RE: Does Dell XPS laptops support by Fedora 10?

Hi all, Good day. Could anybody let me know where I can find the fedora drivers for Dell laptops? Is there any specific site to look at? Thanks Regards, Edwin. <>-- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: htt

Re: Request rawstudio 1.2...

On 05/31/2009 03:52 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Its been out since April 10th. It appears to be pretty stable. May we > have it in F10 stable ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ#Where_can_I_request_a_newer_version_of_a_package_in_Fedora.3F Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.

Re: WUSB54G firmware

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Jim wrote: > FC10/Kde > > I'm trying to setup a Linksys WUSB54G and I get this error message from > DMESG. > > usb 2-2: firmware: requesting l3886usb > > usb 2-2: (p54usb) cannot find firmware (isl3886usb) > > usb 2-2: firmware: requesting isl3890usb > > p54usb:

Rhythm Box

I heard several people say that the developer for Rhythm Box has decided it is not worth competing with Amarok and other media players anymore. If this is true how will this affect Fedora? Will we simply adopt Amarok as the default Gnome media solution or will we try and get someone to pick up the

Re: flashgot and download helper

On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:16:40 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 03:44 +, Thufir wrote: >> I'm hesitant to kill totem. Is it involved in the download somehow? > > Totem is a the video player ("movie player" in the Gnome menu). If > you're not watching video, then you can kill it. > >

Re: Kernel update broke my system.

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 23:23:37 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 06:00:19 +0200, > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > Apply the patch that is attached there and see whether you still get only > > a grub prompt after installing some kernel updates (the original ticket for

Re: Kernel update broke my system.

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 06:00:19 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Let's hope there's not much more crap in GRUB as found in > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/496093 > > Apply the patch that is attached there and see whether you still get only > a grub prompt after installing some kernel updates

Re: Kernel update broke my system.

On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:41:16 -0500, Bruno wrote: > I have had grub get messed up several times during the F11 rawhide period. > I still get the grub prompt though and know where the configfile is in > grubspeak. So it's easy for me to fix. I haven't figured out what is causing > it to do this. My

Re: make libcurl

On Fri, 29 May 2009 21:45:01 +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: >> > do you have libcurl-devel installed? >> >> >> Thanks, progress! Now I'm getting: >> >> ... >> >> checking for CURL... yes >> checking for JDK location (please wait)... configure: error: JDK home >> not found, please specify one wit

Re: Speech to Text

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 01:39 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Thanks for the response. Your note is appropriate with what I am > > finding. Do you know if there is a project working on speech to text. > > I would like to monitor there work and help if I can. > > http://cmu

WUSB54G firmware

FC10/Kde I'm trying to setup a Linksys WUSB54G and I get this error message from DMESG. usb 2-2: firmware: requesting l3886usb usb 2-2: (p54usb) cannot find firmware (isl3886usb) usb 2-2: firmware: requesting isl3890usb p54usb: probe of 2-2:1.0 failed with error -2 usbcore: registered new i

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ... (Gene Heskett)

From: "Gene Heskett" Sent: Saturday, 2009/May/30 17:09 On Saturday 30 May 2009, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2009/5/30 Gene Heskett : Why can't all of this audio crap have a 'service audio restart'? function? Probably because there isn't a system-wide audio service. The pulseaudio server usuall

Re: Blocking an IP for one user

Move the computer into the living room. It treats the kid like a semi-responsible person (which is one definition of a kid) and it admits to him you know you know you can't win all the time. -- * * George Yanos *

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ... (Gene Heskett)

On Saturday 30 May 2009, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: >2009/5/30 Gene Heskett : >> Why can't all of this audio crap have a 'service audio restart'? function? > >Probably because there isn't a system-wide audio service. The >pulseaudio server usually runs in the user's desktop session. > Ok, so I add or

Re: Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Didn't you say it was a JPEG file? Those headers are for an > undifferentiated binary file whose name implies it's a GIF, which isn't > the same thing. correct on gif. i did not realize i i told jim; |> close thunderbird and then with a _plain_text_ editor, vi, kwrit

Re: Speech to Text

Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Thanks for the response. Your note is appropriate with what I am > finding. Do you know if there is a project working on speech to text. > I would like to monitor there work and help if I can. http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php (Note: Ignore the outdat

Re: booting from USB on old machine without USB boot support

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:24:07PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:48 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > I'm playing around with F11 pre-release, and wanted to install from the > > DVD on an old PII I have here. trouble is I don't have a spare (working) > > DVD drive, but I d

Re: Blocking an IP for one user

Paul wrote: > For example, I want to block the BBC websites wholesale WTF??? > or anything with the words Microsoft, MSN or Hotmail in the URL That at least won't block much in terms of useful content. :-D Still, I think your blocks are far overreaching and still won't even get close to blockin

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

Timothy Murphy wrote: > If I had my time again I would probably use ext2 rather than ext3 > as I have seen some warnings against ext3 on SSDs. > I don't know if it is possible to downgrade an existing system? Yes, ext3 can be downgraded to ext2 easily. In fact, it's enough to just mount it as ext2

multi-media packages/gcc/latest CPU optimizations

Hi, I'd like to understand how some of the multi-media packages are compiled for distros to make maximum effective use of the latest CPU features (SSE4,multi-core,large L2/L3 caches etc) I understand pkgs are compiled assuming i386 (or i686?) to cover the vast majority of PC's out there. For pack

Request rawstudio 1.2...

Its been out since April 10th. It appears to be pretty stable. May we have it in F10 stable ? Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidel

Re: Speech to Text

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:38 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:26:13 -0500 > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > Can anyone point me in the direction of some opensource speech to text > > software for the fedora system > > I can pretty much guarantee that anything you find will be a disap

Re: Speech to Text

On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:26:13 -0500 Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Can anyone point me in the direction of some opensource speech to text > software for the fedora system I can pretty much guarantee that anything you find will be a disappointment to you. Good text-to-speech is currently a largely unso

Speech to Text

Fellow Users, Can anyone point me in the direction of some opensource speech to text software for the fedora system -- Greg Ennis -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Comm

Re: booting from USB on old machine without USB boot support

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:48 -0400, fred smith wrote: > I'm playing around with F11 pre-release, and wanted to install from the > DVD on an old PII I have here. trouble is I don't have a spare (working) > DVD drive, but I do have a USB DVD drive. > > This machine is old enough it won't boot from t

Re: Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 14:45 -0400, Jim wrote: > I think this may explain it here. Every picture shows this > Content-Type > > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; > name="ATT00049.gif" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-ID:<00bc01c9e13f$7f193f00$7221d...@lynn> Didn't you say

booting from USB on old machine without USB boot support

I'm playing around with F11 pre-release, and wanted to install from the DVD on an old PII I have here. trouble is I don't have a spare (working) DVD drive, but I do have a USB DVD drive. This machine is old enough it won't boot from the USB DVD, so I was wondering if there is a way to make a boot

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 13:55:53 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I've long been a fan of HP printers, but I bought one model for my daughter > that had the capability of using profiles. It insisted on profiles being set > up. She couldn't use it. I set up a couple of profiles for her, but s

with atl1e driver: Corrupted MAC on input

I believe I have detected a significant problem with the "atl1e" driver for the Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0) when running Fedora 11 preview with the latest updates. This controller is integrated on the ASUS M4A78 PRO motherboard. Alth

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

On Saturday 30 May 2009 19:35:20 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Beartooth wrote: > >> In any case, I decided to try Fedora-10, and found that much more to my > >> liking. It actually worked better on my EeePC-4G, eg WiFi (to my > >> surprise) worked out of the box, while eeebuntu seemed to require > >> ma

Re: problem with my laptop

On Saturday 30 May 2009 18:31:55 Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009 13:10:50 -0400 > > Nebur Álvarez B. wrote: > > i have a problem with my laptop (sony vaio vgn-nr330fe), when I execute > > many process, fails gnome and kde, and them does nothing when i try do > > click in anywhere place. I tr

Re: One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 18:07:12 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: > > Maybe that's even a reason to pull them in now. After all these 600+ > packages will be on every F11 system from the first day, so if there > is a problem, we better stumble over it now. I am testing rawhides + updates + updates-tes

Re: Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

Jim wrote: > I think this may explain it here. Every picture shows this Content-Type > > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; > name="ATT00049.gif" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-ID:<00bc01c9e13f$7f193f00$7221d...@lynn> that will squirrel the bird. something you could 't

Re: Kernel update broke my system.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:42:37 -0500, "Smith, Herb" wrote: > > That may be true, but the Updater is doing that job, and it nuked my > system too. How often does that happen? This is the first time I've > seen it since I've been using RH8 up to now, but it does give me pause. I have had gr

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:06:51 -0500, Chris wrote: > > While I do use (and love) Cent for our servers, I can't commit to it for > my desktop. I do look forward to 11 though. It may not be enough to > move me back just yet - but I can still hope. My feeling is that F12 is likely to be a nice

Re: Fedoraproject wiki

Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/30/2009 12:02 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: So could it be, that the search function could be made more effective if we stop using subpages in the 'Main:' namespace? Maybe we could follow some thing like wikipedia does, subpages are allowed only in the 'User:' namespace. M

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:36 AM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/5/30 Tim : On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 01:29 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: Most of the modern Intel HDA cards _are_ capable of mixing streams. I have owned one such card since 2007. Also most of the hi-end boards today su

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 18:16:00 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 13:31 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > It makes no real difference - use the drives own secure erase feature if > > you want to be sure, otherwise you've got no guarantee that everything > > will be cleared - only the drive kn

Re: Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

On 05/30/2009 01:54 PM, g wrote: Jim wrote: I have one person that sends me .jpg pictures in a Email and thunderbird can not display them , when I try to Open them I can only "Save" them to my Picture folder to view them. That person uses WindowsXP. I recieve .jpg pictures from every one

Re: Kernel update broke my system.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 13:27:50 -0500, "Smith, Herb" wrote: > Can't boot into anything when all you get is the GRUB_ prompt. Wrote to > the help me list to figure out what to do to get my system back. Once I > get it back I'll be able to try a lot of different things. From the > respones of

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

Beartooth wrote: >> In any case, I decided to try Fedora-10, and found that much more to my >> liking. It actually worked better on my EeePC-4G, eg WiFi (to my >> surprise) worked out of the box, while eeebuntu seemed to require >> madwifi . > I have the 701, one of the earliest smallest sl

Netbooks (was: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?)

Ralf Corsepius writes: > The OP asked about EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu. > > My answer to this question would be: If you simply want to use your > netbook, you're likely better off using the OS the HW vendor supplies. Some netbooks seem to be better than others. I have a Acer Aspire One here that

Re: help: fedora installation to USB external hard disk

I was selected custom layout also. Still not showing USB hard disk. Regards, Sumit On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson < mik...@infinity-ltd.com> wrote: > Sumit Agrawal wrote: > > I am new for Fedora. > > I was trying to install Fedora 10 core to my external USB 40GB harddisk >

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ... (Gene Heskett)

2009/5/30 Gene Heskett : > Why can't all of this audio crap have a 'service audio restart'? function? Probably because there isn't a system-wide audio service. The pulseaudio server usually runs in the user's desktop session. -- Joonas Sarajärvi mue...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fed

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 07:53:46 -0500, Chris wrote: > > You sure do seem to talk a lot about nothing. I simply commented on the > days slipping by and you go off on a rant that not needed and paints > you in a way that ... well... And I think it was a legitimate complaint. Hopefully people wi

