Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-28 Thread JD
On 11/27/2012 02:31 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 13:11:11 -0800, JD wrote: However, because of the current kswapd, building a kernel is taking an inordinately long time, so it will be likely 2 or 3 days on my old unicore Athlon64 3700+ before I can boot the new 3.7X

Re: Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.11.2012, John Wendel wrote: > I think you're seeing something seriously broken if your builds are taking a > huge amount of time. That's surely an oversimplification. Build speed depends on several factors, e.g. how many options you have enabled in your .config has huge impact. You can't c

Re: Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-28 Thread JD
On 11/28/2012 10:48 PM, John Wendel wrote: On 11/28/2012 08:16 PM, JD wrote: On 11/28/2012 08:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 28Nov2012 15:37, JD wrote: | While building the kernel from source RPM, I run | the command ps -ef | grep make in another terminal, | and I do see that 4 make proces

Re: Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-28 Thread John Wendel
On 11/28/2012 08:16 PM, JD wrote: On 11/28/2012 08:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 28Nov2012 15:37, JD wrote: | While building the kernel from source RPM, I run | the command ps -ef | grep make in another terminal, | and I do see that 4 make processes are running, with | each one building obj

Re: Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-28 Thread JD
On 11/28/2012 08:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 28Nov2012 15:37, JD wrote: | While building the kernel from source RPM, I run | the command ps -ef | grep make in another terminal, | and I do see that 4 make processes are running, with | each one building objects for a different kernel source

Re: Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 28Nov2012 15:37, JD wrote: | While building the kernel from source RPM, I run | the command ps -ef | grep make in another terminal, | and I do see that 4 make processes are running, with | each one building objects for a different kernel source | directory. | | However, something else seems to

slightly OT - user-specific postscript config files?

2012-11-28 Thread Cameron Mura
Hello, apologies for this being slightly off-topic (I work in Fedora, so this list occurred to me as one place to ask the question...) In a nutshell: I'm wondering if anyone could point me to useful resources that describe where user-specific Postscript information/customizations/etc. are st

Finished for now -- Re: Need help with minimal install on ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have tuning to do, but it looks good enough to work with a bit... I got a 'minimal' install. I partitioned the 4Gb drive into a 3200Mb ext / partition leaving 612Mb for swap. I unchecked a LOT of stuff and the install took 2.2Gb. I ran yum install mplayer, and mplayer is NOT in the basic r

Re: irq 19: nobody cared

2012-11-28 Thread JD
On 11/28/2012 04:03 PM, Greg Woods wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 15:35 -0700, JD wrote: Kernel-3.7.0-rc6.git local build, belched out [90658.498609] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) irq19 belongs to my Atheros AR-5008 mini-pci card. [...] Is there a user util to fo

Re: irq 19: nobody cared

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 15:35 -0700, JD wrote: > Kernel-3.7.0-rc6.git local build, belched out > [90658.498609] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) > > irq19 belongs to my Atheros AR-5008 mini-pci card. [...] > > Is there a user util to force a soft reset of a mini-pci wif

[F17 KDE] Sound cutting out

2012-11-28 Thread Lists
So I have pithos installed (an excellent Pandora client that skips all that nasty flash stuff http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/) and Skype. Whenever Skype makes a sound, it cuts out all other system sounds, plays the sound, and then the rest of the system sounds resume. I didn't have this probl

Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-28 Thread JD
While building the kernel from source RPM, I run the command ps -ef | grep make in another terminal, and I do see that 4 make processes are running, with each one building objects for a different kernel source directory. However, something else seems to be single threaded which is causing the hug

irq 19: nobody cared

2012-11-28 Thread JD
Kernel-3.7.0-rc6.git local build, belched out [90658.498609] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) irq19 belongs to my Atheros AR-5008 mini-pci card. This problem does not occur on kernels prior to 3.7. Every time it happens, the card gets stuck in a mode that renders it u

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 13:10 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > What would be nice would be something like the traditional ./configure > that didn't just examine the build environment, but probed the hardware > and included the drivers you needed and only those. There would also be > (I hope) a way to sp

Re: VDPAU works, finally. (VDPAU, Nvidia proprietary drivers, XBMC, MythTV, RPi, Asus, rambling)

2012-11-28 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:47:44 -0700, Steve wrote: > The EB1012P is fully capable of running KDE sessions on F17, browsing > with Firefox and displaying Youtube videos, making it a decently high > end media center, mostly thanks to the power of Linux and the 1012Ps > high end graphics capability.

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/28/2012 12:43 PM, JD wrote: I do know about these rpmbuild options, which, when turned off (--without xx) does shorten the build time. But it is not enough. Building bazillions of useless (with regards to the user's HW platform) driver, enabling features by default which the user might not

Re: F18: Fedora icon on gdm replaced by a fuzzy rectangle

2012-11-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:13:01AM +1100, Nick Urbanik wrote: > On my son's machine, however, gdm presents a fuzzy rectangular patch > instead of the Fedora logo. This is also the case with the icons at > the top right of the gdm screen, until you move the mouse over them. > > Can anyone suggest

Re: [F18] How do I set "browse" as the default open type in nautilus?

2012-11-28 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:08:12 -0600 Thomas Cameron wrote: > > Looks like Gnome is doing the same thing that Microsoft did after XP. I > > can no longer set nautilus so that when I double click on a directory, > > it opens up with the filesystem tree in the left pane, and the contents > > of my

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread JD
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:44 PM, JD wrote: > >> The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way >> to go through the entire config options before proceeding >> to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know >> how it's d

Re: finding out what wireless card -- asus ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/28/2012 01:55 PM, Alan Evans wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz mailto:r...@htt-consult.com>> wrote: Got that in a private mail. Sorry. Wasn't intending that to be a private email. It really does not say driver: ... But it looks like ath5k Now I

Re: [F18] How do I set "browse" as the default open type in nautilus?

2012-11-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:08:12 -0600 Thomas Cameron wrote: > Looks like Gnome is doing the same thing that Microsoft did after XP. I > can no longer set nautilus so that when I double click on a directory, > it opens up with the filesystem tree in the left pane, and the contents > of my director

Re: finding out what wireless card -- asus ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Got that in a private mail. > Sorry. Wasn't intending that to be a private email. > It really does not say driver: ... > > But it looks like ath5k > > Now I have to figure out what rpm that comes from. I don't think you have the opti

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/28/2012 09:46 AM, Bryn M. Reeves issued this missive: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2012 05:07 PM, JD wrote: The main point is that the build takes too darned long. On my unicore cpu, it takes almost 2 days. Building bazillions of useless modules is a great waste

Re: finding out what wireless card -- asus ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/28/2012 10:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz issued this missive: On 11/28/2012 01:09 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 12:49 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So now how do I find out which driver is actually being used lsmod Got that in a private mail. It really does not say driver: ... B

Re: finding out what wireless card -- asus ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/28/2012 01:09 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 12:49 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So now how do I find out which driver is actually being used lsmod Got that in a private mail. It really does not say driver: ... But it looks like ath5k Now I have to figure out what rpm that

Re: finding out what wireless card -- asus ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 12:49 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So now how do I find out which driver is actually being used lsmod -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.

[F18] How do I set "browse" as the default open type in nautilus?

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Cameron
Looks like Gnome is doing the same thing that Microsoft did after XP. I can no longer set nautilus so that when I double click on a directory, it opens up with the filesystem tree in the left pane, and the contents of my directory in the right pane in *list* view. I used to be able to set a che

Re: How to start qalculate-kde and/or kruler minimized to tray

2012-11-28 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 15:37 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 28.11.2012 15:31, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: > > On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:35 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > >> > >>> How can qalculate-kde and/or kruler be started minimized in the KDE > >>> tray? > >> > >> ksta

Re: finding out what wireless card -- asus ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/28/2012 12:33 PM, Alan Evans wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Robert Moskowitzwrote: How do I find out what wireless card is in a system, and thus which driver to install? lspci should tell you. So now how do I find out which driver is actually being used so that when

Re: Brother HL5250 vs. Cups (Again)

2012-11-28 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:48:49 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > When I try to print double sided to this printer I get a single page > reading: > > ERROR NAME; > stackunderflow > COMMAND; > pop > OPERAND STACK; > > I almost always see this when printin

Re: finding out what wireless card -- asus ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/28/2012 12:33 PM, Alan Evans wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Robert Moskowitzwrote: How do I find out what wireless card is in a system, and thus which driver to install? lspci should tell you. Ah. Atheros AR242x / AR542x At first there was nothing from lspci to indi

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2012 05:07 PM, JD wrote: > The main point is that the build takes too darned long. On my > unicore cpu, it takes almost 2 days. Building bazillions of useless > modules is a great waste of time and machine. If you want to change the set of mo

Re: finding out what wireless card -- asus ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > How do I find out what wireless card is in a system, and thus which driver > to install? > lspci should tell you. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:44 PM, JD wrote: > The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way > to go through the entire config options before proceeding > to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know > how it's done. > I agree it's not intuitive but check and see if this i

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread JD
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:19 PM, William Brown wrote: > On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 21:06 -0500, Brian West wrote: > > On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote: > > > Hi Bruno, Alan, > > > > > > The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way > > > to go through the entire config options before proceedin

finding out what wireless card -- asus ee701

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
How do I find out what wireless card is in a system, and thus which driver to install? This is for my asus ee701 with the whole minimal business. I am not seeing any wireless in NM, and I know it is there, as it was their once ago in an earlier install (f14). When I did the install, I unclic

Re: Brother HL5250 vs. Cups (Again)

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
You might want to try looking at www.linuxprinting.org, which has, among other things, driver recommendations for specific printers and lists of features that are known to work/not work in Linux. For this printer, it ends up pointing to: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-5250D

Re: How to start qalculate-kde and/or kruler minimized to tray

2012-11-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.11.2012 15:31, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: > On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:35 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> >>> How can qalculate-kde and/or kruler be started minimized in the KDE >>> tray? >> >> kstart --iconify qalculate-kde >> kstart --iconify kruler > > After all this

Re: How to start qalculate-kde and/or kruler minimized to tray

2012-11-28 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:35 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > How can qalculate-kde and/or kruler be started minimized in the KDE > > tray? > > kstart --iconify qalculate-kde > kstart --iconify kruler After all this time I finally tried taking Rex D.'s advice. I found

Re: strange warnings in yum.log

2012-11-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.11.2012 15:17, schrieb Ed Greshko: > On 11/28/2012 10:02 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> what the hell does this mean? >> >> Nov 28 14:47:38 perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.012-217.fc17.noarch: ts_done name in te is >> grub2 should be >> perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.012-217.fc17.noarch >> > > http://lists.fedoraproject

Re: strange warnings in yum.log

2012-11-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/28/2012 10:02 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > what the hell does this mean? > > Nov 28 14:47:38 perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.012-217.fc17.noarch: ts_done name in te is > grub2 should be > perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.012-217.fc17.noarch > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2007-September/060726.html ? htt

strange warnings in yum.log

2012-11-28 Thread Reindl Harald
what the hell does this mean? Nov 28 14:47:38 perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.012-217.fc17.noarch: ts_done name in te is grub2 should be perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.012-217.fc17.noarch Nov 28 14:47:38 perl-Test-Simple-0.98-217.fc17.noarch: ts_done name in te is perl-HTTP-Tiny should be perl-Test-Simple-0.98-217.fc17.noar

Re: F17 - yum does not update!

2012-11-28 Thread Cristian Sava
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 12:25 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 28.11.2012 12:17, schrieb Cristian Sava: > > But when trying to install any new package ... > >> yum install iptraf > > > > iptraf-ng-1.1.1-1.fc17.x86_64. FAILED curl#7 - "Couldn't connect" > > > > Trying other mirror. > > an

Re: F17 - yum does not update!

2012-11-28 Thread Cristian Sava
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 12:25 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 28.11.2012 12:17, schrieb Cristian Sava: > > But when trying to install any new package ... > >> yum install iptraf > > > > iptraf-ng-1.1.1-1.fc17.x86_64. FAILED curl#7 - "Couldn't connect" > > > > Trying other mirror. > > an

Re: F17 - yum does not update!

2012-11-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.11.2012 12:17, schrieb Cristian Sava: > But when trying to install any new package ... >> yum install iptraf > > iptraf-ng-1.1.1-1.fc17.x86_64. FAILED curl#7 - "Couldn't connect" > > Trying other mirror. > and so on! > > Modifying in yum.repos.d does not help. > Same install with

F17 - yum does not update!

2012-11-28 Thread Cristian Sava
Hi all, I installed F17 x64 in a virtual box and resulted F17 fully updated and works well. But when trying to install any new package ... >yum install iptraf iptraf-ng-1.1.1-1.fc17.x86_64. FAILED curl#7 - "Couldn't connect" Trying other mirror. and so on! Same as http://lists.fedorapro

usb ethernet adapter

2012-11-28 Thread Gary Hodder
trying to get a Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet adapter to work with Fedora 17. The driver keeps turning the carrier off on the device. Anyone know a fix for this or am I better off getting a better one. If I need to get a better one what cheapies on Ebay are known to work? This is for a dell laptop t