Acer Aspire V3-551-8469 NX.RZAAA.008 Notebook Fedora 18 64 Bit

2012-12-16 Thread Brian West
i've just purchased a Acer Aspire V3-551-8469 NX.RZAAA.008 Notebook and had some concerns i'd like some feedback on. First of all its my understanding that this whole uefi situation will be resolved with fedora 18 is this accurate? also what is the best way to ensure that all of the hardware

fedora 18 and ati legacy drivers

2012-12-12 Thread Brian West
When fedora 18 comes out will 17 still get all of the normal updates or just security and bug fixes? the reason I ask is because the ati legacy drivers wont work with the new version of xorg and as of now the open source drivers lacking 3d acceleration and hardware rendering support. any

Re: the file does not exist msg on selecting fedora to boot

2012-12-12 Thread Brian West
On 12/12/2012 02:32 PM, jiwa navid wrote: i get this 'fthe file does not exist' while i select fedora from boot options..:( need help. thnx more info please -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

ATI legacy/UEFI

2012-12-12 Thread Brian West
I am currently using the ati legacy perpritory drivers on fedora 17 x86_64. It is my understanding that the version of xorg that will ship with fedora 18 will not be compatable with these drivers. Is it likely that ati will update them? If not is there a way they can still be used as the

Re: Controlling displays with HDMI output

2012-12-02 Thread Brian West
On 12/02/2012 11:27 AM, Alex wrote: Hi, Another problem is with the display size of the HDMI. Are you using the closed source ATI drivers, or the open source radeon driver? For me, only the open source driver works well. The proprietary ATI drivers were designed by utter morons who believe

Re: install dvd image via usb (not live cd/dvd)

2012-12-01 Thread Brian West
On 12/01/2012 09:26 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/30/2012 10:58 PM, Brian West wrote: Hello everyone, I know that you can install fedora via a usb flash drive using any of the live images but i perfer to use the install dvd due to more control over whats installed etc how can i copy the install

fedora books

2012-11-30 Thread Brian West
Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. each distribution has its own unique set of tools and features. being that fedora

Re: fedora books

2012-11-30 Thread Brian West
On 12/01/2012 01:47 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/30/2012 10:37 PM, Brian West wrote: Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general

install dvd image via usb (not live cd/dvd)

2012-11-30 Thread Brian West
Hello everyone, I know that you can install fedora via a usb flash drive using any of the live images but i perfer to use the install dvd due to more control over whats installed etc how can i copy the install dvd iso to a flash drive so i can have a fedora install flash drive so i can avoid

Re: how-to yum remove gnome anf yum install kde?

2012-11-30 Thread Brian West
On 12/01/2012 01:53 AM, Gary Kline wrote: I found out how to install Fed-17 [[somehow]]; I now have Gnome that I do not prefer. I've install konsole and I have a bunch of KDE libraries. Q: what is the best way to remove gnome and install KDE? Last time

hdd failing messages false positive or failure

2012-11-27 Thread Brian West
. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. do the pre fails mean im failing or is this a false positive. should i replace the esata cable thanks for the help. Brian West -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-27 Thread Brian West
On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Alan, The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before proceeding to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know how it's done. The current rpmbuild of the kernel builds bazillions of

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-27 Thread Brian West
On 11/27/2012 09:19 PM, William Brown wrote: On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 21:06 -0500, Brian West wrote: On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Alan, The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before proceeding to build the kernel. If it does

Re: how to remove Gnome and leave or install KDE?

2012-11-27 Thread Brian West
On 11/27/2012 09:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 14:46 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: last week I tried to install the ubuntu 12.0.1-Server. I was tried of having the new bootloader mess up my loading fedora. The CD asked me some questions that my

start openvpn client on boot fedora 17 64bit

2012-11-24 Thread Brian West
I have an account with strong vpn im trying to get openvpn to start on boot in fedora 17 but it is not playing nice at all people say set it up in network manager but with strongvpn you login via a cert thats included inside your config file. how can i start it as a service i followed the

Re: Disk

2012-11-24 Thread Brian West
On 11/24/2012 10:36 AM, JD wrote: On 11/24/2012 04:13 AM, Alan Cox wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:34:59 -0700 JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: which info retrieved by sdparam or hdparam would indicate that the drive is reaching it's EOL. You want the smart health test man smartctl. I suspect

failing drives or false positives

2012-11-22 Thread Brian West
failing or is this a false positive. logs for each drive are below what really gets me is both of the drives give the exact same output for the most part should i be concerned? Thanks in advance for your time. Brian West notebook drive smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-3.6.6-1.fc17

Re: failing drives or false positives

2012-11-22 Thread Brian West
On 11/22/2012 12:58 PM, JD wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Brian West bionicfre...@gmail.com mailto:bionicfre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone yesterday i began receiving messages from one of my drives in my hard drive dock that it could be failing. so i tested my

Re: failing drives or false positives

2012-11-22 Thread Brian West
On 11/22/2012 04:29 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 11/22/2012 03:04 PM, Brian West wrote: On 11/22/2012 12:58 PM, JD wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Brian West bionicfre...@gmail.com mailto:bionicfre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone yesterday i began receiving messages from one

cant install libdvdcss

2012-11-21 Thread Brian West
hi everyone is the repo that contains libdvdcss down? i need to install them to watch encrypted dvds any thoughts? -Brian -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: cant install libdvdcss

2012-11-21 Thread Brian West
On 11/21/2012 05:36 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.11.2012 23:33, schrieb Brian West: hi everyone is the repo that contains libdvdcss down? i need to install them to watch encrypted dvds any thoughts atrpms - do not enable the repo, only download the RPM http://rpm.pbone.net/ is a real

[SOLVED] Re: cant install libdvdcss

2012-11-21 Thread Brian West
On 11/21/2012 05:47 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.11.2012 23:41, schrieb Brian West: On 11/21/2012 05:36 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.11.2012 23:33, schrieb Brian West: hi everyone is the repo that contains libdvdcss down? i need to install them to watch encrypted dvds any thoughts

virtual cd/dvd drive/xine dvd rip playback

2012-11-18 Thread Brian West
to the video_ts directory? I'm able to use vlc but not xine. Thanks in advance for your time Brian West -- 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

Fedora 17 x96_64 source ISO

2012-11-18 Thread Brian West
Hello everyone, Where can I download the 64bit source code for fedora 17? Thanks in advance for your time. Brian West -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Fedora 17 x96_64 source ISO[solved]

2012-11-18 Thread Brian West
://mirrors.dcarsat.com.ar/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/source Or pick any other mirror as said. Regards, Rami Rosen http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Brian West bionicfre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Where can I download the 64bit source code for fedora 17? Thanks in advance

Re: virtual cd/dvd drive/xine dvd rip playback

2012-11-18 Thread Brian West
On 11/18/2012 11:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/19/2012 12:04 PM, Brian West wrote: Hello everyone I have been using fedora since 2003 so i'm not totally new at linux. How can i create a virtual cd/dvd drive to use for watching dvds and installing software etc? also is there a way to play

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-18 Thread Brian West
On 11/19/2012 12:28 AM, NOSpaze wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 10:16 +1100, Roger wrote: Is there any way to trace ip addresses back past the originating ISP. I've been using whois but it seems limited. Could mtr be of any help? ISP and a rough location is all your going to get my friend some