Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth > wrote: > >     I have F14 installed and running on > an EeePC 701 -- the earliest > > smallest slowest EeePC afaik. > >    > > I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD > drive. > > > First you

Re: USB audio mixers

2010-11-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/18/2010 02:00 PM, Tim wrote: > > Though, still "just" a sound card. The advantages of using a real mixer > are many: > > A sound card generally only has one or two inputs, and they only cope > with a narrow range of signal levels, impedances, unbalanced audio, and > have DC voltages on those

Re: Burning mixed ownership of files to disk producing a problem?

2010-11-18 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 17:29 -0500, William Case wrote: > What I had been doing was quite simple. Rather than doing a compressed > backup, I had just been using a small rsync script to copy my files > and/or changes to my backup partition. I have a big enough hard drive > with lots of room. I fou

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth wrote: > I have F14 installed and running on an EeePC 701 -- the earliest > smallest slowest EeePC afaik. > I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD drive. First you can't do a graphics install on this with F14, as it is really only 50

fullscreen impress with compiz (openoffice)

2010-11-18 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, OpenOffice impress slideshows aren't working for me in F13. If I try to run a slideshow it fails to run fullscreen and instead opens a root-sized window which, if I'm lucky centres on the screen. (If unlucky it sits at the bottom of the screen and has to be dragged up.) The window also sits be

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Steven I Usdansky wrote: > > It's not at all clear to me how one would go about > installing f13 or  f14 > > (or anything else similarly-sized) on a 4 gig device. > You may have  better > > luck if you can stick an 8 gig (or bigger) SDHC card > in the SDHC  card > > reader,

Re: lvm extent size (sorry for modem troubles) :(

2010-11-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
Patrick, It is me, Antonio, from fedora list, users@lists.fedoraproject.org, I am sorry That the driver(Conexant modem from linuxant did not work out for you ).  I apologize :(, if it was another modem, I am sure that I would have guided you better.  I am sorry for not replying back to you, but

Re: Virtual desktops

2010-11-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > I have an strange question about virtual desktops. Usually, every user > could set up multiple virtual desktops - where you could switch around - > basically with an applet. I mosly in my times I like to do multiple things > together - therefore I wo

Some questions, one answer

2010-11-18 Thread jarmo
" Using KDE and chosen digital clock, it shows HH:32 forinstance. Ie. it does nor show hours? Where I can get hours to be shown. " I found ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals line where was set: HH%M%S, change %H%M%S and hours came visible. Jarmo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/19/2010 05:52 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > My point is that is my experience that the gnome configuration files > (files with names like .gnome* change from version to version so the old > home directory will not work under the new version. gnotes won't work if > the location of the database c

Re: errors from mcelog.cron Fedora 14

2010-11-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 11/16/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:32:40 -0500 > Jerry Feldman wrote: > >> I'm receiving errors from the mcelog.cron script in /etc/cron.hourly: >> >> /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron: >> >> read: No such device > Yea, I got those too, but after reading the description

Re: F14, X86_64 and GoogleEarth

2010-11-18 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I tried the suggestion, but it made no difference. I looked at the link and several people also note that performing the suggested steps doesn't fix the crash. Paolo On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM, John Austin wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:53 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > When I try to

Re: Burning mixed ownership of files to disk producing a problem?

2010-11-18 Thread William Case
This reply is as a continuation of the discussion, not an argument with your suggestions. In the end I just burned the user files and left it at that. See below for details ... On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 05:14 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:32 -0500, William Stock wrote: > > In a small t

Re: F14, X86_64 and GoogleEarth

2010-11-18 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:53 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > When I try to install the latest Google Earth on F14 I get > > [r...@jackstraw pgaltieri]# ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin Verifying archive > integrity... All good. > Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux > 5.2.1.1588...

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 22:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/18/2010 08:22 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > It is my experience that the system files change from one version to the > > next. For example the gnote database changed location between recent > > versions so you can't easily just maintain yo

Re: Kernel-PAE no longer 32 bit default?

2010-11-18 Thread A. Racca
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 08:35 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, November 13, 2010 07:51:17 pm Tom Horsley wrote: > > I was finally getting around to tweaking my 32 bit fedora 14 > > partition when I noticed that I was running kernel, > > not kernel-PAE. > > For what it's worth, my pre-upgrade

Re: USB audio mixers

2010-11-18 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Given a decent mixer, and something that's compatible, it ought to be a >> big improvement on my sound card for capturing analogue audio, and more >> useful than getting another sound card. But I've yet to see a device >> saying it'll supports anything other than Windows or Mac. Marcus D

Re: F14, X86_64 and GoogleEarth

2010-11-18 Thread Paolo Galtieri
When I try to install the latest Google Earth on F14 I get [r...@jackstraw pgaltieri]# ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.2.1.1588.. setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser er

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-18 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:13:10AM -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: > On 11/17/2010 04:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:13:15 -0700 > > Phil Meyer wrote: > > > >> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE > >> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a

Re: Burning mixed ownership of files to disk producing a problem?

2010-11-18 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:32 -0500, William Stock wrote: > In a small test I had no problem burning some of "my" files and some > "root/root" files. However, using the CD for a restore would be a > gigantic pain in the backside. You'd be sitting in front of your > monitor forever. Yes. DVDs and

lvm extent size

2010-11-18 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, How should I choice the extent size when I create a volume group ? How can I avoid unallocated size in a volume goup, even when I cannot allocated more size ? thank. -- --- == Patrick DUPRÉ |

Re: Virtual desktops

2010-11-18 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi Kevin! Yiee-haaa! I'm eating thr devil's pie! That was what I have looked for! Zoltan 2010/11/18 Kevin J. Cummings > On 11/18/2010 08:51 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I have an strange question about virtual desktops. Usually, every user > > could set up multiple virtual de

Re: Virtual desktops

2010-11-18 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 11/18/2010 08:51 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have an strange question about virtual desktops. Usually, every user > could set up multiple virtual desktops - where you could switch around - > basically with an applet. I mosly in my times I like to do multiple > things together - th

Re: Some questions

2010-11-18 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi, For your sound maybe I could give you an solution. create an file called alsa-base.conf fill this text file with an single line: ' options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1' Without quotes. After you have saved, place this to /etc/modprobe.d folder, and restart you machine. That hopefully will

Re: Burning mixed ownership of files to disk producing a problem?

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Miles
William Stock wrote: > In a small test I had no problem burning some of "my" files and some > "root/root" files. However, using the CD for a restore would be a > gigantic pain in the backside. You'd be sitting in front of your > monitor forever. > > Two things happen when you try to burn mixed ow

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/18/2010 08:02 AM, Oluwagbenga Shobowale wrote: > Sorry about the top post its my email client. I think you would need to run > Makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db< /etc/mail/access > This should allow you relay the mail to other networks . But I think you need > to read up on sendmail configur

Re: apache cgi-bin ScriptAlias :Forbidden ???

2010-11-18 Thread Barry
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:50 +, "Sebastian E. Ovide" wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to define a new ScriptAlias to run cgi from another folder. So > I > have created a config file and placed it > in /etc/httpd/conf.d/apache.gis.conf > > > ScriptAlias /mapserver/ /home/gis/bin/ > > > >

Some questions

2010-11-18 Thread jarmo
Hi Installed F14 into Toshiba Satellite L40-157 laptop. Installation went smoothly, started wihout any hickups. But... Using KDE and chosen digital clock, it shows HH:32 forinstance. Ie. it does nor show hours? Where I can get hours to be shown. It seems also, that system-config-display has le

Re: No anacron emails

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/18/2010 11:34 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 11/18/2010 10:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> On this F12 server, my /etc/anacrontab is rather simple: >> >> SHELL=/bin/sh >> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin >> MAILTO=root >> # the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs

Re: No anacron emails

2010-11-18 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/18/2010 10:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On this F12 server, my /etc/anacrontab is rather simple: > > SHELL=/bin/sh > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > MAILTO=root > # the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs > RANDOM_DELAY=45 > # the jobs will be started during the

Re: Burning mixed ownership of files to disk producing a problem?

