Re: shrinking Windows C: drive to make room for Linux

2023-08-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
None of the hits I got from search made explicit that one could shrink the C: partition even while it was in use. They focused on getting around Windows shrink's liomitations. From the list responses, I gather that one can indeed srink the C: partition while it is in use. -- Michael henne...@ma

Re: shrinking Windows C: drive to make room for Linux

2023-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
Thanks for all the help. I have just a few more questions. C: seems to be almost ready to shrink. Windows' disk manager tells me disk 0 is laid out as follows: D0P1C: D0P4=disk 0, partition 4 100 MB 953.26 GB NTFS 509 MB EFI system restore system Should

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 21 Sep 2023, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 9/21/2023 5:53 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Barry wrote: On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have

How do I stop this malware

2023-09-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
I stumbled onto a very bad website: d1ykbfcai6wsme dot cloudfront dot net slash werrx01 slash phone=+1 dash 888 dash 387 dash 3976 &# . nslookup gives several IP addresses for it: 13.227.44.(3, 62, 26, 12) and 2600:9000:21fa:(ca, ce, 14, 2e, 7e, b6, c2, ee)00:1:6351:b980:21 firefox went fullscre

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-09-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Sep 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: I the meantime, how do I blacklist those addresses? Oops. In the meantime, how do I blacklist those addresses? -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Occasionally irrational explanations are required" --

Re: LinkageError occurred while loading main class Area_Triangle_Determinants

2023-09-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Sep 2023, olivares33561 via users wrote: [olivares@fedora mptmp]$ rpm -qa | grep openjdk java-17-openjdk-headless-17.0.8.0.7-1.fc38.x86_64 java-latest-openjdk-headless-21.0.0.0.35-1.rolling.fc38.x86_64 java-latest-openjdk-21.0.0.0.35-1.rolling.fc38.x86_64 java-latest-openjdk-devel-21.

Re: LinkageError occurred while loading main class Area_Triangle_Determinants

2023-09-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Sep 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/26/23 11:12, olivares33561 via users wrote: Transaction Summary Remove 62 Packages Freed space: 654 M Is this ok [y/N]: I guess I will need to just use your advice an

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-09-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, stan via users wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:06:46 -0500 (CDT) I think it is done by running javascript through your version of firefox. Do you have noscript add-on installed? That will block any Noscript was already installed nand active. It did not complain. javascri

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:19?AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: This is trying to cure the disease by eliminating a symptom. You don't know what is happening behind that full screen. Going fullscreen

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 1:11?PM Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:19?AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: This is trying to cure the disease by elimina

F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. When I tell the installer to install, it claims it cannot find a hard drive. Grrr. The first time I got the message, I just rebooted. On the second boot, I looked for my home direct

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/05/2023 09:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: It's a pity there isn't a hotkey for killing just the frontmost/topmost program. ALT+F4 will close the top/front window, if they're obeying control, but I mean instantly killing the topmost window despite what it

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Stephen Morris wrote: On 6/10/23 13:12, Michael Hennebry wrote: I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. When I tell the installer to install, it claims it cannot find a hard drive.  Grrr. The first

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Mike Wright wrote: What would happen if you disconnected from the network just long enough to change the settings on the browser to NOT open new pages in a tab but instead to do it the old-fashioned way: open new pages in their own window. You might be able to X the malware

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
o see /dev/sda or any hard drive at all. On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 10:06?AM Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Stephen Morris wrote: On 6/10/23 13:12, Michael Hennebry wrote: I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk.

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: I am surprised that alt-tab does not switch to another app for you. I If it happens again, I'll try it. I'd forgotten all about it. Do not rmember the last time I used it. have used that to switch out of full screen applications and I would not expect

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: What kind of device/controller are those filesystems on? They would have to be something weird for anaconda to not have the right driver. it is not a sdhc/mmc type card is it? 'Tis an internal Seagate model ST380815AS. 80e9 bytes. 7200 rpm. SATA. I

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: What does "lspci | grep -i sata" show in the livecd? liveuser@localhost-live hennebry]$ lspci | grep -i sata >>sata.txt [liveuser@localhost-live hennebry]$ cat sata.txt 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
doing. The image on the DVD is named Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-38-1.6.iso . Navigating fedora websites is so much fun. 'Twouldn't surprise me if I missed something. What is a livecd to hard disk type install? On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 11:18?PM Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri,

