Re: [CentOS] "Overlay" Filesystem Mounts?

2011-11-15 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 11/15/2011 01:05 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 11/15/2011 06:39 PM, John Hodrien piše: >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Tim Nelson wrote: >> >>> - Original Message - On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Tim Nelson wrote: > I'm already doing this. It "works", but is quite messy. I had hope

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60 laptop

2011-02-16 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 02/16/2011 12:30 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:02:57 -0500 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> Mathieu Baudier wrote: >>> I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as >>> a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field. >> >>> I would be gra

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade libgcc & gcc packages (is there a clean way)

2010-08-09 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/09/2010 02:24 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: > Machine is running 5.3 and somehow both packages got updated to > libgcc-4.1.2-48.el5 when they need to be libgcc-4.1.2-44.el5. The DBAs here > perform the Oracle Grid Control client install however they said it will not > install it if detects an

Re: [CentOS] 5.4-->5.5 Upgrade broke OO 3.2.0

2010-05-28 Thread Roger K. Wells
David McGuffey wrote: > In order to get an OpenOffice configuration that is closer in > compatibility with MS Office 2007, I removed the standard OO in 5.4 via > yum and installed the latest (3.2.0) from OpenOffice.org. Ran that > config for many months without a problem. > > However, when I allowe

[CentOS] bluetooth mouse

2010-05-17 Thread Roger K. Wells
Hello, I believe that it is well known that the scroll wheel on the Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse 5000 does not work on CentOS 5.4. It does, however, work as expected on Fedora 12 & Ubuntu 9.10 & 10.04. Does anyone know if there is a driver upgrade path for CentOS that will fix this problem? Than

Re: [CentOS] ooimpress in show only mode

2010-03-11 Thread Roger K. Wells
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> hi all. >> >> Look at ooimpress on centos 5 x86_64. >> >> been trying to find a way to get it to just show a power point and not >> show the editor screen. >> > > If you find out, let us all know. I open a .pps from an email, and get the > editor screen. > >

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager trouble with CentOS 5.4 and KDE3

2010-03-09 Thread Roger K. Wells
Martin Jungowski wrote: > I'm evaluating CentOS 5.4 for our company and one of our requirements is > that it must also run on laptops. I've managed to get everything working > so far except for wireless networks. The problem here seems to be that > CentOS fails to provide a knetworkmanager packa

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-07 Thread Roger K. Wells
Roger K. Wells wrote: > Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> On 1/7/10 8:55 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> >> >>> On 1/7/10 8:37 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I have a defective HP-Compaq nx9420 and so I am lo

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-07 Thread Roger K. Wells
Eero Volotinen wrote: > On 1/7/10 8:55 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> On 1/7/10 8:37 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: >> >>> I have a defective HP-Compaq nx9420 and so I am looking to replace >>> it. I have pretty much decided to buy no further MicroSoft based >>> products and would very much lik

Re: [CentOS] Docx format ?

2009-11-25 Thread Roger K. Wells
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way I can read a .docx file on my CentOS desktop ? > > Open Office 3 will do it. roger wells > Cheers, > > Niki > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 32bit development on x86-64

2009-11-11 Thread Roger K. Wells
Les Mikesell wrote: > Roger K. Wells wrote: > >> Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: >> >>> perhaps linux32 helps you out >>> >>> man linux32 >>> >>> >>> >> thanks Juergen. >> that seems to set the env

Re: [CentOS] 32bit development on x86-64

2009-11-11 Thread Roger K. Wells
Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: > perhaps linux32 helps you out > > man linux32 > > thanks Juergen. that seems to set the environment for the program that is to be run, e.g. make, gcc, ld, etc. Not so much the environment where the target will run. roger wells > greetings >

[CentOS] 32bit development on x86-64

2009-11-11 Thread Roger K. Wells
We develop software and are beginning a slow transition from 32 bit applications to their 64 bit equivalents. During this period it will be necessary to build programs targeted for both environments using the x86-64 machines for development. here is a simple/small "application", sizes.c: #inc

Re: [CentOS] Problems getting scanner to work from xsane (from Gnome Menu or GIMP)

2009-10-01 Thread Roger K. Wells
Robert Heller wrote: > We have a networked HP OfficeJet All-In-One. I have the scanner working > with the CentOS 5.3, except xsane is ignoring SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE. > scanimage does however take this environment variable just fine: > > server1.wendellfreelibrary.org% scanimage -L > > No scanners w

Re: [CentOS] bluetooth mystery

2009-09-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
Preston Connors wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Roger K. Wells, > > On my older Think Pad I had a similar problem with devices, such as WLAN > and Bluetooth, shutting off and not showing up in Linux for no apparent > reason. Every so often I w

[CentOS] bluetooth mystery

2009-09-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
After using a bluetooth mouse for a couple of weeks on: [r...@rwells-cts ~]# uname -a Linux rwells-cts 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 10:03:38 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux the machine is a Lenovo laptop, X200 today after booting (and re-booting) not even the bluetoo

[CentOS] Microsoft Mouse 5000 - Bluetooth

2009-08-31 Thread Roger K. Wells
Has anyone been able to get the scroll wheel to work? Most of the other functions are fine, however "xev" does not show any events when the scroll wheel or the fourth button is pushed. Other than that it is a nice mouse but I would like the scroll wheel to work. My system: [ro...@rwells-cts tm

Re: [CentOS] thinkpad x200 wireless LAN

2009-08-27 Thread Roger K. Wells
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Ned Slider wrote: > >> Roger K. Wells wrote: >> >>> On the following system: >>> >>> Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 >>> x86_64 GNU/Linux >

Re: [CentOS] thinkpad x200 wireless LAN

2009-08-27 Thread Roger K. Wells
Ned Slider wrote: > Roger K. Wells wrote: > >> On the following system: >> >> Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 >> x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> the Intel 5100 pci wireless adapter appears to be detected and a >>

[CentOS] thinkpad x200 wireless LAN

2009-08-26 Thread Roger K. Wells
On the following system: Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux the Intel 5100 pci wireless adapter appears to be detected and a reasonable driver is indicated (iwlagn) but the radio does not appear to be on, at least the little antenna like LED