Loss of sound volume

So I've had a weird.. occasional issue over the last year. So out of the blue.. without changing any config files or option in in Settings every single key on the keyboard will register as a volume down key. Alpha keys, numeric keys, all of them. Tonight i experienced this for the first it in

Gjots2 latest update

Hi! Happy user of Gjots2 there was an automatic update over the weekend which unformately now refuses (well doesn't offer a prompt) to open GPG encrypted files. So I cannot use it anymore. I downgraded to the previous version and it's working fine. Not sure if it's me only problem or where to

Re: F27 tracker-preferences missing?

le the annoying document indexer that keeps crawling my drives. Anybody have any insight into why this is missing from F27, or a workaround to effectively disable the thing? I fixed it with these commands mkdir ~/.config/autostart cp /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker* ~/.config/autostart cd

Re: rsync question

On 11Feb2018 16:40, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/10/2018 09:16 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 10Feb2018 20:50, Robert Nichols wrote: On 02/10/2018 12:31 PM, bruce wrote: Got it.. or think I do.. It appears the -I --ignore-times  attribute will

F27 tracker-preferences missing?

So... I just did a fresh install of F27, and I can't seem to find tracker-preferences, so I can disable the annoying document indexer that keeps crawling my drives. Anybody have any insight into why this is missing from F27, or a workaround to effectively disable the thing?

[389-users] Re: TLS Error -8179

Sorry for the very late response, I have been unwell on away from the computer. On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 05:34 +, Eric Wheeler wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm a new 389 Directory Server user on an Amazon Linux 1 EC2 > platform. I got the server launched without much issue, but then hit > a wall

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/11/2018 01:23 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 11/2/18 5:46 pm, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: grub2-install is not needed I think. Thanks Francis, I'll check that out. Grub2-install is still required to update the mbr on non-efi (legacy) systems. That's true, but it very rarely needs

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/11/2018 01:19 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Just further to this, I have checked my boot order in the bios and it is set to SSD, CDROM, UEFI: Builtin efi shell. If at boot time I display the boot menu it shows this as SSD, HARD DISK 1, HARD DISK 2, CDROM 1, CDROM 2, UEFI: Builtin efi shell,

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/11/2018 12:58 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I've issued the command rpm -qf /boot/efi and it tells me it was owned by fwupdate-efi-10-1.fc27.x86_64. I've also issue the command rpm -qf /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubenv and that is owned by grub2-efi-x64-2.02-19.fc27.x86_64. The command rpm -qf

Re: rsync question

On 02/10/2018 09:16 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 10Feb2018 20:50, Robert Nichols wrote: On 02/10/2018 12:31 PM, bruce wrote: Hey... Got it.. or think I do.. It appears the -I --ignore-times  attribute will essentially force a redo of any/all files in the rsync...

Re: SATA errors (only) when on battery

Hi, On 11-02-18 21:03, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi Gordon, Is there a way to disable SATA link power management at the kernel command line? Start by checking the value of /sys/class/scsi_host/*/link_power_management_policy I do / did - the value is changing depending whether the laptop is

Re: Replicating base server -> target server (Digital Ocean/Fed/Centos)

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 1:51 PM, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > Kind of long ,but might be useful/helpful to others.. Feel free to > comment as you see fit! > > I'm using this as a step/guide to recreate/replicate a smaller > droplet/vm from a larger vm within Digital Ocean. > > >

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 11/2/18 5:46 pm, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:07:50 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: Just some info on this. The original format of your grub menu, being one line per kernel, was probably coming from grubby. When kernel installs are done, the install process runs

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 12/2/18 7:58 am, Stephen Morris wrote: On 11/2/18 7:00 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/10/2018 04:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/2/18 5:46 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/09/2018 09:40 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: IIRC, /boot/efi/* is created by the initial anaconda install sequence and is in

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 11/2/18 7:00 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/10/2018 04:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/2/18 5:46 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/09/2018 09:40 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: IIRC, /boot/efi/* is created by the initial anaconda install sequence and is in place in case you use UEFI at some point in

Replicating base server -> target server (Digital Ocean/Fed/Centos)

Hi. Kind of long ,but might be useful/helpful to others.. Feel free to comment as you see fit! I'm using this as a step/guide to recreate/replicate a smaller droplet/vm from a larger vm within Digital Ocean. The goal: Replicate/reproduce the users/processes/directories/files from a base

Re: SATA errors (only) when on battery

Hi Gordon, >> Is there a way to disable SATA link power management at the kernel command >> line? > > Start by checking the value of > /sys/class/scsi_host/*/link_power_management_policy I do / did - the value is changing depending whether the laptop is on battery or wall power. When on wall

Re: SATA errors (only) when on battery

On 02/08/2018 03:53 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Is there a way to disable SATA link power management at the kernel command line? Start by checking the value of /sys/class/scsi_host/*/link_power_management_policy See:

System-wide callgraph profiling no longer possible?

Hi, I would like to use oprofile to analyze some interaction between a poor performing graphical program and the Xorg x-server. In the past I remember sysprof and orpfile worked very well for this kind of analysis, giving a detailed overview/callgraph which function consumes how much time and how

Re: inkscape

On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 13:44 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I use inkscape, but the behavior that I get is not that is explained > in line. Typically, I do not get the palette tool box. > https://www.wikihow.com/Use-the-Fill-and-Stroke-Functions-in-Inkscape This tutorial is showing the

4k playback with VLC and Kodi

hi everyone I wonder if anybody has seen hardware fully decoding 4k 264hon Fedora. I have a Panasonic camera which produces 4k 264h MP4 and I see different results with various player. VLC - plays no video, shows no errors, just plays but with black/blank screen. Also Gnome's Videos does

Re: webcam

> > On 02/11/18 20:31, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> On 02/11/18 18:31, Patrick Dupre wrote: > What is the output of "lsusb" and "lsmod" when you've booted to the > LiveCD? > > >>> lsmod > >>> difference between on and off > >>> < uvcvideo 90112 1 > >>> --- >

Re: webcam

On 02/11/18 20:31, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> On 02/11/18 18:31, Patrick Dupre wrote: What is the output of "lsusb" and "lsmod" when you've booted to the LiveCD? >>> lsmod >>> difference between on and off >>> < uvcvideo 90112 1 >>> --- uvcvideo 90112 0

Re: webcam

> > On 02/11/18 18:31, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> > >> What is the output of "lsusb" and "lsmod" when you've booted to the LiveCD? > >> > > lsmod > > difference between on and off > > < uvcvideo 90112 1 > > --- > >> uvcvideo 90112 0 > > 71c71 > > < videodev

Re: webcam

On 02/11/18 18:31, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> >> What is the output of "lsusb" and "lsmod" when you've booted to the LiveCD? >> > lsmod > difference between on and off > < uvcvideo 90112 1 > --- >> uvcvideo 90112 0 > 71c71 > < videodev 172032 4

Re: webcam

> Subject: Re: webcam > > On 02/11/18 10:01, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> On 02/10/2018 05:30 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >>> OK, > >>> > >>> It works from liveUSB > >>> > >>> So, what should I do? > >> Well, at least we know it's not a hardware issue. > >>

Re: XPS 13 (9360)

I can appreciate the fact that the hardware is nice. but my brother has one...and its giving him headaches. (LITERALLY!) It seems Dell has some kind of "adaptive brightness' feature in the FHD model (its an XPS 13 9343 I believe!) and when he's in an IDE/text editor with a dark theme?...the screen

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/10/2018 04:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/2/18 5:46 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/09/2018 09:40 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: IIRC, /boot/efi/* is created by the initial anaconda install sequence and is in place in case you use UEFI at some point in the future. Since it's only about 15MB in