Gnome: Fedora 12 Cant get rid of USA keyboard definition.

2009-11-18 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Cant get rid of USA keyboard definition. Dont know what to do in regards to filing a bug. My system default has the French Canadian keyboard ca(fr) as the default.  In fact, when my user was created, it was not selected, and I had the USA keyboard as default (GNOME). Adding the "French Canadian

Re: Re: How Extract The Fedorecore iso cd

2009-08-18 Thread Leslie Satenstein
, you are not a linux user yet, you must find some cd or DVD burning software (NERO is a commmercial product for that), that will read the iso file on your system, and burn a cd or dvd for you. It really is not more difficult then that. Leslie -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.c

Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 66, Issue 93

2009-08-16 Thread Leslie Satenstein
-- Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein voice:  514-369-1685    mailto:lsatenst...@yahoo.com --- On Sat, 8/15/09, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote: From: fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com Subject: fedora-list Digest, Vol 66, Issue 93 To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date

How do I get sound working in F11 --- Easily

2009-07-28 Thread Leslie Satenstein
n selected. (in all my cases I chose internal audio) I subsequently made certain that the audio icon, when clicked (top right side, with Gnome) was at max volume. I then chose the player. There are some settings I missed, but with some exploring, you will find them.  Right click on the

Is there a gnome or KDE or Xorg version of wall for gui

2009-07-15 Thread Leslie Satenstein
>From what I note, wall is geared to terminals that function in ascii mode. Is there a wall command for Gnome, KDE, or Xorg, so that I can alert a gui user about some event?   -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Re: any thoughts on why cooling fan keeps spinning up and down?

2009-07-06 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Robert L Cochran wrote: On 07/05/2009 01:09 PM, john wendel wrote: On 07/05/2009 08:07 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote: I think there is probably a physical cause. It gets too easy to blame the operating system for physical device issues. The fan speed is controlled in part by temperature sensors

Re: Re: Use foe Other login.

2009-07-01 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:06:17 -0500 Aaron Konstam wrote: No matter how I try I can't see any productive use for the Other login on the gdm login screen. Can someone explain? You can click "Other" to get an actual user name field to type in so you can type something

Re: fedora-list Digest Batching email enhancement

2009-06-28 Thread Leslie Satenstein
As you can see from the table of contents, (refer below my signature), the messages are numbered. Is it possible to add a number to the message headers appearing in clear text, that are listed thereafter? -- Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein voice:  514-369-1685

Is there a Wall message for GNOME or KDE

2009-06-26 Thread Leslie Satenstein
. -- Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein voice:  514-369-1685    mailto:lsatenst...@yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re Fedora 11 Support for ATI HD3450 radianhd card

2009-06-26 Thread Leslie Satenstein
windows on the current desktop.   -- Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein voice:  514-369-1685    mailto:lsatenst...@yahoo.com --- On Wed, 6/24/09, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote: From: fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com Subject: fedora-list Digest, Vol 64, Issue 212 To

Re: Annaconda crashes -- Unable to install F11 32bit or 64bit versions

2009-06-10 Thread Leslie Satenstein
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F11 /boot and ext4 No can do, Grub does not support /Ext4

2009-05-29 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Eric, it should go into the documentation for F11. -- Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein voice:  514-369-1685    mailto:lsatenst...@yahoo.com --- On Fri, 5/29/09, Eric Sandeen  @redhat.com> wrote:   Subject: Re: /boot and ext4 To: lsatenst...@yahoo.com Date: Fri

Samba and Windows7 (a comment to an article)

2009-05-29 Thread Leslie Satenstein
verify that F11, or Ubuntu works with W7? -- Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein voice:  514-369-1685    mailto:lsatenst...@yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: Re: If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this

2009-05-18 Thread Leslie
g wrote: Valent Turkovic wrote: If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this article, it expains all complexities of Intel drivers and for me it shows hope that Intel drivers are becoming better. intel sucks on anything but ms, because intel joined the ms whore house years ago

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-05-07 Thread Mr Leslie Satenstein
LinkedIn Mr Leslie Satenstein requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Tom, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Maria Mercedes Arechavaleta View invitation from Mr Leslie Satenstein

Keyboard is set to ca(fr) but on poweroff and restart, comes up as US

2009-04-22 Thread Leslie Satenstein
. -- Regards Leslie Leslie Satenstein 5752 Avenue Lockwood. Cote St. Luc Montreal Quebec H4W 1Y9  Canada voice:  514-369-1685    mailto:lsatenst...@yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

F10 and F11 How to set the logon screen resolution ?

2009-04-21 Thread Leslie Satenstein
, or 1 inch), for the logon presentation.   -- Regards Leslie Leslie Satenstein 5752 Avenue Lockwood. Cote St. Luc Montreal Quebec H4W 1Y9  Canada voice:  514-369-1685    mailto:lsatenst...@yahoo.com --- On Tue, 4/21/09, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote: From: fedora

Installation of Fedora11 for visually impaired

2009-04-13 Thread Leslie Satenstein
.   -- Regards   Leslie Satenstein  -- 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

System Update error Fedora 10

2009-03-29 Thread Leslie Satenstein
reposetup_hook cmd = commands[0] Any ideas about how I repair it?  Anyone else experiencing this problem? - Regards Leslie  -- 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: Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-20 Thread Leslie Satenstein
e your expertise in the answers, but when you answer something about Linux, note that I have not your ideas of where to look for settings. Therefore, I am sure readers would like a hint about the directory/file in which this info is stored. Thanks and have a good weekend. Leslie -- 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

End of Saga WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!

2009-02-09 Thread Leslie Satenstein
you for I guess is the longest thread in Fedora-list. :) Leslie --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Mark Haney wrote: From: Mark Haney Subject: Re: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!! To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 4:14 PM Mik

Primer to explain how to boot a second "Test Fedora" under Fedora 10 with VM

2009-02-06 Thread Leslie Satenstein
 It may be off topic, but I have some after-supper time to do F11 testing, only my 2nd (test) system was sequestered, leaving me in the lurch. Is there a step by step explanation available somewhere?  My processor is the intel E7300 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubs

Re: fglrx drivers from rpmfusion-updates-testing

2009-02-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein
, suvayu ali wrote: From: suvayu ali Subject: Re: fglrx drivers from rpmfusion-updates-testing To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 5:53 AM 2009/2/4 Leslie Satenstein : > I just used the ones from update, and only o

Re: Omega 10 release

2009-02-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Are the codecs and other multi-media stuff available for Fedora10 via rpmfusion or livna? --- On Wed, 2/4/09, Rahul Sundaram wrote: From: Rahul Sundaram Subject: Re: Omega 10 release To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 9

Re: Omega 10 release

2009-02-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Some feedback, It works on my dual core system (64bit) with 64bit video card. I presume the video card is a dual 32-64bit version. Compiz does not work with the ati hd3450 video card. There are drivers that do work with it that I obtained from livna and from rpmfusion I did not try webcam or v

Re: Creating ISO's and Writing DVD's on F10

2009-02-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Install k3b, or look in the directory for sound and video, (its under applications) --- On Thu, 2/5/09, Aaron Gray wrote: From: Aaron Gray Subject: Creating ISO's and Writing DVD's on F10 To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 3:51 PM Are there any GUI tools for c

Re: fglrx drivers from rpmfusion-updates-testing

2009-02-04 Thread Leslie Satenstein
I just used the ones from update, and only one problem or three. Flicker on viewing avi files, if compiz is executing. Cannot do a switch user, or from the command line, issue an init 3. --- On Wed, 2/4/09, suvayu ali wrote: From: suvayu ali Subject: fglrx drivers from rpmfusion-updates-tes

Re: [OT] linux statistics

2009-02-01 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Rahul Correct the charts,  Fedora 10 was not released as of 2008-01-01 The year appears to be incorrect in the charts. What happened?   --- On Wed, 1/28/09, Rahul Sundaram wrote: From: Rahul Sundaram Subject: Re: [OT] linux statistics To: p...@themeyerfarm.com, "Community assistance, encourag

Re: How does sudo work these days in F10 ?

2009-02-01 Thread Leslie Satenstein
With Fedora, sudo asks for the root password, which is the correct way. With UBUNTU, it asks for the user password, which means that you cannot let others share your logon id and password. Shame on Ubuntu. With both, once in root terminal you can use the "passwd root"   command to set a root p

Re: X11 sweep frequencies, how are they determined?

2009-01-26 Thread Leslie Satenstein
vertical refresh rate to lie in range and restored the user's settings. I did not find the equivalent for the logon screen. Does it use the one from root? Leslie --- On Sun, 1/25/09, NiftyFedora Mitch wrote: From: NiftyFedora Mitch Subject: Re: X11 sweep frequencies, how are they deter

Re: service

2009-01-24 Thread Leslie Satenstein
There is a lock, and I do believe that associated with it is a process-id. So when another application tries for the same lock, before giving up, the process-id is checked to see if it exists. If it does not, the lock is deleted and the new lock is created. I did find that yum put a lock in a s

X11 sweep frequencies, how are they determined?

2009-01-23 Thread Leslie Satenstein
My question is in the subject line. -- 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

Will btfrs file system obsolete LVM?

2009-01-23 Thread Leslie Satenstein
My question is in the subject line. -- 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

Xorg related problem

2009-01-22 Thread Leslie Satenstein
, since the terminal resolution works at a lower frequency / resolution combination.   is it  ".gnome", or ".gvsv" or other similar hidden directory / file ? Leslie --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: From: Ashley M. Kirchner Subject: Re: [Fedora] Re: Creating X c

Re: [Fedora] Re: Creating X config

2009-01-22 Thread Leslie Satenstein
There is a command called Xorg   (capital X) and it takes the appropriate parameters to help you get the details. --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: From: Ashley M. Kirchner Subject: Re: [Fedora] Re: Creating X config To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-21 Thread Leslie Satenstein
have a ratio of 10 to 1 or 50 to 1 (swapsize to memory size).  Keep on loading tasks that generate a wait, and check it out.  Also, respond to the tasks in any random order.  The system should unwind--- so to speak. Les --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Leslie Satenstein wrote: From: Leslie Satenstein

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-21 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Regarding swap files and intel architectures.  I believe swapping is not by pages, but by segment sizes, which is gruesome, because of performance.  On other architectures, swap is actually a paging file and only the needed pages are swapped out. Even with a swap out, the program could still b

Re: xorg.conf

2009-01-21 Thread Leslie Satenstein
may choose to create your own xorg.conf. I for one had to create one for my system. Regards Leslie  --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Carroll Grigsby wrote: From: Carroll Grigsby Subject: Re: xorg.conf To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 12:32 PM On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:01:12

Re: Question for our users

2009-01-19 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Strange answer. I started with Fedora 4, and have remained with Fedora. While along the way, some versions up to 7, were flakey, the most current versions are outstanding. I found that Fedora is not allowed to mention livna.org or the merged repros sites where firmware, multi-media stuff may b

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-19 Thread Leslie Satenstein
There are also options to support a swap file without a swap partition.  The file metadata is read, and stored, so that Access may be as rapid as if it was a swap partition. --- On Sun, 1/18/09, bhagirath choudhary wrote: From: bhagirath choudhary Subject: Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size To: "R

Re: life without system-config-display

2009-01-18 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Craig How do I report that Fedora's Xorg does not support intermediate sweep rates for 1200x960 resolution (only have 85 and 60, whereas 70 is the best to use for sizing and centering the screen in the CRT) Somewhere Xorg must get hardware information. --- On Sun, 1/18/09, Craig White wrote

Re: life without system-config-display

2009-01-18 Thread Leslie Satenstein
I have had to use xorg.conf, simply because Fedora10 drivers do not adequately support ATI video cards. With the livna ati drivers, I am still unable to run compiz.  And also, the settings for dynamic xorg.conf were woefully inadequate, leaving out important sweep frequencies.  Somehow though, t

Re: xorg.conf resolution issues

2009-01-15 Thread Leslie Satenstein
I have added other resolutions to the list that system-config-display provided. I don't know how it creates the list, but there were some that were left out. I would like to know how to define the sweep frequencies that are associated with a resolution.  Is this information coming from the monit

Re: xorg.conf resolution issues

2009-01-14 Thread Leslie Satenstein
I stand corrected about 1152x864. Now, how can I set the sweep frequency. Instead of 85, I would like it to be 75 or 70. My choices right now are 85 or 65. Leslie --- On Wed, 1/14/09, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: From: Kevin J. Cummings Subject: Re: xorg.conf resolution issues To: "Comm

