Re: strange screen tearing effect

2017-11-01 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 31 October 2017, Jon LaBadie sent: > Your problem seems similar to what I experienced early on with F26. > I normally run Mate and Compiz. In my case the culprit seemed to > be Compiz. If I selected a different window manager the problem > did not exist. > > A Compiz updat

Re: strange screen tearing effect

2017-11-01 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Or, more like this: http://imgbox.com/wgZJYJMd Ed Greshko: > This is rather oldbut may be useful. > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/7503/how-do-i-enable-nouveau-vsync/ That seems to have done the trick. I haven't noticed the problem recur, so far. My google searching ke

Understanding VPN client options

2017-11-01 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a fedora26 desktop and would like to use a VPN to browse the Internet. What are my options? Do I need to connect to a VPN server service which then proxies my request to the remote site? Are any of the "free" VPN services legit, or do they all do it in exchange for something like either

Re : FW update from gnome-softwares

2017-11-01 Thread Jeandet Alexis
Le mercredi 01 novembre 2017 à 11:19 +, Richard Hughes a écrit : > On 31 October 2017 at 18:17, Jeandet Alexis > wrote: > > Today I got for the first time a dell Precision 5520 and I saw the > > firmware(EFI) update from gnome softwares, this is AWESOME! > > I hope more vendors will push their

Re: hybrid graphics laptop and nouveau

2017-11-01 Thread James Hogarth
On 31 October 2017 at 17:37, AV wrote: > Hello, > > This concerns an Asus Zenbook with hybrid graphics (Intel/Nvidia). > > 1) There are 2 ways to deactivate the nouveau driver: >by adding 'modprobe.nouveau=0' to the kernel cmd line OR >by adding 'modprobe.blacklist=nouveau rd.blacklist=nou

Re: FW update from gnome-softwares

2017-11-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 31 October 2017 at 18:17, Jeandet Alexis wrote: > Today I got for the first time a dell Precision 5520 and I saw the > firmware(EFI) update from gnome softwares, this is AWESOME! > I hope more vendors will push their fw in the near future :). Always great to see a happy customer :) If you want

Re: f26 to f26 cups sharing problem

2017-11-01 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 31/10/2017 alle 18.49 -0700, t...@sonic.net ha scritto: > any ideas on next things to try/investigate? seem a resolver problem (dns, suffix, domain, ecc) Verify on server and client: # hostname # cat /etc/resolv.conf # cat /etc/hosts # for two cmd "host" "ping" do # eval $cmd serv