Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Marc Wilson writes: > Can't imagine there's any reason for it, when all you have to do is > structure the system reasonably in the first place. All the failed > upgrade scenarios (why do people bother with preupgrade in the first > place?) seem to involve people thinking they know better than th

Re: CD drive difficulty

2009-12-04 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 1:12 AM, William Witt wrote: > On 12/04/2009 10:06 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > >> I'm just finishing installing F12 XFCE and encountered a problem >> with the CD drive: When I push the eject button, the tray is first >> extended fully outward and then is immediately retract

Re: Troubleshout hibernate

2009-12-04 Thread Eric Tanguy
Le 02/12/2009 23:59, Nataraj a écrit : On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 22:23 +0100, Eric Tanguy wrote: I try to hibernate my fedora 12 with nvidia driver from rpmfusion. The hibernate stage works fine. The problem is on resume. The system go back normally and the screen switch off and that's all. It s

Re: Difficulty setting up Fedora 12 screen

2009-12-04 Thread Greg Woods
> After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 > screen resolution. Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. > Did you try booting with the "nomodeset" kernel option? That worked for me. --Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https:/

Difficulty setting up Fedora 12 screen

2009-12-04 Thread Dick Roark
After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 screen resolution. Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. I was using F11 at 1280x1024 on this hardware before upgrading to F12. After that, so far no joy. I would appreciate any helpful info. I have also tried using various c

Re: youtue problem

2009-12-04 Thread Jatin K
On 12/05/2009 05:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: When I try to run a youtube video in my newly installed F12 I get the following error message. You have Javascript disabled or an old version of Adobe flash player. Neither statement is true. What can I do to fix things? -- ===

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Mail Lists
On 12/04/2009 10:05 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Could you please point me to the documentation for this? I would > really like to read up more and understand what limitations/advantages > I might have as I have been waiting for this to be included since F10. > http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID?highlig

Re: CD drive difficulty

2009-12-04 Thread William Witt
On 12/04/2009 10:06 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I'm just finishing installing F12 XFCE and encountered a problem with the CD drive: When I push the eject button, the tray is first extended fully outward and then is immediately retracted. I'm reasonably certain that this is not a hardware problem,

CD drive difficulty

2009-12-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
I'm just finishing installing F12 XFCE and encountered a problem with the CD drive: When I push the eject button, the tray is first extended fully outward and then is immediately retracted. I'm reasonably certain that this is not a hardware problem, but rather is some sort of misconfiguration issue

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Tom. 2009/12/4 Tom H : >>> Why add the complexity? > >> Because you can only have a max of 15 partitions on a disk >> without using LVM? > >> At work we have a system with a gazillion or so different >> linux distros and had to set it up to dd copies of the /boot >> partition back onto /boot so

Re: provider for google calendar

2009-12-04 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/4 oleksandr korneta : > indirectly it did. Turns out, I had my old "provider for google" extension > installed and the new installation from repository did not update it (which > is obvious, since the old one was installed in user space ~/.mozilla). Thus > I had the provider installed, but

Re: provider for google calendar

2009-12-04 Thread oleksandr korneta
Suvayu, on 12/04/2009 05:20 AM Suvayu Ali wrote: Hello Oleksandr, On Thursday 03 December 2009 04:30 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/12/3 oleksandr korneta: Yes I'm talking about lightning calendar extension. Anyway, turns out some good people did package it and put in repository. But it is useles

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 12/04/2009 07:49 PM, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> Because you can only have a max of 15 partitions on a disk >> without using LVM? > > The maximum number is 24, not 15. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Extended_partition_a

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Ryan Lynch
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 20:13, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > Well, it means I can have separate filesystems for things that I don't > want overwritten if I reinstall (/home, /usr/local, /opt, /var/www, > etc.) and I can dynamically resize them if they get unbalanced.  That's > pretty useful. Out of cu

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 12/04/2009 04:49 PM, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > >> Because you can only have a max of 15 partitions on a disk >> without using LVM? >> > The maximum number is 24, not 15. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Extended_par

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:45 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom H wrote: > > > I had understood the complexity to be the separate /boot not the use of > > lvm... > > Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still > defaults to using LVM for eve

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Ryan Lynch
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 19:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom H wrote: > >> I had understood the complexity to be the separate /boot not the use of >> lvm... > > Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still > defaults to using LVM for everything *

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Because you can only have a max of 15 partitions on a disk > without using LVM? The maximum number is 24, not 15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Extended_partition_and_logical_drives -- Marc Wilson m...@cox.net -- fedo

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom H wrote: > I had understood the complexity to be the separate /boot not the use of lvm... Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still defaults to using LVM for everything *other* than /boot. This brings no benefit to most users. --

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-04 Thread William Henry
- "William Witt" wrote: > On 12/04/2009 09:52 AM, BeartoothHOS wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:36:52 -0500, William Witt wrote: > > [] > >> This is probably the problem. A partial copy or corrupted .gconf > >> directory. So try this: > >> > >> -After a reboot at the login screen p

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Tom H
>> Why add the complexity? > Because you can only have a max of 15 partitions on a disk > without using LVM? > At work we have a system with a gazillion or so different > linux distros and had to set it up to dd copies of the /boot > partition back onto /boot so we can boot the linux that goes >

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Tom H
>> According to it's website documentation grub has supported LVM for the past >> few minor releases.  Is there any initiative to move /boot in LVM? > Can't imagine there's any reason for it, when all you have to do is > structure the system reasonably in the first place.  All the failed > upgrade

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:56:06 -0800 Marc Wilson wrote: > Why add the complexity? Because you can only have a max of 15 partitions on a disk without using LVM? At work we have a system with a gazillion or so different linux distros and had to set it up to dd copies of the /boot partition back onto

Re: can Fedora's QEMU run ppc guest in F12 x86_64 host?

2009-12-04 Thread Andre Robatino
BTW, my copy of the original message in my Sent folder shows a good signature, but the copy received from fedora-list has a "signature verification failed" error, presumably triggered by the image file attachment. Is the mailing list mangling messages, or am I doing something wrong? Using F12's t

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 12/04/2009 03:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 14:07 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > What am I doing wrong here and how do I get around this? >>> You have to resize Disk2 to 250Gb with resize2fs or parted. >>> >>> >> Ok, I used

youtue problem

2009-12-04 Thread Aaron Konstam
When I try to run a youtube video in my newly installed F12 I get the following error message. You have Javascript disabled or an old version of Adobe flash player. Neither statement is true. What can I do to fix things? -- === T

Re: locale setup, LANG variable - strange

2009-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
Michal wrote: > Hallo Fedora Users! > > Assume that I want to set up my fedora to polish locale. > Then in contol panel->Regional & language I set polish in: > 1) in country & region language > 2) keyboard languae > > after relogging in this is enough but only for KDE applications. > non-kde applic

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Eric Brunson wrote: > > According to it's website documentation grub has supported LVM for the past > few minor releases.  Is there any initiative to move /boot in LVM? Can't imagine there's any reason for it, when all you have to do is structure the system reason

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-04 Thread William Witt
On 12/04/2009 09:52 AM, BeartoothHOS wrote: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:36:52 -0500, William Witt wrote: [] This is probably the problem. A partial copy or corrupted .gconf directory. So try this: -After a reboot at the login screen press Crtl+Alt F2 -Log in text mode with your user acc

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 14:07 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> What am I doing wrong here and how do I get around this? > >> > > You have to resize Disk2 to 250Gb with resize2fs or parted. > > > Ok, I used gparted to shrink the size of the partition and grow the > partition again. That d

can Fedora's QEMU run ppc guest in F12 x86_64 host?

2009-12-04 Thread Andre Robatino
I've tried to create a F12 ppc guest in a F12 x86_64 host, using F12's Virtual Machine Manager and with qemu-system-ppc installed. It's reading a verified copy of Fedora-12-ppc-DVD.iso from the HDD. It fails with CDROM boot failure code : 0004 Boot failed: could not read the boot disk FATAL: No

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong? [SOLVED]

2009-12-04 Thread Tom H
>>> I am copying a disk/partition to another disk/partition >>> using dd, with the following: >>> >>> BEFORE: >>> Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G >>> Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) >>> >>> I did a dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 >>

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong? [SOLVED]

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 12/04/2009 02:37 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 12/04/2009 01:56 PM, Tom H wrote: > >>> I am copying a disk/partition to another disk/partition >>> using dd, with the following: >>> >>> BEFORE: >>> Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G >>> Disk2: partition#

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong? [SOLVED]

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 12/04/2009 01:56 PM, Tom H wrote: >> I am copying a disk/partition to another disk/partition >> using dd, with the following: >> >> BEFORE: >> Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G >> Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) >> >> I did a dd

two questions about ssh tunneling

2009-12-04 Thread Tudod Ki
if I: ssh -fND localhost:6000 someb...@192.168.56.5 -p PORTNUMBER from computer "A" to computer "B" [B = 192.168.56.5] then I can set the SOCKS proxy for e.g.: Firefox to use "localhost:6000" on computer "A". Ok. I can surf the web through "B". But: - Can anyone sniff the traffic of "A"?

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 12/04/2009 01:56 PM, Tom H wrote: >> I am copying a disk/partition to another disk/partition >> using dd, with the following: >> >> BEFORE: >> Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G >> Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) >> >> I did a dd

locale setup, LANG variable - strange

2009-12-04 Thread Michal
Hallo Fedora Users! Assume that I want to set up my fedora to polish locale. Then in contol panel->Regional & language I set polish in: 1) in country & region language 2) keyboard languae after relogging in this is enough but only for KDE applications. non-kde applications still use sestem wide l

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:42 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> BEFORE: >> Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G >> Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) >> >> I did a dd if=/dev/s

Re: OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:47 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > > How so? The presentation doesn't so much as mention open source. > Besides > > which, this is not in fact a discussion list about open source as > such. It's > > a list about Fedora. > > This is in the list headers: > >"Community assis

Re: fc12 - wehere to get latest STABLE kernel from?

2009-12-04 Thread Michal
Aioanei Rares writes: > The last stable kernel is, as of today, 2.6.32 . Now, point your browser to > www.kernel.org, download it and install it. Thank You for the answer. but I do not like compiling the kernel. I would rather preferer something that would do taht for me. best regards, Michal -

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:42 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > BEFORE: > Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G > Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) > > I did a dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 > > AFTER: > Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, siz

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-04 Thread Tom H
> I am copying a disk/partition to another disk/partition > using dd, with the following: > > BEFORE: > Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G > Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) > > I did a dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 > > AFTER: > Disk1

Re: OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread Mike Wright
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Mick M. wrote: Whoa check this video out: http://www.snotr.com/video/3471 same but 3rd person: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html Thanks for posting those links. I would h

Re: how to check link under Linux

2009-12-04 Thread Steve Berg
On 12/04/2009 02:34 PM, Tudod Ki wrote: as we can do a check on e.g.: routerOS: interface ethernet monitor ether1 status: link-ok auto-negotiation: done rate: 100Mbps full-duplex: yes default-cable-setting: standard how could I check that

Re: internet (without LAN) monthly traffic statistics

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Dj YB wrote: thanks all. my ISP is my university and I can't replace it there is a volume page but it is not updated most of the time, and it requires login and browsing, and it is not reliable, many mistakes... the internet\lan are on the same interface so the seperation must be ip address base

dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I am copying a disk/partition to another disk/partition using dd, with the following: BEFORE: Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) I did a dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 AFTER: Disk1: partition#1: ps

Re: internet (without LAN) monthly traffic statistics

2009-12-04 Thread Dj YB
On Wednesday November 18 2009 17:43:29 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Dj YB wrote: > > hello, > > does anyone know of a good (working) program for monthly internet usage > > stats I need this info to stay under my monthly traffic cap. > > I am using a single ethernet connection for LAN and internet. > > >

Re: Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

2009-12-04 Thread James Allsopp
i didn't think you could set up an ap using ndiswrapper. Jim 2009/12/4 Paulo Cavalcanti > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM, James Allsopp < > jamesaalls...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> I actually realised what I was doing wrong. The ath5k module came with the >> fedora kernel, but I've blacklis

Re: How to define command for entry in Gnome menu?

2009-12-04 Thread Hiisi
2009/12/4 suvayu ali : > 2009/12/4 Hiisi : <--SNIP--> > > You have to define this in your .bash_profile to set the variable for > every login. If you want to get into more detail look at the thread > "Gnome applications and .bash_profile" from late October and early > November, especially the wonde

FEL request: opencores and user demos

2009-12-04 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there, As many of you already know that the FEL[1] team wants to ensure that opensource tools can be used for the real life, we would appreciate some help in terms of such documentation. If you are familiar with tools like iverilog and ghdl, you can help us show the world what opensource ED

Re: OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Mick M. wrote: > >> Whoa check this video out: >> >> http://www.snotr.com/video/3471 >> >> same but 3rd person: >> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html >> > > Thanks for posting those links. I would have nev

Re: OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/4 Martin Airs : > On 12/04/2009 03:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> Two things: >> >> 1) The video is from March 2009, so it's not even current. >> 2) It has *nothing* to do with Fedora as far as I can see. >> >> Just because you think something is cool is not sufficient reason for >

Re: How to define command for entry in Gnome menu?

2009-12-04 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/4 Hiisi : > Dear List! > On my system I have to start Blender using 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 > blender'. Otherwise it's impossible to work in it. I set up an alias > in .bashrc and it works well from command line. However if I start You have to define this in your .bash_profile to set the

Re: Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

2009-12-04 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > I actually realised what I was doing wrong. The ath5k module came with the > fedora kernel, but I've blacklisted it, and now and got the madwifi drivers > installed. I can now get the device into master with the correct ssid, but > can't get

Re: Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

2009-12-04 Thread James Allsopp
I actually realised what I was doing wrong. The ath5k module came with the fedora kernel, but I've blacklisted it, and now and got the madwifi drivers installed. I can now get the device into master with the correct ssid, but can't get ath0 to accept an ip address. I tried to use ath5k, but need

Re: How to define command for entry in Gnome menu?

2009-12-04 Thread Tom H
> On my system I have to start Blender using 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 > blender'. Otherwise it's impossible to work in it. I set up an alias > in .bashrc and it works well from command line. However if I start > Blender from Application->Graphic->Blender the alias doesn't work. I > thought menu ent

Re: how to check link under Linux

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Tudod Ki wrote: how could I check that is there a link under "Linux"? [to get info about the cable - is it plugged in or not?] # ethtool eth0 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproje

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Terry Polzin
On Friday 04 December 2009 14:55, Eric Brunson wrote: > According to it's website documentation grub has supported LVM for the > past few minor releases. Is there any initiative to move /boot in LVM? > > Wondering, > e. Sure would be a good thing, when /boot needs more space to complete some upgr

how to check link under Linux

2009-12-04 Thread Tudod Ki
as we can do a check on e.g.: routerOS: interface ethernet monitor ether1 status: link-ok    auto-negotiation: done    rate: 100Mbps     full-duplex: yes   default-cable-setting: standard how could I check that is there a link under "Linux"? [to get in

How to define command for entry in Gnome menu?

2009-12-04 Thread Hiisi
Dear List! On my system I have to start Blender using 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 blender'. Otherwise it's impossible to work in it. I set up an alias in .bashrc and it works well from command line. However if I start Blender from Application->Graphic->Blender the alias doesn't work. I thought menu en

Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread Eric Brunson
According to it's website documentation grub has supported LVM for the past few minor releases. Is there any initiative to move /boot in LVM? Wondering, e. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http:

Re: Reorganising F11 partitions - how to? --follow-on

2009-12-04 Thread DB
Hi all, After following the various advice you gave me, I was able to a) move my /usr partition contacts to / & modify fstab. Trying to get rid of the /tmp partition put me into the "login-black screen" cycle, so had to leave that alone. Did the 11-12 preupgrade with the only problem of not

