Re: New NVIDIA card with F26?

2017-11-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/02/2017 08:34 PM, PropAAS DBA wrote: My main question is around the NVIDIA card, for the past several years I've been running laptops with integrated intel graphics and the default nouveau driver and things 'just work'. I don't really need high performance graphics like gaming or high int

Re: New NVIDIA card with F26?

2017-11-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/03/17 11:34, PropAAS DBA wrote: > > My main question is around the NVIDIA card, for the past several years I've > been > running laptops with integrated intel graphics and the default nouveau driver > and > things 'just work'. I don't really need high performance graphics like gaming > or

New NVIDIA card with F26?

2017-11-02 Thread PropAAS DBA
Hi All; Apologies in advance for cross posting, I posted this question to the Fedora KDE list as well. I just purchased the below system online from Lenovo, did a bit of research and it seems like it should all work but I cut the research short and ordered it mostly because I have a seriou

Re: Understanding VPN client options

2017-11-02 Thread Alex
Hi, On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 12:59 -0400, Alex wrote: >> 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 reques

Re: f26 to f26 cups sharing problem

2017-11-02 Thread tar
Well it works now, and the problem was a corrupted firewalld configuration. The hint was when I tried the brute force approach of telnet server.localdomain 631 and got "No route to host" indicating that the host resolution was working but the port was blocked on the server. One clean up an

Re: hybrid graphics laptop and nouveau

2017-11-02 Thread James Hogarth
On 2 Nov 2017 12:07 pm, "AV" wrote: On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 11:35 +, James Hogarth wrote: > 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 addin

Thinkpad X301 Trackpoint Sensitivity Setting

2017-11-02 Thread Christopher St. Louis
I booted up my laptop yesterday to find that the Trackpoint sensitivity had somehow dramatically increased such that a slight nudge sends the mouse pointer flying across the screen, and clicking on any buttons or menu items requires me to circle around the selected item like a plane approaching the

Tweaking Fedora

2017-11-02 Thread Beartooth
Within the next three weeks or so, barring any great surprises, I hope to be putting Fedora 27 onto four PCs, a laptop, and a netbook. IIRC, the netbook, which I haven't used recently, has F24 now; all the others are running 26. I'll do all I can by upgrading, because every time I do a

Cannot install bugzilla on F26: wrong error saying /var/lib/bugzilla/data/params.json file does not exist but it exists

2017-11-02 Thread Frédéric
Hi, I am trying to install bugzilla. checksetup.pl is happy, the http server is running (http://localhost shows something) but http://localhost/bugzilla shows this strange message: The /var/lib/bugzilla/data/params.json file does not exist. You probably need to run checksetup.pl. at Bugzilla/Conf

Re: hybrid graphics laptop and nouveau

2017-11-02 Thread AV
On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 11:35 +, James Hogarth wrote: > 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

Re: Understanding VPN client options

2017-11-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 12:59 -0400, Alex wrote: > 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, o