Headphones won't work with applications, though it works in system settings

2024-09-11 Thread William Oliver
I am running Fedora 40 with KDE 6.1.4 (Wayland) on an ASUS ROG Strix G733P laptop  with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080.  Everything runs great except... I can't get my headphones to work.  The internal speakers work fine. When I plug in the headphones,  go to "System Settings -> Sound" and choose "

Re: I need grep . help

2024-09-09 Thread William Oliver
On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 13:24 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/9/24 1:01 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > > > The escape works only if you include everything in quotes, in my > > experience, e.g. > > Yes, which is why I put single quotes in my answer, although I see > that > double quotes work too.  The

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-14 Thread William Oliver
On Sun, 2024-07-14 at 14:11 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Jul 13, 2024, at 17:19, Bill Oliver wrote: > > I grew up on Red Hat/Fedora years ago, but moved to Ubuntu because > > some software I used was available in binary form only in that > > distro.  Recently, I've moved back to Fedora.  

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-14 Thread William Oliver
On Sat, 2024-07-13 at 14:47 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/13/24 2:18 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > I grew up on Red Hat/Fedora years ago, but moved to Ubuntu because > > some > > software I used was available in binary form only in that distro. > >   Recently, I've moved back to Fedora.   One thi

Re: I have defeated Wayland!

2022-01-03 Thread William Oliver
On Mon, 2022-01-03 at 14:43 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/mouse-tailor/mouse-tailor.html > > My latest silly project adds all the mouse settings to microcode > outside of the operating system so my trackball can be useful > when I'm forced to use Wayland (which seems

Shows Huge Potential On Gaming Platforms

2021-07-16 Thread William Roy
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Re: Application-specific networking

2020-11-18 Thread William Oliver
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 11:51 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > [snip] > Very good idea, namespaces are a very powerful tool that many people > ignore. > > I sometimes want to run a program without allowing any network > access, > my approach is: > > unshare -n /bin/bash > > this will give you a shel

Application-specific networking

2020-11-17 Thread William Oliver
This isn't a fedora-specific question, but I don't know where to ask. If there's a fedora-specific answer, thanks, and if not, I'd appreciate a pointer to the apprpropriate forum. I normally use a VPN that routes through another country. This works fine. However, a site I often use recently ch

Re: X Org Server is abandonware

2020-10-27 Thread William Oliver
On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 10:58 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > snip. > > X11 is *old* and there is a lot of complexity involved, particularly > when it comes to compositing libraries. Wayland takes the X server > out > of the conversation, which can improve security and efficiency, and > also ma

Re: vinagre

2020-09-09 Thread William Oliver
On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 22:15 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: > I can connect from my Fedora laptop to my 2 Rasperry's with no > issues, > they can connect each other with vinagre and vnc, but I cannot > connect > from either Raspberry to my Fedora laptop with vinagre, as soon as I > give permiss

Re: Any subs for Libreoffice?

2020-08-12 Thread William Oliver
On Wed, 2020-08-12 at 14:39 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > Then if no one you know uses LaTeX anymore, how does one render > mathematical equations other than by drawing the image of math and > embedding such images directly? > > Temlakos > > I sort of changed careers. I'm trained in medicine as a

Re: Any subs for Libreoffice?

2020-08-12 Thread William Oliver
Wow. I didn't know people still used TeX/LaTeX a lot any more. I remember having to use it all the time for stuff I wrote when in graduate school in the 1980s, but I thought it had pretty much fallen out of favor except for die-hard users. I haven't used it in years. But what do I know. I stil

Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?

2020-05-03 Thread William Oliver
On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 07:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-05-03 07:54, Ed Greshko wrote: > > I suppose, for testing, I'll download from the blender site and try > > it? > > Well, I just download the tar file, extracted and ran. > > And, it detected my GPU just fine. > > GeForce GTX 660 (Dis

Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?

2020-05-02 Thread William Oliver
On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 06:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Do you know if nouveau supports cuda? I seem to recall that it > doesn't > Maybe cuda support is disabled by in the Fedora package for that > reason? > > > That shouldn't be an issue. By default, GPU use is turned off. You have to go t

[Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?

2020-05-02 Thread William Oliver
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 17:22 -0400, William Oliver wrote: > > I was afraid of that. I guess I'll reinstall my Windows image and > see > if I can set it from there. > > billo > In case anybody cares, this is a blender issue not a Fedora or HP issue. The version of bl

Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?

2020-05-02 Thread William Oliver
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 14:15 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > As I mentioned in the other thread, if you disable the Intel driver > and > you don't have a hardware mux, you're going to fallback to a very > slow > framebuffer for graphics. > ___ > I wa

Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?

2020-05-02 Thread William Oliver
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 13:00 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Depending on how the hardware is setup, you might not be able to > disable > the Intel one. (See the other very long thread here that has been > discussing that same issue for an AMD setup.) Do you have a right- > click > option to run

Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?

2020-05-02 Thread William Oliver
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 17:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote:On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 15:08, William Oliver wrote: > > I am running Fedora 31 on an HP Envy 17t laptop with a NVIDIA MX250 > > gpu. I have installed the NVIDIA driver downloaded from NVIDA, > > and it seems to have i

How to turn of Intel VGA controller?

2020-05-02 Thread William Oliver
I am running Fedora 31 on an HP Envy 17t laptop with a NVIDIA MX250 gpu. I have installed the NVIDIA driver downloaded from NVIDA, and it seems to have installed just fine. I have installed CUDA, as far as I can tell. I am trying to use the GPU rendering capabilities of Blender, a 3D modeling p

Re: Upgrade of F30 to F31 Appears to Have not Worked Correctly

2020-01-29 Thread William Henry
tings (cog) on the login screen. F31 and switched me to use Gnome Classic be default!! I had never made that switch myself. So I switched to Gnome, logged in, and all the familiarity and productivity of Gnome 3 returned. I'm embarrassed by how long it took me to figure it out. -William On Mon,

Re: KDE on Fedora 30/31

2019-09-23 Thread William Oliver
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 11:38 +0100, John Pilkington wrote: > On 21/09/2019 22:37, Alex Gurenko via users wrote: > > I only have one problem and That's sound not working over HDMI on > > my > > laptop. Assist from that no issues since F27. Prior to that there > > were > > some problems here and the

KDE on Fedora 30/31

2019-09-21 Thread William Oliver
Folk, A few versions of Fedora ago, I got a little frustrated with the way KDE was running on my laptop. I don't remember the actual problem, really. I think it had to do with not being able to download and install icons or themes or some other eyecandy; there was always some sort of failure. T

Re: Please recommend a super fast video editing software for Fedora 31 Linux

2019-09-20 Thread William Oliver
On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 07:24 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:32:35 +0800 > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > wrote: > > > [I wanna make pictures] > > I'm not sure what you mean by rendering here, but if you mean > changing > frame dimensions, transposing, or other compute

[389-users] Re: BIND (DNS)

2019-09-04 Thread William Brown
A that explains it! It's possible to do by ldapadd, but it requires a file formatted differently. Glad you got it running in the end. Always happy to help! > On 5 Sep 2019, at 00:04, Fernando Fuentes wrote: > > William, > > Thanks, I got it to import. I was trying

[389-users] Re: 389ds automount issue

2019-08-22 Thread William Brown
Once you report the bug do you mind posting a link to the Bugzilla entry here for my curiosity? > On 23 Aug 2019, at 15:07, DaV wrote: > > William, > YES. The most simple way is adding cname ds.example.com to > tc-389ds-1.example.com on DNS Server. > > Sincerely, > -

[389-users] Re: 389ds automount issue

2019-08-22 Thread William Brown
e you have also found a possible work around so you have a way around it. Happy to have helped! > On 23 Aug 2019, at 15:03, DaV wrote: > > Hi William > > The nsswitch on my client is: > # > # /etc/nsswitch.conf > # > # An example Name Service Switch config file. This fi

[389-users] Re: 389ds automount issue

2019-08-22 Thread William Brown
this. > On 23 Aug 2019, at 14:49, DaV wrote: > > Hi William, > I can confirm that the automount issue can be reproduced. > > My 389ds Client environment: > OS: CentOS release 6.9 (Final) > openldap: openldap-clients-2.4.40-16.el6.x86_64 > sssd: > sssd-client-1.13.3-60.

[389-users] Re: New SSL

2019-08-22 Thread William Brown
Yay! I'm glad this got you moving, and you are back in business! Hope I helped! > On 23 Aug 2019, at 14:37, Fernando Fuentes wrote: > > William, > > Delete the CA and re-added it and worked. We are back in business. > > Thanks for all your help! > > On 8/

[389-users] Re: New SSL

2019-08-22 Thread William Brown
It might be best to wait for Mark Reynolds to have a look, he's the admin server expert :) > On 23 Aug 2019, at 14:13, Fernando Fuentes wrote: > > William, > > Understood, But it still does not do anything for me. I keep getting the same > error. > I am not sure is

[389-users] Re: New SSL

2019-08-22 Thread William Brown
Yes, but that format of the pin.txt is what svrcore experts when you start the admin server. pin.txt -> svrcore -> admin server pwdfile.txt -> certutil They do seperate things :) It's lovely and confusing :) > On 23 Aug 2019, at 13:17, Fernando Fuentes wrote: > > W

[389-users] Re: New SSL

2019-08-22 Thread William Brown
hecking token "NSS Certificate DB" in slot "NSS User Private Key > and Certificate Services" > < 0> rsa ec05a16fff5a6756702d91a127e4a5dbf8e93380 hypersouthCert > [root@hypersouth admin-serv]# > > On 8/22/19 9:53 PM, Fernando Fuentes wrote: >> W

Re: CSV to text -

2019-08-04 Thread William Oliver
I have done it in the past by loading the .csv into a spreadsheet program, saving a selection as a PDF file, and then converting the PDF file into text using something like okular or pdftotext. If you do it this way there are a couple of things to be careful of: 1) Just save a selection to be con

Re: How do I de-blur a picture?

2019-07-23 Thread William Oliver
This really isn't a Fedora question but... Blurring a pixel is simply replacing it with a weighted average of it and the surrounding pixels. The mathematical process is called a "convolution." Classically, in order to deblur an image, you need to know the blurring function (the set of weights on

Re: how to install zoom client.

2019-07-01 Thread William via users
(S. Bob said) > become root (or use sudo) and run : > dnf install [filename] > [etc] Thank-you. --- bash.1[~]: dnf install Downloads/zoom_x86_64.rpm Adobe Systems Incorporated 15 kB/s | 2.9 kB 00:00 Fedora Modular 29 - x86_64 8.9 kB/s |?? 18 kB 00:02 Fedora Modular 29

[389-users] Re: Windows Sync Agreement not copying all objects

2019-06-30 Thread William Brown
project.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org — Sincerely, William Brown Senior Software Engineer, 389 Direct

Re: what the devil does this log message mean?

2019-06-05 Thread William Oliver
I don't know, but ... this looks promising: https://fedoramagazine.org/systemd-unit-dependencies-and-order/ If this is it, it would imply that the reason it's intermittent would be the ordering of how things come up, which is apparently not always the same... This may be the same sort of thing

F29-30 upgrade.

2019-05-06 Thread William Henry
happening. William Sent from my iPhone ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https

Re: OT: using MS Graph to retrieve e-mail from Office 365 and deliver to linux MTA on F29

2019-03-21 Thread William Oliver
On Thu, 2019-03-21 at 00:04 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > Our workplace recently switched to OTP-based two factor > authentication with Office 365 and mandated everyone to use the > browser, Windoze or Evolution. We want to do none but get e-mail the > old-fashioned way, deliver

Re: Email Question - OT

2019-02-21 Thread William Oliver
On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 13:09 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > [snip] > You didn't have a dns delegation-of-authority which allows you to > claim > control or the mail server's reverse dns address and showing you're > not > some fly-by-night spammer or some such. > > If your were to dig for the PTR rec

Re: Email Question - OT

2019-02-20 Thread William Oliver
On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 10:16 -0700, S. Bob wrote: > Hi All; > > This is probably Off Topic, apologies... > > > I recently kicked googlemail to the curb in favor of a service that > does > not read my emails (fastmail). We are very happy with fastmail. We > are > using our own domain which I was

[Solved]Re: Cannot boot windows dual boot -- is this a grub issue?

2019-01-03 Thread William Oliver
On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 12:44 -0500, William Oliver wrote: > I just installed Fedora29 on my brand new HP laptop. The > installation > went fine, and Fedora comes up fine. However, I was trying to > install > it as a dual boot machine, and the Windows option does not come up

Cannot boot windows dual boot -- is this a grub issue?

2019-01-03 Thread William Oliver
I just installed Fedora29 on my brand new HP laptop. The installation went fine, and Fedora comes up fine. However, I was trying to install it as a dual boot machine, and the Windows option does not come up either with a "normal" grub bootup or when I choose boot options in BIOS. THe box has hyb

[SOLVED] Re: Problem installing Fedora 29

2019-01-03 Thread William Oliver
On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 09:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 1/3/19 9:13 AM, William Oliver wrote: > > I just bought a brand new little HP laptop and decided to try to > > install Fedora 29. I created the bootable flash drive in Windows > > using > > Rufus. When I try t

Problem installing Fedora 29

2019-01-02 Thread William Oliver
I just bought a brand new little HP laptop and decided to try to install Fedora 29. I created the bootable flash drive in Windows using Rufus. When I try to boot from the flash drive, I get the following error: [ 8.520307] dracut: FATAL: Failed to mount block device of live image: Missing NTFS s

Re: Gimp

2018-11-18 Thread William Oliver
The bottom line is that if someone desperately wants to be offended, they will find a way. Conversely, if someone doesn't want to be offended, it's almost impossible to offend them. This seems to be a mysterious secret to a lot of people. Many years ago, I realized that being "offended" was com

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread William Oliver
I jump around a lot. I usually reinstall my OS every five or six months. I do it primarily as a security issue -- if my machine has been compromised and I don't know it, at least every few months I *know* I'm clean. What I've found is that the "pain" of installation varies from release to releas

Re: Will RedHat deprecate KDE on Fedora?

2018-11-04 Thread William Oliver
On Sun, 2018-11-04 at 07:07 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > > > snip > > > > That said: also, no, there is no such plan. As long as people are > > interested in working on it, there will be a KDE desktop option in > > Fedora. > > As a long-time contributor to fedora kde-sig,

Will RedHat deprecate KDE on Fedora?

2018-11-02 Thread William Oliver
I just read this in The Register -- that RH is deprecating KDE in RHEL. As a long time fan of KDE, I'm a bit saddened. Is this planned for Fedora as well? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/ billo ___ users mailing list --

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

2018-10-20 Thread William Oliver
This comes up occasionally on another list I belong to. The dynamic of a forum and a mailinglist are very different, mostly because one is push and one is pull. With a forum, you have to *go* to the site, which means that folk who are peripherally interested will just stop looking unless they hav

Related to the drive copy question -- what about USB drives?

2018-09-07 Thread William Oliver
I've been reading the thread about backing up hard drives with interest.  I have a similar question.  I have a 4 TB external USB hard drive that I've been doing backups on.  Unfortunately, it's starting to get a little flaky -- not being recognized by my laptop, etc.  The problem got better when

Re: Stitch photos?

2018-08-05 Thread William Oliver
On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 12:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > [snip] > I believe you may want to try this package.  I've not used it > recently since the > devices that I now use do the stitching while taking panoramas but it > worked for me > in the past. > > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf info hugin > Last

Re: Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-18 Thread William Oliver
On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 15:15 +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good evening from Singapore, > > I am torn between deploying Microsoft Exchange 2016 and Linux-based > SMTP servers like sendmail, postfix, qmail and exim. > > Relative ease of installation and configuration is an importa

Re: F28: gnome-shell crashes when using external displays

2018-05-08 Thread William Henry
So it’s not that issue for you both. Sorry. It helped others and closed a BZ :-) William On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 6:43 PM Stefan Hübner via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > I don't have that folder either. > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer schrieb am Di., 8. Mai 2018 u

Re: F28: gnome-shell crashes when using external displays

2018-05-07 Thread William Henry
Have you tried rm or mv of ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. ? Sometimes new gnome doesn’t support older extensions. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575229 Once you can successfully login and launch gnome, you can add back in your fav extensions. William On Mon, May 7, 2018

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-19 Thread William
If I understand Samuel's most recent response, this problem is unsolvable by us and by Thunderbird. I'm closing this. I've seen posts to closed and solved issues before, so if anyone has something helpful, go ahead and post it, or start a new thread. I'll be checking Fedora HYPERKITTY almost

Re: Thunderbird issue (OT). [CLOSED]

2018-03-19 Thread William
If I understand Samuel's response, this problem is unsolvable by us and by Thunderbird. I've seen opinions elsewhere that this is basically verizon/yahoo not playing nice with Thunderbird. (I wonder if other independent e-mail clients are also having trouble with verizon/yahoo.) I've also see

Re: Thunderbird issue (OT).

2018-03-16 Thread William Mattison
Thanks to guidance from Samuel Sieb in another thread, I'm now able to get a log relating to this problem. It's posted here: "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/UmtcWch07hlEUUJ60vqIyA"; A few more notes... This problem occurs much more often with two e-mail addresses than with my other four,

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-16 Thread William Mattison
That worked. Thank-you Samuel. The log is here: "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/07xQurGCBVjXYes1PUleiw"; I'll add that this bug is partially random. I only see the problem (and other problems) on messages with attachments. But the problem does not always show up on messages with attach

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-15 Thread William Mattison
> What I was suggesting... KSysGuard shows that yahoo feeds data to Thunderbird in very teeny chunks. A message with an attached photo took about an hour to download yesterday. I also access my e-mail from multiple workstation accounts and operating systems. So some time ago, I set all my e-

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread William Mattison
> I saved that [etc.] That does work. > ... Try closing ... cough gag cough cough choke gag cough On March 06, I started a thread titled "Thunderbird issue (OT).". I never saw any replies. The problem remains completely unsolved. Actually, it's now worse! I've experienced that probl

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread William Mattison
ok, I figured out how to get the message into the Fedora paste site. It can be viewed here: "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/LvQNrf-2pwpvnXbWWxOmow";. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread William Mattison
I saved the "View source" window contents as a text file. What is now the best way to get that file onto Fedora's paste bin? Last time I tried that (last summer), it didn't work well. Making the whole message available might be better than me trying to guess what would be helpful in diagnosin

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread William Mattison
Patrick, I am using the "fedora HYPERKITTY" web interface for all my posts to this thread. But the e-mail address for my Fedora users list is a yahoo e-mail address. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread William Mattison
> The header looks fine and there should be 33KB of content. When you > view source do you see the message body? yes. In "View source", I see 759 lines of stuff. But most looks like "meta-data", not message body that I would expect to see in the Thunderbird window. The first blank line is li

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread William Mattison
Hi Samuel, Using the "View source" function, here between the lines of '=' is the header (copied and pasted): = X-Apparently-To: mattison.compu...@yahoo.com; Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:45:33 + Return-Path: Received-SPF: pass (domain of lists.fedoraproject.org designates 209.132.181.2 as permi

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread William Mattison
h I did a "View source" on the most recent empty-looking message. Everything is there. The whole thing is 742 lines long. You want the top how many lines? Or how would I recognize the end of the header? What displays in the header area (below the list of messages, above where the me

empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread William Mattison
Good morning, Since March 08, I've received 11 messages from this list that appear empty, including 2 so far today. I have received a few (less) not empty, none today and 3 yesterday. What's causing this problem, and how do I fix it? My e-mail client is Thunderbird 52.5.2. I will occasional

Thunderbird issue (OT).

2018-03-06 Thread William Mattison
Good morning, When I try to sign in to a (verizon) yahoo e-mail account via Thunderbird, it takes several seconds to get a response, then I often get this error message: -- Thunderbird The current operation on 'Inbox' did not succeed. The mail server for account [my e-mail account] responded

Re: Organising photos visually

2018-01-29 Thread William Oliver
On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 12:27 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Looking for some advice here. I have a large set of old slides > (transparencies) which I'm currently scanning for the family, but of > course many of them are out of order. Clearly they don't have EXIF > information (they were taken i

smartmontools still "monitoring" a replaced hard drive. [SOLVED]

2018-01-25 Thread William
Good morning everyone, After reading all your messages (a few times), re-examining the man pages (a few times), and re-visiting the smartmontools web site, I believe the real problem was that I was seriously misunderstanding the "Type" column.  I thought that it meant that some attributes were

Re: smartmontools still "monitoring" a replaced hard drive.

2018-01-24 Thread William Mattison
The "df" command gives me this: - bash.1[~]: df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 81749920 8174992 0% /dev tmpfs818690827688 8159220 1% /dev/shm tmpfs8186908 1808 8185100 1% /run tmpfs8186

smartmontools still "monitoring" a replaced hard drive.

2018-01-23 Thread William Mattison
Good evening, (f26; Gnome) This past spring, with a lot of help from this list, I replaced the dying hard drive on my home workstation. But when I use the "disks" tool to check the health of the new hard drive, smartmontools continues to report test data from the old drive. I've looked at th

Re: triple head

2018-01-17 Thread William Oliver
On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 09:11 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 01/17/2018 02:48 AM, William Oliver wrote: > > I give > > myself about an hour of poking around, and then say "screw it" and > > do a > > clean install. >   > Yes that sounds about right proba

Re: triple head

2018-01-16 Thread William Oliver
On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 21:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/16/18 20:40, Frederic Muller wrote: > > > > On 01/16/2018 06:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > > > On 01/16/18 17:49, Frederic Muller wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes.. I'm one hour earlier I think. So tried using Xorg and the > > > > same ha

Re: PDF viewers: suggestions? reviews?

2017-12-28 Thread William Oliver
On Thu, 2017-12-28 at 07:36 -0500, Temlakos wrote: > Everyone: > [snip] > I need advice on whether I can abandon Adobe Reader completely, and > what  > to use instead. > > I use it all the time for certain PDF's that come with form fields > that  > you fill out. Not all PDF viewers--and not the P

shifty changes in Impress when upgraded to f26.

2017-12-10 Thread William
Good evening, Early last month, I upgraded from f25 to f26. I'm using LibreOffice Impress... Version: 5.3.7.2.0+ Build ID: 5.3.7.2-4.fc26 CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 4.13; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk3; Layout Engine: new; Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); Calc: group The graphics card is

nvidia drivers on fedora 27

2017-11-16 Thread William Biggs
I did a clean install of fedora 27 . I install the nvidia driver for the 960 card from rpmfusion . after I did a reboot my computer starts really slow . the mouse starts locking up moving very slow . dose any one know what it could be and how to fix it ? -- William Biggs bbi...@fastmail.com

current best practice for f26 printing?

2017-10-23 Thread William Mattison
Good morning, After upgrading to f26, I could no longer print. Some key file (ppi file?) was gone. After wrestling quite a while with this, I found a print driver (an rpm) for my Xerox WorkCentre 6015 on the Xerox web site, downloaded it, installed it, and got it working with help from cups.

Re: no login screen after f25 to f26 upgrade. [SOLVED]

2017-10-23 Thread William
Good morning, In the RPM Fusion Bugzilla, I submitted bug #4690 to request that simple progress logging be added to the nvidia driver patching and upgrading. The worst RPM Fusion can do is reject the request. If they accept and implement it, it would be helpful to non-pro's like me and other

Re: no login screen after f25 to f26 upgrade.

2017-10-21 Thread William Mattison
(replying to Ed, Samuel, and Patrick) The upgrade phase (step 7) generated a line of output for each package(?) being upgraded. The clean-up phase (step 7) generated a line of output for each upgraded package(?). The verify phase (step 7) generated a line of output for each upgraded package(?).

Re: no login screen after f25 to f26 upgrade.

2017-10-20 Thread William Mattison
Hi Samuel, The f25 to f26 upgrade was done using the instructions here: "https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade";. The "post-upgrade tasks" are the ones in the "Optional post-upgrade tasks" section and the "Resolving post-upgrade issues" section of those instructions. I completed th

Re: no login screen after f25 to f26 upgrade.

2017-10-20 Thread William Mattison
Hi Ed, The f25 to f26 upgrade was done using the instructions here: "https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade";. The boot that seemed to fail (or never finish) was the one that should happen automatically at the end of step 7. I waited for that boot to finish over 15 minutes after the

Re: no login screen after f25 to f26 upgrade.

2017-10-19 Thread William Mattison
The CTRL-ALT3-F3 got me a basic black-and-white login prompt. I logged in as root, and typed in "startx". I got a bunch of messages, ending with "Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.". I shut down. I booted up. I got ***no*** screen with the op

Re: no login screen after f25 to f26 upgrade.

2017-10-19 Thread William Mattison
Could your "Odd..." have something to do with my submitting the message through the fedora HYPERKITTY web site rather than e-mailing it through Thunderbird? I know I wrestled with the graphics card driver some 4 years ago, but I don't recall whether I switched from nouveau to nVidia or from nVid

Re: no login screen after f25 to f26 upgrade.

2017-10-19 Thread William Mattison
I saw those same rectangles in f-25. I have an NVidia graphics card. I usually use Gnome, but since the upgrade, I don't even get to the login screen. I'll answer your second message separately. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedor

no login screen after f25 to f26 upgrade.

2017-10-19 Thread William Mattison
Good afternoon, I upgraded from f25 to f26 this afternoon. I didn't see any error messages, but a lot of messages went by very fast. After the verification step was done, the system automatically rebooted. After the three rectangles separately brightened and faded, the screen went blank. Af

Re: GA?: "Fedora 27 Final Release (GA)" [SOLVED]

2017-10-10 Thread William
(I asked) >> [... snip ...] >> What does the "GA" stand for? (Samuel answered) > General Availability > [... snip ...] That makes sense. Thank-you Samuel. I'm marking this "SOLVED". Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

GA?: "Fedora 27 Final Release (GA)"

2017-10-10 Thread William Mattison
A quick question In the Fedora 27 release schedule: "https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/27/Schedule?rd=Schedule"; there are entries: "Fedora 27 Final Release (GA) (Target date)" "Fedora 27 Final Release (GA) (Rain date)" "Fedora Modular Server 27 Final Release (GA) (Target date)" and "Fedo

(OT) CCleaner alert.

2017-09-19 Thread William Mattison
Several months ago, I asked this list about ways of deleting and blocking ever-cookies. A few list members suggested "CCleaner". Today, I saw an article in the CNN Finance web site about a security breach at Piriform, the owner of "CCleaner". I pasted the text of the article below. I'm not a

Re: tcp_wrappers deprecation

2017-08-15 Thread William Oliver
On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 08:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:58:16 +0200 > Jakub Jelen wrote: > > > Thank you for comments and constructive ideas. > > I certainly never understood why it existed at all, unless maybe > it pre-dated having a firewall. It seems totally redundant >

Re: How to turn on networking from rescue boot

2017-07-31 Thread William Oliver
On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 09:37 -0400, fred roller wrote: > > However, I've forgotten how to turn on wifi networking from rescue > mode. > >  > > Can anybody point me to a tutorial? > > You could use the "iw" commands: > > man iw > > which should give you the info you need. > "NAME >        iw - sho

Re: Multiboot and EFI

2017-07-23 Thread William Mattison
Using grub2, I have the ability to boot windows-7 or any of at least 3 different f25 kernels or any of a few rescue-mode f25 kernels. And this stand-alone workstation has only one hard drive. If I understand correctly what you're asking, then yes, grub2. Bill.

Re: is it just me, or is firefox suddenly nad-grindingly slow?

2017-07-19 Thread William Oliver
On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 14:17 -0700, stan wrote: > [snip] > > > It's just you. I notice slowdowns at popular times for social media, > which I suspect are my ISP, or those popular sites, throttling > traffic. But in general it is behaving how it has always behaved. I > recently tried some other

Re: Linux anti-virus any good? [CLOSED}

2017-07-19 Thread William
Well, the high-scoring workstation choices cost too much for me, and/or did not have a version for Linux. Server choices are not appropriate for my situation. So I'll stick with rkhunter, chkrootkit, NoScript, uBlock Origin, Better Privacy, what's built into Firefox and Thunderbird, and tryin

Re: Network dies on laptop lid closure

2017-07-18 Thread William Oliver
On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 04:08 +0930, Tim wrote: > Oh, and another thing... > > Allegedly, on or about 18 July 2017, William Oliver sent: > > I'm running Fedora 26 on a slightly old HP laptop using KDE. > > Do you have other desktops installed, too? Even if you're

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Network dies on laptop lid closure

2017-07-18 Thread William Oliver
On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 13:24 -0400, Wells, Roger K. wrote: > > > > 8/2017 11:08 AM, Sylvia Sánchez > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Network dies on laptop lid closure

2017-07-18 Thread William Oliver
On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 11:33 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > do you have the network configured to be available to all users? If > not, > perhaps closing the lids makes the network drop, whereas enabling > that > option might prevent > > I haven't seen this, so I'm only guessing,... I have my laptop

Re: Network dies on laptop lid closure

2017-07-18 Thread William Oliver
On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 15:28 +0200, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Hello, > I have the same but I just don't close the lid and let it working > alone. I mean, if it hibernates or even if it suspends, of course > wifi will be turned off. So your options are not > hibernating/suspending the computer or not

Re: Network dies on laptop lid closure

2017-07-18 Thread William Oliver
On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 22:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > [snip] > On 07/18/17 20:59, William Oliver wrote: > Since it works for me, and I think we have similar settings, I don't > think I've been > much help. Is there, perhaps, a BIOS setting? > > No, that helps.

Network dies on laptop lid closure

2017-07-18 Thread William Oliver
I'm running Fedora 26 on a slightly old HP laptop using KDE. One minor irritation is that whenever I close the lid of the laptop, the network turns off -- both wifi and wired. I do a lot of downloads. I like to start one, close the lid, and set the machine aside while I do other tasks. But I c

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