Re: 32bit support on 64bit Linux

2010-02-01 Thread Ed Greshko
r...@dwf.com wrote: >> r...@dwf.com wrote: >> >>> OK, my bad. >>> I asked this question before, and someone gave me the answer, >>> but I forgot to write it down someplace that I could find. >>> >>> There is a single yum target, that will bring in all (or most) of the 32bit >>> libraries >>>

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Smart
On 31 January 2010 20:10, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > It's already there, it's called Konqueror. :-) I said a "decent" browser :-P -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Fedora 12 KDE - No Sound

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Smart
On 1 February 2010 02:12, Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: > I have a fully patched version of KDE and still have no sound running fore > KDE apps. > Before Christmas I had sound on all apps apart from Firefox Flash.  Now I > only have sound on Firefox flash.  Amarok, Juk, Audacity, Mumble nothing. >

Re: 32bit support on 64bit Linux

2010-02-01 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
There is a single yum target, that will bring in all (or most) of the 32bit libraries and things that are needed to run 32bit applications on 64bit Fedora. It is also possible to install just the specific 32-bit libraries that you need. That's what I did when I built ZooLib for 32-

Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

2010-02-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
VLC, Mplayer, etc. -- whenever I play some clip, the volume control is adjusted. Sometimes it goes to 100%, sometimes to 0, and other times to something random inbetween. How do I make it stop?! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > That's interesting. What purpose could be achieved by embedding a > PDF inside another like this? That is the Adobe PDF history, as seen by me: - start with a Postscript-like language avoiding Postscript problems - good for printing! - so I can send this pdf to you,

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-02-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Prabhakar, On Sunday 31 January 2010 10:10 PM, Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 18:50:55 +0530, >> Prabhakar Pandey wrote: >>> i used fedora 8 but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that >> good >>> and i

Re: Fedora 12 and 11 KDE - No Sound

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Ross
On 02/01/2010 08:49 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > On 1 February 2010 02:12, Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: >> I have a fully patched version of KDE and still have no sound running fore >> KDE apps. >> Before Christmas I had sound on all apps apart from Firefox Flash. Now I >> only have sound on Firefox

Re: Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

2010-02-01 Thread Hiisi
2010/2/1 Konstantin Svist : > VLC, Mplayer, etc. -- whenever I play some clip, the volume control is > adjusted. Sometimes it goes to 100%, sometimes to 0, and other times to > something random inbetween. > How do I make it stop?! Do you have pulseaudio installed? rpm -qa | grep pulse -- Hiisi. R

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-02-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 February 2010, Reg Clemens wrote: >> On 10-01-31 18:51:00, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Tony Nelson >> > wrote: >> >> ... >> >> > > All disks always fail the built-in test here, due to the >> > > permanent kernel bug. A more robust test is: >> > > >> > > # cmp

RE: Fedora 12 update problem

2010-02-01 Thread Taoufik GABSI
Problem solved using the command: yum update _ De : Taoufik GABSI [mailto:ga...@ipgp.fr] Envoyé : vendredi 29 janvier 2010 09:46 À : users@lists.fedoraproject.org Objet : Fedora 12 update problem I just installed fedora 12 as an update of a fedore 11 system. This morning I saw 683 up

Mouse and keyboard problem FC12 and FC11

2010-02-01 Thread Taoufik GABSI
Dear all, I've been using FC11 on a Dell Precision 690 for a while, before to loose mouse and keyboard: After a reboot, every thing goes well for 10 or 15 minutes, and then I have mouse and keyboard problem. I was using a PS2 keyboard, that I changed to USB keyboard; same for the mouse. No change

Re: mahjongg gone missing?

2010-02-01 Thread N James Bridge
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 22:25 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 23:17 +, N James Bridge wrote: > > A trivial point perhaps, but mahjongg (one of the gnome-games package) > > has disappeared off the games menu. > > There is a new gnome-games-extra package that has mahjongg. I don't

Re: Serial port (/dev/ttySX) question.

