FC13 Virt Win XP guest

2010-06-10 Thread Ken Smith
Hi all, I've set up FC13 64bit on a machine with an intel i7 and 4G memory I'm trying to get a simple virtualisation to work. I followed the instructions here -

Re: FC13 Virt Win XP guest

2010-06-11 Thread Ken Smith
Suvayu Ali wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:31 AM, Ken Smith wrote: Suvayu Ali wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:18 AM, Ken Smith wrote: Hi all, I've set up FC13 64bit on a machine with an intel i7 and 4G memory I'm trying to get a simple virtualisation to work. I

Re: FC13 Virt Win XP guest

2010-06-12 Thread Ken Smith
suvayu ali wrote: On 11 June 2010 13:02, Ken Smith k...@kensnet.org wrote: Suvayu Ali wrote: I was installing from a CD, so I went to the hardware details tab and selected the CD ROM drive in boot options as the boot device. I know this sounds stupid, but it worked then. However

cgi perl selinux question

2010-06-23 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, I'm setting up a cgi application (the Web part of the MythTV application). I'd like to try to run it with SELINUX enabled if possible. The perl script writes to STDOUT and it produces a SELINUX error that recommends executing this command chcon -t httpd_sys_content_t 'stdout' How

Re: qemu update for fc13 broken?

2011-03-28 Thread Ken Smith
Bill Davidsen wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: compdoc wrote: Keyboard works, mouse doesn't. Does that give you any clues? I'm using qemu-kvm 0.14.0, and I have to run the command like this or neither the mouse or keyboard works: qemu-kvm -m 512 -hda svr.img -soundhw

Re: qemu update for fc13 broken?

2011-04-05 Thread Ken Smith
Ken Smith wrote: {snip} This might be related. On my FC13 system, on 22 Mar, qemu went from qemu-common-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64 to - qemu-common-0.13.0-1.fc13.x86_64 After that update an XP vm no longer boots. Win 7 and Centos VM's are fine. The XP vm was installed with the work-around

FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-05 Thread Ken Smith
Hi, I've seem problems like this reported in various forums. I have a i7 Asus MB system with FC13 x64 and I'm using a PS2 keyboard and mouse. They are old but they work well. After the machine has been running for around 10-15 mins all input from the keyboard and mouse fails. The system keeps

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-05 Thread Ken Smith
Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/05/2011 02:14 PM, Ken Smith wrote: So maybe this is an issue with X. I'm using the nVidia binary blob driver but the problem was there with the nouveau driver. You need to understand that the nVidia driver has to be re-installed every time the kernel is updated. My

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Ken Smith
compdoc wrote: The problem is that I have some other hardware that does not work all that well after suspend/hibernate and so I can have either that hardware (M-Audio 1010) working and the mouse at risk of failing or the 1010 not working. So what you're saying is, while the M-Audio

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Ken Smith
Ken Smith wrote: compdoc wrote: The problem is that I have some other hardware that does not work all that well after suspend/hibernate and so I can have either that hardware (M-Audio 1010) working and the mouse at risk of failing or the 1010 not working. So what you're

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Ken Smith
Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/06/2011 11:57 AM, James Wilkinson wrote: Stupid debugging idea 1: does it make any difference if you power-up with the PS/2 mouse unplugged and the USB mouse plugged in? If you could borrow a USB keyboard, you could try a similar trick with that. Not stupid

F17 XDMCP

2012-06-25 Thread Ken Smith
Hi, I in danger of making this a rant, but is XDMCP no longer something that Fedora supports? I have just installed F17 x64 in a VM to tinker with it and systemd and I'd like to enable XDMCP. Or what is the favoured remote access method these days. I've put DisallowTCP=0 in the [security]

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-06-26 Thread Ken Smith
Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/26/2012 05:27 AM, Ken Smith wrote: I have just installed F17 x64 in a VM to tinker with it and systemd and I'd like to enable XDMCP. Or what is the favoured remote access method these days. What are your requirements for remote access? Is there something

