Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-30 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:48 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On 30 July 2010 14:31, Alex wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> I talked to the plymouth maintainer and he said this is a known bug; I > >> don't know if the fix is in F13 yet but let me explain what's going on: > >> > >> You've got two bugs. One is a ker

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-30 Thread James McKenzie
JB wrote: > JB yahoo.com> writes: > > Hi, is that what you are asking about ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs 5 Hardware-related issues. Miscellaneous graphical problems. To use the vesa driver during installation, ... >>> Follow

Re: firefox bug (fedora or mozilla?)

2010-07-30 Thread James McKenzie
Mike Wright wrote: > Stephen Gallagher wrote: > >> Time to upgrade, I'm afraid. You'll get no support for Fedora 10. It was >> end-of-lifed about six months ago. There are no more updates coming for >> it, ever. >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRC/Fedora-EOL-Support >> > > T

Re: Help fedora 13

2010-07-30 Thread James McKenzie
Chris Tyler wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 08:11 -0400, Philip Russell wrote: > >> Got rid of windows, Love Fedora 13, Just not familiar with it as much >> yet >> >> Im getting a message "There are unfinished transactions remaining. >> Please run yum-complete-transaction as root." >> Anothe

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Well, I used a separate /boot partition because in the past somehow, > grub or partition MBR got lost when something changed via an update. > Maybe this a non-issue by now? > I never met with it. But I never use LVM or device-mapper logical devices, only plain or md one

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/30/2010 06:51 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > >> Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >>> Can grub boot from a logical partition? >>> >>> It seems from my reading that it cannot. >>> >>> But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 >>> if I used grub interactivel

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/30/2010 06:37 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Can grub boot from a logical partition? >> >> It seems from my reading that it cannot. >> >> But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 >> if I used grub interactively, starting with >>root (hd0,4) >> the

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Can grub boot from a logical partition? >> >> It seems from my reading that it cannot. >> >> But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 >> if I used grub interactively, starting with >> root (hd0,4) >> then using tab to look for kern

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Can grub boot from a logical partition? > > It seems from my reading that it cannot. > > But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 > if I used grub interactively, starting with >root (hd0,4) > then using tab to look for kernel and initrd > and finally booting.

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/30/2010 03:21 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Can grub boot from a logical partition? > > It seems from my reading that it cannot. > > But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 > if I used grub interactively, starting with > root (hd0,4) > then using tab to look for kernel and initrd

fedora 12 sound recorder fails with cant load modules

2010-07-30 Thread Ralph Blach
I am running fedora 12 and the sound recorder fails when I try to record from a mike. It says No modules available. Any ideas out there? thanks Chip -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listi

Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Can grub boot from a logical partition? It seems from my reading that it cannot. But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 if I used grub interactively, starting with root (hd0,4) then using tab to look for kernel and initrd and finally booting. However, if I put exactly the same co

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-30 Thread jack craig
On 07/30/2010 12:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > >> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> >>> Any ideas much appreciated? >>> >> Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-30 Thread suvayu ali
On 30 July 2010 14:31, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >> I talked to the plymouth maintainer and he said this is a known bug; I >> don't know if the fix is in F13 yet but let me explain what's going on: >> >> You've got two bugs. One is a kernel panic. The other is that when the >> kernel is panicking, rathe

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-30 Thread Alex
Hi, > I talked to the plymouth maintainer and he said this is a known bug; I > don't know if the fix is in F13 yet but let me explain what's going on: > > You've got two bugs. One is a kernel panic. The other is that when the > kernel is panicking, rather than showing useful debug information, it

Re: Changing Forgotten Root Password

2010-07-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:18 -0400, binary...@comcast.net wrote: >> Fedora 11, 12 >> >> Changing Forgotten Root Password. >> >> Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the "x" >> in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and

Re: Changing Forgotten Root Password

2010-07-30 Thread Thierry Vanden Broucke
1) Start (reboot) machine 2) Enter grub ( pressing the letter 'e' ) 3) Go to the second line and edit the line ( pressing the letter 'e' ) 4) Go to the the end of the line and insert the word ( single ) 5) Press Enter 6) Press the letter 'b' 7) wait 8) #passwd root 9) Enter password for root 10) #

Re: Changing Forgotten Root Password

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:18:27 -0400 binary...@comcast.net wrote: > Fedora 11, 12 > > Changing Forgotten Root Password. > > Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the > "x" in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and > add new root password, does that s

Re: Changing Forgotten Root Password

2010-07-30 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:18 -0400, binary...@comcast.net wrote: > Fedora 11, 12 > > Changing Forgotten Root Password. > > Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the "x" > in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and add new > root password, does that s

Re: Changing Forgotten Root Password

2010-07-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:18 -0400, binary...@comcast.net wrote: > Fedora 11, 12 > > Changing Forgotten Root Password. > > Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the "x" > in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and add new > root password, does that st

Changing Forgotten Root Password

2010-07-30 Thread binarynut
Fedora 11, 12 Changing Forgotten Root Password. Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the "x" in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and add new root password, does that still hold true for FC10, 11, 12 /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Re: Sound Streaming Problem

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Eggers
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:09:13 -0500, Rick Sewill wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/30/2010 10:43 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a recurring problem with sound streaming with Fedora 13 (and >> earlier versions - I am having this problem

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> Any  ideas much appreciated? > > Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out; > there may also be something you have to do to tell pulseaudio to play > sou

Re: F9: [unsupported] rt2870 now works, but requires restarting named & httpd after (re)boot?

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/30/2010 08:32 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >>> First, I know F9 is no longer supported, but wanted to >>> ask if there is a workaround to this problem. >>> >>> I finally got rt2870 to work on F9, however, I noticed >>> during a re

Re: F9: [unsupported] rt2870 now works, but requires restarting named & httpd after (re)boot?

2010-07-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/30/2010 08:32 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> First, I know F9 is no longer supported, but wanted to >> ask if there is a workaround to this problem. >> >> I finally got rt2870 to work on F9, however, I noticed >> during a reboot, httpd complained that it could not

Re: Sound Streaming Problem

2010-07-30 Thread Rick Sewill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/2010 10:43 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > I have a recurring problem with sound streaming with Fedora 13 (and > earlier versions - I am having this problem for quite a while, across > different Fedora versions) on my Dell L

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:57pm on Friday, July 30, 2010 (UK time), David scrawled: > Could be. You are aware of course that all the 'modern' distro's are > similar to Fedora in development? Kernels, Xorg, and such. Stable would > be like Debian, CentOS, and the like. And IMO stable=stale. :-) Yes, I was thinkin

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread David
On 7/30/2010 11:13 AM, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 03:33pm on Friday, July 30, 2010 (UK time), David scrawled: > >> So that's one example which you 'documented' well. My complaint(s) are >> with the vague claims that some make but then never show any proof. >> Which I am seeing more and more of t

Sound Streaming Problem

2010-07-30 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, I have a recurring problem with sound streaming with Fedora 13 (and earlier versions - I am having this problem for quite a while, across different Fedora versions) on my Dell Latitude 820 laptop. This affects equally the sound of YouTube videos and music CDs. Sometimes it works flaw

Re: F9: [unsupported] rt2870 now works, but requires restarting named & httpd after (re)boot?

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > First, I know F9 is no longer supported, but wanted to > ask if there is a workaround to this problem. > > I finally got rt2870 to work on F9, however, I noticed > during a reboot, httpd complained that it could not find > the host's domain, so it chose 127.0.0.1, and sec

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:33pm on Friday, July 30, 2010 (UK time), David scrawled: > So that's one example which you 'documented' well. My complaint(s) are > with the vague claims that some make but then never show any proof. > Which I am seeing more and more of these days. Ouch, presumably that is aimed at me f

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread David
On 7/30/2010 10:24 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 09:39 -0400, David wrote: >> I would think that qualifies as a driver problem. :-) > > I agree. > >> But not a Windows driver problem. Why not? It is a HP problem. Their >> hardware and their driver(s). Windows had nothing

F9: [unsupported] rt2870 now works, but requires restarting named & httpd after (re)boot?

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
First, I know F9 is no longer supported, but wanted to ask if there is a workaround to this problem. I finally got rt2870 to work on F9, however, I noticed during a reboot, httpd complained that it could not find the host's domain, so it chose 127.0.0.1, and secondly named responded only to local

Re: firefox bug (fedora or mozilla?)

2010-07-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > > Thanks for that but I'm well aware that it's been EOL'd.  I was rather > more curious as to why I've never seen this brought up (been rh'ing > since redhat5.2 fit on a single cd in a red jacket a dozen years ago). Since you had the problem i

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 09:39 -0400, David wrote: > I would think that qualifies as a driver problem. :-) I agree. > But not a Windows driver problem. Why not? It is a HP problem. Their > hardware and their driver(s). Windows had nothing to do with any of > this. Microsoft gave plenty of time for

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread David
On 7/30/2010 9:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 06:28 -0400, David wrote: >> Again - Windows "Driver hell"? I don't know of any. Examples please. > > I don't know if this counts as "driver hell", but it was certainly > "hell" when it happened. A year or two back I purchase

Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-30 Thread JB
JB yahoo.com> writes: > > > > Hi, > > > is that what you are asking about ? > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs > > > 5 Hardware-related issues. > > > Miscellaneous graphical problems. > > > To use the vesa driver during installation, ... > > > > > Followed the instructions, b

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 06:28 -0400, David wrote: > Again - Windows "Driver hell"? I don't know of any. Examples please. I don't know if this counts as "driver hell", but it was certainly "hell" when it happened. A year or two back I purchased an HP Photosmart all-in-one scanner/printer. It has its

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 06:28 -0400, David wrote: > Windows "Driver hell"? > > The basic hardware drivers usually come with Windows. Fedora provides > basic, some quite advanced actually, hardware drivers for many pieces of > hardware. > > The 'better' Windows hardware drivers come with the hardwa

Re: How can I make local dnsmasq play nicely with NetworkManager?

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/29/2010 10:05 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 06/28/2010 02:33 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: >> I am trying to set up dnsmasq as a local resolver cache on my F-12 >> laptop, and can't find any way to pass the nameservers returned by DHCP >> to dnsmasq as upstream nameservers and still have 127.0.0

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread David
On 7/30/2010 5:46 AM, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 02:44am on Friday, July 30, 2010 (UK time), David scrawled: > >> On 7/29/2010 5:00 PM, Steve Searle wrote: >>> Around 09:54pm on Thursday, July 29, 2010 (UK time), James Mckenzie >>> scrawled: >>> And the comment on "Linux on the Desktop".

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/07/10 10:46, Steve Searle wrote: > Who supplies them is not the point here. "Driver hell" happens on > Windows as well, yet that is considered a desktop system. > They have the resources to say it is :D -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:44am on Friday, July 30, 2010 (UK time), David scrawled: > On 7/29/2010 5:00 PM, Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 09:54pm on Thursday, July 29, 2010 (UK time), James Mckenzie > > scrawled: > > > >> And the comment on "Linux on the Desktop". Not ready yet. We need it so > >> that users

Re: [F13] AVerMedia Volar Black HD/A850

2010-07-30 Thread Ed Greshko
> Hi, > > I'm planning to purchase an USB TV stick (for DVB-T). I saw that the > AVermedia AVerTV Black HD/-A850 USB is running properly under Ubuntu. > Can somebody confirm that is runs properly under F13 too? > > Kind regards and thanx in advance > > Joachim Backes > > http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de

Re: fedora power management not working in f13

2010-07-30 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:16 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 07/29/2010 01:17 AM, Chris Rouch wrote: > > I think this was working for f13 too until the last time i applied > > updates, though it may just be that i didn't test it. > > The first thing you should try is probably to boot the oldest F

vim-latex trouble

2010-07-30 Thread Ankur Sinha
hi, I recently came across what looks like an awesome tool : vim-latex. I've installed the fedora packages using yum. [an...@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep vim vim-latex-doc-1.8.23-1.20100129.r1104.fc13.noarch vim-latex-1.8.23-1.20100129.r1104.fc13.noarch vim-minimal-7.2.411-1.fc13.x86_64 vim-commo

[F13] AVerMedia Volar Black HD/A850

2010-07-30 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, I'm planning to purchase an USB TV stick (for DVB-T). I saw that the AVermedia AVerTV Black HD/-A850 USB is running properly under Ubuntu. Can somebody confirm that is runs properly under F13 too? Kind regards and thanx in advance Joachim Backes http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes smime.p