Re: Wrong Screen Resolution after uninstalling nvidia packages from rpmfusion

2014-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/03/14 10:18, jd1008 wrote: > > On 10/02/2014 07:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> At this point, if I were you, I'd create a bootable LIVE USB or a LIVE CD >> from the F20 release and boot it and see if it works. > Definitely worth a try. > Yes, and then you can compare the logs If you did

Re: Wrong Screen Resolution after uninstalling nvidia packages from rpmfusion

2014-10-02 Thread jd1008
On 10/02/2014 07:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: At this point, if I were you, I'd create a bootable LIVE USB or a LIVE CD from the F20 release and boot it and see if it works. Definitely worth a try. Also, if you look at some of the documentation for nouveau you'd find that the the drm module ne

Re: Wrong Screen Resolution after uninstalling nvidia packages from rpmfusion

2014-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/03/14 08:41, jd1008 wrote: > > On 10/01/2014 11:41 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 10/02/14 01:26, jd1008 wrote: >>> It just cannot load nouveau.ko driver because of unresolvable symbols at >>> modprobe time. I think I sent that info to the list already. >> That isn't the problem. The same "unr

Re: Wrong Screen Resolution after uninstalling nvidia packages from rpmfusion

2014-10-02 Thread jd1008
On 10/01/2014 11:41 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/02/14 01:26, jd1008 wrote: It just cannot load nouveau.ko driver because of unresolvable symbols at modprobe time. I think I sent that info to the list already. That isn't the problem. The same "unresolved symbols" exists on all my systems. [egr

Re: connecting to a hardwired ethernet device

2014-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/03/14 06:53, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Further investigation reveals that this is not a hardware problem at all, but > a (gasp) firewall problem. > > So, how do I tell firewalld to allow traffic to from a particular MAC > address? The documentation appears to be mute on the question. Have a

Re: connecting to a hardwired ethernet device

2014-10-02 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/02/2014 01:24:33 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > This is a new Fedora 19 install. > > The install correctly detected the ethernet port. > > ifconfig sees em1, and the configuration data is correct > > There is a device plugged into the port, which monitors its ethernet > port. (The device is k

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-10-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 09/24/2014 09:47 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: But how is that any different from the wall socket? Any powerboard that cannot handle the full load that could be plugged into a wall socket shouldn't be sold. Rick Stevens: Completely different certifications, construction and materials. Wall sockets h

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/02/2014 01:25 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: "Huked on foniks reely wurked for me!" Go ahead and make fun of phonics, especially when you consider how many exceptions there are in English spelling and pronunciation. Neither my sister nor I speak Hebrew, but we both know the Hebrew alphabet a

Re: connecting to a hardwired ethernet device

2014-10-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/02/2014 01:24 PM, Geoffrey Leach issued this missive: This is a new Fedora 19 install. The install correctly detected the ethernet port. ifconfig sees em1, and the configuration data is correct There is a device plugged into the port, which monitors its ethernet port. (The device is kno

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/02/2014 11:26 AM, Tim issued this missive: Allegedly, on or about 02 October 2014, Chris Murphy sent: Children learning languages that use roman characters learn simple capital block letters first. Then lower case. Depends on what country you're in. In Australia, and England (I think),

connecting to a hardwired ethernet device

2014-10-02 Thread Geoffrey Leach
This is a new Fedora 19 install. The install correctly detected the ethernet port. ifconfig sees em1, and the configuration data is correct There is a device plugged into the port, which monitors its ethernet port. (The device is known to work otherwise) So, somehow I'm supposed to specify the

Re: SOLVED - Re: Renumbering partitions on an external drive

2014-10-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 10/02/2014 01:57 PM, bruce wrote: Hi Robert.. So out of curiosity... what were the exact sequence of commands you used! This is what worked: fdisk /dev/sdb x <- this gets you into expert mode. fi <- this fixes the partition table, but only in memory, ignoring warnings r

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-02 Thread Tethys
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Children learning languages that use roman characters learn simple capital > block letters first. Then lower case. I have to say that's precisely the opposite to everything I've ever encountered. Lower case is taught first. Then later upper

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-02 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 02 October 2014, Chris Murphy sent: > > Children learning languages that use roman characters learn simple > > capital block letters first. Then lower case. > > Depends on what country you're in. In Australia, and England (I thi

Re: SATA II causes system freeze

2014-10-02 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 02 October 2014, Chris Murphy sent: > Cables are often the source of weird problems. Specifically it's the > connectors that are flakey, not the cable portion itself. Though, if you savagely bend SATA leads, the way some of them are supplied in a flattened up zig-zag style,

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-02 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 02 October 2014, Chris Murphy sent: > Children learning languages that use roman characters learn simple > capital block letters first. Then lower case. Depends on what country you're in. In Australia, and England (I think), you learn the lower case letters first. You lear

Re: SOLVED - Re: Renumbering partitions on an external drive

2014-10-02 Thread bruce
Hi Robert.. So out of curiosity... what were the exact sequence of commands you used! On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > After more research, I found I was using the wrong fdisk commands. > > x > fi > r > w > > does it. 'w' does not work in expert mode, nor does it give

SOLVED - Re: Renumbering partitions on an external drive

2014-10-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
After more research, I found I was using the wrong fdisk commands. x fi r w does it. 'w' does not work in expert mode, nor does it give a warning if you do 'fiw' so the changes never got written. You need the 'r' to first return to the main menu. 'm' for help really helped! On 10/02/2014

Re: Renumbering partitions on an external drive

2014-10-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 10/02/2014 01:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have been messing around with partitions on a drive and now physically they are sdb2,sdb3,sdb1. I want to get them in order. the fdisk xpert fiw does NOT renumber them; it seems to be happy with things as they are. Is there anyway to fix thi

Renumbering partitions on an external drive

2014-10-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have been messing around with partitions on a drive and now physically they are sdb2,sdb3,sdb1. I want to get them in order. the fdisk xpert fiw does NOT renumber them; it seems to be happy with things as they are. Is there anyway to fix this short of rebuilding the partition table, careful

Re: Display resolution -

2014-10-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:30:28 -0600, jd1008 wrote: Hi Bruno, Your conf file comment line says Xorg configuration created by system-config-display But I cannot find it in my fc20 installation. You must be running an older fedora?? The file was created a long time ago. The machine with the

Re: Display resolution -

2014-10-02 Thread jd1008
On 10/02/2014 09:13 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 19:17:19 -0400, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: I need to swap monitors as the backlight in my old Dell monitor grows dim. I have a Viewsonic vx2035WM that Fedora can never get the resolution right for. I've go

Re: Display resolution -

2014-10-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 12:46:15 -0400, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: On 10/02/14 11:13, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I have a monitor that doesn't properly do EDID and I use the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display ]$ ll /etc/X11/xo

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-02 Thread Doug
On 10/02/2014 09:57 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Sep 22, 2014, at 10:16 PM, Orange Paranoid > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I need a regular font resembling how a human being writes in the real >> world. Beginners learning the English language need such a font. > > Children learning languages

Re: Display resolution -

2014-10-02 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/02/14 11:13, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I have a monitor that doesn't properly do EDID and I use the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display ]$ ll /etc/X11/xorg.conf ls: cannot access /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory # yum install

Keyboard language settings at startup

2014-10-02 Thread Paul Anzel
Good afternoon, I'm having a bit of an interesting problem, and wanted to ask how I could change my keyboard setup at the initial log-in screen? The basic situation is this: I've got a couple of desktops that I installed a new copy of Fedora on, and did so using an English (USA) keyboard I had on

Re: Display resolution -

2014-10-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 19:17:19 -0400, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: I need to swap monitors as the backlight in my old Dell monitor grows dim. I have a Viewsonic vx2035WM that Fedora can never get the resolution right for. I've gone through the following process using informati

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 09:57:48 -0400 Chris Murphy wrote: > Anything handwritten in the "real world" will be both block and cursive, so > they have to learn how to read both. But the cursive will be unreadable by everyone, including the one who wrote it :-). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 23, 2014, at 2:00 AM, Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote: > Well I watched your video and I think the person who made it has NOT > idea about what typography is and less about its history. To begin, > typography is idealized writing. It is, to some extent, abstract, > impersonal. Not

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 22, 2014, at 10:16 PM, Orange Paranoid wrote: > Hello all, > > I need a regular font resembling how a human being writes in the real > world. Beginners learning the English language need such a font. Children learning languages that use roman characters learn simple capital block lett

Re: SATA II causes system freeze

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 24, 2014, at 12:33 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > > Now Louis Lagendijk suggests changing the SATA cable. That's just weird! Cables are often the source of weird problems. Specifically it's the connectors that are flakey, not the cable portion itself. Chris Murphy -- users mailing