How to prevent horizontal scrolling from switching apps and desktops

2009-11-13 Thread Wendell Nichols
tool and it did not help do disable horizontal scrolling. your ideas will be welcome :) wendell nichols -- 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: anyone install android 2.0 sdk on 64-bit fedora?

2009-11-09 Thread Wendell Nichols
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Wendell Nichols on 11/09/2009 11:20 AM wrote: The problems I had running 64 bit linux: You're a few years behind. 1. Sun's Java plugin is 64-bit now, but it doesn't matter. Red Hat's OpenJDK had a 64-bit plugin first and it works 99.9%

Re: anyone install android 2.0 sdk on 64-bit fedora?

2009-11-09 Thread Wendell Nichols
Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 10/27/2009 01:52 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: given the first release of android 2.0, has anyone out there successfully installed that on a 64-bit fedora? specifically, fedora 11 or (hopefully equivalently) fedora 12 beta. I have the emulator running. I ha

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Wendell Nichols
Partha Chowdhury wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:25:00AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: My HP C5180 works perfectly both for scanning and printing, plus I have it network-connected so other people can also use it. It installed trivially with hplip. I have no problem with the print qualit

Recent update changed usb device support

2009-09-14 Thread Wendell Nichols
Since my last update I am now required to enter the root password in a dialog to mount a usbdrive. This update (3 weeks of accumulated updates really) broke three separate things! -sound -usb support -firefox 32bit I know that there are no garantees here.. but really. wcn -- fedora-list maili

64 bit fedora 10 can no longer run 32 bit firefox.

2009-09-14 Thread Wendell Nichols
I have a number of java applets which use native 32bit only libraries, so I have to run 32 bit firefox for my desktop to be "useable". Since the latest update firefox cannot seem to detect the correct version of its GRE libs to use: Install firegfox.i386: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transa

Latest update broke the sound.

2009-09-14 Thread Wendell Nichols
anyone else had a similar problem? Wendell Nichols sound system info: [r...@bilbo wcn00]# uname -a Linux bilbo 2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 17 08:18:34 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lspci -v 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller

Re: Latest update broke the sound.

2009-09-14 Thread Wendell Nichols
Wendell Nichols wrote: I installed an update after being offline for 3 weeks. My machine is a Thinkpad t61p and after the update sound does not work. kmix will not start and kde complains that the sound devices are not available. The sound driver (snd_hda_intel) is loaded as are the other

Re: Fedora And Virtualization

2009-08-21 Thread Wendell Nichols
Gene Poole wrote: > If I plan to run VMware Servers on a Fedora 11 machine, is it good > practice to install the virtual kernel? > > Thanks, > Gene Poole You will find that the vmware setup script will not run on Fedora 11 because some of the kernel header's have changed. It works in Fc10, not

keyboard becomes unresponsive, stops working

2009-07-30 Thread Wendell Nichols
I have had two circumstances where my keyboard just stopped working. Both the usb and main laptop keyboard stopped working. I was able to ssh in and reboot it from another computer but that's not acceptable. The mouse continued to work. Anyone else see this? wcn -- fedora-list mailing list fed

Re: Problem with Fire Fox

2009-07-28 Thread Wendell Nichols
Frank Murphy wrote: > On 28/07/09 11:26, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote: >> Dear Anoop, >> > >> >> Thank you >> >> Kishore >> > > If you can Kishore, > please stop top-posting, > it is hard to follow the thread, > and many will not answer it. > Where did all this top posting facisim come from in th

Yum configuration for multiple architectures

2009-07-01 Thread Wendell Nichols
I have two Fedora 10 systems. both run x86_64. However when I do yum search commands on one the i386 rpms are listed but they are not on the other! I've compared the configurations as best I can and I cannot figure out why. They use the exact same repositories and yum.conf matches. Any ideas?

Re: GoogleEarth doesn't work on my FC10 laptop --- fixed!

2009-06-25 Thread Wendell Nichols
Wendell Nichols wrote: When I try to start googleearth I get a popup that says: Google Earth: Unknown Graphics Card Google Earth is unable to identify your graphics card. this is most likely because the driver for your graphics card has not been installed.. It points me to a help site

GoogleEarth doesn't work on my FC10 laptop

2009-06-25 Thread Wendell Nichols
When I try to start googleearth I get a popup that says: Google Earth: Unknown Graphics Card Google Earth is unable to identify your graphics card. this is most likely because the driver for your graphics card has not been installed.. It points me to a help site, where the answer is compl

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Wendell Nichols
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, jack wallen wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. Against maybe buying a 7" netbook for same purpose. Trying to cut down on space use\Paper book purchases. well, i got a kindle for father's day. it was given t

Kernel update broke my system.

