Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: FC 12-x86_64/kde I have a Acomdata external hard drive enclosure with a PATA hard drive set to Master. I want to just be able to read and write to it as a storage drive, lsusb sees the enclosure Acomdata but not the drive,

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 02/01/2010 01:43 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jimmickey...@sbcglobal.net  wrote: On 02/01/2010 11:58 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: Others may have better advice, but you can try unplugging the drive

Re: Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

2010-02-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: [snip] # smartctl --attributes --log=selftest --quietmode=errorsonly /dev/sdc smartctl 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Re: Problem with a large partition

2010-02-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:42 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I have a 22TB partition that I would like to use.  I am using a 64bit CPU and used parted to create a partition and to format it.  It created an ext2 partition that I was in the process of converting to ext4.  This is

Re: Hulu.com and 64-bit Problem?

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Chris Kloiber wrote: Ah yes, but it's a bitc^H^H^H^H bit difficult to control/find your desired content, and I don't think it will scale to a tiny always on top window in the corner of your desktop so you can work while

Re: Wireless stopped working- F12

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: woodson2 writes: I installed F12 around the time it was released and it picked up my wireless card and worked like a charm.Suddenly last week everything stopped working and I receive what appears to be a

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:49 PM, R. G. Newbury newb...@mandamus.org wrote:  From what I have read, you cannot port an existing win instance into a virtual. Not entirely true, for a while I had my original XP partition booting in VirtualBox using a raw partition VMDK[1]. I used separate hardware

Re: USB Bluetooth Recommendations

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Fedora User fedora...@gmail.com wrote: Fedora 12 Application=Connect mobile  phone to laptop. Any suggestions on what is known to work would be appreciated. I'm not sure of the exact model as my USB dongle came with my HP printer but I've gotten it to work with

Printer problem

2010-04-08 Thread Richard Shaw
I have been having printing problems on and off for a while and usually fiddle with it and get things to work (temporarily apparently). I try restarting CUPS, unplugging and replugging the USB cable, etc. System is F12 x86_64 connected to a HP Photosmart C5580 (Printer/scanner/copier). Scanning

Re: Printer problem

2010-04-08 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:50 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Apr  5 09:06:24 hobbes hpcups[15344]: prnt/hpcups/HPCupsFilter.cpp 361: DEBUG: Bad PPD - hpPrinterLanguage not found Please try the test update:  https

Re: Printer problem

2010-04-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 14:02 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Yes, I did finally run across that bug in bugzilla and verified I was having the same problem. I tried updating the packages from the link... I downloaded all the x86_64

Re: Printer problem

2010-04-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 07:36 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Since there is a tool, I wonder why can this not be integrated with CUPS/HPLIP? The question should be posed the other way around: since CUPS supports a generic way

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM, hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: How do I make myself root in the GUI Running a root GUI login is very much frowned upon. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? The system-config* tools will prompt for root authentication if necessary or you can su (or sudo) to

Possible cups/hplip bug?

2010-04-19 Thread Richard Shaw
Hopefully someone can tell me definitively if this is a bug or not. I've been having a lot of trouble getting my CD/DVD printing to work properly in F12 after having it work perfectly in F11 on my HP Photosmart C5580. I've re-tweaked the glabels template and can get it pretty close but no matter

Re: Possible cups/hplip bug?

2010-04-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: I can tell you this much - it is a glables problem, and not a cups problem. If you try printing to the CD with gedit, selecting the CD as your media, it will work without complaining. For some reason glabels is ignoring the

Re: Acer Aspire AS7540-1408 a decent fedora (13) laptop?

2010-04-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Rares Aioanei wrote: From what I've seen, it's ok, except the fact that I didn't gather what brand/type the wi-fi card is; also, you should be up-to-date with the Radeon-Linux interaction; of

Re: NetworkManager, is it important?

2010-04-26 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Gergely Buday gbu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, yesterday I configured my fedora 12 box. With NetworkManager I could not make it to have network after boot. At last I removed NetworkManager and createad an S07network link in /etc/rc5.d to /etc/init.d/network.

Re: How to sync files on external hard disk and laptop running on F12

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:19 AM, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.kopp...@gmail.com wrote: hello every one, 1. How to sync files on external hard disk and laptop running on F12? 2. I am running Windows XP as gust oS using Virtual Box.When I connect a USB device the windows OS is not recognising

My new best friend: strace

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Shaw
Since I follow the list religiously I've seen reference to strace on several occasions but not till this weekend did I have a use for it myself. Quick intro... I got tired of 64bit huludesktop/flash not working for me (on my F12 x86_64 systems) so I decided to install the 32bit version instead.

Re: My new best friend: strace

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Richard Shaw wrote: ldd libflashsupport If you had to install this 1) The Fedora you are on is old. ( F10) 2) The flash plugin you are using is old. Nope... I don't know why I'm having a problem when others have

Re: My new best friend: strace

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 07:45 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: There was so much information flying past it took me a minute but I starting seeing some other libraries that it was not finding so after yumming those

Re: My new best friend: strace

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Richard Shaw wrote: Nope... I don't know why I'm having a problem when others have it working. F12 fully updated, latest flash at the time I tested it: r45. libflashsupport hasn't been built since Fedora 9

LVM Snapshot merging?

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Shaw
Does anyone know when LVM snapshot merging will be available in Fedora? I'm looking at making some significant upgrades/updates to my systems and the LVM snapshot feature would be really handy if merging was available. In lieu of having the merging capability, I had a crazy idea for a

Re: LVM Snapshot merging? [SOLVED]

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know when LVM snapshot merging will be available in Fedora? I'm looking at making some significant upgrades/updates to my systems and the LVM snapshot feature would be really handy if merging was available

Re: LVM Snapshot merging? [SOLVED]

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: To answer my own question here. The required bits (kernel, lvm, device-mapper) appear to be available between F13 and F13-testing. Since I'll be reinstalling for F13 I decided to go ahead and install the F13

F13 x86_64 RC3 Install reports

2010-05-17 Thread Richard Shaw
I'll try to keep this short without glossing over too much. Installation on HP 8510w workstation laptop (intel Core2Duo w/ 256MB Nvidia Quadro 540M) - Replaced existing F12 install completely (I don't keep important stuff on it and I dual boot w/ XP for work). - Flawless Now on to the messy

Re: Best backup option

2010-05-18 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Jeff Sadino jsadino.que...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I was wondering what everyone's opinion is as to the best command/program to use for backups?  I don't need to preserve the partition table, basically just copy files to a backup hard drive.

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: After three Fedora Community Gaming sessions have consistently had enough people to play, but just barely, I want to see if there is a way I can boost attendance a bit. We can't handle everyone who has Fedora installed

Re: using sudo

2010-05-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, terry xtly...@charter.net wrote: I've looked  through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file where I can use  say sudo yum something without having to use su ,  passwd each time I need to be root thank you. I assume that you

Re: using sudo

2010-05-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: On 05/24/2010 03:48 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, terry xtly...@charter.net wrote: I've looked  through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file

Any difference between F13 RC3 and Final?

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Shaw
I have been using the Deltaisos from Andre to keep updating my F13 x86_64 install DVD but I do not see one for RC3-Final. Are they the same? Thanks, Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Rocket Fedora 13 media artwork

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/rockets-artwork-for-fedora-13-media/ I remixed some Fedora graphics to create new

Re: Rocket Fedora 13 media artwork

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2010, Valent Turkovic wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/rockets-artwork-for-fedora-13-me dia/ I

F13 install from netinst.iso ERROR: The installer has tried to mount image #1.

2010-05-31 Thread Richard Shaw
I'm trying to install F13 on my netbook although I had a problem similar to this when installing to my desktop. I've got the F13 netinst.iso (i386) installed to a 1GB flash drive using the livecd tools. It boots fine, anaconda runs, but right after wiring the partitions and filesystems to disk I

netinst images: What's the point?

2010-05-31 Thread Richard Shaw
Ok, I think I know what the point is, but there is little documentation for these specific files and I can't figure out how to get them to work correctly. The netinst image seems to be the same as the boot.iso but with installer.img added to it, which is exactly what I'm looking for, except for

Re: netinst images: What's the point?

2010-05-31 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 31/05/10 22:52, Richard Shaw wrote: Ok, I think I know what the point is, but there is little documentation for these specific files and I can't figure out how to get them to work correctly. Do you mean

Re: netinst images: What's the point?

