Re: How to install the LibreOffice beta 3 rpm package

2010-11-28 Thread Hiisi
la, 2010-11-27 kello 10:47 -0700, Kevin Fenzi kirjoitti: On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:46:25 +0100 suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: su -c 'yum install *.rpm' maybe this should be, su -c 'yum localinstall

Re: screen lock

2010-11-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:58:58 +, Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, sguazt wrote: Thank, you are right. I need to laod gnome-screensaver. It is not a service. So, when/where should I start it ? The system-Preferences-startup applications menu. There are two

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2010-11-28 Thread Globe Trotter
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Re: Orinoco WiFi card

2010-11-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
Vaclav Mocek wrote: I forgot to mention, I have Edimax EW-7711UTn USB adapter (Amazon UK) and it works quite reliably with F14 and rpmfusion RaLink drivers. Thanks. I'll note that. I'm actually using ndiswrapper now with a Vivanco USB WLAN dongle (ID 0457:0163 Silicon Integrated Systems),

Re: Wireless

2010-11-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
Antonio Olivares wrote: This appears in Red Hat Linux bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627649 Anyone else seeing this? Also how can I move to use simple old network if this bug is not squashed by Fedora developers? I read of your saga, which seems rather familiar,

Re: Streaming audio out to an internet destination

2010-11-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, November 27, 2010 10:49:13 pm JD wrote: I use skype quiet a bit. What I was interested in doing is this: While talking to someone on skype, I would like to be able to stream an audio track to the same destination that I am speaking with via skype. Set up things to use JACK; you

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-28 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 20:52 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: I think the primary reason Windows users stay with Windows, even though they constantly complain about its shortcomings, is it's familiar, and they dread learning something different. Not to mention lock-in. You have this data that's

Re: How to install the LibreOffice beta 3 rpm package

2010-11-28 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hiisi wrote: It seems to me that yum apriori tries to localinstall from current directory and if (it fails) then { install from repos } Am I correct here? No quite. The code from yum-3.2.28 looks like this: for arg in userlist: if (arg.endswith('.rpm') and

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On 11/17/2010 08:33 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Now I can select enhanced effects for video, and they work fine (for values of fine considering I wanted to see if they work, not that I want them on). However, the display is still dog slow, glxgears runs at 60fps,

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:48:34 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: The 2nd part HAS improved, at least in the case of my Radeon hardware It is hit or miss. I think for my radeon cards, every one of them got worse (in unique and different ways :-) in fedora 13. One of them may simply have stayed just as

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:04:09 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: got worse ... in fedora 13 Wups. That should say fedora 14. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

RE: Make a Linux box look/ act like a USB mass storage device ? (VxWorks)

2010-11-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 09:23 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: So... how do I mount a dosfs volume ? I don't see dosfs as a -t parameter in the mount command. Dosfstools doesn't have a man page. I'm guessing it's a DOS filesystem, so just try -t msdos or -t vfat. poc -- users mailing list

RE: Make a Linux box look/ act like a USB mass storage device ? (VxWorks)

2010-11-28 Thread Linuxguy123
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 12:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 09:23 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: So... how do I mount a dosfs volume ? I don't see dosfs as a -t parameter in the mount command. Dosfstools doesn't have a man page. I'm guessing it's a DOS filesystem, so

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:48:34 -0500, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: It absolutely is, possibly I should have mentioned that. But it is not intuitive that accelerated video drivers would map to lower frame rates and less smooth screen updates. If the old drivers could use

Wireless System Connection - How?

2010-11-28 Thread agraham
Hi I want my laptop to connect to my Wifi as a System Connection by default (assuming now wired LAN is plugged in). I'm using KDE (F14), in Edit Network Connections - KDE Control Module there are two options: 1. Connect Automatically 2. System Connection The second option is always greyed

Re: Orinoco WiFi card

2010-11-28 Thread Vaclav Mocek
On 11/28/2010 01:25 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Thanks. I'll note that. I'm actually using ndiswrapper now with a Vivanco USB WLAN dongle (ID 0457:0163 Silicon Integrated Systems), which seems to be working well under Fedora-14 and Windows XP. But I would prefer not to use ndiswrapper if

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-28 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/28/2010 07:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:48:34 -0500, Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com wrote: It absolutely is, possibly I should have mentioned that. But it is not intuitive that accelerated video drivers would map to lower frame rates and less smooth screen

Embedded Lua scripts in RPM

2010-11-28 Thread Vaclav Mocek
Hi all, I try to familiarise with [new] RPM features (4.8+). One feature is the embedded Lua interpreter (http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/RpmLua), however, I am struggling to find real [more advanced] examples, how it is being used in SPECs. Please, can anybody give me some links? Cheers,

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-28 Thread Hiisi
ma, 2010-11-29 kello 01:13 +1030, Tim kirjoitti: On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 20:52 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: I think the primary reason Windows users stay with Windows, even though they constantly complain about its shortcomings, is it's familiar, and they dread learning something different.

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-28 Thread Hiisi
su, 2010-11-28 kello 20:06 +, Terry Barnaby kirjoitti: This is not so important as running 3D apps though. Blender will not run on either of these systems (huge delays when posting menus etc). Mind you on Intel I945 hardware blender just causes the X-Server to lock-up hard, so its not

F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Dick St. Peters
I need to run X with the fvwm window manager, but the F14 X server doesn't play nice with fvwm - or with twm. When fvwm or twm calls XCreateFontSet(), the X server dies with a SIGSEGV. To get around this, I have copied the F13 /usr/bin/Xorg server binary and /usr/lib/xorg/modules directory

Re: F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:33:54 -0500 Dick St. Peters wrote: I need to run X with the fvwm window manager, but the F14 X server doesn't play nice with fvwm I use fvwm all the time, I've never had the X server die on me. Maybe you have something in your .fvwmrc file that refers to some specific

Re: F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Dick St. Peters
Tom Horsley writes: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:33:54 -0500 Dick St. Peters wrote: I need to run X with the fvwm window manager, but the F14 X server doesn't play nice with fvwm I use fvwm all the time, I've never had the X server die on me. Maybe you have something in your .fvwmrc file

Re: F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:33:35 -0500 Dick St. Peters wrote: Let's be precise: you are using the F14-distributed fvwm with the F14-distributed /usr/bin/Xorg server, and it's working? In other words: $ rpm -qa | egrep 'fvwm|xorg-x11-server-Xorg' fvwm-2.5.30-2.fc14.i686

Re: F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Dick St. Peters
Tom Horsley writes: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:33:35 -0500 Dick St. Peters wrote: Let's be precise: you are using the F14-distributed fvwm with the F14-distributed /usr/bin/Xorg server, and it's working? In other words: $ rpm -qa | egrep 'fvwm|xorg-x11-server-Xorg'

Re: screen lock

2010-11-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/28/2010 03:54 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: There are two screen savers one uses the screensaver checkbox, the other the xscreensaver-autostart checkbox. I am not sure what the difference is between the two, or which is more likely to be installed by default. Only gnome-screensaver is

Re: screen lock

2010-11-28 Thread JD
On 11/28/2010 06:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/28/2010 03:54 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: There are two screen savers one uses the screensaver checkbox, the other the xscreensaver-autostart checkbox. I am not sure what the difference is between the two, or which is more likely to be installed by

Re: Wireless System Connection - How?

2010-11-28 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Albert, On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:34 PM, agraham agra...@g-b.net wrote: I would assume that if I login as root and setup this as a system connection it should create the neccessary ifcfg-wlan0 file with boot=Yes. Any suggestions or pointers to docs? That shouldn't be necessary. If there