Re: rpmfusion nvidia drivers and BLS?

2019-05-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:36 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > > I have theoretically disabled the BLS stuff > (so I can boot fedora 30 with the configfile > command from an older grub that knows nothing > of the BLS support in the configfile). > > This worked, but now I wonder about the state > of the rpmfu

Re: rpmfusion nvidia drivers and BLS?

2019-05-03 Thread Chris Murphy
By the way, there really is a minus symbol in the second position. I think that's the placeholder for [FILE] if you look at the man page for grub2-editenv, and that file is the grubenv. And now I'm gonna look at some Rube Goldberg cartoons. -- Chris Murphy _

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Todd Chester via users
On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Remaking grub.cfg, I get     # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg     Generating grub configuration file ...    

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:48 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 18:40 +0200, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:55 PM Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >>> On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 12:35 +0200, Tom H wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:46 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:06 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 08:47:29PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> >>> We should unify the two lists so as not to have these delirious >>> threads on an almost twice-yearly basis. >> >> I used to read the Test list as well as this one b

fedora 30 kdm busted?

2019-05-03 Thread Tom Horsley
I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better. ___ us

Re: fedora 30 kdm busted?

2019-05-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 5/3/19 9:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" > came up as nothing but an apparent password entry > field in the top left corner of the screen (at least > all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). > > Switched to xdm, and that works much better.

Re: fedora 30 kdm busted?

2019-05-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 5/3/19 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 5/3/19 9:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" >> came up as nothing but an apparent password entry >> field in the top left corner of the screen (at least >> all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). >> >>

Re: new Ask Fedora site

2019-05-03 Thread Tim via users
On 3/5/19 3:01 pm, Joe Zeff wrote: There was a time when Shift-Reload would force it to get a new copy of everything, but that doesn't seem to make a difference anymore. I can't recall which browsers that worked with. And, to be honest, I've no idea if that made the browser do new DNS lookups a

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-03 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> My vote is:?? Until it's officially announced AND released, it ain't a release. >> Even though we could all be expecting it on a prearranged date, it could >> be deliberately delayed by circumstances. Ralf Corsepius: > That's what I call superflous bureaucracy beyond reason. No, i

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-03 Thread Tim via users
On 3/5/19 10:00 pm, Tom H wrote: If we could accept that some people ask for help about a test release here without pointing them to the etst list, I really do not see why people are so against that.?? I think it's common sense to let someone know they're asking the wrong people to for help i

Re: rpmfusion nvidia drivers and BLS?

2019-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:25 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Change boot parameters > > # grub2-editenv - set kernelopts="root=UUID=blahblahblahuuidblahblah > ro rootflags=subvol=root30 enable_mtrr_cleanup=1 zswap.enabled=1 > zswap.max_pool_percent=25 zswap.compressor=lz4 no_console_suspend" You can al

Re: fedora 30 kdm busted?

2019-05-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 09:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" > came up as nothing but an apparent password entry > field in the top left corner of the screen (at least > all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). > > Switched to xdm, and that wor

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2019-05-04 at 00:28 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On 3/5/19 10:00 pm, Tom H wrote: > > If we could accept that some people ask for help about a test release here > > without pointing them to the etst list, > > I really do not see why people are so against that.?? I think it's common > se

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 1:30 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Remaking grub.cfg, I get     # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cf

Re: fedora 30 kdm busted?

2019-05-03 Thread Christopher Ross
On 03/05/2019 14:36, Tom Horsley wrote: I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better. I

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ja
On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 09:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/3/19 1:30 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: > > On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: > > > > On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via user

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 6:43 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > That's why I asked the previous question which you answered wrong. > You are trying to create a legacy grub config while booted in EFI > mode. That is not likely going to work. You could try booting a > netinst image in legacy mode using the re

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. He mentioned that originally, but that's not where the problem is. He's trying to create a grub.cfg file for legacy, but I don't see any flags for grub2-mk

GeoIP2 perl modules needed

2019-05-03 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a fedora29 system and need the GeoIP2 modules and they don't appear to be available in the normal repos. Any idea where I can find them and their dependencies? https://metacpan.org/pod/GeoIP2::Database::Reader https://metacpan.org/pod/IP::Country::DB_File I suspect they have a lot of d

fc29 : how to use libva as non-root ?

2019-05-03 Thread sean darcy
I've installed libva and the intel driver: rpm -qa | grep libva | sort libva-2.4.1-1.fc29.x86_64 libva-devel-2.4.1-1.fc29.x86_64 libva-intel-driver-2.3.0-2.fc29.x86_64 libva-intel-hybrid-driver-1.0.2-14.fc29.x86_64 libva-utils-2.4.0-1.fc29.x86_64 I've got a cpu that should support it - Gen 9: c

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 9:41 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 1:30 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Remaking grub.cfg, I get    

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: grub2-efi-x64 and grub2-efi-x64-modules grub2-pc and grub2-pc-modules Did that You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. "grub2-mkconfig checks and over rules you now and creates a grub.cfg based

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 12:52 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I don't see any flags for grub2-mkconfig that can indicate which type to create. If I get time, I am going to RFE that. And it would help if I do it myself first and can show them the code ___ users mailing li

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for >> csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. > > He mentioned that originally, but that's not where the problem is. > He's trying to create a gru

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: But on F30, if you set "GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true" in "/etc/default/grub" and run "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg", the latter'll be generic and blscfg'll build a menu from "/boot/loader/entries/*.conf" at boot, whether booting from csm or efi. This is theore

Re: fc29 : how to use libva as non-root ?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 2:18 PM, sean darcy wrote: $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.4.1 X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)   Major opcode of failed request:  154 (DRI2)   Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (DRI2Connect)   Serial number of failed request

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. He mentioned that originally, but that's not where the problem is. He's

Re: fc29 : how to use libva as non-root ?

2019-05-03 Thread sean darcy
On 5/3/19 7:10 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 2:18 PM, sean darcy wrote: $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.4.1 X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)    Major opcode of failed request:  154 (DRI2)    Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (DRI2Conn

Re: fc29 : how to use libva as non-root ?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 4:23 PM, sean darcy wrote: On 5/3/19 7:10 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 2:18 PM, sean darcy wrote: $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.4.1 X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)    Major opcode of failed request:  154 (DRI2)    Minor

New LG Gram 17, trying to boot Fedora live CD, won't boot

2019-05-03 Thread S. Bob
Hi All; I have a new LG Gram 17 laptop. Burned a Fedora 29 live CD, when I boot it hangs on these 2 messages: (1 of 2) A start job is running for Journal Service (2 of 2) A start job is running for for er-live\x2drw.device Eventually the Journal service fails then it starts over. Here

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. He mentioned that originally, but that's not where the problem is. He's

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 10:50 AM, ja wrote: On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 09:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 1:30 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo v

how to always get menu in grub?

2019-05-03 Thread Tom Horsley
I could spend the rest of the weekend trying to follow the "logic" in all of the /etc/grub.d files, or maybe I could ask and find someone who already knows: How the devil do I make grub on fedora 30 *always* show the damn menu and *always* timeout for 5 seconds? (Instead of trying to be "helpful"

install boot hangs, or has no mouse with noacpi

2019-05-03 Thread S. Bob
Installing Fedora 30, LG Gram 17 laptop if I use no boot parameters the install hangs after "Started Journal Service" If I use acpi=off it boots but I have no mouse once I get to the graphical screen,  if I use noacpi I get the same behavior (no mouse). Thoughts?

Re: how to always get menu in grub?

2019-05-03 Thread Andre Robatino
From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu#Detailed_Description : run the command "grub2-editenv - unset menu_auto_hide" as root (or via sudo). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-

PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Just an FYI for everyone. After wondering why all my extensions suddenly migrated to the bit bucket in sky, after some digging, searching, browsing, and tweeting, it's a known issue: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-causing-add-ons-to-be- disabled-or-fail-to-install/39047

Re: how to always get menu in grub?

2019-05-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andre Robatino writes: From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu#Detailed_Description : run the command "grub2heditenv - unset menu_auto_hide" as root (or via sudo). Interesting. In F29 and before, apparently all that's needed is GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 in /etc/default/grub That

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-03 Thread Andre Robatino
Also being tracked here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973 Warning: Bugs are being marked as dupes of that bug every few minutes, so might be better to just bookmark the bug instead of following it. ___ users mailing list -- users@list

Re: install boot hangs, or has no mouse with noacpi

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 7:37 PM, S. Bob wrote: If I use acpi=off it boots but I have no mouse once I get to the graphical screen,  if I use noacpi I get the same behavior (no mouse). Do you mean the touchpad doesn't work or a USB mouse also doesn't work? ___ users

Re: how to always get menu in grub?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 8:30 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: In F29 and before, apparently all that's needed is GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 in /etc/default/grub That might still work. You need to regenerate the grub config file after changing anything in there. That, apparently was all that's needed. After perusing grub

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 6:28 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: What do you mean by? change linuxefi > linux16,initrdefi > initrd16* "linuxefi" does not exist in grub.cfg.  Neither does linux16 or initrdefi The EFI grub.cfg should have linuxefi and initrdefi lines. Or in the BLS files if that's enabled.

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: But on F30, if you set "GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true" in "/etc/default/grub" and run "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg", the latter'll be generic and blscfg'll build a menu from "/boot/loader/entries/*.conf" at boot, whether booting from csm or efi. This is theore