Re: Persistence of Grub2 menu overrides

2022-01-31 Thread greg
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 8:50 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > > I haven't noticed this one either... I noticed this change. It turns out that /etc/default/grub - contains default kernel options /boot/grub2/grubenv - has the entry saved_entry= which refers to /boot/loader/entries/.conf which contains kern

Re: Dock & window switching issues in Fedora 35

2022-01-31 Thread greg
#x27;t find a weather extension for gnome anymore. The one I > used to use was called "OpenWeather," I think. Is there a substitute? - Super/Windows Key and type weather -> open weather app greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.f

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-24 Thread greg
f35.orig and later restore it as in dconf load / < root.dconf.dump.f35.orig greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.o

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-25 Thread greg
whole computer. If a person uses sudo or > "su -" to modify a setting, quite often they'll end up modifying the > root user's configuration, not the system. > I am not sure if there are readers on this list for these obvious things. Reg

Re: Boot hang after grub menu

2022-02-27 Thread greg
off and retry with power on, perhaps more than once. Starting with the kernel 5.16.9-200.fc35.x86_64 the system boots, for the time being at least. greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lis

Re: suspend on lid closed doesn't work

2022-03-21 Thread greg
rv-nvidia-power-510.47.03-1.fc35.x86_64 greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-cond

Re: Firefox - how to lose top bar / title bar - ?

2022-08-13 Thread Greg
Hi L, Right click the menu/toolbar, select Customize Toolbar and the Title Bar setting is in the lower left corner. Kind regards from Greg. On 13/8/22 17:35, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. How to lose title bar in current version of Firefox. I have my user whose Firefox "profi

Re: Firefox - how to lose top bar / title bar - ?

2022-08-13 Thread Greg
Sorry I am not sure why the option is missing. Can you right click the title bar, under more options and select no border? Kind regards from Greg. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le

Re: Nouveau Blacklisting not in /etc/default/grub

2022-11-01 Thread greg
is documented at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefault greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.or

Re: Moving to a new GPU

2022-11-09 Thread greg
15 or the AMD card depending on the application that is AMD Dynamic Switchable Graphics, I would suggest looking at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME#Gnome_integration https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ATI https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU greg ___

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-21 Thread greg
mesa-va-drivers-freeworld For full instructions, please, see https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: Bash initialization

2024-12-09 Thread greg
ment variables are inherited from the parent process and need not be set here. ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile) gets executed by login shell/at session start-up Therefore setting environment variables belongs here. Also ~/.bashrc needs to be executed here in case the

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-13 Thread greg
y adding/removing blanks where deemed appropriate. (The same is done by TeX/LaTeX when processing the .tex files.) greg -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-13 Thread greg
l by adding/removing blanks where deemed appropriate. (The same is done by TeX/LaTeX when processing the .tex files.) greg -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: OT: videos in Quora

2025-01-04 Thread greg
t > doesn't seem to do it. The following worked for me: Settings>Privacy & Security> Cookies and Site Data Manage Data Search for quora.com click on the line found click on button click on button quit the browser Next time when connecting to the quora.com site with Firef

Re: OT: videos in Quora

2025-01-04 Thread greg
nsions that I normally use When figuring this out, firefox --safe-mode --new-instance was handy. The www.quora.com videos also work for me with Chromium (coming from Fedora 40), which has no extensions installed. greg -- ___ users mailing list -- user

Re: OT: videos in Quora

2025-01-04 Thread greg
On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2025-01-04 at 20:57 +0100, greg wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > > > > > > The only difference is that when I connected to Quora.com

Re: I need PDF editor recommendations

2025-02-11 Thread greg
7;s. > > > > I think I heard about it through a Moziila newsletter: > > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/pdf-editor/ > -- It works for me on Fedora 40 with Firefox 134.0.1 (64-bit). Thank you very much for the info. greg -- __

Re: unusual networking question - have DHCP assign the same IP to a computer, regardless of which ethernet port is used

2018-01-31 Thread Greg Woods
t-name "oddbox"; } host oddbox2 { hardware ethernet 00:24:21:9A:6F:6C; fixed-address 192.168.1.12; option host-name "oddbox"; } Two separate entries with differe

Re: Kernel installed in wrong location

2018-03-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:54 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > Fedora 27 x86_64. When DNF installs a new kernel, it isn't going into > the right place (/boot) Just a wild-ass guess here, but how much free space do you have in the partition that contains /bo

Re: Where do I find this srpm?

2018-03-20 Thread Greg Woods
ng work, but I have been able to copy books on and off the device using Calibre. --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: printer and Fedora support.

2018-04-24 Thread Greg Woods
hat the photos printed from a Windows 10 system look identical to those from my Fedora system. --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Windows boot trashes grub

2018-05-03 Thread Greg Woods
Fedora to get the system back to dual boot. It has now happened again and I would like to avoid having to reinstall to recover. I would, of course, also like to prevent this from happening in the first place. The systems are both using EFI boot, without secureboot. Thanks for any insigh

Re: Make a systemd user service go away?

2018-05-11 Thread Greg Woods
rom the auto-start-at-boot list, it doesn't prevent some other application from starting it. To be SURE a service cannot be started, mask it. --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 28 Upgrade Still Boots Fedora 27 Kernel

2018-05-30 Thread Greg Woods
I have been burned by this before: check in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf to make sure you are not excluding kernel packages from being updated. That exclusion would prevent an update even across a system-upgrade. --Greg On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:54 PM David Dembrow wrote: > I am going through

Re: EFI

2018-07-19 Thread Greg Woods
went straight to the Windows boot manager without ever showing the GRUB screen. It was a royal pain. I have since learned more about how EFI boot works so that I might now be able to recover from this situation, but at the time, it required a complete reinstall of Fedora to get around the issue. --Greg

Re: EFI

2018-07-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 1:16 PM Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/19/2018 10:38 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > what happened to me was, after the first time I booted > > Windows 10 after installing Fedora, I could no longer boot Linux > > I expect that was Microsoft forcing the EFI "

Re: Slow performance when overwriting disk file (was Re: Slow performance when redirecting stdout to an existing disk file)

2018-09-28 Thread Greg Woods
: > > > > real 0m0.082s > > user 0m0.000s > > sys 0m0.081s > > CPU % 99.77 > > When an existing file is truncated, which the shell does when you use stdout redirection, all the blocks that were in it have to be moved to the file system's free block list. Exactly w

number of lines on console

2024-06-06 Thread Greg Woods
ial ones to see. Once the machine is booted, of course, then I can log in and use tools such as "stty" to set the number of rows and cure this problem, but I need something that will take effect during system startup before the login prompt com

Re: number of lines on console

2024-06-06 Thread Greg Woods
pecific values to try. Once the current system-upgrade that is in progress finishes, I'll try the ones you list here. --Greg -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: number of lines on console

2024-06-06 Thread Greg Woods
must be a solution to this somewhere but I have already spent enough time on it. I was just hoping to learn a little something about the boot process. --Greg -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: number of lines on console

2024-06-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 7:06 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/6/24 5:00 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > I hve kernel command line parameters > (vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun32.psfu.gz > > SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun32.psfu.gz) that make the booting text larger so > > I can read it, a

Re: number of lines on console

2024-06-06 Thread Greg Woods
27;m retired I haven't kept up with everything as well as I used to. So I have to admit that now, I don't even know how to do that. Something else I need to learn. --Greg -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Removing shutdown menu item

2010-05-12 Thread Greg Woods
I have been curious about this too, but I could not figure out how to find gconf-editor. --Greg -- 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

Re: Burning DVD Videos

2010-05-20 Thread Greg Woods
swallow. By far and away the most difficult home project I have ever done. Is it worth it? Yes, definitely. But only if you are going to use the DVR functionality it offers. Using MythTV just as a media player is definitely overkill. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: F13: Do not mount CD/DVD when inserted into drive

2010-05-27 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 21:12 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote: > a CD or DVD gets automatically mounted > when inserted into the cd/DVD drive. > Where can I disable this behavier? System -> Preferences -> File Management -> Media --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Re: F13: Do not mount CD/DVD when inserted into drive

2010-05-27 Thread Greg Woods
s mount themselves interferes with MythTV's ability to play them). That machine is still running F10 so I confess I haven't tried this on more recent Fedoras. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 10:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > we shouldn't forget the old concept of DWIM, > meaning Do What I Mean I prefer the more advanced DWISM (Do What I Should've Meant :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Fedora as Xen/CentOS guest?

2010-06-03 Thread Greg Woods
e here has successfully done this. --Greg -- 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

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
e to create free space, but this is a nontrivial exercise. What I usually do is create the new OS as a virtual machine. When I am satisfied that everything works, then I can do an in-place upgrade of my main OS. Works for me. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
age to get padsp. Padsp is intended for old apps that are not compatible with pulseaudio. It intercepts the calls to the old sound driver and sends them to pulseaudio. It is used like this: $ padsp /path/to/skype --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: F13 new install: Nothing on X screen

2010-06-11 Thread Greg Woods
y creating a new account and logging into it to see if the same problem occurs. If not, then there is some incompatibility in your settings. I have had this happen. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: F13 new install: Nothing on X screen

2010-06-11 Thread Greg Woods
for GNOME and everything else. I have seen some cases where an account that was configured for an older version would not work properly (icons or menus were missing, etc.) but a fresh account with default settings worked fine. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Mounting KVM image

2010-06-12 Thread Greg Woods
ose? The LVM scanning commands don't find it even after I run losetup. --Greg -- 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

Re: Mounting KVM image

2010-06-12 Thread Greg Woods
x /dev/loop0p2 20884510233404 5012280 8e Linux LVM I can lomount partition 1 and it is /boot. There aren't any such devices as /dev/loop0p1 and /dev/loop0p2, so I presume this is just something about how fdisk displays it. -- --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: yum-complete-transaction wants to remove 159 packages

2010-06-12 Thread Greg Woods
tincts are good. I trashed my F12 laptop this way because I wasn't paying attention and let it run. I ended up having to do a fresh install of F13 and redoing all my local mods, it was a royal pain. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: Mounting KVM image

2010-06-12 Thread Greg Woods
et). Even better, if we eventually do make the move from Xen to KVM, the same techniques should still work. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http:/

Re: Mounting KVM image

2010-06-12 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 19:11 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Greg, I'd be really interested to talk to you (offline if you like) > about whether libguestfs could meet your needs here. Possibly it could, but it is not an available package on CentOS. I am trying to do this with avai

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

2010-06-14 Thread Greg Woods
rn their attention to Linux, particularly if they know that Linux users do not have an update path and are therefore likely to remain vulnerable. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject

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

2010-06-15 Thread Greg Woods
e vulnerable. The bad guys know this. The fact that Windows is also vulnerable until patched (possibly even more vulnerable) does not change this. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listi

Re: Hibernate and resume

2010-06-16 Thread Greg Woods
to do things like re-establish my IPSEC tunnel on resume, etc. --Greg -- 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

Re: problem booting windows on a flash stick via qemu

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Woods
cally fixing everything on a Windows system if you try to boot the same image with different hardware (virtual or physical). --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: redirecting out of a command invoked by sudo fails

2010-06-25 Thread Greg Woods
pend b to a, but what actually happens is that the redirection truncates a first, and you wind up with a copy of b in a and the original contents of a are lost (do not ask how I learned this; the answer is "the hard way" )-: $ cat b >> a is the right way to do that. In both of the

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-25 Thread Greg Woods
or this both at work and at home; it catches 10 times more spams than our SpamAssassin-based content filters do. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http:

Re: redirecting out of a command invoked by sudo fails

2010-06-25 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 14:56 -0700, JD wrote: > > > As I have already answered, let'ts not beat a dead horse. > Issue already very well explained by Bill Crawford. > No need for any followups. No need to be so touchy. Sometimes messages cross in the mail. --Greg --

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-25 Thread Greg Woods
r more > information"')dnl > Yes, that is a DNS Block List (DNSBL). So is Spamhaus. There are a lot of them out there. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-26 Thread Greg Woods
tax. However, since others have provided examples of using DNS block lists in sendmail in this thread, I am sure it is possible. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guideli