Re: OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Airs
On 12/04/2009 03:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:39 -0800, Mick M. wrote: Whoa check this video out: http://www.snotr.com/video/3471 same but 3rd person: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html Two things: 1) The video is

Re: Dialup PPPD with Network Manager in F12

2009-12-04 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 12/04/2009 04:10 AM, David wrote: > I'm seeking advice on the use of "plain old dialup" pppd and Network Manager. > > My internet access is provided by 56kbit/s dialup modem on /dev/ttyS0 > on a desktop pc which also has an ethernet NIC that gives CUPS, > backup, NFS, internet services to anoth

Re: Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

2009-12-04 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:44 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:17:18PM +, James Allsopp wrote: > >> I'm running Fedora 12, and was wondering if anyone knew of a repository >> which contains one of hte old atheros drivers. I want to get rid of ath5k as >> it doesn't seem

Re: Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

2009-12-04 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:17:18PM +, James Allsopp wrote: > I'm running Fedora 12, and was wondering if anyone knew of a repository > which contains one of hte old atheros drivers. I want to get rid of ath5k as > it doesn't seem to have a good reputation, sounds very experimental still, > and

Re: OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread Mike Wright
Mick M. wrote: Whoa check this video out: http://www.snotr.com/video/3471 same but 3rd person: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html Thanks for posting those links. I would have never found them myself. Even though it may have been OT wrt Fedora, it does

Re: Announcing the Release of the World's First 64-bit Build of Google's Chromium OS with Xen Virtualization Support

2009-12-04 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
*Xen slips in Google Chrome OS (sort of)* Google didn’t release yetits lightweight operating system for netbooks, Chrome OS, and many people already rushed to customize the early source code

Re: X Configuration help request

2009-12-04 Thread john wendel
On 12/03/2009 09:00 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-12-03 23:34:06, john wendel wrote: I'm trying to configure X to do the following: [1] Computer A, the target of the configuration, has a display but no keyboard or mouse. [2] Computer B has a working F11 installation, with X, a keyboard, and a m

Re: Problem with screen resolution after installing F12

2009-12-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-04 04:12:16, Dick Roark wrote: > After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 > screen resolution. Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. I was > using F11 at 1280x1024 on this hardware before upgrading to F12. > After that, so far no joy. I would appreciate a

Re: Problem with screen resolution after installing F12

2009-12-04 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 10:51 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Probably your monitor isn't doing EDID correctly and the video drivers are > playing things safe. For the record, many older monitors (my desktop monitor at work is about 3 years old) appear not to do EDID at all. If it does do EDID pr

Re: Fedora 12 KDE live CD Password

2009-12-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 17:26:14 +0530, Rahul Tidke wrote: > Hello, > I was eager to try F12 live CD; but I am unable to login to fedora 12 KDE > live cd (i686). What is the password for user "liveuser"? Why does a live CD > requires username & password? It shouldn't. Did you try just hittin

Re: Problem with screen resolution after installing F12

2009-12-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 17:12:16 +0800, Dick Roark wrote: > After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 screen > resolution. Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. I was using F11 at > 1280x1024 on this hardware before upgrading to F12. After that, so far no > joy. I

Re: Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

2009-12-04 Thread James Allsopp
No, what's there is the ath5k drivers labelled as madwifi, not the original useful drivers. 2009/12/4 Rodney Morris > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:17 AM, James Allsopp > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running Fedora 12, and was wondering if anyone knew of a repository > > which contains one of hte old at

Re: Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

2009-12-04 Thread Rodney Morris
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:17 AM, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm running Fedora 12, and was wondering if anyone knew of a repository > which contains one of hte old atheros drivers. I want to get rid of ath5k as > it doesn't seem to have a good reputation, sounds very experimental still, > and I

Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

2009-12-04 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm running Fedora 12, and was wondering if anyone knew of a repository which contains one of hte old atheros drivers. I want to get rid of ath5k as it doesn't seem to have a good reputation, sounds very experimental still, and I can't make an access point with it without a hostapd0.6 rpm. Can

Re: Assistance finding out what process is writing to the disk drive

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Michael Cronenworth wrote: John Nissley wrote: I do not know what is causing the disk drive light to stay on now. # yum install blktrace # mount a /sys/kernel/debug -t debugfs $ man blktrace Yeah... I left out one step. Sorry 'bout that. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.c

Re: installing fedora packages on RHEL -- how bad the craziness?

2009-12-04 Thread Ryan Lynch
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 08:31, Martin Airs wrote: > Could you not install from sources > > get poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm > > then rpmbuild --rebuild poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm > > that should build you a centos rpm At work, some of my colleagues prefer to compile and install from source into '/usr/local'

Re: OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:39 -0800, Mick M. wrote: > Whoa check this video out: > > http://www.snotr.com/video/3471 > > same but 3rd person: > http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html Two things: 1) The video is from March 2009, so it's not even current. 2) It ha

Re: Assistance finding out what process is writing to the disk drive

2009-12-04 Thread David García Granda
Hi, > Thanks for the IOTOP command.  It does not show me much in this case.  I do > not know what is causing the disk drive light to stay on now. The disk drive > light works fine until about 5 minutes after boot up.  then the hard drive > light goes crazy and stays on solid.  I can not really tel

Re: FC10 and RedHat NTFS file format compatibility

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 21:06 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > Daniel J Celta wrote, On 3 Dec 2009 17:45:33 -0600: > > Ok I got > > it... My appologies > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > Daniel J Celta > > > > Is it possible to convince those phones to bottom post? Yes, on iPhones it's just a m

F12 Upgrade: Rebooting Over, and over, and....

2009-12-04 Thread Chris
As the topic says, I updated last night and this morning I rebooted (new kernel) and all my box does is go off into reboot oblivion. Any help would be appreciated. Else, a reinstall from media tonight and possibly NOT install the new kernel? On another not - The tip on not using 3rd part source

Re: Assistance finding out what process is writing to the disk drive

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 15:57 +, Andrew Haley wrote: > Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > John Nissley wrote: > >> I do not know what is causing the disk drive light to stay on now. > > > > # yum install blktrace > > $ man blktrace > > # btrace /dev/sda > Invalid debug path /sys/kernel/debug: 0/S

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-04 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:36:52 -0500, William Witt wrote: [] > This is probably the problem. A partial copy or corrupted .gconf > directory. So try this: > > -After a reboot at the login screen press Crtl+Alt F2 -Log in text mode > with your user acct -issue the following commands > mv

Re: F12 installs report here.

2009-12-04 Thread steven bellens
Hi all, Yesterday I finally start the upgrade process from f11 KDE x86_64 to f12 KDE x86_64. I tried it with the preupgrade method as described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade I made some space in /boot first, just to make sure, and it turned out there was not a problem there. Preup

Re: installing fedora packages on RHEL -- how bad the craziness?

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Airs
Could you not install from sources get poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm then rpmbuild --rebuild poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm that should build you a centos rpm Martin On 12/04/2009 11:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: actually, this is technically about installing fedora packages on centos 5.4 but, obviously,

Re: Adobe AIR not install on F12 x86_64

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Airs
Thats no problem at all, you'll find fedoraforum a very helpful place, I use it all the time good luck Martin On 12/04/2009 12:07 PM, Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis wrote: Tanks for help Martin! I looking FedoraForum any time now. Adobe AIR works for me. On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:06:40 +, Mar

Re: installing fedora packages on RHEL -- how bad the craziness?

