Re: Firefox 3.5 final?

2009-07-06 Thread David
On 7/6/2009 7:46 AM, Joshua C. wrote: > 2009/7/6 David : >> On 7/6/2009 4:51 AM, Joshua C. wrote: >>> 2009/7/5 Patrick O'Callaghan : >>>> On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 10:41 +0200, Joshua C. wrote: >>>>> 2009/7/5 Patrick O'Callaghan : &g

Re: Firefox 3.5 final?

2009-07-06 Thread David
dora-list >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >> > I tried it but there are some plugins that have dep-problems (libgpod > especially) libgpod is available for Fedora 9 & 10, as well as Fedora 11. In both x86 and x86_64 archs. -- David -- 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

rescue from Live USB?

2009-07-04 Thread David L
My 4 year old just tripped over my laptop's power cord and it smashed into the hardwood floor. :( The hard drive appears to have been somewhat damaged, but still kinda sorta works. But it no longer boots to Fedora 11 successfully... it gets a kernel panic, presumably due to a corrupt or missing f

Re: OT: A note to the person in the next cubicle

2009-07-03 Thread David
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:06 AM, William Case wrote: > > #3 Finding bug citations > > I have noticed that when experienced users respond to a question/problem > on the users list their response often contains a link to the > appropriate bug.  When I google to find a solution to something google > ne

Re: How and when do updates of apps get into repos?

2009-07-03 Thread David Christopher Chipman
igure scripts. But, I can understand you other misgivings about random RPM files. -David Chipman -- 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: Network guru help sought please

2009-07-03 Thread David Christopher Chipman
Timothy Murphy wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Since you are tracing the packets, you can look at the DNS request for mirrorlist and see what IP is being returned by your nameserver. I'm not sure how you conclude that the mirrorlist "is not interpreted" whatever that means, y

Old squashfs partitions does not work in Fedora 11

2009-07-01 Thread David Björkevik
weird for filesystems generated with Fedora 10 to be unreadable by Fedora 11. Should it be posted as a bug? Does anybody know of a workaround? Will I have to revert to NFS for sharing the data? Regards, David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailma

Re: Rough Fedora 11 Install, still not working

2009-06-29 Thread David Highley
"David Highley wrote:" > > "Amadeus W.M. wrote:" > > > > > After the raid controller verifies the DMI pool it stops, ie. I do not > > > see the grub menus. I booted into rescue mode and the file systems > > > appears to be good. I did

Re: Rough Fedora 11 Install, still not working

2009-06-28 Thread David Highley
"Amadeus W.M. wrote:" > > > After the raid controller verifies the DMI pool it stops, ie. I do not > > see the grub menus. I booted into rescue mode and the file systems > > appears to be good. I did a complete reinstall again and have the same > > results. > > > > > > You did make the /boot pa

Re: Rough Fedora 11 Install, still not working

2009-06-28 Thread David Highley
"Geoffrey Leach wrote:" > > On 06/27/2009 08:43:29 PM, David Highley wrote: > > After my 5 year old Tyan dual Opteron motherboard died in the middle > > of > > installing Fedora 11 the saga continues. > > > > Upgraded to an EVGA X58 Socket 1366 core

Re: F11 - unrant

2009-06-28 Thread David
and have gotten > CNN videos to work which used to be very difficult. I was amazed. > > Good job to the developers. "F11 - unrant"? Bless you sir! :-) -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/lis

Re: Can not connect to NFS server as user?

2009-06-28 Thread David Christopher Chipman
file? That may be confusing things. Please let us know what you have already read on the issue. Thanks, -David -- 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

Rough Fedora 11 Install, still not working

2009-06-27 Thread David Highley
After my 5 year old Tyan dual Opteron motherboard died in the middle of installing Fedora 11 the saga continues. Upgraded to an EVGA X58 Socket 1366 core i7 board, 965 Nehalem CPU, EVGA Nvidia 285 GTX 2G video card, and 2 Raptor 300 GB system disks mirrored in a 3Ware 9500S-8 raid controller. Trie

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-27 Thread David Timms
On 06/28/2009 11:10 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 4) Anaconda sees neither the softraid partitions, nor the actual underlying /dev/sd? devices at all. When you say softraid, you mean linux software raid, rather than bios raid or hardware raid ? Maybe it is related to: https://fedoraproject.org/wi

Re: F11 scp stalls - rsync command

2009-06-27 Thread David Timms
On 06/28/2009 02:26 AM, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 16:18 +, Beartooth TpBkR wrote: I've been using scp to transfer data and settings around from one machine on my LAN to another. (I know, I should use rsync instead; I hope to get started learning it one of these days. M

Re: Files corrupt on copy

2009-06-27 Thread David Timms
On 06/28/2009 04:58 AM, Andy Campbell wrote: On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:16:47 -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: Hmm always out by 1 ... Would it be worth using badblocks to perform the destructive (to your data - move / backup first) test on the partition you are having trouble with ? Does smartctl

Re: Fedora-11 rant

2009-06-27 Thread David
e two questions I would be grateful for an answer to are: > > 1. Could I use the video driver from F-10 ? > > 2. Can one substitute a more basic driver for the one chosen > during the installation? Plunk! -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsub

Re: Graphics card recommendation?

2009-06-26 Thread David
end nvidia card (7300 GT) and the proprietary > driver. If you care to read this. http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Glxgears_is_not_a_Benchmark -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: Some issues in F11

2009-06-26 Thread David
system thinks well you *have to be something* or the system can't work so I will assign 'something' that will at least work. And the Luser, being smarter than this stupid monitor, can at least use this sytem to set the configurations for this stupid monitor. Hmm... Yep. You'r

Re: How do I get the flash plugin to use pulseaudio?

2009-06-25 Thread David Christopher Chipman
to do it (I don't know if it still does). -David Chipman -- 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: Warning against preupgrade

2009-06-25 Thread David
xpect from clean, fresh installs? Would a "clean, fresh install" and then have to reconfigure 'something/any/many things, be a disaster? As opposed to an "By the time I'm done, I expect 5 for 5 failures" upgrade followed by a "clean, fresh install?", as opposed to

Re: OpenOffice Calc slow on F11?

2009-06-22 Thread David L
; I don't see this behavior. Cheers... David -- 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: Yum self destructs

2009-06-22 Thread David A. De Graaf
ce. With yum-plugin-tmprepo properly removed, yum works again. -- David A. De GraafDATIX, Inc.Hendersonville, NC d...@datix.us www.datix.us -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: I hate the bong

2009-06-21 Thread David Christopher Chipman
am a fool. Warren After all, Warren, Sam is talking about F11, not F10. -David -- 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: Fwd: Problems Installing Fedora x86_64

2009-06-21 Thread David
t;> >> >> >> It would try to reinstall fedora as if no operating system was >> present.I have reinstalled it but no luck when trying to reboot >> from the local drive. >> >> >> >> Any ideas/help are appreciated. >> >> >&g

anyone using Inspiron 15n with fedora?

2009-06-21 Thread David L
idn't find on smolt. I also didn't find the Inspiron 15n. Is anybody using the 15n with Fedora? If so, what's your experience and can you point me to your smolt profile so I can see what to search for? Thanks, David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.

Re: F11 Trash Not Emptying

2009-06-20 Thread David
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Beartooth TpBkR wrote: > >        Sometimes it tells me that certain things can't be removed (Error > removing file: Permission denied) -- even though their owner is my userid > -- and sometimes it just does nothing. > >        Ir I right click on one of the items i

Re: F11 Liveuser Password

2009-06-20 Thread David
On 6/20/2009 10:10 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > David wrote: > > On 6/19/2009 4:16 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> > "Kevin J. Cummings" wrote >> > >>> >> R. G. Newbury wrote: >>>> >> > OK, Now I'm really frustrated. >>

Re: F11 Liveuser Password

2009-06-20 Thread David
On 6/20/2009 10:10 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > David wrote: > > On 6/19/2009 4:16 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> > "Kevin J. Cummings" wrote >> > >>> >> R. G. Newbury wrote: >>>> >> > OK, Now I'm really frustrated. >>

Re: Yum self destructs

2009-06-20 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 03:11:03PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:56:29 +0200, David wrote: > > > Two days ago I did 'yum update' on this F10 laptop. > > Now I find yum no longer works. How do I recover from this disaster? > &g

Yum self destructs

2009-06-20 Thread David A. De Graaf
:29 Erased: yum-upgrade-helper Jun 18 23:09:34 Erased: yum-aliases Jun 18 23:09:38 Erased: yum-post-transaction-actions Jun 18 23:09:38 Erased: yum-changelog Jun 18 23:09:41 Erased: yum-protect-packages Jun 18 23:09:42 Erased: yum-fastestmirror Jun 18 23:09:57 Erased: yum-tmprepo Jun

Re: F11 Liveuser Password

2009-06-19 Thread David
a login screen of any kind here. None at >> all. It boot right to the KDE desktop. >> >> Having a bad day are you? :-) >> -- > On my desktop, I had this problem with F10, trying to get to rescue the > system; F11 loaded straight away on my laptop. The difference appears to > have been that the /tmp on my desktop had no space... My > imagination?? If you used the Fedora Live-CD then the whole OS was, more or less, loaded into the memory of your computer. Do you actually have a dedicated partition that is /tmp on your hard drive? If so. Why? And if it was 'full' I would think that would have been because of Fedora 10. -- David -- 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: NFS between F10 and XP -

2009-06-19 Thread David Burns
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:29:59 -0400 > Bob Goodwin wrote: > >> What it the best way to deal with connecting a Windows XPHome >>         computer to a F10 NFS server. I agree with Horsley that samba is probably easiest. But I would like to access

Re: F11 Liveuser Password

2009-06-19 Thread David
*really, really angry!* Quick! Give me the microphone! So that I can yell the *loud, funny words!* No one else has downloaded this and booted this? No one else has complained? In this much time? Really? The Live-CD KDE boots with out a login screen of any kind here. None at all. It boot

Re: Anybody else having problems with the FireFox 3.5 Beta on Fedora 11 (and XFCE and opera)?

2009-06-19 Thread David
ouble but the java script(s) that they use 'sometimes' do not run in the open source Java. The do run in the Java directly installed from Sun. Still work in progress. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/

Re: Fedora 11 GDB unusable?

2009-06-19 Thread David L
it's worked ok for me. Regards, David -- 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: Unable to boot cloned disk

2009-06-19 Thread David
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > David wrote: > > > > You can see the UUID of your drives by > >       ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ > > > With a dd copy of the drives, I would expect the UUID to also copy. Oops yes what I wrote is

Re: Unable to boot cloned disk

2009-06-19 Thread David
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Markus Kesaromous wrote: > > On my workstation, with FC9, I attached a second drive, identical to the > linux boot drive. > In single user mode, I cloned sda to sdb > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M > I shut down and remove the second drive and insert it into >

Re: Thunderbird bug or feature?

2009-06-18 Thread David
their mua to top post. > If I'm reading this correctly. > > >> Is this a bug or a feature? >> I didn't really pay attention to it before, but it may have always >> worked this way... >> > As this is a reply, my personal sig. should not show up. > > Fr

Re: Acer 5810T , brightness control does not work in gnome

2009-06-17 Thread David Hláčik
Pardon me, I have Intel GMA 4500 HD On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:44 PM, David Hláčik wrote: > > Hi guys, > > F11 x64, just installed. Brightness control does not works in gnome > (gnome-power-settings). > > As a workarounds I have tried : > > -> switch via randr to n

Acer 5810T , brightness control does not work in gnome

2009-06-17 Thread David Hláčik
Hi guys, F11 x64, just installed. Brightness control does not works in gnome (gnome-power-settings). As a workarounds I have tried : -> switch via randr to native backlight control , this throws some strange error on me , does not works -> updating gnome-power-settings to rawhide, nope -> puttin

Re: Announcing LXDE Fedora Remix 11

2009-06-15 Thread David
; The kickstart file used to create the Live CD is available for your > review and customization at > > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/remixes/LXDE/lxde-fedora-remix-11.ks > > Send your questions and feedback to fedora-list > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate#User_Ma

Re: Root Access

2009-06-13 Thread David
r_For_GNOME_Display_Manager > > Not to pick on you in particular Mike, but I really think that folks > who feel they need to login as root ought to be better at knowing how > to diagnose and fix such problems. Funny just how that works most of the time isn't it Todd? -- David --

Re: Problems with NFS in Fedora 11 ppc

2009-06-13 Thread David Burns
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Dmitry Zaletnev wrote: > > > the resulting output is: > > clnt_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive > wildish guess - rpcbind is misconfigured or not running.Try /etc/init.d/rpcbind restart. Or selinux or firewall settings could also be raining

Re: OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

2009-06-13 Thread David
On 6/13/2009 9:55 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 13/06/09 07:08, David wrote: >> > >> >> {1} I *use* what works for my bread. > > It's your living, understood. > > >> I need 'the real stuff' for several things. And, in spite of peop

Re: OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

2009-06-13 Thread David
On 6/13/2009 2:11 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/13/2009 11:38 AM, David wrote: > >> I need 'the real stuff' for several things. And, in spite of people such >> as you, that is what I am going to use. I will continue to 'try' the >> Linux 'knoc

Re: OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

2009-06-12 Thread David
you, that is what I am going to use. I will continue to 'try' the Linux 'knock-offs' and when they do the job? Great. Until? I need 'the real stuff'. -- David -- 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: OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

2009-06-12 Thread David
ealots and purists dislike. Their problem. Not mine. But it makes them feel good I guess. :-) -- David -- 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: problems with leonidas autofs and ldap

2009-06-12 Thread David L
ome interaction with f11 and your particular ldap/autofs environment. Sorry I couldn't provide any more constructive feedback. Cheers... David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Howto yum update F10->F11?

2009-06-11 Thread David Chin
line 32, in postreposetup_hook cmd = commands[0] TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable -- David Chin, Ph.D. chi...@wfu.edu High Performance Computing Systems Analyst Office: 336-758-2964Wake Forest University Mobile: 336-608-0793Winston-S

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-10 Thread David
On 6/9/2009 6:38 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > --- On Tue, 6/9/09, David wrote: > >> From: David >> Subject: Re: SMART - Please shut up!! >> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." >> >> Date: Tuesday,

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread David
S. That's where mine is set to on. That will turn off the warning so that one day it will just die a peaceful surprise death. Taking your data with it of course. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-l

Re: SMART - Please shut up!!

2009-06-09 Thread David
S. That's where mine is set yo on. That will turn off the warning so that one day it will just die a peaceful surprise death. Taking your data with it. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-l

Re: F11 for x86_64

2009-06-09 Thread David
On 6/9/2009 1:01 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, David wrote: > >> On 6/9/2009 12:13 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, James Bridge wrote: >>> >>>> It seems F11 has arrived, but only in 32 bit versions. Anyone cast

Re: F11 for x86_64

2009-06-09 Thread David
Fedora 11. One that is *newer* than the ISOs because the updates will contain packages that did not make it into the ISOs. Unless you really need an ISO so you can hold in your hand a Fedora 11 disk, that is alread a littl 'out of date', you *don't* need the ISO. -- David

Re: Fedora 11 (Rawhide) and Firefox

2009-06-08 Thread David Timms
On 08/06/09 00:11, Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: Is anyone having problems with FireFox 3.5 Beta 4 having upgraded to Rawhide? No. But if you did it this weekend, then you may have been upgraded to the real rawhide, ie a heap of pending changes that had been held back while F11 was finalized (i

Re: F11

2009-06-08 Thread David Timms
On 09/06/09 10:28, Chris wrote: What are the chances that the New Zealand mirror actually has the F11 release as of right now? High, since most tier 0/1 mirrors need to have it ahead of time, so that lower level mirrors can get synced before the release announcement. It shows it as the releas

Re: Documenting using asterisk with fedora talk?

2009-06-08 Thread David Timms
On 09/06/09 02:43, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I'd be willing to put this up somewhere, but I am not sure where to do the data entry (Fedora Talk seems to be it's own area), I would suggest putting it under your personal page on the fedoraproject.org/wiki to start with. An alternative would be http

Re: Virtual Box install problem on FC10

2009-06-08 Thread David
alls for 7 through 11. > > The user manual is in .pdf; section 2.3 covers Linux installs. > > Sun is to be credited for a job well done. Sun bought the 'work-in-progress' already done by others. Sun could be credited with a cash influx I guess. -- David -- fedora-l

Re: Managing .rpmnew files?

2009-06-08 Thread David Timms
On 05/06/09 15:56, Michael Rohan wrote: Is there a standard way to manage the .rpmnew files created on "yum update"? It would seem the updates should be "merged" into the locally modified files when appropriate My suggestion is to yum install meld, then meld /etc/something.rpmnew /etc/somethin

Re: how to install windows after fedora

2009-06-07 Thread David
ootable, whatever, then virtual box is in > the same boat and does me now good? > > Hrm, maybe dual boot is still needed. Good for you! I duel boot for the reason that you mentioned. Bread on the table comes from the 'Windows section'. BTW you are aware that the Windows 7 RC is

Re: how to install wmware in foedora 64

2009-06-06 Thread David
On 6/6/2009 8:24 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > David wrote: >> An application that is very similar, free of cost and open source, is >> Virtualbox. > > The edition they let you download binaries of is not Open Source / Free > Software, it's proprietary (just free of char

Re: how to install wmware in foedora 64

2009-06-06 Thread David
On 6/6/2009 6:40 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > David wrote: >> On 6/6/2009 6:02 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> He was not talking about VMware Server. I, personally, have never used >> it. Something that bothers me here though, unless it is a 'different >> lang

Re: how to install wmware in foedora 64

2009-06-06 Thread David
On 6/6/2009 6:02 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > David wrote: >> On 6/5/2009 11:50 PM, Nathan Huang wrote: >> VMware is closed source and expensive. About $200.00 American dollars >> for a license that is good for one release and a discount on the update >> to the next re

Re: how to install wmware in foedora 64

2009-06-06 Thread David
Located here. http://www.virtualbox.org/ Very easy to install and to use. -- David -- 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: Will F11 save sessions?

2009-06-05 Thread David
On 6/5/2009 9:16 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, David said: >> As of today...Gnome save session still does not 'work'. As of today, as >> far as I know, there is no 'time' when it will. > > Why can this change not be reverted, at least in Fed

Re: Will F11 save sessions?

2009-06-05 Thread David
t will be? > It looks as though no one is going to answer this for you. As of today...Gnome save session still does not 'work'. As of today, as far as I know, there is no 'time' when it will. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: h

Re: Common F11 Bugs

2009-06-05 Thread David
On 6/5/2009 5:22 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:06:36PM -0400, David wrote: >> On 6/5/2009 4:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: >>> >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>&g

Re: Common F11 Bugs

2009-06-05 Thread David
t one site? Give an example URL please. Do you have the same extensions installed in both Firefox and Seamonkey? Do you use Flash Block? If a site is blocked, the default, it can slow the site down as it fights to display. Another thing to look at is the 'languages' installed in Fire

Re: OT: Vote for your favorite Linux Distro for the Desktop if you can!

2009-06-05 Thread David
at-your-favorite-linux-distribution-desktop > > Regards, > > Antonio The results of this faux poll would be just that. Fake. No thanks. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-lis

RE: Upgrade FC3 to FC10

2009-06-03 Thread Moessbauer, David
Thanks. Have come to conclusion that fresh install and a recompile of source material is the answer. -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Wolfgang S. Rupprecht Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 4:07 PM To: fedora-list@r

RE: Upgrade FC3 to FC10

2009-06-03 Thread Moessbauer, David
: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jussi Lehtola Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:39 AM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: Upgrade FC3 to FC10 On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:10 -0400, Moessbauer, David wrote

Upgrade FC3 to FC10

2009-06-03 Thread Moessbauer, David
Have an old system that requires upgrade from existing FC3 configuration to FC10 for security concerns. Upgrade vice fresh install is necessary to maintain existing proprietary application loads. When attempt to utilize FC10 upgrade DVD it can not find a Linux load on HDD, though it is there. A

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-02 Thread David
b crap, > leaving you with a pure x86_64 system and no more multilib conflicts. > > Kevin Kofler > Or the possibility to use x86 applications that have no x86_64 version/build on an x86_64 system. Are you for real? -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: Are you using LXDE?

2009-06-02 Thread David
Kevin. My NVidia card works just fine. Always has. -- David -- 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: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-01 Thread David
On 6/1/2009 3:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote: >> On 6/1/2009 12:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Monday 01 June 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>>> David wrote: >>>>>> Is there a way I can try to upgrade now to what

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-01 Thread David
On 6/1/2009 9:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote: >> On 6/1/2009 6:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote: >>>> On 6/1/2009 3:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> Where did you 'get' the

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-01 Thread David
On 6/1/2009 8:14 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > David wrote: > >> And it should be *obvious* that since Fedora 11 has not yet been >> released that Fedora 11 should *not* be offered as an upgrade option. >> >> Why are you trying to make this difficult? > >

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-01 Thread David
On 6/1/2009 6:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote: >> On 6/1/2009 3:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Where did you 'get' the preupgrade. > > F8 repo via yumex. Ok. You had an install of Fedora 8 and you tried/wanted to upgrade to Fedor

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-01 Thread David
On 6/1/2009 5:40 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > David wrote: > >>>> Use preupgrade. Works like a charm. > >>> Assuming you have to check the "Display unstable test releases" >>> and then choose Rawhide, >>> why not say this? >>>

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-01 Thread David
On 6/1/2009 3:11 PM, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2009/6/1 David : >> >> For Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 I can not say. Just this weekend I did a >> preupgrade test of Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 that worked with no problems. >> >> I then did a preupgrade test of that same Fedora

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-01 Thread David
On 6/1/2009 3:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote: >> On 6/1/2009 12:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Monday 01 June 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>>> David wrote: >>>>>> Is there a way I can try to upgrade now to what

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-01 Thread David
On 6/1/2009 12:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 June 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> David wrote: >>>> Is there a way I can try to upgrade now to what will be F11 or do I >>>> have to wait another week? >>> Use preupgrade. Works like a charm.

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-01 Thread David
On 6/1/2009 10:15 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > David wrote: > >>> Is there a way I can try to upgrade now to what will be F11 or do I >>> have to wait another week? > >> Use preupgrade. Works like a charm. >> >> How to use PreUpgrade >> >>

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-05-31 Thread David
e now to what will be F11 or do I > have to wait another week? > Use preupgrade. Works like a charm. How to use PreUpgrade http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade This will take a while. A long while. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

hp pavillion laptop can't resume from suspend

2009-05-31 Thread David Lam
Basically, pretty much everything worked out of the box, except that I have a completely blank screen when resuming from sleep anyone have any ideas on the steps to take to fix this? I installed the Fedora 10 Unity re-spin rather recently and my kernel is 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 I tri

Re: multi-media packages/gcc/latest CPU optimizations

2009-05-31 Thread David Timms
On 31/05/09 08:51, RS wrote: 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) You can take a look at the specs that are used to compile and package the apps eg: (

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

2009-05-29 Thread David
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 cracks me up

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

2009-05-29 Thread David
se, you would troll your way out of here. Bye troll. -- David -- 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: Kernel update broke my system.

2009-05-29 Thread David
sed it to go > bad... > > Sorry for trying to understand... > > Herb Smith I was not trying to be nasty herb. The GRUB part I missed. Repair boot loader http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2871 -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubsc

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

2009-05-29 Thread David
ditor will also show what application is called by what menu selection. Along with any CLI switches if there are any. -- David -- 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: Kernel update broke my system.

2009-05-29 Thread David
On 5/29/2009 1:16 PM, David Burns wrote: > Is there a way to test whether my system has this problem without rebooting? > Dave > >> the Updater is doing that job, and it nuked my >> system too. You do realize that the kernel that was running when you did the update is stil

Re: Kernel update broke my system.

2009-05-29 Thread David Burns
Is there a way to test whether my system has this problem without rebooting? Dave >the Updater is doing that job, and it nuked my > system too. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread David
aven't tried this. I don't have the machine. But it sounds workable. -- David -- 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: emacs c++ code completion help

2009-05-27 Thread David
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Steven W. Orr wrote: >> >> BTW, How do you make a hormone? >> >> Two ways: > > ... > > I'd have thought that after the Rails "Perform like a porn star" debacle, > more people would realize that this kind of thing isn't really appropriate > i

Re: live boot networking question

2009-05-27 Thread David L
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:33 PM, David L wrote: >> I have a fedora live USB stick that I want to be able to boot in >> a co-worker's laptop so they can run a Linux app on their >> Windows system.  The app talks to an

Re: F9 "/usr/bin/java is not owned by any package" - huh?

2009-05-26 Thread David
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Clint Dilks wrote: > David wrote: > > Newbie question: I'm surprised by the rpm -qf response: "file > /usr/bin/java is not owned by any package" below. > This is most likely because you are using the alternatives system wi

F9 "/usr/bin/java is not owned by any package" - huh?

2009-05-26 Thread David
Newbie question: I'm surprised by the rpm -qf response: "file /usr/bin/java is not owned by any package" below. Is it a bug? Should I report it? Where? Or am I missing something? I'm on dialup so I don't have the latest version of everything. If you do, is it the same on your system? Currently I h

Re: f10 install, still no X

2009-05-26 Thread David
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:12 AM, jackson byers wrote: > > still no X > > r...@localhost ~]# startx > Fatal server error: > Server is already active for display 0 >        If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock >        and start again. > > [r...@localhost ~]# startx > _XSERVTran

live boot networking question

2009-05-26 Thread David L
this since the wired hardware device will be different on different computers? On one co-worker's system, wired ethernet came up as eth0. On another, it came up as eth2. We don't have a DHCP server in the embedded device, so I have to assign a static address. Thanks, David

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