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-26 Thread Greg Woods
home where it is only my wife and me, the stats show that the SpamHaus SBL-XBL catches 90% of the spam before it ever reaches SpamAssassin, and without incurring the overhead of scanning it. And I have never had a docmented case of false positive attributable to our use of SpamHaus DNSBLs. For me, it

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-26 Thread Greg Woods
), but that said, I do get a lot of complaints about delays caused by greylisting, so this should be borne in mind. Most people shut up when I offer to turn if off for them so they can instantly receive all their spam :-) --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-26 Thread Greg Woods
g it shouldn't be used, in fact quite the opposite. I *am* saying that someone looking to implement greylisting should be aware that it will cause some legitimate mail to be delayed. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Locking Network printer to 12.168.1.99

2010-07-03 Thread Greg Woods
address of the printer to be assigned a static IP address, in the router's DHCP configuration. Consult the manual that came with your router or Google for it. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Greg Woods
lly counts, so if you want to make a serious argument about it, that's where it should be directed. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorap

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Greg Woods
s, and I can be fairly sure that they won't be too receptive to someone who comes in and acts like he knows more about running lists than they do. Stating an opinion is one thing, doing it in a way that belittles anyone who doesn't agree is another. --Greg -- users mailing list users@l

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Greg Woods
mailing list that has been around for longer than a month. Read the thread on this mailing list of which this message is a part. The evidence is easy to find. You may have the last word, I am done with this thread since it no longer (if it ever did) has anything to do with the topic of this mailin

Re: I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Greg Woods
one else ? It takes a while to load, but I have no problem loading that document with evince (known to Firefox as "Document Viewer") under F12. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 20:58 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > My /var/log/messages > > What can I do to do a daily clearout? man logrotate -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guide

Re: A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread Greg Woods
..in order to boot off sda2. --Greg -- 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

Re: how to uninstall preload?

2010-07-20 Thread Greg Woods
, many things you wanted to keep could be gone before you realized what was happening. That is why -y is dangerous. --Greg -- 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

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-11 Thread Greg Woods
). Conversely, the KVM hypervisor is part of mainline already, even though (in my experience) it is not nearly as robust as Xen. But KVM is a much less intrusive set of patches so it was much easier to get it merged. --Greg --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Greg Woods
http://www.schneier.com/pptp.html --Greg -- 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

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Greg Woods
ide that setting up PPTP would be a great thing to do --Greg -- 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

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-15 Thread Greg Woods
t (of which the premise for Godwin's Law is only one) and that has clearly already happened here. The discussion is now about the people involved instead of the original subject; that was really the point of Godwin's Law. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Hibernate and OpenVPN

2010-03-22 Thread Greg Woods
dows on wakeup. Related to the original topic, I use an ipsec-tools style VPN, and it recovers automatically on wakeup. It was a pain to get configured and working to start with, but once in place, it is virtually automatic using certificates to authenticate. --Greg -- users mail

Re: Hibernate and OpenVPN

2010-03-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 21:43 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Greg Woods wrote: > > > Related to the original topic, I use an ipsec-tools style VPN, and it > > recovers automatically on wakeup. > > I'm not sure what this means. > What did you do, exactly? To fully

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-23 Thread Greg Woods
mal account on the new OS. These days, I have had very good luck with just doing an in-place upgrade, so that's what I usually do now. That worked with no issues when I went from F10 to F11, and again to go from F11 to F12. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-23 Thread Greg Woods
n upgrade from there. I never ran into the "/boot too small" issue. --Greg -- 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

Re: Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED]

2010-04-08 Thread Greg Woods
ready for prime time, although others have reported success with it. YMMV. --Greg -- 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

Re: Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED]

2010-04-09 Thread Greg Woods
em with VMware which, along with the $300 price tag for VMware Workstation, was the reason for switching to VirtualBox in the first place. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/l

Re: Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED]

2010-04-09 Thread Greg Woods
y situations, so I use Xen to run production VM servers. --Greg -- 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

Re: /dev/dsp

2010-04-12 Thread Greg Woods
ectly, but that is no longer supported. "padsp" is a way to run old OSS applications under PulseAudio. It has worked for me for some old Loki games that I still like to play now and then. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-04-21 Thread Greg Woods
n my experience. But in the end, it's always "use whatever works for you". --Greg -- 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

Re: [OT] Deafening silence (Evolution comments)

2010-04-22 Thread Greg Woods
ses. However, I doubt if this is an Evolution bug, it is more likely a bug in gpilotd or lower level pilot-link stuff, which means any other high level user interface program that uses the same lower level backing software will probably exhibit the same thing. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists

Re: seeking resolution to Network Device difficulties

2010-05-06 Thread Greg Woods
are using NetworkManager, then I believe you can (and should) configure the IP address through that. 2) Configure the DHCP server to assign a specific address to your specific MAC address. You will need to consult the manual for your router for information on how to do that. --Greg -- users ma

Re: terminal colour

2010-05-09 Thread Greg Woods
can have a different background color for each system I log in to. That's an option that works for me. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Fedora 15 Network Printer Problems

2011-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
ution only works for HP printers and I confess that I have not tried it on F15, but it has worked for me in the past. --Greg -- 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

Re: btrfs to be standard fs for Fedora 16?

2011-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
of service (but I found out the hard way that snapshots only work if you have some free space left in the volume group; if you have --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: Fedora 15 Network Printer Problems

2011-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 14:56 -0400, Bill wrote: > Greg, I had hplip installed, and when I tried the setup command the > system replied that I needed to install hplip-gui. That is definitely not what happened when I did it. Try logging in to a text console where there is no display, and

Re: Fedora 15 Network Printer Problems

2011-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
;t listening to CUPS broadcasts, then you might also have to add the printer on the client laptop. --Greg -- 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

Re: How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

2011-06-16 Thread Greg Woods
e sure that you check TLS encryption. --Greg -- 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

Re: Suspend Issues or Soft Kernel Locks and no wireless; which is worse?

2011-08-10 Thread Greg Woods
t to make sure we check the obvious and the stupid first: I also thought suspend was not working on my laptop, but I now find that if I press CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to the main console after opening the lid, the password prompt screen appears, at which point I can type my password and the desktop

Atheros AR9285 wireless & F15

2011-09-04 Thread Greg Woods
this would work if I installed F14 instead of F15? Obviously, without wireless, the laptop is a $600 paperweight. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidel

Re: Atheros AR9285 wireless & F15

2011-09-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 12:26 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I cannot get wireless to work on my new Sony VAIO VPCEG laptop. It has > the ar9285 chip in it. After screwing around with this for a day, I finally figured out what is going on. For some reason, it was also loading the acer_wmi mod

Evolution: get rid of Junk buttons?

2010-08-14 Thread Greg Woods
which folder it would have gone back to, go back to that folderk, THEN finally delete it. It is a colossal pain and I would just like to remove the button that causes nothing but grief (for me). --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: Evolution: get rid of Junk buttons?

2010-08-15 Thread Greg Woods
my desktop systems, it should be no problem just changing it system wide. Thanks for the help! --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http:/

Re: touchpad issue

2010-08-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 12:14 -0400, PaulCartwright wrote: > I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic > touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP > the pad to make it do the same as a left-double-click. I can't figure > out how to make it do that

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote: > Please, stop the noise! > I am sure there are people who will be tryinf this for themselves > and see that it is the case. There is a problem with system-config-services. > Enough from you. > If this is how you are going to treat people who try to h

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
f a way to restore the old behavior, I'd love to hear about it. --Greg -- 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

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:36 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > Grub is a general purpose boot loader. It does not know how to check > if there is an OS hibernating. I should also add that if the BIOS > supports it, and Linux know how to use it, it will resume directly > from disk without Grub ever entering th

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
g as they each have their own separate swap partition. --Greg -- 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

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
e time and I know better than to leave editor sessions with critical files half-edited when hibernating, and so forth, so if a hibernated image is lost, or if the system fails to resume from suspend properly (which occasionally happens), all I lose is some time in having to log back in, fire up al

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