Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Roger
On 01/28/2013 02:43 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 17:10:36 -0500, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: That would truly be a shame! I have used Fedora since 13/14.and I've loved every version of it! But if they start cranking out something that isn't "reliable" enough for

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread David
On 1/27/2013 11:21 PM, poma wrote: > On 01/28/2013 03:02 AM, David wrote: >> On 1/27/2013 7:31 PM, poma wrote: >>> On 01/27/2013 09:54 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 01/27/2013 01:57 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > xrandr -q No that just shows the same thing, the equipme

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread poma
On 01/28/2013 03:02 AM, David wrote: > On 1/27/2013 7:31 PM, poma wrote: >> On 01/27/2013 09:54 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >>> On 01/27/2013 01:57 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: xrandr -q >>> >>> No that just shows the same thing, the equipment is rated much >>> higher. >>> >>> [root@

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 20:04:30 -0500, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: Now THIS sounds feasible, and it would make for a smoother transition from one release to the next! I wonder whom I would have to speak to.to see if this could be done? Or is it a group thing?.would I direct somet

Re: rant: cifs utterly screwed in fedora 18

2013-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/25/2013 04:21 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Now, please use this rant as motivation to prove I'm wrong by posting a tested, working, smb.conf file that provides a read/write windows file share which requires no credentials prompt on the windows box. Fine. I tested the configuration that follows

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:55:24 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: Maybe we should try out, say, a nine month cycle and if it doesn't suit - go back to six months? I am conscious though of the human tendency to put off things when there is more time to get them done . This was done once (int

Re: network-scripts documentation

2013-01-27 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 27 January 2013, Sam Varshavchik sent: > Google isn't helping me find the documentation > for /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/* in F18. It brings me to F14's > "Deployment Guide", and browsing TOCs for the F18 documentation > doesn't find anything promising. > > My old router

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 17:10:36 -0500, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: That would truly be a shame! I have used Fedora since 13/14.and I've loved every version of it! But if they start cranking out something that isn't "reliable" enough for me to work on daily.I might have to either

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 27 January 2013, Ranjan Maitra sent: > But the rush to release will still be there, whether it is a 6- or 9- > or 12-month cycle? At the point of release, inadequately-tested new > features may still be a problem, no? > > I think a more reliable approach is to have a rolling

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 16:44:57 -0500, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: I like your ideas J.Z(LoL!) like I know of a few distros that have their "long term support" versions that are stable, and the packages and apps have all been tested and have been proven to work. There has been at l

Re: F18: Update problems ?

2013-01-27 Thread g
On 01/26/2013 04:02 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: > Sorry I decided to do a netboot reinstall and everything seems fine now. > There maybe a problem with updates from the install DVD or I may have had a > system problem, or I may have been hacked. My Windows 8 has been hacked on > 3 occasions now over the

firewalld v. libvirtd

2013-01-27 Thread Robert Locke
Just took the leap in to Fedora 18 from 17. In Fedora 17, I simply added a custom rule in the old system-config-firewall to point to a file that had a trust of the libvirt based virbr0 interface. The new system-config-firewall has me a bit confused I would like to keep the new firewalld and

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Tim
Bob Goodwin: > I've just changed a monitor and need to set the resolution to 1680 x > 1050 @60Hz [ViewSonic VX2035WM]. > > XFCE display settings offers nothing higher than 1024 x 758 @60Hz > which it seems to default to. > > The Gigabyte motherboard shows a max. of 1920 x 1200. When I installed

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread David
On 1/27/2013 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/27/2013 06:02 PM, David wrote: >> Or? Well you could use a distro that actually works without searching >> Google and volumes of text files. > > Bad or missing resolutions are pretty much always invalid EDID > information provided by the hardwar

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/27/2013 06:02 PM, David wrote: Or? Well you could use a distro that actually works without searching Google and volumes of text files. Bad or missing resolutions are pretty much always invalid EDID information provided by the hardware. Windows tends to use information provided by the I

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread David
On 1/27/2013 9:33 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 09:02:21PM -0500, David wrote: >> >> Or? Well you could use a distro that actually works without searching >> Google and volumes of text files. >> >> Seems like if 'Linux is now supposed to appeal to the 'great unwashed >> masses' th

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 09:02:21PM -0500, David wrote: > > Or? Well you could use a distro that actually works without searching > Google and volumes of text files. > > Seems like if 'Linux is now supposed to appeal to the 'great unwashed > masses' that it should make it easy for them to use Linu

Re: rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/22/2013 11:26 PM, William Murray wrote: In F18 the rsync command fails to connect: dbus-daemon[938]: Could not create directory '/root/.ssh'. dbus-daemon[938]: Host key verification failed. Check /var/log/audit/audit.log. SELinux is probably denying access to the script in netwo

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread David
On 1/27/2013 7:31 PM, poma wrote: > On 01/27/2013 09:54 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> On 01/27/2013 01:57 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >>> xrandr -q >> >> No that just shows the same thing, the equipment is rated much >> higher. >> >> [root@Box9 xorg.conf.d]# xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum

Syncevolution: will not sync local contact data with could

2013-01-27 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been using a Memotoo, a cloud-based service, for syncing data between my desktop and devices. However, while using syncevolution's gui I get the following message: There is problem w/ the local database; syncing again or rebooting may help Syncing again doesn't help; reboot

Re: fedora 18 unable to mount any usb based device

2013-01-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
How did you upgrade? Using fedora-upgrade (aka yum upgrade?) What is the output of lsusb? I had this problem also last weekend, but I reinstalled polkit, the selinux, pcmanfm (file manager for me), and rebooted (this was needed) and all turned out well. Ranjan On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:21:35 +0100

fedora 18 unable to mount any usb based device

2013-01-27 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I get errors and nothing mounted when inserting usb key, disk or ipod on my Fedora 18... It seems it is not able to create special files: when inserting for example a key like this # fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 1018 MB, 1018167296 bytes, 1988608 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 5

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 08:00 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:55:24 +1100 Philip Rhoades wrote: People, Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:18:40 -0500 From: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers Message-ID: <51058ba

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 06:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:17 PM, poma wrote: Put one of these three in ~/.config/xfce4/panel/weather-*.rc: $ xfce4-panel -q && mousepad ~/.config/xfce4/panel/weather-*.rc && xfce4-panel & Use Alt-Tab ;) I live in Camarillo, CA. I just installed the applet and tr

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:55:24 +1100 Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > > > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:18:40 -0500 > > From: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." > > To: Community support for Fedora users > > Subject: Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers > > Message-ID: <51058ba0.8020...@gmail.com> >

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread poma
On 01/28/2013 12:58 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/27/2013 03:17 PM, poma wrote: >> Put one of these three in ~/.config/xfce4/panel/weather-*.rc: >> $ xfce4-panel -q && mousepad ~/.config/xfce4/panel/weather-*.rc && >> xfce4-panel & >> Use Alt-Tab ;) > > I live in Camarillo, CA. I just installed the

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 06:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:09 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This might be true, but is it safe? I mean I realize I'm a newbie when it comes to the whole command-line thing and allbut I thought the services that were enabled upon boot-up were necessary? And th

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 06:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:09 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This might be true, but is it safe? I mean I realize I'm a newbie when it comes to the whole command-line thing and allbut I thought the services that were enabled upon boot-up were necessary? And th

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread poma
On 01/27/2013 09:54 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 01/27/2013 01:57 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> xrandr -q > > No that just shows the same thing, the equipment is rated much > higher. > > [root@Box9 xorg.conf.d]# xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, > current 1024 x 768, maximum

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:18:40 -0500 From: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers Message-ID: <51058ba0.8020...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 01/23/2013 02:59 PM, James

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2013 03:17 PM, poma wrote: Put one of these three in ~/.config/xfce4/panel/weather-*.rc: $ xfce4-panel -q && mousepad ~/.config/xfce4/panel/weather-*.rc && xfce4-panel & Use Alt-Tab ;) I live in Camarillo, CA. I just installed the applet and tried to configure it. It came up with Ne

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread John Wendel
On 01/27/2013 02:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 02:39 PM, carachi diego wrote: But if I compile the kernel without all unnecessary drivers and packet, Can I obtain more performance than only disable some service? You might find this useful: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.h

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 1-27-13 21:56:03 Paul Smith wrote: > Actually, I am not so sure that my hard disk is corrupted. I have just > filed the following bug report: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904853 Then you should examine /var/log/audit/audit.log when you boot from the CD and include any releva

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2013 03:20 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: I believe what Joe meant was to run a SMART test and see if the drive is okay or not. You can run this test in parallel with other tasks, so you could keep the backup running while the drive tests itself for errors. As it happens, no. I was only conce

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2013 03:09 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This might be true, but is it safe? I mean I realize I'm a newbie when it comes to the whole command-line thing and allbut I thought the services that were enabled upon boot-up were necessary? And that if you disable any one of them...you m

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:21:11PM +, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> Actually, I am not so sure that my hard disk is corrupted. I have just > >> filed the following bug report: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904853 > > > > > >

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread poma
On 01/27/2013 05:54 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > poma wrote: >> On 01/27/2013 06:00 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app >>> searching for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and >>> does nothing visible. FC17 found a station

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:54:32 -0500 "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: > On 01/27/2013 01:57 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > xrandr -q > > No that just shows the same thing, the equipment is rated much > higher. > > [root@Box9 xorg.conf.d]# xrandr -q > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 05:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 02:39 PM, carachi diego wrote: But if I compile the kernel without all unnecessary drivers and packet, Can I obtain more performance than only disable some service? You might find this useful: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.h

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 05:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 02:10 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: P.S -Sorry about the "J.Z." thing...I was in a rush to get my response to you...(had to reboot my machine and didn't want to wait until after wards!!) That's not a problem for me. Like with everybody

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 05:21 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Actually, I am not so sure that my hard disk is corrupted. I have just filed the following bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904853 What happens when you boot from a LiveCD? Doe

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2013 02:39 PM, carachi diego wrote: But if I compile the kernel without all unnecessary drivers and packet, Can I obtain more performance than only disable some service? You might find this useful: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.html Disabling services you don't need can

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 01/27/2013 02:44 PM, carachi diego wrote: > But the encryption mechanism is included in SELinux?I don't think so... > > There are also some other mechanism to encrypt the HDD independently > from the operating system and I think also much more secure... > Pretty sure SELinux has little to nothi

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread carachi diego
But the encryption mechanism is included in SELinux?I don't think so... There are also some other mechanism to encrypt the HDD independently from the operating system and I think also much more secure... 2013/1/27 Bill Davidsen > Junk wrote: > >> >> On 27 Jan 2013, at 10:32, carachi diego >

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread carachi diego
Very very nice this guide! Thank you Junk But if I compile the kernel without all unnecessary drivers and packet, Can I obtain more performance than only disable some service? Thank you everybody 2013/1/27 Junk > > On 27 Jan 2013, at 10:32, carachi diego wrote: > > Hi everbody, > I would lik

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2013 02:10 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: P.S -Sorry about the "J.Z." thing...I was in a rush to get my response to you...(had to reboot my machine and didn't want to wait until after wards!!) That's not a problem for me. Like with everybody, there are a few ways I don't like bein

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> Actually, I am not so sure that my hard disk is corrupted. I have just >> filed the following bug report: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904853 > > > What happens when you boot from a LiveCD? Does the hard drive mount? If so,

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2013 01:56 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Actually, I am not so sure that my hard disk is corrupted. I have just filed the following bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904853 What happens when you boot from a LiveCD? Does the hard drive mount? If so, are you able to read

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 05:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 01:44 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I like your ideas J.Z(LoL!) like I know of a few distros that have their "long term support" versions that are stable, and the packages and apps have all been tested and have been proven to work. The

Re: network-scripts documentation

2013-01-27 Thread Juan Orti Alcaine
2013/1/27 Sam Varshavchik > Google isn't helping me find the documentation for /etc/sysconfig/network- > **scripts/* in F18. It brings me to F14's "Deployment Guide", and > browsing TOCs for the F18 documentation doesn't find anything promising. > > My old router, that was running DD-WRT firmware

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 04:56 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Well, if your hard disk is failing whatever backup you do might just be useless. After all backups are done *before* things fail :-p. I would suggest you try data recovery. For hints you can look her

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2013 01:44 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I like your ideas J.Z(LoL!) like I know of a few distros that have their "long term support" versions that are stable, and the packages and apps have all been tested and have been proven to work. Then they also have their "ex[experimental /

Sending a Link from Chrome Browser

2013-01-27 Thread Jim
|F17 / KDE / Google Chrome In Chrome I have Added Page to Bookmark Bar as such Name: Send Link URL: ||javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT='+document.title+'&BODY='+escape(location.href);| And it opens my Thunderbird New Write Message, but it does not show the link I'm presently at. Fox

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> >Well, if your hard disk is failing whatever backup you do might just be >> >useless. After all backups are done *before* things fail :-p. >> > >> >I would suggest you try data recovery. For hints you can look here: >> > >> >

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread David
On 1/27/2013 4:07 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 01/27/2013 03:35 PM, David wrote: >> It does not really make any difference but I have found a different >> Linux distribution, one of the ones that I mentioned in my first >> post, that actually finds and configures my monitor. It

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread David
On 1/27/2013 4:28 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 01/27/2013 03:35 PM, David wrote: >> On 1/27/2013 1:19 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Yeah. Thanks. >> >> I stuck around for several releases hoping that someone would fix this. >> But no. Nothing. >> >> It does not really make any difference

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 04:47:52PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 01/27/2013 04:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > >Well, if your hard disk is failing whatever backup you do might just be > >useless. After all backups are done *before* things fail :-p. > > > >I would suggest you try data rec

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 04:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 08:37:31PM +, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Paul Smith wrote: My hard disk seems to be corrupted, and my machine cannot boot. However, it can enter into emergency mode. I would like to mount my home dir

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 04:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 12:18 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I would have to agree with you James, it might not be a bad idea for them to stretch their release time out a bit? I would have positives from all sides. First,the developers would be able to REALLY

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 08:37:31PM +, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > My hard disk seems to be corrupted, and my machine cannot boot. > > However, it can enter into emergency mode. > > > > I would like to mount my home directory and also an external d

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 03:35 PM, David wrote: On 1/27/2013 1:19 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 27.01.2013 19:04, schrieb David: When the application named system-config-display was still available it would allow the setting to be configured correctly. Since the wizards at Fedora killed it that is no l

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 03:54:32PM -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 01/27/2013 01:57 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > >xrandr -q > >No that just shows the same thing, the equipment is rated much higher. > >[root@Box9 xorg.conf.d]# xrandr -q >Screen 0: minimum 320 x

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2013 12:18 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I would have to agree with you James, it might not be a bad idea for them to stretch their release time out a bit? I would have positives from all sides. First,the developers would be able to REALLY put their apps and what-not through a GRU

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 01/27/2013 03:35 PM, David wrote: It does not really make any difference but I have found a different Linux distribution, one of the ones that I mentioned in my first post, that actually finds and configures my monitor. It has done so for years. It finds it as a 'Generic' monitor but all of th

Re: network-scripts documentation

2013-01-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Reindl Harald writes: Am 27.01.2013 19:36, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: > Google isn't helping me find the documentation for /etc/sysconfig/network- scripts/* in F18. It brings me to F14's > "Deployment Guide", and browsing TOCs for the F18 documentation doesn't find anything promising. > > My

Re: Uninstall packages with live CD

2013-01-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 06:24:31PM +, Paul Smith wrote: > > Thanks, Reindl. It would be even better if I could undo the last > updates from inside the emergency mode. Is it possible? > You should be able to use yum after you mount your root partition, proc, and sys filesystems and chroot to

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:00:56AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app searching > for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and does nothing > visible. FC17 found a station on Libarty St, three blocks from me, which > updat

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 01/27/2013 01:57 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: xrandr -q No that just shows the same thing, the equipment is rated much higher. [root@Box9 xorg.conf.d]# xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted ri