2009-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > actually, this is technically about installing fedora packages on > centos 5.4 but, obviously, the same issues apply. and i asked about > this on the centos list but i'd like the fedora perspective as well. > > the short version -- someone running centos 5.4 needs a f

Re: Announcing the Release of the World's First 64-bit Build of Google's Chromium OS with Xen Virtualization Support

2009-12-04 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Michal wrote: > Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Michal > > wrote: > > > > Can report the download from chromium website works on ESXi4 > > > > > > Dear Michal, > > > > Thank you for downloadi

Re: Announcing the Release of the World's First 64-bit Build of Google's Chromium OS with Xen Virtualization Support

2009-12-04 Thread Michal
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Michal > wrote: > > Can report the download from chromium website works on ESXi4 > > > Dear Michal, > > Thank you for downloading and trying out ChromiumOS64! May I know which > is the versio

Re: Announcing the Release of the World's First 64-bit Build of Google's Chromium OS with Xen Virtualization Support

2009-12-04 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Michal wrote: > Can report the download from chromium website works on ESXi4 > > Dear Michal, Thank you for downloading and trying out ChromiumOS64! May I know which is the version/build you downloaded? -- Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Ho

Re: Announcing the Release of the World's First 64-bit Build of Google's Chromium OS with Xen Virtualization Support

2009-12-04 Thread Michal
Can report the download from chromium website works on ESXi4 Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > _*Detailed Instructions for Using the Bundled Xen 3.4.3-RC1-pre and > 64-bit Google Chrome OS Live USB Image to Create a Fedora 11 Linux PV > Virtual Machine/Guest Operating System/DomU*_ > > Afte

Re: Adobe AIR not install on F12 x86_64

2009-12-04 Thread Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis
Tanks for help Martin! I looking FedoraForum any time now. Adobe AIR works for me. On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:06:40 +, Martin Airs wrote: > On 12/03/2009 04:52 PM, Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis wrote: >> I try install Adobe AIR for applications but not show install window. >> I install any libs i6

Re: Announcing the Release of the World's First 64-bit Build of Google's Chromium OS with Xen Virtualization Support

2009-12-04 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
*Detailed Instructions for Using the Bundled Xen 3.4.3-RC1-pre and 64-bit Google Chrome OS Live USB Image to Create a Fedora 11 Linux PV Virtual Machine/Guest Operating System/DomU* After you have transferred the ChromiumOS64-Xen VMDK image file to a USB external harddisk or an IDE/SATA/SCSI inter

Fedora 12 KDE live CD Password

2009-12-04 Thread Rahul Tidke
Hello, I was eager to try F12 live CD; but I am unable to login to fedora 12 KDE live cd (i686). What is the password for user "liveuser"? Why does a live CD requires username & password? Thank you. Regards, Rahul Tidke -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: ht

installing fedora packages on RHEL -- how bad the craziness?

2009-12-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
actually, this is technically about installing fedora packages on centos 5.4 but, obviously, the same issues apply. and i asked about this on the centos list but i'd like the fedora perspective as well. the short version -- someone running centos 5.4 needs a fairly new version of poppler-uti

Re: ath5k access point in Fedora 12

2009-12-04 Thread James Allsopp
>From the sounds of this, it appears teh new ath5k ath9k's aren't really ready for use. I think I'll try and find an old madwifi driver in the repositories. 2009/12/4 Lonni J Friedman > 2009/12/3 Reuben Budiardja : > > On Thursday 03 December 2009 18:00:33 jaivuk wrote: > >> To be honest I was s

Re: Flash for my new F12/64 install

2009-12-04 Thread Jatin K
On 12/04/2009 03:43 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: It might be unwise to get files from some third-party source, which could be compromised or just plain broken. And unnecessary when you can get them directly from the people who made the file. Jatin K: I've uploaded that file.. I'v

Re: PLaying .ram files in F12 with kaffeine crashes with a xine error message

2009-12-04 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/04/2009 11:16 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 12/04/2009 11:12 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: ... did not help: vlc-1.0.3-1.fc12.i686 was (and is) already installed. Have you tried: vlc rtsp://mmlstreamerb.rhrk.uni-kl.de/mml/Neunzert_Werth.rm This works for me. Mogens Works for me too (as

Re: provider for google calendar

2009-12-04 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello Oleksandr, On Thursday 03 December 2009 04:30 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/12/3 oleksandr korneta: Yes I'm talking about lightning calendar extension. Anyway, turns out some good people did package it and put in repository. But it is useless for me without the Provider for google calendar.

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