Re: How to turn off html

2008-07-13 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: Barry - I believe you are using yahoo? This page should help you under tbird shows message source in full. then isp source can some times be determined by last 'received:' line -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing lis

Problem with my fax modem in fedora 9

2008-07-13 Thread Ardeshir hemmati
Hello I just Installed the Fedora 9, every thing is fine but I don`t know how to Install my fax/modem (U.S Robotic 56kb) and use it to connect to the Internet. I found the screen for making connections and choosing devices, but I when I Create a conection that uses the modem, it Can`t be activa

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread g
Joe Klemmer wrote: My opinion is that it's political in nature. GNU doesn't like Red Hat and, by extension, anything that Red Hat contributes to. OC, I have absolutely no proof nor reason for this opinion. But it's a gut feel. very political. read a few pages on gnu site and you will b

Re: How to manipulate with different screen sets - X.org

2008-07-13 Thread g
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 14Jul2008 04:06, g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cameron Simpson wrote: You can also just start the X server using the -config /etc/special-purpose-xorg.conf-file option, avoiding copying files. Both startx and xinit let you pass options to the X server they invoke. wa

Re: how come Sys -> Adm -> Display can't see the full resolution?

2008-07-13 Thread Dave Burns
Sorry for top posting, but I'm really responding just to the subject, not the body text. I had a similar problem, display panel did not make all valid resolutions available, and further, it would not properly update the x config if I made a coice and saved. Turns out it was due to the nvidia card

Re: F9: Problem setting resolution and video lockups

2008-07-13 Thread g
Joe Klemmer wrote: My primary desktop is Xfce but I've tried under all of them. never used 'xfce' under redhat, fedora, or mandrake. did use it once under another distrib, but that has been years back and on a 14" monitor so i did not have to change res. even if i had, it was to many years bac

Re: QEMU in F8/9

2008-07-13 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Arthur Pemberton wrote: ... yum install virt-manager Before creating a virtualized process, check that the CPU does virtualization AND that it is enabled in the BIOS. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53

Re: How to manipulate with different screen sets - X.org

2008-07-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Jul2008 04:06, g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cameron Simpson wrote: >> You can also just start the X server using the >> -config /etc/special-purpose-xorg.conf-file >> option, avoiding copying files. Both startx and xinit let you >> pass options to the X server they invoke. > > was not awar

Re: F9: Compiled and created rt2870sta.ko, but where to install?

2008-07-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:19:37 -0430 "Patrick O'Callaghan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every package in the standard Fedora repos is licensed. Some is public domain. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsu

Re: How to manipulate with different screen sets - X.org

2008-07-13 Thread g
Cameron Simpson wrote: You can also just start the X server using the -config /etc/special-purpose-xorg.conf-file option, avoiding copying files. Both startx and xinit let you pass options to the X server they invoke. was not aware. never had need. does not '/etc/special-purpose-xorg.conf-fi

Re: [Solved] F9 strange xfs problem

2008-07-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 03:16 +0200, Vassilios Kotoulas wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:40 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > XFS has been deprecated and is not included in F9. You don't need it. If > > you can't start xterm then your problem is something else. > I deleted xorg.conf and ran s

Re: F9: Compiled and created rt2870sta.ko, but where to install?

2008-07-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 17:39 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > As a side note, I wonder why this module is not included in the > F8/9 repository since it is freely available? I am assuming this > is license-free? Two points: 1) Every package in the standard Fedora repos is licensed. If you mean the mod

Re: Docs (was Re: Serving data from a DVD via httpd)

2008-07-13 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 22:46 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > The heck with GPL-pure linux distros! What we need is a documentation-pure > linux distro! Nothing included if it doesn't have complete documentation > on how to use it (Oh! wait, we already have that distro - it comes > pre-installed on all b

Re: Help with Fedora 9 by newbie (was Re: Upgrading to Fedora 9 from Fedora 8 fails)

2008-07-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 17:31 -0700, stan wrote: > What you've done is called hijacking. :-) You responded to a > thread > about something else instead of creating your own thread. That's a > no-no, the first thing to learn about Fedora. ;-) Actually, this isn't Fedora-specific. It's basic ne

Re: console-kit: what is "/proc/16750/environ"

2008-07-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 08:39 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > This appears consistenently in my /var/log/messages file. > What IS this process and how do I fix this? > = > Jul 11 08:24:53 bronze console-kit-daemon[7946]: WARNING: Couldn't read > /proc/16750/en

Docs (was Re: Serving data from a DVD via httpd)

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
> I've been trying to find a list that explains what the different > contexts mean, but no luck so far. While the first two are guessable, I > couldn't possibly guess what s0 means. The heck with GPL-pure linux distros! What we need is a documentation-pure linux distro! Nothing included if it d

Re: Serving data from a DVD via httpd

2008-07-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:39:28 +0930, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 08:08 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > context=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 > > > > The :s0 is important. > > I've been trying to find a list that explains what the different > contex

Re: Serving data from a DVD via httpd

2008-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 08:08 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: context=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 The :s0 is important. I've been trying to find a list that explains what the different contexts mean, but no luck so far. While the first two are guessable, I couldn't po

Re: Fedora 9 Install RAID Size Error

2008-07-13 Thread Roger Heflin
Tim Berryhill wrote: Fedora 9 install is failing on a new machine. I suspect the problem is related to my RAID's. I have two small, fast drives in a RAID 0 600GB array, partitioned into two drives which currently hold Vista and XP. I have three large, slow drives in a RAID 5 1.4TB array, as a

Re: using dbus-devel on fedora?

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:25:19 -0400 Todd Zullinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The pkg-config command is what helps here. The dbus-devel package > ships a pkg-config file (dbus-1.pc): Thanks! I knew there had to be something like that, but it wasn't obvious that dbus-1.pc was useful (I was looki

Re: No streams available

2008-07-13 Thread Ric Moore
> > "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin> I just tried installing skype 2.0 on my Fedora 9 x86_64 > Colin> box. But it said problem with audio playback when i tried > Colin> to make a call. > > Colin> So I opened the ALSA mixer. It says no streams

Re: using dbus-devel on fedora?

2008-07-13 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tom Horsley wrote: > Through combinations of compiler error messages and the "locate" > command, I've determined that I need the following -I options in > order to successfully compile C programs that use the dbus > interfaces (on a 64 bit system): > > -I /usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I /usr/lib64/dbus-

Re: Serving data from a DVD via httpd

2008-07-13 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 08:08 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > context=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 > > The :s0 is important. I've been trying to find a list that explains what the different contexts mean, but no luck so far. While the first two are guessable, I couldn't possibly gu

Re: NetworkManager: How to set caching nameserver?

2008-07-13 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 15:08 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Just to be a bit more precise, what I would like from NM > is error messages along the lines: "The AP you specify > does not accept your WEP code", or "There is no response > from the AP you specify", etc. > In the Good Old Days when memory

Re: F9 Mount iso at boot up SOLVED

2008-07-13 Thread Tim
Frank Murphy: >> It was a permission thing. >> >> I needed in fstab: >> /path-to/some.iso /mnt/somewhere iso9660 user,ro,loop 0 0 >> >> "rw" gives the permission denied Mikkel L. Ellertson: > It sounds like the system does not like you trying to mount a > read-only device read-write. That make

Re: F8 and a GPS -OT

2008-07-13 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 20:40 +, Beartooth wrote: > Everything I know of requires a far better grasp of linux, or of > GPS technology, or of cartography, than for instance the suites sold by > Garmin, DeLorme, Maptech, or Topo.com to run on M$ machines. That only holds true if they wor

Re: can't connect to windows

2008-07-13 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 08:43 -0700, Craig White wrote: > In the interim, if you go to 'Internet' and choose 'Konqueror' and type > 'smb:///' in the address bar, you should be browsing the Windows > networks...perhaps that works in nautilus (GNOME) too. It used to, but I don't have a Samba network s

using dbus-devel on fedora?

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
Through combinations of compiler error messages and the "locate" command, I've determined that I need the following -I options in order to successfully compile C programs that use the dbus interfaces (on a 64 bit system): -I /usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I /usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include Is there some mo

Re: blkid still confusing me :-).

