Fedora 20 Desktop hanging

2014-01-15 Thread Chandana De Silva
I am using Fedora 20 on a Dell XPS laptop. Since the last software update, whenever I click on the Empathy icon in the Activities menu, or the Settings icon in the status box, the desktop freezes, requiring a reboot. Has any one seen this ? Any help is appreciated Chandana -- users mailing

Re: Fedora 20 Desktop hanging

2014-01-15 Thread Chandana De Silva
915,nouveau I will be downgrading xorg to see if this helps Chandana On 16/01/14 09:36, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/15/2014 02:22 PM, Chandana De Silva wrote: Any help is appreciated Are you able to ssh in from a second box? If so, try running top and see what happens when things freeze up. -

Re: Fedora 20 Desktop hanging

2014-01-16 Thread Chandana De Silva
(Responding to my own email) Downgrading to xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.15-4.fc20.x86_64.rpm seems to have worked On 16/01/14 13:39, Chandana De Silva wrote: Thank you very much for that suggestion. The culprit seems to be the xorg intel driver, which got updated two days ago, after which

Installing F18 Beta on Dell XPX 15z

2013-01-01 Thread Chandana De Silva
Hello All, I am trying to install Fedora 18 Beta x86+64 on my Dell XPS 15z, and would appreciate any help. I am running this laptop on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This needs the following parameters on the 3.2.34 and later kernels to make the screen work: *acpi_backlight=vendor dell_laptop.backlight=0

Showing the date and time in Empathy conversations

2013-10-01 Thread Chandana De Silva
I have recently installed Fedora 19 on my computer, and am using Empathy for instant messaging. One problem is that I cant see the date and time of the conversations in the Empathy screen, nor can I find an option in preferences to set this. Can some one help, please ? -- users mailing list

Re: Clean Fedora partitions

2019-02-24 Thread Chandana De Silva
What do you mean by 'clean'. Do you eant to remove unused/unwanted files or remove a suspected virus ? I am not sure that there is concept of 'cleaning' a partition. You can use variations of the find command to locate and delete files and / or directories. for example: find /path/to/directory -

Re: Clean Fedora partitions

2019-02-24 Thread Chandana De Silva
Formatting a partition is a bit extreme, but, yes, that is one possibility On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 15:23 -0800, Jack Craig wrote: are you thinking of mkfs ?? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le..

Re: Fedora 29 LXDE, 32bit, Update-Error-Message

2019-05-09 Thread Chandana De Silva
I have never done dnf update, but I suspect you are getting this message because the current updates are now installing kernel V5.0. On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 18:21 +0200, Andreas Aßmann wrote: > When trying to update by typing "dnf update" I always get the error message > > """ > Error: > Problem: