Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Prabhakar Pandey
actually .. i am a engineering student .. & i have to do mainly programming and related things.. so i think fedora would be gud ! Prabhakar Pandey On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 18:50:55 +0530, > Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > > i used fedora 8 b

Login user name list - modifiy?

2010-01-31 Thread KC8LDO
Here is a bit of a different question I think. I have an F-11 box I'm setting up to let people access it for some file shares using samba. In order to control the access I created a user for each person I want to allow access. Each user was created without their own group or an account, file in

Re: 32bit support on 64bit Linux

2010-01-31 Thread reg
> r...@dwf.com wrote: > > OK, my bad. > > I asked this question before, and someone gave me the answer, > > but I forgot to write it down someplace that I could find. > > > > There is a single yum target, that will bring in all (or most) of the 32bit > > libraries > > and things that are needed to

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-01-31 Thread Reg Clemens
> On 10-01-31 18:51:00, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Tony Nelson > > wrote: > ... > > > All disks always fail the built-in test here, due to the > > > permanent kernel bug.  A more robust test is: > > > > > >     # cmp /dev/dvd /path/to/iso > > > > You can also verify the bur

Re: Nehalem network performance

2010-01-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 14:59 -0500, Kelvin Ku wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:22:05PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > which > > > was throttling the CPUs to 1.6 GHz (from a maximum of 2.4 GHz). I > > > attempted to > > > remedy this by setting InterruptThrottleRate=0,0 in the e1000e driver,

Re: mahjongg gone missing?

2010-01-31 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 23:17 +, N James Bridge wrote: > A trivial point perhaps, but mahjongg (one of the gnome-games package) > has disappeared off the games menu. There is a new gnome-games-extra package that has mahjongg. I don't know why these games were separated out, but a simple "yum lis

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Has SPDIF ever worked on the TV? Marcel Rieux: > No. Hmm, then you're flying blind if you want to diagnose a problem. You won't know where the problem really is. You could have the TV set up wrong, or it might have a fault... >> Can you test your computer's output and the TV's input wi

Re: cant find MPEF-1 Codec or play audio files

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:11 -0500, Matt Smith wrote: > I downloaded a few MP3 files, but cannot get them to play in fedora's > rythmbox. I downloaded and installed Amarok, but the files will not > play in amarok either. Thanks for the suggestions. MP3 is patent encumbered, and cannot be legally

Re: Thunderbird & Okular question

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 21:24 +0100, DB wrote: > I assume there is no way to persuade TBird/Okular to play ball with > the octet-stream? There's no good way to handle that. It's the generic description for any binary file (sound, picture, PDF, whatever), that hasn't been specifically identified. I

Re: Re:Testing sound?

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:08 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > "mplayer /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-App-Message.ogg" works fine. > It is the only one of these 5 programs that actually works on my > laptop: > play does not seem to exist; It comes with the sox package. I might have it installed as a depe

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-01-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-31 18:51:00, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Tony Nelson > wrote: ... > > All disks always fail the built-in test here, due to the > > permanent kernel bug.  A more robust test is: > > > >     # cmp /dev/dvd /path/to/iso > > You can also verify the burn by > >sha256s

Re: 32bit support on 64bit Linux

2010-01-31 Thread Ed Greshko
r...@dwf.com wrote: > OK, my bad. > I asked this question before, and someone gave me the answer, > but I forgot to write it down someplace that I could find. > > There is a single yum target, that will bring in all (or most) of the 32bit > libraries > and things that are needed to run 32bit appli

32bit support on 64bit Linux

2010-01-31 Thread reg
OK, my bad. I asked this question before, and someone gave me the answer, but I forgot to write it down someplace that I could find. There is a single yum target, that will bring in all (or most) of the 32bit libraries and things that are needed to run 32bit applications on 64bit Fedora. If memo

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-31 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Mikkel wrote: > What you may have is a header for 4 pins, but only 3 pins on the > motherboard side. (I recall it was 3 pins for a previous message.) ... for s/pdif in, not out. "Out" has 2 pins and 'In' has 3 pins *side by side*, no empty space.. > I am not su

Re: help with... F9

2010-01-31 Thread Jake Peavy
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jake Peavy wrote: > > ...I know I should upgrade to F12 (or whatever) but I don't have time... > > Then we "don't have time" to answer your question, sorry. > > Fedora 9 is no longer supported, upgrade! > >Kevin > Kofler

Re: Fedora 12 KDE - No Sound

2010-01-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: > I have a fully patched version of KDE and still have no sound running fore > KDE apps. you have phonon-4.3.80-5 and no sound? If so, mind double-checking with pavucontrol that streams are active and nothing is muted? If not, update. -- Rex -- users mailing

Re: Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed?

2010-01-31 Thread slamp slamp
works fine for me using rawhide. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:00 PM, john wendel wrote: > On 01/31/2010 07:54 AM, Mail Lists wrote: >> On 01/31/2010 04:14 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >>> A less dangerous solution is to use Remi Collet's repository at >>> http://blog.famillecollet.com/ . Remi actually

cant find MPEF-1 Codec or play audio files

2010-01-31 Thread Matt Smith
I downloaded a few MP3 files, but cannot get them to play in fedora's rythmbox. I downloaded and installed Amarok, but the files will not play in amarok either. Thanks for the suggestions. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://

Re: ProFTP Glitch

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Ed Greshko wrote: > Mike Dwiggins wrote: > >> Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >>> Mike Dwiggins wrote: >>> >>> >>> Trying to start from usr/sbin/proftpd I egt - warning: unable to determine IP address of 'laptop.localnet' -error: no valid servers configured

Re: ProFTP Glitch

2010-01-31 Thread Ed Greshko
Mike Dwiggins wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Mike Dwiggins wrote: >> >> >>> Trying to start from usr/sbin/proftpd I egt >>> >>> - warning: unable to determine IP address of 'laptop.localnet' >>> -error: no valid servers configured >>> -Fatal: error orocessing configuration file '/etc/p

Re: ProFTP Glitch

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Ed Greshko wrote: > Mike Dwiggins wrote: > >> Trying to start from usr/sbin/proftpd I egt >> >> - warning: unable to determine IP address of 'laptop.localnet' >> -error: no valid servers configured >> -Fatal: error orocessing configuration file '/etc/proftpd.conf' >> >> and there is nothing i

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-01-31 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-01-31 10:12:16, Tim wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 13:50 -0500, Joe Woodruff > wrote: > > > Disc's 1 & 3 failed Linux test at > installation. Burned Disk 1 twice > > > more and still fails.  Went ahead with > installation. > > > > You're asking f

mahjongg gone missing?

2010-01-31 Thread Andre Robatino
N James Bridge wrote: > Anyone else get this behaviour? Or know what has happened? Do you have gnome-games-extra installed? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fed

Re: Fedora 12 KDE - No Sound

2010-01-31 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: > I have a fully patched version of KDE and still have no sound running fore > KDE apps. > Before Christmas I had sound on all apps apart from Firefox Flash.  Now I > only have sound

mahjongg gone missing?

2010-01-31 Thread N James Bridge
A trivial point perhaps, but mahjongg (one of the gnome-games package) has disappeared off the games menu. The packages were updated on 8th Jan and recently I discovered mahjongg doesn't work anymore. I tried to run it from the console and got a string of messages about missing tiles and then a seg

Re: help with... F9

2010-01-31 Thread Roger
On 01/31/2010 09:33 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 31/01/10 11:14, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >>> Jake Peavy wrote: >>> >>> ...I know I should upgrade to F12 (or whatever) but I don't have time... >>> Then we "don't have time" to answer y

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Roger
On 02/01/2010 06:03 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > >> i used fedora 8 but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that >> good and i should try f12 or f11 . >> so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? >> and it would be nice if u tell me how to

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Roger
On 02/01/2010 12:26 AM, Antonio M wrote: > 2010/1/31 Prabhakar Pandey: > >> i used fedora 8 but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that good >> and i should try f12 or f11 . >> so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? >> and it would be nice if u tell me how to

Re: Serial port (/dev/ttySX) question.

2010-01-31 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 31 January 2010 22:24, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Mikkel writes: >> Nope - sleep only accepts an integer value. Using sleep, 1 second it >> the best you will get. > > $ time sleep 0.5 > > real    0m0.503s > user    0m0.001s > sys     0m0.002s We're talking about the C sleep function...

Re: Serial port (/dev/ttySX) question.

2010-01-31 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Mikkel writes: > Nope - sleep only accepts an integer value. Using sleep, 1 second it > the best you will get. $ time sleep 0.5 real0m0.503s user0m0.001s sys 0m0.002s -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlap

Re: Radio on RhythmBox--can't listen to WBGO

2010-01-31 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 10:51 -0800, Perhaps Perhaps wrote: > Please, how do I listen to WBGO on RhythmBox? Thank you. > > > I would suggesst you use ReallPlayer not rhythmbox. -- === Electrons on a bender ==

Re: ProFTP Glitch

2010-01-31 Thread Ed Greshko
Mike Dwiggins wrote: > > Trying to start from usr/sbin/proftpd I egt > > - warning: unable to determine IP address of 'laptop.localnet' > -error: no valid servers configured > -Fatal: error orocessing configuration file '/etc/proftpd.conf' > > and there is nothing in /var/log/messages. That is wh

Re: udev problem under f12

2010-01-31 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 31/01/2010 20:00, Bill Davidsen a écrit : > François Patte wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> bonjour, >> >> I had to fight with a non answered problem on this list. (See my posts >> "Am I the only one" and "f12 /dev/dv

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 18:50:55 +0530, Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > i used fedora 8 but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that good > and i should try f12 or f11 . > so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? > and it would be nice if u tell me how to install variou

Re: NFS over ADSL

2010-01-31 Thread stefan riemens
I always use sshfs, which works great for me Stefan 2010/1/31, Terry Barnaby : > I routinely access my systems remotely using an OpenVPN connection over > ADSL and use NFSv3 to access remote file systems. Although this works > quite well there are two core issues I have: > > 1. NFS access does no

Re: Radio on RhythmBox--can't listen to WBGO

2010-01-31 Thread Antonio M
2010/1/31 Steven Stern : > On 01/31/2010 12:51 PM, Perhaps Perhaps wrote: >> Please, how do I listen to WBGO on RhythmBox?  Thank you. >> >> > I tried to add http://www.wbgo.org/listennow/wbgo.m3u, but it crashes > the player. I'm filing a bugzilla. > > It will work if you use this URL for the new

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 13:45:39 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > I don't need or want 3D anything, just a working display which doesn't crash. > Note that 2.6.33-rc[56] seem somewhat better, although some adventures in > cmdline options are needed to get there (not the same on each laptop). I

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 16:01:45 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > As for 3D and closed source drivers... If you buy a nVidia card, you can use > their closed source drivers, and they basically Just Work. If you buy an ATI > card, you can use... oops, sorry... you *cannot* use their closed so

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-31 Thread Mikkel
On 01/31/2010 02:01 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > A 4 hole plug is used for 2 pins, so you can imagine that there's no > polarity indication for sure :( The only measure taken is that one > hole is obstructed so that only the 2 holes where the 2 wires end up > can be used. But they can be used one w

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 16:16:06 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > You mean as in nVidia drivers taking a week or so to adjust to new kernel > version and reach rpmfusion? Wow, that's a bummer! So you suggest we all opt > to use ATI drivers which don't work at all on current X for several mon

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:27:04 -0700, "Christopher A. Williams" wrote: > > Nouveau only supports 2D, and the OpenSource Radeon driver has had at > least as many ...ummm issues as the proprietary driver. > > So, if you need true 3D graphics support without a lot of issues, at the > moment nVi

Re: Thunderbird & Okular question

2010-01-31 Thread DB
On 01/31/2010 06:20 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 12:30 +0100, DB wrote: > In Thunderbird, I have set my default for pdf attachments to Okular. > Everytime I try to open a pdf attachment, I get a dialog asking me if > I want to save the attachment.

Re: QTParted - normal behaviour or BZ?

2010-01-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-31 10:13:23, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 23:58 +0100, DB wrote: > > is it correct/normal behaviour for an app just to vanish, > > rather than to give an error indication? > > Not good, but not uncommon. I've seen gtk-gnutella do it, emelfm2, > and at least another one that I can'

Re: Linux C++ compiler

2010-01-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-31 05:28:56, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 01/31/2010 10:19 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Type "info g++" at a console window. Take the time to learn how to > use > >> "info" as you'll find it useful, especially for Gnu software. > > > > Alternatively, try info:g

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-01-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-31 10:12:16, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 13:50 -0500, Joe Woodruff wrote: > > Disc's 1 & 3 failed Linux test at installation. Burned Disk 1 twice > > more and still fails. Went ahead with installation. > > You're asking for trouble going ahead under that condition. Try and > reso

Re: Re:Testing sound?

2010-01-31 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tim wrote: >> Is there any CLI command for making a noise from a .ogg file? > > play, aplay, paplay, ogg123, mplayer > > The last one probably won't be installed, the others seem to be, by > default. Thanks. "mplayer /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-App-Message.ogg" works fine. It is the only one of t

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-31 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 18:49 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> sound still doesn't get out on the TV > > Obvious questions: > > Has SPDIF ever worked on the TV? No. > Can you test your computer's output and the TV's input with other > things? Unfortunat

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-31 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 17:01 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> What's the way to know polarity is correct, except trying both >> positions? > > Looking for pinout descriptions in your equipment manuals There's only a small rectangle with S/PIF beside it.

Re: Radio on RhythmBox--can't listen to WBGO

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:08:45 -0600, Steven wrote: > On 01/31/2010 12:51 PM, Perhaps Perhaps wrote: > > Please, how do I listen to WBGO on RhythmBox? Thank you. > > > > > I tried to add http://www.wbgo.org/listennow/wbgo.m3u, but it crashes > the player. I'm filing a bugzilla. Worked for me - w

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/31/2010 08:16 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > You mean as in nVidia drivers taking a week or so to adjust to new kernel > version and reach rpmfusion? Wow, that's a bummer! So you suggest we all opt > to use ATI drivers which don't work at all on current X for several months > now, basically sin

Re: Radio on RhythmBox--can't listen to WBGO

2010-01-31 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/31/2010 12:51 PM, Perhaps Perhaps wrote: > Please, how do I listen to WBGO on RhythmBox? Thank you. > > I tried to add http://www.wbgo.org/listennow/wbgo.m3u, but it crashes the player. I'm filing a bugzilla. It will work if you use this URL for the new radio station: http://wbgo.streamg

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > > i used fedora 8 but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that > good and i should try f12 or f11 . > so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? > and it would be nice if u tell me how to install various media players > and all in it coz i

Re: udev problem under f12

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > bonjour, > > I had to fight with a non answered problem on this list. (See my posts > "Am I the only one" and "f12 /dev/dvd missing") > > > I found that some udev rules were not written and I don't know why: The > insta

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:35 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: === > > I'm using the same binary driver as you are. === Do take notice that I -am- using the nVidia binary drivers. > > - Legacy driver rele

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> That and putting in some hacked fork of cdrecord, I think it's called woeful, >> instead of the real thing. > > No, that's a licensing problem. CDRecord's license is incompatible > with the GPL. > Just to be clear,

Radio on RhythmBox--can't listen to WBGO

2010-01-31 Thread Perhaps Perhaps
Please, how do I listen to WBGO on RhythmBox?  Thank you. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Since you don't mind using closed-source drivers... :-) If the graphics >> card in your machine is not integrated (ie. is replaceable), my advice is >> to go buy an nVidia card. They at least provide nonzero support for >> contemporary Linux. And if i

Re: KDE apps and freetype-freeworld's bytecode interpreter

2010-01-31 Thread Vassili Zaitsev
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Vassili Zaitsev wrote: > >> The curious thing is, in the case of Gtk applications such as the GIMP, >> Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey and GNOME MPlayer, the fully-hinted MS >> fonts are displayed correctly, in all their sharp, bytecode-interpreted >> grandeur whereas in KD

Re: Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed?

2010-01-31 Thread john wendel
On 01/31/2010 07:54 AM, Mail Lists wrote: > On 01/31/2010 04:14 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> A less dangerous solution is to use Remi Collet's repository at >> http://blog.famillecollet.com/ . Remi actually builds the current Firefox >> for F12, so you don't end up with a dependency mess. > > >

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-01-31 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>   On a fully updated F12, I try to open the following link >> >>   http://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/packages/oppPA-10-063- > cidADOBE-FORMS-B.pdf >> >>   with the default Document Viewer,

Re: Can't burn CD iso in F12

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > BraseroLibburn finished with an error > BraseroLibburn asked to stop because of an error > error = 1 > message = "SCSI error on write(176,16): Failure. See mmc3r10g.pdf: Sense > Key 3 ASC 10 ASCQ 00" > BraseroLibburn stopping > Session error : SCS

Re: ProFTP Glitch

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Mike Dwiggins wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Mike Dwiggins wrote: >> >> >>> When trying to do an /etc/init.d/proftpd start on my Fedora 11 box, I am >>> getting a return of Failed. >>> >>> I can find no service which might be interfering and no log file >>> anywhere showing me an er

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 31 January 2010 13:20:55 Prabhakar Pandey wrote: > i used fedora 8 but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that good > and i should try f12 or f11 . > so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? > and it would be nice if u tell me how to install various media

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-01-31 Thread Les
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 01:42 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 13:50 -0500, Joe Woodruff wrote: > > Disc's 1 & 3 failed Linux test at installation. Burned Disk 1 twice > > more and still fails. Went ahead with installation. > > You're asking for trouble going ahead under that condition.

Re: ProFTP Glitch

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Ed Greshko wrote: > Mike Dwiggins wrote: > >> When trying to do an /etc/init.d/proftpd start on my Fedora 11 box, I am >> getting a return of Failed. >> >> I can find no service which might be interfering and no log file >> anywhere showing me an error. >> >> Any Ideas? >> >> > So, the

Re: Can't burn CD iso in F12

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Cloaked
Rick Stevens-2 wrote: > > > Can you try a command line burn? Something like: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/.iso/file > > and see if that works? It often does for me when the GUI stuff fails. > > Still have not sorted out the problem - this presumably applies to a D

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 31 January 2010 14:25:39 Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > In my case, none of the above... > > Oh, come on! > I'm using the same binary driver as you are. > And yes, nVidia binary driver, while -far- better than ATI's driver, Lesser of two

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 31 January 2010 09:52:58 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Recommending proprietary drivers in general and NVidia in particular is > >> a very bad idea, they'll come to bite you in the ass sooner or later, > >> and with NVidia there's no alternative with

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 31 January 2010 09:28:40 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Since you don't mind using closed-source drivers... :-) If the graphics > > card in your machine is not integrated (ie. is replaceable), my advice is > > to go buy an nVidia card. They at least provide nonzero suppo

Re: Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed?

2010-01-31 Thread Mail Lists
On 01/31/2010 04:14 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > A less dangerous solution is to use Remi Collet's repository at > http://blog.famillecollet.com/ . Remi actually builds the current Firefox > for F12, so you don't end up with a dependency mess. Or perhaps just download it direct from mozilla.org

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:27:04 -0700 Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Nouveau only supports 2D, and the OpenSource Radeon driver has had at > least as many ...ummm issues as the proprietary driver. Hell, I wish there was a stable working radeon driver that only supported 2D so I could get reliable

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:25 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > In my case, none of the above... > > Oh, come on! > I'm using the same binary driver as you are. > And yes, nVidia binary driver, while -far- better than ATI's driver, has > had it's

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 18:49 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > sound still doesn't get out on the TV Obvious questions: Has SPDIF ever worked on the TV? And, with the input socket that you're currently trying to use. Can you test your computer's output and the TV's input with other things? -- [...@

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 17:01 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > What's the way to know polarity is correct, except trying both > positions? Looking for pinout descriptions in your equipment manuals, or legends printed on/near connectors. Otherwise it's a case of using polarised plugs, which can only fit

Re: Re:Testing sound?

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 01:43 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there any CLI command for making a noise from a .ogg file? play, aplay, paplay, ogg123, mplayer The last one probably won't be installed, the others seem to be, by default. apropos play Perhaps there ought to be an easter egg man fil

Re: QTParted - normal behaviour or BZ?

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 23:58 +0100, DB wrote: > is it correct/normal behaviour for an app just to vanish, > rather than to give an error indication? Not good, but not uncommon. I've seen gtk-gnutella do it, emelfm2, and at least another one that I can't remember at the moment. When that happens,

Fedora 12 KDE - No Sound

2010-01-31 Thread Tim and Alison Bentley
I have a fully patched version of KDE and still have no sound running fore KDE apps. Before Christmas I had sound on all apps apart from Firefox Flash. Now I only have sound on Firefox flash. Amarok, Juk, Audacity, Mumble nothing. I am running x86_64. Any ideas . -- Tim and Alison Bentley h..

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 13:50 -0500, Joe Woodruff wrote: > Disc's 1 & 3 failed Linux test at installation. Burned Disk 1 twice > more and still fails. Went ahead with installation. You're asking for trouble going ahead under that condition. Try and resolve the failing disc burning issue, first. B

Re: Thunderbird & Okular question

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 12:30 +0100, DB wrote: > In Thunderbird, I have set my default for pdf attachments to Okular. > Everytime I try to open a pdf attachment, I get a dialog asking me if > I want to save the attachment. When I save it, I then have to go to > the downloaded file & open it with O

Re: Fedora12 Release Notes.

2010-01-31 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 16:51 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > r...@dwf.com wrote: > >> What has happened to the concept of release notes that a person could > >> actually print down and read? > >> > >> Previous releases have had Release Notes that were mabe 20 pages long, > >> w

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Ed Greshko
Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> In my case, none of the above... >> > > Oh, come on! > I'm using the same binary driver as you are. > And yes, nVidia binary driver, while -far- better than ATI's driver, has > had it's share of issues. > E.g.

udev problem under f12

2010-01-31 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bonjour, I had to fight with a non answered problem on this list. (See my posts "Am I the only one" and "f12 /dev/dvd missing") I found that some udev rules were not written and I don't know why: The install came smoothly without any warning or erro

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > In my case, none of the above... Oh, come on! I'm using the same binary driver as you are. And yes, nVidia binary driver, while -far- better than ATI's driver, has had it's share of issues. E.g. - Initial F12 xorg + nVidia driver combo resulte

Re: Difference between g++ and c++?

2010-01-31 Thread tharmendran
g++ is the traditional nickname of GNU C++, a freely redistributable C++ compiler. It is part of GCC, the GNU compiler collection. On Unix operating systems, gcc is the command typically used to invoke the GCC C compiler, while g++ is the command to invoke the GCC C++ compiler. __

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread tharmendran
i think f12 is better bcoz bugs are well fixed in f12 compared to other version.plz refer to http://www.my-guides.net/en/ for installation help. From: Prabhakar Pandey To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Sunday, 31 January 2010 9:20:55 Subject: which versi

Re: Difference between g++ and c++?

2010-01-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 10:20 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > No idea why the packages isn't using symbolic links instead of packaging > > the same files 4 times... > > It's not packaging the same file 4 times (that's just what it looks like to > somebody unfamiliar with hardl

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Hiisi
2010/1/31 Prabhakar Pandey : > > i used fedora 8  but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that good > and i should try f12 or f11 . > so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? > and it would be nice if u tell me how to install various media players and > all in it coz

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Antonio M
2010/1/31 Prabhakar Pandey : > > i used fedora 8  but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that good > and i should try f12 or f11 . > so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? > and it would be nice if u tell me how to install various media players and > all in it coz

RE: Inquiry

2010-01-31 Thread Hristo Petkov
Hi Guys, I have installed OmegaT on my PC under F11 and it works pretty well. I found on OmegaT.com a TTX binary plugin for linux (called toxic), I downloaded it and unpacked it, but I don't know how to install it. (the unpacked folder contains a bin file and three other files). The bin file fai

which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Prabhakar Pandey
i used fedora 8 but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that good and i should try f12 or f11 . so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? and it would be nice if u tell me how to install various media players and all in it coz i find pretty difficult installing them !

Re: Multihoming confusion

2010-01-31 Thread fedora
Hi HW thank you very much, that helps. I was before on a page describing this advanced routing, however, the main title there was "Load Sharing and Performance increase", which is not, what I sought. So I let it off. suomi > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:05 PM, wrote: >> Hi every >> >> I am chang

Re: RaLink rt3090 support

2010-01-31 Thread Colin Brace
Hi again everyone, I ended up downloading the source from here: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 I then compiled it (you need kernel-devel installed) then: # cd os/linux # insmod rt3090sta.ko # ifconfig ra0 up # ifconfig ra0 ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Ed Greshko
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > >> Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >>> Recommending proprietary drivers in general and NVidia in particular is a >>> very bad idea, they'll come to bite you in the ass sooner or later, and >>> with NVidia there's no alternative with OpenGL support. (Nouvea

Re: Multihoming confusion

2010-01-31 Thread H. Willstrand
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:05 PM, wrote: > Hi every > > I am changing the ISP from aaa.bbb.243.160/27 to ccc.ddd.206.128/27. > In order to provide seamless service to our customers I made the hosts > concerned multihomed, i.e. I added them a logical interface on the new > subnet. I did not introd

Re: help, (Fedora 8 is no longer supported)

2010-01-31 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> It's the only answer that makes sense. Running F8 now (or any other no > longer supported release) is asking for your machine to get rooted by some > cracker. Well, for the average laptop user that point probably counts the least ;) - Clemnes -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Thunderbird & Okular question

2010-01-31 Thread DB
Afternoon All, Seeing all the post about not being able to open "latest pdf", I have a question. In Thunderbird, I have set my default for pdf attachments to Okular. Everytime I try to open a pdf attachment, I get a dialog asking me if I want to save the attachment. When I save it, I the

Re: QTParted - normal behaviour or BZ?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Marc Wilson wrote: > If it's *supposed* to produce that shiny dialog box (quick look at > source will tell you), and it doesn't, then it should have a bug filed > against it with Fedora. If it's not supposed to, and you think it > should, then it's an upstream request. A GUI app is definitely sup

Multihoming confusion

2010-01-31 Thread fedora
Hi every I am changing the ISP from aaa.bbb.243.160/27 to ccc.ddd.206.128/27. In order to provide seamless service to our customers I made the hosts concerned multihomed, i.e. I added them a logical interface on the new subnet. I did not introduce a additional NIC into the hosts. Then, I changed t

Re: Fedora 12 update problem

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Try updating yum first: > > yum update yum Actually this is a PackageKit bug, so "yum update PackageKit" is a better idea. :-) Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fed

Re: Linux C++ compiler

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Peter Langfelder wrote: > g++ -o executable program.cc It's a bad idea to use g++ or gcc with no optimization switches as the default is no optimization whatsoever. Please use at least -Os (optimize for size) or -O2 (optimize for speed (at "level 2"), which is what Fedora is using). You'll pro

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