Re: deltarpms save almost no space

2017-01-14 Thread stan
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:55:02 - "Andre Robatino" wrote: > I think it's expected that the size of the update metadata grows > after release. There have been some bugs filed in the past to delta > the metadata (for example > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850896 ), but it hasn't > h

Re: Firefox issue

2017-01-14 Thread stan
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 14:21:37 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I tried logging in as myself using the Gnome Classic desktop and > firefox still crashes. I created a new user and after logging in as > that user I ran firefox and it still crashes. I don't have any more ideas for testing the installed

Re: complete shutdown impossible (fedora 24)

2017-01-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 11:45:47 +0100 François Patte wrote: [snip] > I installed the last kernel available for fedora 24 (4.8.16). When I > do not work with computer (ie. Just start it, log-in and shutdown) the > computer shutdowns normaly. If I do something (read my mail, open a > text file...) the

Re: Firefox issue

2017-01-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:35:50 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Like I said in one of my other posts, firefox runs just fine on one > of my other F25 systems. The system of which it fails is one that I > initially tried to upgrade from F22 -> F25, this failed, so I did a > F22 -> F24 upgrade. Howev

Re: complete shutdown impossible (fedora 24)

2017-01-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 18:33:12 +0100 François Patte wrote: > No! Even after half an hour, the computer is still "on", the screen is > black, fan is running, I cannot do anything with the keyboard. > > I think that there something wrong with encryption (my system use > encrypted RAID1 partitions);

Re: USB TV tuner stick and fedora's tvtime

2017-01-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:25:33 -0700 JD wrote: > Hi Stan, Doug and John, > > I found this RTL-SDR FM+DAB DVB-T USB 2.0 Digital TV Stick RTL2832U + > R820T Tuner Receiver at: > http://www.ebay.com/itm/RTL-SDR-FM-DAB-DVB-T-USB-2-0-Digital-TV-Stick-RTL2832U-R820T-Tuner-Receiver-/22

Re: USB TV tuner stick and fedora's tvtime

2017-01-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 13:57:32 -0700 stan wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:25:33 -0700 > JD wrote: > > Hi Stan, Doug and John, > > > > I found this RTL-SDR FM+DAB DVB-T USB 2.0 Digital TV Stick RTL2832U > > + R820T Tuner Receiver at: > > http://www.ebay.

Re: complete shutdown impossible (fedora 24)

2017-01-16 Thread stan
On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:00:33 +0100 François Patte wrote: > But it is a *new* install: I first installed f25 and it was awfull: > some app like firefox were unable to read properly html pages, and I > could read one mail out of three with thunderbird! This doesn't sound like a software problem.

Re: libc++ on Fedora 25 broken?

2017-01-18 Thread stan
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:21:17 +0100 cen wrote: > Trying to compile a hello world cpp on Fedora 25 with clang++ and > libc++. > > sudo dnf install clang libcxx-devel > > #include > #include > > int main() > { > std::string a = "abc"; > std::cout << a; > } > > clang++ -stdlib=libc++

Re: libc++ on Fedora 25 broken?

2017-01-18 Thread stan
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:27:03 +0100 cen wrote: > That is what worries me actually. Apparently libc++abi has to be > linked to libc++ but that is not the case with current package: > > ldd /usr/lib64/libc++.so > linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffe1c7d8000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.

Re: Eclipese Create Desktop Luncher

2017-01-21 Thread stan
On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 13:21:37 - dinesh.gupt...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, > > I downloaded & unpacked Neon Eclipse on my new installed Fedora 25 > KDE desktop.I unzipped in my /opt directory. I did all operation I don't use eclipse, but I think the version in the Fedora repositories is the v

Re: Spectacular F24 to F25 dnf Upgrade Failure

2017-01-21 Thread stan
On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 13:36:14 -0600 Brian Hanks wrote: > I decided to do a dnf upgrade of my F24 install on my HP Envy 15t > laptop (dual boot).  I've done at least two successful dnf upgrades > on this laptop in the past with only minor annoyances, but this one > is a complete bust. What was the

Re: sagemath and perl

2017-01-23 Thread stan
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:28:33 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Trying to update perl (to 4:5.22.3-367.fc24) I get: > Skipping packages with broken dependencies: > because > sagemath-6.8-14.fc24.x86_64 > > How can I avoid the issue? > by Recompiling sagemath? after the update? sagemath probably ha

Re: Kernel Managment

2017-01-28 Thread stan
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:09:59 -0700 Aaron Siegel wrote: > What would it take for me to maintain a second Kernel that updates > quarterly  > or even mothly would be an improvement?   You don't say whether you use dnf from the command line, but if you do, you can add the following to your update co

Re: Problem with USB device

2017-01-28 Thread stan
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 13:02:28 -0500 Craig Lanning wrote: > I'm running Fedora 24 fully updated. > > I have a USB device that I want to connect to my computer. > > When I connect it, >    lsusb does not show that it is connected, >    but lshw does show it >    and says that the rtsx_usb driver i

Re: Kernel Managment

2017-01-28 Thread stan
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:19:27 -0700 stan wrote: > I think there used to be a way to put something like this in the > configuration file for yum, and I thought dnf as well. But I took a > quick look at the man page for dnf.conf and didn't see anything like > that. I think th

Re: Dummy audio and no Wifi after upgrading to f25

2017-01-31 Thread stan
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:14:47 -0500 (EST) Tomas Repik wrote: > Hi, > > I've been struggling with both audio and wifi since i upgraded from > F24 to F25. I went through many advices and suggestions (different > kernels, restarting, reinstalling both alsa and pulseaudio) to solve > the issues with

Re: In FC 15 only root can run the X server need HELP

2017-02-03 Thread stan
he above desktops, including gnome, using startx in F25. I can also start Wayland using a compositor, but I haven't really used that for the above reason. I also wonder if there is a new group that the user has to belong to in order to use startx from Gnome. Is the user you add in whee

Re: In FC 15 only root can run the X server need HELP

2017-02-03 Thread stan
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 12:17:56 -0700 stan wrote: > My procedure in that script is the following: This is at the top of the script. I naively just cut and pasted the Gnome section. XCLIENTS=/home/$USER/.Xclients echo '*** Replacing existing ~/.Xclients or creating new one.' echo

Re: In FC 15 only root can run the X server need HELP

2017-02-03 Thread stan
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 12:36:32 -0700 Greg Woods wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:17 PM, stan > wrote: > > > Wayland doesn't handle custom keymaps at this point, > > > This is tangential to the main point of course, but I have found that > Wayland will handl

Re: iPhone photos -

2017-02-04 Thread stan
On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 11:51:53 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > Gphoto2 worked normally until yesterday > when I began getting errors. Both Fedora > 25 and the iPhone have had updates since > I last used it, a day or two ago. [snip] > *** Error *** > PTP Invalid Storage ID > *** Error (-1: 'Unspecifi

Re: what is responsible for the file: ifcfg-essid?

2017-02-06 Thread stan
On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 19:50:10 +0100 François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I would like to know what is the process which automatically write the > file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg- > whenever you connect your computer to a new wifi. NetworkManager > Generaly, the connection is made via

Re: radiotray, gstreamer plugin

2017-02-11 Thread stan
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 18:15:58 -0500 Jon LaBadie wrote: > Using "radiotray" in a mate environment on Fedora 24. > > For many stations I get the following warning message: > > Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in. > gstdecodebin2.c(3576): gst_decode_bin_expose (): \ > /GstPlayB

Re: Stuck and Frustrated : Try to get from Live CD to Desktop system Fedora 16.

2012-01-16 Thread stan
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:50:09 -0500 William Case wrote: > What should I be doing? You don't say what you've tried, but, from memory, I think all you have to do is chroot /mnt/Sysimage I can't remember if the Sysimage is supposed to be SysImage, etc. You should do a ls /mnt to see what the corr

Re: setting fille capabilities.

