Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-08 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Friday 08 January 2010 05:29 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Because of DRM, it even seems unsure the BBC�itself will use it: A very interesting read. Thank you -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedor

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Marcel, On Thursday 07 January 2010 10:59 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: # yum install libcurl.i686 This might be your problem. Try this instead, # yum install libcurl Transaction Check Error: package libcurl-7.19.7-3.fc11.x86_64 (which is newer than libcurl-7.19.7-2.fc12.i686) is already i

Re: fc12 installer fails with Gigabyte GA-EP45 SATA RAID 1

2010-01-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Chris, On Wednesday 06 January 2010 01:45 AM, Chris Mugdan wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 22:28 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Tuesday 05 January 2010 01:33 PM, Chris Mugdan wrote: I am trying to install fc12 i386 on a PC based on the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L motherboard with SATA RAID. It is an

Re: fc12 installer fails with Gigabyte GA-EP45 SATA RAID 1

2010-01-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 01:33 PM, Chris Mugdan wrote: I am trying to install fc12 i386 on a PC based on the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L motherboard with SATA RAID. It is an Intel chipset. I am using RAID 1 (mirror). I believe the RAID controllers in these boards are not true hardware RAID. They a

Rendering chart from bootchart

2010-01-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi everyone, I have been seeing very long boot times for the last few months so I ran bootchart. But I can't render the chart after booting. The web interface seems to be down. And the java application supplied with bootchart generates the following error. $ java -jar /usr/share/java/bootch

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 04 January 2010 07:24 PM, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/5 suvayu ali: If you want customised partitioning scheme then text based install is not a good idea. I still think trying out the netinstall image would be the best bet for the OP. I tested this, but the netinstaller still

Re: default addresses in thunderbird

2010-01-04 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 04 January 2010 03:09 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: Ever since Thunderbird went to 3.0 (or just before that), I've had this problem: When composing a new email, I type in a part of the name of recipient and it auto-suggests the emails -- the problem is that the ALTERNATE emails are the fi

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread suvayu ali
2010/1/4 Andre Robatino : > If you do a text-based install (add "text" to the installer's kernel > options, or automatic if you have less than the minimum RAM for a GUI > install), you'll get an extremely stripped-down installation (less than > 200 packages for F11) whether you want it or not - the

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread suvayu ali
2010/1/4 Konstantin Svist : > On 01/04/2010 04:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> The LiveCD version basic but functional. >> > > The LiveCD is fairly basic, yes, but it still installs ~1.5G if I > remember correctly. It has a lot of packages that are not always > necessary, like gimp and multime

Re: help - recovering virtual machine

2010-01-03 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Gene, On Sunday 03 January 2010 08:40 PM, Mail Lists wrote: On 01/03/2010 10:43 PM, suvayu ali wrote: Try /etc/libvirt/qemu for the xml files. Holy smoke - you're right!! I never woulda guessed it would be in /etc ... who would have thunk!!! Shouldn't it be in /var/lib o

Re: help - recovering virtual machine

2010-01-03 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Gene, 2010/1/3 Mail Lists : > On 01/03/2010 08:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> the vm ? >> >> The simplest way is to regularly backup your machine definitions >> via "virsh dumpxml name > name.xml", then you can recover the >> machine definition via "virsh define name.xml". If you can still >> boo

Re: Codecs for VLC

2010-01-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 02 January 2010 01:23 PM, Jim wrote: On 01/02/2010 02:22 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: Okay. Now's the time for more details. What kind of DVD videos are you trying to play: commercial, private, off brand, foreign, pirated, etc.? What happens, shows on the monitor, etc. when you insert t

Re: Codecs for VLC

2010-01-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Jim, On Saturday 02 January 2010 07:54 AM, Jim wrote: both VLC and libdvdcss was installed with Yum. I think it would be better if you could provide us with more information. Try to run vlc from a terminal, try with other media players. Look in dmesg for clues when you insert a DVD, mayb

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/31 Mikkel : > On 12/30/2009 08:30 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> On Wednesday 30 December 2009 05:58 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? I >>> guess I don't know enough about Win7 to know why this is f

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 05:58 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Jim wrote: I was at the Super Walmart today in Indianapolis In., to check out the new Mini-laptops w/ MS7 and wanted to see how it look, all the laptops on display was asking for a PASSWOED, Ask a Walmart employee what was the password

Re: fedora

2009-12-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Parag, On Tuesday 29 December 2009 10:10 PM, parag wrote: hi I want fedora DVD of karmic 9.10 can any body send me or is there any site from where i can request it I think you have been misinformed that Karmic is a Fedora release. The latest Fedora release is Fedora 12 Constantine. Wherea

thinkfinger for ThinkPad fingerprint scanner missing on F12?