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-06-26 Thread Ken Smith
Alan Cox wrote: {snip} how does removing XDMCP functionality further Fedora's cause? It's not a Fedora thing, it's a Gnome thing. Fedora ships several other display managers all of which do xdmcp just fine. In appreciate that its a Gnome thing Thanks Ken -- This message has

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-06-26 Thread Ken Smith
Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/26/2012 09:54 PM, Ken Smith wrote: {snip} user accessible then installing a service should enable and start it. {snip} Well, IMO, server software should default to disabled. It is not unusual for users (novices and even experienced) to install server side

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-06-29 Thread Ken Smith
Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: On 06/26/2012 04:19 PM, Robert Myers wrote: {snip} I have more than a hint and guidance. I have emphatic advice. Stop trying to import and export desktops, no matter the system. Import and export windows or create virtual machines, but do not ever under any

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-07-02 Thread Ken Smith
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/29/2012 05:57 AM, Ken Smith wrote: I still don't understand why deprecating XDMCP furthers the Open Source cause. Guys, slow down. There's no reason to believe that XCMCP has been deprecated. It can be enabled exactly as it was in the previous release

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-07-03 Thread Ken Smith
Gordon Messmer wrote: {snip} It sounds like the X server is crashing or locking up. Try this: Reset the machine running the X server. Possibly reset the F17 host as well, since it's complaining about too many sessions from your X server host. When you run X -query, capture data using

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-07-03 Thread Ken Smith
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/02/2012 07:08 AM, Ken Smith wrote: I would suggest deprecated as the settings for the function have been buried. It suppose it depends on how you define deprecated. No, they haven't. They're still in custom.conf, where they've been for some time

Re: what is the name of the os installer?

2018-10-30 Thread Ken Smith
Anaconda On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 9:58 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I keep forgetting the name of Fedora's OS installer > (not the program installer). > > Many thanks, > -T > ___ > users mailing list --

Re: fc29 beta

2018-09-28 Thread Ken Smith
Let us know how it goes! On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 2:48 PM ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > I just upgraded one of my machines to FC29 Beta. Looks > pretty. Haven't had a chance to play with it yet. > > -T > > Here are my upgrade notes; > > > FC 28 -->> FC 29: > > # rpm --rebuilddb > # rpm -Va

Re: fc29 beta

2018-09-28 Thread Ken Smith
Thanks for the information, On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 2:48 PM ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > I just upgraded one of my machines to FC29 Beta. Looks > pretty. Haven't had a chance to play with it yet. > > -T > > Here are my upgrade notes; > > > FC 28 -->> FC 29: > > # rpm --rebuilddb > # rpm

i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Ken Smith via users
Hi everyone, I have a Dell Latitude 5480 laptop with a Fedora 36 install. It crashes regularly, uptime can sometimes be less that 5 mins but sometimes it lasts several hours. There is no trace at all in journalctl of its demise. It behaves like a machine with a memory issue. I've moved the

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Ken Smith via users
Roger Heflin wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:06 AM Ken Smith via users wrote: Hi everyone, I have a Dell Latitude 5480 laptop with a Fedora 36 install. It crashes regularly, uptime can sometimes be less that 5 mins but sometimes it lasts several hours. There is no trace at all in journalctl

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-28 Thread Ken Smith via users
Felix Miata wrote: Ken Smith via users composed on 2022-10-26 13:05 (UTC+0100): This machine has a KabbyLake processor (Intel Core i5-7200U 2.50GHz), 8G memory, an Intel i915 (HD Graphics 620) GPU and SSD storage. I've read on various forums that this combination of CPU/GPU can

Re: i915 Unstable <- no it a hardware fault

2022-11-12 Thread Ken Smith via users
Roger Heflin wrote: The dmesg in the dump where it starts having issues is often enough to have an idea. On Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 9:09 AM Ken Smith via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: Felix Miata wrote: > Ken Smith via users composed on 2022-10-26 1