keeping USB disk awake

I have an external SATA disk in a USB-3 / eSATA docking station. When I connect using eSATA, the disk stays awake. But when I connect using the USB-3 port, it goes to sleep after a few minutes. How do I make it work like the eSATA? Sherman -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: FedUp

What brand of VM??? On 4/8/2013 9:09 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: As a coda to this, I installed 17 in a VM via the network install & then grabbed FedUp from Testing & ran it. Three hours later it completed, rebooted & all was well. This was, of course, a completely clean distro (I only installed gi

Re: FedUp

As a coda to this, I installed 17 in a VM via the network install & then grabbed FedUp from Testing & ran it. Three hours later it completed, rebooted & all was well. This was, of course, a completely clean distro (I only installed git & grabbed my dotfiles off of GitHub before running FedUp). Whe

Re: Disability relief

On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 12:43 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/08/2013 12:32 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does > > help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where > > it lurks? > > AFAIK, it's a Gnome thing. I've certain

Re: DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

On 04/08/2013 04:33 PM, Doug wrote: This would be particularly important for the video card, especially if it has its own fan. But modern mobos don't have that many slots anymore, so that could be a problem! I know. However, you can always put it at one end, so that it's not stuck between tw

RE:Disability relief

>/ I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does />/ help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where />/ it lurks? / I have not read this entire thread so maybe I am too late to the game. If you are still looking at how to turn on the bulls-eye around the

Re: DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

Probably unrelated but this reminds me, I had graphics/display issues a year or two ago and put set up a huge fan on the graphics card blowing on the heat sink. Not a problem with graphics ever since. One of my friends is a hardware geek. He recommends leaving one slot open between each two

Re: DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

On 04/08/2013 07:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/08/2013 03:12 PM, Roger wrote: Probably unrelated but this reminds me, I had graphics/display issues a year or two ago and put set up a huge fan on the graphics card blowing on the heat sink. Not a problem with graphics ever since. One of my friend

RE:Disability relief

I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where it lurks? I have not read this entire thread so maybe I am too late to the game. If you are still looking at how to turn on the bulls-eye around the mouse

Re: DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

On 04/08/2013 03:12 PM, Roger wrote: Probably unrelated but this reminds me, I had graphics/display issues a year or two ago and put set up a huge fan on the graphics card blowing on the heat sink. Not a problem with graphics ever since. One of my friends is a hardware geek. He recommends leav

Re: DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

On 04/09/2013 07:15 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Apr 8, 2013 1:04 PM, "Beartooth" > wrote: > > > On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I > know. It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged > into long diagon

Re: How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

On 04/08/2013 09:06 AM, Dan Thurman wrote: > Since I was unable to install F18, I would like > to revert back to F17 that I have restored from > backups, the following partitions: > > / (root) /dev/sda10 > /boot /dev/sda9 > > What I have left to do is to restore the MBR > on /dev/sda9 /boot

What is Fedora 18 acpi_osi default? Or, seeking consistent power management.

Have been working out some kinks with recently acquired Dell M4700 Precision workstation. Out of the box everything just works (impressive compared to Fedora 14), except for Nvidia K1000M chip which insists on max power mode (heat) in multi-head setup (Linus gave them the finger; I'd prefer that t

Re: DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

On Apr 8, 2013 1:04 PM, "Beartooth" wrote: > > > On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I > know. It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged > into long diagonals that cover the screen, with about the angle of a > backslash. The little lines in

Re: Disability relief

On 04/08/2013 01:56 PM, Beartooth wrote: Well, I do run Konqueror and K3B in both gnome and xfce, and I run gnome-terminal in xfce; if we can find a name for it, maybe yum can find it and then install it. Or, you can go here and add a "me too" comment: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bu

Re: Disability relief

On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:43:26 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > AFAIK, it's a Gnome thing. I've certainly not found the equivalent in > Xfce, and I'd love to. If nothing else, it helps when you've brought > the screen back up by moving the mouse and need to find out where it got > to. Hmm, maybe I should