2009-05-29 Thread Wendell Nichols
While I was conducting a web meeting with a number of people yesterday my keyboard stopped working. Thats the second time its happened and I was forced to reboot! Imagine my acute frustration that because of a kernel update the boot loader failed and I was left with a blinking cursor! While

Re: bluetooth mounse becomes erratic when network load is moderate.

2009-05-29 Thread Wendell Nichols
Wendell Nichols wrote: I have a bluetooth mouse which works nicely most of the time, but if I run a process which consumes network resources (and my network is wireless) the pointer lags behind the mouse movement. Even playing music via an nfs mounted disk is enough to cause this problem

Streaming media server

2009-05-28 Thread Wendell Nichols
I currently play my music (which is stored in a file system on a server on my home network) by mounting the filesystem via nfs and playing the files in amarok. However if any disruption to the wireless network occurs, I lose the mount and, as you know, its hell to recover an nfs mount if the n

Skype no sound on fedora

2009-05-12 Thread Wendell Nichols
This is a short howto for skype on recent fedora distributions which use the pulseaudio system. I had no sound in skype and am going on a trip so I needed to resolve that problem. I saw lots of others with the problem on the web with mixed results so I'll post the resolution to my problem her

Dlink DIR-655 Do you have one of these lurking in your network?

2009-05-09 Thread Wendell Nichols
I've been struggling with a wireless issue for some time. I even switched from Suse 11 to Fedora 10 trying to shake it (which was unfair but I had other reasons too). The symptom is that the wireless connectivity would hang periodically for 30 sec to 3 or 4 minutes. Long enough to disrupt re

Re: Wireless speed drops

2009-05-06 Thread Wendell Nichols
Georgi Hristozov wrote: Hi, max написа: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:16:41PM +0300, Georgi Hristozov wrote: Got a coffee shop nearby? Do they have wireless access? Try there and see if the problem persists. Hardware failure has to be ruled out or all the debugging in the world isn't going t

Re: Fedora & XP on same machine, good bad or ugly

2009-05-02 Thread Wendell Nichols
I run FC9 as the only natively installed OS on my machine and have windows installed in a vmware (server 2.0) vm under linux. The XP performance is acceptable and it's set to suspend/resume when linux starts and stops so it's always there. It runs on a masqueraded socket, so outside network

Re: Remote administration of FC 10 headless servers.

2009-04-22 Thread Wendell Nichols
Steve Ellis wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: Mark Haney wrote: And on a side note, you can also use vnc to do GUI type things like installing apps and updates as well. No, this hasn't worked for me on Fedora 10 for a while (yes, bugzilla report filed). Is it actually wo

Re: Remote administration of FC 10 headless servers.

2009-04-22 Thread Wendell Nichols
Mark Haney wrote: Wendell Nichols wrote: I just installed FC10 on my home server. I access it via xrdp. The first time I tried to install some packages via the graphical package manager it told me that I was not using a local console, and exited. This machine doesn't have a co

Remote administration of FC 10 headless servers.

2009-04-22 Thread Wendell Nichols
I just installed FC10 on my home server. I access it via xrdp. The first time I tried to install some packages via the graphical package manager it told me that I was not using a local console, and exited. This machine doesn't have a console! How are we supposed to administer headless serv

Re: Resources to learn C

2009-04-08 Thread Wendell Nichols
Jorge Luis wrote: * Frank Cox: On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:39:45 +0930 I learned to type in school on huge Underwood manual typewriters. (I was the only boy in the high school typing class; I thought it would be a good skill to learn. Obviously, I was right.) My ex-father in law had been

Re: F10: KDE and second display not working

2009-04-08 Thread Wendell Nichols
mike1993 wrote: This is the 1st post I found that describes exactly the problem I have. 1 Nvidia 8600GTS card, 2 LCDs. screen0 - fully functional, screen1:- just a default background. no functionality whatsoever. Under gnome, everything is as it's supposed to be. And I have kde 4.2.1 # nv

Re: VMware server 2.0 on 64-bit F10

2009-04-02 Thread Wendell Nichols
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: I'm unable to connect to VMware Server 2 via https://127.0.0.1:8333. The connection times out. I've been reading fragments of reports elsewhere on the web that others are running into major problems with VMware Server 2 on 64-bit F10. They all say they can't shut dow

bluetooth mounse becomes erratic when network load is moderate.

2009-03-15 Thread Wendell Nichols
I have a bluetooth mouse which works nicely most of the time, but if I run a process which consumes network resources (and my network is wireless) the pointer lags behind the mouse movement. Even playing music via an nfs mounted disk is enough to cause this problem. Anyone else see or overcom

Re: 64bit or 32bit for my laptop

2009-03-12 Thread Wendell Nichols
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 22:40 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:45:26 +0800 > Meng Qiu wrote: > >> The "gears" for my GeForce4 MX440 on F10 is about 1700 FPS. >> But the number for my HD1950pro on F11(pre) is never up to 100 FPS! > 7