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Oct 6, 2023, at 17:02, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: What does the /home directory/disk look like? (partition table, lvm setup (if lvm)?) sda1: 100 M Windows sda2: 100 M Id 83 sda3: 31.6 G / Id 83 sda5

After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
As noted in another thread, I recently installed F38, retaining my /home partition. When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Firefox is also unpleasantly interesting. Firefox was and is set to restore on

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Mike Wright wrote: On 10/7/23 11:23, Michael Hennebry wrote: Firefox is also unpleasantly interesting. Firefox was and is set to restore on startup. There were a lot of pages to restore. They all came up with a single blank tab. Do I need to start from scratch? Have

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/07/2023 12:11 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Booting an installer from a hard disk partition used to work, at least sometimes. I'd open a bugzilla against Anaconda, either as a bug or a feature request. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.c

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:19?AM Michael Hennebry wrote: What is a livecd to hard disk type install? There is usually an install-to-hard-disk icon someplace on the livecd desktop. That is what I did, though I used a DVD. Is there another way? I

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/07/2023 12:23 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Do you have rpmfusion installed? If not, you'll find i

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: As noted in another thread, I recently installed F38, retaining my /home partition. Firefox is also unpleasantly interesting. Firefox was and is set to restore on startup. There were a lot of pages to restore. They all came up with a single blank

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/07/2023 12:23 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Do you have

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
Can anyone play videos on F38? If so, how did you do it? Firefox in uncommunicative when it will not play a video. Videos says "cannot initialise OpenGL support". -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, happily entwined w

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
, Oct 12, 2023 at 9:17?AM Michael Hennebry wrote: Can anyone play videos on F38? If so, how did you do it? Firefox in uncommunicative when it will not play a video. Videos says "cannot initialise OpenGL support". I'm late for supper. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
an 640x480. I do not recall details of the battle. On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 9:17?AM Michael Hennebry wrote: Can anyone play videos on F38? If so, how did you do it? Firefox in uncommunicative when it will not play a video. Videos says "cannot initialise OpenGL support". -- M

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 22 Oct 2023, Stephen Morris wrote: On 14/10/23 03:00, Michael Hennebry wrote: Since my second to most recent post, I tried gnome with X11. Got a useful error message: no H.264 decoder. Now, with X11, videos can play videos. Firefox can play videos with either wayland or X11. I am

Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated

2023-10-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
CUPS wrote: Note:Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS. Then what? It wrote that after I installed a Brother HL-L2360DW using the printer-driver-brlaser-6.2.6-1.fc38.x86_64 package. It provided the Brother HL-L2360D series, using brlaser

Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated

2023-10-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 30 Oct 2023, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 12:46 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: CUPS wrote: Note:Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS. Then what? It wrote that after I installed a Brother HL-L2360DW

Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated

2023-10-31 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 31 Oct 2023, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Clearly there is a driver involved. I think the term just means that no additional driver is required. Note that Microsoft recently announced that future versions of Windows (IIRC) would not support manufacturer- provided drivers, so there appears

Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated

2023-11-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, Robert Nichols wrote: On 11/1/23 06:14, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 3:31?PM Robert Nichols wrote: How is that supposed to work for printers that have no network capability? IPP over USB https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_printing_problems#D

firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
My firefox on F38 freezes a lot. I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot. At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs open. I closed several windows. Shutting it down and bringing it back up often helped, but not necessarily for very long. According to top, firefox freezes e

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
Thank you Joe Z, Tim and Richard E. Firefox just starting freezing. [hennebry@fedora ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 1.6G 1.7M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/sda331G

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: /dev/sda7    32G   23G  7.1G  76% /home If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in your home directory. If so, that may be your problem. Consider installing Bleachbi

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 01:55 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: /dev/sda7    32G   23G  7.1G  76% /home If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 02:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: With firefox frozen. And with it closed? What I'm trying to find out is how much of that is stuff Firefox needs to keep between sessions and how much of it is session specific. I'll get back

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 02:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: With firefox frozen. And with it closed? What I'm trying to find out is how much of that is stuff Firefox needs to keep between sessions and how much of it is session specific. 885M with firefox c

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: type this In the address bar: about:performance I cannot get to about:performance . 'Tis not in the about:about list. When I type about:performance , I get about:memory . click on the memory column and sort by biggest first. see what specific web page

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
here are the top memory entries from about:processes: 872firefox 555weather.com 254imasdk.googleapis.com 210linkedin.com 204Extensions 146yahoo.com 132avrfreaks.net 116googlesyndication.com 88yahoo.net 85hackerrank.com 63linkedin.com 37github.com

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: here are the top memory entries from about:processes: 872firefox 555weather.com 254imasdk.googleapis.com 210linkedin.com 204Extensions 146yahoo.com 132avrfreaks.net 116googlesyndication.com 88yahoo.net 85

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: How much ram does the machine firefox is running on have? 8 G $ free -h totalusedfree shared buff/cache available Mem: 7.7Gi 4.1Gi 882Mi 572Mi 2.7Gi 2.7Gi Swap: 7.7G

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/03/2023 11:50 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: 210    linkedin.com 146    yahoo.com  88    yahoo.net  63    linkedin.com Why do you have both an extension and a tab for linkedin.com, and extensions for both yahoo.com and yahoo.net? I have more

Re: Tip: default printer

2023-11-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 6 Nov 2023, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Exactly what purpose does the "server default" printer serve? Is it even possible to send the CUPS server a print job with no printer specified?!! For sure, lp and lpr use the default printer if not told otherwise. I think that

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, Paul Smith wrote: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev tmpfs 16G 194M 16G 2% /dev/shm tmpfs

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, Paul Smith wrote: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev tmpfs 16G 194M 16G 2

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
By now, I am fairly sure that the reason firefox freezes on me is neither a lack of memory nor a lack of CPU. My inference is that it is waiting for something. How do I discover what? -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the su

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 2:21?PM Michael Hennebry wrote: By now, I am fairly sure that the reason firefox freezes on me is neither a lack of memory nor a lack of CPU. My inference is that it is waiting for something. How do I discover what? I would

chromium will not start

2023-11-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
I recently installed the chromium browser on F38. It won't start. At least it won't stay started very long. When I start it from the command line, I get this: $ chromium-browser [297210:297210:1123/181637.109041:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(353)] The profile appears to be in use by another

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: Have you checked the journal? I had this happen on a computer that definitely wasn't low on memory and the journal had a bunch of messages from firefox about timeouts. journalctl and then what? -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "I was just

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 17:12, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: Have you checked the journal?  I had this happen on a computer that definitely wasn't low on memory and the journal had a bunch of messages from firefox about tim

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm saying it wasn't a memory thing. Here are some example lines that I saw. They were all together at the time that firefox was stuck. rtkit-daemon[1090]: Successfully made thread 7825 of process 6769 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT at

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Restart you computer and try again. Let us know shutdown /r /f /t 00 Did that. Didn't help. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, happily entwined with others, a

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
OOn Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: It means likely it crashed while it had the profile locked and the program is too stupid to reclaim the lost lock. So while did it fail the first time? That seems to be a really common bug in a lot of programs. They test the lock/unlock and make sur

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: A profile (for a browser) is where you bookmarks/cookies/cache and other associated stuff needed exist. You can typically (on most browsers) have more than one profile. If you aren't running chromium currently then you delete the files. You might do a "

conflict with ffmpeg

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
More joy of a recent upgrade. Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:05 ago on Fri 24 Nov 2023 07:29:43 PM CST. Error: Problem: problem with installed package libswscale-free-6.0-5.fc38.x86_64 - package ffmpeg-libs-6.0-6.fc38.x86_64 from rpmfusion-free conflicts with libswscale-free provided by

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
chromium is freezing on me now, too. journalctl -r -g romium does not reveal any errors or warnings. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "His longhand was fairly good in his youth, but as he got older it got smaller, more scribbly, and harder to read; although, like being hanged, one can

Re: conflict with ffmpeg

2023-11-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Tom Horsley wrote: This is fedora putting their own lame bits of ffmpeg in fedora. This works for me: dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing that swaps out the lame fedora stuff and gets everything from rpmfusion. Thanks. I have ffmpeg now. Any idea what lame bits?

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: Hardware issues do not typically leave the machine up (except for intel/amd throttling down when getting hot, but even that will crash if it gets bad enough).install kernel-tools and run turbostat it will show the cpu freqs and cpu temps. My CPU is

printer only prints in flip mode

2023-12-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer is only printing in flip mode, i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, to read the back page, one must flip it vertically by a short side, rather that horizontally by a long edge. The defaults for the printer is set to job-sheets=none, none media=n

Re: printer only prints in flip mode

2023-12-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 12:04?AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer is only printing in flip mode, i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, to read the back page, one

Re: printer only prints in flip mode

2023-12-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, Neal Becker wrote: I have a similar-sounding brother laserprinter. I hate to say it, but I found the available open-source driver didn't produce correct output with mine, I had to use the proprietary driver from brother: hll2395dwpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm Nope. Didn't work ei

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: Usually there's a key you can press to get a boot selection menu so you can one-time boot from the USB without having to change the boot order. In my experiencem, external drives come before internal drives anyway. I've been bitten by this. -- Michael

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-12-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: Hardware issues do not typically leave the machine up (except for intel/amd throttling down when getting hot, but even that will crash if it gets bad enough).install kernel-tools and run turbostat it

Re: double sided printing

2024-01-18 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 1/17/24 01:32, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, How do I set up my new Brother HL-L2300D for two sided printing? -T CUPS driver ays is has two sides and puts it as "sides=one-sided" for the default. But I can find anywhere in my p

How to discover latex fonts

2024-02-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
Whenever I run latex with anything other than the default font, whatever that is, I get a font not found message. How do I discover what fonts latex can use and the names and methods to invoke them? Search lead me to fc-list, but it did not help. It listed a bunch of files, none of which were in

Re: How to discover latex fonts

2024-02-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
Antykwa Toruńska Condensed is at https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/antykwatorunskacondensed/ . Somehow I discovered that I needed texlive-antt-10:svn18651.2.08-65.fc38.noarch to use package anttor , so I installed it with dnf. No go: LaTeX Info: Font shape T1/anttc/mx/n has incorrect series value `m

Re: How to discover latex fonts

2024-02-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Andras Simon wrote: This is about making \fontsize work, not the warnings, which some other google hits suggest you can ignore. And you don't need to \usepackage{fontspec} for \fontsize to work. (But maybe you're using it for something else.) I was trying to change the fo

Re: Dual head - Dual console?

2017-03-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, poma wrote: On 11.03.2017 23:36, stan wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:30:22 -0600 Steve Berg wrote: Is there anyway to get a dual head system to use the two monitors as two different consoles? I got a dual head setup working nicely in F25 and Gnome, but when I switch to t

where do checksums live?

2020-05-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
I downloaded Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso using getfedora, but have not been able to find a checksum. Where should I look? -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the bloo

Re: where do checksums live?

2020-05-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 20 May 2020, ITwrx wrote: On 5/20/20 9:12 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I downloaded Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso using getfedora, but have not been able to find a checksum. Where should I look? there's a "verify your download" link on the bottom lef

fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've trying to run Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso on my HP Compac dc5800 Small Form Factor. It kernel panics with the message that it attempted to kill init or that it attempted to kill the idle task. In the former case, it gives exit code 0x0009. For several months, I've been runn

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
I have the same problem using an SD card and a USB SD card reader. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
Will try the BIOS update after I calm down. 'Tis my guess that computers do not work well after being thrown through a wall. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virg

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: Will try the BIOS update after I calm down. 'Tis my guess that computers do not work well after being thrown through a wall. BIOS updated. Still won't boot. G. It gets further. I get to a GUI that offers run live vs install. Selectin

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: It gets further. I get to a GUI that offers run live vs install. Selecting run live gets me to a declaration that it could not recover from an error. I was more methodical this time: Start without acpi=off , it goes to the try/install choice and

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: I was more methodical this time: Start without acpi=off , it goes to the try/install choice and without waiting goes to the something went wrong screen. Start with acpi=off does not get that far, kernel panic, tried to kill idle process. Test without

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: Following the example in Troubleshoot, I added nomodeset to the boot command in Start. It booted and it works, but the screen is only 640x480 . Is there a way to adjust this? I tried adding nomodeset grub_gfxmode=1440x900 , but still got 640x480

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: I tried adding nomodeset grub_gfxmode=1440x900 , but still got 640x480 . cat cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-WS-Live-32-1-6 rd.live.image nomodeset grub_gfxmode=1440x900 [liveuser@localhost-live proc]$ xrandr

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: [liveuser@localhost-live proc]$ xrandr --fb 1440x900 xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 640x480 (desired size 1440x900) [liveuser@localhost-live proc]$ So I tried these commands: xrandr

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: How do I get xrandr or something else to do what I want, i.e. change my resolution to 1440x900 when using the live DVD.. Note that since I using a live DVD, changing a config file and rebooting is not really an option. It is what I have on Centos

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 May 2020, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 04:25, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: On Tue, 26 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: How do I get xrandr or something else to do what I want, i.e. change my resolution to 1440x900 when usi

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 May 2020, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 16:19, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: I upgraded from 2GB to 8GB. liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ lspci | head -3 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q33 Express DRAM Controller (rev

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
According to modprobe, lsmod and /proc/modules , i915 exists and intel_gap does not. VESA notices several resolutionns, including 1024x768 and 800x600 . I really do not understand why none of them are allowed. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an u

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: According to modprobe, lsmod and /proc/modules , i915 exists and intel_gap does not. VESA notices several resolutionns, including 1024x768 and 800x600 . I really do not understand why none of them are allowed. Also, I do not understand this

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/26/20 12:24 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Note that since I using a live DVD, changing a config file and rebooting is not really an option. Are you using a physical DVD or a live image put on USB? If you put it on USB, then you can add an

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you don't make any changes to the boot command line other than adding a "3" at the end, does it boot to a login prompt? Yes. I'm using it. I suppose this means that if I knew the right incantation, I could get what I want with startx and the right co

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'll answer in more detail to the other email, but what happens if you just run "startx". I tried it on another virtual console. It crashed, but I do not remember details. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: Assuming you have another computer available, install the "livecd-tools" package and run something like this: livecd-iso-to-disk --format --msdos --overlay-size-mb 1024 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.2.iso /dev/sdd Any reason /dev/sdd could not

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 27 May 2020, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 02:46, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 18:56 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: VESA notices several resolutionns, including 1024x768 and 800x600 . I really do not understand why none of them are allowed. As a

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
I now have live-cd-tools. They and the tutorial website will have to wait until tomorrow. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 27 May 2020, George N. White III wrote: https://www.systutorials.com/configuration-of-linux-kernel-video-mode/ has an incantation (from 2015) to display available video modes. Got it. vbeinfo notices several resolutions at at least two resolutions each: 1920 x 1440 at 8 or 16 bits 1600

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: livecd-iso-to-disk --format --msdos --overlay-size-mb 1024 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.2.iso /dev/sdd Replace the sdd with your USB drive, this will completely wipe the drive. Put the name of whatever iso image you're using instead of the workst

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
irst post: On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've trying to run Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso on my HP Compac dc5800 Small Form Factor. Alas when I boot, I get the message Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary one. I'd used the following command and

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 28 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: I don't recall you mentioning which live image you're using. Assuming it's workstation, edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncomment the line with "WaylandEnable=false". Then re

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-29 Thread Michael Hennebry
For whatever reason, the persistent overlay does not work for me. I can get to runlevel 3 with or without nomodeset. With nomodeset, telinit 5 brings me to 640x480 . Without nomodeset, it fails: the oh no screen rears its ugly head. Is there something I can do at runlevel 3 to get a mode other t

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-02-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
Back at last. I've logged into the router, but I'm not at all sure how to do what I want. For now, I'd settle for bypassing midco's router. Would turning off dynamic DNS help? I expect I'd have to tell something what DNS server to use. The router is labeled ARRIS and is at 192.168.0.1 . Anyone els

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