Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Ed Greshko wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: And I cannot get my notebook to even go over 800x600 for the internal display without using system-config-display to create a xorg.conf to get higher resolution with FC12. How do I convince X to give me more without the xorg.conf? BTW, this is on an

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Paul Allen Newell wrote: Kevin Fenzi wrote: Don't do that. See: http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/ (with screenshots even! :) There is no need at all to make an xorg.conf, and as you have seen it can

Re: yum update question

s wrote: On 01/03/2010 11:50 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: While doing a "yum update" after an install from DVD, I noticed that I got the following message (this is a "write it down and then retype into computer that has mail" so I might have a typo: [...] Installing: ker

Re: yum update question

Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday 04 January 2010 08:15:13 Paul Allen Newell wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday 04 January 2010 05:50:54 Paul Allen Newell wrote: [...] Installing: kernal-PAE-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686 W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module

Re: yum update question

Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday 04 January 2010 05:50:54 Paul Allen Newell wrote: While doing a "yum update" after an install from DVD, I noticed that I got the following message (this is a "write it down and then retype into computer that has mail" so

Re: control-C and yum update

Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/4 Paul Allen Newell : I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running and was wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it. It's an interrupt, which could be blocked or it might be on a different queue. Y

yum update question

While doing a "yum update" after an install from DVD, I noticed that I got the following message (this is a "write it down and then retype into computer that has mail" so I might have a typo: [...] Installing: kernal-PAE-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686 W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for

control-C and yum update

A quick question which is hopefully just "an education request" ... While reinstalling f12 on a machine that I "messed up", I was following all my notes and directions and reached the point where the install was successful and it was time to update. I did a "su -l" and then typed "yum update".

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Monday 28 December 2009 09:21 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: The man page tells you under what conditions the various files (/etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login etc) are read depending on what type of shell (interactive, login). Are you saying there is a situation not covered

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Ed Greshko wrote: Paul Allen Newell wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Paul Allen Newell wrote: Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Aaron, On Monday 28 December 2009 02:11 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 03:04 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Ed Greshko wrote: Paul Allen Newell wrote: Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Aaron, On Monday 28 December 2009 02:11 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 03:04 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote: ~/.bash_profile gets sourced by any "well behaved" desktop environment whe

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Aaron, On Monday 28 December 2009 02:11 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 03:04 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote: ~/.bash_profile gets sourced by any "well behaved" desktop environment when ever you login. In my experience XFCE and WindowMaker does this. (I don't use

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

TNWestTex wrote: Paul Allen Newell wrote: François Patte wrote: Paul Allen Newell a écrit : To all: Installed f12 without any problems. Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature. Searched Fedora f12

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Ali wrote: Hi Paul, On Sunday 27 December 2009 10:52 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Suvayu Ali wrote: If the OP is interested, the command line way to do this would be to have one of your login scripts like ~/.bash_profile say, setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp ;) Suvayu: Thanks, this

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sunday 27 December 2009 11:06 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:42:19 -0800 Paul Allen Newell wrote: To all: Installed f12 without any problems. Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:42:19 -0800 Paul Allen Newell wrote: To all: Installed f12 without any problems. Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature. How did you discover this? Trying it in a

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 00:42 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: To all: Installed f12 without any problems. Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature. Searched Fedora f12 web pages and they told me to

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

François Patte wrote: Paul Allen Newell a écrit : To all: Installed f12 without any problems. Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature. Searched Fedora f12 web pages and they told me to install system-config-display

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Eric Tanguy wrote: Le 27/12/2009 09:42, Paul Allen Newell a écrit : To all: Installed f12 without any problems. Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature. Searched Fedora f12 web pages and they told me to install

problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

To all: Installed f12 without any problems. Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature. Searched Fedora f12 web pages and they told me to install system-config-display to create an xorg.conf that matched the default that

Re: minor problems with Audio CD fix from Bug 514213

I am pinging this message out again as I haven't heard anything. I want to have more info about a DVD that clobbers a drive in F11 and need help in getting the necessary info to submit a bug. Thanks in advance, Paul Paul Allen Newell wrote: I just upgrade to 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PA

