Display setting problem with 4k monitor

2017-01-17 Thread Massimo Canonico
Hi all, I've bought a new laptop (Dell xps 13.3) and the monitor resolution is 3200x1800. Now the problem is that I cannot use this laptop with my external monitor which I use as an extended monitor. The external monitor could reach 1280x1024. So when I try to move a window from the laptop m

Re: ACPI errors at boot

2017-01-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 21:50 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 01/16/17 19:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I just updated to kernel 4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64 and am now seeing this > > on boot: > > > > Jan 16 11:07:14 bree kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, > > AE_NOT_FOUND (201608

Re: ACPI errors at boot

2017-01-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 16:42 +0100, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > The real problem is not only that acpi faliures, else that Intel 915 fifo > buffer underrun error has came back, and returns every time when I get > kernel update. Worse, because WMI is also messed up, and I needed to return > 3 kernel versi

%prep and %autosetup: move the unpacked source directory

2017-01-17 Thread arnaud gaboury
Here is my working directory at the beginning of build, right after I downloaded the source with spectool. The root directory of the .zip file is called "platform-master". --- [makerpm@thetradinghall rpmbuild]$ ls -al -rw-rw-r-- 1 makerpm makerpm 31120791 Jan 15 11:52 master.zip -r

VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread ProPAAS DBA
Hi All; I'm running Fedora 25 on a laptop with 16GB of ram. I'm frustrated with the VMware workstation reliably breaking every 2 to 3 kernel updates and sometimes with no reasonable fix in sight for some time. Not the end of the world and I get the reasons behind it, however I wonder if KVM m

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Kam Leo
Why are you expecting stability when the host OS you are using is betaware? Use CentOS as your host OS and you might get better results. On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:01 AM, ProPAAS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > > I'm running Fedora 25 on a laptop with 16GB of ram. I'm frustrated with > the VMware workst

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Joe Wulf
I use a mixture of VMware Workstation on Linux and KVM both at home and at work. One PRO for VMware Workstation is the existing library of VMs which serve various purposes.  Regenerating or rebuilding them all over again, as well as protecting the infrastructure of unique/local configurations wou

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/17/2017 08:01 AM, ProPAAS DBA wrote: - does anyone have experiences good and bad with KVM? Any gotcha's or common issues I should be aware of? I've been using KVM exclusively since Red Hat stopped shipping Xen dom0 kernels. It works the way I expect it to and hasn't given me any grief

Re: %prep and %autosetup: move the unpacked source directory

2017-01-17 Thread James Hogarth
On 17 Jan 2017 3:49 pm, "arnaud gaboury" wrote: Here is my working directory at the beginning of build, right after I downloaded the source with spectool. The root directory of the .zip file is called "platform-master". --- [makerpm@thetradinghall rpmbuild]$ ls -al -rw-rw-r-- 1 m

Re: %prep and %autosetup: move the unpacked source directory

2017-01-17 Thread arnaud gaboury
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:57 PM James Hogarth wrote: > > > On 17 Jan 2017 3:49 pm, "arnaud gaboury" wrote: > > Here is my working directory at the beginning of build, right after I > downloaded the source with spectool. The root directory of the .zip file is > called "platform-master". > > -

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread George N. White III
On 17 January 2017 at 12:01, ProPAAS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > > I'm running Fedora 25 on a laptop with 16GB of ram. I'm frustrated with > the VMware workstation reliably breaking every 2 to 3 kernel updates and > sometimes with no reasonable fix in sight for some time. Not the end of the > world

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 9:01 AM, ProPAAS DBA wrote: > - does anyone have experiences good and bad with KVM? We use it a lot here at work and it works quite well for us (under CentOS 7), but all our VMs are also Linux. In my experience at home, when running non-Linux VMs (such as Windows 7) unde

Re: ACPI errors at boot

2017-01-17 Thread Andre Robatino
I've seen errors somewhat similar to that on my machine since I bought it almost 3 years ago, and have always interpreted them as due to a BIOS bug (I'm using the latest BIOS). Doesn't cause any problems AFAICT. [0.125788] ACPI Error: [CAPB] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (2 016

