Re: Anyone packaging SAGE math?

2008-05-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Jacob wrote: > >> Is anyone working on including SAGE in Fedora? I think it is just about >> the most useful math/science program for Linux so it would be a sin to not >> include it. It is useful enough that it has be

Re: dual monitor problem

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Johnson
2008/5/22 James Corteciano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi guru's, > > I was running Fedora 9 at my Dell inspiron 640m with video spec "Intel(R) > Media Accelerator 950 Graphics Up to 224MB shared system memory". My video > card is work out-of-the-box after installation but when I try to hook up my > 17"

Re: wireless fc8 dell latitude d400

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a canonical source to RTFM? Googling gets a million hits, no > relevance so far. > > I am trying to connect to a WEP network. I left click on the > NetworkManger icon upper right, select 'connect to other wireless > n

Re: Anyone packaging SAGE math?

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> The Main problem seems to be that they want to supply their own >> versions of python, R, McCauley2, and just about every other piece of >> related software.

Re: dual monitor problem

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
2008/5/22 James Corteciano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Paul, > > My LCD Philips is only capable of 1280x768 @ 60Hz. I try to change the > resolution of the laptop to 1024x768 and after restarting both two LCD were > working. But I've noticed the screen resolution of the laptop was turn into > big / l

Re: wireless fc8 dell latitude d400

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Some questions. You d have NM on and network and wpa_supplicant off? > > Had a hard time turning wpa_s off. I'd stop it and init would > immediately

Cleaning up after F8-F9 upgrade: what must go? what needs to be added?

2008-06-02 Thread Paul Johnson
I need some tips from the school of hard knocks, and can share back some tips as well. I did the F8-F9 upgrade from DVD on an X86_64 system. It ran, apparently, without trouble. And when the system rebooted, it brought me to the black screen of death known as grub. I could type in commands, that

Re: Dual monitors in F9 ?

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > linuxguy wrote: >> >> Sorry I missed your post until now. >> >> This is the generated file. I also used the hand written file that I >> made up some time ago. >> >> What is AIGLX ? Would it help if I turned i

Re: Fedora 9 + Network Manager = Wireless NOT Connecting

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Johnson
2008/5/29 Robert Cahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have updated my desktop using the 64-bit desktop of F9 from F7. My > wireless is described by: > > 00:0a.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset > (rev 01) > Subsystem: Netgear MA311 802.11b wireless adapter > Flag

big compiz disaster: could use some advice

2008-06-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On an F9 64 bit system, I decided to try compiz because it worked so beautifully on my Ubuntu systems. I was testing the features, an tried the zoom thing in which you hit the Super key and use the right mouse button to highlight an area of the screen, and then that screen zooms to show just the s

Re: Fedora 9 + Network Manager = Wireless NOT Connecting

2008-06-09 Thread Paul Johnson
2008/6/8 Marc Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 2008/5/29 Robert Cahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I have updated my desktop using the 64-bit desktop of F9 from F7. My >

Re: NM alternatives for wireless

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Andras Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/19/08, Sven Winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> that is with wicd? http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ > > Thanks, this comes very close to what I had in mind! And it's the only > thing besides NM that I'm able to connec

Re: Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10? I want it too !

2008-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > >> My loyalty is to keeping my systems secure and my users productive. >> It's hard to believe that Red Hat would ship KDE 4.1 in F10, but if >> it does KDE users will just choose another distro and inst

Re: Fedora / RHE compatibility

2008-07-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Giuseppe Sarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, thanks, > Not quite sure what is the free in beer or free in speech :-) > > But is this CentoOS compatible with RHE ? > > For example what if I had binaries on compiled on RHE would they work on > CentOS? > Possibly.

Re: compile graphical ssh - GFTP

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Aldo Foot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:36 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: >>> I'm trying to install gtk+-2.13.3 in order to install GFTP (a >>> graphical SSH tool). >> >> Just for an

Current Respin for F9, or how to build updated F9 live dvd on an F7 system?

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
I have access to F7 systems where I can download the F9 install dvd. While doing that, I was wondering if it is possible to get a version of the dvd that includes the updated RPMS. That search leads to the Fedora Unity community (http://fedorasolved.org) web site, where it appears there has not

Re: Current Respin for F9, or how to build updated F9 live dvd on an F7 system?

