Problem installing Fedora 20 and 21 on notebook?

2015-03-27 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Have a student with a Toshiba Satellite L305 and tried to install Fedora 20 and 21 by using both DVD and Flash. In both cases it would come up with the grub screen, but both the regular install and the basic video would result in strange graphics and no response?? I use a fail-safe option with

Re: Handling and resolving 'dependency' which has been custom compiled

2015-03-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/27/2015 06:00 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the best way in Fedora to handle the following situation? > > - Package X depends on package Y > - Package Y is actually installed through custom compiling it (in > $HOME/bin) > - Doing: > > yum install X > > will want to insta

Re: Microsoft may lock out other OSes with Windows 10

2015-03-27 Thread Pete Travis
On 03/27/2015 03:30 PM, Mickey wrote: > Is this true with Linux, Fedora ? I though Secure Boot was overcome as a > problem. > > http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/03/23/microsoft-may-lock-out-other-oses-with-windows-10/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork I'm not worried about this at a

Re: Microsoft may lock out other OSes with Windows 10

2015-03-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Mickey wrote: >> Is this true with Linux, Fedora ? I though Secure Boot was overcome >> as a problem. > > I've been watching this, and the concern are threefold. > > First, Microsoft previously had requ

Re: Handling and resolving 'dependency' which has been custom compiled

2015-03-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > I compiled ffmpeg manually to have jack audio [1] support by following the > guide on the ffmpeg website [2]. This means ffmpeg is in ~/bin/ffmpeg (also > in my PATH). Before doing this I removed (with yum) ffmpeg. Now if I try to: >

Re: Microsoft may lock out other OSes with Windows 10

2015-03-27 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Mickey wrote: > Is this true with Linux, Fedora ? I though Secure Boot was overcome > as a problem. I've been watching this, and the concern are threefold. First, Microsoft previously had required that manufacturers make SecureBoot and UEFI optional; ind

Handling and resolving 'dependency' which has been custom compiled

2015-03-27 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi all, What is the best way in Fedora to handle the following situation? - Package X depends on package Y - Package Y is actually installed through custom compiling it (in $HOME/bin) - Doing: yum install X will want to install Y Specifically in my case X is kdenlive and Y is ffmpeg. I compi

Microsoft may lock out other OSes with Windows 10

2015-03-27 Thread Mickey
Is this true with Linux, Fedora ? I though Secure Boot was overcome as a problem. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/03/23/microsoft-may-lock-out-other-oses-with-windows-10/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:06:15 +0100 poma wrote: > See if this is relevant: I don't think so. It definitely wasn't a degraded array - it was brand new with both disks involved operating fine. It was also simply a data disk, the boot and swap partitions were not on the raid. I suspect it just didn'

Re: unlock screen?

2015-03-27 Thread poma
On 26.03.2015 08:21, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 25.03.15 13:03, poma (pomidorabelis...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On 23.03.2015 05:25, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> On Tue, 17.03.15 14:11, poma (pomidorabelis...@gmail.com) wrote: >>> On 17.03.2015 13:08, poma wrote: > On 17.03.2015 1

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-27 Thread poma
On 25.03.2015 12:26, Tom Horsley wrote: > I was apparently missing something like the raid1 kernel > module in the initramfs in my fedora 21 partition, but > I disabled the mdmonitor service and removed the raid > filesystem from the /etc/fstab, yet the system still > could not boot. It spent sever

Re: Keyboard sensitivity problem for particular user

2015-03-27 Thread Juri Vrljicak
oh. thanks I had no idea. universalAccess/typing many thanks On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:00 PM, bitlord wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:55:46 -0300 > Juri Vrljicak wrote: > > > [Fedora 18] > F18 is not supported, you probably know that. (I'm writing this mostly > because of security, but you can

Re: Keyboard sensitivity problem for particular user

2015-03-27 Thread bitlord
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:55:46 -0300 Juri Vrljicak wrote: > [Fedora 18] F18 is not supported, you probably know that. (I'm writing this mostly because of security, but you can use whatever works for you ;-) > For my regular user I have to strike hard the keyboard for it to work. Can you describe t

Keyboard sensitivity problem for particular user

2015-03-27 Thread Juri Vrljicak
[Fedora 18] For my regular user I have to strike hard the keyboard for it to work. My root user works as always. Looks like one of my kids just touched something but I haven't find a value for that property in the keyboard configuration UI (systemTools/systemSettings/hardware/keyboard) Any other i