Re: Cool it Down Please was: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 00:37, g wrote: --snip-- > > so, either new web page designs are not being published, i am not getting > all postings that i should, or show how or other i did not see it. > > as i said, such notices should be sent to this list. > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-l

some i686 libraries for Fedora 13 x64 missing

2010-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
I assume the missing i686 libraries for Fedora 13 x64 are in the pipeline. This caused me a few minor headaches, but could be more like migraines to those less experienced. Otherwise Fedora 13 seems fine, and I'll start on kdevelop 4 usage, which I've been long anticipating. Regards JB -- users

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 18:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 01:22 +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > I'm just wondering why we don't have a tool for yum upgrades that > > downloads the packages and after OK by the user drops down to single > > user mode and installs them, at

Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Joshua C.
Under http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ are supposed to be the nightly-builds of the "latest" code. However, a quick look at the logs shows that those are build once in a week or even not that "often". Can someone explain why? It's just a signle script to be run. I really cann

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 09:54, Joshua C. wrote: --snip-- > > Can someone explain why? It's just a signle script to be run. I really > cannot understand where the problem is to build every night the isos? More than likely the Release of F13, has brought the person (singular) attention elsewhere. They will pr

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/5/30 Frank Murphy : > On 30/05/10 09:54, Joshua C. wrote: > --snip-- >> >> Can someone explain why? It's just a signle script to be run. I really >> cannot understand where the problem is to build every night the isos? > > More than likely the Release of F13, has brought the person (singular)

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 10:04, Joshua C. wrote: --snip-- >> -- > > > I thought this is an automated process?!? I really cannot understand > why this cannot be done automatically. They've got the space, the > script and just need to re-compose the isos - which can be done with a > cron job. It's not that dif

Re: How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Roberto Ragusa writes: > >> I never used parted, so if I had to achieve what you want I'd try >> something >> completely different. > > You have to use something to adjust the size of the ext3 filesystem. > Growing the underlying mdraid device is not sufficient. Once the

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread N James Bridge
I have just done a clean install of F13 86_64 and it has worked more smoothly than ever before. The default installation creates a 500 MB boot partition (ext4), as well as root and home. It's worth reviewing the sizes because it gives equal shares to these two and you may well want more for /home.

Re: F13 install on lappy, comments

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gene Heskett wrote: > Imagine my surprise when I found the capability of setting local addresses > etc right in NM for a change, and it worked! I didn't have to go hacking > about to make the new install work with my local network gateways etc. Not important, but I didn't understand this posting

Re: F13 nm_applet -- can't save vpnc VPN config

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Terry Polzin wrote: > Message simply states; Can't write connect type 'vpn' doesn't matter who > the user is fails for root as well. Worked fine in f12 A very ignorant question, probably - but what exactly is the connection between NM and OpenVPN? OpenVPN seems to work equally well for me wheth

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
N James Bridge wrote: > Personally, I prefer to do a clean install, since it gets rid of > accumulated clutter. That assumes you have a convenient way of backing > up your /home directory. Does the default installation destroy one's /home partition? I learned a long time ago never to let Fedora t

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 13:12, Timothy Murphy wrote: --snip-- > > Does the default installation destroy one's /home partition? > I learned a long time ago never to let Fedora touch my partitioning. > Why can't they just admit that LVM is a bad idea? > It belongs to a past age when disk-space was limited. > I

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Alan Evans wrote: > Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in > /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. > It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network > connection. I do have, so I continued; and then after finally > downloading a

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 13:16, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: > >> Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in >> /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? For F13 /boot = 500mb Preupgrade is not telling me. >> It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network >> con

Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay

2010-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 06:17 -0500, Steve Berg wrote: >> I've tried on two different systems, both recent clean installs of Fedora >> 13 x86_64. Open K3B (V1.91.0), pull in files that I'd like to have an >> archive of, total size is just under 40GB. Load up a blank BD-

Re: Omega live -

2010-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/29/2010 12:09 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> Is there an Omega Live version of F-13 [for USB flash drive] to be >> available and if so when? >> > > I am hoping to do a initial release before next week. > I look forward to it. -- Bill Davidsen "We have mo

Re: RSS for F13 updates

2010-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gordon Messmer wrote: > What's the appropriate contact to request new feeds at: > http://planet.fedoraproject.org/infofeed/ > > Should I file an RFE in bugzilla? I posted this question recently and got no answer. <4bfc46fd.4020...@tmr.com> -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bun

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 30 May 2010 13:16, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: > >> Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in >> /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. >> It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network >> connection. I do have, so

Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay

2010-05-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Bill Davidsen wrote: > OP: does K3B actually do a burn, or call something else to do it? I've had > burn problems because Fedora doesn't have genuine cdrecord installed, they > ship a look-alike which is really named tokem, or hokem, or something like > that, which doesn't work well on some burner

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:43 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > preupgrade is actively maintained and developed by some of the > smartest contributors to Fedora, so I am certain that if you file bug > reports about how it's not worked for you they will get fixed. It strike me that it will be used b

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 14:07, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:43 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: >> preupgrade is actively maintained and developed by some of the >> smartest contributors to Fedora, so I am certain that if you file bug >> reports about how it's not worked for you they will get fixed. >

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, N James Bridge wrote: > Personally, I prefer to do a clean install, since it gets rid of > accumulated clutter. That assumes you have a convenient way of backing > up your /home directory. I back up regardless. If you have a /home partition and do a custom install, you can te

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Why can't they just admit that LVM is a bad idea? > It belongs to a past age when disk-space was limited. LVM is probably useful. That said, I was innoculated against its virtues when it was sprung on me as a surprise during an install. If one has *on

DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-30 Thread Christopher A. Williams
I love the speed of the USB installer from the Live CD...! But I would also like to stop using so many DVDs for, well everything. USB drives are much more convenient, portable, durable, and reusable. My ideal scenario would be able to put the DVD installer ISO onto a bootable USB stick as well - s

Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay

2010-05-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sun, 5/30/10, Bill Davidsen wrote: > From: Bill Davidsen > Subject: Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 5:33 AM > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 06:17 -0500, Steve Berg wrote: > >> I

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 08:29 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > Why can't they just admit that LVM is a bad idea? > > It belongs to a past age when disk-space was limited. > > LVM is probably useful. > That said, I was innoculated against its virtues

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/5/30 Frank Murphy : > It's also based on tester feedback. > Package foo doesn't work. > If Package foo+1 doesn't make it into the build system for a week, > there's a weeks builds down the swanee. > That's why eyes rather than automation is used. > > -- > Regards, > > Frank Murphy This is no

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2010 01:31 AM, g wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > The original announce was good. Do you know if there was a followup - with something like 'Hey All - we now have a test version of the new website - please take a look and let us know ... ' One of the strengths of open source mod

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 15:08, Joshua C. wrote: --snip-- > > This is not exactly correct. It foo+1 isn't in the build system then > the automatic script will throw out an error. No because how will an auto script know to expect foo+1. It will accept fooX (the borked one) An error will only be thrown iirc, i

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jonathan Underwood wrote: >> Am I alone in thinking that preupgrade was a nice idea >> which has never worked perfectly, and which should be quietly dropped? > > preupgrade is actively maintained and developed by some of the > smartest contributors to Fedora, so I am certain that if you file bug

Re: DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-30 Thread stefan riemens
Have you tried just dd'ing the iso to de usb-disk? I know that works for live-cds, so it might work for the installer dvd as well (I haven't tried) Good luck! 2010/5/30, Christopher A. Williams : > I love the speed of the USB installer from the Live CD...! > > But I would also like to stop using

Re: DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I love the speed of the USB installer from the Live CD...! > > But I would also like to stop using so many DVDs for, well everything. > USB drives are much more convenient, portable, durable, and reusable. > My ideal scenario would

Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 08:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > You neglected to say what K3B actually does with this, such as any > error messages it outputs. > > > The error message was included in the first post, wasn't it? Look again. There was no error message of any kind quoted in the OP's pos

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 08:19 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010, N James Bridge wrote: > > > Personally, I prefer to do a clean install, since it gets rid of > > accumulated clutter. That assumes you have a convenient way of backing > > up your /home directory. > > I back up rega

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 10:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/30/2010 10:38 AM, g wrote: > > posting notification and a link to new page design to all list can help in > > prevention because if someone does complain, it is a simple matter to point > > out that notice was given and comments were

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:16 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: > > > Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in > > /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. > > It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network > > connecti

Re: DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 07:40 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Anyone have a how-to/magic incantation to do this? Could we eventually > make this an option for Fedora installers too? IIRC the Installation doc has a section on this. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?

2010-05-30 Thread sawrub
Hi List, I created a user by the name test, and after doing with my testing was going to delete the user using the following command, userdel and also added '-f' for cleaning out the home without leaving any traces of 'test'. But the command says : [r...@xbox ~]# userdel -f test userdel: user

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Andre Costa
Hi Steven, On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:09, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is: > > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 > GT] > (rev > > a1) > > > > are the correct instructions for installing the propriet

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 30 May 2010 10:54:37 +0200 "Joshua C." wrote: > Under http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ are > supposed to be the nightly-builds of the "latest" code. However, a > quick look at the logs shows that those are build once in a week or > even not that "often". > > Can som

Re: F13 install on lappy, comments

2010-05-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Imagine my surprise when I found the capability of setting local >> addresses etc right in NM for a change, and it worked! I didn't have to >> go hacking about to make the new install work with my local network >> gateways etc. >

ssh into kvm-clients

2010-05-30 Thread brizly vaan van Ulciputz
Hello Everyone, ich wonder why i am not able to ssh-in in this case: i have an kvm-'server' running 4 'guests'. the guests are behind nat (default in kvm?). running fresh fedora on all machine (host and guest), installed from live-cd, enabled sshd and made sure system-config-firewall allows ssh

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 May 2010 19:02:00 +0200 brizly vaan van Ulciputz wrote: > the guests are behind nat (default in kvm?). I have never seen the default KVM nat work at all, and I suspect something about the firewall rules it constructs interact badly with the firewall rules I already have on my host, but

bug reporting tool - auto download/install?

2010-05-30 Thread Dj YB
hello, I just had a crash with emarald, however following the steps in the error reporting wizard I filled in my BugZilla login details and the next thing I see is a download+install of 38 debug required packages. now I don't remember giving my root password and it is not possible to install w

Re: Personal file share (Bluetooth) folder elimination howto -Permantently?

2010-05-30 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 29 May, 2010 @ 19:44 zulu, KC8LDO scribed: > I keep getting the Bluetooth file sharing folder reappearing and > I want to eliminate it - permanently. I'm not using Bluetooth or > the personal file sharing feature. I erase the folder but it always > seems to come back. How do I get rid

How to set monitor refresh rate more than 60hz in Fedora 13

2010-05-30 Thread Ravi Saini
I have installed the Fedora 13 on my computer today. I am using HCL's 17" Monitor whose screen resolution is 1024*768 @85 hz. But in Fedora 13, I can't be able to set my monitor's refresh rate more than 60 hz due to which the screen is blurring. There is no Xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. Please help m

Re: Personal file share (Bluetooth) folder elimination howto -Permantently?

2010-05-30 Thread H. Willstrand
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Darr wrote: > On Saturday, 29 May, 2010 @ 19:44 zulu, KC8LDO scribed: > >> I keep getting the Bluetooth file sharing folder reappearing and >> I want to eliminate it - permanently. I'm not using Bluetooth or >> the personal file sharing feature. I erase the folder

Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use and collaborate with my colleagues. So I will install the rpm's from CPAN - the downside is for some reason R requires the fedora texlive to install and I need R too ... Can someone help me make and RPM or something that tel

kernel-devel problem (broken link, no PAE)

2010-05-30 Thread Brian Mury
I am trying to build the VirtualBox kernel module. It fails with this error: Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again. Stop. In /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE there is a "build" symlink that links to /usr/src/k

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-05-30 Thread brizly vaan van Ulciputz
when i installed the guests the was one possible way in the 'advanced options' with nat. the bridged one for eth0 and eth1 was disabled (gray). did i miss something or have to install something do be able to use bridging? no matter for me if it's nat or bridge, at the end all mashines should be in

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Miles
On 05/30/2010 09:34 AM, Andre Costa wrote: Hi Steven, On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:09, Steven P. Ulrick mailto:lists-fed...@afolkey2.net>> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is: > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForc

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Mohamed El Morabity
Le dimanche 30 mai 2010 à 15:08 -0400, Genes MailLists a écrit : > I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use > and collaborate with my colleagues. > > So I will install the rpm's from CPAN - the downside is for some reason > R requires the fedora texlive to install and

Re: kernel-devel problem (broken link, no PAE)

2010-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/30/2010 02:16 PM, Brian Mury wrote: > I am trying to build the VirtualBox kernel module. It fails with this > error: > > Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current > Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again. Stop. > > In /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2010 03:34 PM, Mohamed El Morabity wrote: > > Hi, > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-April/371585.html > > Bis repetita placent... > > Yes I am aware of that - and it has had a few glitches - if it was ready it would be in updates ... the fedora build seems to b

Re: kernel-devel problem (broken link, no PAE) [SOLVED]

2010-05-30 Thread Brian Mury
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 14:47 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > Try 'yum install kernel-PAE-devel'. I had looked for kernel-PAE-devel in the gnome packagekit application, it wasn't there. Yum found it. I have no idea why the packagekit application didn't show it - but now that it is installed, it does sh

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2010 03:55 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/30/2010 03:34 PM, Mohamed El Morabity wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-April/371585.html >> Also the official release seems to be 2009 - also isn't 2010 still in pre-release ? Or has it been releas

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/5/30 Kevin Fenzi : > On Sun, 30 May 2010 10:54:37 +0200 > "Joshua C." wrote: > >> Under http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ are >> supposed to be the nightly-builds of the "latest" code. However, a >> quick look at the logs shows that those are build once in a week or >> ev

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/5/30 Frank Murphy : > On 30/05/10 15:08, Joshua C. wrote: > --snip-- >> >> This is not exactly correct. It foo+1 isn't in the build system then >> the automatic script will throw out an error. > > No because how will an auto script know to expect foo+1. > It will accept fooX (the borked one) >

Re: Fedora 13 AdobeReader_enu nss-softokn-freebl multiple version conflict

2010-05-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 05/29/2010 01:11 PM, Rich Emberson wrote: > Yesterday I installed Fedora 13, first on my laptop > and then my main machine. Both are 64bit with > nvidia cards. > > On the laptop everything went as expected, but on > the big box I could not install AdobeReader_enu. > > When I try: > > yum install

Re: Cool it Down Please was: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread g
Frank Murphy wrote: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg4.html > > "Máirín Duffy proposed[13] a few ideas for a new Fedora website design" that was for fedora 12, and i do not believe it was accepted. at least i do not recall fedora 12 looking like it an

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread g
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I suspect there's a (possibly subconscious) view among many of us that > website design means "making the website look pretty" and for the most > part we aren't that bothered. The fact that of course it also refers to > functionality is something we all need to intern

64 versus 32 flash mystery

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
I tried the 64 bit flash plugin, and while it mostly worked, several sites just showed an error telling me that I need a version of flash > 9. If I install the 32 bit flash from the adobe repo, those same sites work fine. Yet both the 64 and 32 bit flash report a version > 10 when I check the ver

Re: How to set monitor refresh rate more than 60hz in Fedora 13

2010-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ravi Saini wrote: > I have installed the Fedora 13 on my computer today. I am using HCL's > 17" Monitor whose screen resolution is 1024*768 @85 hz. But in Fedora > 13, I can't be able to set my monitor's refresh rate more than 60 hz due > to which the screen is blurring. There is no Xorg.conf fi

Power management capacity dialog removed in F13

2010-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
In F12, the left mouse button over the battery icon opened a dropped down menu with a "Laptop battery" menu entry. Selecting the menu entry opened a small dialog with the battery's details, specifically the battery's current capacity, in watts, its original capacity, in watts, and its current ch

F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-05-30 Thread fred smith
Hi gang! I installed F13 on my eeepc 901 on Friday. Since I changed the partitioing scheme, I backed up the whole thing onto a USB HD first so I could restore my home directory afterwards (in fact I also kept dd images of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in case I decided to put F12 back on it later.) first

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> I am thinking that your problem is nouveau must be blacklisted in the > grub.conf file > > http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia > > See the Fedora 12/13 install guide for the instruction to install > > Selinix protection must be lowered to allow the nvidia driver to load and > > rdblacklist=nou

Re: 64 versus 32 flash mystery

2010-05-30 Thread Andre Robatino
Tom Horsley gmail.com> writes: > Any idea why some sites think the 64 bit flash > is a version number < 9? Do you get the same error if flash isn't installed at all? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> I am thinking that your problem is nouveau must be blacklisted in the > grub.conf file > > http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia Hello Again, I just checked the instructions at the above link. They seem to be a simplified version of what I've already tried. Steven P. Ulrick -- users mailing l

Re: Cool it Down Please was: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 21:33, g wrote: > Frank Murphy wrote: > > >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg4.html >> >> "Máirín Duffy proposed[13] a few ideas for a new Fedora website design" > > that was for fedora 12, and i do not believe it was accepted. > Work on Fe

Record "Stereo Mix" (what you hear) from PulseAudio

2010-05-30 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello everyone, I'm on Fedora 12 and I'm using an internal soundcard (HDA-Intel) which doesn't provide, as an input source, the so called "Stereo Mix" (the audio that comes out of your speakers). I simply would like to record from it for applications like Audacity and recordmydesktop. Apparen

Re: 64 versus 32 flash mystery

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 May 2010 21:39:07 + (UTC) Andre Robatino wrote: > > Any idea why some sites think the 64 bit flash > > is a version number < 9? > > Do you get the same error if flash isn't installed at all? I just tried it, and I get an "install missing plugins" prompt from firefox with no flas

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Andre Costa
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 13:34, Andre Costa wrote: > Hi Steven, > > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:09, Steven P. Ulrick > wrote: > >> > Hello Everyone, >> > If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is: >> > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 >> GT] >> (rev >> > a

Re: F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:31:47 -0400 fred smith wrote: > I'm stumped, anyone got any sage adivce for me? If selinux is enabled, it wants its mysterious labeling on /home, and if you create /home later, it may need fixes to make selinux happy. You could temporarily disable selinux and see if proble

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> > Well, no luck so far... But here are some excerpts from log files > > that might > > help someone see what my problem is: > > > > First, the output of 'grep -i "nvidia" messages': > > > > [r...@localhost log]# grep -i "nvidia" messages > > May 28 15:27:16 localhost kern

Re: How to set monitor refresh rate more than 60hz in Fedora 13

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Note: for Nvidia, ATI, and Intel graphics this probably won't work because the > enhanced drivers do things as they see fit. There are vendor (closed source) In my case, a problem is that the radeon driver is using the preferred frequency, 135 Mhz, eve

Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Leonard Adjei
I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew problems with the naming convention used by default. For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('), I want to be able to create a script which goes to t

Fedora 13 Upgrade Going Badly

2010-05-30 Thread philbrog
The system installed without any error messages, then when I re-boot I see several error messages, then these messages repeated over and over: init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () terminated with status 1 init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () ended, respawning init: tty (/dev/tty3) main p

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Genes MailLists wrote: > I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use > and collaborate with my colleagues. As a matter of interest, what do you need that is not in TeXlive 2007? I often use LaTeX packages that are not in TeXlive, but I just get them from one of the CTANs

