ndiswrapper

FC14 missing ndiswrapper. Should I try old b43 kernel mod? Lee -- 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: what just happened (time went backwards?)

"Lars E. Pettersson" writes: > The syslog daemon writes whatever systemd sends to it. On one of my > systems systemd decided to send the whole systemd journal to the > syslog daemon, by doing so starting to write log lines from last year > in my /var/log/messages. What is the purpose of this log

Re: what just happened (time went backwards?)

"Lars E. Pettersson" writes: > On 02/26/14 19:23, lee wrote: >> What is the purpose of this log duplication? When systemd has its own >> logs, it doesn´t seem necessary to duplicate them by sending their >> contents to syslogd. > > One could also ask why sy

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

Dan Mossor writes: > When the DVD is built, I pull the updates across the local network to > my machine and build the DVD there. These <4GiB transfers sometimes > take close to 3 to 4 hours using NFS, and it is a Gigabit > network. Have you checked the bandwidth usage during these transfers? Th

Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

"eoconno...@gmail.com" writes: > What's the best way to avoid/prevent this from happening?... > > - Reply message - > From: "Mark Haney" > To: > Subject: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt? > Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2014 11:59 am > > > > > On 03/03/14 11:42, Dan Thurman wrote: >> >> It loo

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

"Patrick O'Callaghan" writes: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, lee wrote: >> As to NFS, I have had bad experiences with it, like network cards >> freezing up and computers being halted because NFS failed for unknown >> reasons. I never got it to work re

Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" writes: > lee writes: >> Could someone please explain why/how this may be considered as an attack >> or at least as something bad? Someone requesting an URL from a web >> server that doesn´t serve this URL --- or doesn´t serve the specifie

overview of fonts in Fedora

Hi, is there some sort of overview of all the fonts that are included in Fedora? There are quite a few, most of them not installed, with unknown looks. It would be nice to see screenshots to get an idea about what all these mysterious fonts look like. -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users

Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

Tim writes: > Allegedly, on or about 05 March 2014, lee sent: >> Could someone please explain why/how this may be considered as an >> attack or at least as something bad? > > Have a look at the log line that the original poster sent: > > 185.4.227.194 - - [03/Ma

Re: Can't install ƒ20

"Frode, maillister" writes: > The designers/developers have apparently decided to prioritize ease of > use at the expense of some of the "advanced" features, thinking that > those who do things differently know how to do it. They have managed to create an installer for Fedora that cannot be used

Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

Tom Rivers writes: > On 3/5/2014 10:45, Tom Rivers wrote: >> Now that I had successfully simulated the attack signature in the >> log file of the proxy web server, I logged into the target web >> server and looked at its access log. Thankfully I found no log of >> any activity from my XXX.XXX.XX

Re: Gnome is sometimes blurred

antonio writes: > Sometimes when I start my laptop (with Intel card) Gnome doesn't start > as it should, icons are in the wrong position (I mean that the top > panel is sitting on the right and I get the wheel on the bottom left > angle of the screen). > Any idea?? should I file a bug against Gno

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

Ian Malone writes: > On 5 March 2014 13:21, lee wrote: >> "Patrick O'Callaghan" writes: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, lee wrote: >>>> As to NFS, I have had bad experiences with it, like network cards >>>> freezi

Re: man command question

Joachim Backes writes: > Hi all, > > I'm running F20 on gnome3 desktop, > and I see some weird effect in the man command (entered in a gnome > terminal) if using the "-P" command option: > > man -P cat man >/dev/null > > should use the cat command as pager. I get the expected effect, but one > or

Re: /var/log/messages

"Patrick Dupre" writes: > Hello, > > I have a /var/log/messages file of size: 74197292 > Is it resonable? That depends on what´s in it. Under some circumstances, there can be quite a bit of logging going on. Logrotate is supposed to deal with it and might not have a chance to when your compute

Re: /var/log/messages

"Patrick Dupre" writes: > OK, > > I run fine, > Thus I deleted some big files. > > recover some room on the / > /dev/sdb6                          6192704  5216872    661260  89% / > > but then again: > /dev/sdb6                          6192704  5532276    345856  95% / > > I guess that it is th

Re: Fedora 19 problem

Roger writes: > Hi all. > Last night Fedora 19 updated 189 files, akmod and kernel among them. > Now Fedora boot stops, I think because the kernel-devel file is faulty > and nvidia cannot compile, or maybe partially compiled. > I have tried reverting to earlier kernels and down loading the devel

Re: Bluetooth mouse won't connect

"Patrick O'Callaghan" writes: > This is a new install of F20, with all updates applied, using KDE. The > machine has an Nvidia G630 graphics card and a Bluetooth USB dongle. > > Running the default Nouveau video driver, I was able to connect my > Sondstrom Bluetooth mouse with no trouble. I then

Re: Bluetooth mouse won't connect

Patrick O'Callaghan writes: > On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 14:42 +0100, lee wrote: >> "Patrick O'Callaghan" writes: >> >> > This is a new install of F20, with all updates applied, using KDE. The >> > machine has an Nvidia G630 graphics card and

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

Matthew Miller writes: > Because it grew rather long, I think it works best as a web article, which > you can find on Fedora Magazine at . > Because really, even though many people think the base OS is now > boring, it’s far from done, and there is a lot of in

Re: no default mta [was Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)]

Matthew Miller writes: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:55:56AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Unlike others, however, I find the new system logging and analysis tools >> cumbersome and painful to use. Having a program send an email to me if >> it encounters issues is FAR superior to me having to plow

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Joe Zeff writes: > to say, designed for "Windows refugees." Fedora, OTOH, is a much more > geeky distro designed as a test bed for new ideas, programs and > technologies that's not for people who don't like to tinker with > things or who aren't willing to accept that not everything in their > di

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Liam Proven writes: > On 21 March 2014 23:25, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Ahh, so when hyperbole simply isn't going far enough we actually >> have to descend into the obviously ridiculous, as in, worthy of >> ridicule. My house plant can do a Fedora install with this >> installer. That you keep faili

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

Matthew Miller writes: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:19:05PM +0100, lee wrote: >> > Because really, even though many people think the base OS is now >> > boring, it’s far from done, and there is a lot of innovation going on >> > at that level as well. >&

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

"Powell, Michael" writes: > Absolute ease of use is what they're going for and the easiest way to > achieve that is to reduce the amount of information a user has to > process. Then they need to turn around at once! Leaving users in the dark about what`s going on makes things more difficult for

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Ed Greshko writes: > 4. Booted into Ubuntu and used parted to create dummy unused partitions. > 5. Then did the F20 installation and selected dummy partitions for > reclamation and the installation completed. Creating the partitions otherwise does make a difference. With the F19 installer, i

Re: minimal install [was Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)]

Matthew Miller writes: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 05:38:48PM +0100, lee wrote: >> >> What do you consider as "base OS"? >> > It's somewhat nebulous, but, as a general working definition, the system >> > stuff below the applications layer.

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Timothy Murphy writes: > One of the weaknesses of Fedora, in my view, > is the apparent lack of interest in what users actually want or need. +1 > For example, what proportion of users choose KDE or Gnome, > or some other Desktop Environment? > Does anybody know? > Suppose it turned out that fa

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Bill Oliver writes: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Tim wrote: >> >>[snip] >> But all this is pure speculation. >> One of the weaknesses of Fedora, in my view, >> is the apparent lack of interest in what users actually want or need. >> >>[snip] > > > I don't think it's a total l

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

Ian Malone writes: > On 21 March 2014 15:19, lee wrote: >> One thing Fedora shines with (so far) is reliability, and reliability is >> one of the requirements I have. I have been using Debian for almost >> twenty years until they messed up badly with their brokenarch. Doi

Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

Tom Horsley writes: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:35:20 +0100 > lee wrote: > >> > One of the weaknesses of Fedora, in my view, >> > is the apparent lack of interest in what users actually want or need. >> >> +1 > > The distro that actually seems to car

Re: Booting with external HD missing - WAS:Booting into emergency mode - Help! -SOLVED

Arthur Dent writes: > On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 16:20 +0100, Patrick Laimbock wrote: >> On 23-03-14 16:08, Arthur Dent wrote: >> [snip] >> > Sorry for the noise. I guess I should open another thread, but does >> > anyone know how to auto-mount an external HD ONLY if it's present? >> >> Have a look a

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

Tom Horsley writes: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:15:03 +0100 > lee wrote: > >> Think of fvwm: You may think it`s a "minimalistic" window manager. It >> is not, it`s actually the most powerful and most versatile WM I have >> ever seen, and it`s easy to configur

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Bill Oliver writes: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, lee wrote: > >>[snip] >> If she had known that she didn`t need to throw in this or that, wouldn`t >> that be easier for everyone? >> >> > > Not necessarily. Sometimes neither that absent-minded aunt nor

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

"Powell, Michael" writes: >> Then they need to turn around at once! Leaving users in the dark about >> what`s going on makes things more difficult for them. Taking away choices >> limits the use of the software to the point where it eventually becomes >> unusable. >> >> Good design, clarity, g

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

Joe Zeff writes: > On 03/23/2014 12:08 PM, lee wrote: >> compitz maybe? > > Close: compiz. I use it with Xfce because I enjoy watching the eye > candy. There`s nothing wrong with it when you like the eye candy. It`s good to have choices :) > And, I use it (also with

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Liam Proven writes: > On 22 March 2014 17:23, lee wrote: >> Let`s say you install to a software RAID-1 --- which is minimum >> requirement for anything to put data on --- made from two disks, with >> encrypted partitions (as usual /, /usr, /home, /tmp, /var, /usr/local, &g

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

Joe Zeff writes: > On 03/23/2014 12:34 PM, lee wrote: >> I`m somewhat surprised that the feeling of apparent desinterest of the >> makers of Fedora in what its users think seems kinda widespread under >> its users. Perhaps it`s a wrong impression; if not, it may be somethi

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

Ian Malone writes: > On 23 March 2014 19:08, lee wrote: >> Tom Horsley writes: >> >>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:15:03 +0100 >>> lee wrote: >> Now someone tell me how I get virtual desktops with gnome or kde to >> which I can switch by just moving the

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

Ian Malone writes: > There is no-one on the planet who thinks emacs is minimalistic I`m not so sure about that. There are even ppl who have never heard about emacs, and if they`d see it, they might very well think it is. > With this and all your other examples you are talking about individual

Re: Booting with external HD missing - WAS:Booting into emergency mode - Help! -SOLVED

charm. > > It's not the extra "," ; having a "," at the end of the mount options in > fstab doesn't have any effect i.e. mounting the device works. > > The error "mount: /mnt/Backup: mount failed: Invalid argument" is due to > the device not be

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

Ian Malone writes: > On 23 March 2014 23:08, lee wrote: >> Ian Malone writes: >> >>> There is no-one on the planet who thinks emacs is minimalistic >> >> I`m not so sure about that. There are even ppl who have never heard >> about emacs, and if they`

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Suvayu Ali writes: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:56:13PM +0100, lee wrote: >> >> There`s nothing weird or exotic about it. I`ve always had /usr on its >> own partition until the F17 installer refused that, which it shouldn`t >> have. > > I'm sorry but

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

Matthew Miller writes: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 08:34:55PM +0100, lee wrote: >> I`m somewhat surprised that the feeling of apparent desinterest of the >> makers of Fedora in what its users think seems kinda widespread under >> its users. Perhaps it`s a wrong impressi

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Bill Oliver writes: >>> Much of what we consider very important today was considered stupid >>> when it first came out. >> >> Like? >> > > Well, the automobile, aircraft, and personal computer immediately come > to mind. Those are good examples. Yet nobody would take away your horse and cart ju

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Chris Murphy writes: > On Mar 24, 2014, at 6:45 AM, lee wrote: >> >> /usr belongs on it`s own partition. > > As if no one has ever said that before, and as if it convinced even one > thinking person to change their mind. Thinking persons do not need to change thei

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

Chris Murphy writes: >> Partitioning took me about three hours with the installer of F19, with a >> very simple setup and not even data to preserve and neither RAID, nor >> encryption, and it was only possible after I created the partitions >> outside the installer. There was no way to do it wit

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

"Powell, Michael" writes: >> It doesn`t give you choices. It leaves you in the dark about that it is >> somehow >> possible to use an non-gui installer and to do a minimal install. It leaves >> you >> in the dark about what exactly happens when you do the partitioning and >> with trying to fi

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Michael Cronenworth writes: > Chris Murphy wrote: >>> Nowadays you may have SSDs which supposedly last longer when not written >>> >much to but mostly read from, so you might put the partitions that can >>> >be read-only on the SSDs and use magnetic disks for things like /var, >>> >/tmp, /home an

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Liam Proven writes: >> Having been able to have /usr on a separate partition was a valuable >> feature, which now has gone lost. IMNSHO, ruined by naive, inexperienced >> kids (to use the same tone as you did), who were overwhelmed by the >> additional complexity supporting this feature had requi

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Liam Proven writes: > On 24 March 2014 12:45, lee wrote: >> /usr belongs on it`s own partition. And last time I looked, it would >> not be compliant with the FHS not to have what is needed in /bin and >> /sbin but to use symlinks instead. > > > I think that'

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Chris Murphy writes: > On Mar 23, 2014, at 3:56 PM, lee wrote: >> >> There`s nothing weird or exotic about it. I`ve always had /usr on its >> own partition until the F17 installer refused that, which it shouldn`t >> have. > > Old news. > > https://

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

Liam Proven writes: > On 23 March 2014 21:56, lee wrote: >> There`s nothing weird or exotic about it. I`ve always had /usr on its >> own partition until the F17 installer refused that, which it shouldn`t >> have. > > As I have commented elsewhere, I think this is

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

Tim writes: > I reckon it's the case for most OSs that /most/ users don't really care > much about what they're using, nor how it works. The large number of > clueless people using computers would seem to be evidence of that. The number of clueless people is also large without computers. Comput

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

Stephen Gallagher writes: > On 03/24/2014 09:22 AM, lee wrote: >> The ones making packages probably have more influence. Is it >> supposed to be like that? >> > > > Frankly, yes. Feedback on a list is fine, but anyone can say "Hey, I > wish it was more lik

Re: the "separate /usr" subthread

Matthew Miller writes: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:19:52PM +0100, lee wrote: >> >> /usr belongs on it`s own partition. >> > As if no one has ever said that before, and as if it convinced even one >> > thinking person to change their mind. >> Think

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

Chris Murphy writes: > On Mar 25, 2014, at 2:41 AM, lee wrote: >> Maybe it begins with the installer messing together all the disks in >> some weird way rather than to treat them separately and just let you >> partition them the way you want to. IIRC, there wasn`t eve

Re: Advice on which web browser as a second choice.

My two are seamonkey and Firefox. For quick lookups, I often use lynx in a terminal. On Mar 28, 2014 7:30 AM, "Bill Case" wrote: > Hi; > > I used to use epiphany, now web, as my second browser. Firefox has > always been my first choice. > > But I like to use a small really quick browser for extr

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

Matthew Miller writes: > Trying Wayland (and Gnome 3.12) > --- > > Wayland is the upcoming successor to the X11 graphics protocol which > powers our desktops. It's not done yet, but you can try it first in > Fedora. Does it work with fvwm? -- Fedora release 20 (Hei

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

Rahul Sundaram writes: > Hi > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:29 PM, lee wrote: > >> >> > Trying Wayland (and Gnome 3.12) >> > --- >> > >> > Wayland is the upcoming successor to the X11 graphics protocol which >

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

Joe Zeff writes: > On 04/01/2014 09:49 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> That would be the responsibility of the WM's themselves. WM's have to >> add support. Not the other way around as you seem to think. > > Which is why I pointed out that the question was if fvwm works with > Wayland, not the oth

Re: CLI access to server -

On Apr 9, 2014 2:32 PM, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" < bobgood...@wildblue.net> wrote: > > I have assembled a FreeNAS server connected to my LAN and need to access it from my Fedora computers. > > In this box, Fedora 20 XFCE, the file manager, Thunar, displays a location "Network" under whic

Re: Graphical tool that sets hostname

FWIW, try... 1. Edit /etc/conf.d/hostname to be: HOSTNAME="mycomputer" 2. Edit /etc/hosts to be 127.0.0.1 mycomputer.mydomain.local mycomputer HTH! On Apr 22, 2014 2:04 PM, "Chris Kottaridis" wrote: > I installed Fedora 19 and the machine gets IP address from DHCP and > comes up with a hostn

Re: Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

Just wondering, do all Brother printers ship with Linux drivers? On Apr 28, 2014 11:07 AM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier" wrote: > | From: Fred Smith > > | I'm using a Brother DCP7065DN at home, and it seems to work well with > | Linux, BUT you have to use Brother's drivers for it. The driver > recommende

Re: Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

Just wondering, what is the interface you use to install the drivers, whether they're from Brother or the operating system? CUPS? On Apr 29, 2014 6:01 AM, "Fred Smith" wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:06:57PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > | From: Lee > >

Re: printer

On May 5, 2014 3:22 PM, "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > Hello, > > Every time that I reboot, I lost the queue configuration of my printer. > I have to remove the printer and add it again. > How can I avoid this disfunctioning in fedora 20? > > Thank. > > Try reinstalling CUPS. -- users mailing list u

replacement for seamonkey?

Hi, are we going to need a replacement for seamonkey which comes without restrictions management, and will there be one in Fedora? -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: replacement for seamonkey?

Tim writes: > On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 07:57 +0200, lee wrote: >> are we going to need a replacement for seamonkey which comes without >> restrictions management, > > Care to clarify that double negative? You want something with > restrictions? No, just seamonkey, or a sui

Re: Sending email to my local server

I can add, make sure any firewall has permission to accept email traffic. On May 19, 2014 9:44 AM, "Rick Stevens" wrote: > On 05/18/2014 05:06 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: > >> I'm trying to send email from my Fedora-20/KDE laptop "rose" >> to my CentOS-6.5 local home server "grover" >

Re: replacement for seamonkey?

Gary Stainburn writes: > On Friday 16 May 2014 06:57:57 lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> are we going to need a replacement for seamonkey which comes without >> restrictions management, and will there be one in Fedora? >> >> >> -- >> Fedora release 20 (

Re: So has anyone gotten their sound to work since it broke a few days ago?

Someone writes: > I'm completely up to date, and I've rebooted several times. Has anyone > had any luck with playing sound? Logged in as a second user, that user cannot play sound. This hasn`t been fixed since F17 :( Any idea how to fix that? -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users maili

Re: Sending email to my local server

Timothy Murphy writes: > I'm trying to send email from my Fedora-20/KDE laptop "rose" > to my CentOS-6.5 local home server "grover" > (in order to run a SpamAssassin test), > but I am finding this surprisingly difficult. > > I've tried with KMail and mail, > sending email to "tim@grover", "tim@gr

drc

Hi, is it finally possible to do DRC with pulseaudio, and if so, how? DRC is still the only thing it could actually be useful for here ... Or is there some video player that has it built in? It would be really nice to be able to understand what ppl are saying without being deafened by music or

Re: Off topic: web hosting sites

Les Howell writes: > I have a relative who has a somewhat successful regional business > currently located in Arizona, who wants to get a website set up for his > product(s). He investigated GoDaddy, but didn't seem happy with their > terms and conditions. I'm not entrepreneurial enough to

input devices

Hi, what would be the device for a Kensington Slimblade which is connected to a PS/2 port with an USB-->PS/2 adapter? The device doesn`t seem to appear anywhere when connected like that. And what are virtual keyboards for, and why do I supposedly have two power buttons? , | ~ $ xinput --l

Re: Off topic: HP UPS battery

Doug writes: > On 05/24/2014 06:29 AM, lee wrote: >> Les Howell writes: > /large snip/ >> >> [1]: My latest example is HP being unable to replace a simple UPS >> battery. They said I could file a support ticket they, of course, >> >> > If you

Re: input devices

ny6...@gmail.com writes: > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 06:18:58PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what would be the device for a Kensington Slimblade which is connected >> to a PS/2 port with an USB-->PS/2 adapter? The device doesn`t seem to >> appe

Re: input devices

"T.C. Hollingsworth" writes: > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 9:18 AM, lee wrote: >> what would be the device for a Kensington Slimblade which is connected >> to a PS/2 port with an USB-->PS/2 adapter? The device doesn`t seem to >> appear anywhere when connected li

uefi: What if ...?

Hi, what if I got a new mainboard which uses uefi --- and might not even support disabling or not using uefi --- and wanted to boot? Booting is from a HP smart array P800. Would that work? Would I need to do something to get it to work, and if so, what? -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- u

Re: uefi: What if ...?

Chris Murphy writes: > On May 26, 2014, at 4:09 PM, lee wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> what if I got a new mainboard which uses uefi --- and might not even >> support disabling or not using uefi --- and wanted to boot? >> >> Booting is from a HP smart array P

Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

This is a bit long: installation on a laptop: boot live system and select install to disk The screen brightness is adjustable by only two steps and the screen is way too bright at almost maximum. The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off, either. The resulting pow

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

Sudhir Khanger writes: > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 08:24:09 PM lee wrote: >> The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off, >> either. The resulting power drain would make it impossible to complete >> the installation on battery power. >> &

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

Sudhir Khanger writes: > On Thursday, May 29, 2014 02:19:55 PM lee wrote: >> Sudhir Khanger writes: >> > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 08:24:09 PM lee wrote: >> >> The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off, >> >> either

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

Chris Murphy writes: > On May 29, 2014, at 6:19 AM, lee wrote: >> >> More importantly, the system doesn`t boot. Any ideas how to install >> Fedora with the setup I described so that it boots, or how to get it to >> boot? > > There are more than 10,000 re

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

Stephen Morris writes: > Hi Lee, > Just my 2 cents worth, the dot you are seeing on the top left of > the screen is displayed just before the grub boot menu is displayed, > which as the menu is not displayed means that the system can't find > grub.cfg which is in /boot/gr

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

Chris Murphy writes: > On May 29, 2014, at 12:29 PM, lee wrote: >> I`m not saying that I have no idea what LVM is, only that I don`t have >> use for it. > > But whatever, if you know what it is, and you know that you don't need > it, you don't really have

Re: Adding minimal X windows

Matthew Saltzman writes: > I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop. It turns > out, no X server is installed at all in that case. I'd like to add a > minimal X server without adding a complete desktop environment, so I can > log in remotely and run system configuration tools.

disabling graphical boot and shutdown in Fedora 17

Hi, how do I turn off all the graphical booting and shutting down? What I want is *not* to start any X session when I boot or shutodwn. When booting, I want to end up at the console, and I want to use startx to start an X session from there after logging in. When shutting down from the console,

emails, selinux and Fedora 17

Hi, it seems that selinux gets in the way of my self-compiled emacs when gnus is trying to get mails from /var/spool/mail/lee. Movemail isn't permitted to get the mail from there. I have tried to adjust the file permissions on movemail, and it's like this now: -bash-4.2$ ls -laZ

Re: disabling graphical boot and shutdown in Fedora 17

Kevin Martin writes: > I'm thinking it's dumb that one can *switch* to a runlevel using > systemctl but can't *set the default runlevel* using systemctl > enable/disable. I was wondering when I changed the default.target by removing the old link and creating a new one if that is really the way w

rights messed up after moving installation

0:38 yun dbus-daemon[807]: ** Message: entering main loop Nov 5 21:50:52 yun systemd-logind[775]: New session 1 of user lee. Nov 5 21:51:08 yun dbus-daemon[807]: ** Message: No devices in use, exit Nov 5 21:51:27 yun dbus-daemon[807]: dbus[807]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name=&#

Re: disabling graphical boot and shutdown in Fedora 17

Reindl Harald writes: > Am 05.11.2012 10:40, schrieb lee: >> Hi, >> >> how do I turn off all the graphical booting and shutting down? >> >> What I want is *not* to start any X session when I boot or shutodwn. >> When booting, I want to end up at the

Re: emails, selinux and Fedora 17

Daniel J Walsh writes: > On 11/05/2012 04:35 AM, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> it seems that selinux gets in the way of my self-compiled emacs when gnus >> is trying to get mails from /var/spool/mail/lee. Movemail isn't permitted >> to get the mail from t

Re: rights messed up after moving installation

Steven Stern writes: > From the man page: > > -a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X) > > So, you need to use "--archive -X" to transfer selinux context info as > well as the other attributes. Ugh ... darn ... What do I do now? Files on /var have been modified in

Re: rights messed up after moving installation

Daniel J Walsh writes: > On 11/05/2012 05:07 PM, lee wrote: >> Steven Stern writes: >> >>> From the man page: >>> >>> -a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X) >>> >>> So, you need to use "--archi

Re: emails, selinux and Fedora 17

Daniel J Walsh writes: > On 11/05/2012 04:59 PM, lee wrote: >> Daniel J Walsh writes: >> >>> On 11/05/2012 04:35 AM, lee wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> it seems that selinux gets in the way of my self-compiled emacs when >>>&g

Re: emails, selinux and Fedora 17

lee writes: > Daniel J Walsh writes: > >> On 11/05/2012 04:59 PM, lee wrote: >>> Daniel J Walsh writes: >>> >>>> On 11/05/2012 04:35 AM, lee wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> it seems that selinux gets in t

Re: rights messed up after moving installation

lee writes: > Daniel J Walsh writes: > >> On 11/05/2012 05:07 PM, lee wrote: >>> Steven Stern writes: >>> >>>> From the man page: >>>> >>>> -a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X) >>>

how do I get squid 2.7 to run?

Hi, selinux prevents squid 2.7 from running. What do I need to do to get it to work? This selinux is really a PITA ... does it do any good at all? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: rights messed up after moving installation

Reindl Harald writes: > Am 05.11.2012 23:19, schrieb lee: >> The context is that I moved the root file system and /var from one disk >> to another with insufficient options to rsync. > > BTW: > usually rsync deals really fine with doing a second run with other > op

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