Re: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Danenberg
Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Boomtime, the 55th of The Aftermath: > I tried step 3 alone and it works! That's great news, Colin; installation is the easy part, unfortunately. Here's some things I haven't gotten working yet: * wireless; * sound. If you make any progress there, please let us kno

Re: Daily Kernel Panics

2009-12-12 Thread Hiisi
2009/12/12 Steven Stern : > On 12/11/2009 03:45 PM, Hiisi wrote: >> >> 2009/12/11 Steven Stern: >>> >>> How do I report these? I get about one a day, typically while in Firefox >>> and >>> doing something else.  The machine locks up tight (flashing num and >>> scroll >>> locks) and requires power c

Re: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-12 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Peter" == Peter Danenberg writes: Peter> Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Peter> Aftermath: >> Can you sketch the details of this reformatting exercise >> please? Peter> I'm not sure if the formatting is, strictly speaking, Peter> necessary; but

Re: Mobile Broadband in Qatar

2009-12-12 Thread steve
Hi, On 01/-9/-28163 01:29 AM, LifeOverFiber wrote: Hello all, I am working in a project in Doha, QATAR and our company provided us 3G connection with USB stick from QTEL(Qatar TELECOM). When I connect my USB to my Fedora12 I go Network Manager-> Edit Connection->Mobile Broadband->Add. F12 de

Booting from hard disk

2009-12-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Is it possible to boot the KDE Live CD from the hard disk (from the ISO file), by adding an appropriate stanza to grub.conf ? If so, what would be an appropriate stanza? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinit

[Fwd: Mobile Broadband in Qatar]

2009-12-12 Thread LifeOverFiber
--- Begin Message --- Hello all, I am working in a project in Doha, QATAR and our company provided us 3G connection with USB stick from QTEL(Qatar TELECOM). When I connect my USB to my Fedora12 I go Network Manager-> Edit Connection->Mobile Broadband->Add. F12 detects the USB stick and when I

Suddenly print serving has stopped {SOLVED ??]

2009-12-12 Thread Aaron Konstam
I am top posting to illustrate a problem. I fixed my print service but I need help to know whether I have been scammed. The message below appeared in my mailbox. University of Wisconsin seemed like an ok place so I went along with them and installed their rpm. cbi-paclage-config-122-10.i686.rpm Th

Re: Reuse /home when installing fresh?

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Danenberg
Quoth Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath: > Should I be just as cautious as I have been in the past, or can I > just keep my entire home folder and use it as is? I usually store my home directory in a git repository, for instance; and clone it after a fresh install.[1] F

Reuse /home when installing fresh?

2009-12-12 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Hi All, When I move up to a new Fedora release, I always start with a clean home folder and then selectively copy in application settings (personal data is moved over whole sale). I've been doing this for a long time now because in the past I've had problems with crashing/misbehaving applications

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > Hello! > > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. > > My question is this then: How safe is it re

Suddenly print serving has quit

2009-12-12 Thread Aaron Konstam
I have a f12 print server that distributes access to printing to other machines on my home LAN. Suddenly this service has quit. The other machines on the LAN no longer see the printers on the server. I have not changed the cups configuration. I think a recent upgrade has installed a new version of

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sat, 12/12/09, Alan Evans wrote: > From: Alan Evans > Subject: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." > > Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 10:38 AM > Hello! > > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 p

Re: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Danenberg
Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath: > Can you sketch the details of this reformatting exercise please? I'm not sure if the formatting is, strictly speaking, necessary; but here's how I got Fedora 12 installed on the second-gen Air: 1. Used the Disk Utility on the OS

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2009-12-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 23:00 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 15:39 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > How do I load mp3s onto my iPhone in F12 ? > > Executive summary: you can't. Unlike many phones, the iPhone doesn't > behave as a simple disk drive. There's no way to mount i

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 22:52 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:38 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > > to keep the origi

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 06:25 +1100, David Timms wrote: > On 12/13/2009 05:38 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > > to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. > > >

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:38 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: > Hello! > > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. > > My question is this then: How safe is it

Re: F12: Gnome "Menubar" missing on multiple applications,

2009-12-12 Thread Wim ten Have
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:08:47 -0800 Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Saturday 12 December 2009 02:58 PM, Wim ten Have wrote: > >It is simple, if you launch 'gnome-terminal' you have the option > > to enable "Show Menubar". Click in the window left mouse button. > > There you'll find a checkbox. If it

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 12 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: >On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:30:54 -0600, Bruno wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 13:08:32 -0500, >> >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> > So the Mint8 installers update-grub comes a heck of a lot closer to >> > getting it right than the fedora grub2 version

Re: F12: Gnome "Menubar" missing on multiple applications,

2009-12-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 12 December 2009 02:58 PM, Wim ten Have wrote: It is simple, if you launch 'gnome-terminal' you have the option to enable "Show Menubar". Click in the window left mouse button. There you'll find a checkbox. If it is enabled then the terminal emulator will show "[File] [

Unable to report Firefox pblm with abrt

2009-12-12 Thread Steven Stern
Abrt says it can't report a firefox crash because I need to "debuginfo-install firefox". I did that, downloading and installing 127MB of stuff. Now, there's been another Firefox crash and abrt is telling me the same thing. What to do? trying debuginfo-install again shows that everything is i

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Sam Sharpe
2009/12/12 Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 22:53 +, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> 2009/12/12 Patrick O'Callaghan : >> >> There have been several postings from Fedora people indicating that the >> >> project web site is going to be down for 48 hours for a physical move. >> >> Firefox out of

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Danenberg
Quoth Patrick O'Callaghan on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath: > Alternatively, you could jailbreak the phone and copy files using > scp. I don't know if the phone will then recognize them as something > it can play, but I wouldn't bet on it. I was able to use gtkpod[1] on a jailbroken iphone

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 22:53 +, Sam Sharpe wrote: > 2009/12/12 Patrick O'Callaghan : > >> There have been several postings from Fedora people indicating that the > >> project web site is going to be down for 48 hours for a physical move. > >> Firefox out of the box on a fresh Fedora install uses

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 15:39 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > How do I load mp3s onto my iPhone in F12 ? Executive summary: you can't. Unlike many phones, the iPhone doesn't behave as a simple disk drive. There's no way to mount it, the connection protocol is secret, and Apple have no interest in suppo

Re: F12: Gnome "Menubar" missing on multiple applications,

2009-12-12 Thread Wim ten Have
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:08:24 +1100 David Timms wrote: > On 12/13/2009 08:56 AM, Wim ten Have wrote: > >Many applications that have dependencies towards seem all to have > >lost their "title/window/dressing/top" menu's. > Could you post a screen shot somewhere (not the list), because I don

Re: Delay measuring

2009-12-12 Thread H. Willstrand
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 2009/12/12 Christoph Höger >> >> Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 23:34 +1100 schrieb David Timms: >> > On 12/10/2009 10:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:46 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote: >> > >> for a l

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Sam Sharpe
2009/12/12 Patrick O'Callaghan : >> There have been several postings from Fedora people indicating that the >> project web site is going to be down for 48 hours for a physical move. >> Firefox out of the box on a fresh Fedora install uses this as the >> default start page. If you can get to other w

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:38 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: > Hello! > > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. > > My question is this then: How safe is it

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2009-12-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/12/2009 04:39 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: How do I load mp3s onto my iPhone in F12 ? Is there a way to use an iPhone as a data modem via Bluetooth ? Is there a way to have a Bluetooth phone operate with F12 like it does with Microsoft Sync in a car ? Thanks Here's how I put music on my iP

Re: Cursor of konsole hides last character

2009-12-12 Thread H. Willstrand
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> Is there some workaround to prevent the cursor of konsole (KDE) of >>> hiding the last character typed? >> >> I've never seen Konsole doing what you describe, but you might try >> "Se

Re: Strange error with yum update

2009-12-12 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Samstag, den 12.12.2009, 22:10 + schrieb John Lagrue: > At first glance this look simple, but it seems to be telling me > there's an error. > > Running rpm_check_debug > ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: > kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) > kmod-nvid

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:11 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 07:29 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote: > > Firefox simply tells me: "Server not found. Firefox can't find the > > server at start.fedoraproject.org". > > > There have been several postings from Fedora people indicating th

How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2009-12-12 Thread Linuxguy123
How do I load mp3s onto my iPhone in F12 ? Is there a way to use an iPhone as a data modem via Bluetooth ? Is there a way to have a Bluetooth phone operate with F12 like it does with Microsoft Sync in a car ? Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://ww

Strange error with yum update

2009-12-12 Thread John Lagrue
At first glance this look simple, but it seems to be telling me there's an error. Running rpm_check_debug ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE-190.42-1.fc11.1.i686 Complete! (1, [u'Please r

Re: F12: Gnome "Menubar" missing on multiple applications,

2009-12-12 Thread David Timms
On 12/13/2009 08:56 AM, Wim ten Have wrote: >Many applications that have dependencies towards seem all to have >lost their "title/window/dressing/top" menu's. Could you post a screen shot somewhere (not the list), because I don't think I see what you describe ? -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: F12: Gnome "Menubar" missing on multiple applications,

2009-12-12 Thread Wim ten Have
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:16:46 +0100 Wim ten Have wrote: > >I recently upgraded from F11 to F12. Stepping into F12 i noticed >that many applications like 'gnome-terminal' no longer show their >"Menubar" where it is configured in my setup to be displayed. >Similar it seems missing

Fedora 12 -- A great new version !

2009-12-12 Thread William Case
Hi; Just thought I would say I really really like Fedora 12. It feels like a Christmas gift. I upgraded from F11 this morning with no difficulties -- worked like a charm. Everything looks and feels a little cleaner and a little tighter. The upgrading process (which I couldn't get to work for m

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 11/12/09 07:12, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 12/10/2009 09:18 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Yes, I posted the question and found the response interesting and helpful. I spent a couple of hours reading man pages and experimenting with the lvm commands on various drives. But I have not been able to open

nouveau driver + hd video?

2009-12-12 Thread Neal Becker
Has anyone had good results playing hd video with nouveau? It didn't seem to work for me. I switched to nvidia and then it was fine. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Re: Flowchart-ish tool

2009-12-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> Is there some rpm of XMind available? > > No, at least not that I've found. I downloaded the "universal" version, put > it in ~/Xmind and create a desktop shortcut pointing to > ~/xmind-3.1/XMind_Linux/xmind Thanks, Steven. Paul -- fedora

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread David Timms
On 12/13/2009 05:38 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. > > My question is this then: How safe is it really to allow the ins

Re: Request for Input on Creating Linux Courses...

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Byrd
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > The Ideal is to over a beginning Linux course, and an second level course as > a start. In the networking class, I have one 4 hour section where the students > go thru the installation of various Linux OS's,  and they can use the Fed

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:30:54 -0600, Bruno wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 13:08:32 -0500, > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > So the Mint8 installers update-grub comes a heck of a lot closer to getting > > it right than the fedora grub2 version. Can this be fixed asap, before the > > plug on F10

Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Alan Evans
Hello! I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. My question is this then: How safe is it really to allow the installer to resize the existing partition with

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 13:08:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So the Mint8 installers update-grub comes a heck of a lot closer to getting > it right than the fedora grub2 version. Can this be fixed asap, before the > plug on F10 is completely pulled? The deadline for F10 updates was yeste

F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-12 Thread Gene Heskett
This should be bugzilla'd. I made a printout of blkid, then compared it to the /boott/grub2/grub.cfg it generated. I now see why I can't boot anything but fedora 10. Attached is blkid.txt, note that all drives appear to be found and properly UUID'd. Attached also is the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg g

Fedora Live USB, boot hangs after bootloader

2009-12-12 Thread Andrea
I am trying to boot from a USB stick with F12 KDE. I've used livecd-iso-to-disk and tried to reformat the USB disk as well. No errors reported by livecd-iso-to-disk, but after the grub menu shows up, it hangs as soon as it tried to load linux. the screen stays on the menu page, and no error is pr

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 12 December 2009, Tim wrote: >On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> It wasn't just slow graphics Tim. It was >> slooo >>oow! > >I was forgetting the other common reason for t

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 07:29 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote: > Firefox simply tells me: "Server not found. Firefox can't find the > server at start.fedoraproject.org". There have been several postings from Fedora people indicating that the project web site is going to be down for 48 hours for a ph

Re: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-12 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Peter" == Peter Danenberg writes: >> Is there a way to install fedora on a Macbook air (as the sole >> operating system)? Peter> I'm currently using Fedora 11 as the sole OS on a Peter> second-gen air; it involved, IIRC, booting with the OS X Peter> installation disc a

Re: F12 Upgrade Stumped

2009-12-12 Thread TNWestTex
TNWestTex wrote: > > Getting more and more unhappy since F8. Multiboot system with VISTA, F8 > and F10 with only minor Glitches in F10. Tried to do preupgrade on the > F10 partition.Things seemed to go alright until the reboot. System locks > up with a blank screen. The performance of the d

Re: Flowchart-ish tool

2009-12-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/12/2009 06:18 AM, Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I am trying to create a visual aid for some complex relationships (not software, sorry). It would seem that some flowchart, or similar software, might assist. I need to show the relationships between

Re: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Danenberg
> Is there a way to install fedora on a Macbook air (as the sole > operating system)? I'm currently using Fedora 11 as the sole OS on a second-gen air; it involved, IIRC, booting with the OS X installation disc and reformatting the drive with the Disk Utility prior to installing Fedora. I was jus

Re: Domain of sender address ... does not exist

2009-12-12 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:24 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > Even if there's no website, there needs to be an "A" record. Since > it's a valid domain. Well, at least for the FQDNs that they're actually making using, such as the ones the MX records point to (and they do). There are records for both "m

Re: Cursor of konsole hides last character

2009-12-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Is there some workaround to prevent the cursor of konsole (KDE) of >> hiding the last character typed? > > I've never seen Konsole doing what you describe, but you might try > "Settings" -> "Edit current settings" in the menu and tweak it

Re: funny gdm-restart script

2009-12-12 Thread Tom H
> Calling gdm-restart only reports: > >        Not supported > > What's not supported? The code for gdm-restart is a shell script and rather > short: > ---snip > #!/bin/sh > > PIDFILE=/var/run/gdm.pid > if test '!' -f $PIDFILE ; then >        echo "$PIDFILE doesn't exist, perhaps GD

Re: Sudo and gtksu

2009-12-12 Thread davide
Il Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:03:17 +0100, davide ha scritto: > Il Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:37:45 +, Sam Sharpe ha scritto: > > >> Did you logout and login again? > > yep. Even rebooted. > > >> What's the output of `id`? > > (1021)-~% id > uid=1000(davide) gid=1000(davide) gruppi=10(wheel),484 > (de

Re: Flowchart-ish tool

2009-12-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> I am trying to create a visual aid for some complex relationships (not >> software, sorry). It would seem that some flowchart, or similar >> software, might assist. I need to show the relationships between items >> and groups of items, and I

F12: Gnome "Menubar" missing on multiple applications,

2009-12-12 Thread Wim ten Have
I recently upgraded from F11 to F12. Stepping into F12 i noticed that many applications like 'gnome-terminal' no longer show their "Menubar" where it is configured in my setup to be displayed. Similar it seems missing on many other applications. -- -- Wim ten Have. -- fedora-list

Mobile Broadband in Qatar

2009-12-12 Thread LifeOverFiber
Hello all, I am working in a project in Doha, QATAR and our company provided us 3G connection with USB stick from QTEL(Qatar TELECOM). When I connect my USB to my Fedora12 I go Network Manager-> Edit Connection->Mobile Broadband->Add. F12 detects the USB stick and when I forward it I can not se

Re: Delay measuring

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
2009/12/12 Christoph Höger > Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 23:34 +1100 schrieb David Timms: > > On 12/10/2009 10:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:46 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote: > > >> for a long time now firefox annoys me now and then with second-long > > >> de

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Simon Schneebeli wrote: > Firefox simply tells me: "Server not found. Firefox can't find the server > at start.fedoraproject.org". > > I really have no idea what the problem might be. Try wiping your Firefox cache and restarting. Also, as with any FF problem, se

Re: Delay measuring

2009-12-12 Thread Christoph Höger
Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 23:34 +1100 schrieb David Timms: > On 12/10/2009 10:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:46 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote: > >> for a long time now firefox annoys me now and then with second-long > >> delay when entering a new URL in the URL-

Re: Issue setting KDE resolution - Fedora 12, ATI, Dell Inspiron 8600

2009-12-12 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 19:17 -0800, Lets Go Canes wrote: > ith the added problem of having to boot single-user to delete the > xorg.conf file to get the display back. You shouldn't have to do that, simply switching to a text-only console should give you a working display so you can issue commands.

funny gdm-restart script

2009-12-12 Thread Joachim Backes
Calling gdm-restart only reports: Not supported What's not supported? The code for gdm-restart is a shell script and rather short: ---snip #!/bin/sh PIDFILE=/var/run/gdm.pid if test '!' -f $PIDFILE ; then echo "$PIDFILE doesn't exist, perhaps GDM isn't running"

After Fedora 12 kernel updates, grub doesn't remember previous settings

2009-12-12 Thread Prasan
After each new kernel update in Fedora 12 x86_64 , default time out is reset to 15secs and freshly installed kernel is set as default. Since the proprietary WLAN drivers from RPMFusion comes one or two days after each kernel update, after each kernel update I have to manually edit settings for gru

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-12 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > It wasn't just slow graphics Tim. It was > slow! I was forgetting the other common reason for that sort of thing: Not enough RAM, and everythi