Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-19 Thread William Witt
On 12/19/2009 06:54 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12 destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up. BTW, I'm not talking about iotop. You are probably looking for atop. Will -- f

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-06 Thread William Witt
On 12/06/2009 03:37 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hello, I am running Fedora 12, and I have the problem that grub seems to ignore the timeout-value set. In /etc/grub.conf I've set timeout=5 however grub always skips the menu, and loads the first/default entry immediatly. Any ideas what could be t

Re: CD drive difficulty

2009-12-04 Thread William Witt
On 12/04/2009 10:06 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I'm just finishing installing F12 XFCE and encountered a problem with the CD drive: When I push the eject button, the tray is first extended fully outward and then is immediately retracted. I'm reasonably certain that this is not a hardware problem,

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-04 Thread William Witt
On 12/04/2009 09:52 AM, BeartoothHOS wrote: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:36:52 -0500, William Witt wrote: [] This is probably the problem. A partial copy or corrupted .gconf directory. So try this: -After a reboot at the login screen press Crtl+Alt F2 -Log in text mode with your user

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-03 Thread William Witt
On 12/03/2009 04:33 PM, Beartooth wrote: I should perhaps mention that this machine (my #1) got royally, unbootably bollixed a few days ago, and ended up with a fresh install of F12 -- into which I began trying to scp /home/btth from #2 -- and messed that up so that there seem to be sever

Re: Setting up a VM to run an F12 guest on an XP host

2009-11-29 Thread William Witt
On 11/29/2009 07:16 PM, john wendel wrote: On 11/29/2009 01:35 PM, Alan Milnes wrote: 2009/11/28 john wendel: I know very little about Windows, so I'm seeking your advice. I'd like to run F12 on an XP box (so I can get some work done), could someone point me to the right software. The big pro

Re: changing GDM background image on F12

2009-11-28 Thread William Witt
On 11/28/2009 09:03 PM, Mikkel wrote: On 11/28/2009 07:56 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Todd Zullinger writes: As the subject says, he's trying to change the background for the GDM screen. Since GDM doesn't provide a panel, there isn't really a convenient way to browse to system->preferen