Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-23 Thread john wendel
I first noticed the X slowdown when I installed F8. I've used every version of Fedora, and I noticed that the user experience with F8 was not as smooth as earlier versions. I spend most of my day hacking code in vi, so 2D video performance is important to me. I care nothing about 3D video. Whe

HP Server for Fedora10

2009-03-23 Thread Sara Hugh
I plan to buy HP server (around $1500) for installation of Fedora10. Could anyone provide me some suggestion about what kind of HP server I can buy? Thank you very much for your help in advance. Sara -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.c

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ?? -- [SOLVED]

2009-03-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:45 -0400, William Case wrote: > In the system-config-printer gui under services I entered my > root password. Why I was being asked for my root password, I > haven't figured out yet. It's a system configuration, as such root authentication is required. -- [...@localhost

Re: Redhat up2date rpms to date

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Ward
That would be my preferred way, unfortunately the comapany insist I have o download all the updates first then apply them to the servers. I have been told to do it the following (tried and trusted way) This means having to use up2date -du. cd /var/spool/updates mkdir /var/spool/updates/kernel mv k

Re: UTF-8 problem with NTFS support?

2009-03-23 Thread Dave Burns
More strangeness. A person who knows what is on the disk says there are no strange filenames, just ordinary letters and numbers, so the utf-8 stuff seems like a red herring. Maybe something is corrupt? Ran ntfsck: ntfsck /dev/sdc1 Unsupported: replay_log() Unsupported: check_volume() Checking 450

Re: OS "hiccups"

2009-03-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Evince seems to allow that now, though I didn't do a lot of testing. So does Okular. It actually got form support before Evince did. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-li

evince ignore default printer

2009-03-23 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonsoir, If I want to print a document using evince, I have to choose everytime the printer. There is default printer configured and every apps use it, why not evince? I did not find anything to configure a default printer in evince prefs. Thanks f

Re: possible cause of horrifically unreliable NFS?

2009-03-23 Thread Roger Heflin
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:46 PM, David Burns wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: >>  what is the most common cause of NFS bouncing back and forth between >> OK and "not responding"?  should i be messing with the mount options? > > 2 prime causes of NFS problems fo

Re: possible cause of horrifically unreliable NFS?

2009-03-23 Thread David Burns
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >  what is the most common cause of NFS bouncing back and forth between > OK and "not responding"?  should i be messing with the mount options? 2 prime causes of NFS problems for me are iptables and selinux. Just a guess. Dave -- fedora-l

UTF-8 problem with NTFS support?

2009-03-23 Thread Dave Burns
I've mounted an external USB hard drive on my fc-10 system. I have all teh NTFS-3G packages installed. rpm -qa|grep -i NTFS ntfs-3g-2009.2.1-2.fc10.x86_64 ntfs-3g-devel-2009.2.1-2.fc10.x86_64 ntfsprogs-2.0.0-9.fc10.x86_64 ntfsprogs-devel-2.0.0-9.fc10.x86_64 ntfsprogs-gnomevfs-2.0.0-9.fc10.x86_64

Missing Hardware

2009-03-23 Thread Gene Poole
I'm running Fedora 9 on a custom AMD Phenom Quad-Core with 8GB RAM installed, 2-SATA hard drives (Seagate 500GB and Seagate 1TB); HP DVD/CD RW Dual Layer with Lightscribe. Lo and behold, I've updated my running (this machine) from kernel 2.6.25-14 to kernel 2.6.27.19-78.2.30 (?) and have experie

Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-23 Thread Rick Stevens
Aldo Foot wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Robin Laing wrote: There needs to be a firm way of changing and editing LVM characteristics in these situations. -- Robin Laing Hopefully the LVM toolset will be refined overtime. Rick said he'd look into the bugzilla reports; hopefully someo

Re: which driver to use for ATI HD2400 mobile.

2009-03-23 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > radeon (xorg ati) or radeonhd ? I would recommend ati, but both ati and radeonhd are based on the same accalereation code. > Also if known, which will as first support 3D for this and if known when? Both at ~ the same time. Its done when its done. Not very far for now. - Clemens -- fedor

Re: OS "hiccups"

2009-03-23 Thread Robin Laing
Smith, Herb wrote: All, I'm running Fedora 10 and have been very happy with it. Within the last week, however, the OS seems to be experiencing momentary "hangups" of some sort where all activity stops for 10 or 15 seconds. The cursor won't move, web pages won't scroll, etc. This occurs not on

Problem with keyring not really acceptable?

2009-03-23 Thread Hugh Caley
My Fedora 10 machine uses NIS for authentication. I changed my NIS password. I was able to successfully log into my Fedora box, but my first attempt to open an SSH session to another machine in gnome-terminal is blocked by the keyring, which wants the old password. Is this really acceptable?

Re: OS "hiccups"

2009-03-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:43:20 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Why are you still using the proprietary Adobe Reader? Use Okular! :-) Or > Evince. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220983 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedor

possible cause of horrifically unreliable NFS?

2009-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i have a small embedded ARM board and i'm trying to boot it off via an NFS mount point sitting on my fedora 9 system. i thought i set up NFS properly in terms of exporting a (debian flavour) root fs but, when i boot, i get numerous diagnostic msgs of the form: VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem

Re: OS "hiccups"

2009-03-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:16:25 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:43 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Craig White wrote: > > > Personally, I have trouble when I've been viewing PDF's within Firefox > > > using the AdobeReader plugin and memory gets out of control. > > > > Why

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:56 AM, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I feel foolish posting here.  This should be simple to do.  But I am > stumped.  I have googled etc. and found nothing helpful. > > I have a two computer home LAN.  The network is properly set up.  I can > ping and ssh in both directi

Re: OS "hiccups"

2009-03-23 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:43 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > Personally, I have trouble when I've been viewing PDF's within Firefox > > using the AdobeReader plugin and memory gets out of control. > > Why are you still using the proprietary Adobe Reader? Use Okular! :-) Or > Evi

RE: Maple on Fedora

2009-03-23 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: "Smith, Herb" | I have used Mathematica on Fedora for a number of years. I have found | that if I contact Mathematica and explain that I have updated my OS and | need a new password for the new configuration, that I get what I need | with no problem. Good to hear. Perhaps I should in

Re: OS "hiccups"

2009-03-23 Thread Todd Denniston
Smith, Herb wrote, On 03/23/2009 11:07 AM: All, I'm running Fedora 10 and have been very happy with it. Within the last week, however, the OS seems to be experiencing momentary "hangups" of some sort where all activity stops for 10 or 15 seconds. The cursor won't move, web pages won't scroll,

Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-23 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Robin Laing wrote: > > There needs to be a firm way of changing and editing LVM characteristics in > these situations. > > -- > Robin Laing Hopefully the LVM toolset will be refined overtime. Rick said he'd look into the bugzilla reports; hopefully someone will ta

Re: OS "hiccups"

2009-03-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Craig White wrote: > Personally, I have trouble when I've been viewing PDF's within Firefox > using the AdobeReader plugin and memory gets out of control. Why are you still using the proprietary Adobe Reader? Use Okular! :-) Or Evince. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-lis

Re: F10 and built-in Intel graphics

2009-03-23 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > The 8400GS is PCI-e and won't fit in this old Dell Dimension 2400 - but I > have bought one of those for my other problematic Intel integrated > graphics machine (see below). In this case (Dimension 2400) even with > only 2d working it is better than not working at

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
William Case wrote: > Right now I am running in Permissive mode. Permissive mode is about SELinux, it has absolutely nothing to do with iptables (the firewall). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedor

Re: Preupgrade F-9/F-10 disaster -

2009-03-23 Thread Mike Burger
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:15:25 + > Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: > >> > What install notes are these? I have nwever heard of this restriction >> > before. >> > >> >> That was the answer I was given, when I tries u\g F9-10 with Preupgrade. >> Was told to do it DvD due to the way F9 anaconda

Re: OS "hiccups"

2009-03-23 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:07 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote: > All, > > I'm running Fedora 10 and have been very happy with it. Within the last > week, however, the OS seems to be experiencing momentary "hangups" of > some sort where all activity stops for 10 or 15 seconds. The cursor > won't move, web

Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-23 Thread Bill Crawford
On Monday 23 March 2009 15:53:01 Robin Laing wrote: > There needs to be a firm way of changing and editing LVM characteristics > in these situations. Yeah, boot from rescue disk and rename the first one it sees, should then let the other be visible. You could, at a pinch, change the partition ty

Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-23 Thread Robin Laing
Frank Cox wrote: One of my computers died and, of course, there is un-backed-up data on there that I want to recover if I can. The hard drive seems to be in good shape so I took it out of the dead box and installed it on this computer (my main desktop machine.) I have been doing a bunch of read

Re: Request for help on VM

2009-03-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote: > 1. The information reported by windows device manager (which is running on > windows partition) related to chip set, NIC, Audio device etc and the > information reported by the windows device manager of windows XP which is > running as guest OS are different. This

OS "hiccups"

2009-03-23 Thread Smith, Herb
All, I'm running Fedora 10 and have been very happy with it. Within the last week, however, the OS seems to be experiencing momentary "hangups" of some sort where all activity stops for 10 or 15 seconds. The cursor won't move, web pages won't scroll, etc. This occurs not only in Firefox, but ge

Re: freenx-client vs. nxclient/2xterminalserverclient in F10

2009-03-23 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:03 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > I installed freenx-client.i386 0:0.9-7.fc10 in F10, configured it and > tried to start qtnx, but without success: > > Process started > stdout> notQProcess error: 0 crashed. errno:2 > Process exited > Process started > > Somebody

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ?? -- [SOLVED]

2009-03-23 Thread William Case
Hi Tim; On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 11:29 +, Tim Waugh wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Yes it is on by default. Double checked before replying and it is on. > > system-config-printer probes for any existing printers first then > > provides an installation page with several options. One option is

RE: Maple on Fedora

2009-03-23 Thread Smith, Herb
I have used Mathematica on Fedora for a number of years. I have found that if I contact Mathematica and explain that I have updated my OS and need a new password for the new configuration, that I get what I need with no problem. -Original Message- From: David Liguori [mailto:liguo...@al

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:55 +, g wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > I have had remote printing working before with different printers and > > different OSes. > > check your upstairs computer to see that it is set for lan/external printing, > set for correct printer config used downstairs. Aga

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 21:43 +0100, Andreas Burger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > g schrieb: > > g wrote: > > > >> William Case wrote: > >> > >>> BASEMENT: http://localhost:631 shows the correct printer. > >>> UPSTAIRS: http://localhost:631 shows NO PRINTER > >>> > >>

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 16:14 -0400, William Case wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 14:52 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 14:56 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > > > I feel foolish posting here. This should be simple to do. But I am > > > stumped. I have googled etc.

Re: Maple on Fedora

2009-03-23 Thread David Liguori
D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Hiisi | Maple is not open source (free). It was main argument for me to choose another | symbolic arithmetic program - maxima ( maxima.sourceforge.net ). It's | brilliant. My daughter bought Mathmatica for a project perhaps five years ago. She ran it on RHL9

AUTO: Pablo Andres Ibarra Duprat is out of the office. (returning 04/13/2009)

2009-03-23 Thread Pablo Andres Ibarra Duprat
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Xserver failed to start (got it to boot gui followup)

2009-03-23 Thread dcooke
Finally, Xserver along with messagebus, named and nfs took almost an hour to come to life and seemingly working again, but on Shut Down things are not saving properly and I am back to square one next BootTime. Should any 'on demand services' be running in order for messagebus, named and nfs to wo

