google cloudprint *client* for fedora?

2014-11-06 Thread Neal Becker
I just got a google cloud enabled printer. Is there a _client_ for fedora to work via cups? Thanks. -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

What is the deal with rpmfusion nvidia updates?

2014-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
I don't understand why yum doesn't want to install updates when a new kernel is available: sudo yum update ... ---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:3.16.7-200.fc20 will be installed ... [nothing about kmod-nvidia-blah] ** yum wants to update kernel ** rpm -qa kmod-nvidia* kmod-nvidia-304xx-3.16.6-203.

Re: What is the deal with rpmfusion nvidia updates?

2014-11-10 Thread Neal Becker
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/09/2014 01:40 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: >> Try to install the new kernel first, then after, see if the new kmod >> will update. > > Speaking from experience, when you update the kernel, the new kmod (if > available) is normally drawn in as a dependency. Except when, as I j

Re: What is the deal with rpmfusion nvidia updates?

2014-11-11 Thread Neal Becker
Stephen Morris wrote: > On 11/11/2014 01:53 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> Joe Zeff wrote: >> >>> On 11/09/2014 01:40 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: >>>> Try to install the new kernel first, then after, see if the new kmod >>>> will update. >>> Spea

create local repo for yum or dnf

2014-11-21 Thread Neal Becker
Can yum or dnf use the local filesystem for a repo? I can run createrepo on my local rpms under rpmbuild/RPMS. Can I tell yum or dnf to look there? I don't want to have to setup a web server to do this. -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it -- users mailing lis

f21 runs dnf check on every shell startup

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
After fedup f20->f21, on every shell startup I see: Repository google-chrome is listed more than once in the configuration I don't want this check run on each shell start. For one thing, I believe it is causing sometimes long delays. How do I turn it off? -- -- Those who don't understand re

Re: f21 runs dnf check on every shell startup

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:06:52AM -0500, Neal Becker wrote: >> After fedup f20->f21, on every shell startup I see: >> Repository google-chrome is listed more than once in the configuration >> I don't want this check run on each shell start. F

Re: f21 runs dnf check on every shell startup

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
which log should I be looking at? What log entries would be relevant? On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Igor Gnatenko < ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2014 3:47 PM, "Jan Zelený" wrote: > > > > On 9. 12. 2014 at 07:06:52, Neal Becker wrote:

Re: f21 runs dnf check on every shell startup

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
ec 9, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Igor Gnatenko < ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > dnf with debuglevel=10... Paste dnf.log > > -Igor Gnatenko > On Dec 9, 2014 5:23 PM, "Neal Becker" wrote: > >> which log should I be looking at? What log entries would be

Re: f21 runs dnf check on every shell startup

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
rote: > > On 9. 12. 2014 at 18:52:29, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Neal Becker > wrote: > >> > I'm sorry, I'm confused. > >> > The problem is that it seems with every shell startup, some dnf > command is > >>

printing broken by f20->f21 update

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
I have 2 machines that have both been updated f20->f21. Printing was working before. Now, when I try to print pdf using either okular or evince, all I get are blank pages. I tried deleting the printer on one machine and re-installing. This time with a cover page. The cover page prints. Th

Re: printing broken by f20->f21 update

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > I have 2 machines that have both been updated f20->f21. Printing was working > before. > > Now, when I try to print pdf using either okular or evince, all I get are > blank pages. > > I tried deleting the printer on one machine and re-installing.

Re: printing broken by f20->f21 update

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > >> I have 2 machines that have both been updated f20->f21. Printing was working >> before. >> >> Now, when I try to print pdf using either okular or evince, all I get are >> blank pages. >> >>

Re: printing broken by f20->f21 update

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
Temlakos wrote: > On 12/09/2014 11:24 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> Neal Becker wrote: >> >>> Neal Becker wrote: >>> >>>> I have 2 machines that have both been updated f20->f21. Printing was >>>> working before. >>>> >&g

suspend broken by f21 update! (hp dv9000)

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
hp dv9000 laptop. suspend/resume has worked for many years on each version of fedora. Not anymore. On opening lid, all I get is a loud BEEP and a black screen. No response to attempting to switch VT or anything else I can think of trying. Any idea how to debug? -- -- Those who don't unders

Re: suspend broken by f21 update! (hp dv9000)

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
poma wrote: > On 10.12.2014 01:06, Neal Becker wrote: >> hp dv9000 laptop. >> >> suspend/resume has worked for many years on each version of fedora. Not >> anymore. >> >> On opening lid, all I get is a loud BEEP and a black screen. No response to >&g

Re: suspend broken by f21 update! (hp dv9000)

2014-12-09 Thread Neal Becker
poma wrote: > On 10.12.2014 01:33, Neal Becker wrote: >> poma wrote: >> >>> On 10.12.2014 01:06, Neal Becker wrote: >>>> hp dv9000 laptop. >>>> >>>> suspend/resume has worked for many years on each version of fedora. Not >>&g

Re: printing broken by f20->f21 update

2014-12-10 Thread Neal Becker
Tim Waugh wrote: > On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 10:45 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: >> I have 2 machines that have both been updated f20->f21. Printing was working >> before. >> >> Now, when I try to print pdf using either okular or evince, all I get are >> blank page

Re: printing broken by f20->f21 update

2014-12-10 Thread Neal Becker
Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 07:10 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: >> The problem occurs with evince and with okular, but not with adobe acroread. >> I'm taking a wild guess that evince and okular use system libraries to >> render, while acroread is probably self-

Re: printing broken by f20->f21 update

2014-12-10 Thread Neal Becker
Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 10:35 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: >> Thanks! I found >> lp -o landscape -o fit-to-page xxx.pdf >> >> printed just fine! >> >> But printing from evince produced blank pages. Almost blank, there are 2 >>

lots of systemd warnings logged

2014-12-13 Thread Neal Becker
I get a lot of these log messages: Dec 13 08:22:26 nbecker1 systemd-sysv-generator[17437]: Could not find init script for ebtables.service Dec 13 08:22:26 nbecker1 systemd-sysv-generator[17437]: Could not find init script for ebtables.service Dec 13 08:22:26 nbecker1 systemd-sysv-generator[17437

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Joe Wulf wrote: > evince has worked well for me for a good number of years now, and I use > cups-pdf for 'printing' pdf's of web pages and such. No issues here with > either. > From: Robert Moskowitz > To: Community support for Fedora users > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 9:15 PM > S

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than >> evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? > > Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. > > And I use it not just for pdf, but a whole assortme

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Kevin Martin wrote: > Master PDF editor is quite nice but, strangely, when it comes to filling in > PDF forms evince works better I've found. However if you need to actually > fill in a PDF that doesn't have form fields master PDF editor is the way to > go. > > Regards, > > Kevin Martin > > Se

Re: Oracle VirtualBox for F21

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Chad Kellerman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> Does somebody know when will Oracle make VirtualBox available on its >> repository for Fedora 21? >> >> At the moment, no package for F21 is available: >> >> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/

nouveau broken on kernel-3.17.7-300.fc21.x86_64

2014-12-29 Thread Neal Becker
Booted up and X dies. Messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old include 46:[20.239] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: PID 954 does not belong to any known session 75:[20.251] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0) 114:[20.255] (EE) [drm] KMS not

Requesting no-more-sessi...@openssh.com???

2014-12-30 Thread Neal Becker
ssh -v nbecker7 ... Authenticated to nbecker7 ([10.32.112.225]:22). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Requesting no-more-sessi...@openssh.com ... What is that?? -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

extremely slow shell starts (trying to debug, dbus related)

2014-12-30 Thread Neal Becker
On my server, after updating f20->f21, shell startup is _extremely_ slow. Using strace, it appears that the problem is dbus 08:22:57 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket"}, 33) = 0 ... 08:22:57 recvmsg(5, 0x7fff640c3970, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = -1 EAGAIN (Resourc

howto turn off WOL?

2015-01-06 Thread Neal Becker
If I suspend my laptop with enet connected, it immediately wakes again (yes, my suspend is working again!) I can turn off WOL using sudo /sbin/ethtool -s p3p1 wol d What is the recommended way to set this option permanently? -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it

Re: howto turn off WOL?

2015-01-06 Thread Neal Becker
poma wrote: > On 06.01.2015 17:51, Neal Becker wrote: >> If I suspend my laptop with enet connected, it immediately wakes again (yes, >> my suspend is working again!) >> >> I can turn off WOL using >> >> sudo /sbin/ethtool -s p3p1 wol d >> >

Re: Downgrade to KDE 4.6?

2011-10-04 Thread Neal Becker
Manuel Escudero wrote: > Some time ago, I "upgraded" my KDE to 4.7 but it is very buggy (I'm on F15) > so I want to return to KDE 4.6 is it possible? How can it be done? > > Thanks! > What sort of problems do you experience? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

rpmfusion nvidia driver extremely slow F16

2011-11-09 Thread Neal Becker
I just did clean install of f16, and then installed rpmfusion nvidia driver. After, many graphics ops were extremely slow. Open, close some windows. The worst was google chrome: click on the 'tool' icon, and it was 5-10 seconds to draw the menu. I just rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and rm rdblackli

build gcc-4.4 on F15/16?

2011-11-18 Thread Neal Becker
I'm trying to install cuda sdk. It needs gcc<=4.4. I grabbed gcc-4.4.6 gcc fails to link: gcc -g -fkeep-inline-functions -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict- prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wcast-qual -Wold-style-definition -Wc++-compat -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-lon

Re: build gcc-4.4 on F15/16?

2011-11-18 Thread Neal Becker
Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:56:51 -0500, NB (Neal) wrote: > >> I'm trying to install cuda sdk. It needs gcc<=4.4. >> >> I grabbed gcc-4.4.6 >> >> gcc fails to link: >> >> >> gcc -g -fkeep-inline-functions -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict- >> prototypes -Wmis

Re: F16 kde plasma crashes - occasional

2011-11-24 Thread Neal Becker
mike cloaked wrote: > I have been running f16 x86_64 with kde 4.7.3 for a week or two on two > different machines. Occasionally I have found that the screen saver > kicks in but then fails to time out and so the screensaver runs > continuously without powersaving the monitor after a period as > n

backuppc fails to start after f15->f16

2011-12-05 Thread Neal Becker
BackupPC[2535]: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/perl5\ /vendor_perl/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr Any ideas? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: backuppc fails to start after f15->f16

2011-12-06 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > BackupPC[2535]: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/perl5\ > /vendor_perl/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr > > Any ideas? > Fixed. Seems that anaconda left a bit of a mess. I had a mix of f15 and f16 packages for perl. Most

yum remove selinux*

2012-05-29 Thread Neal Becker
I don't want/use selinux. Any reason I shouldn't just do: yum remove selinux* ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guide

Re: yum remove selinux*

2012-05-29 Thread Neal Becker
Tommy Pham wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> I don't want/use selinux. Any reason I shouldn't just do: >> >> yum remove selinux* ? >> >> > > IIRC, selinux is part of the kernel. Hence when you make any chang

Re: yum remove selinux*

2012-05-29 Thread Neal Becker
Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/29/2012 03:30 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> >> Neal Becker writes: >>> I don't want/use selinux. Any reason I shouldn't just do: >>> >>> yum

Re: yum remove selinux*

2012-05-29 Thread Neal Becker
Boris Epstein wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > >> Tommy Pham wrote: >> >> > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Neal Becker >> wrote: >> >> I don't want/use selinux. Any reason I shouldn't just do: >&

nouveau gets monitor size wrong

2012-05-31 Thread Neal Becker
I have an hp dv9000 laptop. With proprietary nvidia driver, it works correctly. xdpyinfo says monitor is 371x232mm, which is correct. using nouveau, xdpyinfo says it's 447x277mm. Where do I report this bug? Here is what I tried to workaround: I made xorg.conf that contains only this: -

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Neal Becker
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > Hi, > > I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the > reason I could not use it. I installed 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings' > from Yumex and when rebooted the screen was stuck at / > > em1: link becomes ready/ > > I logged into tty3 and then re

udevd[293]: specified group 'plugdev' unknown

2012-06-09 Thread Neal Becker
Something wrong with my install? Jun 9 09:36:25 nbecker1 udevd[293]: specified group 'plugdev' unknown -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/

thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Neal Becker
Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue. I don't expect to need 3D performance,

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about > buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux > compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? > > I guess graphics chipset is th

rpmfusion is down?

2012-06-14 Thread Neal Becker
I tried from 2 different machines. I tried yum clean all. I get: http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/50a3ec209ea701cb92976a80a229cb43674186ce36b0d16961f487b2276561b0- primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : http://mirror.us.lease

need help: nfsv4 idmap

2012-07-27 Thread Neal Becker
I'm wondering if I can use nfsv4 idmap so that I can share files between systems without syncing uids. Thing is, I don't want to have to learn kerberos, ldap, etc. Is it possible to use idmap functionality without any complicated setup? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: Euro symbol under Fedora-17/KDE

2012-09-05 Thread Neal Becker
Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 01:55:56PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I take it the official way to enter a euro symbol in vi/vim is AltGr+4. >> I find this works about 20% of the time. >> It usually works if it is the first character entered. >> But most of the time it does not w

Re: Euro symbol under Fedora-17/KDE

2012-09-05 Thread Neal Becker
Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:58:28AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: >> Suvayu Ali wrote: >> >> > setxkbmap -option compose:lwin >> > >> > The above allows me to enter the € symbol by typing e=. >> >> 1. How would I have disc

requirements for cisco webex?

2013-02-20 Thread Neal Becker
Anyone know if I can view cisco webex on f18 x86_64 natively? It doesn't seem to work. I can view using a windows VM. I'm wondering if maybe installing sun java is the key here? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f

Howto get a stack trace from coredumps now that we have abrt?

2013-03-03 Thread Neal Becker
Now that abrt is intercepting core dumps, what do I do to get a stack trace for a binary that is NOT a fedora package? Either my own code, or something like, shall we say, just for the sake of argument, google chrome? I know how to turn off sending core dumps to abrt, but I don't want to always

Re: Howto get a stack trace from coredumps now that we have abrt?

2013-03-03 Thread Neal Becker
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:12:47 -0500 > Neal Becker wrote: > >> Now that abrt is intercepting core dumps, what do I do to get a stack trace >> for >> a binary that is NOT a fedora package? Either my own code, or something >> like, shall we s

fastboot trouble (f18)

2013-03-07 Thread Neal Becker
adb is working fine with my galaxy nexus vzw. But fastboot doesn't seem to be working. Just hangs. I see various usb error messages. But as I said, adb works, and phone mounts OK when booted. Seems to just be fastboot not working. I'm sure I had it working before on F17. -- users mailing

Re: Help me make backups better on GNU/Linux

2013-03-19 Thread Neal Becker
Gordon Messmer wrote: > After publicly bitching about Linux's poor backup infrastructure for the > hundredth time, I decided to write a common system for making snapshots. > I've written the first iteration in bash. It took one day to do most of > the work, and then a few hours of testing and fix

unable to connect bluetooth

2013-04-13 Thread Neal Becker
My bluetooth headset used to work, but now won't connect. Perhaps related, just updated kernel: 3.8.6-203.fc18.x86_64 I see this in /var/log/messages, perhaps related? Apr 13 18:57:05 nbecker1 bluetoothd[587]: bluetoothd[587]: connect: No route to host (113) Apr 13 18:57:05 nbecker1 bluetoothd

Handbrake for f18 x86_64?

2013-05-21 Thread Neal Becker
Any place to find an rpm (or srpm) for recent Handbrake (0.9.9)? I briefly tried building from source, but didn't get very far (and no, it doesn't look like a problem with my not installing the deps). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: Handbrake for f18 x86_64?

2013-05-21 Thread Neal Becker
Anthony Messina wrote: > On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 07:46:50 AM Neal Becker wrote: >> I briefly tried building from source, but didn't get very far (and no, it >> doesn't look like a problem with my not installing the deps). > > You can use the spec I have here: >

Re: Handbrake for f18 x86_64?

2013-05-22 Thread Neal Becker
Anthony Messina wrote: > git clone git://messinet.com/rpms/handbrake.git So this spec doesn't even attempt to use system versions of libs? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Gu

Re: Alien

2013-05-24 Thread Neal Becker
Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2013 06:56:31 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > >> I have an app that is available in three formats: Mac, Windows and .DEB. >> I would like to install it on my Fedora box, but, obviously, Fedora >> doesn't support .DEB files. So, I thought, why not use Alien to

fedup f18->f19 going OK?

2013-07-02 Thread Neal Becker
I'm about to try fedup f18->f19. Any reports good/bad on this route? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a

google-musicmanager update checksum error

2013-07-10 Thread Neal Becker
[google-musicmanager] name=google-musicmanager baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 $ dnf clean all Cleaning repos: PlexRepo winswitch fedora rpmfusion-free-updates rpmfusion-free : adobe-linux-i386 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates steam upd

ssd keeps dying??

2022-01-16 Thread Neal Becker
I've had a workstation (dual amd rome) for about 2 years. The M2 ssd died after about 1 year. I replaced it with a samsung 980 pro, which then lasted almost 1 more year. Then I replaced it with a 1TB samsung 980 pro, this time with heat sink. This lasted a few weeks. I had been looking at smar

Re: ssd keeps dying??

2022-01-16 Thread Neal Becker
Well I guess I can try reseating it, good idea. Unfortunately this server is remote from me, so might as well collect ideas before driving over. On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 3:00 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 1/16/22 11:44 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > > Now it's dead again. I can ssh to the machi

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-26 Thread Neal Becker
I've needed this over the years but all the ones I've seen appeared much too complex for my simple use case. I ended up writing my own using pyxmlrpc. Unfortunately haven't used it for years and don't know if I could find it again (was uploaded to pypi at one time). Are any of these batch system

Re: Picking a new laptop

2022-02-01 Thread Neal Becker
I believe both lenovo and dell ship laptops with linux installed. On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 6:37 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > H ... well how's about a company that designs *for* Linux? > Star Labs https://starlabs.systems/ is a UK company that sells direct. > I have their Starlite laptops and ha

Re: Picking a new laptop

2022-02-01 Thread Neal Becker
My 'Ctrl-A' and 'Ctrl-E' work just fine (ctrl mapped to capslock where the unix gods intended).. Alt is meta. What do you mean by "I wish there were a Linux desktop that did that and used the Command key the right way also."? On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:21 AM James Szinger wrote: > I have had goo

pixel buds: either mono or no microphone, take your pick

2022-02-02 Thread Neal Becker
I'm trying to use my pixel bud headphones with my laptop (lenovo X1 carbon gen 4). I'm using kde and blueman-applet. Basically I can choose 2 profiles: High Fidelity Playback (A2DP sink) or Headset Head Unit (HSP/HFP) There are also variations on these with different codec choices, but that does

Re: pixel buds: either mono or no microphone, take your pick

2022-02-02 Thread Neal Becker
In case I wasn't clear, what I want is to have a microphone input AND stereo sound. On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 7:51 AM Neal Becker wrote: > I'm trying to use my pixel bud headphones with my laptop (lenovo X1 carbon > gen 4). I'm using kde and blueman-applet. > > Basica

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-02-04 Thread Neal Becker
ps you too that's be great. On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:04 PM Fred Erickson wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:59:23 -0500 > Neal Becker wrote: > > > I've needed this over the years but all the ones I've seen appeared > > much too complex for my simple use case.

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-02-04 Thread Neal Becker
is very simple and doesn't know about free memory) On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:24 AM John Mellor wrote: > On 2022-02-04 09:04, Neal Becker wrote: > > After this discussion, I needed a simple batch scheduling system. I tried > installing and starting condor on F35. Never saw so man

ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-22 Thread Neal Becker
I know this is a bit OT, but you guys are great at answering all questions. I bought a workstation from Titan computers around 1/2020 (dual EPYC cpu). After about 1 year it stopped working. I could ssh to it, and almost any command would return Input/Output error. Unfortunately journalctl gave i

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-22 Thread Neal Becker
t. I will try Titan again later today, but just looking for ideas. Thanks, Neal On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 8:44 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 7:34 AM Neal Becker wrote: > >> I know this is a bit OT, but you guys are great at answering all >> questions. &

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-22 Thread Neal Becker
te III wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 10:04, Neal Becker wrote: > >> Thanks Richard. Yes, I talked with Titan; they suggested trying the >> pcie-m.2 adapter. I will try them again. >> I have not checked for bios updates. Not sure how to go about that (last >> time

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-23 Thread Neal Becker
OK, status update. 1. The workstation is located in a offices of a large satellite ISP. Clean power is probably not an issue. 2. Attempt to reboot machine. BIOS boot options does not show the M.2 SSD existing. 3. Boot F35 from USB live. Go to install to disk. SSD is not shown as an option fo

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-24 Thread Neal Becker
Well the fact that the failed ssd is working again tells me it wasn't zapped by static or power transients. The comment about taking a long time for the ssd to reorganize itself is interesting, but here it failed 1 day, and I went to fix it the next day, where it still was not detected by F35 live

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-25 Thread Neal Becker
Endgame: So now the system is running from the sata ssd drive, but the nvme ssd is plugged into the M.2->pcie adapter with the failed ssd now working again. So I ask, what's the difference in speed between the nvme ssd plugged into the pcie and the sata? I run bonnie++ on the nvme and then: Feb 2

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-03-08 Thread Neal Becker
I've tried to move away from gmail, but it's not easy. I've been a kde fan for years, and back in the day used kmail. Triggered by this discussion, I tried again to use kmail with gmail/imap. But after waiting some hours for mail to sync gave up. I've never used evolution, but decided to try it

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-03-12 Thread Neal Becker
You can (and I do) make my own filters in gmail for e.g., this maillist, which moves it into a folder and is reflected in IMAP as a folder. In addition, gmail has an orthogonal system they call categories that auto-categorizes mail: inbox, social, updates, formus, promotions. This is not reflecte

yubikey?

2022-03-26 Thread Neal Becker
I'm curious about getting a yubikey to use for 2fa, and wondering if it will just work on Fedora 35+. I've seen an article on setting up yubikey for auth on fedora, but I'm not interested in using it to authenticate for login on my laptop. I'm interested in having it work for 2fa on chrome and fi

setup for M/L (nvidia)

2022-04-01 Thread Neal Becker
Trying to setup for machine learning. Here's what I tried. Actually, we can just view dnf history. In reverse chronological order: 1. install the nvidia device driver from rpmfusion: sudo dnf install 61 | install /var/cudnn-local-repo-rhel7-8.3.2.44/libcudn | 2022-03-31 18:38 | Install

attempt system-upgrade f35-f36 fails on mutter

2022-05-07 Thread Neal Becker
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36 --skip-broken --best Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you want to continue [y/N]: y [...] Error: Problem: package mutter3.38-libs-3.38.6-1.fc35.x86_64 requires libwacom.so.2()(64bit

Re: attempt system-upgrade f35-f36 fails on mutter

2022-05-07 Thread Neal Becker
On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 6:37 AM Neal Becker wrote: > sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36 --skip-broken --best > Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running > "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you want to continue [y/N]: y > [...] >

openvpn vs F36

2022-05-17 Thread Neal Becker
After updating F35->F36 my openvpn client is no longer connecting. I did look at https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/openssl-error-when-connecting-to-vpn-via-networkmanager-fedora-36/21123 And followed the last response https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/openssl-error-when-connecting-to-vpn-via-networkm

Re: What package do I need to install for my Nvidia card

2022-06-17 Thread Neal Becker
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:00 AM Anil F Duggirala wrote: > Hello, > > I have read part of the https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA guide to > know how to install proprietary drivers for my Nvidia card. My laptop > comes with a regular Intel Graphics card alongside an Nvidia Geforce > GTX 960M card.

Re: Installing cuda on Fedora 36

2022-06-27 Thread Neal Becker
Did you add https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/fedora35/x86_64? I have a working install, which has [nbecker@nbecker8 multicarrier-predistortion]$ rpm -qa *cuda* cuda-toolkit-config-common-11.6.55-1.noarch cuda-toolkit-11-config-common-11.6.55-1.noarch cuda-toolkit-11-6-confi

Re: Installing cuda on Fedora 36

2022-06-27 Thread Neal Becker
x27;t tried F36. On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:30 PM Steve Underwood wrote: > On 27/06/2022 15:26, Neal Becker wrote: > > I *did not *install driver from nvidia, I am using rpmfusion driver > > nvidia's version of drivers conflict with rpmfusions versions > > I did that, but

akmods issue

2022-07-06 Thread Neal Becker
Speaking of nvidia and akmods, I just had an issue this morning. On my server I'm using nvidia proprietary driver from rpmfusion. Apparently it was updated (automatically) last night and when I tried to run experiments on the gpu this morning I got the dreaded version mismatch between the kernel

Re: WebEx client no longer works on Fedora 36

2022-07-29 Thread Neal Becker
My usual advice, have you tried the web client? On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:29 AM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > Does anyone still have the official Cisco WebEx linux client work with > Fedora 36? It used to work fine a month or so ago, but has not worked for > me for the last two wee

Re: WebEx client no longer works on Fedora 36

2022-07-29 Thread Neal Becker
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 1:24 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Neal, > > Not recently, but why should I try WebEx through the browser, and > potentially give them all the information that they can vacuum up from the > browser? I just wonder why the video for the linux client stopped working. > > There is

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-16 Thread Neal Becker
I use borg and am very happy with it. As Chris, I only backup /home, everything else is replaceable. Oh, I occasionally make a backup of /etc also. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 6:05 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 21:04 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 7:

Sound distorted (new, F36)

2022-10-24 Thread Neal Becker
I've got a lenovo laptop x1 carbon 2017 which has been working fine for years on the latest fedora versions. The sound survived to update to F36. But something in an update in the past several weeks has broken it. When I try to conference with other users, they report my sound is distorted, even

Re: Sound distorted (new, F36)

2022-10-24 Thread Neal Becker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 9:32 AM Neal Becker wrote: > I've got a lenovo laptop x1 carbon 2017 which has been working fine for > years on the latest fedora versions. The sound survived to update to F36. > But something in an update in the past several weeks has broken it. W

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-25 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 5:35 AM Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 20:44 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I've been observing, from the sidelines, the devolution of mailing > > lists, Usenet, and IRC into web-based discussion forums of various > > flavors; getting the bar lowered to th

Re: [OT] Xorg, X11, Wayland

2022-10-30 Thread Neal Becker
I have been watching Wayland with interest since it's beginning. There is still one thing which prevents me from switching. I need to attend remote meetings, using teams, zoom, etc. I always prefer to use the web interfaces for those, through chrome (firefox won't work on teams). If I use wayla

Re: [OT] Xorg, X11, Wayland

2022-10-30 Thread Neal Becker
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 11:38 AM Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Oct 30, 2022, at 07:42, Neal Becker wrote: > > I have been watching Wayland with interest since it's beginning. There is > still one thing which prevents me from switching. I need to attend remote > meeting

Adding file swap on btrfs

2022-12-19 Thread Neal Becker
I've just installed f37 on a new lenovo x1 carbon. One thing, the installation didn't setup any swap (other than zswap). After a bit of reading I found sudo btrfs filesystem mkswapfile -s 32G /swapfile But: sudo swapon -v /swapfile swapon: /swapfile: found signature [pagesize=4096, signature=swap

Re: Adding file swap on btrfs

2022-12-19 Thread Neal Becker
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:58 PM Neal Becker wrote: > I've just installed f37 on a new lenovo x1 carbon. > One thing, the installation didn't setup any swap (other than zswap). > > After a bit of reading I found > sudo btrfs filesystem mkswapfile -s 32G /swapfile

fwupd broke my wifi on new laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Neal Becker
Brand new lenovo x1 carbon. Today the "discover" sw update app suggest fw updates. I went ahead with them. Now wifi isn't working properly. At boot, I get a hang on Job NetworkManager-wait-online.service/start running Then it will finish boot after some time, but only 2.4G wifi works. It won'

Re: fwupd broke my wifi on new laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Neal Becker
Well I performed 2 downgrades. On the 2nd one it totally hung, saying 100% done and will reboot. It won't. Even holding the power button does nothing. On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 10:27 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 10:18 AM Neal Becker wrote: > > > >

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