Brother HL-2040 not printing

2010-02-26 Thread Philip Heron
Hi all, Has anyone had any success printing to a Brother HL-2040 in Fedora 11/12? I've had one for a few years now and it's worked right up until F11. I thought it was the printer itself at the time, but someone just tried it with a Mac and it worked fine. There is no error on the computer, it

Re: Brother HL-2040 not printing

2010-02-26 Thread fedora
Hi Phil I have a Brother HL-2030-Series. When I installed F11 it behaved like you described. I had to change the printer driver using the Web Interface to cups. now my /etc/cups/printers.conf looks like (MakeModel defines the driver): # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.2 # Written by cups

Re: Brother HL-2040 not printing

2010-02-26 Thread Dick Roark
Oh yeah, I've been here before. Use the Brother driver On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Philip Heron wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone had any success printing to a Brother HL-2040 in Fedora > 11/12? I've had one for a few years now and it's worked right up until > F11. I thought it was the pri

Re: Brother HL-2040 not printing

2010-02-26 Thread Dick Roark
I've been here before. I use a HL-1850 driver: Brother HL-1850 Foomatic/HL-1850. This one seems to work well. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Dick Roark wrote: > Oh yeah, I've been here before. Use the Brother driver > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Philip Heron wrote: > >> Hi all, >

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:27:53PM +, Michal wrote: > On 25/02/2010 14:00, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said: > >> I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had > >> replaced Unix and played a central role in making things work. But > >> today, I spoke

How to sort by date in descending order

2010-02-26 Thread Richard Cahilig
Hi, Guys I need your help, I have a text file which contains these data below, and I want to sort it by date in descending order. I tried to use sort -rn command but it gives me different output. I know I missing something but I just can't figure it out. files 03-Sep-2009 files 04-Nov-200

Re: Which "VIDEO-PLAYER" ?

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Friday 26 February 2010 00:44:57 j.halifax . wrote: > Questions are the following: > - Which "video-player" to use > - How to call it from the web site for running it in a frame I think VLC and its streaming capabilities might do what you want to achieve. You can further investigate there:: h

Re: Which "VIDEO-PLAYER" ?

2010-02-26 Thread Luis Costabile
On your web site you create an anchor to a video file, at the client side (the computer visiting your site), the appropriate video player will be launched. You could do a php script to do it a loop of videos. On 25 February 2010 23:44, j.halifax . wrote: > Hi video-gurus, > > Could you please

Fedora Install

2010-02-26 Thread Mike Flannigan
I would like to get any flavor of Linux installed to my older-generation computer. I have 2 old computers: x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 AT/AT Compatible 130,596 KB Ram Intel (R) 4 CPU 1400 MHz 130,352 KB Ram I know that x86 is a Pentium 3. I have tried 2 different downloaded versions of the

Re: How to sort by date in descending order

2010-02-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Richard Cahilig wrote: > Hi, > > Guys I need your help, I have a text file which contains these data > below, and I want to sort it by date in descending order. I tried to use > sort -rn command but it gives me different output. I know I missing > something but I just can't figure it out. > > fil

Re: Fedora Install

2010-02-26 Thread NoSpaze
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 07:23 -0600, Mike Flannigan wrote: > I would like to get any flavor of Linux installed > to my older-generation computer. I have 2 > old computers: > x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 AT/AT Compatible 130,596 KB Ram > Intel (R) 4 CPU 1400 MHz 130,352 KB Ram > I know that x86 is

Re: How to sort by date in descending order

2010-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 12:59 +0100, Richard Cahilig wrote: > Hi, > > Guys I need your help, I have a text file which contains these data > below, and I want to sort it by date in descending order. I tried to > use sort -rn command but it gives me different output. You just told it to sort in rever

Re: Which "VIDEO-PLAYER" ?

2010-02-26 Thread j . halifax .
> I think VLC and its streaming capabilities might do what you want to achieve. Actually, I don't need to stream the content, but your idea is good. I can stream the content and to see the result in the same PC in the browser. :) Thank you! jh > Původní zpráva > Od:

Re: Which "VIDEO-PLAYER" ?

2010-02-26 Thread Seann Clark
j.halifax . wrote: I think VLC and its streaming capabilities might do what you want to achieve. Actually, I don't need to stream the content, but your idea is good. I can stream the content and to see the result in the same PC in the browser. :) Thank you! jh Původní

Re: [389-users] FDS oid control for SunDS feature

2010-02-26 Thread Rich Megginson
Charles Gilbert wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have been struggling with this one for a while. > > In switching to 389, I am trying to figure out how to get my Solaris > clients working with account management and ssh keys. SunDS 5.? has > an oid control that allows for account management and ssh k

Re: Which "VIDEO-PLAYER" ?

2010-02-26 Thread j . halifax .
> On your web site you create an anchor to a video file, at the client > side (the computer visiting your site), the appropriate video player > will be launched. You could do a php script to do it a loop of > videos. Probably I didn't explain the task well. Everything should run in the same PC.

Re: How to sort by date in descending order

2010-02-26 Thread Dave Cross
On 26 February 2010 13:40, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Richard Cahilig wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Guys I need your help, I have a text file which contains these data >> below, and I want to sort it by date in descending order. I tried to use >> sort -rn command but it gives me different output. I know I miss

Firefox has turned into a lynx

2010-02-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
It looks like since the most recent update, on one of my laptops, Firefox comes up showing the designated start page, but without processing its stylesheet, so the end result looks like a slightly marked-up lynx. I can hit the home button, and get the home page reloaded properly. I tried switc

Re: Fedora Install

2010-02-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Mike Flannigan wrote: > I would like to get any flavor of Linux installed > to my older-generation computer.  I have 2 > old computers: > x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 AT/AT Compatible 130,596 KB > Ram > Intel (R) 4 CPU 1400 MHz 130,352 KB Ram > > I know that x86 is a Pent

SAMBA poor performance

2010-02-26 Thread Marco Maccaferri
Hi, I've recently noticed an extremely poor performance when trasfering files from Linux to a Windows XP notebook using samba. The notebook is using a wireless connection so I initially tought about some interferences from nearby devices but I can transfer up to 300KB/sec. from the internet so

Video card for three heads?

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Cameron
All - I'm currently dual head and I like it a lot, but I'd really like three monitors. I use the heck out of compiz, so I need a card or cards and drivers which will drive three monitors with accelerated X. Anyone doing this? What card/driver combo do you use? -- Thomas -- users mailing list

Re: SAMBA poor performance

2010-02-26 Thread Jan Litwiński
G'day Marco, * Marco Maccaferri [100226 19:03] wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently noticed an extremely poor performance when trasfering > files from Linux to a Windows XP notebook using samba. The notebook is > using a wireless connection so I initially tought about some > interferences from near

Re: SAMBA poor performance

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:15 +0100, Jan Litwiński wrote: > G'day Marco, > > * Marco Maccaferri [100226 19:03] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've recently noticed an extremely poor performance when trasfering > > files from Linux to a Windows XP notebook using samba. The notebook is > > using a wireles

Re: SAMBA poor performance

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:55 +0100, Marco Maccaferri wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently noticed an extremely poor performance when trasfering > files from Linux to a Windows XP notebook using samba. The notebook is > using a wireless connection so I initially tought about some > interferences from n

Emacs has very large characters

2010-02-26 Thread Vincent Onelli
Hello, I installed emacs from software that comes with Fedora 12, the characters are so large that makes unusable. Any body know how to correct it to a standard font? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

F12: LiveCD & gparted

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I thought I'd make a note of this here. When booting from F12 LiveCD, yum install gparted downloads fine, but then when one wants to reformat a [ext4] partition, it barfs quite badly - something about using one of gparted libraries. It corrupts the tables. Interestingly, doing an fsck on that p

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 09:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Tony Nelson wrote: > >> On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrote: >> ... >> >> >>> I can't conceive of a situation where usage of http or ftp protocol >>> would interact to "smack" an imap connection. >>> >>> To me, based on your observations, I

Re: Many bugs: pdf, Thunderbird, Firefox, goes knows.

2010-02-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:42:09 -0500 Marcel Rieux wrote: > Some people seem to have problems opening pdf documents with Fedora > 12, but my problem is slightly different. > > Until 2 updates ago, everything was fine, but now, if I click a pdf > file at Google's, it downloads but doesn't open

Moblin to Fedora via usbdrive on netbook

2010-02-26 Thread jack craig
Hi Folks, Its time to rip Moblin & replace with Fedora on my asus netbook. I setup an image using the instructions on htis link... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo#System_Requirements but upon boot, i get a short quick error msg and then moblin boots. Has anyone successfully

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-26 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/26/2010 03:02 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:27:53PM +, Michal wrote: >> On 25/02/2010 14:00, Chris Adams wrote: >>> Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said: I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had replaced Unix and played a central r

Re: Emacs has very large characters

2010-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/10, Vincent Onelli wrote: > Hello, > I installed emacs from software that comes with Fedora 12, the > characters are so large that makes unusable. Any body know how to > correct it to a standard font? First of all, you can Shift-LeftClick in emacs and chose another font. I don't how you c

Re: SAMBA poor performance

2010-02-26 Thread Marco Maccaferri
On 26/02/2010 20:23 Craig White ha scritto: > Try transferring a large file via scp or ftp or sftp and comparing that > with the samba connection. (WinSCP is freely available for your Windows > laptop). > > I would bet that the speeds are the same samba & scp and that samba is > not at all the is

Re: Which "VIDEO-PLAYER" ?

2010-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 17:30 +0100, j.halifax . wrote: > > On your web site you create an anchor to a video file, at the client > > side (the computer visiting your site), the appropriate video player > > will be launched. You could do a php script to do it a loop of > > videos. > > Probably I di

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > So long as the firewall doesn't have to handle too many rules and the > routing decisions are minimal.  At those traffic levels, the system > would be swamped with interrupts anyway. Err... I believe we're though with this discussion :) Fire

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Another way around it is to use the nautilus integration with k3b. > Unlike k3b, nautilus has a selection for "view hidden files".  Then you > can drag and drop precisely what you need from nautilus to k3b. Ed, I'll let be honest. I sometimes

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Like many good ideas, I'd say that this one has very little chance of > becoming standard practice, given that each Linux app decides for itself > where to put its config files As I told Ed, there is more than config files in .evoluti

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > Like many good ideas, I'd say that this one has very little chance of > > becoming standard practice, given that each Linux app decides for itself > > where to put its conf

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:47 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: >> I'm sure there's a more accurate historical reason, but all of your >> application's configuration settings and data are stored that way to >> avoid you deleting things accidentally and keep your

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >> >> > Like many good ideas, I'd say that this one has very little chance of >> > becoming standard practice, giv

Re: Moblin to Fedora via usbdrive on netbook

2010-02-26 Thread Steven I Usdansky
> >From: jack craig >To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >Sent: Fri, February 26, 2010 3:23:11 PM >Subject: Moblin to Fedora via usbdrive on netbook > >Hi Folks, > >Its time to rip Moblin & replace with Fedora on my asus netbook. >I setup an image using the instructions on htis link... > >http://fed

Re: Moblin to Fedora via usbdrive on netbook

2010-02-26 Thread jack craig
On 02/26/2010 03:43 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote: From: jack craig To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Fri, February 26, 2010 3:23:11 PM Subject: Moblin to Fedora via usbdrive on netbook Hi Folks, Its time to rip Moblin& replace with Fedora on my asus netbook. I setup an image using the ins

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 02/25/2010 09:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Tony Nelson wrote: >> >> >>> On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> >>> I can't conceive of a situation where usage of http or ftp protocol would interact to "smack" an im

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:39 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Like many good ideas, I'd say that th

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > Like many good ideas, I'd say that this one has very little chance of > > becoming standard practice, given that each Linux app decides for itself > > where to put its conf

Re: Many bugs: pdf, Thunderbird, Firefox, goes knows.

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Maybe if I could redirect the system to the right copy of Firefox, it >> would solve all problems? How is this done? > > Just checking: did you quit your firefox and restart after the update? > This may solve most of your problems, if not.

akonadi startup errors

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi All; I've gotten no replies from kde-linux, so I'll ask here: I upgraded to KDE 4.4 yesterday. I get this error EVERY time I start Kmail: [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist I've tried removing the .local/share/alonadi directory and rebooting w

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Jones
> Oh, the other reason I wouldn't do that It may happen that you > download the latest thunderbird tar file from Mozilla and forgetfully > extract it in your home directory Oooops > mv .thunderbird MyThunderbirdSettings > ln -s MyThunderbirdSettings .thunderbird Problem (that was

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >> >> > Like many good ideas, I'd say that this one has very little chance of >> > becoming standard practice, given that

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/26/2010 03:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 02/25/2010 09:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >>> Tony Nelson wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrote: ... > I can't conceive of a situation

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:49 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Like many good ideas, I'd say that this one has

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:49 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Craig White wrote: >> > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> >> wrote:

Re: akonadi startup errors

2010-02-26 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/26/2010 07:44 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi All; > > I've gotten no replies from kde-linux, so I'll ask here: > > > I upgraded to KDE 4.4 yesterday. I get this error EVERY time I start Kmail: > > [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't > exist > > I'v

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Jones
>> - cannot be adequately established for Linux because so few computers >> are actually sold with Linux on them. > > Why is that? In which way would making back-up easier -- and this is > only one problem -- make Linux less popular? Most users want *everything* in their $HOME backed up, config

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
John Aldrich wrote: > I would suggest that anyone who has problems after an upgrade like this > should try renaming ~local/share/akonadi and try again. It might also have > had something to do with mysqld. I don't know if it was already running or > not, but I manually started the service before re

Re: gsl_foo

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

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >>> - cannot be adequately established for Linux because so few computers >>> are actually sold with Linux on them. >> >> Why is that? In which way would making back-up easier -- and this is >> only one problem -- make Linux less popular? > > M

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-26 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/26/2010 09:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: >> I would suggest that anyone who has problems after an upgrade like this >> should try renaming ~local/share/akonadi and try again. It might also have >> had something to do with mysqld. I don't know if it was already running or >>

Re: Many bugs: pdf, Thunderbird, Firefox, goes knows.

2010-02-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:25:17 -0500 Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > >> Maybe if I could redirect the system to the right copy of Firefox, it > >> would solve all problems? How is this done? > > > > Just checking: did you quit your firefox and resta

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem

2010-02-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-24 23:07:41, Don Levey wrote: >> I've been reading with interest the problems with PulseAudio since >> F12 >> >> came out, and I find myself in a similar situation (none of the >> previously offered solutions seem to have helped). >  .

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 21:55 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > > Now, you might find this doesn't correspond to the ravings of the > Linux counter guy. > > You're right! It does correspond to my experience,

Re: Fedora Install

2010-02-26 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 02/26/2010 02:21 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > I would like to get any flavor of Linux installed > to my older-generation computer. I have 2 > old computers: > x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 AT/AT Compatible 130,596 KB Ram > Intel (R) 4 CPU 1400 MHz 130,352 KB Ram > > I k

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-26 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Mail Lists : > >On the last remaining computer I am aware of/maintain with kmail > still being used - akonadi was running, mysqld was running, and > nepemonkey was running all with user privs - nothing I tried could > resurrect kmail to a working state - I googled, read fedora threads e

How to see kernel pr_err error messages.

2010-02-26 Thread reg
Im looking at some kernel code, and there are 'pr_err' error messages in it that would help me discover my problem. However I dont see them printing anywhere. What do I have to do to see these error messages? A search with GOOGLE and a grep of the code wasnt too useful, but it seems possible tha

Re: Firefox has turned into a lynx

2010-02-26 Thread Hiisi
2010/2/26 Sam Varshavchik : > It looks like since the most recent update, on one of my laptops, Firefox > comes up showing the designated start page, but without processing its > stylesheet, so the end result looks like a slightly marked-up lynx. > > I can hit the home button, and get the home page

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:37:05 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > > rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you > aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and > inode numbers. The drawback is that a mirror is for one point in time > only. If yo