Re: Blocking an IP for one user

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One fairly easy thing to do is to create an account at OpenDNS.com then set you DNS settings to use OpenDNS. You can then block sites by IP or by classification. On 05/30/2009 11:53 AM, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > My son is getting to that "funny" age wh

Re: Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

Jim wrote: > I have one person that sends me .jpg pictures in a Email and thunderbird > can not display them , when I try to Open them I can only "Save" them > to my Picture folder to view them. That person uses WindowsXP. > > I recieve .jpg pictures from every one else and I can view them in

Re: Blocking an IP for one user

Paul wrote: Hi, My son is getting to that "funny" age whereby I need to keep certain sites away from him. Don't Wouldn't you rather be able to talk to him about *taboo* subjects. Rather than have him go a a friend house\Cafe and do it without a parents guidance. Frank PS: 7 children, an

Re: problem with my laptop

On Sat, 30 May 2009 13:10:50 -0400 Nebur Álvarez B. wrote: > i have a problem with my laptop (sony vaio vgn-nr330fe), when I execute many > process, fails gnome and kde, and them does nothing when i try do click in > anywhere place. I try find the error, but, I nothing found Run memtest86 on it a

Re: Blocking an IP for one user

> For example, I want to block the BBC websites wholesale or anything with > the words Microsoft, MSN or Hotmail in the URL - you get the idea - but > also an IP range such as 172.168.*.* squidguard can sort of do it but there is so much iffy content on the net that you will need good block lists

Re: Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

On 05/30/2009 12:50 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jim wrote: I have one person that sends me .jpg pictures in a Email and thunderbird can not display them , when I try to Open them I can only "Save" them to my Picture folder to view them. That person uses WindowsXP. I recieve .jpg pictures from

Re: Blocking an IP for one user

Paul wrote: > Hi, > > My son is getting to that "funny" age whereby I need to keep certain > sites away from him. > > Is there any way that I can block an IP address or certain keywords from > his user settings so that it doesn't matter which browser he uses, he > can't access them? I use Dansgu

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:38:10 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: [] > In my (fairly limited) experience, Xandros is not a good distribution. > It does not seem to have a working repository system, so installing > software (or upgrading) is not a simple process. > > I actually started by insta

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

On Fri, 29 May 2009 16:57:09 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Rick Stevens wrote: >>> I generally take the drives out to the desert and use /sbin/detonate. >>> As Jamie Hyneman once said on "Mythbusters"... >>> >>> When in doubtC4! >>> >> Can I come with the next

Re: Blocking an IP for one user

On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:53:19 +0100 Paul wrote: > My son is getting to that "funny" age whereby I need to keep certain > sites away from him. You would probably be better off talking to him, and putting the computer in the living room or something instead of his bedroom. Both of those are better

problem with my laptop

hi!, before, my english is not very well, i'm sorry. i have a problem with my laptop (sony vaio vgn-nr330fe), when I execute many process, fails gnome and kde, and them does nothing when i try do click in anywhere place. I try find the error, but, I nothing found I am mindful of your comments be

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:36:41 +0100, Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote: > This is what pushed it back. >> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/ msg00011.html I'm not sure whether it's the same bug, even after reading that. But I know there's at least one that hits

Re: Can't get updates

On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:39:16 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 30 May 2009 01:15:37 Robert McBroom (TNWestTex) wrote: > > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I'm having great problem after upgrading F9 to F10 (using an install > > > dvd). I get huge numbers of updates downloaded, but then it fails. > >

Blocking an IP for one user

Hi, My son is getting to that "funny" age whereby I need to keep certain sites away from him. Is there any way that I can block an IP address or certain keywords from his user settings so that it doesn't matter which browser he uses, he can't access them? For example, I want to block the BBC web

Re: Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

Jim wrote: > I have one person that sends me .jpg pictures in a Email and thunderbird > can not display them , when I try to Open them I can only "Save" them > to my Picture folder to view them. That person uses WindowsXP. > > I recieve .jpg pictures from every one else and I can view them in > T

Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

FC 10/ KDE I have one person that sends me .jpg pictures in a Email and thunderbird can not display them , when I try to Open them I can only "Save" them to my Picture folder to view them. That person uses WindowsXP. I recieve .jpg pictures from every one else and I can view them in Thunder

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

Ralf Corsepius wrote: > The OP asked about EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu. > > My answer to this question would be: If you simply want to use your > netbook, you're likely better off using the OS the HW vendor supplies. In my (fairly limited) experience, Xandros is not a good distribution. It does n

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ... (Gene Heskett)

On Saturday 30 May 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Friday 29 May 2009, Pat Kane wrote: >> >Gene Heskett wrote: >> > And the last time I looked, a bit over a month ago, there was no hint of >> >>Let me Google that for you: >> >>gets us to: >>

Re: help: fedora installation to USB external hard disk

Sumit Agrawal wrote: > I am new for Fedora. > I was trying to install Fedora 10 core to my external USB 40GB harddisk > using bootable Fedora 10 core DVD. > I have unplugged all internal hard disk for any risk. > But while installation it was not detecting USB hard disk. > Can anybody help me reg

Re: help: fedora installation to USB external hard disk

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 09:51 +0530, Sumit Agrawal wrote: > I am new for Fedora. > I was trying to install Fedora 10 core to my external USB 40GB > harddisk using bootable Fedora 10 core DVD. > I have unplugged all internal hard disk for any risk. > But while installation it was not detecting USB h

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:36:41 +0100 "Frank Murphy (Frankly3d)" wrote: > Chris wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > > > > For example, a few days ago it said 7 days. Tonight, we're at 11. > > Might I suggest the tag line say something like: > > This is what pushed it back. > > > https://www.redhat.com

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/29/2009 09:11 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: I suppose there isn't an eeeFedora? There used to be an Eeedora, but it is outdated (based on Fedora 8 which is no longer supported and only targeting the original EeePC 701). The sto

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ... (Gene Heskett)

On Friday 29 May 2009, Pat Kane wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > > And the last time I looked, a bit over a month ago, there was no hint of > >Let me Google that for you: > >gets us to: > >which pointed us to: >

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

Chris wrote: Greetings, For example, a few days ago it said 7 days. Tonight, we're at 11. Might I suggest the tag line say something like: This is what pushed it back. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00011.html Frank -- msn: frankly3d skype: frankly3d

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:03:01 +0100 "Frank Murphy (Frankly3d)" wrote: > Please be Polite to one another on the list. > > Frank > I thought I was. However, it's a sad commentary when a comment on time slippage is greeted with pontificated self-righteous gobblety-goop then punctuate with insults.

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

Please be Polite to one another on the list. Frank -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

On Sat, 30 May 2009 02:26:24 -0200 Armin Moradi wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:12 AM, David wrote: > > On 5/29/2009 8:08 PM, Chris wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:58:37 -0400 > >> David wrote: > >> > >>> On 5/29/2009 7:45 PM, Chris wrote: > Greetings, > > Every few days to

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

On Saturday 30 May 2009 09:45:41 Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:50 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Why stop at printers? I've long believed there should be a generic > > windows driver layer in linux that provides all the interfaces > > of windows drivers to the kernel so you could use any > >

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

On Fri, 29 May 2009 23:12:39 -0400 David wrote: > On 5/29/2009 8:08 PM, Chris wrote: > > On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:58:37 -0400 > > David wrote: > > > >> On 5/29/2009 7:45 PM, Chris wrote: > >>> Greetings, > >>> > >>> Every few days to a week I check the project site for the release > >>> of 11. It

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

On 05/30/2009 04:49 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Use security erase, that is why it is there. How do you access the security erase facility? From `man hdparm`: --security-erase PWD Erase (locked) drive, using password PWD (DANGEROUS). Password is given as an A

Re: Can't get updates

On Saturday 30 May 2009 01:15:37 Robert McBroom (TNWestTex) wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'm having great problem after upgrading F9 to F10 (using an install > > dvd). I get huge numbers of updates downloaded, but then it fails. > > Are the downloaded updates still on your system? > > /var/ca

Re: F11 /boot and ext4 No can do, Grub does not support /Ext4

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > Eric, it should go into the documentation for F11. It is already in the release notes and Ext4 FAQ. Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guideline

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:36 AM, suvayu ali > wrote: > 2009/5/30 Tim : > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 01:29 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > >> Most of the modern Intel HDA cards _are_ capable of mixing streams. I > >> have owned one such card since 2007. Also most of the hi-end boards > >> today support mu

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009/5/30 Tim : > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 01:29 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: >> Most of the modern Intel HDA cards _are_ capable of mixing streams. I >> have owned one such card since 2007. Also most of the hi-end boards >> today support multiple streams. However I am not sure whether >> pulseaudio can s

Re: server error

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 00:31 -0700, reemacra...@yahoo.com wrote: > Have trouble in sending mails on outlook. we are using fedora 9 as > mail server. on the outlook when we configure new email it gives the > error "The connection to the server couldnot be found > mail.csindiasteel.co.in" is now offli

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

Alan Cox wrote: > > > Use security erase, that is why it is there. > > How do you access the security erase facility? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/OT%3A-Can-Reformatting-A-Hard-Drive-To-ext3-Destroy-All-the-Data-On-It--tp23773312p23791508.html Sent from the Fedor

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 01:29 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > Most of the modern Intel HDA cards _are_ capable of mixing streams. I > have owned one such card since 2007. Also most of the hi-end boards > today support multiple streams. However I am not sure whether > pulseaudio can stream two different st

Re: flashgot and download helper

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 03:44 +, Thufir wrote: > I'm hesitant to kill totem. Is it involved in the download somehow? Totem is a the video player ("movie player" in the Gnome menu). If you're not watching video, then you can kill it. Your message sounds like a download started in the backgro

Re: pulseaudio capability question

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:07 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Then, while it is at it, accept already encoded audio streams > from a DVD I'm playing and bypass the ffmpeg layer for them. You want it to be a CODEC as well as a stream handler? Why not have it be a printer driver, as well? They're diffe

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 13:31 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > It makes no real difference - use the drives own secure erase feature if > you want to be sure, otherwise you've got no guarantee that everything > will be cleared - only the drive knows enough to do the job. But do you know what the drive does

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:50 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Why stop at printers? I've long believed there should be a generic > windows driver layer in linux that provides all the interfaces > of windows drivers to the kernel so you could use any > windows driver for linux :-). With all their bugs a

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:38 -0700, Craig White wrote: > The only challenge is for netbook manufacturers to produce a usable > system that they can sell without a bunch of returns. Geez. If a computer manufacturer isn't able to get enough details from the chipset manufacturer to create a working d

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:04 -0300, Damián Rodrí­guez Sánchez wrote: > that's because it's a lot more common for mac drivers to come > available with the hardware you buy for your computer. have you ever > seen a keyborad, video card, printer or whatever come with a linux > driver in the accompanyin

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:11 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd? It's just that I remember > that the trend used to be to move more server processes to be added to > the inetd config. As I recall, the trend was to move away from it, with individual scripts per se

Re: Fedoraproject wiki

On 05/30/2009 12:02 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > So could it be, that the search function could be made more effective if we > stop using subpages in the 'Main:' namespace? Maybe we could follow some > thing like wikipedia does, subpages are allowed only in the 'User:' > namespace. Moreover since a w

Re: Samba and Windows7 (a comment to an article)

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 16:21 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > Microsoft's proprietary implementation of what they call the "Common > Internet File System" although it is none of these, changes with every > release. Sometimes I truly believe they are attempting to improve it. i.e. *Usually* you don't belie