Re: What does the DVD media check if installing a new Fedora version? / Proposal

2010-08-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
u can check to verify the burned stuff. (If I'm not mistaken, it actually does a bytewise compare these days, not a checksum.) You can also run sha256sum /dev/cdrom and compare the result with the published checksums. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: btrfs supported in Fedora 12?

2010-03-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
you can use any supported > fs (including brtfs when passing the magic "icantbelieveitsnotbtr"). It's also possible to convert the ext4 partition written by the live image to btrfs post installation, btrfs can convert ext* partitions. Kevin Kofler -- users m

Re: f11: issue with akonadi and mysql-global.conf

2010-03-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
ations by hand. Kevin Kofler -- 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

Re: texlive 2009

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
view requests are going to take forever. :-( Kevin Kofler -- 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

Re: akonadi startup errors

2010-03-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Dave Stevens wrote: > have you added the para? Yes. > I don't see it, could you supply a url? http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Nepomuk_Indexing_Agents_have_been_Disabled has all the information now. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Upgrading i686 vs. x86_64. Just checking !

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
e yum pull both versions by default. Kevin Kofler -- 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

Re: Real Audio

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Aaron Konstam wrote: > I still thing that RealPlayer11GOLD.bin is the best program for > processing audio streams. It's proprietary software. :-( Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: Upgrading i686 vs. x86_64. Just checking !

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Kevin Kofler -- 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

Re: akonadi startup errors

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
o migration which isn't affecting you at all). I'm adding a paragraph to the userbase.kde.org wiki to make this clear. (But I've been trying to explain that to Anne Wilson all this time. :-( ) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
g and reinstalling usually doesn't solve anything anyway, as all the settings are in your home directory, not in the package. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
red for Akonadi to be happy, and in fact I'd recommend NOT to check the Strigi one (or to disable it again if you already enabled it) because that indexes your files in the background and can cause quite some CPU and I/O activity which is of no use to you if you don't use the resul

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
g into problems, but I really don't understand why. :-( Normally it just works! Kevin Kofler -- 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

Re: gsl_foo

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Serj Burcev wrote: > 8:arts-devel-1.5.10-11.fc12.x86_64 : Файлы разработки для звукового > сервера aRts. That's definitely not what he's looking for! aRts is the old KDE 3 sound server. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
he service before renaming the folder. I know > it wasn't mysqld alone as I had already tried it since manually starting > the service. It's irrelevant, Akonadi doesn't by default use a systemwide MySQL instance at all, it spawns its own, per user one. Kevi

Re: GOOD WORK!! (kde 4.4)

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Kofler
G), of which I'm part, worked hard on making this possible, packaging and building the new stuff as quickly as we could, backporting regression fixes, rebuilding those dependent packages which needed to be rebuilt etc. We are glad you enjoy the result! Kevin Kofler (KD

Re: KMail

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
John Aldrich wrote: > Who's brilliant idea was it to push out a broken update anyway??? It works just fine for most people. Unfortunately, it's hard to tell what exactly is going wrong for you without further information. Kevin Kofler -- users maili

Re: dolphin crash....

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
oprietary software. (And yes, Chrome IS proprietary software, only the Chromium source code and third-party packages built from that are Free Software.) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Upgrade downgrades Firefox

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
d Firefox 3.6 RPMs can be found in Remi Collet's repository. Kevin Kofler -- 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

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-14 Thread Kevin Kofler
g the F12 mesa SRPM for F11 in a Koji scratch build, it didn't even build. It'll be much easier to just upgrade to F12. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
y a bug in the 2D portions. Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
ly true)] FYI, Hans Reiser is now in prison for having killed his ex-wife and unlikely to ever get out of it. (They're serious when they say "life in prison" over in California.) > Tuxonice is just another of the big "but why not?" denied projects. There wer

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
If you have a HD 5xxx, you probably need to wait for Fedora 13 or 14, there is currently no 3D support for those in Fedora 11, 12 nor Rawhide. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedo

Re: Kde4 question re desktop menu items.

2010-02-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
ft and right button? That's under Settings / System Settings / System Administration / Keyboard & Mouse / Mouse. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Bump to KDE 4.4?

2010-02-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
is there a recommended third party repository for the latest KDE > stable? If you can't wait, you can get it now from kde-redhat unstable. But I recommend waiting until the official packages are built and pass testing. It takes time to provide a reliable, regression-free update. K

Re: Pulseaudio only available output device on Fedora 12?

2010-02-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
John Nissley wrote: > I am running fedora 12 (2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP) and I am > only showing pulseaudio as an output device for sound. In what application or desktop environment? Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Packages to be removed for Fedora 13

2010-02-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
#x27;d recommend that you (and all other remaining users of ShowImg, if any) migrate to Gwenview or some other actively maintained image viewer. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: ERROR

2010-02-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > I am getting the below error on my rhel server. RHEL problems should be sent to an RHEL mailing list, or to Red Hat's paid support if you have a valid support contract. This is the wrong mailing list. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing li

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
rtise about what patches are reliable enough for production use and maintainable in the long run than those "merge everything" folks. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/

Re: ATI graphics mobility 5830 - does it work?

2010-02-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
's faster for them to code the software than to clean up their specs.) 2D and 3D acceleration and kernel modesetting (KMS) are presumably coming soon, though no date has been given as far as I know. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: ATI graphics mobility 5830 - does it work?

2010-02-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
on the hardware. Some hardware has nonstandard VESA modes for widescreen resolutions, some doesn't. It's hard to tell in advance whether that laptop will have them or not. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: ATI graphics mobility 5830 - does it work?

2010-02-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
should work with the generic unaccelerated vesa driver… Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Problem with a large partition

2010-02-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
ust tell them to fetch the legacy version.) Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

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

2010-02-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
ers got refactored to work with the latest X11 driver technologies and there were some regressions in the process.) Now if you're expecting a performance beast, perhaps you're expecting too much from a Radeon 9200? (FYI, even current Intel integrated chipsets (GM965) perform better.) Ke

Re: wireless adapter stops working after update

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
got fixed in the update). Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: kde preferences setting in gnome?

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
n gnome, too? Yes, System Settings can be fired up under any X11 environment, just execute the "systemsettings" command. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
ks in the GNU/Linux world. The distributions (or in some cases, third-party repositories such as RPM Fusion) are responsible for providing packages including drivers, not the hardware manufacturers. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
ent hardware. (Usually this is done by running a > script which does the checking and if things look good run the real > program.) And this is actually how Fedora is already set up, see opengl-games-utils. Now some 3D stuff might not be wrapped appropriately, that probably ought to get

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

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
more advance community isn't good for the new user that wants to > play Tux Racer and watch You Tube videos. There's also Free Software which works with YouTube, see Gnash and Swfdec. And they're now phasing in HTML5 support. (That said, software patents are an issue there. We h

Re: Fedora 11: how to update Eclipse and Netbeans

2010-02-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
ding upgrading. (Fedora doesn't ship huge monolithic packages with bundled JARs, but packages each JAR separately.) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
cord or wodim for CDs. For DVDs, and in the latest beta version which adds Blu-Ray support, for Blu-Ray, it uses growisofs instead. It does that for a reason. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > It won't let you print copies if the document has a flag set indicating > not to allow that. By the way, Okular has a checkbox to just ignore this "feature" of the PDF format. :-p Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
e. Compatibility should be a non-issue. Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
te. He will check then he will decided. That's not a reason to post a link to such an outdated summary. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Fedora 12 and 11 KDE - No Sound

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
n a KDE 3 app. And it shouldn't be monopolizing the sound device. Please check that you have alsa- plugins-pulseaudio installed (aRts picks up the ALSA PulseAudio device which that plugin sets up). It also defaults to terminating automatically after 60 seconds of inactivity. Ke

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
dy for production use (which was true back in 2006 when it was written, but not anymore now). Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.or

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Aaron Konstam wrote: > It seems there was a program to read electronic books available on > Fedora. > What is is name? Okular can read some of the formats. But unfortunately most of them are DRM- encumbered and cannot be read with anything in Fedora. Kevin Kofler -- users mai

Re: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
xine- lib by default, a few other apps do too). Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: A "sound" observation

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
t most of the issues are caused either by broken applications or by broken ALSA drivers. Many of those issues have already been fixed. PulseAudio itself also gets many bugfixes. > IMHO, pulseaudio is a work in progress. Almost all software is. That doesn't mean it's not alr

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
but that you then defend their unreasonable choice doesn't make sense.) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproj

Re: Fedora 12 and 11 KDE - No Sound

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
would that be and where can I tell > PulseAudio to look for audio hardware? Do you have something running in the background which may be monopolizing your sound hardware? ALL sound-using apps MUST go through PulseAudio for things to work properly. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing

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

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
re are plenty of places selling them, several of which have stores in Vienna where I could just pick them up, no shipping. Is there really nothing older than the not-yet-supported HD 5xxx (r8xx) series being sold Down Under? Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: A "sound" observation

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
to be due to proprietary software (VMware) not supporting PulseAudio properly. They're probably doing strange things to the ALSA API. This is not a Fedora problem. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Kevin Kofler > wrote: >> Not really. It's a perfect example of bureaucracy gone mad. :-/ > > Why, how would you have done it? Requiring only one form? Normal, non-bureaucrat people hate filling out forms, th

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

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon > Mobility X1600] Yeah, that's r5xx alright, support for it was added with the Fedora 9 update FEDORA-2008-5567 on July 2, 2008 as written in its update notes. Kevin Kofler -- us

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

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
g else, and won't have any > old cards to sell you. Then you go to a different computer shop. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
a 9 updates / Fedora 10. It was added in this update: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2008-July/011954.html which says "adds r500 support" spelled out black on white in the update notes. If it's an r3xx or r4xx, even earlier. Please tell us the exact model

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
o put the broken device to the bottom. (I'm no sure whether deleting it outright works. I think with PA it has the same effect as moving it to the bottom.) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

Re: mahjongg gone missing?

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
> > 10 times over and then > > ** (mahjongg:2863): WARNING **: Too few tiles in map map > Segmentation fault Please file a bug in Bugzilla to get it fixed. In the meantime, you'll find a working Mahjongg game in the kdegames package. :-) Kevin Kofler -- use

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
draws less power. Why throw out EUR 500 + energy costs + your freedom just to have the latest? Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedora

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
d Intel GMA chipset, as those normally don't require active cooling. Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
rg versions and which will never get features like support for the latest XRandR specs which are required to work properly in modern KDE). > You are basically listing hardware that is either inferior in performance > or is going to become obsolete in a year. Hardware which also saves you money, i

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
t;Poulsbo" netbook graphics chip and ATI Radeon HD >= 5000 (r8xx, codename "evergreen") chips which are not supported at this time, but everything else made by Intel and ATI/AMD in the last few years has working 3D support in the Free drivers). Kevin Kofler -- users maili

Re: Thunderbird & Okular question

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
or generally ignoring the sent MIME type. Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? In general, the latest version is always the best choice. I'd recommend Fedora 12, it's working great for me. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: Fedora 12 and 11 KDE - No Sound

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
dio if you don't want to use it. But a better idea would be figuring out WHY you get no sound with PulseAudio. Try running pavucontrol (install it if you don't have it) and checking that the sound is not muted and the volumes make sense. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list u

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
and just as well for the Intel GM965 on my laptop. This is very much hardware-specific. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
lidation and copying > data between forms. What a mess! > That explains of course, why embedded documents are used. Not really. It's a perfect example of bureaucracy gone mad. :-/ Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
not support your version of X. Or you can > opt for open source radeon driver... oops, sorry... you *cannot* opt for > radeon(hd) driver Up to HD 4xxx is now supported by mesa-dri-drivers-experimental. > because ATI did *not* disclose the specs for their HD family of cards. Not true.

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
uld otherwise help the Nouveau project are content with using the proprietary crap.) Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
n or an Intel chip if you want something stable now. All of these are supported with 3D/OpenGL acceleration in the Free (as in speech) drivers. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
y in the past. There is now support for all the pre-HD models installed by default and experimental, but mostly working, support for HD models up to HD 4xxx (up to r7xx in internal naming) in the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorap

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
27;s really not ready. Fedora is quick to offer stuff which works even if it is experimental. Right now it just doesn't work, unfortunately. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: QTParted - normal behaviour or BZ?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
equest. A GUI app is definitely supposed to output errors in a GUI dialog box, not on stderr. GUI apps are usually not run in a terminal. It's easy to pop up an error dialog in Qt, there's no excuse not to do it. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Fedora 12 update problem

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Try updating yum first: > > yum update yum Actually this is a PackageKit bug, so "yum update PackageKit" is a better idea. :-) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Re: Linux C++ compiler

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
s using). You'll probably also want to use -g if you want to be able to use a debugger on your executable. Those are just the basics, gcc/g++ have many useful switches and Fedora uses a whole bunch when compiling its packages (and some upstream projects add even more). Kevin Kofler

Re: Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
dependency mess. But a word of warning about Firefox 3.6: don't upgrade to 3.6 (no matter how) if you use the OpenJDK plugin, as it has not been ported yet. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://

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

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ed Greshko wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Recommending proprietary drivers in general and NVidia in particular is a >> very bad idea, they'll come to bite you in the ass sooner or later, and >> with NVidia there's no alternative with OpenGL support. (Nouveau &

Re: 'R' statistics package install on Fedora 12

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
set of R packages packaged in Fedora is not sufficient for you, you'll have to do that anyway. R provides automatic commands for that in its UI, so it should be easy, but this does indeed need the development stuff and not just R-core to work. Kevin Kofler -- users mail

Re: KDE apps and freetype-freeworld's bytecode interpreter

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
reduce loading time, but this means they won't pick up the changed freetype until kdeinit4 is restarted. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: having problems running Cmake

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
4.cmake:84 (MESSAGE): >ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in And this one is in kdelibs-devel. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: help, (Fedora 8 is no longer supported)

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
ome cases. It's the only answer that makes sense. Running F8 now (or any other no longer supported release) is asking for your machine to get rooted by some cracker. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: h

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Smart wrote: > A decent, well integrated Qt browser is still a major missing > component of KDE and doesn't appear to be coming any time soon. It's already there, it's called Konqueror. :-) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Linux C++ compiler

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
to info. (It uses the more intuitive Lynx-style key bindings as opposed to info's Emacs-style insanity.) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
t the graphical startup if your video hardware supports it, add "rhgb" to the kernel command line in the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: Difference between g++ and c++?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Gilboa Davara wrote: > No idea why the packages isn't using symbolic links instead of packaging > the same files 4 times... It's not packaging the same file 4 times (that's just what it looks like to somebody unfamiliar with hardlinks), it's using hardlinks. :-)

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
to save. That embedded PDF file opens just fine in Okular and displays a 4-page form. Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: nouveau on a kernel.org kernel not official Fedora kernel?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
in the SRPM and in Fedora's CVS. Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: help with... F9

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jake Peavy wrote: > ...I know I should upgrade to F12 (or whatever) but I don't have time... Then we "don't have time" to answer your question, sorry. Fedora 9 is no longer supported, upgrade! Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
mg $(uname -r)" BTW, /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd can be abused for this purpose. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Smart wrote: > Same thing with Okular (KDE4). As I just wrote in the other mail, you have to open the attached PDF inside the PDF. :-) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Can't burn CD iso in F12

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rick Stevens wrote: > Can you try a command line burn? Something like: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/.iso/file > > and see if that works? It often does for me when the GUI stuff fails. Uh, growisofs is for DVDs, you'll want to use wodim for CDs.

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
he software cannot be distributed under any license. Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

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

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
ort. (Nouveau reportedly works great for 2D these days though.) Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
all that stuff, you're on your own. As far as we're concerned, it "does not exist". Proprietary drivers are just plain not an option for us to ship, and we can't fix any issues in them, so we can't really do anything other than ignoring them. Kevi

Re: Fedora Community Remix 12

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Valent Turkovic wrote: > We would like to announce Fedora Community Remix 12.1 (2010-01-14) How did you produce that remix? Where's the kickstart file used? What repositories did you use? Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: Network Audio

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
for those who still use the obsolete OSS (Open Sound System, i.e. the /dev/dsp device), try padsp. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fed

Re: ATI/Radeon HD 4200 driver (on mobo)

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
ption (i.e. forcing it). Kevin Kofler -- 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/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines