Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-03 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
And you won't mount at /mnt/sda2, you'll mount at /home, /usr /tmp in order to do what you want. You'll have to create those directories under your new partition, and make sure they have the correct parameters (the same as /usr and /home have under /). Thank you, and others, for replying. I lear

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-05 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
On 06/03/2018 10:21 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: ... <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/MFQ5TQZFCPYRLFLVCDX3MBOORRVXIXWT/#> Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. ... <https://lists.fedoraproject.org

iPod touch and F13?

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
> > I just tried plugging my iPod touch on F13, and to my surprise, it did > appear on rhythmbox (as advertised on the release notes). However, even > though it offers a "create new playlist" option on the iPod popup menu and > allows me to drag songs to the iPod (it even says it is transferring th

gnome-photo-printer prints only black pages

2011-08-30 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, For years I have been very happy with gpp. Easy to use, fine results. But now I can't print pictures with it anymore. The print preview on the screen looks promising, but only black pages are coming out of the printer wasting ink and photopaper. I have fedora 15 running and gnome 3 desktop.

wireless adapter stops working after update

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Some time ago the on-board wireless card of my laptop broke down. After some googling I bought a new wireless usb-device (Asus WL-167g USB WLAN adapter). Iwas said to be working out of the box. And it did. But after the first updates it stopped working. Booting the previous kernel does not hel

Re: wireless adapter stops working after update

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
I reinstalled fedora 12 ... and the card starts working again. > But after installing updates an rebooting it stops working. > Any clues would be wellcome. Give the list some logs to look at... Here is the output of /var/log/messages after plugging in the wireless adapter: Feb 3 18:57

Re: wireless adapter stops working after update

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:10:43 +0100 Peter Lesterhuis wrote: > > > > I reinstalled fedora 12 ... and the card starts working again. > > >But after installing updates an rebooting it stops working. > > >Any clues would be wellcome.

Re: wireless adapter stops working after update

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Frank Elsner: >> You have seen the above line that reads "Wireless now disabled >> by radio killswitch"? Peter Lesterhuis: > Yes, I have. But I don't know what it means. Please inform me. There's a physical switch on your compu

need root permission to poweroff

2014-03-16 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, Since a couple of days I need root permission to poweroff. It seems that there is a second user logged into the machine. $ who peter:0 2014-03-10 19:04 (:0) peterpts/02014-03-16 11:36 (:0) $ users peter peter I don' t know hwat caused it, perhaps by shh from anothe

Re: need root permission to poweroff

2014-03-16 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
I don' t know hwat caused it, perhaps by shh from another machine. What can I do to get rid of this problem. When you say you need root permission to power off. Are you doing this from the command line, or GUI? Are you using Gnome, KDE, or another desktop? I am doing this from the GUI. I am

Re: need root permission to poweroff

2014-03-17 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
On 03/17/14 01:29, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2014 11:34 AM, g wrote: which is 14 total terminals what might be causing the difference? You're also logged in at the GUI. i thought that was covered by the tty1 - Xorg. I understand that the number of users has nothing to do with the authenticati

Re: need root permission to poweroff [SOLVED]

2014-03-22 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
The problem is solved. Someone suggested I was logged in at the GUI. So I launched the GUI (power icon at the right upper corner of the screeen), hit my login name, which opened a pull down menu "logout". I hit that one and subsequently the problem never occurred anymore. Peter -- users maili

re: thunderbird locks up

2016-06-10 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 10:29:03 -0400 From: Robert Moskowitz Subject: Re: Thunderbird locks up To: Community support for Fedora users Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 06/09/2016 10:02 AM,peterlesterh...@tiscali.nl wrote: How did you do that, recreating you

low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-12 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
My system compalined of a low disk space on filesystem root. Root consists of 50GB, df -h showed an usage of 100%. I did some cleaning, : dnf clean all, removed an kernel (there were three), removed a lot op files in /tmp and I ran Beachbit. I have gained some room: $ df -h Filesystem

Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-13 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Now I am not sure what to do. I want to delete unnecessary files. But here my knowledge of the filesystem ends. Probably a stupid question, but I am going to ask anyway; can I delete /var/cache/PackageKit, or will that ruin my system? You're probably using "dnf" to update packages rather than rebo

fedora 18 : conflicts when installing OpenCPN

2013-01-17 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, After a succesful upgrade f17 -f18 with fedup I tried to install OpenCPN. In f17 there were no install-issues. These are the complaints after trying to install OpenCPN 3.1.1309: Transaction Check Error: file /usr from install of opencpn-3.1.1309-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package n

qlandkartegt

2013-12-15 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, I installed QlandkarteGT (1.7.5) in order to create a geotiff map out of a scanned tiff map. I installed the rpm via yum on my fedora 19 system. When I launch QlandkarteGT and try to convert a .tiff into a .geotiff it complains of lacking GDAL-tools: "can't find GDAL-tools in your path. M

Re: qlandkartegt

2013-12-16 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Does installing package "gdal" help? Is this a bug in the QlandkarteGT package, or am I overlooking something? Maybe. Reading the documentation and/or examining the source code may give a clue about what exactly it searches for. It seems there is only a dependency on "gdal-libs" but not on the

X won't start in fedora 16

2012-02-11 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in screen a message pops up: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" etc. I am advised to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs every time. The weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the ususal X-screensaver appears

Re: X won't start in fedora 16

2012-02-11 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in screen a message pops up: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" etc. I am advised to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs every time. The weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the ususal X-screensaver appears. But wh

wireless network adapter not working

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, I would like your advice. Recently I purchased a laptop (Asus Vivobook S15 M5506NA-MA056W). I installed fedora 41 alongside Windows 11. First I disabled "fast boot" and "secure boot". Fedora installed fine, but there is no wifi connection, probably because of the Wireless Network Adapter not w

Re: wireless network adapter not working

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Wifi is working! Reading some of the links in the replies on my former post it was suggested that powering off the system (instead of rebooting) and then booting again could resolve the problem. Although this sounded like magic to me I couldn't resist giving it a try. and it works! At least for

ASUS Vivobook S 15 compatible with fedora?

2024-10-27 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
I am about to purchase a new laptop. I am considering bying ASUS Vivobook S 15 S5507QA-MA006W. This laptop is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 processor. The plan is to create a dual boot laptop with Windows 11 and Fedora (40). But I am not sure if this laptop is compatib

printer not available F16

2011-11-09 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, After upgrading to F16 the printing system does not seem to be available. Launching system-config-printer it says "printing service not avalable", but I am not able to start the service. I tried to open http://localhost:631 but "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost