Firefox foul ups

2024-06-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Is anyone else having problems with Firefox on FC39 with XFCE recently? After rock solid operation for a long time, in the last 2 or 3 weeks the UI has been fouling up every day or two when I do some seemingly mundane operation in Firefox. A couple of times Firefox has crashed after a few secon

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-14 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/14/2010 12:54 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Sun, 6/13/10, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > >> That isn't going to make people very >> happy. >> >> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/11/1338207/Adobe-Temporarily-Kills-64-Bit-Flash-For-Linux >> > Guess I'll just continue to use 10.0

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-14 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/14/2010 11:20 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Mon, 6/14/10, Steve Underwood wrote: > > >> On 06/14/2010 12:54 PM, Patrick >> Bartek wrote: >> >>> --- On Sun, 6/13/10, Bill Davidsen >>> >> wrote: >>

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/16/2010 09:55 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > This security update has just been released: > > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10.1_for_Linux_(.rpm) > > This will download flash-plugin-10.1.53.64-release.i386.rpm. I don't yet > know how stable this will b

Re: 32bit Vs 64bit OS

2010-06-18 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/18/2010 03:21 PM, Łukasz Jagiełło wrote: > 2010/6/18 Sam Varshavchik: > >> Minor differences are that 64 bit applications are slightly faster, and 64 >> bit lets you use more RAM. >> > Not always it's faster, everything depend of application one will be > faster one will be slower.

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-18 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/19/2010 04:03 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> --- On Tue, 6/15/10, Dale J. Chatham wrote: >> >> >>> On 06/15/2010 12:28 AM, Patrick >>> Bartek wrote: >>> [snip] >>> There was a similar problem 35 years ago with consumer >>> video re

Re: 32bit Vs 64bit OS

2010-06-18 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/19/2010 05:44 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 21:37 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: > > >> Its true that the 64 bit build of some apps can be slower than the 32 >> bit builds. However, its rarely more than a few percent. Hardly >> noticeable

Chinese input on a mixed 32/64 bit Fedora installation

2010-06-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, I just changed from 64 bit Firefox to 32 bit Firefox on my Fedora 13 machine, because of the recent Flash issues. Now, when I try to enter Chinese in a browser window I can't select the ibus input method. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this? Steve -- users mailing list users@l

Re: Chinese input on a mixed 32/64 bit Fedora installation

2010-06-19 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/19/2010 04:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I just changed from 64 bit Firefox to 32 bit Firefox on my Fedora 13 >> machine, because of the recent Flash issues. Now, when I try to enter >> Chinese in a browser window I can't select the ibus input method. Does >> anyone know if there is a way

Re: My laptop Speakers Doesn't Mute then i connect the headphones on FC13

2010-07-20 Thread Steve Underwood
On 07/21/2010 12:59 AM, JD wrote: >On 07/20/2010 08:29 AM, David A. Paredes Rios wrote: > >> With the command alsamixer -c 0 i get this options: >> Master --- PCM --- Mic -- Mic Boos --- Beep --- Dock --- Dock Mic >> Dock mic boost --- Internal mic --- Internal mic boost >> >> Nothin

Re: Upgrading i686 vs. x86_64. Just checking !

2010-02-27 Thread Steve Underwood
On 02/28/2010 12:31 AM, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I am using a *fc12.x86_64 machine. I just now upgraded several packages > with yum (yumex) and noticed several i686 packages being upgraded as > well. Is this normal? Are some packages I have using i686 when I > should have only *.86_64 on my

Re: CJK Extension B Chinese fonts for Firefox

2011-06-06 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/06/2011 09:11 PM, 张启德(Zhang Qide) wrote: > 2011/6/6 Piscium: >> The link below [1] points to a page that tests the display of Chinese >> characters. >> >> With Firefox on Fedora 14 I can display correctly Traditional Chinese, >> Simplified Chinese, and CJK Extension A characters, however of t

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/09/2011 01:05 AM, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 02:03 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: >> Back in the mid 70's I worked on a 1963 IBM 1130 in my high >> school in Guam, and it had core memory, and you could see the >> memory (all 4K of it), and had a little modual that you could plug i

Re: How to make gnome3 on F15 more convenient

2011-06-15 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/15/2011 10:43 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote: > On 06/15/2011 12:54 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> On 06/15/2011 08:30 AM, Abu Attar Musharih wrote: >>> One think I found convenient in the gnome on F14 is a panel where you >>> can put launcher packages. Whenever you need a package, it is only

