Re: systemd bug response delay [was "...shutdown/reboot problems"]

2012-10-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.10.2012, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Neither Fedora nor sysyemd-people really care, so expect to be on your > > own. > This isn't true. I'm a Fedora person, and I care very much. And, I know that > I'm one of many. I know. I was unreflective and wrote this statement as a generalization, whi

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/27/2012 10:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Kindle readers work fine, but the Fires series are tablets and may not connect as a USB drive. Some recent Android phones can only connect as MTP devices, and are still not well supported under Linux. See recent discussion on this list or Google

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-27 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 09:48 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: > Just got a Kindle Fire HD (brand new in my country): when I connect to > my Fedora 17 nothing happens: > > I get from lsusb: > Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1949:0007 Lab126 > > but I don't see any USB drive connected. > > Any help??? Yo

Re: systemd shutdown/reboot problems

2012-10-27 Thread Ian Chapman
On 28/10/12 03:36, Heinz Diehl wrote: I have encountered similar problems with systemd, see e.g. here for the latest one which is present a long time: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857406 Neither Fedora nor sysyemd-people really care, so expect to be on your own. Yeah I've just

Re: Dual boot with Windows question

2012-10-27 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 27 October 2012, David sent: > Windows 7 is quite capable of duel booting Freudian slip? ;-) But seems appropriate. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 x86_64 All mail to my m

Failed Displaying jpg or png pictures in kde

2012-10-27 Thread Jim
F17 /KDE-4.9.2-1 I did a fresh install from F10 to F17 ,but I kept the old User directory in the /home partition. I did delete the old .kde /user/directory from the F10 install. I can view most of the jpg or png pictures in /home/user directory, but there is a number of jpg or png that I can

Re: no audio on kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64

2012-10-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/13/2012 01:44 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: After updating a Lenovo T430S to kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64, the system doesn't generate sound. I've determined that the cause was power management. I configured the system with all of powertop's suggested power management settings, including the

Re: Dual boot with Windows question

2012-10-27 Thread David
On 10/27/2012 4:47 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, David wrote: >> On 10/27/2012 3:58 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >>> On 10/27/2012 03:54 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I'd like to install Windows 7 and fc17 on my laptop that has two disks. I'd like to use one disk for Wind

Re: Dual boot with Windows question

2012-10-27 Thread Alex
Hi, On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, David wrote: > On 10/27/2012 3:58 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> On 10/27/2012 03:54 PM, Alex wrote: >>> Hi, I'd like to install Windows 7 and fc17 on my laptop that has two >>> disks. I'd like to use one disk for Windows and one for Linux. >>> >>> Should I just

Re: Dual boot with Windows question

2012-10-27 Thread David
On 10/27/2012 3:58 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 10/27/2012 03:54 PM, Alex wrote: >> Hi, I'd like to install Windows 7 and fc17 on my laptop that has two >> disks. I'd like to use one disk for Windows and one for Linux. >> >> Should I just install Windows first, then Linux? >> >> How do I replace t

systemd bug response delay [was "...shutdown/reboot problems"]

2012-10-27 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 09:36:20PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > I have encountered similar problems with systemd, see e.g. > here for the latest one which is present a long time: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857406 > Neither Fedora nor sysyemd-people really care, so expect to be on

Re: Dual boot with Windows question

2012-10-27 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 10/27/2012 03:54 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I'd like to install Windows 7 and fc17 on my laptop that has two disks. I'd like to use one disk for Windows and one for Linux. Should I just install Windows first, then Linux? How do I replace the Windows boot loader with grub and still be able to boot W

Dual boot with Windows question

2012-10-27 Thread Alex
Hi, I'd like to install Windows 7 and fc17 on my laptop that has two disks. I'd like to use one disk for Windows and one for Linux. Should I just install Windows first, then Linux? How do I replace the Windows boot loader with grub and still be able to boot Windows? Thanks, Alex -- users mailin

Re: systemd shutdown/reboot problems

2012-10-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.10.2012, Ian Chapman wrote: > I have a home server which runs F17 and for a long time now it just doesn't > reboot or shutdown cleanly. I've had the same issue since it was running F16 > and possibly F15. When the server shuts down, I get spurious messages about > some services failing or a

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 09:48 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: > Just got a Kindle Fire HD (brand new in my country): when I connect to > my Fedora 17 nothing happens: > > I get from lsusb: > Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1949:0007 Lab126 > > but I don't see any USB drive connected. Kindle readers work

systemd shutdown/reboot problems

2012-10-27 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, I have a home server which runs F17 and for a long time now it just doesn't reboot or shutdown cleanly. I've had the same issue since it was running F16 and possibly F15. When the server shuts down, I get spurious messages about some services failing or a dependency was not met for the sh

Chinese written character input support?

2012-10-27 Thread Chris Smart
Installed Fedora 17 on a laptop and trying to get Chinese input working for a user who doesn't know pinyin (therefore he needs to write the characters using mouse/tablet). I've tried WritRecogn and while it recognises characters, doesn't input them anywhere (like into Firefox). I've installed cel

Re: wireshark under KDE?

2012-10-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/27/2012 05:54 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running Fedora-17/KDE on my laptop, > and am trying to run wireshark. > I've yum-installed wireshark, wireshark-gnome and wireshark-devel. > > When I run wireshark (as root) it gets as far as > "Registering Python dissectors" > and then crashes: >

wireshark under KDE?

2012-10-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running Fedora-17/KDE on my laptop, and am trying to run wireshark. I've yum-installed wireshark, wireshark-gnome and wireshark-devel. When I run wireshark (as root) it gets as far as "Registering Python dissectors" and then crashes: [root@rose tim]# wireshark Segmenta

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-27 Thread antonio montagnani
antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 27/10/2012 09:48: Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1949:0007 Lab126 from Dsmesg: [ 357.211162] usb 2-5: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd [ 357.331839] usb 2-5: New USB device found, idVendor=1949, idProduct=0007 [ 357

F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-27 Thread antonio montagnani
Just got a Kindle Fire HD (brand new in my country): when I connect to my Fedora 17 nothing happens: I get from lsusb: Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1949:0007 Lab126 but I don't see any USB drive connected. Any help??? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F17 (Beefy Miracle) on Acer 5720 htt