Re: Severe problems with radeonHD 3470 and dual head conf

2010-04-06 Thread François Cami
Hello Peter, On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:41:33 +0200 Peter Boy wrote: > I bought a new box with an ATI Radeon HD 3470 (it is one of the rare > graphic boards with 2 DVI and passive cooling). > > Installing F12 it automatically configures xinerama mode (better > spanning) as desired. But: > > -

Re: Hibernate and OpenVPN

2010-03-21 Thread François Cami
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:50:24 + Timothy Murphy wrote: > Hibernate works fine for me - > I only ever re-boot to see how Windows is getting on! - > but I notice that I always lose connection > to machines I link to with OpenVPN > when coming out of hibernation. More or less because the remotes

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-11 Thread François Cami
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:23:17 -0800 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/11/2010 12:47 PM, François Cami wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500 (EST) > > William Henry wrote: > > > >> On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue: > >> > >>

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-11 Thread François Cami
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500 (EST) William Henry wrote: > On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue: > > If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a > while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not kick in. That is until I > press CTRL-ALT to take

Re: random lockups when using Firefox

2010-02-15 Thread François Cami
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:02:45 +0100 Valent Turkovic wrote: > We have also seen this radeon lockup error and it seams that it is > flash reladed, but it started locking up much often after updates some > week or two ago... > > Is there a way to downgrade mesa, radeon, X and everything related to >

Re: Smartctl and SATA drives

2010-02-02 Thread François Cami
Hi Jim, On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:16:36 -0500 Jim wrote: > FC12-x86_64/KDE > > Can you test SATA hard drives using Smartctl ? Yes, see `man smartctl` for details. > What test do you run to determine if if you have a defective drive ? I tend to monitor the "Reallocated_Sector_Ct", "Current_Pen

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-01 Thread François Cami
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:43:06 + Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 01 February 2010 20:46:52 François Cami wrote: > > > > Of course, I use neither IGPs nor the latest cards. > > Of course you don't, because the latest ATI cards don't work on F12. The reas

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-01 Thread François Cami
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:01:45 + Marko Vojinovic wrote: > As for 3D and closed source drivers... If you buy a nVidia card, you can use > their closed source drivers, and they basically Just Work. If you buy an ATI > card, you can use... oops, sorry... you *cannot* use their closed source > d

Re: F8: CPAN problem

2010-01-26 Thread François Cami
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:47:09 -0800 Dan Thurman wrote: > On 01/25/2010 04:25 PM, Scott Beamer wrote: > > Dan Thurman spake thusly: > > > >> To make a long story short, I was trying to get procmail support added > >> to my sendmail base in order to get maildir (instead of mbox) > >> > >

Re: Best way to troubleshoot intermittant lockups on F12

2010-01-23 Thread François Cami
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:02:19 -0700 Mark Goldberg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Mark Goldberg > wrote: > > > > This is an AMD 770 chipset based board. Maybe there are some improvements in > > 2.6.32 for that chipset. > > I tried the latest release kernel, with the same problem. Whe

Re: Best way to troubleshoot intermittant lockups on F12

2010-01-22 Thread François Cami
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:55:41 -0700 Mark Goldberg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2010 16:07:10 Mark Goldberg wrote: > >> I have an F12 installation that experiences intermittent lockups, > >> usually at times of heavy usage. > >> The syst

Re: Fedora 12 on ati radeon laptop

2010-01-20 Thread François Cami
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:05:59 -0700 Kevin Kempter wrote: > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 07:55:03 François Cami wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:04:27 -0700 Kevin Kempter > > wrote: > > > how can I get dual monitors working on it? I dont care about 3D. I > > > ena

Re: Horrible artifacts in Fedora 12 and Google Earth! (fail)

2010-01-20 Thread François Cami
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:55:38 +0100 Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:56 AM, François Cami > wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:15:30 +0100 > > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > >> > I don't know if it is possible to make just GE use softwar

Re: Horrible artifacts in Fedora 12 and Google Earth! (fail)

2010-01-20 Thread François Cami
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:15:30 +0100 Valent Turkovic wrote: > > I don't know if it is possible to make just GE use software rendering. > > You could try turning off hardware rendering for X and see if you still > > get artefacts. Might not be useful if you need hardware rendering for > > other apps

Re: Fedora 12 on ati radeon laptop

2010-01-19 Thread François Cami
Hi Kevin, On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:04:27 -0700 Kevin Kempter wrote: > how can I get dual monitors working on it? I dont care about 3D. I enabled > the > rpmfusion repos. I tried to install the kmod-fglrx package via yum but I get > a > message that no package kmod-fglrx is available. You sho

Re: Remote display problem with ssh

2010-01-19 Thread François Cami
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:42:15 +0100 (CET) Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: > Hi ! > > I have 2 Fedora12 machines (a and b), when logged in after doing > "ssh -Y u...@b" from a and try to start xterm on b to be displayed > on a, I get "xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0" > > Both machin

Re: help with... F9

2010-01-18 Thread François Cami
Hi Jake, On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:27:44 -0700 Jake Peavy wrote: > Hi yall, > > All I'm trying to do is get tc running on my Fedora 9 box and it's > segfaulting. In order to fix that I think I need a kernel update, but I'm > stuck. > > ...I know I should upgrade to F12 (or whatever) but I don't

Re: Trouble with graphics on installing Fedora 12 ppc (early PowerMac G4)

2010-01-10 Thread François Cami
Hello, On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:31:07 -0500 "William M. Quarles" wrote: > I'm having trouble with using the Fedora 12 installation CDs on my > new-old PowerMac G4 that I have acquired. It has a ATI Radeon AGP card > installed, and I'm using a DVI connection to my monitor. Do you know what kind

Re: Problems with ATI Raden 4550 dirver

2010-01-10 Thread François Cami
Hi, On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:48:02 + Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: >I have let Fedora install the packages it wants and I have added the >mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. The mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package is only needed for 3D (OpenGL) support, not for general usage. >