Re: trying to understand SELinux message

Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 11/16/2009 12:09 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Paul SELinux policy can not be written in such a way to allow you to run X Windows as root. The problem is too many Applications require rights to write to the homedir and we want to treat /root differently then

Re: trying to understand SELinux message

Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 05:47:43 Paul Allen Newell wrote: I am not certain why I would want to disable SELinux as it clearly is part of the Fedora package and is trying to tell me that something isn't right. Good thinking. You definitely do not wa

Re: trying to understand SELinux message

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: >From Wikipedia: “...given the threat models and capabilities of the adversaries involved, that's probably appropriate... But that’s not nec

Re: trying to understand SELinux message

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hi Paul, Summary: SELinux is preventing the gdm-session-wor from using potentially mislabeled files (.dmrc). Detailed Description: SELinux has denied gdm-session-wor access to potentially

minor problems with Audio CD fix from Bug 514213

I just upgrade to 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE and everything else yum gave me today and confirmed that most of my issues have been fixed (a big thanks to Harald et al for getting this done !!!) I just logged two more bugs related to a couple things that didn't happen with it. Bug #537740: if o

Re: help (What I really wanted to say....)

Hiisi wrote: 2009/11/16 Ed Greshko : Roger wrote: On 11/15/2009 08:37 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 15/11/09 00:23, Ed Greshko wrote: Ralph Gorrill wrote: I yhave a DELL lap top that one of my employess loaded FEDORA on with out telling anyone...I

Re: trying to understand SELinux message

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: You can try to disable SELinux in /etc/selinux/config or in /boot/grub/grub.conf. In /etc/selinux/config, change SELinux to DISABLED. OR In /boot

Re: trying to understand SELinux message

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: I just upgraded two of my systems to latest yum update (2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE) with the hopes that the CD and DVD issues have been resolved (they have, almost, but thats a separate

trying to understand SELinux message

Hello: I just upgraded two of my systems to latest yum update (2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE) with the hopes that the CD and DVD issues have been resolved (they have, almost, but thats a separate bugzilla report). What I am querying about in this email is a message that I am seeing when I log i

Re: Saving Flash where Greenspan confess he's an idiot

Marcel Rieux wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: With all due respects, isn't this an incorrect posting given the intent of the mailing list and the intent of the message? Because I have respect for the intelligence of people on this list, I

Re: Saving Flash where Greenspan confess he's an idiot

Marcel Rieux wrote: Did you ever believe that you would one day hear Alan Greenspan confess that the way he envisioned global economics was totally wrong? That's what, amongst other thing, you will hear in this stunning CBC documentary entitled "The Warning" or how the 2008 financila meltdown co

Re: Fedora 11: Very very slow graphics rendering

Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote: 2009/10/13 Ed Greshko > Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote: > Problem: Fedora 11 is very very slow while it comes to rendering > graphics. It makes the experience really very poor. Clicking on any > menu or opening of any

Re: F11 and super user

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 18:03 +, Croombe F. Pensom wrote: I am somewhat lazy in that I find a GUI better to use than the command line even though I am familiar with the latter and can use most of its commands. This is a false dichotomy. The recommended proc

Re: problems posting

Roger wrote: On 09/03/2009 02:25 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Over the last 3 months, I noticed that I have posted and not gotten any responses. Fair enough, maybe the posts aren't worth it. But I just did a check of the archives and I don't see any of my posts. Don'

Re: problems posting

Ed Greshko wrote: Paul Allen Newell wrote: Over the last 3 months, I noticed that I have posted and not gotten any responses. Fair enough, maybe the posts aren't worth it. But I just did a check of the archives and I don't see any of my posts. Don't know if I am incorrectly

problems posting

Over the last 3 months, I noticed that I have posted and not gotten any responses. Fair enough, maybe the posts aren't worth it. But I just did a check of the archives and I don't see any of my posts. Don't know if I am incorrectly posting or, in worse case, blacklisted. So, I am sending out a