > I used to be a loyal GNOME 2 user, now I use Mate.  So I'd prefer > it, if Fedora 29 was not destabilised for the majority of people who > don't use GNOME. > > Unless it

Re: Congratulations for F24ß

2016-05-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 08:33:56AM +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 12/05/16 08:26, Sérgio Basto wrote: > >On Qua, 2016-05-11 at 14:41 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > >>On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:26:41PM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: > >>>On Qua, 2016-05-11 at 09:13 -0700, Gor

Re: Congratulations for F24ß

2016-05-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:26:41PM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Qua, 2016-05-11 at 09:13 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 05/11/2016 08:01 AM, Peter G. wrote: > > > > > > How do you type the Greek beta > > > from the keyboard (I use US dead keys—always and exclusively)? > > > > One way is C

Re: Off Topic -- "X-BeenThere: " missing from list message headers.

2015-11-28 Thread Fred Smith
nice to not have them all appearing in the wrong place, all of a sudden! :)) Thanks! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. H

Re: acroread

2015-10-09 Thread Fred Smith
t 2 or 3 linux installations I purposely did not install acroread. it's a huge pig and full of holes. I make do with evince and the PDF app built into firefox. they cover probably 99% of my needs. Of course, they may not cover your needs, so YMMV. Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.s

Re: Call for testing: 32-bit AMD CPU owners

2015-09-16 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 07:39:57PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 06:11:47PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 12:08 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Hi, folks! > > > > > > We've found an issue in Fed

Re: Call for testing: 32-bit AMD CPU owners

2015-09-16 Thread Fred Smith
ect.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade FYI, using the f23 alpha iso: Fedora-Server-DVD-i386-23_Alpha.isoFedora-Server-DVD-i386-23_Alpha.iso gives a panic message that looks very much like the one shown in Bugzilla. This is on an AMD FX6300 six-core processor. If this hits the thing you wanted to know

Re: Call for testing: 32-bit AMD CPU owners

2015-09-16 Thread Fred Smith
us eeepc 901 with a 32-bit Atom, but I guess that's not what you want. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,

Re: F23 on PATA or SATA ext. disk?

2015-08-06 Thread Fred Smith
all media, because it has to, but > for /boot or root fs? I don't think so. There's no test for it anyway. i've certianly booted many fedora versions from USB,... both USB HD and USB flash sticks. why would you think it might not work? -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.

Re: boot... round 2

2015-06-22 Thread Fred Smith
C?? > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: [ASUS] Laptop issue with hotkeys

2015-05-10 Thread Fred Smith
e Acer Apire One D255E, a "little" netbook. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. -

Re: Copy/paste problem -_-

2015-04-23 Thread Fred Smith
scribed above. I think on recent Fedoras it's a similar process to find it, but my memory is kinda hazy on that. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter t

Re: vlc and f22

2015-04-23 Thread Fred Smith
been > reconfigured to make it possible to build for F22. and slightly OT: there doesn't seem to be an EL7 repo at rpmfusion, either. One wonders what's going on there... -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "And he will be called W

Re: Fedora/Gnome3 : Display Problem on my hardware.

2014-12-12 Thread Fred Smith
7;s NVIDIA. I've been running AMD CPUs with NVidia graphics cards for years and haven't encountered such problems (though I have to admit that I can't stand Gnome-3.x and use it only long enough to install Mate.) I have, otoh, run Gnome-2.x on those systems for all those years and can

Re: Fedora/Gnome3 : Display Problem on my hardware.

2014-12-12 Thread Fred Smith
othing could solve the issue! Even switching to the proprietary AMD > drivers didn't work out. > > Should I file a bug report on BugZilla? > > If anyone's got some idea, please help! > > Thanks, > Madhurjya Roy > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedo

using FEDU&P for F19(mate) to F21(mate) upgrade?

