Re: startx

2025-02-28 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM Roger Heflin wrote: ... snip ... I have never seen 2 X sessions with the same graphics hardware work > successfully. > Now, I haven't had the need to do it in a few years, but 20 years ago, I did it ALL the time. But then again, it was mostly on SCO OpenDesktop

Re: off-topic (maybe) Firefox: stop trying HTTPS without asking me

2025-02-21 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM Tim via users wrote: > Hi, > > Just thought I'd try asking here, because I'm not having much luck with > Google... > > Many times, way too many damn times, if I try to access some address > with Firefox it will go into HTTPS mode when I don't want it to. > > For in

Re: stop posting replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies...

2024-10-30 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 6:17 PM Stephen Morris wrote: ... snip ... No problems, thankyou, I was just curious because the other thing I forgot > to mention is those organisations also had the "standard" that if your > reply was not top posted your reply would not be read. > I'll add that a) most

Re: Reboot timeout

2024-08-25 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 11:08 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2024-08-25 at 10:48 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > Same here. However these are reasonable measures on a multi-user > > > system. On a single-user desktop they just get in the way, > >

Re: Reboot timeout

2024-08-25 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 10:40 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2024-08-25 at 10:17 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 1:36 AM Tim via users > > > > wrote: > > > > > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > > > I find

Re: Reboot timeout

2024-08-25 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 1:36 AM Tim via users wrote: > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > I find it highly improbable that there is a "delay reboot for X > > > minutes for no reason whatsoever" setting somewhere, that simply > > > needs to be changed. As Mr. Spock would say: "this is not logical". > >

KiCAD has lost my part symbols

2024-04-29 Thread Fulko Hew
I recently needed to revisit a design I made 4 years ago, (back when I was still running F33/F34) I have since also recently upgraded to F39 (that has KiCAD V7) And the first problem I see is that on my schematic all of the parts have no symbols on the schematic. What happened to them, and how ca

Re: how long does dnf system-upgrade take?

2024-04-14 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 7:16 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2024-04-13 at 17:37 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > On Sat, 2024-04-13 at 13:29 -0700, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > > I don't update my Fedora systems unless I have a real need, > > > > s

Re: how long does dnf system-upgrade take?

2024-04-13 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 6:05 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 4:30 PM Fulko Hew wrote: > >> >> I don't update my Fedora systems unless I have a real need, >> so yesterday I started updating from F35 to F38 >> I used the: >>

Re: how long does dnf system-upgrade take?

2024-04-13 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 5:04 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2024-04-13 at 13:29 -0700, Fulko Hew wrote: > > I don't update my Fedora systems unless I have a real need, > > so yesterday I started updating from F35 to F38 > > I used the: > > > >

how long does dnf system-upgrade take?

2024-04-13 Thread Fulko Hew
I don't update my Fedora systems unless I have a real need, so yesterday I started updating from F35 to F38 I used the: dnf system-update download --releasever=xx process. - My first update from F35 to F36 worked. - Then I did the F36 to F37 update. KDE wouldn't work until I uninstalled qt5-qtw

Re: Sound synthesizer for Linux

2023-10-23 Thread Fulko Hew
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 9:33 AM Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 19:59:56 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > About 15 years or so ago, I was using a sound synthesizer on Fedora > > that was GUI drag-n-drop sound modules, and draw wires between them > > There

Sound synthesizer for Linux

2023-10-22 Thread Fulko Hew
About 15 years or so ago, I was using a sound synthesizer on Fedora that was GUI drag-n-drop sound modules, and draw wires between them There were VCOs, filters, ADSR, mixers, etc. It looks like I never wrote down what I installed back then. Can anyone remember or think of what that software was c

Which BB system for Fedora

2023-09-23 Thread Fulko Hew
Can someone point me to instructions for installing phpBB and/or recommend a bulletin board system to run on Fedora? TIA Fulko ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fe

Re: auto-hibernate?

2023-01-16 Thread Fulko Hew
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 5:26 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 12:22 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:47:10 -0700 > > Joe Zeff wrote: > > > > > On 01/16/2023 11:33 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > > I have figured out that my problem has nothing to do wi

Re: screen won't un-blank under specific timing

2022-06-19 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 6:31 AM George N. White III wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 11:21 PM Fulko Hew wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 8:55 PM Robert McBroom via users < >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> >>> On 6/18/22 20:

Re: screen won't un-blank under specific timing

2022-06-18 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 8:55 PM Robert McBroom via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 6/18/22 20:10, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 7:34 PM Robert McBroom via users < > users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> On 6/2/22 0

Re: screen won't un-blank under specific timing

2022-06-18 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 7:34 PM Robert McBroom via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 6/2/22 09:08, stan via users wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 10:54:50 -0400 > > Fulko Hew wrote: > > > >> I just had it again, it's very rare. > >>

Re: font tools (was "font longevity questions."). [CLOSED]

2022-06-04 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 3:33 PM home user wrote: > I have a few minutes to come back to this. > > It seems to me that the font tools do not have a minor bug. Rather, they > were probably fine years ago when fonts were fewer and generally > simpler. Now there are more fonts, and they seem to be mo

screen won't un-blank under specific timing

2022-06-01 Thread Fulko Hew
I just had it again, it's very rare. And it's happened over the last number of Fedora versions (-1 to -n) If I come back to use my computer and hit a key at exactly the same time as the screen decides to blank (I don't use screensavers) then the screen does blank, but no key or mouse activity (I'v

Re: display problem (probably OT?)

2022-04-03 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 4:10 PM home user wrote: > On 4/3/22 1:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 4/3/22 13:13, home user wrote: > >> Assuming it's the monitor, is it realistically possible to replace bad > >> components (a cpu, memory, etc.) within the monitor, or are such > >> components available on

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-24 Thread Fulko Hew
And not related... I've have a keyboard go wonky in my Dell laptop ever since I stressed it out running Folding @ Home for a year. It was running ... hot... and the thermal stress has caused a permanent, intermittent flakiness. ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: Perl is now failing for me

2022-02-20 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 9:46 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/20/22 07:38, Fulko Hew wrote: > > I just found my first example of the issue... > > > > I need DateTime:Event:Sunrise and there isn't a Fedora package for it. > > Careful, there are double colons needed in

Re: Perl is now failing for me

2022-02-20 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 10:14 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/20/22 07:05, Fulko Hew wrote: > > a) I would have had to have known that it was going to need > Scalar::Utils, > > b) I would then also have to go and find what Fedora package contained > it. > > And as you

Re: Perl is now failing for me

2022-02-20 Thread Fulko Hew
ora distribute stuff that doesn't break CPAN? On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 2:17 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:58:50 -0500 > Fulko Hew wrote: > > > Can anyone suggest where to start? > > Run the command under strace to see what strange locations it is >

Perl is now failing for me

2022-02-19 Thread Fulko Hew
I'm not sure when it started, but on everything more complicated than print 'Hello World' my perl is failing. For example: $ perl -e 'use DateTime;' Attempt to reload List/Util.pm aborted. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/namespace/ autoclean.pm line 11. BEGIN failed--

Re: Machine won't finish booting after update

2022-01-18 Thread Fulko Hew
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:29 PM Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 1/17/22 6:31 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: >> What I don't remember is what this multi-stage install-reboot was trying >> to accomplish. >> Looking back in messages or journalctl, I don't see anything. >> But it

Re: Machine won't finish booting after update

2022-01-17 Thread Fulko Hew
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 6:06 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 1/17/22 11:59 AM, stan via users wrote: > > Suspicious that this is not deterministic. It should either fail > > identically every time or restart every time (in my opinion). > > If it's really nnondeterministic, it's what's called a mandelbug

Re: Machine won't finish booting after update

2022-01-17 Thread Fulko Hew
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 2:00 PM stan via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:07:29 -0500 > Fulko Hew wrote: > > > I decided to log out and log back in to my X11 based KDE session just > > now, and I saw that 'Discover' w

Machine won't finish booting after update

2022-01-16 Thread Fulko Hew
I decided to log out and log back in to my X11 based KDE session just now, and I saw that 'Discover' was telling me I had updates available. So I said 'go ahead'. Eventually, it said I needed to reboot, so I did. After 4 (or 5) reboots that the machine drove itself through, the last reboot failed t

Updating F32 (with Nvidia drivers) and startup hangs.

2022-01-01 Thread Fulko Hew
I'm not sure where the problem lies, so I'll start out with where I'm coming from... I built a machine 2 years ago to support the Folding@Home project using F32 and an Nvidia 2060 card. It's been running non-stop ever since. But I want to update the system to the latest and greatest release and d

Re: F35 digikam

2021-12-22 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 4:11 PM Roger Wells wrote: > upgraded F34 -> F35 & digikam no longer runs. > From the CL: > digikam: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libspatialite.so.7: undefined > symbol: GEOSFrechetDistanceDensify > I just upgraded from F33->F34->F35 and my digikam runs with no complaints

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-29 Thread Fulko Hew
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 10:01 AM Bob Marcan wrote: > Why we just don't buy any hardware which have Nvidia? > If they ignore us, we can do the same. > What is wrong with AMD video, except it works out of the box? :-) > Because there is no CUDA support?

Re: SD card Timestamp

2021-07-23 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 8:28 PM Clifford Snow wrote: > Recently I've noticed that the file timestamp is 7 hours earlier than when > the file was created. This is happening on both an SD card I use in a > camera as well as my dashcam. Both the camera and the dashcam have been set > for the correct

Re: How to set the (virtual) BIOS time before a VM boots

2021-05-25 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:43 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2021-05-25 6:10 p.m., Fulko Hew wrote: > > I'm trying to do some Y2038 testing, using VMs. > > So what I'd like to do is have the time pre-set to after the Y2038 time > > and then boot an OS/VM (to have the &#

How to set the (virtual) BIOS time before a VM boots

2021-05-25 Thread Fulko Hew
I'm trying to do some Y2038 testing, using VMs. So what I'd like to do is have the time pre-set to after the Y2038 time and then boot an OS/VM (to have the 'BIOS' provide the post 2038 time). (In this case I'm trying to test an application under Win XP.) [Please, no emails about upgrading the OS.

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-09 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 7:26 AM Roger Heflin wrote: ... snip ... And most of the laptops that have an M2 may also still have an open > real sata location (maybe even with a cable) that you could also put a > sata ssd or spinning disk in, and dual boot that way. The 2 most > recent ones I have o

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-08 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 2:22 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I wanted to install fedora 33 on a laptop with a M2 SSD 128.Go, but it > is not > > > recognized by fdisk (fedora live WK). > > > Is a driver missing? > > > The SSD is recognized by the bios. > > It is a Dell lapto

Re: What is the system call for time?

2020-12-21 Thread Fulko Hew
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 1:25 AM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 12/20/20 9:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 08:39:18PM -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > >> This is my fault for not being clear enough. > >> I can't use a "C" (time.h)

Re: thermald missing and problems

2020-12-07 Thread Fulko Hew
More followup... a) I've tried the F33 Live LDE release, and I don't see thermald as part of the distribution. b) I then borrowed a Dell G3 15 (vintage: March 2020) and tried both KDE Live and Workstation Live; and neither seem to be able to turn on the fan on either the Dell G3 3590, or my In

thermald missing and problems

2020-12-04 Thread Fulko Hew
I've changed the subject line to be more in line with the current discussion... On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 11:14 AM Fulko Hew wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 12:57 PM Chris Murphy > wrote: > >> ... snip ... > Quite a lot of thermal management is split up into different are

Re: Can't control Dell laptop fan anymore

2020-12-04 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 12:57 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 9:39 AM Fulko Hew wrote: > > > > It's been a bad week for me. > > First my disk drive died, and now I've replaced it > > and installed F33 (up from F26) > > > > Afte

Re: Can't control Dell laptop fan anymore

2020-12-02 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:34 PM George N. White III wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 12:39, Fulko Hew wrote: > >> It's been a bad week for me. >> First my disk drive died, and now I've replaced it >> and installed F33 (up from F26) >> > > Two failures

Re: Lost the UEFI boot info that my BIOS shows

2020-12-02 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 9:45 AM Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 11/29/20 10:06 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > Have I reached a dead end, and am stuck with a re-install now? > Turns out that the disk drive had some sort of failure mode. I could read it fine, so I backed up my files, but... some

Re: Can't control Dell laptop fan anymore

2020-12-02 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 12:57 Chris Murphy, wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 9:39 AM Fulko Hew wrote: > > > > It's been a bad week for me. > > First my disk drive died, and now I've replaced it > > and installed F33 (up from F26) > > > > After runni

Can't control Dell laptop fan anymore

2020-12-02 Thread Fulko Hew
It's been a bad week for me. First my disk drive died, and now I've replaced it and installed F33 (up from F26) After running it for a while it started running flaky, I hadn't installed gkrellm yet. When I did, I noticed that it was reporting a fan speed of 0 RPM. True, it wasn't spinning. Maybe i

Re: [3dprinting] Re: Where's the best place to discuss Cura issues?

2020-12-01 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 6:08 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 12/1/20 9:49 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 3:36 PM Miro Hrončok > <mailto:mhron...@redhat.com>> wrote: > > > > On 12/1/20 8:34 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > >

Re: Where's the best place to discuss Cura issues?

2020-12-01 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 3:49 PM Fulko Hew wrote: ... snip ... > There is a "Get started" button under the "...This will only take a few >> moments." text. Maybe the VM screen is too small to make it visible, the >> window >> is rather tall. >> &g

Re: Where's the best place to discuss Cura issues?

2020-12-01 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 2:59 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:34:17 -0500 > Fulko Hew wrote: > > > Any suggestions? > > Start it from a terminal and see if anything shows up on stderr. > This is the stuff a some initial 'Loading machines', 'Lo

Where's the best place to discuss Cura issues?

2020-12-01 Thread Fulko Hew
As the subject line asks, where's the best place to discuss issues? The 3dprinting list ? In the meantime, I've been using the released version of Cura on F28 but I couldn't seem to get a slice that had 1 layer wide vertical walls. So I thought I'd try the most recent version in F33 in a VM. [I th

Re: Lost the UEFI boot info that my BIOS shows

2020-11-29 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 8:23 AM Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 11/28/20 11:48 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > > 'DEVNAME': '/dev/sda1', > > 'DEVPATH': > > > '/devices/pci:00/:00:17.0/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sd

Re: Lost the UEFI boot info that my BIOS shows

2020-11-28 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 9:17 PM Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 11/28/20 9:27 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > Any idea what happened to my HD boot info in my BIOS, or how to restore > it? > > PS. It is a Dell laptop. > > Hi, > > I'm assuming you're booting off a U

Lost the UEFI boot info that my BIOS shows

2020-11-28 Thread Fulko Hew
Something went wonkers with my system, and although I could try to reboot it would get so far and then fall back into some kind of maintenance mode. Rather than fight it at the time, I thought it was a good time to ensure I have a good backup of my home filesystem. So I booted a Live USB stick and

Re: New parallel port card won't work

2020-11-01 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 3:43 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 2020-11-01 12:39, Doug McGarrett wrote: > >>> I don't think it's originally a windows term. It's actually "LPT > >>> #1", similar to the following "Serial Port #1". "LPT" stands for > >>> "line pri

Re: Fwd: Monitor mode (w. TP-Link WN722N & Fedora)

2020-09-29 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 4:49 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Where to look next ? > > I started this journey with a variety of web pages such as this one: > > > https://www.hackster.io/thatiotguy/enable-monitor-mode-in-tp-link-tl-wn722n-v2-v3-128fc6 > > It looks to me like they used an alternate drive

Re: Fwd: Monitor mode (w. TP-Link WN722N & Fedora)

2020-09-29 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 3:07 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/29/20 10:33 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > No, no other thread. In the original email I used iw command to turn > > manage off. > > > > wlp2s0f0u4 wifi unmanaged -- > > > > wlp2s

Re: Fwd: Monitor mode (w. TP-Link WN722N & Fedora)

2020-09-29 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:30 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: ... snip ... > It's "dnf system-upgrade" now and it works great. However, you're so > far behind now that you might as well just do a re-install. > > > you want to control the device. Otherwise you will have that problem > > where the

Re: Fwd: Monitor mode (w. TP-Link WN722N & Fedora)

2020-09-28 Thread Fulko Hew
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 8:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/28/20 5:08 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > I'm trying to sniff my Wifi for a project, so I purchased a TP-Link > > WN722N USB adapter > > and followed the various instructions I've found on the Web. > > When

Fwd: Monitor mode (w. TP-Link WN722N & Fedora)

2020-09-28 Thread Fulko Hew
F.Y.I. I also sent this to the Wireshark user's list to see if someone there can help me. -- I'm trying to sniff my Wifi for a project, so I purchased a TP-Link WN722N USB adapter and followed the various instructions I've found on the Web. (I don't know if it's a Wireshark issue, a driver is

Re: Anyone know how to get around a java script on this web page?

2020-08-22 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:42 PM Fulko Hew wrote: > > Dang! Which web development tool did you use? >> > > I mentioned it twice above... Firefox. > In the Tools menu, the Web Developer option, and selecting the Network > portion. > It shows all the fetches, th

Re: Anyone know how to get around a java script on this web page?

2020-08-22 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:33 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 2020-08-22 20:30, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:11 PM ToddAndMargo via users > > mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> > > w

Re: Anyone know how to get around a java script on this web page?

2020-08-22 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:11 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: ... snip ... > > I'm not sure how you want to retrieve it, but using Firefox->Tools->Web > > Developer > > > How did you figure that out? > I used that Firefox->Tools->Web Developer tool and looked at

Re: Anyone know how to get around a java script on this web page?

2020-08-22 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:43 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: ... snip ... > Any of you guys have a cleaver way to cli extract the revision? > I'm not sure how you want to retrieve it, but using Firefox->Tools->Web Developer I looked at all of the transactions i

Re: Fedora Zoom? -

2020-08-05 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:40 PM Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 15:02 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > And an appointment eats half a day with the long drive which I can > > no longer do myself. I have not tried it yet but I am assuming Zoom > > will work with a usb camera and microphon

Re: fedora 3d printing?

2020-07-15 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 6:06 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > What do folks use these days for 3d printing from fedora? > Although I'm still on F26... I use FreeCad for design, and Cura for slicing. > I can download RepetierHost and it seems to function (at least > it brings up a GUI screen, haven't tri

Motherboard recommendations

2020-04-24 Thread Fulko Hew
I'm looking for the best bang for my buck, and of course Linux (Fedora) compatibility. My criteria are simple: - inexpensive - best bang for the buck - must have PCIe 3.0 x 16 slot If I pick Intel based, I'm pretty much assured everything will work, but it seems that going AMD will get me better

Re: What download image for i686

2020-04-15 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 4:23 PM Igor Bezrodnik wrote: > Hello ! fedoraproject.org drop support for i686 from f30 but you can > find iso for f30 > > https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/30/Spins/i386/iso/Fedora-KDE-Live-i386-30-1.2.iso > still supported for mouth or so

What download image for i686

2020-04-15 Thread Fulko Hew
I recently acquired an old HP Mini 110 with an Intel Atom N270 CPU. Trying my default Fedora install told me it couldn't boot the X86_64 version, so I guess I need an i686 version. Scouring getfedora.org and archives.fedoraproject.org, I don't see one. I thought F30 still worked on 32 bit. Where c

Re: F30 first impression problems (notes and screen timeout config)

2019-07-10 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:15 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 7/10/19 12:39 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Will check to see if I can find a solution but it may take be a while. > > OK, the problem is "power devil" is crashing. > > You can fix the issue by going to the settings for the VM and for Video > sel

Re: F30 first impression problems (notes and screen timeout config)

2019-07-09 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:39 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 7/10/19 9:32 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:16 PM Ed Greshko > <mailto:ed.gres...@greshko.com>> wrote: > > > > On 7/10/19 7:45 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > >

Re: F30 first impression problems (notes and screen timeout config)

2019-07-09 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:32 PM Fulko Hew wrote: > On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:16 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 7/10/19 7:45 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: >> > I'm helping someone switch to Linux, and he's trying F30. >> > So I decided to put F30 (with KDE/Plasm

Re: F30 first impression problems (notes and screen timeout config)

2019-07-09 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:32 PM Fulko Hew wrote: > On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:16 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 7/10/19 7:45 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: >> > ... snip ... > > 2/ I thought I'd configure the screen timeout to just blank the screen >> >and

Re: F30 first impression problems (notes and screen timeout config)

2019-07-09 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:16 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 7/10/19 7:45 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > I'm helping someone switch to Linux, and he's trying F30. > > So I decided to put F30 (with KDE/Plasma) into a VM on my older (F26) > system. > > > > My first 2

F30 first impression problems (notes and screen timeout config)

2019-07-09 Thread Fulko Hew
I'm helping someone switch to Linux, and he's trying F30. So I decided to put F30 (with KDE/Plasma) into a VM on my older (F26) system. My first 2 stumbling blocks are: 1/ Somehow (and I don't know how I did it), I seem to have created a 'notes' window. Now I can't figure out how to get rid o

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-07 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 8:03 PM Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > > On 11/07/2018 03:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 11/8/18 6:52 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > >> > >> On 11/07/2018 01:52 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > >>> > >>> This is the dismount part of my script: > >>> > >>> sync; sync

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-20 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:35 PM Mike Wright wrote: > On 10/20/18 3:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:42:20 -0700 > > stan wrote: > > > >> I'm wondering how the people who regularly use fedora-users mailing > >> list feel about that. > > > > There is already a fedoraforum which

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-10 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; > > or at least it only works for a short while, and then it starts &g

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-09 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 22:28:37 -0500 > Fulko Hew wrote: > > > I had to get a new laptop, and it came with a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 > > drive. > > > > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the hea

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-08 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > > unload/clicking I've always used: > > > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > > > But on

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > > unload/clicking I've always used: > > > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > > > But on

Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Fulko Hew
I had to get a new laptop, and it came with a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 drive. To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head unload/clicking I've always used: hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; or at least it only works for a short while, and then

Re: Web pages with Flash now hang Firefox

2017-11-21 Thread Fulko Hew
​A follow-up to my original post. I think the problem may have been related to all the Fedora updates that have been installed since the last time I logged in. When I logged out and logged back in I found that I was now updated to using Firefox 57.0 (rather than the 56.0 I reported about.) And Fl

Re: Web pages with Flash now hang Firefox

2017-11-21 Thread Fulko Hew
re? ​ > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > >> A few days ago any time I try to view a web page that contains some Flash, >> Firefox (56.0) hangs for about a minute, then does something, and hangs >> again for a minute, etc. Until I kill the tab fo

Web pages with Flash now hang Firefox

2017-11-21 Thread Fulko Hew
A few days ago any time I try to view a web page that contains some Flash, Firefox (56.0) hangs for about a minute, then does something, and hangs again for a minute, etc. Until I kill the tab for that web page. Chrome works fine. Firefox used to work too, but now it doesn't. Has anyone seen th

requests for root password

2017-08-25 Thread Fulko Hew
As a result of a recent update, I now see authentication requests for the root password whenever: a) the software update daemon wakes up to check for updates (or to install what it finds) b) when I plug in a USB mass storage device How can this be turned off again ? TIA Fulko __

F25 - outragous memory consumption

2017-03-27 Thread Fulko Hew
Running F25 I'm seeing (IMHO) some outrageous memory consumption Here's what top showed (just before the system hung up completely). ksmserver taking 13Gig of memory ! pulseaudio taking almost 4Gig ! Wow. No wonder my system hung. Comments anyone? TIA Fulko 1492 fhew 20 0 13.418g 4.30

Need help with mounting an old logical volume

2017-02-20 Thread Fulko Hew
To make a long story short, my laptop screen died, so I bought a new laptop. I installed Fedora 25. Then I wanted to copy my old stuff off of the old drive (Fedora 23) so I took the drive out and put it into a USB container and plugged it in. The first problem is that its got a logical volume, an

Re: Lost kde task bar

2017-02-02 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Martin Bříza wrote: > On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:48:38 +0100, Fulko Hew wrote: > > I've been fighting with F24 (gosh I miss the good old days) but today it's >> totally disconnected on me. >> >> My laptop has developed an inte

Re: Lost kde task bar (resolved)

2017-02-02 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > I've been fighting with F24 (gosh I miss the good old days) but today > it's totally disconnected on me. > > My laptop has developed an intermittent backlight problem so i have it > driving my TV instead. While try

Lost kde task bar

2017-02-02 Thread Fulko Hew
I've been fighting with F24 (gosh I miss the good old days) but today it's totally disconnected on me. My laptop has developed an intermittent backlight problem so i have it driving my TV instead. While trying to resolve resolution issues between and driving both the onboard LCD and the TV my KD

Re: Language Problems - system is in English but commands work in Spanish

2015-12-27 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Javier Perez wrote: > Hi > > My system is supposed to be in English, but all the commands at the console > level give feedback in Spanish. > How can I troubleshoot this? > > [root@bloody ~]# export ...snip ... > declare -x LANGUAGE="en_US:es" Its this one that'

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Joachim Backes > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. >> >> My problem: suppose you define an alias: >> >> alias x='echo PAR=$1

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi all, > > Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. > > My problem: suppose you define an alias: > > alias x='echo PAR=$1' > > Now call the alias by: > > x 1 > > Output: PAR= 1 > > My question: why do I get the blank before the "1"? > > All

Re: USB curosity

2015-12-15 Thread Fulko Hew
> On 12/14/15 03:22, Ger van Dijck wrote: ... snip ... > Cables can be a problem. ... snip ... Here's my USB cable story: My sister-in-law's USB disk drive stopped working for her. I tried it on my Linux laptop, and it worked just fine. I took it to work and tried it on three different Windows

Re: A Fedora history question.

2015-07-10 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:26 PM, jd1008 wrote: > What RH release was FC1 based on? Try this entry in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fedora_releases#Fedora_Core_1.E2.80.934 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:

Altair 8800

2015-06-18 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > Bus termination wasn't mandatory, but it sure as hell helped. Some > company (can't remember who) developed an active terminator board that > was much better than just passive resistors, I don't have silk screening on mine, but I'm pretty su

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 12/02/14 15:47, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> Well, to be frank, it was sold to solve the issue of start up time of >>> computers. >>> >> ... > >> This is incorrect. The actual problems systemd was meant to solve >> include but are no

Re: Is there a "real" 3d desktop for Fedora?

2014-10-29 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: > If the source code is available, it would be cool to see someone port > the old SGI program Button Fly to Linux. > > Actually, I'd like to see an Open Source port ( or clone ) of Indigo Magic > ( the whole Irix desktop ) to Linux. > >

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

2014-10-22 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Cummings < cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net> wrote: > On 10/22/2014 08:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > Back in the day (late 70's), we had a "VCC". Clever reuse of the > > nomenclature for the primary voltage supply to a chip, but in this case > > it meant "Va

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

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