2009-12-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi everyone, I got my hands on a brand new ThinkPad in the last week. While setting things up, I noticed that thinkfinger is missing from the F12 although its present in the F11 repos. Is their any reasons behind this? From my 64-bit F11 desktop: $ sudo yum list thinkfinger Available Package

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2009-12-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Paul, On Monday 28 December 2009 09:21 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: The man page tells you under what conditions the various files (/etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login etc) are read depending on what type of shell (interactive, login). Are you saying there is a sit

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2009-12-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Aaron, On Monday 28 December 2009 02:11 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 03:04 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote: ~/.bash_profile gets sourced by any "well behaved" desktop environment when ever you login. In my experience XFCE and WindowMaker does this. (I don't use Gno

Re: Update broke my Quake 4 game ...

2009-12-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 28 December 2009 04:03 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:53:33 -0800, Suvayu wrote: Try `grep 'Dec 27' /var/log/yum.log'. Where December 27th is the date when you updated your machine. Plus the good oldrpm -qa --last|lessstill works fine, too. I wasn't aw

Re: Update broke my Quake 4 game ...

2009-12-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 28 December 2009 03:43 PM, Dennis Mattingly wrote: I've been running Quake 4 from my Fedora 11 box for a while. And today, a system update broke the game. (It runs, but some models fail to load, and after a while it crashes). I think it was a pam update, or something. How I can list

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2009-12-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Paul, On Sunday 27 December 2009 10:52 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Suvayu Ali wrote: If the OP is interested, the command line way to do this would be to have one of your login scripts like ~/.bash_profile say, setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp ;) Suvayu: Thanks, this is

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2009-12-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 27 December 2009 11:06 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:42:19 -0800 Paul Allen Newell wrote: To all: Installed f12 without any problems. Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature. How did you disc

Re: Compiz -- Discussion

2009-12-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 26 December 2009 09:49 AM, William Case wrote: Hi; I just want to get some user thoughts and points on using Compiz. I tried it a couple of Fedora versions ago. It was kind of cute using the spinning cube for workspaces and wobbly windows for a short while but I soon returned to us

Re: A survey

2009-12-25 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/24 Hiisi : > 2009/12/25 Mike Williams : >> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Hiisi wrote: >>> 1. Are you left-handed? >> yes >>> 2. Do you use mouse with left hand? >> sometimes >>> 3. How to configure in F12 (Gnome) mouse pointer to be >>> left-handed-mouse oriented (I mean how to mirror m

Re: What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

2009-12-23 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 10:18 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: We are quite disappointed with my wife's iPhone. Everything is so locked up. A friend of mine jailbroke his iPhone. He can do all sorts of cool stuff including having a terminal and using ssh to log into our lab servers. ;) btw, Wi

Re: Moving to Fedora .. my GUI gone..

2009-12-23 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/23 Marko Vojinovic : > On Wednesday 23 December 2009 09:10:54 Ishmael Chibvuri wrote: >> I tried to install KDE (K desktop), removing GNOME desktop and all its >> utilities from Linux Ubuntu since I wanted some nice features from >> Fedora.. >> >> After rebooting.. Only the shell comes

Re: Mount of .dmg (mac image) files on Linux Fedora fails

2009-12-23 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/23 Michael Welle : > Hi, > > Mark Ryden writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Why can't I mount a dmg (macintosh image) file on Fedora 11 ? >> >> I tried mounting several .dmg mac files did not have any success with it. > maybe [1] is the way to go? I stumbled upon it while searching for a way > to 'u

Re: No F-12 Flash -

2009-12-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 11:56 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: What is the procedure to install Adobe Flash Player in Fedora 12 [in this case installed from the Omega livecd]? 8< ---snipped---8< It results in an rpm that produces "libflashplayer.so" but does not install it as the instruction implie

Re: gmail endless redirecting

2009-12-22 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/21 jackson byers : > recent update > $ uname -r > 2.6.30.9-102.fc11.i686.PAE > > Fedora/3.5.6-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.6 > > I am getting endless redirecting on my gmail > > nothing i try on the gmail site suggestions seems to help. > it allows me to report the problem but  I cant get out of the

Re: Compiz issue

2009-12-21 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/21 James Allsopp : > Hi, > I'm trying to find the controller for the compiz effect thatfits all the > windows into the screen so you can select one. This currently triggers on > the top-right corner, how can I change this. Got too used to having my > volume control there. > > Can someone ex

Re: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

2009-12-20 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Sandeep, 2009/12/20 sandeep Patel : > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Chris Smart >> 2009/12/20 sandeep Patel : >> > >> > Hi Everybody, >> > I have installed Fedora 12 x86_64.And I tried to >> > update >> > it.But I found this error: >> >  Error: Cannot retrieve repositor

Re: empathy

2009-12-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 19 December 2009 10:21 AM, Michael Semcheski wrote: Does it do any video and audio? I think it does Google video/audio. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

2009-12-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 19 December 2009 04:01 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 19/12/09 12:26, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 11:28 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: ?? Isn't it just mplayer-gui that provides gmplayer? One of them is a recompiled mplayer for its own GUI, the other is a front end for mplayer. O

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 19 December 2009 04:11 AM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Fennix wrote: All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following mention: Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providi

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-18 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/18 Gene Heskett : > On Friday 18 December 2009, Tim wrote: >>On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:53 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: >>> This shows that your download is corrupted. That would explain all >>> your other problems too. You need to download the iso again. If you >&

Re: Installing F12 on a Netbook sans Swap

2009-12-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Richard, I can answer only one of your concerns. On Friday 18 December 2009 01:34 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: 3. After giving up on the graphical installer I went text based which had it's own set of challenges. Primarilly it would not let me setup a custom partition layout, and secondly it didn

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-18 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Saurabh, 2009/12/18 Sawrub : > On 12/18/2009 12:29 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> In addition to what Rick mentioned in another post, your command is >> missing a flag. It should be, >> >> $ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM >> > Executed that also now as a part of other co

Re: new thunderbird lost all my calendar events

2009-12-18 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/18 Paolo Galtieri : > I updated my F12 system today and a new version of thunderbird and > thunderbird-lightning were downloaded.  When I started up TB and brought up > my calendar > all the events I had previously scheduled were gone! > > Is there anyway to restore them? > > Paolo Same he

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thursday 17 December 2009 10:21 AM, Sawrub wrote: On 12/17/2009 11:50 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: Well, I'm not going to say that the above is not a problem as I saw the same thing when using the same steps, however, nothing you have done so far has anything to do directly with the ISO. That does

Re: Do you know about Omega?

2009-12-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Marcel, On Wednesday 16 December 2009 10:26 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009 12:34 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I thought I'd give the Omega LiveDVD�a try, but I find the security rather puzzling. First this:

Re: Do you know about Omega?

2009-12-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Marcel, On Wednesday 16 December 2009 12:34 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I thought I'd give the Omega LiveDVD�a try, but I find the security rather puzzling. First this: # To verify on Linux: # $ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM # Windows users use http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/ 89b708de224e989cbda9c

Re: yum install mencoder makes X11 flaky

2009-12-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 12:22 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/11/2009 11:08 PM, Kelly Jones wrote: Ever since I "yum install mencoder", my X server's been flaky + frequently crashing. I remember yum installing/upgrading libraries

Re: Love Totem

2009-12-15 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 04:24 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 15 December 2009 06:08:08 Suvayu Ali wrote: I like to have some video playing in one of the corners of my screen while I work, and the "always on top" feature in Totem is ideal for that. I had so far noticed T

