new bluetooth problem

2013-09-26 Thread Roger K. Wells
After upgrading Fedora 19 this week my Bluetooth mouse won't work after waking up from suspension. I can uninstall & reinstall or do a reboot Machine: Thinkpad X220 uname -a: Linux rwells-lnx 3.11.1-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Sep 14 15:04:51 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux This has w

Re: SSH problem with kernel 3.10.9-200

2013-08-31 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/31/2013 11:30 AM, Steven Stern wrote: On 08/31/2013 10:11 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: On 08/31/2013 10:41 AM, Steven Stern wrote: Is it just me or is anyone else seeing this? Description of problem: Using SSH to access files on remote system (but local to my LAN). Using arrow key to

Re: SSH problem with kernel 3.10.9-200

2013-08-31 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/31/2013 10:41 AM, Steven Stern wrote: Is it just me or is anyone else seeing this? Description of problem: Using SSH to access files on remote system (but local to my LAN). Using arrow key to scroll through files or up/down in bash_history or left or right in current command. Works fine

Re: phone no longer mounts over usb

2013-08-05 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/05/2013 06:55 AM, Gregory Hosler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/05/2013 06:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 10:28 +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote: Hi all, I have a Samsong phone. I used to mount it as Mass Storage (selected on the phone) ov

Re: photo viewer & organizer for MATE: gthumb or shotwell or ...

2013-07-18 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/17/2013 06:24 PM, poma wrote: On 17.07.2013 23:41, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: … Or, maybe there is/are other programs, better/more suitable for this? http://www.digikam.org/ poma +1 -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roge

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/17/2013 10:29 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Timothy Murphy said: Will it cause any problems if I change the permissions on these files? Nope, been doing it for years. so have I. Never been a surprise or problem -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-84

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 04/12/2013 06:23 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:15:24 +0100 Steve Searle wrote: I would think it madness to use Fedora in a commercial activity Depends on the activity, since RHEL does (eventually) get based off of fedora, I use fedora at work so I get a heads-up on what is g

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Roger K. Wells
Swedish flag here using Adobe reader 9.5.1 on Linux rwells-lnx 3.7.9-104.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Feb 24 19:19:12 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux received via Thunderbird 17.0.4 HTH roger On 03/20/2013 01:46 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: On 03/20/2013 05:12 PM, Fred Smith wrote: [snip] the

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-10 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 02/10/2013 06:08 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 10.02.2013, Gordan Bobic wrote: Guys, this thread is just turning into trolling. If you don't like Libre/Open Office and you just have to use MS Office, go use Windows and quite trolling on a Linux mailing list. Or at the very least take the whining

Re: Laptop is getting hot after resume from suspend

2012-12-07 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 12/07/2012 10:02 AM, Christian Menzel wrote: Hi, while my Thinpad X220 normally shows 50 to 60 degrees Celsius, when running on normal load, it gets hot to 90 to 96 degrees Celsius after resume from suspend, although top does not show any CPU eating processes. I think I experience this be

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-14 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 09/13/2012 04:04 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Fedora User wrote: BTW, Fedora 17, GIMP 2.8.2. Unable to center multi-line text. Can no longer create a shape and then fill it with a color. Color ME frustrated. I'm able to do both of those things with the same version of software. I did them

Re: Kernel 3.3.0-4 & bluetooth

2012-04-02 Thread Roger K. Wells
ution though since the previous several kernel versions did not have this problem. roger ==end of script == On 2 April 2012 03:39, Roger K. Wells wrote: no response. This is real though. Just not using a bluetooth mouse& all's well. cheers roger wells --

Fwd: Kernel 3.3.0-4 & bluetooth

2012-04-01 Thread Roger K. Wells
no response. This is real though. Just not using a bluetooth mouse & all's well. cheers roger wells Original Message Subject:Kernel 3.3.0-4 & bluetooth Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:40:25 -0400 From: Roger Wells Reply-To: roger.k.we...@alum.mit.edu To: Comm

Re: split pdf file into two

2012-02-16 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 02/16/2012 02:58 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Dear friends, Does anyone know how to do this on F16? Sorry for the terseness of the question. Ranjan I use pdfsam (pdf split and merge). Seems very good and complete. I often have to assemble a new document from pieces of others. Written in Java.

Re: fedora 16 printer problem

2012-01-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 01/12/2012 11:25 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: On 01/12/2012 10:54 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 09:40 -0500, Roger K. Wells wrote: * Using the HPLIP Device Manager application Did you install the hplip package supplied as part of Fedora, or did you install it from HP&#

Re: fedora 16 printer problem

2012-01-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 01/12/2012 10:54 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 09:40 -0500, Roger K. Wells wrote: * Using the HPLIP Device Manager application Did you install the hplip package supplied as part of Fedora, or did you install it from HP's HPLIP website? I did it as part of Fedora

Re: fedora 16 printer problem

2012-01-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 01/12/2012 10:34 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Please don't hijack threads. Your message is unrelated to the one you replied to. You should compose a fresh message rather than a reply. Changing the Subject line is not enough. poc oops, sorry. I didn't know that -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 2

fedora 16 printer problem

2012-01-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
hello, * I have installed fedora 16 on a new TP X220 to replace fedora 14 on a TP X200. * The two systems are intended to be equivalent until I switch over exclusively to the X220. * Using the HPLIP Device Manager application I installed the same hp network connected printers, two w

Re: Fedora 16 instabilities

2012-01-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 01/11/2012 06:41 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: The only real problems I've had with f16 is the one recently discussed in another thread about the kernel problem with heavy disk I/O from one process bogging down everything else on the system. I was using mencoder the other day to convert a .wmv file t

Re: F16 - a good experience

2011-12-30 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 12/30/2011 01:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/30/2011 08:51 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: Luckily the frippery extensions and some other good stuff on extensions.gnome.org allow me to mimick GNOME2 pretty well. +1 Doesn't it bother anybody else here that many people have to use a bunch of third-p

Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Roger K. Wells
+1 On 10/13/2011 12:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 13 October 2011 15:41:24 Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Fedora 17 name has already been voted upon. Fedora 18 codename >> suggestions will be requested when Fedora 17 is about to be released > I think it would be more appropriate to rename

Re: Some minor(grrr...) Gnome3 irritations

2011-08-14 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/14/2011 11:02 AM, William Case wrote: > Hi; Just preupdated/updated to FC15 with Gnome3. There is lots to like > in the new Gnome and I am sure once I get familiar with moving around in > it and getting set up with the way I like to work, every thing will be > fine. But today I need some he

Re: pings with noise

2011-05-10 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 05/10/2011 02:28 PM, Alan J. Gagne wrote: >> According to the man page whenever you use the -a option on the ping >> command as in: >> ping -a ip-address >> each ping return should cause a noise to be generated. >> >> I can't seem to get that too happen. What could be wrong? > I just tried this

Re: PDF missing charachters

2011-05-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 05/03/2011 10:19 AM, Dj YB wrote: > On Tuesday May 3 2011 17:06:03 Tim wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 15:19 +0300, Dj YB wrote: >>> the problem is not limited to a single document or even to a single >>> source. >>> >>> I am using Okular to read PDF documents. >>> assuming the documents are goo

Re: Mounting a LUKS encrypted LVM partition manually

2011-03-30 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/29/2011 06:27 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Fedora and basically got it up and running. However I > couldn't find a solution for mounting my LUKS encrypted LVM partition > manually. > > I've got a SSD and another hard drive for the storage of some media > files. The system is

Re: How to find which serial port is assigned to the attached device [fc13]

2011-03-10 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/10/2011 08:02 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: > On 03/10/2011 04:22 AM, Jatin K wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I've attached a USB to serial converter on my laptop's USB port. >> >> question is how do I find which serial port is assigned to my device ( >&

Re: How to find which serial port is assigned to the attached device [fc13]

2011-03-10 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/10/2011 04:22 AM, Jatin K wrote: > Dear All, > > I've attached a USB to serial converter on my laptop's USB port. > > question is how do I find which serial port is assigned to my device ( > the converter ) ?? > > > Thanks& Regards > dmesg | grep "/dev/tty" -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 T

Re: Restricting ssh

2011-01-07 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 01/07/2011 10:49 AM, Mike Zingale wrote: > 2011/1/7 Markus Schönhaber: >> 07.01.2011 00:28, Timothy Murphy: >> >>> I have an sshd server running on a machine in Ireland. >>> >>> Can I configure it so that it only accepts connection >>> from certain machines, wherever they may be in the world? >

Re: fedora 14 & compiz

2011-01-06 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 01/06/2011 11:28 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2011 15:17:10 Aaron Konstam wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:59 +0100, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: I recently turned on the Compiz desktop effects and suspend stopped working. At least I think this is the correlation. Th

Re: fedora 14 & compiz

2011-01-06 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 01/06/2011 10:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 09:17 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> I guess I am required to add the admonition of not to top post. > Giving the OP the benefit of the doubt (as a non-native English speaker) > he may not understand what is meant by top-pos

fedora 14 & compiz

2011-01-06 Thread Roger K. Wells
Hello, I recently turned on the Compiz desktop effects and suspend stopped working. At least I think this is the correlation. The PC just hangs until I use the power switch. Has any one else observed this? uname -a: Linux rwells-f14 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 23 16:04:50 UTC 201

Re: GDM on F14

2010-11-09 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 11/09/2010 02:28 PM, fred smith wrote: > Does anyone know if the GDM bug that causes the GDM login box to be one > pixel wide (when the user name list is disabled) has been fixed in F14? > I don't know but when that happened to me I switched to the KDE login. Still use Gnome after login though.

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 11/03/2010 03:38 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 11/03/2010 03:11 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: I think the main problem is that you skipped F13 and jumped to F14 directly. Usually the most well-tested upgrades are to $release+ *from: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade "Upgrade to curren

cp210x.ko hangs on open attempt

2010-09-29 Thread Roger K. Wells
I have a RS485 serial device (Quatech SSU2-300) that when plugged into a USB (2.0) port appears to be recognized correctly. dmesg yields: cp210x 3-1:1.0: cp210x converter detected usb 3-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 3-1: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0

Re: Suspend/sleep

2010-09-28 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 09/28/2010 05:44 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 09/28/2010 09:58:43 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: >>Months ago when I started using Fedora 13 from Centos 5.3 >> one of the reasons was that things just worked. Things >> like suspend when the laptop lid is closed. Latel

Suspend/sleep

2010-09-28 Thread Roger K. Wells
Months ago when I started using Fedora 13 from Centos 5.3 one of the reasons was that things just worked. Things like suspend when the laptop lid is closed. Lately starting perhaps six weeks ago the probability of a successful suspension and subsequent wake up seems to be about 50%-60%. My que

Re: Suspend "lid switch" & NetworkManager

2010-09-02 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 09/01/2010 07:36 PM, dp wrote: > I find that the following update causes suspend/resume to fail: > > == > Updating: > NetworkManager i6861:0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13 > NetworkManager-glib i6861:0.8.

Re: Removing user list from login screen.

2010-08-27 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/27/2010 02:02 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:46:10 -0500 > Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> How can you rmove the list of users that can login from login screen? > The only way I find to configure GDM is to switch to KDM :-). > > yum install kdm > echo 'DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE'> /etc

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/11/2010 11:59 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tim wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:34 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >>> The link is: >>> http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/76822/the-look-time >> That actually looks reasonably good, on screen, her

Re: Google Earth on x64

2010-08-10 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/10/2010 07:18 AM, spmirowski wrote: >Hello all, > > I am on Fedora 13 x64. Has anyone gotten Google Earth to work well. I never > got > it working > on 12 or 13 x64. Had it working 11. I get the error: Google Earth has caught > signal 11. > Google Earth5.0.11733.9347 B

Re: firefox bug (fedora or mozilla?)

2010-07-29 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/30/2010 02:12 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I've come across some sites that only partially render when using firefox. I had been using 3.0.15 so upgraded to 3.6.6 from Remi Collet's repository in hopes of better functionality but the problem persists. Note that both of these render co

Re: SE Linux issue: "Error checking policy version." (sealert -s)

2010-07-29 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/29/2010 01:45 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > When I start the SE Linux Troubleshooter, it does not display any > alerts and the following error appears at the bottom of the window; > > Error checking policy version. > I observe this behavior as well. > I don't see a bug on this in bugzill

Re: F13: Missing software update notifications

2010-07-25 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/24/2010 11:36 AM, JB wrote: > Roger K. Wells saic.com> writes: > >> ... > A message from the maintainer of PackageKit - fix on its way next week. > JB thanks for letting us know > > > > > > -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI

Re: F13: Missing software update notifications

2010-07-23 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/23/2010 05:00 PM, JB wrote: > Fennix gmail.com> writes: > > >>I think that you must have turned off notifications.Fennix >> >> > Well, > I have set preferences to hourly as usually (System-Preferences-Software > Updates). > I checked that the gpk-update-icon is checked-off in

Re: Gnome Menu curosity question ?!?

2010-07-08 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/08/2010 01:51 PM, JB wrote: > William Case rogers.com> writes: > > >> ... >> > Hi, > yes, I agree with you. > The proper menu organization should be with the topmost specifier "system" > including all system-related menus/items. > It is proper to reorganize the System as well and

Re: I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/07/2010 01:03 PM, Alan Holt wrote: Just try Adobe Reader for Linux if you have some problems with Linux based PDF reader 2010/7/7 Linuxguy123 > I can't seem to open this file and zoom in on it with any Linux based PDF reader. They all seem to lock

Re: qtparted does not run in F13

2010-07-01 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/01/2010 02:05 PM, JD wrote: >On 07/01/2010 10:48 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: > >> On 07/01/2010 01:30 PM, JD wrote: >> >>> On 07/01/2010 10:19 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 07/01/2010 11:47 AM, JD

Re: qtparted does not run in F13

2010-07-01 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/01/2010 01:30 PM, JD wrote: >On 07/01/2010 10:19 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: > >> On 07/01/2010 11:47 AM, JD wrote: >> >>> On 07/01/2010 02:59 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>

Re: qtparted does not run in F13

2010-07-01 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/01/2010 11:47 AM, JD wrote: >On 07/01/2010 02:59 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> did somebody try to run qtparted in F13? I did it, but getting an error >> prompt: "Cannot get parted version". If pressing OK, qtparted exits. >> >> Info: >> = >> >> rpm -q parted qtparted >

Re: Left mouse button stops working periodically

2010-07-01 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/30/2010 09:05 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 06/30/2010 11:01 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >> On 06/30/2010 09:38 AM, Wendell Nichols wrote: >> >>> 3 times in about as many weeks my left mouse button has ceased to >>> function. I cannot associate this with any particular activity.

Re: Left mouse button stops working periodically

2010-06-30 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/30/2010 12:01 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/30/2010 09:38 AM, Wendell Nichols wrote: > >> 3 times in about as many weeks my left mouse button has ceased to >> function. I cannot associate this with any particular activity. >> Because you can't do much without that button I have to r

Re: dual head intel graphics card problems (laptop + docking station)

2010-06-28 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/28/2010 09:14 AM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > hi again, > > since I upgraded to f13 getting to start my laptop at work in a > docking station is really painful. > > Setup: dell latitude e6500 with fedora amd64. At work, docking station > with 2 20´' monitors. With Fedora 12, this worked flawlessly.

Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

2010-06-24 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/24/2010 11:39 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:21 -0400, Roger K. Wells wrote: > >> On 06/24/2010 09:25 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote: >> >>> I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots, >>> I get a login

Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

2010-06-24 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/24/2010 09:25 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote: > I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots, > I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a > one pixel wide. > > This happened to me after installing the "AccountsDialog" user management facility

Re: kstart on fedora 13

2010-06-18 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/18/2010 11:40 AM, stan wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:14:44 -0400 > "Roger K. Wells" wrote: > > >> On 06/18/2010 04:22 AM, Dj YB wrote: >> >>> On Friday June 18 2010 00:32:44 Roger K. Wells wrote > if there not already a bug report,

Re: kstart on fedora 13

2010-06-18 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/18/2010 06:38 AM, Dj YB wrote: > On Friday June 18 2010 11:22:02 Dj YB wrote: > >> On Friday June 18 2010 00:32:44 Roger K. Wells wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> We have been using kstart to launch various programs in order >>> to keep the

Re: kstart on fedora 13

2010-06-18 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/18/2010 04:22 AM, Dj YB wrote: > On Friday June 18 2010 00:32:44 Roger K. Wells wrote: > >> Hello >> We have been using kstart to launch various programs in order >> to keep them above other windows: >> >> kstart --ontop "program" >>

kstart on fedora 13

2010-06-17 Thread Roger K. Wells
Hello We have been using kstart to launch various programs in order to keep them above other windows: kstart --ontop "program" This has been working fine on RHEL5 using KDE and CentOS 5.5 using Gnome. Now on FC13 (Gnome) when ever it is executed all windows from all workspaces are moved to the c

Re: Lots of instabilities in F13 ?

2010-06-14 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/14/2010 11:31 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 06/14/2010 10:25 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> Is it me or are there lots of little instabilities in F13 ? >> >> Firefox, Evolution, etc ? >> >> Thanks >> >> > I'm not having any issues with Firefox and don't use Evolution. My big > issue is

Re: RHEL5 binaries

2010-06-08 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/08/2010 12:22 PM, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: > On 06/08/2010 09:31 PM, Roger K. Wells wrote: > >> I am using fedora 13, having migrated from CentOS 5.5. >> My customers are using RHEL5. Is it possible to create >> libraries, programs, etc (all "C"&a

RHEL5 binaries

2010-06-08 Thread Roger K. Wells
I am using fedora 13, having migrated from CentOS 5.5. My customers are using RHEL5. Is it possible to create libraries, programs, etc (all "C" & C++) on fc 13 that will run on RHEL5? I am considering a chroot environment where I can install CentOS just for the purpose of building compatible bina