Re: users Digest, Vol 102, Issue 39

2012-08-10 Thread Timothy Davis
On 09-08-12 15:55, Dick Holland wrote: > Does anyone have direct experience of setting up an ATI X1800 XT under > Fedora? I have seen horror stories on the web about buggy drivers. > What is the best source (and version) for drivers? > Why not start with using the radeon driver which is shipped w

Re: users Digest, Vol 102, Issue 37

2012-08-10 Thread Timothy Davis
> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Tim Evans wrote: > No such lockups with 3.4.6-2. > > Not quite sure how to characterize this specifically enough to file a bug > report. Anyone else seeing this? > -- > No such lockups with 3.4.6-2. > Not quite sure how to characterize this specifically enough

Re: Fedora 17 boot problem -

2012-08-07 Thread Timothy Davis
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 12:48 -0400, Mark C. Allman wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 12:37 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > wrote: > > I've just installed F-17/64/XFCE on what was an F-16/64 computer. > > > > Initially everything worked as expected, it updated without a hitch. > >

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

2012-01-19 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/19/2012 02:36 PM, John Aldrich wrote: 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

Re: Only desktop wallpaper after login F15

2012-01-17 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/17/2012 03:39 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/17/2012 08:59 AM, Freak Trick wrote: I formatted and reinstalled. Again it worked fine the first time. But next boot gave the same problem. Moreover without being able to access the desktop, I am short of ideas to do anything to resolve the problem.

Re: Only desktop wallpaper after login F15

2012-01-17 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/17/2012 11:59 AM, Freak Trick wrote: Yesterday, I installed F15 from Live CD (downloaded around May release of the version). The first run was fine and I was able to install all usual applications - Chrome, Audacious, VLC, gcc, gcc-c++. Next morning, when I started the machine, I could re

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-13 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/13/2012 04:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to boot a computer in EFI mode. I have an EFI netbook and installed F16 on it

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-13 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to boot a computer in EFI mode. I have an EFI netbook and installed F16 on it. Worked fine, not sure what you mean. -- Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint and Slackware user Linux counter #386175 -

Re: Notecase for F-16 -

2012-01-12 Thread Timothy Davis
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > I've just installed F-16 but can't find a Notecase rpm for > Fedora 16. I have a very extensives set of notes that I rely on > in Notecase. > > What are my options? > > Bob > > > You can go to the website to

Re: Fedora 16 instabilities

2012-01-12 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/12/2012 10:07 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.01.2012 15:42, schrieb Ed Greshko: Come on people.. Don't you just hate it when someone puts out a list of vague grievances and then doesn't engage in the conversation they've created? Isn't there a word for that? yes, it is known as "bu

Re: Fedora 16 instabilities

2012-01-11 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/11/2012 03:26 PM, Jesse Palser wrote: There is always Microsoft(R) Windows(R) I ran Linux for about two years natively on my main desktop. (first was Linux Mint, then Ubuntu, then Xubuntu after the switch to Unity Desktop) Been running Windows(R) 7 Home Premium 64Bit for almost a year w

Re: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-11 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/11/2012 12:20 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 13:32 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 07:16:12 AM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: How is this box connected to the outside world? Have there been ANY networking changes wrt the internet connection? But internet con

Re: users Digest, Vol 95, Issue 31

2012-01-06 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/06/2012 07:00 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Can I install a 64-bit kernel on a F16 32-bit system From: John Wendel Date: 01/05/2012 10:59 PM To: Community support for Fedora users I just bought more memory for a box that has F16 32-bit installed. Can I inst

CR-48 Gobi 2000 Support

2011-02-15 Thread Timothy Davis
> > Has anyone gotten the Gobi 2000 chipset to work with the qcserial driver? I > have found a few patches but do not want to roll my own kernel if I don't > have to (that's why I left Gentoo). Is there a way to just build the > qcserial driver using dkms or something, or maybe another way to add