Problem getting large files from a GoPro

2016-10-09 Thread Mark
Hi I recently got a GoPro video camera and ran into some problems with getting the files from it to my Fedora 24 desktop. When connected via USB it automagically mounts and I can see the video files in Files. I can transfer small files (around 100MB) from it, but not large files (1GB). Don't know

Re: Problem getting large files from a GoPro

2016-10-09 Thread Earl A Ramirez
Hello Mark, > > So my questions are: > How can I determine the mount point for a USB device? > You can use mount, findmnt or even df to identify any mounted device or USB drives > What's the best way to copy large files over USB? > > cp usually works for me. -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez

Re: nautilus

2016-10-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 19:34 -0600, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > This the results of trying to login to nautilus. I am running Fedora 25 > Beta. This list is for stable versions of Fedora. Please post questions about unreleased software to the Fedora Test list.  poc

Re: Boot normally, but give me a root shell

2016-10-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 08:06 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 10/08/16 19:02, Greg Woods wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Joachim Backes > > mailto:joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de>> > > wrote: > > > > If you add "init=/bin/bash" to the grub line, there is simply a root > >

Re: Problem getting large files from a GoPro

2016-10-09 Thread Mark
On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 11:37 +0200, Earl A Ramirez wrote: > Hello Mark, > > > > > > > So my questions are: > > How can I determine the mount point for a USB device? > > > You can use mount, findmnt or even df to identify any mounted device > or USB > drives Hi Earl As I wrote df doesn't give a

Re: Problem getting large files from a GoPro

2016-10-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 12:11 +0200, Mark wrote: > On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 11:37 +0200, Earl A Ramirez wrote: > > > > Hello Mark, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So my questions are: > > > How can I determine the mount point for a USB device? > > > > > You can use mount, findmnt or even df to identif

evince question concerning numerical calculations in PDF forms

2016-10-09 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all Fedora users, can anybody explain why evince is unable to perform calculations with numerical rows or columns of pdf forms? So I must continue to use acroread or foxit reader for such operations :-( All comments are welcome. Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 24 (Twenty F

Re: Problem getting large files from a GoPro

2016-10-09 Thread Bryon Adams
On Oct 9, 2016 4:00 AM, Mark wrote: > > Hi > > I recently got a GoPro video camera and ran into some problems with > getting the files from it to my Fedora 24 desktop. When connected via > USB it automagically mounts and I can see the video files in Files. I > can transfer small files (around 100M

Can't check Bluetooth mouse battery level

2016-10-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
(Originally posted to the KDE list but now I don't think it's a KDE issue). Using the Status and Notifications widget used to show the battery level in my Bluetooth mouse. Now it just says there are no batteries. It's a desktop, so there are indeed no batteries in the system, but there are in the

Re: Can't check Bluetooth mouse battery level

2016-10-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > (Originally posted to the KDE list but now I don't think it's a KDE > issue). > > Using the Status and Notifications widget used to show the battery > level in my Bluetooth mouse. Now it just says there are no batteries. > It's a desktop

Re: Can't check Bluetooth mouse battery level

2016-10-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 11:22 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > (Originally posted to the KDE list but now I don't think it's a KDE > > issue). > > > > Using the Status and Notifications widget used to show the battery > > level in my

Re: Problem getting large files from a GoPro

2016-10-09 Thread Mark
On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 12:00 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > That means it's connected via the MTP protocol, not mounted as a > filesystem. If you want to mount it: > > dnf install simple-mtpfs > > and proceed from there. A followup - I installed simple-mtpfs, rebooted and tried again but

Themes Under Gnome

2016-10-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, I can't see anywhere within Gnome Settings or Gnome Tweak Tool an option that allows me to set the global system theme nor the global colour scheme, plus the ability to view what each of these will look like and to be able to fine tune them if necessary. Is this functionality just not

Forward and Backward Steppers missing in Thunderbird and Possibly Firefox

2016-10-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, I'm using Thunderbird 52.0a1 and I have an issue with the forward and backward steppers (top and bottom arrows on scrollbars) missing. In another thread Tom Horsley provided a gtk-3 css script that needed to be placed in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css. This script rectified the missing arr

long standing boot error message

2016-10-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
My system is about 2 yrs old and started with F19 or earlier version. It has always had one boot error I'm unable to resolve. Nothing seems to be not working, so I ponder once in a while. Anybody recognize this error message? usb 2-1.5: string descriptor 0 read error: -22 Jon -- Jon H. LaB

Re: long standing boot error message

2016-10-09 Thread fred roller
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Anybody recognize this error message? > >usb 2-1.5: string descriptor 0 read error: -22 > According to: http://www.keil.com/pack/doc/mw/USB/html/_u_s_b__string__descriptor.html "String descriptors (USB_STRING_DESCRIPTOR) are optional and

Re: long standing boot error message

2016-10-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/09/2016 02:32 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Anybody recognize this error message? usb 2-1.5: string descriptor 0 read error: -22 I've seen messages like that often. I think some devices don't support all the descriptors the kernel tries to read or something like that. You can find out whic

Re: Problem getting large files from a GoPro

2016-10-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/09/2016 01:00 AM, Mark wrote: I recently got a GoPro video camera and ran into some problems with getting the files from it to my Fedora 24 desktop. When connected via USB it automagically mounts and I can see the video files in Files. I can transfer small files (around 100MB) from it, but

Re: long standing boot error message

2016-10-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 06:20:03PM -0400, fred roller wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > Anybody recognize this error message? > > > >usb 2-1.5: string descriptor 0 read error: -22 > > > > According to: > > http://www.keil.com/pack/doc/mw/USB/html/_u_s_b__stri

Re: Themes Under Gnome

2016-10-09 Thread Bryon Adams
Hi, I can't see anywhere within Gnome Settings or Gnome Tweak Tool an option that allows me to set the global system theme nor the global colour scheme, plus the ability to view what each of these will look like and to be able to fine tune them if necessary. Is this functionality just n

Re: Problem getting large files from a GoPro

2016-10-09 Thread Mark
On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 15:15 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > It's not about the USB, it's because it's using PTP or MTP for the  > mounting and copying. > > In a terminal, look in /run/user//gvfs to see if the mount > point  > is under there.  That top level directory is shown by mount as the > mount 

Re: long standing boot error message

2016-10-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/09/2016 04:25 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: No "product" listing, but there are vendor and product ids. The device is my "internal" BlueTooth adapter made by Lite-On. Based on adjacent product codes, it uses an Atheros chip. Obviously using a usb interface, much as a BT-dongle would. Sometime whe

Re: Problem getting large files from a GoPro

2016-10-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/09/2016 10:35 PM, Mark wrote: Pity that Files (the Gnome application) can't copy large files and that it doesn't give the user information about the mount point. You didn't explain what happened. Maybe file a bug? ___ users mailing list -- user