2010-02-01 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Sharpe writes: > On 31 January 2010 22:24, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht > wrote: >> >> Mikkel writes: >>> Nope - sleep only accepts an integer value. Using sleep, 1 second it >>> the best you will get. >> >> $ time sleep 0.5 >> >> real    0m0.503s >> user    0m0.001s >> sys     0m0.002s > > We're

Re: Fedora 12 Brother QL-560 (P-touch) Label Printer?

2010-02-01 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 19:03 +, Frank Murphy wrote: > ptouch-driver-1.3-2.fc12.x86_64 This package is missing an essential piece, without which it is not much use to anyone. Bug filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560610 Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digital

CUPS:PDF - localhost:631 configuration

2010-02-01 Thread Jay_Linux
I would like to be able to configure CUPS-PDF (at http://localhost:631/printers/Cups-PDF) so that I can choose the location to save the PDF file (presently it saves all printed files to desktop by default). Adding my user name to the sys row of /etc/group enabled me to modify the settings at the ab

Re: Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

2010-02-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 01 February 2010 09:31:38 Konstantin Svist wrote: > VLC, Mplayer, etc. -- whenever I play some clip, the volume control is > adjusted. Sometimes it goes to 100%, sometimes to 0, and other times to > something random inbetween. > How do I make it stop?! You've probably disabled pulseaudio

Re: mahjongg gone missing?

2010-02-01 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 01/02/10 12:01, N James Bridge wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 22:25 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 23:17 +, N James Bridge wrote: >>> A trivial point perhaps, but mahjongg (one of the gnome-games package) >>> has disappeared off the games menu. >> >> There is a new gnome-g

Re: Howto lock in Resolution in Xorg.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Friday 29 January 2010 18:04:22 you wrote: > On 01/28/2010 07:09 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Thursday 28 January 2010 18:36:43 Jim wrote: > >> Noveau is not changing the xorg.conf, it is hal or something like that > >> in Fedora. > > > > Nothing should be changing xorg.conf just out of the

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

2010-02-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 31 January 2010 20:18:15 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:27:04 -0700, > "Christopher A. Williams" wrote: > > Nouveau only supports 2D, and the OpenSource Radeon driver has had at > > least as many ...ummm issues as the proprietary driver. > > > > So, if you need tru

Re: How do I put Multiple live distro's on a USB flash drive.

2010-02-01 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:27 AM, tux wrote: > I have an 8GB flash drive that I would like to put multiple Fedora Live > CD's on. (KDE,Gnome,LXDE,XFCE, FEL, Games and Edu,Third party spins, etc. ) > > Does anyone have any advice on how to do this I think it should be straightforward to do this, bu

Re: Thunderbird & Okular question

2010-02-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:28 +1030, Tim wrote: > Wild guess: The problem email you're dealing with was generated using > a Microsoft system. They've had thirty (?) years to get a grip on > properly using MIME types, but haven't learnt it yet. Make that 18 years (the earliest MIME RFC is dated 199

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

2010-02-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 31 January 2010 18:54:17 you wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:35 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > === > > > > I'm using the same binary driver as you are. > > === > > Do take notice that

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

2010-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 13:45:39 -0500, > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> I don't need or want 3D anything, just a working display which doesn't >> crash. >> Note that 2.6.33-rc[56] seem somewhat better, although some adventures in >> cmdline options are needed to get th

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

2010-02-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 31 January 2010 20:30:36 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 16:16:06 +, > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > You mean as in nVidia drivers taking a week or so to adjust to new kernel > > version and reach rpmfusion? Wow, that's a bummer! So you suggest we all > > opt to use A

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

2010-02-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 31 January 2010 20:47:11 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 16:01:45 +, > nVidia's stance is that they neither help nor hinder the Nouveau project. > That could certainly be worse. They could be trying to actively prevent > that effort. AFAIK, nVidia is locked up in c

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

2010-02-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:23:57 + Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Given the alleged > availability of hardware specs, I'd expect the driver to progress much faster > than it actually does. There is a link on the xorg web site somewhere to a batch of pdf files provided by amd/ati (I saw it once, but do

Re: mahjongg gone missing?

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:01 +, N James Bridge wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 22:25 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 23:17 +, N James Bridge wrote: > > > A trivial point perhaps, but mahjongg (one of the gnome-games package) > > > has disappeared off the games menu. > > >

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

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 14:23:57 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Well, ok, but if you are testing out new kernels, the open-source 2D driver > shoud do, right? Or are you typically testing kernels and 3D graphics > simultaneously? Sometimes. I am doing dogfood type testing. I occasionally

More on firefox and one website

2010-02-01 Thread Aaron Konstam
Last week I noted on my dwewsktopfirefox could not load the website: http://www.tiaa-cref.org while other websites were OK. For this website loading starts but then Firefox crashes with an abrt error. In /var/log/messages I find the following error messages which I would like help explaining:

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

2010-02-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 February 2010, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >On Sunday 31 January 2010 20:47:11 Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 16:01:45 +, >> nVidia's stance is that they neither help nor hinder the Nouveau project. >> That could certainly be worse. They could be trying to actively p

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

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:16:29 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I think the issue is that the drivers in F12 are already out of date, > and that unless the 2.6.33 (and later) video drivers are backported, or > the kernel is upgraded, there won't be a lot of joy. I am not sure about that. I thi

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

2010-02-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 February 2010, Tom Horsley wrote: >On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:23:57 + > >Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Given the alleged >> availability of hardware specs, I'd expect the driver to progress much >> faster than it actually does. > >There is a link on the xorg web site somewhere to a batch of

Re: CUPS:PDF - localhost:631 configuration

2010-02-01 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Jay_Linux wrote: > I would like to be able to configure CUPS-PDF (at > http://localhost:631/printers/Cups-PDF) so that I can choose the > location to save the PDF file (presently it saves all printed files to > desktop by default). > Adding my user name to the sys

Re: Thunderbird & Okular question

2010-02-01 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Wild guess: The problem email you're dealing with was generated using >> a Microsoft system. They've had thirty (?) years to get a grip on >> properly using MIME types, but haven't learnt it yet. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Make that 18 years (the earliest MIME RFC is dated 1992), but still .

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

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III said: > I am not sure about that. I think that a lot of the stuff that is upstream in > 2.6.33 is already in Fedora kernels. I use an rv530 on F12 (currently with the > 2.6.32 kernels, but previously with 2.6.31) and it seems to work OK for > 3d stuff, though I ju

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

2010-02-01 Thread Robin Laing
On 01/31/2010 01:18 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:27:04 -0700, >"Christopher A. Williams" wrote: >> >> Nouveau only supports 2D, and the OpenSource Radeon driver has had at >> least as many ...ummm issues as the proprietary driver. >> >> So, if you need true 3D graphi

A question about Places->Network

2010-02-01 Thread Aaron Konstam
I asked before but I did not get a definite response, so here goes the question again. Under Gnome or Nautilus does any one when executing Places->Network see the other Linux machines on the LAN? This worked in F11 but not in F12. Does anyone know why this change in behavior has occurred? --

Re: A question about Places->Network

2010-02-01 Thread William Case
Hi Aaron; On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 10:00 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I asked before but I did not get a definite response, so here goes the > question again. > > Under Gnome or Nautilus does any one when executing Places->Network see > the other Linux machines on the LAN? This worked in F11 but not

Re: [389-users] The installation error on the 389 LDAP

2010-02-01 Thread Rich Megginson
Ajeet S Raina wrote: > It seems that the 389-ds package are not removed properly. > I faced the issue couple of time and can help you out with the same. > > Step 0:service dirsrv stop;service dirsrv-admin stop >> Most Important > Step 1: Delete dirsrv under /etc There are other files you must remov

Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Jim
FC 12-x86_64/kde I have a Acomdata external hard drive enclosure with a PATA hard drive set to Master. I want to just be able to read and write to it as a storage drive, lsusb sees the enclosure Acomdata but not the drive, what do I have to do to read/write to the hard drive ?? -- users mailin

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-01 Thread Robin Laing
On 01/31/2010 02:20 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roger wrote: >> Please Fedora get rid of nouveau until it's the same quality as Fedora. > > Fedora is never going to get rid of the best Free as in Speech driver > available for that hardware. We do not support proprietary drivers, or any > other propri

Re: Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

2010-02-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 02/01/2010 01:47 AM, Hiisi wrote: > 2010/2/1 Konstantin Svist : > >> VLC, Mplayer, etc. -- whenever I play some clip, the volume control is >> adjusted. Sometimes it goes to 100%, sometimes to 0, and other times to >> something random inbetween. >> How do I make it stop?! >> > Do you hav

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jim wrote: > FC 12-x86_64/kde > > I have a Acomdata external hard drive enclosure with a PATA hard drive > set to Master. > I want to just be able to read and write to it as a storage drive, lsusb > sees the enclosure Acomdata but not the drive, what do I have to d

Re: Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

2010-02-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 02/01/2010 04:29 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 01 February 2010 09:31:38 Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> VLC, Mplayer, etc. -- whenever I play some clip, the volume control is >> adjusted. Sometimes it goes to 100%, sometimes to 0, and other times to >> something random inbetween. >> Ho

Re: Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

2010-02-01 Thread Philip Heron
On 01/02/2010 17:00, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 02/01/2010 04:29 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> On Monday 01 February 2010 09:31:38 Konstantin Svist wrote: >> >>> VLC, Mplayer, etc. -- whenever I play some clip, the volume control is >>> adjusted. Sometimes it goes to 100%, sometimes to 0, and oth

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-01 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>   On a fully updated F12, I try to open the following link >> >>   http://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/packages/oppPA-10-063- > cidADOBE-FORMS-B.pdf >> >>   with the default Document Viewer,

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Jim
On 02/01/2010 11:58 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jim wrote: > >> FC 12-x86_64/kde >> >> I have a Acomdata external hard drive enclosure with a PATA hard drive >> set to Master. >> I want to just be able to read and write to it as a storage drive, lsusb >> sees the

Thunderbird issue

2010-02-01 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I was trying to read my email this AM using TB, but it had hung up. So I killed it by clicking on the end process button and selecting the force quit. When I tried to restart TB it's hung up again. Nothing is displayed, but doing a ps shows 3 processes. [pgalti...@peglaptop ~]$ ps axlw | grep t

Re: Serial port (/dev/ttySX) question.

2010-02-01 Thread Todd Denniston
Gene Heskett wrote, On 30 Jan 2010 02:59 PM: > Precisely, a usleep(5) would be much better . And some man page studying > for rpmbuild options. I tried to edit the .c source, but then it refused to > build and that was not the error it spit out. We'll poke at it some more > tomorrow unles

Re: Thunderbird issue

2010-02-01 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
On 02/01/2010 09:59 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I was trying to read my email this AM using TB, but it had hung up. > So I killed it by clicking on the end process button and selecting the > force quit. When I tried to restart TB it's hung up again. Nothing > is displayed, but doing a ps shows 3

[389-users] Fedora Management Console simply hangs when trying to create user

2010-02-01 Thread Sean Carolan
I'm attempting to add a user to a new directory that I set up for testing purposes. I have started fedora-idm-console and logged on successfully as cn=directory manager, but when I hit the "Create" button to add a new user, the cursor simply sits there spinning, and spinning Anyone have a sug

Re: [389-users] Fedora Management Console simply hangs when trying to create user

2010-02-01 Thread Rich Megginson
Sean Carolan wrote: > I'm attempting to add a user to a new directory that I set up for > testing purposes. I have started fedora-idm-console and logged on > successfully as cn=directory manager, but when I hit the "Create" > button to add a new user, the cursor simply sits there spinning, and > s

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:40:17 +0530, Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > actually .. i am a engineering student .. & i have to do mainly programming > and related things.. so i think fedora would be gud ! If you are a tinkerer type, Fedora will probably be a good match for you. You might need to jump

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jim wrote: > On 02/01/2010 11:58 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Others may have better advice, but you can try unplugging the drive >> then as root do "tail -f /var/log/messages" and plug the drive back >> in. It may give you some hints as to what's going on. >> >> Ric

Re: Thunderbird issue

2010-02-01 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Rebooting did resolve the problem. One thing I noticed though was that pulseaudio was pegged at 100% so it's possible this might have been part of the problem since TB does have libaudiofile open. Next time it happens I'll check the open files at the time of the hang. This problem occurred after

Re: [389-users] Fedora Management Console simply hangs when trying to create user

2010-02-01 Thread Sean Carolan
>> Anyone have a suggestion how to fix this? >> > 389-console -D 9 -f console.log - take a look at the console log Thanks for your reply, Rich. I tried this and simply got another console window, but no log entries. Is there a way to do this from the command line instead of the GUI? -- 389 users

Re: [389-users] Fedora Management Console simply hangs when trying to create user

2010-02-01 Thread Morris, Patrick
Sean Carolan wrote: >>> Anyone have a suggestion how to fix this? >>> >>> >> 389-console -D 9 -f console.log - take a look at the console log >> > > Thanks for your reply, Rich. I tried this and simply got another > console window, but no log entries. Is there a way to do this from > t

Re: How to get non-console users access to audio / sound device?

2010-02-01 Thread S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: > I did that, but that non-console user still have no access to > audio / sound device as quoted below. Anything else I should > do? I add the user into group jackuser, pulse-access, pulse, and video, but the error below still persist. Any othe

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Jim
On 02/01/2010 01:43 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jim wrote: > >> On 02/01/2010 11:58 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >>> Others may have better advice, but you can try unplugging the drive >>> then as root do "tail -f /var/log/messages" and plug the drive back >>

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jim wrote: > On 02/01/2010 01:43 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jim  wrote: >> >>> On 02/01/2010 11:58 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >>> Others may have better advice, but you can try unplugging the drive then as root do "tail -f /va

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Robin Laing wrote: > There is a supposed to be 3D support work through Gallium3D. Now this > is not an option with Fedora as they don't make a RPM for this package. > Maybe it isn't ready yet. I don't know. Without this, I cannot test > the Nouveau driver. It's really not ready. Fedora is qui

Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Detected Tx Unit Hang

2010-02-01 Thread mh-fedora
- Using Fedora 12. - Linux 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:11:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux - Tried switching pci slots, cables, ports, ethtool in different autoneg/1000/100 configs using all other known good hardware. - Upgraded to latest e1000-8.0.18 driver from intel

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Robin Laing wrote: > I purchased two new computers (1 laptop) last year. In both cases I > chose nVidia video because I know that they work. Even in F12 and KDE. > I have had Intel video cards and had to replace them with nVidia to > get applications to work properly. Weird, the Intel GM965 on

Login user name list - modifiy?

2010-02-01 Thread KC8LDO
Here is a bit of a different question I think. I have an F-11 box I'm setting up to let people access it for some file shares using samba. In order to control the access I created a user for each person I want to allow access. Each user was created without their own group or an account, file in "/h

Copying F12 systems between disks

2010-02-01 Thread Zbigniew Fiedorowicz
I fell a little behind in updating my Fedora system and was running Fedora 10 on my laptop until a couple of weeks ago. Then I decided to try running Fedora 12 off an external USB disk, to make sure that I wouldn't run into any glitches, in particular that some legacy applications I compile fr

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > You mean as in nVidia drivers taking a week or so to adjust to new kernel > version and reach rpmfusion? Wow, that's a bummer! So you suggest we all > opt to use ATI drivers which don't work at all on current X for several > months now, basically since F12 appeared? And who

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > AFAIK, nVidia is locked up in closed source licences and non-disclosure > agreements, and that is the only reason why they don't provide specs and > open source drivers. It appears nVidia has good will, but legal issues are > a showstopper. That's bullshit. There are repea

D-Link DGE 530-T Gigabit Ethernet Controller, unreliable

2010-02-01 Thread mh-fedora
- Using Fedora 12. - Linux 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:11:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux - Tried switching between two cards, cables, ports, switches, ethtool in different autoneg/1000/100 configs using all other known good hardware. - skge driver gives no errors,

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

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > As for 3D and closed source drivers... If you buy a nVidia card, you can > use their closed source drivers, and they basically Just Work. If you buy > an ATI card, you can use... oops, sorry... you *cannot* use their closed > source drivers, because they do not support your

Re: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Detected Tx Unit Hang

2010-02-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:31:47 -0700 mh-fed...@loup.net wrote: > - Using Fedora 12. > - Linux 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:11:14 EST 2009 x86_64 > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > - Tried switching pci slots, cables, ports, ethtool in different > autoneg/1000/100 configs using all other k

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > I finally decided install Adobe Reader 9. It turns out there is a > lot more to this document than a simple 4-page form. Rather, it is a > collection of a dozen inter-dependent forms with various embedded > applications which do things such as saving, validation and co

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Jim
On 02/01/2010 02:19 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jim wrote: > >> On 02/01/2010 01:43 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jimwrote: >>> >>> On 02/01/2010 11:58 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Other

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill Davidsen wrote: > You should read the similar thread which has been going on for about a > week (actually should have before asking), some people have had serious > issues with video support for F12. Graphics actually work better in F12 than F11 for my Radeon 9200SE (r2xx series) and just as

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

2010-02-01 Thread François Cami
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:01:45 + Marko Vojinovic wrote: > As for 3D and closed source drivers... If you buy a nVidia card, you can use > their closed source drivers, and they basically Just Work. If you buy an ATI > card, you can use... oops, sorry... you *cannot* use their closed source > d

Re: Fedora 12 and 11 KDE - No Sound

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Ross wrote: > In the System Settings -> Multimedia -> Audio Output pane the only > device listed now is Pulseaudio. Previously, my Midiman Delta soundcard > was also listed and when I selected that I had sound. Selecting > Pulseaudio has never resulted in working sounds, even before last week

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 unsubscribe or cha

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-02-01 Thread Robin Laing
On 01/31/2010 03:36 PM, Roger wrote: > On 02/01/2010 06:03 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Prabhakar Pandey wrote: >>> >> You should read the similar thread which has been going on for about a week >> (actually should have before asking), some people have had serious issues >> with >> video support f

Re: Thunderbird & Okular question

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tim wrote: > There's no good way to handle that. It's the generic description for > any binary file (sound, picture, PDF, whatever), that hasn't been > specifically identified. If you were to hard-configure it to presume > PDF, it'd fail on the next thing that wasn't a PDF but described as > bein

Re: [389-users] Fedora Management Console simply hangs when trying to create user

2010-02-01 Thread Sean Carolan
> Are you running 389-admin 1.1.10? This is what I have installed, all from the yum repo: [r...@fds dirsrv]# rpm -qa | grep 389 389-admin-console-1.1.4-1.el5 389-ds-1.1.3-4.el5 389-admin-console-doc-1.1.4-1.el5 389-ds-console-doc-1.2.0-4.el5 389-ds-console-1.2.0-4.el5 389-dsgw-1.1.4-1.el5 389-adm

Re: More on firefox and one website

2010-02-01 Thread Robin Laing
On 02/01/2010 08:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Last week I noted on my dwewsktopfirefox could not load the website: > http://www.tiaa-cref.org > > I just went to the site and it loads with a notice that they have a new site. Maybe you had the problem while they were making changes. Try again.

[SOLVED] Re: Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

2010-02-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 02/01/2010 09:05 AM, Philip Heron wrote: > On 01/02/2010 17:00, Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> On 02/01/2010 04:29 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> >>> On Monday 01 February 2010 09:31:38 Konstantin Svist wrote: >>> >>> VLC, Mplayer, etc. -- whenever I play some clip, the volume c

Re: help with... F9

2010-02-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Roger wrote: > On 01/31/2010 09:33 PM, Erik P. Olsen > wrote: > > On 31/01/10 11:14, Ed Greshko wrote: > >    > >> Kevin Kofler wrote: > >>      > >>> Jake Peavy wrote: > >>> > >>>        > ...I know I should upgrade to F12 (or > whatever) but I don't have time... > >

Re: More on firefox and one website

2010-02-01 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 14:05 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > On 02/01/2010 08:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Last week I noted on my dwewsktopfirefox could not load the website: > > http://www.tiaa-cref.org > > > > > > I just went to the site and it loads with a notice that they have a new > site.

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-02-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-01-31 18:51:00, Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Tony Nelson > > > wrote: > ... > > > All disks always fail the built-in test here, due > to the > > > permanent kernel bug.  A more robust test is: > > > > > >     # cmp /dev/dvd /

Re: More on firefox and one website

2010-02-01 Thread Mike Chambers
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:25 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Try again. > You are an optimist. Accessing this web-page constantly works on my > laptop and not on my desktop. Something is wrong with the F12 on my > desktop and I would like help finding what it is. You try using a diff user and/or r

Re: Thunderbird & Okular question

2010-02-01 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 21:52 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > They could figure out the MIME type client side using the same > shared-mime-info-based mechanisms which are used after saving the file > (extension, sometimes file contents), either just for generic > application/octet-stream attachments or

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jim wrote: [snip] > # smartctl --attributes --log=selftest --quietmode=errorsonly /dev/sdc > smartctl 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net > > /dev/sdc: Unknown USB

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

2010-02-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 01 February 2010 20:03:40 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > You mean as in nVidia drivers taking a week or so to adjust to new kernel > > version and reach rpmfusion? Wow, that's a bummer! So you suggest we all > > opt to use ATI drivers which don't work at all on current X

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

2010-02-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 01 February 2010 20:46:52 François Cami wrote: > > Of course, I use neither IGPs nor the latest cards. Of course you don't, because the latest ATI cards don't work on F12. There is no functional driver, nor open nor closed source. > > oops, sorry... you *cannot* opt for radeon(hd) > >

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-02-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Reg Clemens wrote: > > On 10-01-31 18:51:00, Patrick > Bartek wrote: > > > --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Tony Nelson > > > > wrote: > >  ... > > > > All disks always fail the built-in test > here, due to the > > > > permanent kernel bug.  A more robust test > is: > > > > > > > >  

Re: [389-users] Fedora DS dies with segfault

2010-02-01 Thread Marc Sauton
On 02/01/2010 01:59 PM, Tom wrote: Hi all, we've been running Fedora DS 1.04 for quite some time without issue but just recently, the server process died inexplicably with the following in syslog: localhost kernel: ns-slapd[2945]: segfault at rip 002a9574d4aa rsp 007fbff

Re: Login user name list - modifiy?

2010-02-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 14:47 -0500, KC8LDO wrote: > Here is a bit of a different question I think. You already sent this same question a few hours ago. Since the new message appears to be an exact copy of the earlier one, with no additional information, it qualifies as spam in my book. poc -- us

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

2010-02-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 01 February 2010 20:11:46 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > And the fact that they provide support next to none (of their closed > > source drivers) demonstrates that they *do* care about Linux market, and > > do take the community support seriously. > > I disagree. Provid

Re: help with... F9

2010-02-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 13:24 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I usually, at least for the past 4 or 5 years or so, only upgrade > every 3rd release as this seems to offer an optimum balance among > security, stability, support and features with minimum upgrading. Do as you see fit of course, but be a

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-01 Thread Roger
Then maybe there should be a blacklist all 3d applications until you install 3d. and: Fedora is never going to get rid of the best Free as in Speech driver available for that hardware. Woh! The above comments puzzle me. Please explain how Nouveau is the best. Read my comments below before

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-02-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 13:41 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I remember at one time being able to have the checksum program compare > the results to the checksum file. Worked great when you were summing > a dozen CDs, but can't seem to find the documentation on that feature > right now. man shasum

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

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 22:31:22 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Suppose I am a newbie for computers, and I decided to buy the latest&greatest > in available hardware (btw, this can make sense if you don't want your > machine > to be obsolete by tomorrow). So when I get to choose a graphics

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Jim
On 02/01/2010 05:24 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jim wrote: > [snip] > >> # smartctl --attributes --log=selftest --quietmode=errorsonly /dev/sdc >> smartctl 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) >> Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http:/

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

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 22:52:24 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Unlike ATI, who *claim* to support FS, but actually do so only when the > hardware in question becomes obsolete. r700 series chipsets are hardly obsolete. I don't think one would have too much trouble buying one. And look wha

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