outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

2014-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(note: even though i'm running rawhide, this issue has nothing to do with rawhide itself, so i'm using the regular list.) having never messed with GPS software running on linux, one or two truly beginner-level questions. if i want to simply buy a GPS receiver and set up my fedora laptop to st

Re: outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

2014-10-12 Thread John Mellor
There is no other expense, unless you want to get into tying in your location to map data from a non-free source. I use an older Holux puck-type receiver, similar to your first selection. Since my upstream is somewhat flakey due to the variable latency problems introduced by my incompetent last-m

Re: outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

2014-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, John Mellor wrote: > There is no other expense, unless you want to get into tying in your > location to map data from a non-free source. I use an older Holux > puck-type receiver, similar to your first selection. Since my > upstream is somewhat flakey due to the variable lat

sony-ericsson p910i

2014-10-12 Thread Walter Cazzola
Dear Experts, since I'm moving to a new phone my old sony-ericsson p910i is going to retire but before that I'd like to get all the SMS, phots and phone numbers I've stored on it and that I can't move to the SIM (too small). It connects to my laptop through a craddle and a usb cable and lsusb giv

Re: Can't re-create initrd

2014-10-12 Thread CLOSE Dave
I wrote: > Eventually, I want to modify the initrd. But first I want to find a > working procedure to create the revised version. So, without changing > anything, I'm trying to recreate the initrd. If I can't get an > unmodified version to work, I probably have no hope for a modified one. > > My c

Re: Can't re-create initrd

2014-10-12 Thread jd1008
On 10/12/2014 01:39 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: find . | cpio -oc | xz --check=crc32 --lzma2=dict=1MiB >../initrd2.img So . (dot) is /boot/grub2 ?? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

Latest updates for mate no longer remember what gui apps were running in previous login.

2014-10-12 Thread jd1008
Hi all, Mate is not restarting the apps that were running in previous login. Apps like thunderbird, firefox, smplayer, skype, etc. Looking to see if someone found a solution for this. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: Can't re-create initrd

2014-10-12 Thread Roger Heflin
. (dot) usually in these cases are whatever preferred named sub-directory that you extracted it in to start with. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:48 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > On 10/12/2014 01:39 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: >> >> find . | cpio -oc | xz --check=crc32 --lzma2=dict=1MiB >../initrd2.img > > So . (dot

What happened to system-config-display

2014-10-12 Thread jd1008
I used to be able to use it for changing resolutions. Is there no replacement or am I missing a package? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedorapr

Re: What happened to system-config-display

2014-10-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/10/14 04:35 PM, jd1008 wrote: I used to be able to use it for changing resolutions. Is there no replacement or am I missing a package? It's been MIA since Fedora 15 - they suggest xrandr -- 1984 was not meant as a blueprint for democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@l