2012-02-13 Thread stan
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:11:25 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: > In the man page for setcap it says: > the capabilities are specified in the form described in cap_from_text. > > I can't fine such a file on my machine or using yum whatprovides. > Does anyone know where it can be found? Try man 3 cap_f

Re: sound

2012-02-13 Thread stan
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:15:43 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: ... > Show what? > The system settings>sound > does not show any sound card (except the dummy one)! Try aplay -lv If that comes up blank, it means that alsa doesn't recognize any cards on your system. It is pretty good at recognizin

Re: sound

2012-02-13 Thread stan
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:42:18 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: ... > aplay -lv > > aplay: device_list:252: no soundcards found... > > This is bizarre, to tell the true, this card had been recognized last > week, and I tried to test it. I did not get it working, by > disconnecting the cable, do yo

Re: setting fille capabilities.

2012-02-13 Thread stan
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:00:43 -0600 Kevin Martin wrote: > > Try > > man 3 cap_from_text > When *I* do that the man page is not found (nor do I see it in the > libcap rpm which is where setcap is installed from...perhaps the > package maintainer should fix their rpm). That's bizarre. Pops right u

Re: sound

2012-02-14 Thread stan
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:06:39 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: > I test the card with a knoppic distribution and it works fine: > To my knowledge, it a AMD SB600 chipset and the audio is: > 5.1 CH HD Audio (VIA® VT1705 Audio Codec) So, the hardware is OK. Next step would seem to be to test it wi

Re: sound

2012-02-14 Thread stan
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:08:28 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: > You could try, as root, > modprobe -v VT17xx > > FATAL: Module VT17xx not found. > > What provide such a m¶odule? The sound driver modules are provided as part of the kernel. When the kernel is compiled, the drivers are either co

Re: No sound -

2012-02-14 Thread stan
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:05:28 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have two F-16/64 bit computers that have sound problems. The > second one has no sound at all. > > I can see sound moving the indicator trace in PA Volume Output > Devices but it does not get to ALSA. > > PA sees no s

Re: No sound -

2012-02-15 Thread stan
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:33:55 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: ... > But since I barely know what I am doing and grasping at > straws am willing to try anything. With this new data, your problem sounds, as you said, very much like Patrick Dupre's. He solved his problem, with the help of some link

Re: No sound -

2012-02-15 Thread stan
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:28:02 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: ... > I found that I could expose "hidden" groups under preferences and > was able to add bobg to the audio group. I rebooted and audio > apparently works! Need to test further but some progress at last. Sounds like you're back in

Re: F15: Volume level starts at almost full blast

2012-02-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:35:53 -0500 jonetsu wrote: > I have one F15-64 bit machine on which the volume has to be very > close to the minimum as it seems to attain full volume very, very > early. Not much play in there. when pushed to the max there is some > 'hardware noise' as it is very over-d

xfce and slow workspace switching; how to fix?

2012-02-29 Thread stan
I've been using the Gnome fallback mode in F15 x86_64; old hardware and preference. However it seems to not agree with my crt monitor, and has been lately causing the monitor to go blank on context switches between console and X. The only solution has been to turn it off and wait for a while. I

how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-02-29 Thread stan
I'm looking at alternative window managers to Gnome fallback, the only Gnome my old hardware and work preference will support. The more I investigate fvwm, the more it seems like a nice stable, extremely configurable solution to my problem. The modular concept is great, and the ability to program

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-02-29 Thread stan
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:54:06 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > I login to X with KDM > > Then I can run fvwm in my ~/.xsession script. > > More info available here: > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/stick/stick.html Thanks for the reference. Because of the way I installed F15, I boot t

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-02-29 Thread stan
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:17:01 +0100 Andras Simon wrote: > Can't you simply start X with startx and put > exec /path/to/fvwm > as the last line into ~/.Xclients (and make it executable)? Well, yes I can... after your help. ;-) That worked great! Thank you. -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-03-01 Thread stan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 07:26:42 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Just curious, has anyone tried pekwm yet? www.pekwm.org, and it is in > the Fedora repositories. Haven't tried it. Yet, at least. Now that you have pointed it out, I will probably give it a whirl. The site below has a comprehensive lis

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-03-01 Thread stan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:26:45 -0800 ny6...@gmail.com wrote: [script removed] > I don't know if this answers your question, but maybe it helps. :) Yes, it answers my question and I will keep the script for future use. I have already received an answer from Andras Simon that is very closely related

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-03-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:26:45 -0800 ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > Not familiar with fvwm, but I have 4 wm's that I run on a regular > basis, and what I have done is make a little shell script: I modified your script to allow an argument, and to start several more window managers, all available as packa

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-10 Thread stan
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:34:39 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> > >>> I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. > >>> It doesn't work. > > >>> How do I debug th

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-10 Thread stan
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:14:52 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: > > And you might want to be a little more specific about what "doesn't > > work" means. Does the CD not boot?, Does it hang after you start?, > > You mean like this? > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > On Wed,

Re: anyway to log ext4 disk access ?

2012-03-12 Thread stan
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:28:19 + Aaron Gray wrote: > I seem to be experiencing constant disk accesses on a new install on > F16 and am wondering why and what they are basically. Perhaps you could use iotop for that instead of any type of logging. It shows the process generating the io, and fro

Re: Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-12 Thread stan
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:28:33 + "Bryn M. Reeves" wrote: > Nothing makes me reach for the delete key faster than emails that say > "You suck! Now help me!". +1 As the underlying system becomes more and more complex, and my use case further and further out of the mainstream, I find myself able

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-22 Thread stan
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:01:25 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Andras Simon wrote: > > > 2012/3/22, Michael Hennebry : > > > > [...] > > > >> #The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz > >> #and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on > >> #the is

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-22 Thread stan
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:04:16 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, stan wrote: > > > Is it possible that the kernel isn't relocatable? i.e. it expects > > to run from a specific address, and that address isn't available. > > I'm no

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-23 Thread stan
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:23:54 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, stan wrote: > > > Perhaps Grub2 is using it somehow? These suggestions are longshots. > > grub2 is not installed on my machine. > If it's packaged with the install kernel, >

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-23 Thread stan
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:30:19 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, stan wrote: > > I think pentium 4 is fairly old hardware. I doubt either the kernel > > developers or Fedora developers are using such hardware, and so you > > could be hitting a r

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-23 Thread stan
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:30:19 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, stan wrote: > > I think pentium 4 is fairly old hardware. I doubt either the kernel > > developers or Fedora developers are using such hardware, and so you > > could be hitting a r

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-23 Thread stan
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:05:26 -0700 don fisher wrote: > I am trying to find documentation on the alsa/pulse audio system. My > goal is to set it up independent of gnome or KDE. This is the default configuration for Fedora out of the box. > If I run KDE the sound works. If I run twm or equivale

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread stan
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:46:01 +0100 Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > I'm accustomed have longer bash history - usually my HISTSIZE=1. > Never from Redhat 4 epoch was problems with this, but now at F15 and > F16 I in several cases I found weirdness, when my commands are > missing in history, in one c

Fw: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-25 Thread stan
Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:02:07 -0700 From: stan To: don fisher Subject: Re: Help with sound on Fc16 On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:52:20 -0700 don fisher wrote: > aplay another_brick_in_the_wall_part_2.wav > Playing WAVE 'another_brick_in_the_wall_part_2.wav&#

Re: NetworkManager serious usablity challenges

2012-03-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:07:22 +0200 Robert Moskowitz wrote: [snipped problem description, request for feature] Please enter a bug report or a feature request. It's a way for you to influence change. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-25 Thread stan
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:28:43 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > I managed to boot from the F13, F14 and F15 install isos. > Still no go with F16. > > To boot F13, I needed to point at a partition > that was a copy of the F13 iso. > To boot F14 and F15, I needed to point at a > filesystem that

Re: minimal install CD versus Pentium 4

2012-03-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:29:06 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > In another thread, > it was suggested that this bugzilla entry might be pertinent: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730007 > While I can certainly see the relationship, > it's not obviously the same thing. If you me

Re: NetworkManager serious usablity challenges

2012-03-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:00:06 +0200 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Right click on the NM applet does nothing in Gnome3. So do I send > the bug report to redhat or gnome? Open it at the redhat site, but against Fedora. I think you should open it against gnome and let it work its way through the syste

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:04:47 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote: > > There is something wrong with your install. > > > > You can try rebuilding your rpm database as root. > > rpm --rebuilddb > > This will take a while

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:05:41 -0700 don fisher wrote: > Thanks. After a reboot, it started working for an as yet unknown > reason. Perversity! ;-) > With my home audio system, I can debug things with a signal generator > starting at the speaker and working back to the source until I find > wh

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-29 Thread stan
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:33:49 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Since /boot and / are on disk sdb, I'd like the bootloader there also. > Frustration is bad for my brain. Ignore my previous request on this > subject. I know how to change the boot hard disk in my BIOS. > What else do I need to

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:16:11 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, stan wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:33:49 -0500 (CDT) > > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > >> Since /boot and / are on disk sdb, I'd like the bootloader there >

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-03 Thread stan
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:07:28 -0400 nu...@gmx.com wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:13:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code > >> names, one that no one would ever expect. How about: > >> > >> Fedora 18 > > >Fedora 17++ > > Fedora 19 B

Re: Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

2012-04-03 Thread stan
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:48:49 +0100 "'Chris Hall'" wrote: > Once upon a time I was happy with Fedora 14. Last Gnome 2 Fedora release, and Gnome 2 is no longer receiving any love from developers. > Cannot stand the new Gnome. So I'm trying KDE. While KDE is fine, there are several other window m

Re: Login on Fedora 17

2012-04-12 Thread stan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:11:46 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > If you're not familiar with which keys moved, then, yeah, you may want > to have another system handy for checking what keys are supposed to be > where in the default keyboard map. The first few times take a bit of > effort, which is why it's

Re: How to copy text selected by gpm from a tty to some gnome-session?

2012-04-12 Thread stan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:52:16 +0200 Joachim Backes wrote: > a little question: I copy some text on a tty console by gpm, and I > want to paste this text into some gnome/kde session. How to do this > without using some file? If I understand your question, I've never been able to get this to work.

Re: How to copy text selected by gpm from a tty to some gnome-session?

2012-04-12 Thread stan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:21:36 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/12/2012 07:30 AM, stan wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:52:16 +0200 > > Joachim Backes wrote: > > > >> a little question: I copy some text on a tty console by gpm, and I > >> want to paste thi

Re: How to copy text selected by gpm from a tty to some gnome-session?

2012-04-12 Thread stan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:26:34 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > > I haven't tried the screen idea suggested by the other poster yet. > > That is a little more work than just clicking and pasting, but for > > occasional use would be fine. > > I don't see what work is involved with screen. Just start your

Re: ThinkPad microphone not working

2012-04-13 Thread stan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:34:39 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > For the last 2 weeks the microphone on my ThinkPad has stopped > working. At first I thought the volume levels must have gone down, but > I see using alsamixer they are all normal.arecord -d 10 -f cd -t wav > -D copy foobar.wav > > I'm usin

Re: ThinkPad microphone not working

2012-04-13 Thread stan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:34:39 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > For the last 2 weeks the microphone on my ThinkPad has stopped > working. At first I thought the volume levels must have gone down, but > I see using alsamixer they are all normal. > > I'm using F16. My understanding of alsa is rather limite

Re: ThinkPad microphone not working

2012-04-14 Thread stan
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:15:44 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 14:47, suvayu ali > wrote: > >> I don't think this is an alsa issue.  If alsamixer sees the mic, > >> then alsa is handling it properly, if the driver and hardware are > >> OK. > >> > >> Install pavucontrol and check