Re: Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

2011-06-21 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/21/2011 12:53 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 10:44 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> There is a paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3 which I have not >> seen discussed on this list. >> >> Gnome2 is totally mouse oriented. Everything you want to do you do by >> moving the mouse and

Re: Gnome3 and Cursor Movements

2011-08-03 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/03/2011 08:56 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 21:21 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> I have finally got F15 installed after great tribulation with the 'Oh >> No' messages. Now that I have it installed, I find gnome3 difficult to >> use because of the time delay of the highl

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/30/2011 12:46 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/29/2011 03:36 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> Personally I'm now using XFCE. > As am I. I wonder how many people are walking away from Gnome because > they don't want to use a UI designed for a tablet on their desktop or > laptop? What makes you say

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/30/2011 08:24 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/29/2011 05:08 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: >> What makes you say its designed for tablets? Its design seems far less >> suitable for a tablet than a desktop. > The basic layout, the loss of the second panel and the dependence on >

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/31/2011 02:36 AM, Julius Smith wrote: > I disliked the decision to simplify things in GNOME 3, but on the > whole I find it more productive than GNOME 2. Things got better once I have FC15 on three machines with different hardware - different CPUs, different graphics hardware. As installed,

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-31 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/31/2011 09:02 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 12:36 -0600, Julius Smith wrote: >> using the mouse is slow, so we need to be able to define a shortcut >> for everything. > And how are you going to remember them all? Or have enough keys to give > everything a unique hotkey. > > I can on

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Underwood
On 07/24/2010 05:15 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:04 AM, g wrote: > >> Tim wrote: >> >> >> >>> The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them. Hint: Lisa. >>> >> 'apple lisa' is the system i was referencing to. >> > The concept of having

Re: Better Firefox fonts?

2010-08-31 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/31/2010 08:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/31/2010 08:49 PM, Tim wrote: >> Ed Greshko: >>> I wonder...is there a simply way to determine what fonts are being >>> used/displayed? I've never looked into it or thought much about it. >> By the way, about the thing I mentioned in my prior me

Re: Suspend "lid switch" & NetworkManager

2010-09-06 Thread Steve Underwood
On 09/04/2010 03:04 PM, dp wrote: > On 09/01/2010 04:36:06 PM, dp wrote: > I find that the following update causes suspend/resume to fail: > > >>> == > Updating: > NetworkManager i6861:

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-07 Thread Steve Underwood
On 02/07/2011 02:07 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Does anyone have mozplugger working for them for PDF files? Not sure > if I have something broken, or if its a mozplugger bug. Opening links > with PDF files downloads them as any other file, instead of being > opened with evince inside a Firefox

Re: How to fix no color in Firefox watching Youtube Video

2011-03-05 Thread Steve Underwood
On 03/06/2011 11:06 AM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > > > 2011/3/5 Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> > > On 03/05/2011 01:40 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: > > As probably the settings button is greyed, please visit this site > > http://www.youtube.com/swf_test.html > > My sister uses Ubuntu

Re: ***BULK*** Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Underwood
On 05/12/2011 09:10 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 18:54, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> Thus the question: is there a FOSS VoIP app that provides roughly the same >>> quality, reliability and free-as-in-beer service? >> I´

Re: Multifunction printer with Linux support?

2010-10-23 Thread Steve Underwood
On 10/24/2010 12:52 AM, JD wrote: >On 10/23/2010 09:31 AM, Mauriat Miranda wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Darlene Wallach >>wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Henrik Frisk wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > HI, > > min

A new Thinkpad X240 touchpad issue

2014-04-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, I just rebooted my Thinkpad X240 for the first time in a few weeks, and now clicking the touchpad doesn't behave properly. I assume a yum update since the last reboot has changed something, and not in a good way. If I click the edge of the pad I get the correct left/middle/right button ki

Re: flash plugin

2015-12-23 Thread Steve Underwood
On 12/23/2015 03:18 PM, Antonio M wrote: 11.2.202.554 version is installed but some pages say that on this page http://video.repubblica.it/sport/sci-cdm-drone-si-abbatte-in-pista-hirscher-sfiorato-durante-la-gara/223066/222316?ref=HRESS-1 I have a no more supported version!!! is anybody experi

Re: anyone successfully integrated an hdtv for monitor?

2016-08-29 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/30/2016 01:56 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:43:41 -0700 Jack Craig wrote: i can get 1368x768 but i want to crank up 1920x1080, but its overscanning, truncating the left * right ends... Sounds like you have a TV that is desperately trying to emulate an old CRT (which all d

Re: what broke chrome flash?

2012-11-04 Thread Steve Underwood
On 11/04/2012 08:50 PM, Neal Becker wrote: I discovered that flash isn't broken at all. The issue is html5 on youtube. I opted-out of html5 trial, now everything is fine. I see many reports of html5 problems on youtube, so I guess it isn't me. The HTML5 support on youtube was working OK until

Re: How to change the label of the hard disk

2013-01-29 Thread Steve Underwood
On 01/29/2013 06:09 AM, g wrote: On 01/28/2013 10:00 PM, Paul Smith wrote: <> Thanks, Mike and G, for your very useful suggestions. you are very welcome. my suggestion is from the old saying; give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lif

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-24 Thread Steve Underwood
On 12/24/2013 04:58 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300 Rolf Turner wrote: People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I (eventually

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-09 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/11/2024 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I've had a look at some LG 4K monitors with HDR10 and HDR 400, and it seems that with those to get all the features of the monitor available (presumably HDR, on screen mouse controlled configu

Publican

2024-09-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, I want to do some work with docbook, so I looked for tools in the Fedora repository. I found publican, installed it, tried following the instructions and I am getting nowhere. The documentation says I should add lines to .publican.cfg, but when I run the application it says it can't find

Re: 4k video fails after update

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Underwood
On 10/20/2014 10:17 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | I have a Seiki "4k" monitor that I'm using on my Fedora 20 system. I'm | using the nvidia proprietary driver with a Geforce GTX 650 video card. It | has been working well for a while. | After updates from the last

Re: Fedora 64 bits

2011-11-10 Thread Steve Underwood
On 11/10/2011 08:02 PM, Miguel Cardenas wrote: > Hello friends > > I just bought a notebook that comes with Win7 64bits, am going to > replace the system with linux but I have some doubts... > > Currently am downloading Fedora 16 (tried Fedora 15 in my old laptop > but prefer the latest fresh ver

Re: Which Fedora 16 for Levono 120e?

2011-12-05 Thread Steve Underwood
On 12/06/2011 05:36 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I recently ordered a Levono x120e ($397 from B&H) to replace my aged HP > nc2400. > > I got the unit with the AMD Fusion E-240 CPU and ordered an extra 2Gb > memory (total 4Gb). > > Which Fedora should I load on it? 32 or 64 bit? > > They do market

Re: Verify nouveau issue

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Underwood
On 12/27/2011 04:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I only have one system with nVidia display hardware. Currently running F16 and nouveau since I've not yet gotten the courage to install the nVidia drivers. :-) I'm looking for someone running F16 with the nVidia drivers and Google Earth. To verify the

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Steve Underwood
On 05/17/2012 11:15 PM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 08:24 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Hibernate and suspend are no longer necessary or helpful functions either (on machines sold today). I suspend on my Laptop, all the time. Quite apart from the speed issue, it's handy to be able to

Re: Debugging a system freeze?

2012-06-17 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/17/2012 04:42 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 17.06.2012, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: i7-3930K clocked at 4.2Ghz with 1.240 vcore (stable) I bet your problem lies here. Correct the overclocking to the parameters your CPU is designed for, and your problems will presumably be gone. I like the

Re: "hackers"

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Underwood
On 04/24/2013 02:02 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/23/2013 07:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the outside world has of this term, one step at a time? Sorry, but it's a tad late to lock up the barn when the horse is already been rendere

Re: 3840x2160 resolution?

2013-04-29 Thread Steve Underwood
On 04/30/2013 12:28 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Joe Wulf wrote: P.S. So, you are saying the $5,800.00 price tag is a tad on the high side? http://www.provantage.com/sharp-pn-k321~7SHRL04F.htm Sadly their 'specs' do not identify useful detai

Re: Anyone using Z87 chipset and Haswell cpu?

2013-06-17 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/17/2013 07:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: My motherboard just died and I figured I'd upgrade to latest and greatest, but it occurs to me that the Z87 is really new, so I just wondered if linux kernels know about it yet? I tried Fedora 18 on my Asus Z87K + Intel 4770 and got nowhere. It installe

skype and F35

2022-02-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, I ran a DNF update on my F35 XFCE desktop machine today. After a reboot I couldn't start any X11 programs, because the connection limit was exceeded. This seemed to be due to skype, although skype hasn't been updated for a while. I don't use it much, do I just removed it from the machine,

nvidia issue

2022-02-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, A few months ago the behaviour of my Fedora XCFE desktop changed when I leave it to idle. I have 2 screens attached to an nVidia GTX1050Ti card, and I use nVidia's own driver. As usual, after a period of idling the screensaver kicks in. This used to leave both screen turned on, but not d

Linux video camera UVC driver with multiple cameras

2022-03-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, The Linux UVC driver for USB video cameras names devices according to the product name it gets from the USB device itself. This is fine if you have different models of camera, as each gets a different name. However, if you have, say, 3 Logitech C920 cameras, the device list in video appli

Re: pipewire and wireplumber

2022-03-25 Thread Steve Underwood
On 25/03/2022 04:42, R. G. Newbury wrote: Geoffrey Leach wrote: Obviously we are guinea pigs for this premature piece of software. Could not agree more with the last sentence. To get audio recognized It works both ways. I have had long term problems with pulseaudio that disappeared when

Re: Installing cuda on Fedora 36

2022-06-27 Thread Steve Underwood
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 I hit problems multiple times with the driver version when there was a big update to the CUDA RPMs. I am now

Bluetooth LE (BTLE) GATT development for Fedora.

2023-03-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, Is anyone familiar with BTLE GATT programming for Fedora (or any other Linux)? I've done some Bluetooth classic programming for Fedora in the past, and that's very straightforward, using the standard Bluez library and header files installed by Fedora RPMs. Now I am trying to do GATT appli

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

2023-06-06 Thread Steve Underwood
On 02/06/2023 23:54, John Pilkington wrote: On 02/06/2023 21:49, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 5/31/23 15:47, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 20:21, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 18:39, home user wrote: On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Barry Scott wrote: When there's a new kernel I

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

2023-06-07 Thread Steve Underwood
On 06/06/2023 19:06, John Pilkington wrote: I don't see a need to mix repos.  My 470xx packages, including cuda, come from rpmfusion.  But I don't knowingly use cuda. RPMfusion provides nVidia drivers which include CUDA support. However, if you need the full CUDA development environment you ne

Wireshark and serial ports

2023-08-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, Has anyone used wireshark while using USB serial ports with Fedora 37? As soon as I start wireshark the communication on my serial ports breaks. Thinking this might be something to do with wireshark scanning for available interfaces, I tried starting wireshark with "wireshark -i enp3c0",

Re: ch341-uart - ttyUSBx disconnecting???

2023-11-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Jeffrey, I have a CH341 UART connected to this machine (Fedora 37 x86_64). Its stable, and has never caused me any real problems. However, my log looks slightly different. I get this: Nov 29 13:43:34 haswell kernel: usb 1-4: new full-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd Nov 29 13:43:

Erratic startup of sound with F33

2021-03-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, Since I upgraded my desktop machine from F32 to F33 a couple of weeks ago I have been having problems with my sound devices. I never had any trouble before the upgrade. Every time I start my machine I can see all the sound devices in /dev, and I used use them OK by connecting directly to

pipewire testing

2021-03-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, By following the information at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire pipewire is working OK for pulseaudio applications on my Fedora 33 machine. However, when I follow the instruction to install the pipewire-libjack RPM, dnf tries to reinstall some of the pulseaudio pack

Re: pulseaudio -> pipewire

2021-05-29 Thread Steve Underwood
On 26/05/2021 09:15, Frank Elsner via users wrote: Hi, I'm a podcaster and therefore I need a functional audio environment. Currently I use pulseaudio on a Fedora 33 system. Works for me. Will this also work if I upgrade to Fedora 34? Is there an equivalent to pavucontrol? I need it to adjust

Re: pulseaudio -> pipewire

2021-05-29 Thread Steve Underwood
On 29/05/2021 15:31, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 11:00, Steve Underwood <mailto:coppic...@gmail.com>> wrote: > [...] When I upgraded from F32 to F33 pulseaudio changed from something with a few quirks, to something very troublesome. The main

pavucontrol and 5.1 audio.

2021-06-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, I've just started using 5.1 audio on a Fedora 33 machine for the first time, and I have an issue with pavucontrol. I have pipewire installed on this machine. If I select the "Output Devices" tab, and unlock the volume control for the 5.1 audio device, I see 6 controls, with these labels:

Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Steve Underwood
I just bought a new SSD, installed Fedora 41 on it to occupy the whole disk, and it wouldn't boot. I tried Debian 12 and again it wouldn't boot. I then tried Debian 11 and all was well. Afterwards I checked and the Fedora 41 and Debian 12 installers are not setting the boot flag in the MBR. Is

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-02-25 Thread Steve Underwood
On 22/01/2025 21:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM Steve Underwood wrote: I just bought a new SSD, installed Fedora 41 on it to occupy the whole disk, and it wouldn't boot. I tried Debian 12 and again it wouldn't boot. I then tried Debian 11 and all was well.