Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 20:17:36 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Bruno: > > Thanks for the reply. Let me/us know what the bug ID is of what you end > of submitting as I have this feeling it will all end up be related and a > fix in one will impact the other. I created bug 567533 for the no

Re: where is my remaining space ????

2010-02-22 Thread Jatin K
On 02/23/2010 01:14 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 02/23/2010 08:18 AM, Jatin K wrote: >> Dear list >> >> I've installed 320GB hdd but Disk Usage Analyzer shows the following >> >> Total filesystem capacity 288.6GB ( used 53.1 GB available 235.4 GB ) >> >> 320.00 GB >> >> - (mi

Re: where is my remaining space ????

2010-02-22 Thread Jatin K
On 02/23/2010 01:09 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:48 +0530, Jatin K wrote: > >> what about this missing space ... >> where is it ? ) >> > The space you're looking for doesn't exist, for two reasons: > > First, most (all?) hard drive manufacturers define 1gb as 1000mb. I

Re: where is my remaining space ????

2010-02-22 Thread Jatin K
On 02/23/2010 01:16 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: >> Dear list >> >> I've installed 320GB hdd but Disk Usage Analyzer shows the following >> >> Total filesystem capacity 288.6GB ( used 53.1 GB available 235.4 GB ) >> >> 320.00 GB >> >> - (minus)288.60 GB >> --

Re: where is my remaining space ????

2010-02-22 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
> Dear list > > I've installed 320GB hdd but Disk Usage Analyzer shows the following > > Total filesystem capacity 288.6GB ( used 53.1 GB available 235.4 GB ) > >320.00 GB > > - (minus)288.60 GB > --- > 31.40 GB

Re: where is my remaining space ????

2010-02-22 Thread Joachim Backes
On 02/23/2010 08:18 AM, Jatin K wrote: Dear list I've installed 320GB hdd but Disk Usage Analyzer shows the following Total filesystem capacity 288.6GB ( used 53.1 GB available 235.4 GB ) 320.00 GB - (minus)288.60 GB ---

Re: where is my remaining space ????

2010-02-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:48 +0530, Jatin K wrote: > what about this missing space ... > where is it ? ) The space you're looking for doesn't exist, for two reasons: First, most (all?) hard drive manufacturers define 1gb as 1000mb. In reality, 1gb is 1024mb. Therefore, a hard drive that is sol

where is my remaining space ????

2010-02-22 Thread Jatin K
Dear list I've installed 320GB hdd but Disk Usage Analyzer shows the following Total filesystem capacity 288.6GB ( used 53.1 GB available 235.4 GB ) 320.00 GB - (minus)288.60 GB --- 31.40 GB ( what about this

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Hiisi
2010/2/23 Tim : > On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 21:08 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: <--SNIP--> > > One of my peeves about auto-numbering is that it's two simplistic.  I > can't recall a word processor that will let me write up numbered > sections on a page, and let one (or more) of those sections be more than

Re: Flash ??

2010-02-22 Thread bruce
Hey Patrick... I'm running a 64 bit Fedora 9, i know it's eol, but it's worked for me!! I'm on an AMD x64 box,,, but if you can email me the tared file, I can check to see if it allows fedora to run on my box!! for now... i'm simpy using opera to handle any sites with flash!! thanks! -bruce

Re: Help Diagnose Slow Disc Access

2010-02-22 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: > My machine has been running slower and slower, and top seems > to indicate lots of I/O wait. I have two ATA discs on a single > cable, wired for cable select. The master is much faster than > the slave, which seems to indicate a hardware, possibly disc, > problem. So, is the

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Amen to that. I think it was Brian Kernighan who said that in a WYSIWYG > system, what you see is *all* you get. > > poc > > Ah, now that is worth more than a smile as I did when the acronym was first mentioned. A tip of the hat to Brian and thanks to you for postin

Re: Flash ??

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, bruce wrote: > but on a seriosu tip... > > i've got an amd64, with fedora9 (i know.. eol) with firefox > (3.0.11), > i'm running openjdk 1.0.6 and i'm having issues with using > the 64bit > download from the adobe/macromedia site.. > > i consistenly crash if i implement the

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 February 2010, Aaron Konstam wrote: >On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 20:36 +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But >> it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I >> create an emergency media that is flexib

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:06 +1030, Tim wrote: > One of my peeves about auto-numbering is that it's two simplistic. Or even *too* simplistic :-) > I > can't recall a word processor that will let me write up numbered > sections on a page, and let one (or more) of those sections be more > than > one

Re: Setting GDM Login Screen Background

2010-02-22 Thread Tim
John: >> Seems to still work for me. Try putting your desired background image >> in /usr/share/backgrounds someplace if you haven't maybe. Sawrub: > I tried putting a symbolic link under the directory > /usr/share/backgrounds/ pointing to the directory that hosts my desired > picture. A

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 21:08 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > What really rips me off is that this auto numbering "stuff" has been > going on for YEARS in a predictable cycle. Use Writer for bit, find > numbering to be irritating. Do a web search to try to figure out how > to turn it off. Turn off som

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-22 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 02/22/2010 03:25 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 20:36 +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But >> it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I >> create an emergency media that is flexible

Re: Fedora box with RHEL subscription

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Ryan Lynch wrote: > I had a similar problem, a while back. I think 'mrepo' has marginal > support for pulling packages down from RHN, and I believe I got it > working on F11, but I can't quite remember. If there IS a way to do > it, though, I would bet on mrepo. I tried following the rhn instructi

Re: sysinstall

2010-02-22 Thread agraham
#setup - to change existing settings #fdisk - create/remove disk partitions #mkfs - make filesystem. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Al. On 22/02/10 18:44, kalin m wrote: > > > hi all... > > coming from the bsd world i have deal with an old fedora 2 machine. > bsd systems have something call

Re: Fedora box with RHEL subscription

2010-02-22 Thread Ryan Lynch
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 15:04, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Sam Sharpe wrote: >> Why exactly are you doing this? I wasn't aware that RHN had support >> for Fedora, but on checking, I did find that rhn-client is in the >> Fedora Repos. > > So I can use Koji to build custom RHEL packages, not so tha

Re: Fedora box with RHEL subscription

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Sam Sharpe wrote: > Why exactly are you doing this? I wasn't aware that RHN had support > for Fedora, but on checking, I did find that rhn-client is in the > Fedora Repos. So I can use Koji to build custom RHEL packages, not so that I can install RHEL packages. -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: Fedora box with RHEL subscription

2010-02-22 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 22 February 2010 16:54, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Has anyone ever tried adding a RHEL subscription to a Fedora 11/12 box > before? > > I attempted to use rhn_register, but after giving it my RHN credentials, > which are valid, I receive a Python traceback[1] and it quits. Err... not since R

sysinstall

2010-02-22 Thread kalin m
hi all... coming from the bsd world i have deal with an old fedora 2 machine. bsd systems have something called sysinstall that helps on building file systems, slices and such. what is the utility on fedora core 2 system that takes care of the same problems? thanks... -- users mailing list u

Re: Flash ??

2010-02-22 Thread Jim
On 02/22/2010 12:42 PM, bruce wrote: > and the problem here would be what??? > > sorry.. you put that one right over the plate!! > > > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Jim wrote: > >> FC12/KDE >> >> Why won't flash play on FoxNews website. >> Have they changed to a $Microsoft format ?

RE: USB wireless that works-out-of-box?

2010-02-22 Thread Ed Landaveri
Mattew, Is your dad's a Dell Laptop, if so which model && number. I've been using them for years since FC1 and haven't have issues with them. If its a Dell the Wireless Intel have no issues at all if so just replaced it. If it ain't an Intel but the Broadcom ones then you do only need the firmwa

Re: Flash ??

2010-02-22 Thread bruce
but on a seriosu tip... i've got an amd64, with fedora9 (i know.. eol) with firefox (3.0.11), i'm running openjdk 1.0.6 and i'm having issues with using the 64bit download from the adobe/macromedia site.. i consistenly crash if i implement the lib from the compressed tar.gz file in the plugins fi

share screen for a particular command or shell script.

2010-02-22 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, Is there a way i can just allow a specific command or a shell script while sharing screen to a particular user. I am following the below steps to share my screen. ### chmod +s /usr/bin/screen screen -S example ^A :multiuser on ^A :acladd bar ^A :aclchg

Re: Flash ??

2010-02-22 Thread bruce
and the problem here would be what??? sorry.. you put that one right over the plate!! On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Jim wrote: > FC12/KDE > > Why won't flash play on FoxNews website. > Have they changed to a $Microsoft format ?? > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Hiisi
2010/2/22 Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:18 +0300, Hiisi wrote: >> 2010/2/22 Marko Vojinovic : <--SUPER_SNIP--> >> > Best, :-) >> > Marko >> > >> >> Agreed. And if you only want to type good looking documents and you >> want it quickly give lyx a try. It's in fedora repo. Grate tu

Re: Flash ??

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Jim wrote: > FC12/KDE > > Why won't flash play on FoxNews website. > Have they changed to a $Microsoft format ?? Works fine here. Fedora 12-64-bit, GNOME 2.28.2, Firefox 3.5.8 (64-bit), Flash 10.0 R45 Alpha (64-bit) B -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Flash ??

2010-02-22 Thread Jim
FC12/KDE Why won't flash play on FoxNews website. Have they changed to a $Microsoft format ?? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing

Re: Fedora 12 doesn't recognise Firewire Drive

2010-02-22 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:03:57PM +, Alan Milnes wrote: > On 19 February 2010 21:04, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > > On 02/19/2010 10:59 PM, Alan Milnes wrote: > > > >> My newly installed F12 doesn't recognise my external Firewire drive. > >> > >> lspci shows the following:- > >> 04:09.4 FireWire

Fedora box with RHEL subscription

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Has anyone ever tried adding a RHEL subscription to a Fedora 11/12 box before? I attempted to use rhn_register, but after giving it my RHN credentials, which are valid, I receive a Python traceback[1] and it quits. [1] Attached. [Mon Feb 22 10:34:20 2010] rhn_register Traceback (most recent

Re: dolphin crash....

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
• » ѕαтнιѕн я « • wrote: > recently i identified that... when i am installing chrome in linux > version...after some moments..the dolphin in kde(lik windows explorer in > linux) is suddenly closing Probably something Chrome is doing is breaking things. We do not support proprietary soft

Re: Upgrade downgrades Firefox

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
Marcel Rieux wrote: > I was running Firefox 3.6.? Firefox 3.6 is not in Fedora 12. If you tried to "install" it by overwriting the system Firefox with some tarball, then of course this will break the next time Fedora's Firefox is upgraded. Don't do that. Properly-packaged Firefox 3.6 RPMs can b

Re: Fedora 12 Installation Error: Installs i686 kernel on i386 arch and ...

2010-02-22 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 16:04 -0700, ooran dayo wrote: > Hi. Any help will be much appreciated. I have installed Fedora 12 on > an i386 machine using CD ROM for i386 from projectfedora.org. The > install proceeded in limited graphic mode (assuming this is what the > blue screen with grey box with

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-22 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 20:36 +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But > it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I > create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required? > > JB > I w

Re: pulseaudio memory usage possible leak

2010-02-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:04:43PM -0500, Mail Lists wrote: > Does this look appropriate on F12 ? > > PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 9 -11 163m 3836 2908 S 2.3 0.1 18:11.20 pulseaudio > > > Sound is muted - best I can tell nothing (aside from gnome) is using the > a

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Hiisi wrote: > 2010/2/22 Marko Vojinovic : > >>> Linuxguy123 wrote: >>> I spend way, way more time **UNFORMATTING** the stupid number formatting that OO writer applies than I would spend adding number to the paragraphs I wish to have numbered. Isn't the purpose of software

Re: logitech mouse problem - fedora 12

2010-02-22 Thread fedora
Did you check to see, whether your Display manager is running? Display manager (for Gnome), by default, is metacity. to check: ps xa |grep metacity to restart: metacity --replace & if you selected a different Display Manager, issue commands accordingly. suomi On 02/22/2010 03:16 PM, Patrick O'

Add/Remove Software error

2010-02-22 Thread A. Racca
Hi there: I have a PC with Fedora 12 x86_64 and Gnome desktop, and when I want to install a program, I go to System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software, then I select the package, and finally it asks me for the root password. But in my notebook, with Fedora 12 i686 and Gnome desktop, the sam

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:18 +0300, Hiisi wrote: > 2010/2/22 Marko Vojinovic : > >> Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> > I spend way, way more time **UNFORMATTING** the stupid number formatting > >> > that OO writer applies than I would spend adding number to the > >> > paragraphs I wish to have numbered. Isn

Re: logitech mouse problem - fedora 12

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 10:51 -0500, Matt Smith wrote: > I have a logitech wireless mouse. I am running gnome (fedora-12).. I > recently switched to Linux and everything has been fine. out of > nowhere i am now not able to drag windows, close them, expand, or > minimize them once i open them. seem

Re: dolphin crash....

2010-02-22 Thread Ed Greshko
• » ѕαтнιѕн я « • wrote: > recently i identified that... when i am installing chrome in linux > version...after some moments..the dolphin in kde(lik windows explorer > in linux) is suddenly closing > > how can i fix this problems... without reinstalling dolphin... > dolphin is very prone

dolphin crash....

2010-02-22 Thread • » ѕαтнιѕн я « •
recently i identified that... when i am installing chrome in linux version...after some moments..the dolphin in kde(lik windows explorer in linux) is suddenly closing how can i fix this problems... without reinstalling dolphin... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

redefinig mailing problem...in clear way...

2010-02-22 Thread • » ѕαтнιѕн я « •
i am running website ...by clicking forget password link it have to send mail..to the user...their email id is in my database...(my laptop is my server) normal php mail function is not working do i have to install anything else?.. or do i have to configure anything?... or using gmail acc

Re: Setting GDM Login Screen Background

2010-02-22 Thread Jatin K
On 02/22/2010 03:58 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Montag, den 22.02.2010, 08:10 +0530 schrieb Sawrub: > >> >> I tried putting a symbolic link under the directory >> /usr/share/backgrounds/ pointing to the directory that hosts my desired >> picture. Added the same as desktop background and m

Re: Setting GDM Login Screen Background

2010-02-22 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Montag, den 22.02.2010, 08:10 +0530 schrieb Sawrub: > > I tried putting a symbolic link under the directory > /usr/share/backgrounds/ pointing to the directory that hosts my desired > picture. Added the same as desktop background and made it default, but > no success. I guess that the gd

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Hiisi
2010/2/22 Marko Vojinovic : >> Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > I spend way, way more time **UNFORMATTING** the stupid number formatting >> > that OO writer applies than I would spend adding number to the >> > paragraphs I wish to have numbered.  Isn't the purpose of software to >> > make our lives easier ?

Re: Change a Cursor

2010-02-22 Thread Hiisi
2010/2/20 Hristo Petkov > > Hi Guys, > Does anyone of you know hot to change the cursor with a custom made on f11? > > Regards > > > Change the default theme in Gnome/KDE/whatever you're using. And please, do not post in html. Read list guidlines. All the best! -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #48

BCM57780 in Dell Precision T1500 ?

2010-02-22 Thread Karl-Olov Serrander
Hi ! I have problems configuring network in rescue mode in Fedora 12 on this machine, finds no network interface. Standard F12 x86_64 DVD does not recognise the chip. Booting F12 Unity respin x86_64 (kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.3) lspci detects the chip as BCM57780, but: dmesg says: tg3.c:v3.99 (Apr

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Marko Vojinovic
> Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I spend way, way more time **UNFORMATTING** the stupid number formatting > > that OO writer applies than I would spend adding number to the > > paragraphs I wish to have numbered. Isn't the purpose of software to > > make our lives easier ? Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Thou