2010-11-18 Thread William Stock
In a small test I had no problem burning some of "my" files and some "root/root" files. However, using the CD for a restore would be a gigantic pain in the backside. You'd be sitting in front of your monitor forever. Two things happen when you try to burn mixed owner files to a CD. The first is

No anacron emails

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On this F12 server, my /etc/anacrontab is rather simple: SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root # the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs RANDOM_DELAY=45 # the jobs will be started during the following hours only START_HOURS_RANGE=3-22 #period in days

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-18 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/17/2010 04:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:13:15 -0700 > Phil Meyer wrote: > >> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE >> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a network based >> preupgrade which works well. > Just for curiosity, why

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/18/2010 11:02 AM, Oluwagbenga Shobowale wrote: > Sorry about the top post its my email client. I think you would need to run > Makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db< /etc/mail/access > This should allow you relay the mail to other networks . But I think you need > to read up on sendmail configur

Re: Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:58:14 -0500, Robert wrote: > > My /etc/crontab > > file certainly seems to have a user field: > > > > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly > > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily > > 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly > > 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cr

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Oluwagbenga Shobowale
Sorry about the top post its my email client. I think you would need to run Makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access This should allow you relay the mail to other networks . But I think you need to read up on sendmail configuration .. Good luck Oluwagbenga Shobowale -Original

Only one minor problem with F14 so far => Evo 'unread' markings gone.

2010-11-18 Thread William Case
Hi; In Evolution, the bolding and unread mail count has disappeared from my Account list and Search Folders. Inbox shows correctly as does my message list. I have shut down Evo and reopened, and re-booted, so it isn't quite that simple. Other than that the upgrade from F13 => F14 was pretty sli

Re: Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/18/2010 10:30 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:05:08 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > >> OK. But what about: >> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/courses/2004-February/001389.html >> which is old, but says that there is a user field in the /etc/crontab >> version? I

apache cgi-bin ScriptAlias :Forbidden ???

2010-11-18 Thread Sebastian E. Ovide
Hi All, I'm trying to define a new ScriptAlias to run cgi from another folder. So I have created a config file and placed it in /etc/httpd/conf.d/apache.gis.conf ScriptAlias /mapserver/ /home/gis/bin/ AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/18/2010 10:24 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz said: > >> Where should I be looking for this problem? Does sendmail need to be >> running on this server (it is not)? >> > If you are going to use sendmail, then it needs to be running (chkconfig > sendmail

Burning mixed ownership of files to disk producing a problem?

2010-11-18 Thread William Case
I started out to do something I though should be fairly easy but I have been at it all evening. I am trying to burn some data files to DVD as a backup. Here is the problem as far as I can tell. Brasero from root won't burn the files directly but wants to turn them into an .iso. Details: I have

Re: Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab

2010-11-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:05:08 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > OK. But what about: > http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/courses/2004-February/001389.html > which is old, but says that there is a user field in the /etc/crontab > version? Is there? The crontab(5) man page says there is (if you

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz said: > Where should I be looking for this problem? Does sendmail need to be > running on this server (it is not)? If you are going to use sendmail, then it needs to be running (chkconfig sendmail on; service sendmail start). The daemon has to be running to p

Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
This is on a server that has both the firewall and selinux disabled. I just ran a cron job as root and it is trying to mail the output to root. /etc/aliases has the following entry: # Person who should get root's mail root:r...@htt-consult.com and the server can reach the mailserver fo

Re: Upgrade loses www connection

2010-11-18 Thread stan
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:35:53 + Ted Wager wrote: > Just upgraded my 13 installation to 14..All went ok apart from no www > connection..I d/loaded 14 dvd on my other box and installed it but > still Firefox told me it could not find server and I cannot ping > out... I have checked ifconfig and

Re: Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/18/2010 09:49 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:35:16 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > >> Then why is it still there, leading one to think they can edit it for >> global cron jobs? >> > You can edit it for global cron jobs (or you can drop files > in the /etc/cron.d

Re: Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab

2010-11-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:35:16 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Then why is it still there, leading one to think they can edit it for > global cron jobs? You can edit it for global cron jobs (or you can drop files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory). In fact I do edit it: I move everything out of the /e

Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 10/09/2010 03:25 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 10/09/2010 12:37 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> Before (fedora 10) the default file /etc/crontab was not empty. >> On my new fedora13 it is just almost empty. >> So I guess that the cron files are never run and there is probably a >> tool to man

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/18/2010 08:22 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It is my experience that the system files change from one version to the > next. For example the gnote database changed location between recent > versions so you can't easily just maintain your home directory that way. I don't quite get your point. It