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:25:17 -0400 "Kevin J. Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it list your DVD drive? Does it list it *after* a "blkid /dev/sr0"? Yea, I tried some more experiments, and I think my original confusion was caused by a video DVD I put in that only shows up as TYPE="utf"

Re: Port translation

2008-07-13 Thread Uno Engborg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Uno Engborg wrote: stan skrev: Uno Engborg wrote: stan skrev: Uno Engborg wrote: Rüdiger Pretzlaff skrev: Am 12.07.2008 um 12:21 schrieb Uno Engborg: For various reasons I would like to forward trafic to port 390 to port 5432 on the same host. One would think th

Re: blkid still confusing me :-).

2008-07-13 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:25:00 -0400 "Kevin J. Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: blkid /dev/sr0 tells me about the dvd in my dvd drive Yea, but only if you explicitly ask about /dev/sr0. If you just say "blkid" with no args, it doesn't mention it any longer. I did i

Fedora 9 Install RAID Size Error

2008-07-13 Thread Tim Berryhill
Fedora 9 install is failing on a new machine. I suspect the problem is related to my RAID's. I have two small, fast drives in a RAID 0 600GB array, partitioned into two drives which currently hold Vista and XP. I have three large, slow drives in a RAID 5 1.4TB array, as a single partition curren

Re: How to manipulate with different screen sets - X.org

2008-07-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13Jul2008 16:38, g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zlatko wrote: >> Maybe my title in subject is a little bit confusing, so I will try to >> explain what I want in an example: > > if you boot level 3 and not level 5, you could build some preconfigured > 'xorg.conf' files with different names, then

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sun, 7/13/08, Joe Klemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Joe Klemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions? > To: "For users of Fedora" > Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 1:24 PM > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> Wireless f

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: How is it that Fedora is not on this list? http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions gNewsSense just recently came around and they are on the list. What's up with that? Although there is non-Free Software included in Fedora, AFAIK the most serious

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Alexandre Oliva redhat.com> writes: > With the current policies, more and more non-Free Software is being > welcomed into Fedora. You're intentionally omitting one detail: all that non-Free software isn't software which runs on the CPU, it's firmware which runs on peripherals. The thing is that

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Alan Cox
> My opinion is that it's political in nature. GNU doesn't like Red It is political for sure - GNU has a highly public agenda around free software and what is and is not "free". > Hat and, by extension, anything that Red Hat contributes to. OC, I have > absolutely no proof nor reason fo

Re: F9: Sendmail log error

2008-07-13 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Dan Thurman schrieb: Anyone know what this means? I got this by starting sendmail: Jul 8 17:30:47 bronze sendmail[14546]: sql_select option missing Jul 8 17:30:47 bronze sendmail[14546]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available Jul 8 17:30:47 bronze sendmail[14546]: auxpropfunc error invali

Re: Closed source modules will be banned from kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 7, 2008, Antonio Olivares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> GPLv2 vs GPLv3 doesn't make much of a difference. > If it did not make much of a difference, then why is Linus Torvalds > very much opposed to releasing the kernel(s) i

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Jonathan Roberts wrote: My opinion is that it's political in nature. GNU doesn't like Red Hat and, by extension, anything that Red Hat contributes to. OC, I have absolutely no proof nor reason for this opinion. But it's a gut feel. Not the case. Right. Many of the GNU projects incl

Re: F9: Problem setting resolution and video lockups

2008-07-13 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, g wrote: you did not mention if using gnome or kde and if making changes as user or as root, or how you tried My primary desktop is Xfce but I've tried under all of them. with kde, under 'administration' select 'display', then under 'display settings', select 'ha

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 13, 2008, "Arthur Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How is it that Fedora is not on this list? > http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions > gNewsSense just recently came around and they are on the list. What's > up with that? Although there is non-Free Software

Re: F9: Problem setting resolution and video lockups

2008-07-13 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Tom Horsley wrote: Request: If someone could point me towards where I can get info on tracking this problem down it would be greatly appreciated. Sounds like this bug to me: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234824 But I don't know why you have a problem wi

Re: F8 and a GPS -OT

2008-07-13 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:23:21 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: [...] > Just for some info. If you are looking at getting a GPS system. > Garmin Nav devices run Gnome Linux > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8827997755.html > There are many devices that are supported directly in Linux.

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Jonathan Roberts
>My opinion is that it's political in nature. GNU doesn't like Red > Hat and, by extension, anything that Red Hat contributes to. OC, I have > absolutely no proof nor reason for this opinion. But it's a gut feel. Not the case. The situation with Fedora and the FSF is, as I understand i

Re: Port translation

2008-07-13 Thread IKnowNot
Uno Engborg wrote: stan skrev: Uno Engborg wrote: stan skrev: Uno Engborg wrote: Rüdiger Pretzlaff skrev: Am 12.07.2008 um 12:21 schrieb Uno Engborg: For various reasons I would like to forward trafic to port 390 to port 5432 on the same host. One would think this would be a simple task

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Wireless firmware inclusion I'd imagine. How is it that Fedora is not on this list? http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions gNewsSense just recently came around and they are on the list. What's up with that? (please don't to

Re: Jumping Terminal Windows

2008-07-13 Thread above
I too am having the same issue. I use 3 gnome terminal windows: two of them are jumpy, while the third (likely the first opened) seems to behave correctly. My conf: f9 gnome with 2 lcd screens using the nvidia driver locally compiled. No problems until f8. Still looking for a solution. Please l

Re: installing F9 on a DPT SCSI RAID

2008-07-13 Thread Lukasz
I have exactly the same problem.:-? Did you find a solution? -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=276703&topic_id=58954&forum=10#forumpost276703 If you think, this is spam, please report th

Re: To reach my target

2008-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Andrea Bencini wrote: I take it that 10.100.0.241 is your gateway. My default gateway is 10.100.0.1 Not your default gateway - your gateway to the 10.6.70.0 subnet. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! signature.asc Descrip

Re: How to turn off html

2008-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:13:16 Barry Yu wrote: > I am using web mail and got message below and would like to know how to > avoid same happen again - Do I have to use mail client instead of web mail? > ; > > > barry yu, > > please turn off " h t m l " when you send to this list. > > your message

Re: Port translation

2008-07-13 Thread Uno Engborg
stan skrev: Uno Engborg wrote: stan skrev: Uno Engborg wrote: Rüdiger Pretzlaff skrev: Am 12.07.2008 um 12:21 schrieb Uno Engborg: For various reasons I would like to forward trafic to port 390 to port 5432 on the same host. One would think this would be a simple task for iptables but I h

Re: To reach my target

2008-07-13 Thread Andrea Bencini
I take it that 10.100.0.241 is your gateway. My default gateway is 10.100.0.1 Is that machine configured to forward packets between subnets? Also, are the machines on the 10.6.70.0 configured to use the Linux machine as their gateway, at least for the 10.100.0.0 subnet? Yes I answer your ques

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:29:04 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Francis Earl wrote: > >> On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 01:24 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >>> How is it that Fedora is not on this list? >>> http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions [...] >> Wireless firmware inclu

Re: How to manipulate with different screen sets - X.org

2008-07-13 Thread g
Zlatko wrote: Maybe my title in subject is a little bit confusing, so I will try to explain what I want in an example: if you boot level 3 and not level 5, you could build some preconfigured 'xorg.conf' files with different names, then write up a script to pass arguments to to over write 'xorg.

Re: Installer and disk druid

2008-07-13 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 13 July 2008 16:14:36 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > my PC has three disks. > > Two of them where previously configured as RAID1+LVM but this > > configuration was removed since : using fdisk I created other partitions > > and already installed other distros like Debi

[Fwd: OpenVPN performance]

2008-07-13 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Message original Sujet: OpenVPN performance Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:29:52 +0200 De: Luc MAIGNAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pour :: For users of Fedora Hi, I setup OpenVPN both on client (some Linux and some Window$) & server (fedora) to access samba shares over

Re: F9: Problem setting resolution and video lockups

2008-07-13 Thread g
hi joe, you did not mention if using gnome or kde and if making changes as user or as root, or how you tried with kde, under 'administration' select 'display', then under 'display settings', select 'hardware', 'monitor type', at 'monitor', click show all available monitors, select 'daewood 707

Re: F9: Problem setting resolution and video lockups

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Joe Klemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Request: >If someone could point me towards where I can get info on tracking this > problem down it would be greatly appreciated. Sounds like this bug to me: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234824

Re: can't connect to windows

2008-07-13 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 07:26 -0400, lee wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 18:39 -0400, lee wrote: > > > With fc8 I had no trouble connecting to my home and work windows pc's. > > > Same laptop fc9 not working. I check samba and smb.conf and can see > > > nothing wrong. the only thing I have foun