Re: DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I > know. It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged > into long diagonals that cover the screen, with about the angle of a > backslash. The little lin

Re: getting back from a black screen

On 04/08/2013 01:41 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Tim Evans wrote: On 04/08/2013 11:24 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 08 April 2013, Richard Vickery sent: In the case where you have sensitive information that you don't want people looking at it, or children deleting it, how does one get back

Re: getting back from a black screen

On 04/08/2013 01:00 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c) OK, not

Re: DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

On 04/08/13 15:09, Kevin Martin wrote: > On 04/08/13 15:04, Beartooth wrote: >> >> On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I >> know. It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged >> into long diagonals that cover the screen, with about the angle of

Re: DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

On 04/08/13 15:04, Beartooth wrote: > > On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I > know. It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged > into long diagonals that cover the screen, with about the angle of a > backslash. The little lines in each gr

DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I know. It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged into long diagonals that cover the screen, with about the angle of a backslash. The little lines in each group are parallel, and there's always a litt

Re: getting back from a black screen

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Alan Gagne wrote: > On 04/08/2013 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >** > >* [harry at srv-rhsoft > >:~]$ lspci | grep -i > >graphic* > > AHA! Two ways to do it. How Unix! > > > And let's add a twist to f

RE:getting back from a black screen

On 04/08/2013 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >/ />/ [harry at srv-rhsoft :~]$ lspci | grep -i graphic / AHA! Two ways to do it. How Unix! And let's add a twist to find out your drivers. [dw-agagne ~]# lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA com

Re: Disability relief

On 04/08/2013 12:32 PM, Beartooth wrote: I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where it lurks? AFAIK, it's a Gnome thing. I've certainly not found the equivalent in Xfce, and I'd love to. If noth

Re: getting back from a black screen

On 04/08/2013 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ lspci | grep -i graphic AHA! Two ways to do it. How Unix! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: h

Re: getting back from a black screen

On 04/08/2013 12:29 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: I don't believe so; what's the command that prints the hardware? lspci | grep VGA However, if you have to ask, you probably aren't using the binary blob drivers, either directly from the OEM, in either the kmod or akmod package, unless it's been

Re: Disability relief

On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:12:30 -0700, Richard England wrote: > On 04/06/2013 11:42 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even >> through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) >> I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show

Re: getting back from a black screen

Am 08.04.2013 21:29, schrieb Richard Vickery: > > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Joe Zeff > wrote: > > On 04/08/2013 11:57 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > How do I find this bug in order to report it? And is it worth > reporting > since f19 wil

Re: getting back from a black screen

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/08/2013 11:57 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: > >> How do I find this bug in order to report it? And is it worth reporting >> since f19 will be beta soon, at which time I'll upgrade? >> >> > Before you do, one question: are you using nVidia grap

Re: How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

On 04/08/2013 11:02 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Dan Thurman wrote: >> >> Since I was unable to install F18, I would like >> to revert back to F17 that I have restored from >> backups, the following partitions: >> >> / (root) /dev/sda10 >> /boot /dev/sda9 >> > Did you make a physical backup of

Re: getting back from a black screen

On 04/08/2013 11:57 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: How do I find this bug in order to report it? And is it worth reporting since f19 will be beta soon, at which time I'll upgrade? Before you do, one question: are you using nVidia graphics, and if so, are you using the proprietary drivers, or nouv

Re: getting back from a black screen

On Apr 8, 2013 7:18 AM, "Michael Schwendt" wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 06:52:04 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:45:43 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > It happens often enough that I leave the computer long enough for it to > > > > blacke

Re: Dracut on reboot

On 04/08/2013 09:28 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: You have made my exact point in you're first two lines. who - or where - is dracut's homespace. On a dracut boot, it doesn't appear that I am logged it as my home user. I've always presumed root. Next time it happens, use whoami to find out. -- u

