Re: I can't disable my touchpad again...

2009-02-11 Thread Bob Barrett
Linuxguy123 wrote: Something happened with the recent updates such that my touchpad is operational again. I don't want it to be operational because I frequently seem to accidentally move the mouse when I type. Prior to this I disabled the mouse by adding the following to my xorg.conf file:

Re: shrinking NTFS partitions on Windows laptop

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Barrett
. This took place while running Vista. No third party software required. I then installed Fedora and have not had any problems. Bob Barrett -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: How to Disable screensaver

2008-09-30 Thread Bob Barrett
Fred Silsbee wrote: --- On Mon, 9/29/08, Bob Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bob Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to Disable screensaver To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Monday, September

Re: How to Disable screensaver

2008-09-29 Thread Bob Barrett
screensaver is slightly buried. KDE 4.1 menu-applications-system-system settings-left column screensaver Under the menu icon lower left, right click on an item and select save to panel I'd still like to know how to make the screensaver stay on indefinitely! There is some setting in

Re: Removing System Consoles from Fedora

2008-09-16 Thread Bob Barrett
Mike Burger wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:11 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: As I said...I don't agree with it...I'm just saying that I understand the thinking behind it. Sorry, but I think you don't. You might want to read Alan Cox's message on the fedora-test list:

Re: Can't switch to KDE

2008-09-04 Thread Bob Barrett
Arthur Pemberton wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2008 14:38:12 Aaron Konstam wrote: I do a switchdesk and set KDE as the default window manager. I am told that I have to restart X to make it happen. I do that by

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Bob Barrett
Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf. Not here. That sounds more like you've moved it out of the way. Is it actually being used? You don't need a configuration file, most of the time, these days. So the

Re: Colour Cordination ??

2008-08-02 Thread Bob Barrett
William Case wrote: Hi; Does anybody know of a site, tutorial or a manual that explains how to get all my colour formats and equipment synchronized? I don't have any major problems that are urgent, but I would like to go about learning how to get everything producing colours as close to the

Re: Fedora 9 will not update

2008-07-11 Thread Bob Barrett
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:50:07 -0400, Bob Barrett wrote: Because the problem seemed to be with yum, I didn't think all the stuff I had removed was relevant. Only with the full output one can draw conclusions. Some further below. When running yum list

Re: Fedora 9 will not update

2008-07-11 Thread Bob Barrett
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:48:40 -0400, Bob Barrett wrote: Your's shows the time as 04:51 AM. Do you get up that early, or stay up that late? For me, it would probably be up that late. Thanks, anyway. No, different time-zone. It was 10:51:05 here (UTC +2

Fedora 9 will not update

2008-07-10 Thread Bob Barrett
[]# yum update | grep 'Missing Dep' | less (lots of snipping) Error: Missing Dependency: perl = 4:5.10.0-22.fc9 is needed by... Error: Missing Dependency: kdevelop = 9:3.5.2-1.fc9 is needed by... Error: Missing Dependency: perl = 4:5.10.0-22.fc9 is needed by... Error: Missing Dependency: perl =

Re: Fedora 9 will not update

2008-07-10 Thread Bob Barrett
Frank Murphy wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 14:40 -0400, Bob Barrett wrote: []# yum update | grep 'Missing Dep' | less (lots of snipping) How do I fix yum so that it will recognize a package that it says is installed, but doesn't remember that when it is needed for an update

Re: Fedora 9 will not update

2008-07-10 Thread Bob Barrett
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:40:52 -0400, Bob Barrett wrote: []# yum update | grep 'Missing Dep' | less (lots of snipping) Bad, bad, bad. You snipped the important details that would help in understanding the dependencies. As I've run the extras repoclosure scripts

Re: Fedora 9 will not update

2008-07-10 Thread Bob Barrett
Itamar - IspBrasil wrote: try this yum -y install yum\* yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing yum update --skip-broken Bob Barrett wrote: []# yum update | grep 'Missing Dep' | less (lots of snipping) Error: Missing Dependency: perl = 4:5.10.0-22.fc9 is needed by... Error: Missing

Re: Fedora 9 runlevel 3

2008-06-15 Thread Bob Barrett
Javier Perez wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:44:19 -0400 Bob Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd sure like to know what other process is running while

Re: Fedora 9 runlevel 3

2008-06-06 Thread Bob Barrett
Javier Perez wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:44:19 -0400 Bob Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd sure like to know what other process is running while

Re: Fedora 9 runlevel 3

2008-06-03 Thread Bob Barrett
g wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: menu.lst is better known in the Fedora world as: /etc/grub.conf if menu.lst is left as a link, which it does not seem to have to be. I have employed the brute force solution: /usr/sbin/gdm [F8:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/rc.d]# l /usr/sbin/gdm

Re: Fedora 9 runlevel 3

2008-06-02 Thread Bob Barrett
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: g wrote: Bob Barrett wrote: It looks like it has booted in runlevel 3, but something is then running telinit 5. I've searched recent mails to this list, and I've searched the startup scripts, /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, etc., but have not been able to find anything. Any