Re: IPTABLES help

2009-03-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 14:55:11 +0530, Arun Shrimali wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Arun Shrimali wrote: > > > > Now my LAN clients (all are having static IPs) want to access mails > > through outlook express. > > > > Please, advice me, how to set iptables chains on linux machine. I

RE: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread bruce
hi... thought this would have been solved by now!!! try this.. since this is an internal (to your house) network... turn off all selinux/security stuff... as well as all iptables stuff.. the idea is to let everything pass, and let's see if you can get the printer to work when everything is wid

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 14:56 -0400, William Case wrote: > The network is properly set up. I can ping and ssh in both > directions. Are they on the same subnet? Or, if they're actually on different subnets, have you configured the IP addresses and netmasks appropriately? -- [...@localhost ~]$ un

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread Tim Waugh
William Case wrote: Yes it is on by default. Double checked before replying and it is on. system-config-printer probes for any existing printers first then provides an installation page with several options. One option is HPLIP which I tried. It says it can't find a printer. (Actually I tried

Re: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread Tim Waugh
William Case wrote: I have a working HP Photosmart C4200 series printer connected by USB to my BASEMENT computer. I am trying to set up printing for the UPSTAIRS computer over the LAN. system-config-printer on the UPSTAIRS computer does not detect the basement printer and none of the set up optio

Re: Request for help on VM

2009-03-23 Thread RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA
A) I have installed VirualBox and then installed WindowsXP as guest OS. Following are my observations: 1. The information reported by windows device manager (which is running on windows partition) related to chip set, NIC, Audio device etc and the information reported by the windows device manager

Re: BOINC

2009-03-23 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 15:43 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:56 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > > > Guys, I've discovered that, for some strange reason, you *must* have > > > elevated privileges to run / configure BOINC when it'

Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-23 Thread Bill Crawford
On Friday 20 March 2009 18:52:59 Aldo Foot wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:24:14 + > > > > Bill Crawford wrote: > >> You should probably be able to get some sense out of this by doing: > >> > >>     # vgrename 1dl8EY-s2Qe-W50Y-wU8V-nCRJ-5U

which driver to use for ATI HD2400 mobile.

2009-03-23 Thread David Hláčik
Hello guys, I am wondering which driver is the best to use for the subject radeon (xorg ati) or radeonhd ? Also if known, which will as first support 3D for this and if known when? Thanks in advance, David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.c

Re: IPTABLES help

2009-03-23 Thread Arun Shrimali
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Arun Shrimali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can anybody help me how to configure iptable for pop3 and smtp > > I have setup a gateway server FC9, the network details are as follows : > > LAN (172.16.251.0/255.255.255.0 ) ---> Linux server (fedora 9, eth1 > 172.16.251.2

Re: So how safe is Firefox these days?

2009-03-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 08:00 +0100, jimbob palmer wrote: > My interest is this: is firefox secure enough to store a password for > an internet banking site? That sounds like a question for the Firefox crowd, more than the Fedora one. For what it's worth, I wouldn't. Security is never guaranteed,

freenx-client vs. nxclient/2xterminalserverclient in F10

2009-03-23 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, I installed freenx-client.i386 0:0.9-7.fc10 in F10, configured it and tried to start qtnx, but without success: Process started stdout> notQProcess error: 0 crashed. errno:2 Process exited Process started Somebody has been successful to use freenx-client? My aim was to eliminate nxclient o

Re: So how safe is Firefox these days?

2009-03-23 Thread jimbob palmer
2009/3/23 Simon Slater : > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 11:49 +0100, jimbob palmer wrote: >> >> I read somewhere that Firefox was top of the list for security bugs on >> Fedora. >> > One of the recent Linux Format magazine podcasts had some stats on this. > Even though Firefox had many more insecurities,