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Frédéric Bron
> I would like to mount my home directory and also an external disk to > do all necessary backups. How can I accomplish that? I think the best would be that you boot on a live CD if you have one (whatever version). Then you can just run a terminal as root and access all data, mount any USB disk an

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > My hard disk seems to be corrupted, and my machine cannot boot. > However, it can enter into emergency mode. > > I would like to mount my home directory and also an external disk to > do all necessary backups. How can I accomplish that? Please,

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread David
On 1/27/2013 1:19 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 27.01.2013 19:04, schrieb David: >> When the application named system-config-display was still available >> it would allow the setting to be configured correctly. Since the wizards >> at Fedora killed it that is no longer an option > > welc

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/23/2013 03:29 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:59:21PM +, James Freer wrote: I have the greatest respect for the developer's that put in considerable effort for each release. The problem with 6 month release cycle is too little time. I've used linux now for almost 6

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/23/2013 02:59 PM, James Freer wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/23/2013 06:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: because first new anaconda was approved and integration all over the distribution started and after that damage was done people realized "hm new anaconda is

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 01/27/2013 01:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to place whatever you need for xorg.conf parts like in my case xvnc [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/02-vnc.conf Section "Module" Load"vnc" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Option

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Junk wrote: On 27 Jan 2013, at 10:32, carachi diego mailto:carach...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi everbody, I would like to know if someone knows where I can find some guide, tutorial that can help me to improve the performance of Fedora on my laptop in start up. I think that I need to recompile the

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:50:49AM -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >I've just changed a monitor and need to set the resolution to 1680 x >1050 @60Hz [ViewSonic VX2035WM]. > >XFCE display settings offers nothing higher than 1024 x 758 @60Hz >which it seems to defaul

How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, My hard disk seems to be corrupted, and my machine cannot boot. However, it can enter into emergency mode. I would like to mount my home directory and also an external disk to do all necessary backups. How can I accomplish that? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: RPM wildcard question

2013-01-27 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 01/24/2013 09:42 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 01/24/2013 11:12 AM, Doug issued this missive: On 01/24/2013 12:26 PM, Wojciech Komornicki wrote: Expansion of the asterisk is handled by the shell. To see what such a command will do, issue the command echo *.rpm You will see the full l

Re: network-scripts documentation

2013-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2013 19:36, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: > Google isn't helping me find the documentation for > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/* in F18. It brings me to F14's > "Deployment Guide", and browsing TOCs for the F18 documentation doesn't find > anything promising. > > My old router, that was r

network-scripts documentation

2013-01-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Google isn't helping me find the documentation for /etc/sysconfig/network- scripts/* in F18. It brings me to F14's "Deployment Guide", and browsing TOCs for the F18 documentation doesn't find anything promising. My old router, that was running DD-WRT firmware, bit the dust. The stock brand r

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2013 19:26, schrieb Bob Goodwin - Zuni: > On 01/27/2013 01:19 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 27.01.2013 19:04, schrieb David: >>> When the application named system-config-display was still available >>> it would allow the setting to be configured correctly. Since the wizards >>> a

Re: Uninstall packages with live CD

2013-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2013 19:24, schrieb Paul Smith: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Is it possible to uninstall rpms from a computer that does not boot >>> and using a live CD? If so, how? (The computer runs Fedora 18.) >> >> install dvd's had the option for "rescue mode" and af

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 01/27/2013 01:19 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 27.01.2013 19:04, schrieb David: When the application named system-config-display was still available it would allow the setting to be configured correctly. Since the wizards at Fedora killed it that is no longer an option welcome to the new

Re: Uninstall packages with live CD

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Is it possible to uninstall rpms from a computer that does not boot >> and using a live CD? If so, how? (The computer runs Fedora 18.) > > install dvd's had the option for "rescue mode" and after > "chroot /mnt/sysimage" you were actually in

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Junk
On 27 Jan 2013, at 10:32, carachi diego wrote: > Hi everbody, > I would like to know if someone knows where I can find some guide, tutorial > that can help me to improve the performance of Fedora on my laptop in start > up. > > I think that I need to recompile the kernel and dress it on my c

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2013 19:04, schrieb David: > When the application named system-config-display was still available > it would allow the setting to be configured correctly. Since the wizards > at Fedora killed it that is no longer an option welcome to the new "all is working automatically" attitude

Re: Uninstall packages with live CD

2013-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2013 19:02, schrieb Paul Smith: > Is it possible to uninstall rpms from a computer that does not boot > and using a live CD? If so, how? (The computer runs Fedora 18.) install dvd's had the option for "rescue mode" and after "chroot /mnt/sysimage" you were actually in the installed and

Re: F18: Gnome panel icons w a s t e s p a c e !

2013-01-27 Thread Lailah
El mar, 22-01-2013 a las 03:51 +0100, NOSpaze escribió: > Hi. > > After update to F18, my gnome panel icons (20px) spacings are too wide > (perhaps 1cm, fallback mode). > > Googled, tried modifying spacings width gconf-editor, gconftool-2 > gtk-widgets.css, ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, but n

Re: Battery life improved with F18

2013-01-27 Thread Lailah
El vie, 25-01-2013 a las 09:12 +1100, Roger escribió: > > > > > Thanks guys, > > >I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop > > > FC17->FC18 I > > > saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before. > > > > > > > Hello! > > > >

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread David
On 1/27/2013 11:50 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >I've just changed a monitor and need to set the resolution to 1680 x >1050 @60Hz [ViewSonic VX2035WM]. > >XFCE display settings offers nothing higher than 1024 x 758 @60Hz >which it seems to default to. > >The Gi

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/27/2013 01:00 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app searching for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and does nothing visible. FC17 found a station on Libarty St, three blocks from me, which updates

after cinnamon installation, each gnome3 session will start nemo instead of nautilus

2013-01-27 Thread Joachim Backes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear F18 users, my standard desktop is gnome3/Nautilus. Now, I installed for curiosity the cinnamon desktop. After logging out and re-logging in into a gnome3 session, nemo is started instead of nautilus. My question: is this done intentionally? Kin

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
poma wrote: On 01/27/2013 06:00 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app searching for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and does nothing visible. FC17 found a station on Libarty St, three blocks from me, which updates frequent

Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
I've just changed a monitor and need to set the resolution to 1680 x 1050 @60Hz [ViewSonic VX2035WM]. XFCE display settings offers nothing higher than 1024 x 758 @60Hz which it seems to default to. The Gigabyte motherboard shows a max. of 1920 x 1200. I looked in the BIOS setti

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
poma wrote: On 01/27/2013 06:00 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app searching for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and does nothing visible. FC17 found a station on Libarty St, three blocks from me, which updates frequent

F18: bumblebee/bbswitch stopped working after latest update

2013-01-27 Thread Alexander Volovics
Anybody else noticed that bumblebee and bbswitch stopped working after the latest update to Fed18 (kernel-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64, xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.6-1.fc18.x86_64, etc.) This on a laptop with optimus (intel/nvidia). Could the fact that "/sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch" is now a defa

Re: F17->F18: Where'd my audio input go?

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Shaw
Never mind... Looks like jack-sensing is now supported for the built-in audio. Still kinda confusing not to list the device unless something is plugged in. Thanks, Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

F17->F18: Where'd my audio input go?

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Shaw
Well, it looks like the pulseaudio GUI changed again. I no longer have a tab where I can select the particular audio device and configure it. I have two sound cards, one built-in which had sound quality issues with 5.1 playback so I bought a Asus Xonar which is quite nice. Under F17 I configured

F18: kworker is using up a lot of CPU

2013-01-27 Thread Eberhard Schruefer
Hello, I installed F18 on a Samsung NP700Z7C-S04 laptop. It is dual boot with WIN 8 and has UEFI enabled, but secure boot is disabled. I'm seeing kworker using up around 80% CPU time constantly and the laptop is running hot. I found several similar reports on other lists. Suggestions found the

Re: How to set enforcing to 0?

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > By running journalctl, I got the following: > > kernel: ata1.00 exception emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 action 0x0 > kernel: ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x24 > kernel: ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT ata1.00 is your first ha

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