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:23 PM, g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> Fedora Unity community (http://fedorasolved.org) web site, where it >> appears there has not been a respin of F9 (only a spin of Everything > > check these; > >

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean.  It > originally had 2 partitions.  I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, > and then as root ran > >    shred -vz /dev/sdd > > The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shre

Fedora makes bad pdf files?

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Dear Linux Using Friends: I've run into a trouble that Firefox users who "print to file" and create pdf output generate files that acroread cannot open. My teaching assistant first discovered this while browsing the web. A variety of pdf created by print to file were viewable in evince, but not

gdm does not execute PreSession PostSession scripts

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm wondering if this is a widely experienced problem. I've found one report about it in the Fedora bugzilla. I've noticed that the customized gdm PreSession/Default and PostSession/Default scripts that I've been using for years in Fedora 1-8 no longer run on a system that recently upgraded to Fe

Re: Authenicated logon against AD

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
The menu approach does not work here. I can authenticate users with the pam_smb module. It has instructions with it. The only problem is that user accounts must be created on each system before users can log in. Otherwise, pam_smb works fine to authenticate users. I never had any luck with winb

Re: How to change the display manager from GDM to SLIM?

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Kennet R. Iversen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried to get slim to start as my login manager instead of gdm, but > everything I have tried so far has not worked. > > I have installed slim via yum and then tried the following approaches: > > First I tried to p

Re: gdm does not execute PreSession PostSession scripts

2008-10-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Trapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> >>> I've noticed that the customized gdm PreSession/Default and >>> PostSession/Default scripts that I've be

Re: Video card

2008-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you give me some names of Video cards that are most compatible with > Fedora 9 and that have drivers for Fedora 9?? > > Thank you dan > > -- People ask this all the time, and never get a very helpful

how to configure xdg-open applications?

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
I want to change the programs that xdg-open points to for things like pdf or dvi. There are no configure tools I can find on the freedesktop site and the xdg-open man page gives no help at all. In /etc/xdg I don't see settings for evince or such. "grep -r pdf *" in the /etc/xdg directory returns

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Manish Kathuria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a large installation of Fedora 9 we are cloning an updated system > on identical hard disks and then using that hard disk on other > systems. Most of the systems are either Pentium 4 or Core Duo > processor based and

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> When the kernel is updated, the Fedora 9 framework will rebuild a new >> initrd and it will NOT have the special modules in it. On fedora >> systems, I

Re: how to configure xdg-open applications?

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> I want to change the programs that xdg-open points to for things like >> pdf or dvi. There are no configure tools I can find on the >> freedesktop site and the xdg-open

Re: Grub can't mount drive

2008-11-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Alex Makhlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running a dual boot system with Vista Ultimate and Fedora 9 / KDE 4 and > last nigh I booted into Vista and deleted one of my NTFS partitions. This > screwed up grub and I was only able to boot into grub com

Re: Changing window manager: from metacity to windowmaker

2008-11-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:26 AM, steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently installed F10 (rawhide) and realized that, thanks to docker > (Thanks Ben Jansens ! ...and thanks also to awjb for packaging this !), I > can now switch to using windowmaker as my primary desktop environment.

Re: SSH user key authentication failing in f10

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Nick Urbanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I have found that ssh user public key authentication now fails between > boxes running f10. I have raised bug > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473014 and wonder if > anyone has experienced simil

raid1 mystery & workaround

2009-10-31 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi, everybody. I've found a workaround for a problem with a raid 1 array. I'm posting to share the "solution" and to ask why this went wrong in the first place. On an old test machine, I have 2 4-year-old Seagate IDE drives in raid1 mirror for my home partition. One failed and Seagate was very ve

installing to external disk: esata now!

2009-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
I've got several bootable usb installs of Centos, Fedora and Ubuntu. All work great now, I think i understand all the details about drive labeling, getting the initrd correct, and so forth. I was active in this list back in the Fedora 4 and 5 days, when these things were getting ironed out. Example