F9: Problem setting resolution and video lockups

2008-07-13 Thread Joe Klemmer
Preface: I dug through the list and did some searching on Google Linux but haven't located a track pointing me in the direction to get this working right. Problem: Installation of F9 can only be set to a max resolution of 800x600 and minimum of 640x480 with the "nv" driver. This sam

Re: To reach my target

2008-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Andrea Bencini wrote: I have a local Network (10.100.0.0/24) and my default gateway is a firewall (fw;eth0=10.100.0.1) with linux OS and netfilter. I must add a local subnet (10.6.70.0/24) under my local network. The local network (10.100.0.0/24) and local subnet (10.6.70.0/24) are connected by

Re: enter password for default keyring to unlock

2008-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 13 July 2008 15:35:56 Timothy Murphy wrote: > max wrote: > > Install keyring manager and then you can remove/add keyrings and such. > > Just play with it a little and you'll get the hang of it. > > I was just looking at this again. > > Is there in fact a keyring manager that runs under KD

Re: Kernel bug or disk failure

2008-07-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris Snook writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Every other week or so, I get a disk kicked out of my RAID, with this: Jul 6 04:05:38 commodore kernel: (scsi1:A:0:0): scsi1: device overrun (status 10) on 0:0:0 Jul 6 04:05:38 commodore kernel: Unexpected busfree in DT Data-in phase, 1 SCBs abort

Re: can i "kexec" a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:48:59 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) what are the *required* config options for building a new kernel > that you can kexec *to* from the current kernel? I don't think there is anything magic at all required on the destination kernel (other th

Re: Autostart under KDE-4

2008-07-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Yes, I always keep up-to-date with standard Fedora, > but I haven't found Fedora's memory improving. it's *supposed* to work (does here). > Incidentally, I see I have an empty .kde/Autostart/ directory > (I'm a Fedora-9/KDE user). > Is there some file I could put there t

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
"Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wireless firmware inclusion? in what way? AFAIK, you still have to > download the broadcom drivers after the fact. has that changed while > i wasn't looking? i don't know about broadcom but e.g. the firmware for intel wlan devices is part of Fe

To reach my target

2008-07-13 Thread Andrea Bencini
I have a local Network (10.100.0.0/24) and my default gateway is a firewall (fw;eth0=10.100.0.1) with linux OS and netfilter. I must add a local subnet (10.6.70.0/24) under my local network. The local network (10.100.0.0/24) and local subnet (10.6.70.0/24) are connected by linux machine with net

Re: F7 aarrghh : how get gnome back?

2008-07-13 Thread Bob Goodwin USA
Beartooth wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:01:53 -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote: Beartooth wrote: I have an oldish (four or five year) machine, which I thought had major mechanical failure -- it would boot from any live CD, but not from the hard drive. Then a young friend who speaks

Re: Autostart under KDE-4

2008-07-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Anne Wilson wrote: >> KDE-4 does not seem to remember the programs running on logout >> as KDE-3 did. >> >> Is there any way of telling KDE-4, >> "I want program X running on desktop Y when I login"? > > Recently I have found that it did remember. Are you fully updated? Yes, I always keep up-to

Re: F7 aarrghh : how get gnome back?

2008-07-13 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:01:53 -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> I have an oldish (four or five year) machine, which I thought had >> major mechanical failure -- it would boot from any live CD, but not >> from the hard drive. Then a young friend who speaks hardware came and >>

Re: enter password for default keyring to unlock

2008-07-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
max wrote: > Install keyring manager and then you can remove/add keyrings and such. > Just play with it a little and you'll get the hang of it. I was just looking at this again. Is there in fact a keyring manager that runs under KDE? Or does one have to install the gnome-keyring-manager package?

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Francis Earl wrote: > Wireless firmware inclusion I'd imagine. > > On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 01:24 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > How is it that Fedora is not on this list? > > http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions > > > > gNewsSense just recently came

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Francis Earl wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 01:24 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> How is it that Fedora is not on this list? >> http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions >> >> gNewsSense just recently came around and they are on the list. What's >> up with that? > Wireless

Re: F9 Mount iso at boot up SOLVED

2008-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Frank Murphy wrote: It was a permission thing. I needed in fstab: /path-to/some.iso /mnt/somewhere iso9660 user,ro,loop 0 0 "rw" gives the permission denied Frank It sounds like the system does not like you trying to mount a read-only device read-write. That makes sense. Mikkel -- Do

Re: Installer and disk druid

2008-07-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bruno Costacurta wrote: > my PC has three disks. > Two of them where previously configured as RAID1+LVM but this > configuration was removed since : using fdisk I created other partitions > and already installed other distros like Debian and Gentoo (via a single > /boot partition shared by all dis

Re: can i "kexec" a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:26:06 -0400 (EDT) > > "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > quite simply, if i have a running f9 system, can i configure > > > and build a new (relocatable, for c

Re: NetworkManager: How to set caching nameserver?

2008-07-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Matthew Saltzman wrote: > Meanwhile, I use it when it works, and I when it doesn't, I try to > troubleshoot it and file bugs or turn it off and use the individual > tools that it tries to tie together. And I try very hard to be > patient... The basic problem with NM is not so much bugs as the la

Re: Serving data from a DVD via httpd

2008-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Uno Engborg wrote: I'm trying to mount a DVD inside /var/www/html and serve it using httpd. The problem is that the DVD have the wrong SELinux context I try to do somethng like this: mount -o context=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t,ro /dev/cdrom /var/www/html/mymountpoint but that doe

Re: F9 Mount iso at boot up SOLVED

2008-07-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 16:38 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 11:11 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > > > > > Actually, that makes a bit of sense. Depending on where in the fstab > > (should be at the bottom, as the filesystem containing the iso has to be > > online), it could work. >

Fedora 9 Help creating jigdo file

2008-07-13 Thread Frank Murphy
Having checked "man jigdo-file" I still can get my head around making an updates iso of the F9-Full-DVD. Frank -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: can i "kexec" a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:26:06 -0400 (EDT) > "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > quite simply, if i have a running f9 system, can i configure and > > build a new (relocatable, for convenience) kernel and just kexec > > over to it? > > I bel

Re: NetworkManager fails to update?

2008-07-13 Thread Law Barstow
Richard Shaw wrote: Am I the only one having this problem? --- I had the same issue Dependencies Resolved = Package Arch Version RepositorySize

F9: udev gives wrong permissions to vivi

2008-07-13 Thread Andrea
Hi, I am trying to load the module "vivi" which is a virtual video driver (very useful to test applications) Anybody can do it like "modprobe vivi" It creates an additional /dev/videoXX device. The problem is that the permissions of this device are "wrong". If I attach a real USB webcam, the

Re: can i "kexec" a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:26:06 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quite simply, if i have a running f9 system, can i configure and > build a new (relocatable, for convenience) kernel and just kexec over > to it? I believe the running system needs to have kexec support bui

Re: can't connect to windows

2008-07-13 Thread lee
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 18:39 -0400, lee wrote: > With fc8 I had no trouble connecting to my home and work windows pc's. > Same laptop fc9 not working. I check samba and smb.conf and can see > nothing wrong. the only thing I have found is doing ps -ef on smp. > the 1st looks ok >

can i "kexec" a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
quite simply, if i have a running f9 system, can i configure and build a new (relocatable, for convenience) kernel and just kexec over to it? i've read the online info and it strongly suggests that it's possible, but i can't believe it's that easy and i'd rather not try it without someone else'

How to manipulate with different screen sets - X.org

2008-07-13 Thread Zlatko
Maybe my title in subject is a little bit confusing, so I will try to explain what I want in an example: First configuration is (at work): - external monitor is at 1280x1024 - laptop monitor is at 1440x900 Second configuration is (at home): - external monitor is at 1440x90

Re: F8 and a GPS -OT

2008-07-13 Thread Simon Slater
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 21:24 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Simon Slater wrote: > > I don't suppose someone of your ilk could point a young bloke to some > > reading on serial comms with linux boxes? I have a box of odd things > > I'd like to get going to save some manual data input (microchi

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Francis Earl
Wireless firmware inclusion I'd imagine. On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 01:24 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > How is it that Fedora is not on this list? > http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions > > gNewsSense just recently came around and they are on the list. What's > up with that