2010-05-31 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I'm not sure what's wrong, I just know it never asks me to initialize a network connection unless I specify askmethod, then it does it in the non-graphical part of the setup. I just pulled the x86 iso down (only

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: In the latest release [1] of Community Fedora Remix (yes, we are looking for a new name [2]) some flack we got was due to having duplicate apps; two browsers and two email clients. How about switching to Chromium

Re: netinst images: What's the point?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I'm not sure what's wrong, I just know it never asks me to initialize a network connection unless I specify askmethod, then it does it in the non-graphical part of the setup. I just pulled the x86 iso down (only

Re: netinst images: What's the point?

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I'm not sure what's wrong, I just know it never asks me to initialize a network connection unless I specify askmethod, then it does

Re: F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:31 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: Hi gang! I installed F13 on my eeepc 901 on Friday. Since I changed the partitioing scheme, I backed up the whole thing onto a USB HD first so I could restore my home directory afterwards (in fact I also kept dd

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, a python guru I am not, but I did manage to replace the 'popen2' call to the current 'subprocess' call which fixed DVD device discovery for me. I still have to figure something else out though. When it executed

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, a python guru I am not, but I did manage to replace the 'popen2' call to the current 'subprocess' call which fixed DVD device discovery for me

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: I wrote to the maintainer (James) and received the following reply: Great minds think alike. I did the same and got pretty much the same response. I've forwarded him my updates but I'll attach it here one more

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 22:15 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: I wrote to the maintainer (James) and received the following reply

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Dale Dellutri daledellu...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at dar?   # yum info dar I've never used it, but it does do multi-volume slices of an archive. Interesting. I think it's way overkill for what we're trying to do. Apparently it will create split

Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 03:00 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 23:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:22 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: [...] Have you

Fedora 12/13 network printer oddness

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Shaw
I have an HP Photosmart C5580 connected to my desktop in the office I have shared under both Fedora 12 13. The printer queue usually gets detected by my wife's laptop after I poke the proper holes in both firewalls. I'm not sure what the problem is but it has happened under both F12 F13. At

Re: Fedora 12/13 network printer oddness

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 06/11/2010 02:46 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: I have an HP Photosmart C5580 connected to my desktop in the office I have shared under both Fedora 12  13. The printer queue usually gets detected by my wife's laptop after I poke

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 02:25 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 23:45 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: I need to back up 20 GB of Windows data from a hard drive onto DVDs so that a Windows user can

Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 10:09 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 03:00 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote

Re: Fedora 12/13 network printer oddness

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 08:52 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: I think it has something to do with my wife's laptop but I have no idea what's going on. I scanned her IP with nmap and it couldn't find any trace that her laptop

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 10:37 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Shaw
Should have mentioned, discspan.py already has the changes, I just included the patch file if you want to see what changed. Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Fedora 12/13 network printer oddness

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 08:52 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 16:00 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: No, it's connected through IPP

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 15:38 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Should have mentioned, discspan.py already has the changes, I just included the patch file if you want to see what changed. Richard, I just finished

Re: Fedora 12/13 network printer oddness

2010-06-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: When you use system-config-printer on the server is the printer marked as shared? Assuming you have a ADSL router on your network does the web interface ofthe router show her machine? Yes, if it was not shared then it

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 07:35 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/12/2010 06:28 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: Is there a simple command line I can use to interrogate a blank optical disc that will return the

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:07:13 -0500 Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: If there really is overhead and other data being added, we'd like to know as accurately as possible the size of that added amount. I think it depends

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: I did some searching but found no definitive answer. One thing that could improve the image size estimation is to round up the size of each file to a multiple of 2k. This still will not take into account file system

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 20:38:56 -0500,  Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: 3        iso_size = math.ceil(file_size/(2*1024))*2*1024 With loose typing the about might be doing the division as integer division. One

Re: Restart F-13 download?

2010-06-17 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: Ok, that looks like a winner! It says it is downloading the remainder of the file. It says about 4 hours remaining, good speed for this satellite connection. I wanted to use wget to begin with but didn't find the

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-17 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 20:38:56 -0500,  Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: 3        iso_size = math.ceil(file_size/(2*1024))*2*1024

Re: Laptop powers off randomly

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Wendell Nichols wc...@shaw.ca wrote: My Lenovo T61p has started shutting down randomly (usually in the middle of the night).  There is nothing in the logs, and the temperatures have all been stable.  I'm not getting any kernel crash records.  How can I find out

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Kam Leo kam@gmail.com wrote: You don't have to take smartd's word about the health of your drive. Run the manufacturer's diagnostic. May not make a difference. I'm not sure about all manufacturers, but on many consumer level drives the manufacturer software

Re: OT:burn - not install to usb

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Mick M. off_b...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi;  I found a couple of 16MB usb sticks in a drawer. I have the latest systemrescuecd and want to burn it to the USB stick. An install needs 512MB, this is only 16M. I tried using dd but it would not boot. To be clear I

Re: OT:burn - not install to usb

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 06/20/2010 10:53 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: If dd wrote the image but it does not boot, the problem is likely with your computer not the USB disk. Not all BIOSs support that boot method, or in some cases, particular USB

Re: Syntax for hard drive installs

2010-06-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: This used to work, so I'm either very close or there's a bug... - Boot an old laptop (w/o USB boot capability) using disc1 CD. - Hold down Shift during boot to produce the ISOLINUX boot: prompt - Enter linux

Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Federico Marziali federico.marzi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to install Fedora 13 on a Sony Vaio VPCF11C5E (F-series) and I'm incurring in the following 2 problems 1. If I try to customize the partitioning layout, I get a python error and the

Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Federico Marziali federico.marzi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to install Fedora 13 on a Sony Vaio VPCF11C5E (F-series) and I'm incurring in the following 2 problems 1. If I try to customize the partitioning layout, I get a python error and the suggestion to

Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Federico Marziali federico.marzi...@gmail.com wrote: 2. More serious: the screen resolution used is wrong and as a result I can see only a portion of the screen content, which creates difficulties both at installation time, when one wants to click on the

Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
My wife's laptop has started having interesting networking issues. She's connecting to a WPA2 secured wireless AP. All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all networking communications coming FROM her laptop

Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all networking communications

Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/24/2010 02:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsleyhorsley1...@gmail.com  wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: All networking communications work fine

Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: I've punted LVM, and I've punted /boot on all of my computers (I don't need/want either of them).  That's 1 desktop, 1 laptop, and 1 server. I still like having a separate boot partitions for a couple of

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 08:57 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 15:37 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Let me know if you have any issues. Just one: Ready to burn disc 1/4. The disc capacity of the disc

Re: F13 - Advanced Volume control

2010-06-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Federico Marziali federico.marzi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello to the list again... While I'm still fighting with the display and nvidia drivers, I've come across another problem on my Sony Vaio, this time with the sound capture. Basically I can't get any of my

HD Home move editor

2010-06-28 Thread Richard Shaw
My new camera takes 720p clips (AVCHD) and I wanted to do a little editing, but after installing Kino which I've used in the past, I found it downgraded it to 480p DV video. Are that any full video editors that handle HD movies correctly? Thanks, Richard -- users mailing list

Re: HD Home move editor

2010-06-28 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:24:56 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: Are that any full video editors that handle HD movies correctly? If you have an infinite amount of disk space and patience you can convert pretty much anything

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Abu Attar Musharih abuattar.musha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I made a live bootable  Fedora-13 on Buffalo 8G  usb stick  using Linux command dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1 It was successful apart from no longer able to copy any file on  it. The

Re: Status of ESATA in F13 ?

2010-07-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: I am wondering how ESATA devices are supposed to work in F13 these days. Does F13 support hot plugging of ESATA devices ? Are they only recognized at boot time ? Are they supported at all ? Thanks $ uname -a Linux

Re: selinux throwing incomprehensible errors when trying to run GoogleEardh

2010-07-26 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: Easiest thing to do is turn off the check. # setsebool -P allow_execmod 1 I'm not sure if it's required for google earth, but in addition to the above I also had to add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf for Picasa to

yum update problem?

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Shaw
I was just updating and saw the following: Updating : nautilus-2.30.1-4.fc13.x86_64 15/72 WARNING: failed to parse type name `boolean' WARNING: invalid or missing type for schema (/schemas/apps/nautilus/preferences/navigation_window_saved_maximized) Is this a

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Shaw
Just wanted to update everyone as I've still been tinkering with the script some more making improvements and adding more options. Quick summary (some may be duplicates from previous posts): - Added the exact byte capacity of media to discspan.ini file - Added --size-factor option to change disc

HELP! Installed some rawhide packages and now system will not boot!

2010-07-29 Thread Richard Shaw
Well I installed parted/libparted from rawhide to get version 2.3 as I was bitten by the resize bug and some other issues with the current version in Fedora 12/13. It pulled in a few dependencies and one of them broke my system, I'm thinking it was dev-mapper. On reboot LVM was able to find all 4

Re: HELP! Installed some rawhide packages and now system will not boot!

2010-07-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:44 PM, David Timms dti...@iinet.net.au wrote: ps: is it missing a dracut built /boot/initramfs..img for the kernel version you are trying to run ? That can be solved by ensuring you have an older kernel installed and running, and uninstall / reinstall the current

Re: HELP! Installed some rawhide packages and now system will not boot! [SOLVED]

2010-07-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Well I installed parted/libparted from rawhide to get version 2.3 as I was bitten by the resize bug and some other issues with the current version in Fedora 12/13. It pulled in a few dependencies and one of them broke my

Re: USB Install problem with Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD

2010-08-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:31 AM, j.halifax . j.hali...@seznam.cz wrote: Hi All, Could you help me pls with installing fc13 distribution of Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD from USB? I have created 8GB USB flash memory installation media with LiveUSB-Creator on MSW and used it for USB installation.

Test upgrade from F13 to F14 using LVM snapshot?

2010-08-03 Thread Richard Shaw
I was thinking of trying a DVD based upgrade (or pre-upgrade) from F13 to F14 Alpha (or later Beta, etc) using LVM snapshots so if things go poorly I theoretically would just have to drop the snapshots and things would go back to F13. The exception would be the /boot partition, but it should be

Re: Test upgrade from F13 to F14 using LVM snapshot?

2010-08-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Michael Semcheski mhsemche...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: The exception would be the /boot partition, but it should be possible to keep my old kernels, yes? I haven't tried this, but if everything

Re: increase brighness of laptop after F13 install

2010-08-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Hoang Le new.leho...@yahoo.com wrote: Have you tried Power Management option ? System - Preferences - Power Management I haven't reported it as a bug yet but since an update some time ago on my F13 laptop, the brightness will not stay all the way up regardless

Re: Adobe Flash Player 10

2010-09-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Was trying to watch some youtube video and got a message I needed Adobe Flash Player 10. Is that one of the rpmfusion things or what? Nope :) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fedoraproject+flash Richard -- users mailing list

Re: Creating an audio CD

2010-09-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:  The man page for wodim (aka cdrecord) says: To copy an audio CD in the most accurate way, first run            icedax dev=/dev/cdrom -vall cddb=0 -B -Owav        and then run            wodim dev=/dev/cdrw -v -dao -useinfo -text  

Re: [F-13] Printing regression ?

2010-09-08 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Denis Leroy de...@poolshark.org wrote: Hi list, Woke up this morning to find my printer no longer working. Looks like a recent F-13 testing update broke my setup, even though printing has been very very stable for me as a rule these past couple of years. I'm

Re: Print multiple emails to one file

2010-09-08 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a program that can manipulate mbox files? I'd like to print about 50 emails to a single file so I can email them as a PDF to someone. Thunderbird will let you highlight and print multiple emails, but

Re: upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

2010-09-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Rossella Noschese noschese.rosse...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've a question. At work we have a fedore core 4 release on a 64-bit machine. We need now to upgrade the compiler. We have GNU Fortran 95 (GCC 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)). We need at least gcc

Re: upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

2010-09-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:32 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: Why not upgrade the whole installation to F13, or better yet, on Nov 2nd, of this year F14 will be released! Upgrade to F14 and then do yum update to get the latest compilers. Although the OP didn't say one way or the other, the fact

serial8250: too much work for irq 19

2010-09-19 Thread Richard Shaw
I installed F13 on my Dad's computer last night and ran into this issue. The install itself went perfectly. I'm not sure what's different between what services get run during install and regular startup, but I can boot to the recovery option of the install DVD and chroot to the system drive no

Re: serial8250: too much work for irq 19

2010-09-19 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Kam Leo kam@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: I installed F13 on my Dad's computer last night and ran into this issue. The install itself went perfectly. I'm not sure what's different between what

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