Re: anecdotal evidence that people like the Fedora names

2012-10-24 Thread Timothy Murphy
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/22/2012 01:38 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> "I must say (without wanting to raise rivalries neither trolling) that >> Fedora's codenames are waayy better than Ubuntu's ones. Spherical >> Cow >>> Quantal Quetzal" > > If nothing else, they don't look so contrived.

problem with bbswitch module on reboot

2012-10-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
I am using the 'bbswitch' module to disable the nvidia card and save power on a laptop with optimus. I removed nouveau permanently by blacklisting and then running dracut. I compiled bbswitch with 'dkms' and then added the following: #!/bin/sh if [ ! -c /proc/acpi/bbswitch ] ; then exec

Unsupported Hardware with 3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64 on FC 16

2012-10-24 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, With the update of the new kernel 3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64 on FC16 I am getting a new message on the lower right hand corner of my desktop that is about an 1 inch by 1 inch in size telling me that there is "Unsupported Hardware" present. The title in this box appears to be "AMD" with an bloc

Re: problem with bbswitch module on reboot

2012-10-24 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 15:57 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > However when I 'restart' (from the menu or 'shutdown -r now') this > does not work: 'bbswitch' can't find the discrete VGA device! > And consequently it is not loaded. Any BIOS options regarding resetting video hardware upon resume, or

Re: problem with bbswitch module on reboot

2012-10-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:41:22AM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 15:57 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > However when I 'restart' (from the menu or 'shutdown -r now') this > > does not work: 'bbswitch' can't find the discrete VGA device! > > And consequently it is not loaded. > > A

Re: logrotate/logwatch error on fc15

2012-10-24 Thread Alex
>> I have an fc15 box and I'm having a problem with logwatch. I'm using >> bzip2 for the compresscmd for logrotate, yet it somehow is giving the >> compressed files a gz instead of bz2 extension. Logwatch uses this to >> determine which command to use to read the compressed files, so it >> therefor

Re: no audio on kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64

2012-10-24 Thread William Henry
My audio is back: 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 William - Original Message - > On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 15:07 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > > On 19 October 2012 07:24, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > On 10/18/2012 11:07 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > >> > > >> I've got working audio now on 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_6

Re: logrotate/logwatch error on fc15

2012-10-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/24/2012 08:58 AM, Alex wrote: The script should be written to use 'file' not just parse the extension. Why? Just because in <.001% of the time the extension will be wrong? Not exactly an efficient use of resources. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: logrotate/logwatch error on fc15

2012-10-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.10.2012 19:20, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 10/24/2012 08:58 AM, Alex wrote: >> The script should be written to use 'file' not just parse the extension. > > Why? Just because in <.001% of the time the extension will be wrong? Not > exactly an efficient use of resources. because it is NOT the

Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Junayeed Ahnaf
Many people say that the biggest holdup in Linux gaming is graphics system. But if there are plethora of games for OS X (which is UNIX and uses Open GL) then why there just isn't enough games for Linux? Sound? Different DE? Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor

Re: [389-users] AD replication agreement with 2 different servers/domains

2012-10-24 Thread Juan Asensio Sánchez
Hi again Rich, I dont think that ticket would help me; i need to sync users with two different servers/domains, not with two different OUs in the same server/domain. Dan, I don't want do merge the two AD domains, I want to replicate the data in 389DS to the two AD servers/domains. I could use the

Re: no audio on kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64

2012-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/24/2012 09:08 AM, William Henry wrote: My audio is back: 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 Mine worked on that kernel as well, but only for a few minutes. I still haven't got around to filing a bug. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Re: Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Wed 24 Oct 2012 02:11:29 PM EDT, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote: Many people say that the biggest holdup in Linux gaming is graphics system. But if there are plethora of games for OS X (which is UNIX and uses Open GL) then why there just isn't enough games for Linux? Sound? Different DE? http://st

Re: [389-users] AD replication agreement with 2 different servers/domains

2012-10-24 Thread Dan Lavu
You might be able to do something like Create two OU, create the replication agreements to the OU's, sync with one AD server and in the other OU, and create a referral to the sync'ed OU? It sounds ugly, looks ugly because it's ugly, but that might work. FWIW, good luck. Dan - Original

Re: Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:11:29 +1100 Junayeed Ahnaf wrote: > Many people say that the biggest holdup in Linux gaming is graphics system. > But if there are plethora of games for OS X (which is UNIX and uses Open GL) > then why there just isn't enough games for Linux? > > > Sound? Different DE?

Re: Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/24/2012 11:51 AM, Alan Cox wrote: Small gamer market share, historically buggy and underperforming 3D graphics drivers, no common way to sell/support. ...and a culture based on free software. How many Linux gamers, do you think, would be willing to pay for games when so much of their so

Re: Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
On 24.10.2012 22:04, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/24/2012 11:51 AM, Alan Cox wrote: Small gamer market share, historically buggy and underperforming 3D graphics drivers, no common way to sell/support. ...and a culture based on free software. How many Linux gamers, do you think, would be willing to

Chrome + nVidia insta crash

2012-10-24 Thread Trutwin, Joshua
Hi, I have a problem on my current systems running Fedora 17 x86_64 where the latest release of google-chrome-stable (google-chrome-stable-22.0.1229.94-161065.x86_64) crashes X and logs the user out. This used to happen on previous versions sporadically on flash sites due to Chrome's built in

Re: Chrome + nVidia insta crash

2012-10-24 Thread Sergio
On 10/24/2012 05:43 PM, Trutwin, Joshua wrote: Hi, I have a problem on my current systems running Fedora 17 x86_64 where the latest release of google-chrome-stable (google-chrome-stable-22.0.1229.94-161065.x86_64) crashes X and logs the user out. This used to happen on previous versions spor

Segmentation fault in wireshark

2012-10-24 Thread andrea
Hi, my wireshark in Fedora 17 fully updated started to seg fault today. I am sure last week it was working, but I cannot see anything interesting in the list of updates via yum. Stack trace is only partial, but before I start debugging I wanted to see if anyone else has the same issue. It dies

Re: Segmentation fault in wireshark

2012-10-24 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, andrea wrote: Hi, my wireshark in Fedora 17 fully updated started to seg fault today. I am sure last week it was working, but I cannot see anything interesting in the list of updates via yum. The quick fix is to delete abrt-addon-python package (probably with abrt-des

Re: Segmentation fault in wireshark

2012-10-24 Thread andrea
On 10/24/2012 09:44 PM, M A Young wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, andrea wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> my wireshark in Fedora 17 fully updated started to seg fault today. >> I am sure last week it was working, but I cannot see anything interesting in >> the list of updates via >> yum. > > The quick

Re: Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Paul Stuffins
> Small gamer market share, historically buggy and underperforming 3D > graphics drivers, no common way to sell/support. Don't forget that there are hundreds of distros, that may or may not use different versions of the same libraries. As an example, Ubuntu uses Gnome3, but not Gnome Shell, Linux

Re: Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/24/2012 03:04 PM, Paul Stuffins wrote: Do you think software developers out there can see a return on the investment of coding for all of the different versions of DE? I haven't done any programming in many years, and when I did, it wasn't graphics programming. However, AIUI, most of it

Re: Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > I haven't done any programming in many years, and when I did, it wasn't > graphics programming. However, AIUI, most of it is DE agnostic. If so, > this shouldn't be a factor, but of course, ICBW. Probably agnostic to DE, but probably not to libr

Re: Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 16:09:17 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to keep things backward-compatible. The Linux kernel devs seem, at least to the uninitiated, to have some kind of animosity to the very idea of ABI compatibility. Witne

Re: Games on Linux

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> >> Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to >> keep things backward-compatible. The Linux kernel devs seem, at least >> to the uninitiated, to have some kind of animosity to the very idea of >> ABI compatibility