Re: mp4 to dvd

2021-12-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 21:07 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I haven't actually tried to copy such a VOB file to a DVD. So at > worst, you ruin a disk ... ;) As a test, you can create an ISO image file of a DVD, and see if VLC (or another media player) will play it as a DVD. -- uname -rsvp

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 12:18 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > RAID boxes have some useful capabilities like staging power to drives > on startup. There are use cases that do trivial computations on > 1000's of files where it would be really nice to have lots of cheap > compute nodes, each with

Re: Bad USB drive?

2021-12-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz: >> It has been sitting in my "backed up" bin for over a year. I >> backed up something to it and now it is dead. >> >> Typically I back up something important with a double backup, On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 19:59 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > Yeah

Re: Bad USB drive?

2021-12-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > On 12/31/21 00:22, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Moskowitz > > wrote: > >> so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day... > >> > >> Sigh. that was a good $8 down the drain. > > Return

Re: LibreOffice Calc chart printout missing axes and gridlines. [SOLVED]

2021-12-31 Thread home user
On 12/29/21 8:03 PM, Tim via users wrote: To me, the idea of a zero-width line would mean non-printing, so I would avoid it. In fact, when I print tables and charts, one of the things I experiment with is quite thin lines and not 100% black, as they tend to make tables ugly and more cluttered.

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..." [SOLVED]

2021-12-31 Thread home user
On 12/30/21 2:36 PM, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the message "NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau.". A few seconds

Re: Weird behavior of dnf install

2021-12-31 Thread Miguel Lavalle
Hi, The mariadb community has an active bug that describes this situation: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2026933. I started an email thread with them: https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg06179.html. The recommended workaround is to explicitly install the "mariadb" package,

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/31/21 12:52, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/31/21 15:32, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/31/21 08:57, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was downloading some mp4 lectures in Firefox and getting ready to respond to the save to dialog when the system hung hard requiring a power cycle.  Couple not even

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/31/21 15:32, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/31/21 08:57, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was downloading some mp4 lectures in Firefox and getting ready to respond to the save to dialog when the system hung hard requiring a power cycle.  Couple not even switch to a non-graphic session to login as

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/31/21 08:57, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was downloading some mp4 lectures in Firefox and getting ready to respond to the save to dialog when the system hung hard requiring a power cycle.  Couple not even switch to a non-graphic session to login as root. I had just done a dnf update that

Re: mp4 to dvd

2021-12-31 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 02:17:57PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: Any suggestions for converting mp4 files to VOB? Even an example with mencoder might be useful. Long long ago, I used mencoder for making DVD video files. Lost track of the script I used. I tried it again recently, but getting all

ntfs3 versus ntfs-3g, mount options

2021-12-31 Thread George N. White III
Using an external drive formatted on a Windows system: # mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sdc1 /mnt -o windows_names,uid=$UID,gid=$GID mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. dmesg has: ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:31:44 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So it seems not to be my problem? I guess not. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/31/21 12:23, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:14:23 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: How do I know if I am using nouveau and then how to switch to nvidia? Run: lspci | fgrep VGA 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8330]

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:14:23 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > How do I know if I am using nouveau and then how to switch to nvidia? Run: lspci | fgrep VGA if that mentions an NVIDIA video card, then fedora will have used the nouveau drivers by default. You could also run lsmod and see if it

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/31/21 12:10, Tom Horsley wrote: If you are using the nouveau video drivers, try switching to the rpmfusion nvidia drivers. Every new release I try to use the nouveau drivers, and within a couple of weeks, I always get crashes like this, almost always when using a browser. So I switch to

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
If you are using the nouveau video drivers, try switching to the rpmfusion nvidia drivers. Every new release I try to use the nouveau drivers, and within a couple of weeks, I always get crashes like this, almost always when using a browser. So I switch to nvidia, and the crashes stop.

F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I was downloading some mp4 lectures in Firefox and getting ready to respond to the save to dialog when the system hung hard requiring a power cycle.  Couple not even switch to a non-graphic session to login as root. I had just done a dnf update that installed the new 5.15.11 kernel (was

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-31 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 04:47, J.Witvliet--- via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > Just a final thought…. > Ever contemplated about a tiny storage ceph-cluster, each disk connected > to an R-pi? > No spofs, and easier to maintain and upgrade… > > RAID boxes have some useful

Re: Bad USB drive?

2021-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/31/21 00:22, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day... Sigh. that was a good $8 down the drain. Return it. Don't let people steal from you. Used a credit card? Report it. Do a charge back.

Re: f35 and NVIDIA entanglement

2021-12-31 Thread John Pilkington
On 31/12/2021 01:47, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 12/30/21 07:29, John Pilkington wrote: On 29/12/2021 20:31, John Pilkington wrote: I have a GT710 in F34.  It was running the rpmfusion default driver, in the 470 series but without the 470xx label.  Earlier this week 'dnf update'

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-31 Thread J.Witvliet--- via users
From: "George N. White III" mailto:gnw...@gmail.com>> Date: Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 00:02:02 To: "Community support for Fedora users" mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Subject: Re: NAS purchase advice On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 05:47, Walter Cazzola mailto:cazz...@di.unimi.it>> wrote: