A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-02-28 Thread Francisco Tissera
Good day everybody, I’m Francisco, and I’m a blind high school kid who just recently started using Fedora 33 Workstation, both for fun, and hopefully, with guidance from you guys, for actual day to day school work.I have a little bit of experience using Linux. I started with Ubuntu 3 or so months a

RE: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-01 Thread Francisco Tissera
answers.Best regards.FranciscoFrom: Ed GreshkoSent: Monday, March 1, 2021 9:09 AMTo: users@lists.fedoraproject.orgSubject: Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions On 01/03/2021 15:49, Francisco Tissera wrote:> > I don’t know what though, and I can say that with the other distores i

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
lines 1-20/20 (END) the output below, instead, is the output that is given when i type xbrlapi openConnection: cannot connect to braille devices daemon brltty at :0 Thanks again for all the help. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/2/21 8:45 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/03/2021 15:09, Francisco Tisse

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear ed, How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i don't understand the sintacs. Thanks again. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/2/21 10:20 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/03/2021 17:10, Francisco Tissera wrote: I'll paste below the output that the c

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/03/2021 17:29, Francisco Tissera wrote: How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i don't understand the sintacs. Well You can add the line brlapi:x:975: to the file. But, just make sure that 975 is unique. Or, you can us

RE: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
introduction, and some curiosities/questions On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 05:30, Francisco Tissera <audiogamer2...@gmail.com> wrote:Dear ed, How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i don't understand the sintacs.The Changelog for version 6.3 -- Fedora 33 provides 6.1 (Janua

RE: [Test Day] Fedora 34 Audio 2021-03-03

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear all, Now this, is something interesting for an actual screen reader user such as myself and every blind person who uses Fedora.I’ve heard both good and bad things about pipewire, and I’m really tempted to upgrade to Rawhide and test if the transition from Pulse to Pipewire works with Orca.For

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-03 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear George and Edd, Thanks for all the suggestions, I've been reading them, but only now I got around to installing version 6.3 of BRLTTY. I installed every rpm eccept the source, cause, and brlapi. I kind of think I do need brlapi, but when i try to install it with the rpm -i command as s

RE: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-03 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear Ed, I actually need to install this specific package from brltty.com because I know for a fact that the upgraded version, 6.3, works pretty well.Best regards,FranciscoFrom: Ed GreshkoSent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 2:42 PMTo: Francisco Tissera; Community support for Fedora usersSubject: Re: A

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-03 Thread Francisco Tissera
eshko wrote: On 03/03/2021 21:47, Francisco Tissera wrote: I actually need to install this specific package from brltty.com because I know for a fact that the upgraded version, 6.3, works pretty well. Then you should remove the brlapi-0.8.0-11.fc33 package and any other associated fedora sup

RE: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-03 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear George, “I live in a world that includes Ubuntu, macOS,  and Windows.  Organizations I workwith use CentOS for large scale batch processing but make the users run Windows, soanything that makes it easier for developers to support multiple platforms is of interest.”Yeah, for me is windows as we

RE: Problem with installing Xnee

2021-03-04 Thread Francisco Tissera
   Dear Paul, At some point in that output of yours there is a 404, which usually means that something in the repo can’t be found.I don’t know if this relates to the actual copr repos in Fedora, I’m just saying what the output made me think.Please correct me if I’m wrong.You

A question about enabling, or making sure, that accessibility is enabled

2021-03-04 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, So, from a guide about the installation of Arch Linux, I gathered that in the home directory of a user, there should be a xinitrc file, where a user can specify what accessibility options they want enabled.Well, is there an equivalent of a xinitrc file in Fedora, and would these opt

Re: A question about enabling, or making sure, that accessibility is enabled

2021-03-05 Thread Francisco Tissera
hello Jonathan, Thank you for your answer, I'll take a look at the mailing lists and see what i can gather. Thank you again. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/5/21 2:32 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 08:23:11AM +0100, Francisco Tissera wrote: So, from a guide abou

A question about switching kernels

2021-03-08 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, Just a few minutes ago, i updated my system, and found out that from kernel version 5.10.19, there was an upgrade to 5.10.20, which I gladly did. Well, when i, after rebooting, typed uname -r, I found out that i was still using kernel 5.10.19, instead of 20. Is there a way