Re: ThinkPad microphone not working

2012-04-14 Thread stan
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:47:49 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > I looked in /var/log/messages. I see no suspicious messages. But I do > see the following: > > pulseaudio[1455]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working > profile. pulseaudio[1455]: module.c: Failed to load module > "module-alsa-card"

Re: ThinkPad microphone not working

2012-04-14 Thread stan
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:30:37 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > > Also try booting to an older kernel (from before the problem), if > > you have one. > > > > I had tried this with no success. If it was a driver issue booting to > a kernel from before the problem started should have worked, but it > didn

Re: ThinkPad microphone not working

2012-04-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:34:48 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > Apologies for the delayed follow-up. I got side-tracked with a > deadline. Not an issue. > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 20:59, stan wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:30:37 +0200 > > suvayu ali wrote: > I have alsa-uti

Re: ThinkPad microphone not working

2012-04-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:51:16 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > I finally figured out what is going wrong. The "Internal Mic" is > turned off, as you observed, when I turn it on and raise the volume, > recording works. But this does not survive a reboot. So I thought > maybe its the state file that is cau

Re: ThinkPad microphone not working

2012-04-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:13:23 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Stan, > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 22:22, stan wrote: > > One quick check you could do is to turn off pulseaudio for the > > device in pavucontrol, reboot, and see if the settings are loaded > > properly into a

Re: ThinkPad microphone not working

2012-04-16 Thread stan
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:55:58 +0200 suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Stan, > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:29, stan wrote: > > In that dropdown on pavucontrol for me, the last entry is off.  If I > > select that, pulse stops controlling the device and it reverts to > > alsa.

OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread stan
http://web.mit.edu/press/2012/thwarting-eavesdropping-data.html The above is a link to an article on a security threat called side channel attack. I don't completely understand how it can work, as the description is somewhat vague. But obviously some very intelligent people can understand it, a

Re: OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 02 May 2012 09:04:27 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > "Smart cautions, however, that the work of Goldwasser and her > colleagues is unlikely to yield practical applications in the near > future. “In security, and especially cryptography, it takes a long > time to go from an academic idea to some

Re: OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 02 May 2012 09:36:25 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > If, as you say, "the defense against the attack was 10 to 20 years > out there" then by Boolean logic Fedora *cannot* be "already immune". > > I think you should continue to worry. :-) :-) > Thanks. :-) I'll put this on the list right

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-23 Thread stan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:41:44 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 18:56 -0700, stan wrote: > >> I wasn't clear.  The link isn't to any potential replacement for > >> the users list. > > > > Oh really?

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread stan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:37:33 + CLOSE Dave wrote: > Samuel Sieb wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:37:33 + CLOSE Dave wrote: > >> But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is > >> dependent on Thunderbird, and deletes it! It certainly shouldn't > >> be dependent! > > > > The output from d

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-24 Thread stan
On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:42:44 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am using Discourse with Nethserver.  It **DOES** have an email > interface!  I receive an email for each posting tagged in the subject > for which sub-forum it is associated with.  I CAN respond directly > via email, but it does tak

Re: I need granny games!

2018-10-28 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:43:36 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have a customer (actually she is a great grand mother) who > wants me "specifically" to put her together a cheap machine > to only play Freecell. No internet, no printing, no sound. > So Xfce, Fedora, and K Patience to the resc

Re: I need granny games!

2018-10-28 Thread stan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:01:33 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > I've taken a look at it and downloaded it. The last time the project > was updated was 2015-7-10, the wiki has nothing but a rather generic > home page and the README file in the downloaded .zip has no > instructions on how to install or run

Re: I need granny games!

2018-10-28 Thread stan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:54:55 -0700 stan wrote: > The age doesn't really matter, since the game is basically evolved to > its final form I thought of a way it might matter. I don't think it supports python3, so if you are on F29 or later where python3 is the default, you w

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread stan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:49:46 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I know this is strictly OT, but I suggest it's of some interest to > this list: > > https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html From the Reuters version of this story: "IBM said Red Hat

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread stan
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:32:37 + Rick Stevens wrote: > Fedora is the "bleeding edge" development arm of RHEL. Eventually, > once enough changes have been made and stabilized in Fedora, it > becomes the next release of RHEL. We Fedora users are just the lab > rats and a giant, very vocal and fai

Re: no hdmi audio on older tv

2018-10-30 Thread stan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:41:50 +0100 Jiri Vanek wrote: I'm not familiar with hdmi, but I'll try to give you some ideas. > I have f29 (ernel kernel-4.18.12-300.fc29 ) on machine, which is > changing its place from time to time - between two TVs. Old, and > older:) > > Both are connected by HDMI.

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-10-30 Thread stan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:28:36 -0600 linux guy wrote: > I have an up to date F28 server that boots to the grub prompt. This > started after a failed dnf update. > > The computer will boot to an emergency mode command prompt if I set > it up properly from the grub prompt. > > grub> set root=(lvm

Re: hibernate stops working after upgrade to F29 from F28

2018-11-03 Thread stan
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 09:01:19 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I tried the following: > > systemctl hibernate > > and I get: > > Failed to hibernate system via logind: Resume not configured, can't > hibernate > > I have never previously had to configure anything on an upgraded > system already ca

Re: Clean Install of F29 problems

2018-11-04 Thread stan
On Sun, 04 Nov 2018 14:29:08 + ja wrote: > There is a bug in the tex-fonts-hebrew rpm as trying to install > it on a working machine fails. > root@paxos:~]$ dnf install tex-fonts-hebrew > ... > Installed: tex-fonts-hebrew-0.1-28.fc29.noarch > > Installing : tex-fonts-hebrew-0.1-28.fc

Re: dnf : Failed to set locale, defaulting to C

2018-11-04 Thread stan
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 19:51:40 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! I just upgraded fron f28 and when using dnf i get : > Failed to set locale, defaulting to C > > but i have : > [root@t420 ~]# rpm -qa | grep glibc-langpack > glibc-langpack-en-2.28-9.fc29.x86_64 > > Does anyone have any idea what's

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-05 Thread stan
On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:18:10 + vipul kumar via users wrote: > I'm a Debian user(from almost 3 years). And I've question Why should > I choose Fedora over Debian as a my operating system? If you're happy, I wouldn't switch. Linux is linux, though every distribution has a little different ch

Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2018-11-11 Thread stan
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 10:45:44 + finn via users wrote: > Greetings, > Whenever I boot up my PC I'm getting this error > `sudo dmesg` > >[ 12.432182] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECAV] > Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359) > [ 12.432241] ACPI Er

Re: SElinux error

2018-11-11 Thread stan
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:28:44 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Folks, >   I got the fllowing SElinux error today: > > SELinux is preventing 72733A6D61696E20513A526567 from using the > dac_override capability. > > Anyone know what this refers to? dac usually means digital-analog conversion in sou

Re: strange problem

2018-11-11 Thread stan
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:55:06 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I encountered a strange problem today I'm wondering if someone can > explain what's going on. > > Here's the problem, I have 2 systems running F28, one system was > upgraded from F27 two days ago, the other upgraded yesterday. Both >

Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2018-11-11 Thread stan
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:59:45 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every > way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are > listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot > yourself now, before you reproduce. It's

Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2018-11-11 Thread stan
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 22:09:33 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I suspect his English was already pretty good before he left Sweden. I think you've just upset a lot of Finns. :-) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe s

Re: strange problem

2018-11-11 Thread stan
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:03:31 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > What I don't understand about this problem is why it affects only one > system.  Chrome on my other system works fine as does chrome on my > android tablet. Plugins? Configuration? Were some packages rejected for update because of de

Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2018-11-12 Thread stan
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:48:48 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Linus is Finnish but he grew up in Sweden. Didn't know that. Learn something new ... ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@li

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