Love Totem

2009-12-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi everyone, Just wanted to share my delight when I found what the nifty "always on top" feature in Totem can do, confirming my already high opinions of the player. I like to have some video playing in one of the corners of my screen while I work, and the "always on top" feature in Totem is

Re: Enabling Airport wireless on Macbook Air with F12

2009-12-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 14 December 2009 08:31 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote: Colin> Trying movie player just says: Colin> "No URI handler implemented for DVD" I installed -gstreamer-plugins-ugly/bad/ffmpeg. Now i see in syslog errors saying "Add. Sense: read of scrambled sector without authentica

Re: Enabling Airport wireless on Macbook Air with F12

2009-12-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Colin, On Monday 14 December 2009 08:10 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote: "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes: "Peter" == Peter Danenberg writes: Peter> Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Pungenday, the 56th of The Peter> Aftermath: >>> Works for both headphones and speakers for me. :

Re: Fedora 12: No flash plugin

2009-12-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Marc, On Monday 14 December 2009 07:35 AM, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: There are many excellent pages out there to help users like FedoraFaq, and FedoraForum as well. There is also the following page which has been very helpful for many u

Re: F12 installation woes with DVD plus online repositories

2009-12-13 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/13 William M. Quarles : > I'm trying to install Fedora 12 with the installation DVD plus downloading > extra packages and updates with an Internet connection to the online > repositories for extra packages and updates. However, the speed of the > installation process is seriously troubling

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 13 December 2009 12:35 PM, simon.schneeb...@okko.org wrote: Now, back home, my problem is the following: - DOES NOT WORK: Firefox, Thunderbird, Evolution (error connecting to the server) - DOES WORK: Opera, Sype, Software update, Ping. Could it be that IPV6 thing? I think recently anot

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] [

Re: Sudo and gtksu

2009-12-10 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/10 suvayu ali : > 2009/12/10 davide : >> Il Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:17:58 +, Sam Sharpe ha scritto: >>> >>> That allows you to authenticate with your own password to most of the >>> PolKit dialogs, which is pretty much what you are looking for. I beli

Re: Sudo and gtksu

2009-12-10 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/10 davide : > Il Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:17:58 +, Sam Sharpe ha scritto: > >> If you're on F12, then add yourself to the desktop_admin_r group that >> will be in /etc/group. > > done. > >> >> That allows you to authenticate with your own password to most of the >> PolKit dialogs, which is p

Re: Sudo and gtksu

2009-12-09 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/8 davide : > Il Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:05:18 -0800, suvayu ali ha scritto: > >> why dont you use polkit? it gives you more control than gksudo, and much >> more secure. > > I'll do. I just know now about it being the Right Thing. ;-) > > Any pointer? > F

Re: Sudo and gtksu

2009-12-08 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/8 davide : > Il Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:20:47 +0100, davide ha scritto: > >> Hi, I would like to replicate Ubuntu behaviour about the superuser. I >> replaced the Fedora /etc/sudoers with one from an ubuntu box. >> >> Any other step to replicate replicate also in the Gnome Desktop? I would >> l

Re: Grub2, /boot, and lvm

2009-12-08 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/8 Tom H : >>>> From Suvayu Ali (in the "Getting rid of /boot" thread) >>>> Could you please point me to the documentation for this? I would >>>> really like to read up more and understand what limitations/advantages >>>> I might hav

Re: nautilus overwrite files

2009-12-07 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/7 Tim : > Henrique Koesjan: >>> show me before I overwrite the file, if they have the same name. > > Marc Wilson: >> Why would you need a plugin to do what Nautilus does by default? > > Read their addendum to the original query.  Nautilus doesn't show you > any details about the file it's a

Re: nautilus overwrite files

2009-12-07 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/7 Henrique Koesjan : > Is there a plugin in nautilus to show me the date/size of a file? > > thanks in advance, > henrique > No plugins are required, just turn on detailed list view. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redha

Re: Grub2, /boot, and lvm

2009-12-07 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Tom, 2009/12/7 Tom H > > >From Suvayu Ali (in the "Getting rid of /boot" thread) > > Could you please point me to the documentation for this? I would > > really like to read up more and understand what limitations/advantages > > I might have as I have

Re: Compiz plugins

2009-12-06 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/6 Eric Tanguy : > Le 06/12/2009 10:45, Suvayu Ali a écrit : >> >> On Sunday 06 December 2009 01:39 AM, Eric Tanguy wrote: >>> >>> Le 06/12/2009 09:50, suvayu ali a écrit : >>>> >>>> 2009/12/6 Eric Tanguy: >>>>> >

Re: Compiz plugins

2009-12-06 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/6 Marko Vojinovic : > On Sunday 06 December 2009 09:45:53 Suvayu Ali wrote: >> On Sunday 06 December 2009 01:39 AM, Eric Tanguy wrote: >> > How to know what key is ? >> >> Although its usually the "Windows"  key, you can check by running xev &g

Re: Compiz plugins

2009-12-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 06 December 2009 01:39 AM, Eric Tanguy wrote: Le 06/12/2009 09:50, suvayu ali a écrit : 2009/12/6 Eric Tanguy: Le 05/12/2009 20:12, suvayu ali a écrit : 2009/12/5 Eric Tanguy: Is there somewhere a howto or something like that about compiz plugins. I don't know which plugins a

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 05 December 2009 03:46 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 17:36 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: Never thought of that! I know the OP would prefer command line utilities but still he can try lshw-gui. It presents the lshw output in a much more readable form. GL In order fo

Re: Compiz plugins

2009-12-06 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/6 Eric Tanguy : > Le 05/12/2009 20:12, suvayu ali a écrit : >> >> 2009/12/5 Eric Tanguy: >> >>> Is there somewhere a howto or something like that about compiz plugins. I >>> don't know which plugins are in fedora, which one could be add and ho

Re: Compiz plugins

2009-12-05 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/5 Eric Tanguy : > Is there somewhere a howto or something like that about compiz plugins. I > don't know which plugins are in fedora, which one could be add and how to > use it (key combinations). I try to test the water one and i can't achieve > to find the keys to use or the keys does not

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 05 December 2009 08:18 AM, Steven Stern wrote: On 12/05/2009 04:27 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). lspci does not give info about these hw. lshw, does not giv

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-04 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Tom. 2009/12/4 Tom H : >>> Why add the complexity? > >> Because you can only have a max of 15 partitions on a disk >> without using LVM? > >> At work we have a system with a gazillion or so different >> linux distros and had to set it up to dd copies of the /boot >> partition back onto /boot so

Re: provider for google calendar

2009-12-04 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/4 oleksandr korneta : > indirectly it did. Turns out, I had my old "provider for google" extension > installed and the new installation from repository did not update it (which > is obvious, since the old one was installed in user space ~/.mozilla). Thus > I had the provider installed, but

Re: OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/4 Martin Airs : > On 12/04/2009 03:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> Two things: >> >> 1) The video is from March 2009, so it's not even current. >> 2) It has *nothing* to do with Fedora as far as I can see. >> >> Just because you think something is cool is not sufficient reason for >

Re: How to define command for entry in Gnome menu?

2009-12-04 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/4 Hiisi : > Dear List! > On my system I have to start Blender using 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 > blender'. Otherwise it's impossible to work in it. I set up an alias > in .bashrc and it works well from command line. However if I start You have to define this in your .bash_profile to set the

Re: provider for google calendar

2009-12-04 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello Oleksandr, On Thursday 03 December 2009 04:30 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/12/3 oleksandr korneta: Yes I'm talking about lightning calendar extension. Anyway, turns out some good people did package it and put in repository. But it is useless for me without the Provider for google cal

Re: provider for google calendar

2009-12-03 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/3 oleksandr korneta : > so I'm  on Fedora 12, 64bit. It was an unpleasant surprise to find out that > that some extensions for thunderbird from mozilla's website cannot be > installed because of 64bit architecture (wtf? is this opensource or what?). > Yes I'm talking about lightning calenda

Re: OpenGL test or screen savers wanted for F12

2009-12-03 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/2 Aaron Gray : > 2009/12/2 Aaron Gray >> >> 2009/12/2 suvayu ali >>> >>> 2009/12/1 Aaron Gray : >>> > Hi, >>> > I have a machine that turns itself off at random when booting or >>> > running >>> > Window

Re: Wine

2009-12-02 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/2 Hector E. Celis > > How in the hell do I install DVD43 using wine. > Same question for ICOPYDVDS2 > And how do I install LimeWire > I am not familiar with those windows apps. Maybe if you tell us what you are trying to do then we could suggest apps that run natively on linux? > If we c

Re: OpenGL test or screen savers wanted for F12

2009-12-01 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/1 Aaron Gray : > Hi, > I have a machine that turns itself off at random when booting or running > Windows XP. > It runs F12 fine once started and compiles GCC okay. > What I was wondering if it is some MMX or extra CPU functionality that it is > crashing on. > What I am after is a yum packa

Re: [Off Topic] Announcing the Release of the World's First 64-bit Build of Google's ChromiumOS for Netbooks

2009-12-01 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/1 Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) : > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> >> How about providing a torrent? If there are enough peers interested, it will >> outperform anything else in terms of speed. >> > > I don't have enough upload bandwidth with my home broadband c

Re: How to get FlashPlayer working under 64bit/Fc11

2009-11-28 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/28 Reg Clemens : > I have been testing with CNN news, which is the application I really > want to use flash with.  There, I get the above behaviour with all video > clips.  On youtube, mabe 1/2 or 1/3 of the video clips play, but the rest > give the blue screen result.  I will assume that t

Re: Fedora 12: Virtualization Manager issues.

2009-11-27 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/27 Tom Horsley : > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:16:48 -0600 > Tanner Danzey wrote: > >> "dbus already started" >> >> Do i need a dbus session on my -client-? >> Cause if i do, ill just give up (Im using windows as a client right now) > > You probably need one running somewhere that has a valid X

Re: Fedora 12: Virtualization Manager issues.

2009-11-27 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/27 Tanner Danzey : > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:40:50 -0600 >> Tanner Danzey wrote: >> >> > Didn't work. The program you told me to use did this: >> >> That sounds like you also don't have a dbus session running. >> >> http://braindump.

Re: copy xfce configuration?

2009-11-26 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/26 Bob Goodwin : > >   I have a Fedora 12 computer on which I have set the screen >   configuration to satisfy me. That includes launchers with icons and >   panels 1, 2, and 3. Can I transfer my configuration to another user >   by copying a file/s? Or do I have to recreate it for each use

Re: Reorganising F11 partitions - how to?

2009-11-26 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/26 DB : > > PS is therre a way of searching 'man' pages to look for "a command that does > 'x' "? You can try `apropos x' or `man -k x' -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailm

Re: nVidia / rpmfusion under F12

2009-11-23 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/23 Luc MAIGNAN : > Hi, > > I tried to install the kmod-nvidia package under f12 but yum doesn't see > anything : > Because its in updates-testing :) http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/12/i386/repoview/index.html -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us

Re: Screenshot Tutorial: How to D-I-Y your own Google Chrome OS with Xen-based Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala amd64 Virtual Machine in Fedora 11 x86_64 Pv-Ops Dom0

2009-11-22 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/22 Jussi Lehtola : > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 18:02 +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: >> Google Chrome OS Download >> >> Filename: Google-Chrome-OS-Build-enming.teo-22Nov2009-0704hrs.vmdk >> >> Filesize: 697.38MB > > Or, if you simply want the Chromium browser in Fedora, just use sp

Re: Upcoming IRC Class tomorrow! (2009-11-17)

2009-11-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 16 November 2009 10:07 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: This is confusing. Are you saying that time is a UTC time? Kevin Fenzi: Yes. All Classroom times are in UTC. Okay. I would have written "UTC" next to the time and date, just to make it quickly obvious... As the website does (I didn't t

Re: unexpected logout

2009-11-14 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/14 David : > DDR2 and DDR are not compatible. They don't work with each other. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM However certain motherboards do have the capability to use both kinds of RAM, not sure whether they do that at the same time though. -- Suvayu Open source is the fu

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-14 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/14 Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 12:16 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:43:53 -0600 >> Chris Adams wrote: >> >> > Would you expect to see individual man pages for "if", "?:", "void", >> > etc.? >> >> Actually yes, I would.  Those are fundamental parts of the

Re: unexpected logout

2009-11-13 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/13 Dj YB : > On Friday November 13 2009 02:44:54 suvayu ali wrote: >> 2009/11/12 Ed Greshko : >> > Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> Yes, it is due to the extension and the way it is treated by MIMEbut >> >> that's another story. >>

Re: Extra mouse buttons

2009-11-12 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/12 Konstantin Svist : > On 11/12/2009 04:51 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >> >> In my F11 install it works without any tweaks. I use XFCE. Before F11 >> I had to do some customizations in xorg.conf. Try this url, >> >>  http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.9.0/doc/html/mous

Re: Extra mouse buttons

2009-11-12 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/12 Konstantin Svist : > Hi all, > > Is there a "good" way to make the extra mouse buttons work in F11/F12? > In F8 I used something called btnx to map buttons to actions, is that still > the way to go? > BTW, I use a Logitech VX Revolution. > In my F11 install it works without any tweaks.

Re: unexpected logout

2009-11-12 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/12 Ed Greshko : > Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> Yes, it is due to the extension and the way it is treated by MIMEbut >> that's another story. >> >> What is normally recommended is that you run memtest86+.  First you have >> to install it as it isn't installed by default.  Then, AFAIK, the

Re: Getting new laptop today... F12 Beta or wait for full release?

2009-11-11 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/11 Richard Shaw : > My wife is getting a new laptop[1] today and I don't want to put F11 > on it as F12 is almost here. At the same time, I don't want to leave > Vista on it any longer than I have to. > > Are there any serious issues with F12 Beta that I should wait for the > full release?

Re: Fedora 11 x86_64, ATI HD4870, and RPM Fusion's Catalyst Drivers...

2009-11-10 Thread suvayu ali
Hi everyone, 2009/11/6 suvayu ali : > 2009/11/6 Paul W. Frields : >> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 02:28:19PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:06:58 -0800, >>>   suvayu ali wrote: >>> > >>> > The next month I am

Re: su/kdesu not working

2009-11-08 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/8 Dj YB : > I am sorry to have to post this problem to the list, but I got no answer in > the forum, and couldn't find one elsewere. > > I can login as root. > when trying to su to root using "su" or "su -" i get "su: incorrect password" > following some threads I added my user to the "whee

Re: Fedora 11 x86_64, ATI HD4870, and RPM Fusion's Catalyst Drivers...

2009-11-05 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Paul, 2009/11/5 Paul W. Frields : > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:37:29PM +0200, Jonathan Dieter wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:27 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: >> > On 09-11-05 09:31:45, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: >> > > Up until this past weekend, I stayed on Fedora 10 because the closed >> > > f

Re: should I go for 64bit version of Fedora 11 ?

2009-11-04 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 04:49 AM, John Austin wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 07:43 -0500, David wrote: On 11/4/2009 6:14 AM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 03:58 +1100, Roger wrote: Were I in your position I would opt for 32 bit install the software and just 'use' the computer. In truth

Re: Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-11-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Steven, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 11/02/09 04:28, quoth Suvayu Ali: Hi Steven, On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:32 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 10/31/09 03:39, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: IT IS WRONG to set environment variables in your .bashrc unless you really know what you're doing. Most p

Re: Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-11-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Steven, On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:32 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 10/31/09 03:39, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: IT IS WRONG to set environment variables in your .bashrc unless you really know what you're doing. Most people don't. IT IS WRONG to have to run a terminal emulator program with the i

Re: "shutdown now" on F11 as root problems and app crashes in VNC sessions

2009-11-01 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/1 Frank Cox : > On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:04:59 -0500 > Comcast Mail wrote: > > Hello Mr. Mail (or may I call you Comcast?): or just call him Leland or Scott? ;) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-11-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 01 November 2009 01:31 AM, Didar Hossain wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Didar Hossain wrote: Stuff that you need defined irrespective of the type of shell should go in ~/.bashrc Correction: ~/.bashrc is for non-login shells *only*. So, you will need to put the stuff in both

Re: Impossible to access boot menu

2009-10-31 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 31 October 2009 05:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: I try to access the boot menu, where you can choose a kernel and, whatever key I press, I can't stop the countdown and access the boot menu. Th

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