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
nsafe? Thanks again. best regards, Francisco. On 3/9/21 9:26 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/8/21 10:55 PM, Francisco Tissera wrote: Just a few minutes ago, i updated my system, and found out that from kernel version 5.10.19, there was an upgrade to 5.10.20, which I gladly did. Well, when i,

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello George, Below the output of the 3 commands you requested. ls -l /boot/vm* -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 11698160 Mar  3 11:14 /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-133a2487cda 040dbbe9609f0ab827def -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 10538096 Feb 26 17:36 /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.19-200.fc33.x86 _64 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root roo

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello, rpm -q kernel's output is, kernel-5.10.20-200.fc33.x86_64 the output of uname -r though, is, 5.10.19-200.fc33.x86_64 Best regards. Francisco. On 3/9/21 11:07 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/9/21 3:32 AM, dileepa.tissera dileepa.tissera wrote: Interesting thing is, although I installed

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
[francisco@blueblink ~]$ And, i don't believe secure boot is present on macs, I've never seen it at least. Best regards. Francisco On 3/10/21 8:12 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/03/2021 14:59, Francisco Tissera wrote: rpm -q kernel's output is, kernel-5.10.20-200.fc33.x86_64 the out

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello Samuel, Yes, i did indeed do dnf remove kernel 5.10.19. Well, as soon as this issue gets fixed, I'll do as you suggested. Thanks. Best regards. Francisco On 3/10/21 8:17 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/9/21 10:59 PM, Francisco Tissera wrote: rpm -q kernel's output is, kern

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello Ed, Just a curiosity, if you don't mind: in the command you gave me, sudo grub2-editenv - set "saved_entry=133a2487cda040dbbe9609f0ab827def-5.10.20-200.fc33.x86 the entry x64 is absent. Is it normal, is it supposed to be like that? Best regards. Francisco. On 3/10/21 8:28 AM, Ed Gr

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello Ed, Oh... well, i didn't think it was an error really, it was a curiosity. But still, I'm glad i caught it. Thanks again. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/10/21 8:41 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: sudo grub2-editenv - set "saved_entry=133a2487cda040dbbe9609f0ab827def-5.10.20-200.fc33.x86_64

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello Samuel, The problem is solved. To uninstall the core, i just do, sudo dnf remove kernel-core --skip-broken, right? Thanks again for all your help, everyone. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/10/21 8:17 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/9/21 10:59 PM, Francisco Tissera wrote: rpm -q kernel&#

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
of the community. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/10/21 8:54 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/03/2021 15:43, Francisco Tissera wrote: But still, I'm glad i caught it. Not as glad as I am.  I normally don't break other people's systems. -- People who believe they d

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-10 Thread Francisco Tissera
:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/03/2021 15:54, Francisco Tissera wrote: Hello Samuel, The problem is solved. To uninstall the core, i just do, sudo dnf remove kernel-core --skip-broken, right? sudo remove kernel-core-5.10.19-200.fc33 should be

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-10 Thread Francisco Tissera
! Best regards. Francisco. On 3/10/21 10:21 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/03/2021 17:10, Francisco Tissera wrote: Yeah, it worked, thanks. Just so you know, you forgot dnf in there. I hope you don't mind me telling you. LOL!!! Not at all.  I even forgot to put chestnuts in the rice today. Bad d

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-10 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello Ed, LOL, thanks for that one. Yeah, the issue would have been even more confused indeed. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/10/21 12:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/03/2021 15:32, Francisco Tissera wrote: in the command you gave me, sudo grub2-editenv - set "saved_

Re: A question about switching kernels

2021-03-10 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello George, Thanks for that bit of info. Fortunately enough, then, in this case, mi Mac is a 2017 Air, so I don't have to worry about it. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/10/21 1:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 03:23, Francisco Tissera mailto:audiog

Two questions at once, arn't I being curious?

2021-03-11 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, To day I received a notification telling me that important OS updates were ready to install. Instead of installing them from the software center though, I went ahead and opened up terminal and ran sudo dnf upgrade --refresh because i like the --refresh command a lot. Well,

Re: Two questions at once, arn't I being curious?

2021-03-12 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello, Ah, I see, thanks. After the offline update is set up, and the update is done though, does the cash clear automatically, or does it have to be cleared manually? Best regards. Francisco. On 3/12/21 8:53 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/11/21 11:00 PM, Francisco Tissera wrote: To day I

A question about Wine in fedora

2021-03-14 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, I am having this problem where, when I try to launch a Windows application with Wine, this happens. Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":1". Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":1". MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i9

Re: A question about Wine in fedora

2021-03-14 Thread Francisco Tissera
7;t paying attention while writing. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/14/21 1:27 PM, Eddie O'Connor wrote: Just curious, do you have any "NVidia" hardware in there?...has it been enabled/installed? EGO II On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 6:56 AM Francisco Tissera mailto:audiogamer2...@gmail

Re: A problem I"m having with rpm tainted repoes

2021-03-23 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello there, How could I let the maintainers know? is there a bugzilla page or something like that? if so, where could I find it? Thanks for any answer. Best regards. Francisco On 3/23/21 1:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 3/23/21 9:25 AM, dileepa.tissera dileepa.tissera wrote: So, after upgradi

A problem with compiling the latest version of Orca screen reader on F 33 and Rawhide

2021-03-26 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, The problem I'v having is this: When i clone orca into the orca directory, cd to it, and run ./autogen.sh, everything goes ok, eccept... configure: error: Package requirements (pygobject-3.0 >= 3.18) were not met: Package 'pygobject-3.0', required by 'virtual:world', not foun

Re: A problem with compiling the latest version of Orca screen reader on F 33 and Rawhide

2021-03-26 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello there, A simple dnf build-dep orca worked as well, and I dubblechecked to make sure all the packages you listed were installed, and htey were, it works, thanks. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/26/21 5:45 PM, stan via users wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:43:56 -0400 Francisco Tissera

Confirming a command for switching kernels

2021-03-27 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, Because of some wi-fi problems I'm having with the latest 5.12 rc4 kernel in rawhide, I'd like to switch back to 5.12 rc3, because I recall that wi-fi worked. The command, credits to Ed, I tried, was sudo grub2-editenv - set "saved_entry=133a2487cda040dbbe9609f0ab827def-5.1

Re: Suggestion to improve documentation of Changes/BtrfsTransparentCompression

2021-03-31 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello there, So, let's see if I got it right: if i put in / as a path, it should compress the entire harddrive right? If not, how should I go about doing that? I don't think it would be a good idea to compress the /boot directory, cause the docs don't recommend it, but how would I go about

A problem with Fedora and Wine

2021-04-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, I don't know if this has happened to anyone, but below is my problem: When I launch an application with Wine, and press any key, this happens: wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to at address 0336199B (thread 0124), starting debugger... and the application it

Re: A problem with Fedora and Wine

2021-04-09 Thread Francisco Tissera
wolfe.casa/audiogame-manager.html So I don't know if resetting all the wine prefixes would do, and I don't even know how to do that in the first place. Best regards. Francisco. On 4/9/21 4:52 AM, yanqiy...@gmail.com wrote: 在 2021-04-09星期五的 04:37 -0400,Francisco Tissera写道: Hello everyon

Re: A problem with Fedora and Wine

2021-04-10 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello there, Moving the wine folder to somewhere else does not solve the problem, it's no use. Best regards. Francisco. On 4/9/21 12:46 PM, Qiyu Yan wrote: 在 2021-04-09星期五的 06:48 -0400,Francisco Tissera写道: Hello there, As far as I saw, this happened with several applications. Try

Re: A problem with Fedora and Wine

2021-04-11 Thread Francisco Tissera
Francisco. On 4/11/21 1:56 AM, Qiyu Yan wrote: 在 2021-04-10星期六的 15:51 -0400,Francisco Tissera写道: Hello there, Moving the wine folder to somewhere else does not solve the problem, it's no use. In this case I don't think it have something to do with Wine shipped with fedora, I

A problem with wine and fedora 34

2021-05-01 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, Just recently I have installed wine on Fedora 34, with gnome 40, and all the defaults, but when ever I install an application and try to start it, this happens: Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file. ShellExecuteEx failed: Fil

Modifying DNF's output

2021-06-01 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, I am currently using Fedora_linux 34, and I'd like to know, since I have been using this OS for over a month and a half, and I find DNF's output a bit... too much, if I could modify it somehow. I'd like to modify how it outputs the installation of software. For example, when

Re: Modifying DNF's output

2021-06-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
a way to make that grep permanent? or would I have to type the command including grep every time? Thanks again. Best regards. Francisco. On 6/1/21 12:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 09:32 -0400, Francisco Tissera wrote: Hello everyone, I am currently using Fedor