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:54:46 -0700 Greg Woods wrote: > when running > non-Linux VMs (such as Windows 7) under KVM on Fedora, the VMs perform like > crap, so I always end up installing VirtualBox. If you go to the trouble of digging up the different virtio disk and network drivers and QXL video dr

Re: Networkmanagre Refuses to use my Dlink DWA-192 USB Wifi Device in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/1/17 7:49 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 01/16/2017 12:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/16/2017 12:17 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I am using kde at the moment and I have cut and pasted the wifi password back into the Networkmanager definition, and had the new password stored in Kwallet, but Network

Re: Mount of NAS Ethernet Connect to Router Fails at Boot Time for CIFS Interface in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/1/17 7:02 am, fred roller wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Stephen Morris mailto:samor...@netspace.net.au>> wrote: Jan 17 06:40:15 localhost.localdomain mount[1299]: mount error(101): Network is unreachable At first look it seems the network is not fully up and running

Re: Mount of NAS Ethernet Connect to Router Fails at Boot Time for CIFS Interface in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/1/17 9:10 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/17/17 04:36, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, My Nas device now fails to mount at boot time via the CIFS definition in fstab but the corresponding NFS definition mounts quite happily. Also after the system comes up and I log into KDE I can manually

Re: Mount of NAS Ethernet Connect to Router Fails at Boot Time for CIFS Interface in F24 [Possibly Solved]

2017-01-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/1/17 6:36 am, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, My Nas device now fails to mount at boot time via the CIFS definition in fstab but the corresponding NFS definition mounts quite happily. Also after the system comes up and I log into KDE I can manually mount the CIFS device. As far as I am a

Re: Networkmanagre Refuses to use my Dlink DWA-192 USB Wifi Device in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Terry Polzin
Is the device firmware getting loaded? On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 17/1/17 7:49 am, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On 01/16/2017 12:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >>> On 01/16/2017 12:17 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> I am using kde at the moment and I have cut and paste

Re: Networkmanagre Refuses to use my Dlink DWA-192 USB Wifi Device in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/1/17 6:40 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 01/17/2017 12:12 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 17/1/17 7:49 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 01/16/2017 12:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/16/2017 12:17 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I am using kde at the moment and I have cut and pasted the wifi password back int

Re: Networkmanagre Refuses to use my Dlink DWA-192 USB Wifi Device in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/1/17 6:50 am, Terry Polzin wrote: Is the device firmware getting loaded? Thanks Terry. At the moment I'm not sure. This device used to work so I am assuming the firmware is being loaded, but at the moment I'm not sure if the firmware extensions package has been uninstalled for some reason

Re: ACPI errors at boot

2017-01-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 20:15 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > I've seen errors somewhat similar to that on my machine since I bought it > almost 3 years ago, and have always interpreted them as due to a BIOS bug > (I'm using the latest BIOS). Doesn't cause any problems AFAICT. > > [0.125788] AC

Re: Networkmanagre Refuses to use my Dlink DWA-192 USB Wifi Device in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Terry Polzin
In my experience, you won't get any further than lsusb "seeing" the device if you haven't the firmware. It may be blacklisted. On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 18/1/17 6:50 am, Terry Polzin wrote: > >> Is the device firmware getting loaded? >> > Thanks Terry. At the m

Re: Mount of NAS Ethernet Connect to Router Fails at Boot Time for CIFS Interface in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/18/17 04:39, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thanks Ed. I haven't written my own systemd units as I haven't investigated > how to do > that, so at the moment I don't have the expertise to do so. > I've written in another response to my original thread that I may have found > what the > issue is,

Re: Mount of NAS Ethernet Connect to Router Fails at Boot Time for CIFS Interface in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/17/2017 01:51 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: OK. As I mentioned, I don't have any mnt-nas.mount unit on my system and I can't find any package in Fedora which would provide that unit. So I just wonder where it comes from. systemd automatically creates temporary units for the entries in the fst

Re: Mount of NAS Ethernet Connect to Router Fails at Boot Time for CIFS Interface in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/18/17 05:59, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 01/17/2017 01:51 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> OK. As I mentioned, I don't have any mnt-nas.mount unit on my system and I >> can't find any >> package in Fedora which would provide that unit. So I just wonder where it >> comes from. >> > systemd automatic

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread ProPAAS DBA
Hi All; I'll try and answer all the questions: Why are you expecting stability when the host OS you are using is betaware? Use CentOS as your host OS and you might get better results. I use Fedora for the eye-candy, and the fact that the stuff I most often use just works. I understand that it'

Re: Networkmanagre Refuses to use my Dlink DWA-192 USB Wifi Device in F24

2017-01-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/17/2017 01:12 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 18/1/17 6:40 am, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 01/17/2017 12:12 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> On 17/1/17 7:49 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 01/16/2017 12:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/16/2017 12:17 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >> I am using kde

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/17/2017 02:08 PM, ProPAAS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > I'll try and answer all the questions: > > Why are you expecting stability when the host OS you are using is > betaware? Use CentOS as your host OS and you might get better results. > I use Fedora for the eye-candy, and the fact that the st

Re: Mount of NAS Ethernet Connect to Router Fails at Boot Time for CIFS Interface in F24 [Possibly Solved]

2017-01-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/17/2017 12:44 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 17/1/17 6:36 am, Stephen Morris wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My Nas device now fails to mount at boot time via the CIFS >> definition in fstab but the corresponding NFS definition mounts quite >> happily. Also after the system comes up and I log into K

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > I really don't care about the performance of Windows. I Up to a point, I don't either. But the performance is so bad under KVM that I cannot even successfully run Windows Update, it takes too long to search for updates and eventually times

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:42:16 -0700 Greg Woods wrote: > Up to a point, I don't either. But the performance is so bad under KVM that > I cannot even successfully run Windows Update, it takes too long to search > for updates and eventually times out If you look on windows forums, I think you'll find

KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Tom Horsley
I saw a blog post that claimed virt-manager 1.4 has the support for 3D video acceleration in virtual machines, then I saw lots of comments in the blog saying that it won't work without libvirt support. Since I always thought virt-manager just called libvirt to do everything that confused the heck o

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/17/2017 03:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: I saw a blog post that claimed virt-manager 1.4 has the support for 3D video acceleration in virtual machines, then I saw lots of comments in the blog saying that it won't work without libvirt support. Since I always thought virt-manager just called libv

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/17/2017 08:01 AM, ProPAAS DBA wrote: I'm running Fedora 25 on a laptop with 16GB of ram. I'm frustrated with the VMware workstation reliably breaking every 2 to 3 kernel updates and sometimes with no reasonable fix in sight for some time. Not the end of the world and I get the reasons behin

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread James Hogarth
On 17 Jan 2017 10:44 pm, "Greg Woods" wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > I really don't care about the performance of Windows. I Up to a point, I don't either. But the performance is so bad under KVM that I cannot even successfully run Windows Update, it takes too

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 18:49 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I saw a blog post that claimed virt-manager 1.4 has the > support for 3D video acceleration in virtual machines, > then I saw lots of comments in the blog saying that > it won't work without libvirt support. Since I always > thought virt-manag

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/17/2017 04:54 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: TL;DR: forget about getting accelerated graphics from sharing a single GPU between host and guest. It ain't gonna happen. Not entirely true. There was some work done on a virtio GL driver. I don't have the references handy, but there was a wo

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:42:52 + James Hogarth wrote: > Actually if that's a win7 VM you are doing it's nothing to do with being a > VM but rather that the updates process is semi broken from a clean SP1 > install. I remember a Windows 10 update that broke all updates as well. If you happened t

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:58:45 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Not entirely true. There was some work done on a virtio GL driver. I > don't have the references handy, but there was a working Linux Mesa > driver for it. Any other OS will need it's own driver written. The web page is (possibly): ht

Re: %prep and %autosetup: move the unpacked source directory

2017-01-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:48:58 +, arnaud gaboury wrote: > At the begining of my build, I need: > - mkdir src/github.com/mattermost > -unzip the source in src/github.com/mattermost/plateform-master > - cd src/github.com/mattermost/plateform-master to start make. Why do you think you need to do t

Re: %prep and %autosetup: move the unpacked source directory

2017-01-17 Thread arnaud gaboury
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:42 AM Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:48:58 +, arnaud gaboury wrote: > > > At the begining of my build, I need: > > - mkdir src/github.com/mattermost > > -unzip the source in src/github.com/mattermost/plateform-master > > - cd src/github.com/mattermo