2014-12-04 Thread Fred Smith
I'm using F19 with the MATE desktop on my acer netbook. I may be upgrading to F21 in the not-far-distant future, and was wondering if anyone has tried using it for F19-->F21, especially with the MATE desktop?? Advice/suggestions will be much appreciated. Fred -- ---- Fred Smit

Re: Managing locked up desktops

2014-11-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:36:23AM -0500, Frank wrote: > In relation to my video problems under 21 Beta > > is there ANY way to deal with the locked up desktop other > than hitting the power switch? When it's locked-up, ctrl-alt-F > keys don't work..ctrl-alt-del doesn't work...and the last res

Re: F21 TC-3 installation issue [resolved, sort of--or maybe NOT]

2014-11-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 06:44:23PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 21:14 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:04:24AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:20:21PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > On

Re: F21 TC-3 installation issue [resolved, sort of--or maybe NOT]

2014-11-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:04:24AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:20:21PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 15:29 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > > > I installed TC-3 in a VirtualBox VM (latest vbox release, 64-bit) t'other > >

Re: F21 TC-3 installation issue [resolved, sort of]

2014-11-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:20:21PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 15:29 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > > I installed TC-3 in a VirtualBox VM (latest vbox release, 64-bit) t'other > > day. Mostly it went quite well with one really oddball exception. I don&

F21 TC-3 installation issue

2014-11-03 Thread Fred Smith
ng before! If anyone wants me to, I can go try more installs and see if I can reproduce. If I CAN, what sorts of extra info would be helpful when i report it? thanks! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor

Re: rdd package

2014-10-14 Thread Fred Smith
/rdd/ > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths;

Re: can someone suggest why firefox is so &$*&^%*#^&%* slow?

2014-09-27 Thread Fred Smith
video resumes, that window shows a clump of dropped frames. I can't correlate the timing with anything else that's running. Not even the Folding At Home client, which I can stop and the pauses still occur. This is on a six-core AMD Vishera processor, which should have

Re: updated kernel not used by default

2014-09-14 Thread Fred Smith
om the OTHER member of the pair. Subsequently, I learned that root was getting the emails from mdraid about the degraded array, and he doesn't read his email very often. So, now they are sent directly to me so things like that won't happen anymore. An inte

Re: [DRI3] Problems on old Intel GPUs

2014-07-03 Thread Fred Smith
since). (at the moment it's sitting here snapping a picture with a web-cam once a minute, which doesn't exercise the GPU to speak of. or at all.) -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Might

Re: has anyone added a brother MFC7460DN printer to their rawhide system?

2014-07-03 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 02:28:58PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Fred Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 01:12:41PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > i've been fighting for the last couple of hours to add a network >

Re: has anyone added a brother MFC7460DN printer to their rawhide system?

2014-07-03 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 02:52:16PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Fred Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 01:12:41PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > i've been fighting for the last couple of hours to add a network >

Re: has anyone added a brother MFC7460DN printer to their rawhide system?

2014-07-03 Thread Fred Smith
&os=127&dlid=dlf006893_000&flang=4&type3=625 If you read all the notes, you'll see there is some mention of Fedora 10/11/12, but I've used it successfully on Fedora 19 and 20, as well as Centos 6, with a Brother DCP7065DN. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneha

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2014-05-02 Thread Fred Smith
ne package. Unless some other app uses it. (e.g., some builds of Xiphos) -- ------- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+' Home:

Re: Fedora 20 TC1 AMIs

2013-11-14 Thread Fred Smith
us-east-1 image for x86_64 > > additionally if your looking to the AMI's they have been added to files Foolish question: What is an "AMI" ?? -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper t

Re: F19: kernel 3.10.4 and USB mouse hangs/disconnects

2013-08-04 Thread Fred Smith
t would start working again. Never did find the cause, eventually as hardware and software underwent upgrades I ceased to encounter it. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged

Re: user list

2013-07-07 Thread Fred Smith
gure that aspect with 'greeter-hide-users' which can be set to > true or false in a configuration file. At least it used to and I did not This doesn't seem to be working in F19 using lightdm and Mate. No matter what I do it keep

Re: F19/Mate, strange desktop problem.

2013-06-24 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:33:10PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: > > > While trying to work thru problem with my netbook not going to sleep > > when the lid is closed (in relation to some of the bugs discussed on > > this last in the last several days)

F19/Mate, strange desktop problem.

2013-06-23 Thread Fred Smith
1.6.2-3.fc19@fedora Not having seen anyone else complaining about this, I guess it's not widespread, but if anyone has any clues for me I'd appreciate it! Thanks! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For him who is a

Re: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.12.1-52.fc19

2013-06-17 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 03:13:40PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:52:04 -0400 > Fred Smith wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > I'm trying to get this selinux policy update for my F19 system and I > > keep being told there is nothing to update.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.12.1-52.fc19

2013-06-16 Thread Fred Smith
Hi all! I'm trying to get this selinux policy update for my F19 system and I keep being told there is nothing to update. I'm thinking it looks to me as if it should be available. suggestions welcome. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.12.1-52.fc19 thanks! --