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 08:19 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Sun, 30 May 2010, N James Bridge wrote: >> >>> Personally, I prefer to do a clean install, since it gets rid of >>> accumulated clutter. That assumes you have a convenient way of back

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Elsner
On Sun, 30 May 2010 22:21:32 + Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Genes MailLists wrote: > >> I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use >> and collaborate with my colleagues. > > As a matter of interest, what do you need that is not in TeXlive 2007? My guess is that there was a change in s

Re: Fedora 13 Upgrade Going Badly

2010-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
philbrog writes: The system installed without any error messages, then when I re-boot I see several error messages, then these messages repeated over and over: init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () terminated with status 1 init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () ended, respawning init: tt

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: >> >> Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do anything >> except format > > Supposedly /boot cannot be ext4 as it's not yet supported by Grub, so I > don't k

Re: radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 29 May 2010, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:45 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >>> I'm on my third video card. >>> The first was a radeon. >>> After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with >>> an nvidia card because it had

Network crash in F13

2010-05-30 Thread Clodoaldo Neto
Whenever a heavy nfs4 file copy or internet file download is done connectivity is lost and restarting NetworkManager does not fix it. Only a reboot fixes it. [ cut here ] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:255 dev_watchdog+0xf0/0x192() Hardware name: A780GM-A NETDEV WATCHD

Re: some i686 libraries for Fedora 13 x64 missing

2010-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 05/30/2010 09:07 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > I assume the missing i686 libraries for Fedora 13 x64 are in the > pipeline. This caused me a few minor headaches, but could be more like > migraines to those less experienced. Otherwise Fedora 13 seems fine, and > I'll start on kdevelop 4 usa

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: >>> >>> Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do anything >>> except format >> >> Supposedly /boot cann

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 29/05/10 02:22, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> Frank Murphy wrote: >>> take each one at a time: yum grouplist "Administration Tools" > --snip-- >> yum groupinfo 'Administration Tools' >

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tom H wrote: > >> yum groupinfo 'Administration Tools' > > Thanks. > That does indeed list the packages in each group, > and confirms that I do not in fact have installed > the groups listed as such by "yum grouplist", > after installing fro

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2010 06:29 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Genes MailLists wrote: >> >>> I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use >>> and collaborate with my colleagues. >> >> As a matter of interest, what do you need that is not

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> Hello Everyone > I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a precise, > blow by blow account of what I am doing: > 1. "yum update": No Packages marked for Update > 2. [st...@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep VGA > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [

Re: F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-05-30 Thread fred smith
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 06:05:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:31:47 -0400 > fred smith wrote: > > > I'm stumped, anyone got any sage adivce for me? Tom: Yes, disabling selinux removes the problem. I had looked at the selinux labeling and thought it looked OK, but appare

fedora 13 - upgarding from DVD with no /boot

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
I have an existing install (f10) with a root partition and /home partition. When I boot the install DVD - there is no screen which offers me a choice whether i want to upgrade or do a fresh install - it -assumes- I want to install fresh. Is this a bug or is there an option I need to put in so

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> > Hello Everyone > > I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a > > precise, > > blow by blow account of what I am doing: > > 1. "yum update": No Packages marked for Update > > 2. [st...@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep VGA > > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 30 May 2010 03:53 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: >> On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Sunday 30 May 2010 03:53 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Suvayu Ali   >> wrote: >>> On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: > > Sda

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Miles
On 05/30/2010 04:47 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >>> Hello Everyone >>> I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a precise, >>> blow by blow account of what I am doing: >>> 1. "yum update": No Packages marked for Update >>> 2. [st...@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep VGA >>>

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> On 05/30/2010 04:47 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > >>> Hello Everyone > >>> I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a precise, > >>> blow by blow account of what I am doing: > >>> 1. "yum update": No Packages marked for Update > >>> 2. [st...@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci |

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Miles
On 05/30/2010 06:02 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >> On 05/30/2010 04:47 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >> > Hello Everyone > I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a > > precise, > > blow by blow account of what I am doing: > 1. "yum

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