Virtual desktops

2010-11-18 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi Guys, I have an strange question about virtual desktops. Usually, every user could set up multiple virtual desktops - where you could switch around - basically with an applet. I mosly in my times I like to do multiple things together - therefore I would like to see for each virtual desktop an g

Upgrade loses www connection

2010-11-18 Thread Ted Wager
Just upgraded my 13 installation to 14..All went ok apart from no www connection..I d/loaded 14 dvd on my other box and installed it but still Firefox told me it could not find server and I cannot ping out... I have checked ifconfig and the new install compares with the 13 install printout...resolv

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 07:33 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/18/2010 07:19 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Just for curiosity, why have a separate /boot partition at all? > > I always just make a single / partition, install everything on it > > and never run out of space in /boot or /home because it is

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-18 Thread Steven I Usdansky
- Original Message > From: fred smith > To: Community support for Fedora users > Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 1:16:59 PM > Subject: Re: Making space on an EeePC > It's not at all clear to me how one would go about installing f13 or f14 > (or anything else similarly-sized) on a 4 gig de

Re: F14, X86_64 and GoogleEarth

2010-11-18 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:51 -0600, Craig Goodyear wrote: > On 11/17/2010 06:14 AM, John Austin wrote: > > Hi > > > > Has anyone managed to get googleearth to run with > > fully updated F14 (X86_64) ? > > > > I have googled around but can find no definitive answer. > > > > j...@meon ~ 17$ rpm -qa|gr

Re: libpgport.a ?

2010-11-18 Thread Sebastian E. Ovide
Thanks for that... I'll check with the MapServer mailing list... The reason why I am building mapserver is because I need the Oracle drivers in gdal... On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: > For some (reasonable) reason, usually Fedora strongly discourages to ship > static

Re: Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target (solved?)

2010-11-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/11/10 22:04, John Pilkington wrote: > Hi: I'm new to this list and haven't found a searchable archive, but I > haven't seen this topic in Google. > > My box came with MS Vista and I initially added f10, which was fully > updated until near EOL. Later I added a second disk and f12, and > rece

Re: Burning mixed permission files to disk problem?

2010-11-18 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 00:00 -0500, William Case wrote: > The manual is silent on why root and user files won't mix or on how to > burn root files. I think your problem is more a case of mixed ownership, not permissions. It might get you more answers, with that subject line. But, unless you're goi

Re: libpgport.a ?

2010-11-18 Thread Mamoru Tasaka
Sebastian E. Ovide wrote, at 11/18/2010 06:02 PM +9:00: > Hi All, > > I'm building mapserver and it requires [B]libpgport.a[/B] that in other > distributions > is part of [B]libpq-dev[/B] but I cannot find it with YUM... > > any ideas > > thanks > For some (reasonable) reason, usually Fedora stro

Re: libpgport.a ?

2010-11-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/18/2010 05:16 PM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote: > [...@mapserver-fc14 ~]$ yum whatprovides */lib/libpgport.a > Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit > Adding en_US to language list > updates/metalink >

Re: libpgport.a ?

2010-11-18 Thread Sebastian E. Ovide
[...@mapserver-fc14 ~]$ yum whatprovides */lib/libpgport.a Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding en_US to language list updates/metalink | 13 kB 00:00 updates

Re: libpgport.a ?

2010-11-18 Thread Ed Greshko
> > I'm building mapserver and it requires [B]libpgport.a[/B] that in > other distributions is part of [B]libpq-dev[/B] but I cannot find it > with YUM... > > any ideas > have you tried yum whatprovides */lib/libpgport.a ??? -- Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and

Re: Missing icons in Fedora 14 Xfce

2010-11-18 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Sonntag, den 07.11.2010, 13:26 +0100 schrieb Christoph Wickert: > Hello world, > > as you may already have noticed there are a lot of missing icons in the > Xfce desktop on Fedora 14. > > The reason is that we are using gnome-icon-theme by default and it > switched to the 'new' XDG icon naming

libpgport.a ?

2010-11-18 Thread Sebastian E. Ovide
Hi All, I'm building mapserver and it requires [B]libpgport.a[/B] that in other distributions is part of [B]libpq-dev[/B] but I cannot find it with YUM... any ideas thanks -- Sebastian E. Ovide -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: