mouse wheel doesn't scroll

I've had this problem under previous versions of Fedora and the trick then was always to edit the XF86config file, but now that we're not USING that, how do I get my scroll wheel back? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admi

Chrome keeps going crazy

I keep a half dozen tabs open in Chrome at most times, and sometimes when I open another tab, it seems like Chrome goes crazy and the system almost hangs. Usually I'm able to get to a console prompt and kill all Chrome sessions and things calm down for awhile. Any idea what's going on? I'm runni

Re: Nvidia Support

Quoting CS DBA : Hi All; My shiny new Thinkpad W540 is due to arrive tomorrow. I'm preparing what I think I might need for the Fedora 20 install. Nvidia support question, the W540 is equipped with this card: NVIDIA Quadro K1100M 2GB Anyone have any thoughts on the best video packages that wou

safe to remove DNF?

DNF keeps crashing on me, and I was going to remove it, but it wants to remove a few other things like "initial-setup" and "anaconda." I'm scared to remove those because I don't want to kill my system. Is it safe to remove all three packages on a running system??? -- users mailing list users@li

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

Quoting Joe Zeff : Oh, Ok.. Gotcha. :) I assume there's a FAQ somewhere on how to do this, or do you just "sudo yum install nvidia*.rpm" or something like that and it'll say "oh, you need kmod-nvidia" and add that to the install? :) http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 Thanks.

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

Quoting Joe Zeff : On 02/21/2014 05:47 AM, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Yes, but you'll only do it once. If you use the packag

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

Quoting Ed Greshko : On 02/21/14 21:47, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Sure But using the rpmfusion stuff means you don'

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

Quoting Rick Stevens : I've hit a similar thing on a homebrewed Athlon machine as well. The nouveau driver didn't like the nVidia video card and it would hard lock periodically. The machine is powered down right now, so I can't tell you which nVidia it has, however switching to the nVidia binary

RE: HELP! System keeps locking up

Quoting bc98kinney : Lockups can come from bad memory, so I would recommend you run memtest86 before anything else. Sometimes you have to let it go for a couple days before it finds anything.  A non destructive drive test like DFT wouldn't be a bad idea either.  Thanks. Asked on a loc

HELP! System keeps locking up

Hello, all... I'm running Fedora 20 on a homebrew PC It's an AMD Athlon X2 processor with an on-board nVidia display chipset. This is a fresh install of F20, pretty much up to date. I had to do a fresh install since I mangled the upgrade from F18. Every once in awhile, mainly when I'm trying to

Printing CD/DVD case cover inserts

I recently had a failed upgrade so I had to reinstall. Previously, under Fedora I had some sort of CD/DVD case cover insert printer that would print all sorts of nice covers. Since reinstalling, I no longer have that. Anyone know what it would be? I use the slimline DVD cases, so would prefer so

Re: can't seem to get SSH to work

On Sat January 11 2014 6:22:47 PM Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 01/11/2014 06:13 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > > What do I need to do in order to open a port for SSH (non-standard port, > > btw.) > Assuming you already performed the change in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (and > restarted th

can't seem to get SSH to work

I had SSH partly working up until I started messing with the firewall. It would time out trying to SSH into my linux box, but now it immediately rejects it. I've manually configured the non-standard port I'm using to be allowed in the firewall and now instead of just timing out, it rejects it, w

Setting a static IP on Fedora 20

How do I assign a static IP on Fedora 20? Network Manager won't let me do that, and the command-line tools I used back in the older versions of Fedora don't seem to exist any more. I want to be able to assign a static IP to my Fedora box so that I can access it from outside via a forwarded port

Re: fedup leaves half done 18 > 19

Quoting Sean Darcy : I'm trying to upgrade FC18 to FC19. Ran fedup --network 19. got this "non-fatal" error: 120.813] (II) fedup.yum:build_update_transaction() systemd-sysv-201-2.fc18.9.x86_64 requires systemd = 201-2.fc18.9 120.815] (II) fedup.yum:build_update_transaction() libgudev1-201-2.fc

I Broke yum

Trying again... I used FedUp to upgrade to F20 from F18, however the first time I tried, I switched the display (I'm on a KVM switch) to another computer and when I switched back it looked like the display had not updated and that FedUp was hung, so I rebooted, cleaned everything out and tried

upgraded to F20, still have F18 packages

Can I just do a "yum remove *.fc18.*" to remove those packages since I should have the F20 versions now? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedorap

just upgraded to F20

And now running "yum distro-sync" results in the system trying to roll back everything. When I look in YUMEX it shows all the repos as F18, not F20. How do I fix that??? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject

upgrading from F18 to F20 -- missing dependencies

I use KMOD-NVIDIA on my system, and I ran FEDUP to upgrade to F20 overnight and when I came to my computer this morning, there were several warnings: WARNING: problems were encountered during transaction test: broken dependencies kmod-nvidia-304xx-3.11.7-100.fc18.x86_64-304.88-4.fc18.x86_64

Upgrading from F18

Can I use FedUp to go directly from Fedora 18 to Fedora 20 or do I need to upgrade to F19 first? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.o

Re: ssh tunel failure.

Quoting "Carlos \"casep\" Sepulveda" : On 5 December 2013 11:59, Paweł Sikora wrote: Hi all, i've recently reinstalled my previous distro with fc20-beta and observing strange ssh tunels disconnection. i'm establishing tunels in this way: ssh -2fCN -p ${non-default port} -L ${local_port}:$

Re: [FIXED] Re: UEFI: After upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, F19 grub menu does not appear

Quoting Nick Urbanik : Dear Folks, On 20/11/13 09:53 +1100, Nick Urbanik wrote: Dear Folks, I installed Fedora 19 on my son's laptop, and it worked beautifully with the already installed Windows 8. Then foolishly, I upgraded the Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Now it boots straight to Windows 8.1

Re: need help printing UPS shipping labels

Quoting "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" : Does anyone here successfully print UPS shipping labels from the UPS online shipping tool? I find that when I try this with Firefox, epiphany, or Chrome on F19, the barcode-containing section of the label is generated as a 728x416 image. If I use Firefox or

Alien

I have an app that is available in three formats: Mac, Windows and .DEB. I would like to install it on my Fedora box, but, obviously, Fedora doesn't support .DEB files. So, I thought, why not use Alien to install it? Except, there doesn't seem to be an Alien RPM for Fedora 18. The most recent I

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

Quoting Gary Stainburn : Hi Folks. I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients on this list. Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS Outlook which he maintains him

Re: Can anyone recommend a cheap MP3 player?

One downside to the Fuze is that it is a discontinued model. That being said they have a new model which is very similar, called the Fuze+. It has pretty much the same features as the Fuze, except they switched the central control has been replaced with a multi-directional button instead of

Re: how are you?

Quoting Aaron Konstam : http://www.frizzphotozz akonstam Aaron Konstam Don't mess with anybody who can make a lot more trouble for you than you can make for them. % Uh-oh. Looks like someone's email got hacked. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Can anyone recommend a cheap MP3 player?

On 05/13/2013 06:01 PM, Anthony wrote: I have an old iPod Touch 1st Gen that I really still use quite a bit (mostly for email and the like). But since I moved all of my computers to Linux, I can't access the device anymore and can't transfer music to and from it. I'm not willing to install Window

Which Fedup?

I was looking to download Fedup, but I see that there is one for F17 and one for F18. I am currently running F17, so I'm guessing I should download that one -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai

Re: Bumblebee on Fedora?

Quoting Dave Cross : I think maybe you just volunteered. :D I was afraid of that :-/ I'm fine when it comes to bundling up Perl modules (http://rpm.mag-sol.com/), but I've never tried a C library before. Perhaps I'll find time to take a look at it... Well, once you have a template (forget

Re: Bumblebee on Fedora?

Quoting Dave Cross : Bumblebee is a project to enable NVidia's Optimus technology on Linux. I have found a number of web pages explaining how to use Bumblebee on Fedora, but they all seem to involve downloading and compiling the project's source code. Whilst I'm happy to do that if it's necessa

Re: SPAM EMAIL

Can someone please do something about the spam coming on this list??? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a q

Re: Multi-protocol IM clients

On Thu August 30 2012 4:43:22 PM Konstantin Svist wrote: > > I know exactly what bug you're talking about, I noticed it appeared a > few revisions ago. If you're not afraid of using out-of-date code > (supposedly new code has security fixes), you can download an older > version of Pidgin from http

Re: Multi-protocol IM clients

Quoting Jack Craig : On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:44 AM, John Aldrich wrote: [snip] I've tried Pidgin, but I'm having a problem where if I change my status to "away" it freezes out the keyboard and won't let me type anything until I close Pidgin and start it back

Multi-protocol IM clients

So, I've decided to jump back onto IM after a few years. My last Linux-based IM client was AYTTM, but I'm not even sure it's still packaged with Fedora, although I suppose I could "roll my own" so to speak. :D I'd prefer to use a pre-packaged IM client. I've tried Pidgin, but I'm having a p

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

Quoting Ian Malone : Pick another one, e.g. Ubuntu (Debian based), and you have to learn a new way of doing things. Useful to learn, but may be more than you want to put up with. You need to learn their different admin techniques, join another mailing list or forum for advice, and to hear abou

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

Quoting Frank Cox : On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:57:04 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: is there a safe way to do a complete reinstall of Fedora, which in effect simply leaves the home folder as-is? Is your /home directory mounted as a separate partition? Definitely the way to go if you don't w

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

Quoting Dave Ihnat : Once, long ago--actually, on Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:29:49PM -0700--jdow (j...@earthlink.net) said: Then I discovered a property of Windows. If your motherboard goes bad and you can't replace it with an exact replacement the system and all other software installed on that

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

With respect to SELinux... I really have no idea whether it's currently enabled, enabled in "permissive" mode or disabled (I *think* it may be in "permissive" mode, but I wouldn't swear to it.) However, I got to thinking... it needs to be set up more like an antivirus program, i.e. smart en

Re: Ubuntu's Unity desktop repo for fedora by opensuse

On Sun July 22 2012 12:18:04 AM Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: > > > > I agree. That's why I switched from straight Ubuntu to KUbuntu on my > > laptop. On my desktop, I use Fedora, of course. :D > > I've gone the other route, and installed Ubuntu on my desktop and have > Fedora installed on my lapt

Re: Ubuntu's Unity desktop repo for fedora by opensuse

Quoting Tom Horsley : Jesus! I could see producing an ubuntu package to utterly eradicate Unity from your ubuntu box, but deliberately help to advance and perpetuate Unity? These people are the spawn of Satan! I agree. That's why I switched from straight Ubuntu to KUbuntu on my laptop. On my

Re: Hardware vendors

Quoting Dave Ihnat : They don't, AFAIK, pre-install any version of Linux. But they do have a full line of machines that come with no OS installed (well, I think there may be a copy of FreeDOS.) Look at the 'N' series machines. Canonical is still trumpeting its 'partnership' with Dell: http:

KDE 4.9

Disregard... I just went and saw that the F17 release is supposed to happen in a few days, so I guess that answers my question about KDE 4.9 and F16. :D -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

KDE 4.9

Anyone know when KDE 4.9 will be released in Fedora? Will that be in F16 or F17? I'm anxious to know because a major "glitch" in KMail is supposedly fixed in 4.9, and I'd like to get my hands on it. :D OTOH, I'm not so anxious as to add updates-testing to my YUM. :D I'll let someone ELSE be

updates failing due to mirrors down

So, I decided to run "yum update" this morning and it failed due to several RPMFusion and Livna repo mirrors being down. Are RPMFusion and Livna going away / gone? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: flash or firefox?

On Sat March 10 2012 6:23:31 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > The weather radar pointed at by the http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ > newspaper site stopped fully loading after a flash update > a while back. > > http://content.wdtinc.com/clients/sunsentinel/map.php?MAPID=10995&CLIENTID=2 > 0421 > > never seems

Re: Operating a laptop when closed. Disabling the lid switch ?

Quoting Reindl Harald : Am 19.01.2012 19:05, schrieb linux guy: I'd like to run my new laptop with the lid closed. I'm using external displays and keyboard, mouse, etc. When its at my desk, I only want to use it as a processing unit. you do not really want this because the machine will OVE

Clicking on an email link in Chrome

Every time I click on an email link in Google Chrome it brings up Firefox and that brings up Evolution. My default email client is KMail. I looked in the "help" section for Chrome and there is nothing in Chrome on the "default application handlers" on my system. KMail is set as the default

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

Quoting linux guy : With the aforementioned resolution changes, my display looks about 10x better. Make that 20x better. One situation which still looks really awful is viewing gmail in Firefox. For some reason that font is terrible. Install Chrome. :D -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows won't boot after update

Quoting Sergio Belkin : 2012/1/16 Emilio Lopez > After a "Windows Update", Windows 7 Won't boot anymore. I have no idea why > and how can I restore it. There is a "Windows 7 Restore CD" which could solve that, but surely this will remove grub completely. Emilio. -- This is a OEM edition.

Re: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

Quoting "M. Fioretti" : Greetings, I have just installed F16 on a friend's box. Now I want to enable sshd in order to log in from home and do system administration, updates, etc... for him. Before F16, the same box was running Ubuntu and I could log in via ssh without problems. Now every attem

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk ... additional question

Quoting "Michael D. Setzer II" : Perhaps the best option to look at it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/#screenshots Screen Show 1 - shows the syslinux boot menu screen. Usually just press Enter to boot the default kernel. Press right arrow of side of

Hacking Xorg.conf

Ok, for some reason (probably because I'm using an old KVM switch) my Fedora 16 system is not detecting what monitor I have and is refusing to give me a usable resolution. I have a Dell E2210H wide-screen monitor and it's capable of 1920x1080 resolution, but I can't get that in Fedora. Under Wi

Re: Display resolution problems

On Thu November 24 2011 6:07:46 PM Craig White wrote: > > no reason to ask essentially the same question just 2 hours after the > last time you asked and a most reasonable suggestion was made. > Craigare you sure I asked in THIS list? If so, I apologize. I'm having some issues with the n

Display resolution problems

I just did a fresh install of Fedora 16 on my system which has an integrated Geforce video card ( GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a/PCI/SSE2) and I *know* my monitor (flat panel 19" Dell LCD) is capable of 1280x1024, but I can't seem to get it to go to that resolution. I know it works, because A) I do

Can't increase screen resolution (F16, KDE)

I have Fedora 16 with a 19" flat-panel screen capable of 1280x1024, however, Fedora / KDE seems to not realize my monitor is capable of this resolution, and only offers a max resolution of 1024x768, which is freaking HUGE on my monitor! How do I fix this??? I *know* my monitor is capable of 128

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

Quoting Frank Murphy : > On 21/11/11 00:00, Thomas Cameron wrote: > >> >> 2) If SELinux is really disabled, your boot problem almost certainly >> isn't SELinux related. >> >> 3) How did you disable SELinux? By that I mean, exactly what file did >> you edit and how did you edit it? Did you use perl

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

Quoting Fedora User : > > You changed the wrong line. I suspect that you changed SELINUXTYPE > rather than the line about 4 lines above it that is just SELINUX. > Tried that too. Didn't work. One thing I probably should have mentioned that MIGHT make a difference is that when I was reinstalling,

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

Quoting Reindl Harald : > > normally i disable SELinux with "selinux=0" as kernel-boot-param > you can edit the kernel-line in GRUB menu directly before the > system get started > I can't get that to work for me. :( I've since gone in and edited the config file BACK to "targeted" as well as editi

SELINUX is kicking my butt!

I just installed a new boot drive and installed F16. Since I absolutely HATE SELINUX, I've gone into the config file and set selinux to "disabled." Now when I attempt to boot, I get an error that it can't find the policy file and it hangs the system and won't let it go any further. How do I

Re: problems while installing softwares

On Sun October 30 2011, rohit bishnoi wrote: > i have fedora 16 beta 64-bit installed on system. when i try to install > software i will get some error mesgs like below... > > *[root@bishnoi rohit]# ./AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin > bash: ./AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

On Mon October 17 2011, suvayu ali wrote: > > I don't mean to insist, but I had a similar problem and I was able to > replicate the old drive along with the partition table and LVM onto > the replacement drive using ddrescue. The procedure is documented in > this post. > >

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

On Mon October 17 2011, Tim wrote: > Usually, you can CTRL+ALT+F2 (or one of the other F keys), over to a > text console, on the same computer, to use the command line. If that > works, then it saves you a bit of hassle to work through this problem. > Though, it can happen that the graphics system

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

On Mon October 17 2011, suvayu ali wrote: > > If you want to salvage your data, I would recommend ddrescue. It > worked wonderfully for me. > Thanks. It's not that bad. Yet. I just know that SMARTD is apparently telling me that the drive is failing. I don't have a replacement yet, but hopefully

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

On Mon October 17 2011, Robert Myers wrote: > > VNC apparently correctly anticipates what's on the other end. Your > system is confused about either your video card or the monitor for > your console. Were it me, I'd be plugging in other video cards and/or > monitors just to see what happens. I

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

Ok... I have switched from noveau driver to the nVidia driver. That helps. Except I use XFCE4 as my window manager and the main bar at the top of every window is missing on the local console. HOWEVER, it works fine in VNC. I don't understand why, since both the local console and the VNC session

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

On Mon October 17 2011, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 00:28 -0400, D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > > You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it > > to fix your xorg.conf issue. > > What xorg.conf issue? The *way* Fedora/X Org works now is you DON"T > nee

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

Quoting "D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr." : > You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it > to fix your xorg.conf issue. > So you think I ought to try "yum remove Xorg" and let it go? Will that mess up any of my personal settings or will those likely not be touched? -- users m

HELP!!! System messed up!

A little while ago I inadvertently killed power to my F15 box. Now I'm unable to get a better screen size than 1024X768 (previous was 1280x1024) as well I'm having problems with my keyboard and mouse. The keyboard will suddenly not work any more (i.e. I can't type) and the mouse will somewh

Re: Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(

On Thu October 13 2011, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > The adults also realize that Fedora already has a process pretty much > > exactly as Thomas described, and participate in it if they want to. > Really? What is it? How do we access this wondrous special forum on changing device names on a whim of

Re: Remote Access

On Fri October 14 2011, Joe Zeff wrote: [snip] > And, I just figured out the correct response to anybody who thinks it's > legitimate to do something like this "because I think I need it" even > after being told that it's against company policy: > > "What *was* your username?" > > Hehe...reminds

Re: I need to make an install iso of the OS the way it is after I've laboured for several hours to customized it...

On Tue October 4 2011, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/04/2011 10:06 AM, Linda McLeod wrote: > > Is there a link to download ALL Fedora-14 updates all at once in one > > huge file..? > > All I've found is a link to download each update separately... > > No, because there's no point to such a thing. When

Re: I need to make an install iso of the OS the way it is after I've laboured for several hours to customized it...

On Tue October 4 2011, Joe Zeff wrote: > > No, because there's no point to such a thing. When you install F14 and > run update for the first time, you get the most recent version of > everything. Doing it your way would update you step-by-step across > hundreds of updates for some of the program

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

On Sat October 1 2011, David wrote: > > The company that I work for has it's own server and the software that I > use every day, provided by them, runs on Windows. None of it has a Linux > clone and I seriously doubt that any of it ever will. And none of it > will run on WINE (why would anyone act

Re: Comparitive Desktop Environments

On Mon September 26 2011, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/26/2011 01:35 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > If I understand, right click on desk top or terminal to > > change color, image, etc. > > > > Bob > > The problem is there's no way to browse for an image

Re: Comparitive Desktop Environments

On Mon September 26 2011, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Ok, I tried XFCE. I find it far superior to LXDE. You can find things in > a reasonable fashion. It shares with LXDE the problem of not being able > to change the backgrounds. I think people who balk at Gnome 3 would find > it easy to use. Adding

Re: gnome3 - the funny side

On Mon September 26 2011, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > Actually, the point is that they *are* core functions, and should > therefore not need an applet to be efficient and discoverable. > Ahh... Gotcha. > > Log out and lock screen are built in to the shell (account menu at top > right, keyboard sh

Re: gnome3 - the funny side

On Mon September 26 2011, Ian Malone wrote: > On the basis that you need to laugh every so often. > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/AppletsTransition: > > Desktop design copouts > > Then there are applets that are about making it marginally faster to > do things that should be obvious and fast t

Re: Need KVM switch

On Sat September 17 2011, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 09:05:26PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > > Any suggestions for a USB KVM that *works*??? > > I've had good luck with a Raritan SwitchMan USB COMBO 4-port unit. > Works between Windows, Linux, and a whol

Re: Need KVM switch

On Sun September 18 2011, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > No, I think you misunderstand... I'm not looking for virtualization.. > > I am looking for a Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch. :D I want VGA, USB > > and if possible, sound shared. :D I have tried iogear and found it to > > be worthless! :( My old P

Re: Need KVM switch

On Sat September 17 2011, Robert Myers wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:38 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > > I've got two computers -- a Windows XP machine and a Fedora 15 box. I > > am sending back the new KVM I bought since it doesn't work at all for > > my Linux b

Re: Need KVM switch

On Sat September 17 2011, Robert M. Witkop wrote: > I have had good experience with Iogear. I used the two port when I only > had one windoz and on Linux. Then I move to their 4 port for one windoz > and 2 Linux. I currently runnit the miniveiw ultra 8 port on 3 windoz > and 5 Linux platforms and i

Need KVM switch

I've got two computers -- a Windows XP machine and a Fedora 15 box. I am sending back the new KVM I bought since it doesn't work at all for my Linux box (just sits there and doesn't detect that it's plugged in.) It also doesn't pass along the unifying receiver for my new wireless keyboard and m

Re: Help... screwed up video config (RESOLVED)

On Fri September 16 2011, John Aldrich wrote: > I somehow managed to screw up my video config by changing the default > monitor and now X won't start. I told it I had a Dell E1701 flat > panel. Turns out I actually have a Dell E1703FP. Well, I checked and > the scan ranges are

Help... screwed up video config

I somehow managed to screw up my video config by changing the default monitor and now X won't start. I told it I had a Dell E1701 flat panel. Turns out I actually have a Dell E1703FP. Well, I checked and the scan ranges are identical, so it shouldn't matter. I've tried deleting the /etc/X11/x

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

On Fri September 16 2011, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > LXDE runs way smoother than Gnome 2 in my experience. > FWIW, I'm running XFCE at home, mainly because I'm connecting through an SSH tunnel and using VNC to view my desktop at home and I need a very lightweight DE. I still have to drop the

Re: Power Outage, USB drive not mounting

On Mon August 1 2011, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 08/01/2011 02:42 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > OK. I had this problem back in December and thought I had it all > > worked out. > > A cold boot with the drive disconnected did the trick. Now why that was > needed... > Just because it could be

Re: How to enable CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

Ok... I just got pointed to a Wiki article for ArchLinux that describes how to do this for KDE (which is all /I/ am concerned about *grin*) Basically you open up Systemsettings, go to "input devices", select the keyboard, go to the "advanced" tab and expandthe "key sequence to kill x server" and

Re: How to enable CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

On Wed July 6 2011, Andras Simon wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand what you want to achieve, but > man system-setup-keyboard > may help you. > What would one put in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard if one DID want to enable CTL+ALT+BKSP to kill X? I looked at the man page for system-setup-keyboard,

Re: Name resolution

On Tue July 5 2011, 夜神 岩男 wrote: > No, the purpose of Google Public DNS is to give Google insight into > every network query you make. Your filterbubble is heavily influenced by > your history record in Google's DNS system if you have dodged the other > ways of tracking. This sort of profiling goe

Re: Name resolution

On Tue July 5 2011, 夜神 岩男 wrote: > > No, the purpose of Google Public DNS is to give Google insight into > every network query you make. Your filterbubble is heavily influenced by > your history record in Google's DNS system if you have dodged the other > ways of tracking. This sort of profiling g

Re: Name resolution

On Tue July 5 2011, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:52 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > > might I suggest trying Google Public DNS servers? 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 > > are the IP addresses. My ISP apparently runs some sort of filtering > > and occasionally I have problems

Re: Name resolution

On Mon July 4 2011, Eric Tanguy wrote: > Since few days now i have a name resolution problem. For example when i > entrer a new address in firefox it returns that the name can't be > resolved. Reloading the page and firefox display fine the page. I have > the same problem from thunderbird or cli us

Re: Google Chrome browser and Kwallet

On Thu June 30 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Had a similar problem with Chrome just pop up out of the blue. I > > changed the web browser in systemsettings from "google chrome" to > > "google-chrome -- password-store=kwallet" and ran like that for a > > couple days, then gave up and rem

Re: Google Chrome browser and Kwallet

On Thu June 30 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > $ google-chrome --help > > [...] > > --password-store= > Set the password store to use. The default is to > automatically detect based on the desktop environment. basic > selects the built in, unencrypted password stor

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password???? (NOT SOLVED)

On Tue June 21 2011, John Aldrich wrote: > On Tue June 21 2011, mike cloaked wrote: > > If you now switch on sync with a gmail account, then allow time for it > > to synchronise... and then run it without the --password-store flag, > > does that then allow sync to put the p

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password???? (SOLVED???)

On Tue June 21 2011, mike cloaked wrote: > > If you now switch on sync with a gmail account, then allow time for it > to synchronise... and then run it without the --password-store flag, > does that then allow sync to put the passwords in the local encrypted > sqlite file instead of kwallet after

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password???? (SOLVED???)

On Mon June 20 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Not really. The way you describe it, your home console is always logged > on, so you don't need to be authenticated again. OTOH your remote > session via SSH is logged out when you go home (even though the SSH > connection remains open), so when

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password????

It's not THAT big a deal... I just have to type my login password again, but it's annoying. :D -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailin

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