Re: xorg.conf resolution issues

2009-01-14 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Since I use a CRT, I have to choose resolutions that are in the ration of 4 to 3 1280 x 960 is the 4 to 3 ratio.  1280 x 1024 is definitely not.  LCD displays have a 1280x1024 ratio (I think). --- On Wed, 1/14/09, jack wallen wrote: From: jack wallen Subject: Re: xorg.conf resolution issues

Re: xorg.conf resolution issues

2009-01-14 Thread Leslie Satenstein
ement, and advice for using Fedora." Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 7:44 PM uh, Leslie, I've done a coupla posts complaining that FC10 doesn't seem to have this tool anymore. You've actually run it in FC10? Bill --- On Wed, 1/14/09, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > From:

Re: fc10 install, questions

2009-01-14 Thread Leslie Satenstein
switch to root and do   yum install system-config*  for all the system-config programs --- On Tue, 1/13/09, w bugar wrote: From: w bugar Subject: Re: fc10 install, questions To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 4:13 PM >

Re: xorg.conf resolution issues

2009-01-14 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Install  Fedora10   system-config-display, and as root, run it. --- On Wed, 1/14/09, jack wallen wrote: From: jack wallen Subject: xorg.conf resolution issues To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 9:24 AM hello all, just installed F10 and am having issues with resoluti

Re: xorg.conf resolution issues

2009-01-14 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Hi Chris I have a similar problem with the ATI card I can switch resolutions, but I also need to manage sweep frequencies. With F10, my choices for a particulary good setting are 85hz or 60hz.  With UBUNTU it is 85hz, 70hz and 60hz.   How do I get the middle frequency with X?   --- On Wed, 1

Re: gtk-chthemes - does it exist?

2009-01-11 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Is it possible that the solution to the font size problem is simpler  How about Gnome: System Preferences --. Look and Feel --> Appearance and chose fonts tab. On the bottom right side of the window, chose details...  And on the top of the open menu, adjust resolution... (by default it should

Re: FC10

2009-01-11 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Try yum update if it works install yumex   yum install yumex --- On Sun, 1/11/09, Ted wrote: From: Ted Subject: FC10 To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 5:32 PM Just installed fc10 and find yum upgrade says cannot find re

Re: the ATI proprietary driver and F10

2009-01-10 Thread Leslie Satenstein
sudo yum -y install system-config-display sudo system-config-display (Will create the xorg.conf) --- On Thu, 1/8/09, Jeff Spaleta wrote: From: Jeff Spaleta Subject: Re: the ATI proprietary driver and F10 To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Date: Thursday,

Re: best video card for fedora 10

2009-01-10 Thread Leslie Satenstein
I don't have much faith in Fedora to be able to run ATI cards. I have Fedora on an Intel motherboard with the integrated video, and that one works 100%, with no fiddling,  now having to install firmware, or do esoteric things. My ATI eah3450 card is accepted with Firmware (Proof is that under ub

Re: Macromedia Flash Player on x86_64 system.

2009-01-08 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Did the flash work. I have a 64bit system, but since there is the released 32bit version, I followed the instructions in the Fedora 10 FAQ.  Worked just fine --- On Thu, 1/8/09, Dario Lesca wrote: From: Dario Lesca Subject: Macromedia Flash Player on x86_64 system. To: "Fedora Italia" Cc:

Re: best video card for fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread Leslie Satenstein
ATI and Nvidia cannot match what Intel provides in terms of video drivers.  Video using Intel is flawless. Cannot say the same for the other two. Leslie --- On Mon, 1/5/09, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: From: Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak Subject: Re: best video card for fedora 10 To: "Comm

Re: Flash player with Fedora 9

2009-01-07 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Go to the Fedora FAQ website and look for the information explaining how to install. I followed it and it worked­ just fine --- On Tue, 1/6/09, Anne Wilson wrote: From: Anne Wilson Subject: Re: Flash player with Fedora 9 To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."

Re: Flash player with Fedora 9

2009-01-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein
Please visit Fedora FAQ and follow the instructions to install the flash player. I copied and pasted the lines into a root terminal, and it worked first time after completion. --- On Mon, 1/5/09, Jerry Ro wrote: From: Jerry Ro Subject: Re: Flash player with Fedora 9 To: "Community assistance