Re: presto

Am 08.04.2013 19:27, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > Reindl Harald wrote: >>> NoGo : yum-presto has been obsoleted >> >> aha and what is this? >> yum-presto-0.9.0-1.fc18.noarch >> >> it has been obsoleted for Fedora 10 because it is no longer >> needed as plugin after merge it directly into yum > > Do

Re: getting back from a black screen

On 04/08/2013 07:18 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: In other words, people in this thread have misunderstood eachother. "Locking" the screen does not refer to freezing the machine or crashing X but just to displaying a passphrase prompt after you've left the machine unattended for some time. That can

Re: How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

Dan Thurman wrote: Since I was unable to install F18, I would like to revert back to F17 that I have restored from backups, the following partitions: / (root) /dev/sda10 /boot /dev/sda9 Did you make a physical backup of the partitions with dd or just back up the files on them? Yes it m

Re: getting back from a black screen

Tim Evans wrote: On 04/08/2013 11:24 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 08 April 2013, Richard Vickery sent: In the case where you have sensitive information that you don't want people looking at it, or children deleting it, how does one get back from this screen without rebooting and losing

Re: presto

Reindl Harald wrote: Am 08.04.2013 16:37, schrieb Henk Breimer: On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:14:24 -0400 Alan Gagne wrote: starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared I would like to get yum out of this mode. Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. Is this another choice re

Re: presto

Henk Breimer wrote: starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared I would like to get yum out of this mode. Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. Is this another choice removed from "Linux,the world of choice"? Or can I get a hint from here? Hint: yum list '*presto*' It'

Re: Dracut on reboot

The tilde refers to your homespace. So, for whoever's logged on, a file > path like this ~/example.text refers to an example.text file in the root > of *their* homespace. The advantage of this, apart from far less > typing, is not having to do the /home/(user)/ prefix typing that you've > mention

Re: getting back from a black screen

On 04/08/2013 11:24 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 08 April 2013, Richard Vickery sent: In the case where you have sensitive information that you don't want people looking at it, or children deleting it, how does one get back from this screen without rebooting and losing ones work? As s

How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

Since I was unable to install F18, I would like to revert back to F17 that I have restored from backups, the following partitions: / (root) /dev/sda10 /boot /dev/sda9 What I have left to do is to restore the MBR on /dev/sda9 /boot partition. I have a separate MBR installed on /dev/sda dr

Re: presto

Alan Gagne: > > Try install presto yum plugin. > > > > yum install yum-presto > > > > [dw-agagne ~]# yum info yum-pesto Henk Breimer: > NoGo : yum-presto has been obsoleted. So, did you type yum-presto or yum-pesto?? It's yum-presto. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.4-102.fc17.x86

Re: getting back from a black screen

Allegedly, on or about 08 April 2013, Richard Vickery sent: > In the case where you have sensitive information that you don't want > people looking at it, or children deleting it, how does one get back > from this screen without rebooting and losing ones work? As soon as you go for the mouse or k

Re: Dracut on reboot

Allegedly, on or about 07 April 2013, Richard Vickery sent: > Doesn't this tilda put the command in the file in which one is working? > When the system boots up in [dracut], how is a political scientist / > aspiring lawyer who users Linux and does this contribution on his > sabbaticals supposed to

Re: Dracut on reboot

On Apr 8, 2013 12:03 AM, "Harald Hoyer" wrote: > > Am 07.04.2013 00:47, schrieb Richard Vickery: > > Hi Gang, > > > > A number of times f18 has become stuck for so long that I felt it necessary to > > call the command reboot. Certain times a dracut command line shows up and I call > > systemctl, w

Re: presto

Am 08.04.2013 16:37, schrieb Henk Breimer: > On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:14:24 -0400 > Alan Gagne wrote: > >>> starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared >>> I would like to get yum out of this mode. >>> Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. >>> Is this another choice remov

Re: presto

On 04/08/13 22:37, Henk Breimer wrote: > On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:14:24 -0400 > Alan Gagne wrote: > >>> starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared >>> I would like to get yum out of this mode. >>> Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. >>> Is this another choice removed from

RE:presto

NoGo : yum-presto has been obsoleted. Don't know what to tell you. I have two F18 boxes that are both using the presto plugin for yum. Linux dw-agagne 3.8.5-201.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 28 21:01:19 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: presto

On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:14:24 -0400 Alan Gagne wrote: > > starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared > > I would like to get yum out of this mode. > > Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. > > Is this another choice removed from "Linux,the world of choice"? > > Or can I g

Re: getting back from a black screen

On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 06:52:04 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:45:43 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > It happens often enough that I leave the computer long enough for it to > > > blacken the screen. Is there a combination key stroke to get x back? > > >

RE:presto

starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared I would like to get yum out of this mode. Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. Is this another choice removed from "Linux,the world of choice"? Or can I get a hint from here? Try install presto yum plugin. yum install yum-pre

presto

starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared I would like to get yum out of this mode. Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. Is this another choice removed from "Linux,the world of choice"? Or can I get a hint from here? Thanks, Henk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedora

Re: getting back from a black screen

On Apr 8, 2013 5:18 AM, "Michael Schwendt" wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:45:43 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > It happens often enough that I leave the computer long enough for it to > > blacken the screen. Is there a combination key stroke to get x back? > > Do you mean your co

Re: getting back from a black screen

On Apr 7, 2013 9:35 PM, "Fred Erickson" wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 20:40:19 -0700 > Richard Vickery wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > > > On 04/07/2013 07:45 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> It happens often enough that I leave the com

RE: Online backup providers

> I haven't looked at jungledisk, but I use SpiderOak for home use. You get > 1-2GB free which is all I need > for critical stuff. The linux client works well and is provided in RPM format > w/ repo I believe. Their data > rates may not be competitive though.  I use them for personal as well. E

Re: Online backup providers

On 08/04/2013 9:14 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone have any experience with jungledisk? > They offer a Linux client and have pretty cheap rates for large volumes of > data. We are > retiring a private colocated backup and hoping to migrate to a commercial > online solution. > > > Of the fe

Re: Online backup providers

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone have any experience with jungledisk? > They offer a Linux client and have pretty cheap rates for large volumes of > data. We are > retiring a private colocated backup and hoping to migrate to a commercial > online solution. > I have

Online backup providers

Anyone have any experience with jungledisk? They offer a Linux client and have pretty cheap rates for large volumes of data. We are retiring a private colocated backup and hoping to migrate to a commercial online solution. Of the few that support Linux, this one looks pretty decent at first gla

Re: getting back from a black screen

On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:45:43 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > Hi, > > It happens often enough that I leave the computer long enough for it to > blacken the screen. Is there a combination key stroke to get x back? Do you mean your computer is frozen (crashed) when that happens? Else it's the screen

Re: getting back from a black screen

On 04/07/2013 10:45 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: Hi, It happens often enough that I leave the computer long enough for it to blacken the screen. Is there a combination key stroke to get x back? Thanks. Richard You can always check the display settings on your System Settings tool. I use K

Re: Unable to install F18 into an existing linux partitions.

On 08.04.2013 07:49, nomnex wrote: >> On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:24:28 +0200 >> poma wrote: >> Don't even try to count how many holes does Swiss cheese have. :) > > Those are not holes, but engineered air compartments designed to enhance > the cheese flavor. You probably refers to the French Emm

F18: Gnome-user-share

Did anybody succeed to have Gnome-user-share working?? It was working on F17, now I cannot share any folder, actually I do not see any shared machine on Network. Any hint?? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F18(Spherical Cow) on Acer 5720 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org http://www.c

Re: Dracut on reboot

Am 07.04.2013 00:47, schrieb Richard Vickery: > Hi Gang, > > A number of times f18 has become stuck for so long that I felt it necessary to > call the command reboot. Certain times a dracut command line shows up and I > call > systemctl, which shows what it does, and with little-to-no current tec