Re: Bad USB drive?

2022-01-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/21/21 17:39, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a 32Gb USB stick that is not showing up gparted. I insert it and I see it in /dev as sdb.  No partitions. I tried fdisk: # fdisk -l /dev/sdb fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found Is this dead?  Is there some other tool I can use to get

Re: Bad USB drive?

2022-01-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/31/21 08:09, Robert Moskowitz wrote: what ever became of solid IBM clicky keyboards? :) https://www.pckeyboard.com They emulate an IBM Selectric typewriter. I ABORE these keyboards. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: Bad USB drive?

2022-01-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/31/21 20:35, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz: I never use flash drives for any kind of backup purposes. The things have multiple failures (wearing out, electronic breakdown, static electricity, mechanically falling apart, getting scrambled by a PC w

Re: Bad USB drive?

2022-01-01 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
Went to site, and tried to buy 3 of the 256G flashes, but on checkout it failed to support my address here in Guam (US Territory). It only seems to list the 50 states?? On 1 Jan 2022 at 0:44, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Date sent: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:44:15 -0800 Subject:

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..." [SOLVED]

2022-01-01 Thread John Pilkington
On 31/12/2021 23:01, home user wrote: On 12/30/21 2:36 PM, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the message "NVIDIA kernel module missing. Fa

Re: Bad USB drive?

2022-01-01 Thread Tim via users
Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> what ever became of solid IBM clicky keyboards? :) ToddAndMargo: > https://www.pckeyboard.com > > They emulate an IBM Selectric typewriter. I > ABORE these keyboards. I bet they don't... The Selectric typewriter had a unique feel to it, no click as the key was presse

Re: Bad USB drive?

2022-01-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 1/1/22 01:16, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Went to site, and tried to buy 3 of the 256G flashes, but on checkout it failed to support my address here in Guam (US Territory). It only seems to list the 50 states?? try amazon ___ users mailin

resize luks-encrypted physical partition

2022-01-01 Thread lejeczek via users
Hi Has anybody fiddled with luks encrypted partition - I say fiddle as I do not think it supported - sizes? To be specific - I'd need to grow such a partition. Normally it would be simple thing - remove, create partition + keep luks headers - but have not means to lab-test it thus asking here

Updating F32 (with Nvidia drivers) and startup hangs.

2022-01-01 Thread Fulko Hew
I'm not sure where the problem lies, so I'll start out with where I'm coming from... I built a machine 2 years ago to support the Folding@Home project using F32 and an Nvidia 2060 card. It's been running non-stop ever since. But I want to update the system to the latest and greatest release and d

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..." [SOLVED]

2022-01-01 Thread home user
On 1/1/22 2:27 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/12/2021 23:01, home user wrote: Ed's solution, removing the old driver (dnf erase *nvidia*), then installing the correct driver (dnf install akmod-nvidia-470xx) worked. The problem arose when my weekly patches updated the working driver with a

Re: Updating F32 (with Nvidia drivers) and startup hangs.

2022-01-01 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:52:46 -0500 Fulko Hew wrote: > But I want to update the system to the latest and greatest release and > drivers > (since it appears that my old? CUDA drivers have stopped working with F@H) Can you confirm that you need CUDA and not only the nvidia drivers ? If yes, I

Source for apt-get-repository

2022-01-01 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I have a need to run apt-get-repository to get a debugging tool from my system mfg. It appears that in the Debian environment, this program is provided with the software-properties-common, which appears not to have been ported to fedora. Or perhaps its in another package? Pointers appreciated. _

Re: Updating F32 (with Nvidia drivers) and startup hangs.

2022-01-01 Thread Jerry James
On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 1:07 PM wrote: > Can you confirm that you need CUDA and not only the nvidia drivers ? > > If yes, I suggest to not use the rpmfusion repositories since they don't > provide CUDA. See below. They don't? Then what are the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

Re: Updating F32 (with Nvidia drivers) and startup hangs.

2022-01-01 Thread John Pilkington
On 01/01/2022 17:52, Fulko Hew wrote: I'm not sure where the problem lies, so I'll start out with where I'm coming from... I built a machine 2 years ago to support the Folding@Home project using F32 and an Nvidia 2060 card. It's been running non-stop ever since. But I want to update the system

mediawriter won't finish

2022-01-01 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Running Fedora 32, up-to-date Running mediawriter-4.1.7-1.fc32.x86_64 (as root) with a SanDisk Cruzer 32G USB drive, mediawriter continues without complaint until its done (by the progress bar) and then aborts saying it can't write the drive. "Destination drive not writable" The USB port is opera

Re: mediawriter won't finish

2022-01-01 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Hmmm ... write protected. :-( On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 15:26:51 -0800 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Running Fedora 32, up-to-date > > Running mediawriter-4.1.7-1.fc32.x86_64 (as root) with a SanDisk > Cruzer 32G USB drive, mediawriter continues without complaint until > its done (by the progress bar) and

Re: Source for apt-get-repository

2022-01-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 1, 2022, at 15:25, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I have a need to run apt-get-repository to get a debugging tool from my > system mfg. It appears that in the Debian environment, this program is > provided with the software-properties-common, which appears not to have > been ported to fedora. >

Re: Updating F32 (with Nvidia drivers) and startup hangs.

2022-01-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 1, 2022, at 16:59, John Pilkington wrote: > There have been several posts in the last few days arising from the shift of > some nvidia cards to 'legacy' status. Cards supported by the 470 series > driver but not by 495 now have to add the 470xx tag to the rpmfusion package > name. That

Re: mediawriter won't finish

2022-01-01 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 19:27, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Running Fedora 32, up-to-date > > Running mediawriter-4.1.7-1.fc32.x86_64 (as root) with a SanDisk Cruzer > 32G USB drive, mediawriter continues without complaint until its done > (by the progress bar) and then aborts saying it can't write the

Re: mediawriter won't finish

2022-01-01 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I formatted the USB drive for vfat and -- supprise -- it is mountable rw. So I convlude that it is the iso9660 that's the couse of the problem. It is new media. Same thing with a micro SD. On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 21:03:04 -0400 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 19:27, Geoffrey Leac

Re: Updating F32 (with Nvidia drivers) and startup hangs.

2022-01-01 Thread Mamoru TASAKA
Fulko Hew wrote on 2022/01/02 2:52: I'm not sure where the problem lies, so I'll start out with where I'm coming from... I built a machine 2 years ago to support the Folding@Home project using F32 and an Nvidia 2060 card. If I can't get to a GUI screen to be able to fetch and install newer N

RE: Updating F32 (with Nvidia drivers) and startup hangs.

2022-01-01 Thread Slade Watkins
John Pilkington wrote: > There have been several posts in the last few days arising from the shift of > some nvidia cards to 'legacy' status. Cards supported by the > 470 series driver but not by 495 now have to add the 470xx tag to the > rpmfusion package name. > > The GTX2060 is listed as supp