Re: Fedora 20 how to switch desktop environment?

2014-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/14 23:06, James wrote: > We only have the following three display managers: > > gdm.service > kdm.service > lightdm.service > > But the display environment has more options on the session list. > Does this mean one display manager can control more than one display > environment? Yes. Y

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-21 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno ven, 21/02/2014 alle 21.58 +, Powell, Michael ha scritto: > > > It beats me why one would go through all the effort of extraordinary > > > measures so they can run as root, rather than just run as a user, and > > > use the system in a straight-forward manner. > > > > > > > Because I

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-21 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno gio, 20/02/2014 alle 20.22 +0600, g ha scritto: > because they drive a car with 4 speed stick shift and they like to > skip 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gear? :-) Please, forget for a moment that I want to use root and that root should not to be used for normal things. The question is that xhost i

RE: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-21 Thread Powell, Michael
> > It beats me why one would go through all the effort of extraordinary > > measures so they can run as root, rather than just run as a user, and > > use the system in a straight-forward manner. > > > > Because I don't like to spend time to issue sudo or su - command everytime I > need it. > It

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-21 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno gio, 20/02/2014 alle 17.03 +1030, Tim ha scritto: > It beats me why one would go through all the effort of extraordinary > measures so they can run as root, rather than just run as a user, and > use the system in a straight-forward manner. > Because I don't like to spend time to issue

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Joe Zeff : Oh, Ok.. Gotcha. :) I assume there's a FAQ somewhere on how to do this, or do you just "sudo yum install nvidia*.rpm" or something like that and it'll say "oh, you need kmod-nvidia" and add that to the install? :) http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 Thanks.

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Joe Zeff : On 02/21/2014 05:47 AM, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Yes, but you'll only do it once. If you use the package from the OE

Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/2014 02:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i was trying to be delicate, but what i was told is that being > manufactured in china was enough to make them ineligible for entry > into secure US military installations. you can make of that

Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, CS DBA wrote: > On 2/21/14, 11:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, CS DBA wrote: > > > > > Hi All; > > > > > > I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad W540, > > > > > > the specs list this: > > > Security Chip 2 Security Chip Enabled > > > > > > I pla

Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread Justin Brown
There's no need to be concerned. You're conflating a few different issues. The security chip is a TPM, and they have been fairly common for several years. It just allows secure key storage for software that might need it. A TPM won't get in your way. The other issue is UEFI Secure Boot. There's l

Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 21, 2014, at 11:50 AM, CS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad W540, > > > the specs list this: > Security Chip 2 Security Chip Enabled > > > I plan to run Fedora 20 on it. Is this something I should be concerned about? > Can it be disabled in the b

Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread Alessandro Brezzi
2014-02-21 19:58 GMT+01:00 CS DBA : > On 2/21/14, 11:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, CS DBA wrote: >> >> Hi All; >>> >>> I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad W540, >>> >>> the specs list this: >>> Security Chip 2 Security Chip Enabled >>> >>> I plan to run Fedora

Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/2014 01:50 PM, CS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad W540, > > > the specs list this: Security Chip 2 Security Chip > Enabled > > > I plan to run Fedora 20 on it. Is this something I should be > conce

Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread CS DBA
On 2/21/14, 11:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, CS DBA wrote: Hi All; I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad W540, the specs list this: Security Chip 2 Security Chip Enabled I plan to run Fedora 20 on it. Is this something I should be concerned about? Can it be disa

Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/2014 01:54 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i don't know about that chip, but a few weeks ago, i was down > south chatting with some military IT contractors, and they told me > that in most sites they work in, *no* *one* is even allowed int

Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, CS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad W540, > > the specs list this: > Security Chip 2 Security Chip Enabled > > I plan to run Fedora 20 on it. Is this something I should be > concerned about? Can it be disabled in the bios? i don't know

Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad W540, the specs list this: Security Chip 2 Security Chip Enabled I plan to run Fedora 20 on it. Is this something I should be concerned about? Can it be disabled in the bios? Thanks in advance... -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/21/2014 06:14 AM, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : On 02/21/14 21:47, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Sure But using the rp

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/21/2014 05:47 AM, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Yes, but you'll only do it once. If you use the package from the OEM, you'll have to do

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:29 AM, Don Levey wrote: >> No. Hardware raid will show up as a single /dev/sdX device. What >> results do you get for lsblk? It's a nitpick, but for what it's worth it's always best to include the command used. I understand the motivation to keep things tidy, and concise,

Re: Fedora 20 how to switch desktop environment?

2014-02-21 Thread James
We only have the following three display managers: gdm.serviceĀ  kdm.service lightdm.service But the display environment has more options on the session list. Does this mean one display manager can control more than one display environment? when remote desktop from Windows machine, which o

Re: CentOS and Fedora as alternative OS's

2014-02-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 12:08 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was unable to boot the previous CentOS system - > I got an error message that some modules were not properly signed > by the kernel. Is there any chance that you have "secure boot" enabled in the BIOS? I know that Windows and Fedora bo

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Ed Greshko : On 02/21/14 21:47, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Sure But using the rpmfusion stuff means you don't have to manu

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/14 21:47, John Aldrich wrote: > Quoting Ed Greshko : >> >> Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier >> > Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Sure But using the rpmfusion stuff means you don't have to manually blacklist the

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: Annoying NetworkManager notifications

2014-02-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ed Greshko wrote: >> If NetworkManager (on my Fedora-20 KDE laptop) cannot link to my WiFi >> router it puts out repeated notifications that the link is >> "de-activated". > Right Click the Network Manager Icon in the systray. > > Choose "Network Manager Settings". > > Pick "Notifications". >

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/14 21:16, John Aldrich wrote: > Quoting Rick Stevens : >> >> I've hit a similar thing on a homebrewed Athlon machine as well. The >> nouveau driver didn't like the nVidia video card and it would hard lock >> periodically. The machine is powered down right now, so I can't tell >> you which

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Rick Stevens : I've hit a similar thing on a homebrewed Athlon machine as well. The nouveau driver didn't like the nVidia video card and it would hard lock periodically. The machine is powered down right now, so I can't tell you which nVidia it has, however switching to the nVidia binary

Re: Annoying NetworkManager notifications

2014-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/14 20:19, Timothy Murphy wrote: > If NetworkManager (on my Fedora-20 KDE laptop) cannot link to my WiFi router > it puts out repeated notifications that the link is "de-activated". > These appear in small windows, one under the other, > filling a column in the centre of the screen > and co

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-21 Thread Don Levey
On 2/20/2014 20:42, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 20, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Don Levey > wrote: >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 63 10276051151380224+ 7 >> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > > This starting value is from an old partition utility an

Annoying NetworkManager notifications

2014-02-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
If NetworkManager (on my Fedora-20 KDE laptop) cannot link to my WiFi router it puts out repeated notifications that the link is "de-activated". These appear in small windows, one under the other, filling a column in the centre of the screen and covering the KDEWallet request which is the cause of

Re: CentOS and Fedora as alternative OS's

2014-02-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
Chris Murphy wrote: > On Feb 20, 2014, at 4:49 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I tried to install Fedora-20 as a second OS on my CentOS-6.5 server, >> purely as an experiment, but it was disastrously unsuccessful. > > Be more specific? Fedora ran fine, and its grub2 entry listed Fedora, CentOS an