Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:07 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 03/08/2012 05:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > You are right but changing the desktop environment is what OP seems > to want to do. > No - he wants to change the Display Manager, because he is getting a > blank background and an erro

Re: ...kernel module signing on x86??? Why?

2012-03-10 Thread Joshua C.
2012/3/10 Joel Rees : > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Joshua C. wrote: >> 2012/3/9 Alan Cox : >>> >>> So you can stop a third party tampering with the modules on your system, >>> while keeping the ability to do so yourself. It's all about who owns the >>> keys. If you own the keys it becomes a u

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:14, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The suggestion that the system is missing some "thyme" files is > interesting.  What is "thyme"?  There doesn't seem to be any rpm with > that name; the only rpm containing files of the form '*/thyme*' is > tuxpaint-stamps, which doesn't see

Re: ...kernel module signing on x86??? Why?

2012-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
> I hope the developers reconsider the decision to put extra "locks" > where they are not needed at all. a) module signing is just a feature you can use if you want b) it's not really a lock. It's only a lock if you decide to enforce module signature checking and not add any keys of your own c)

F16: "setterm -blank 0" in rc.local ignored

2012-03-10 Thread Reindl Harald
what is the "new preferred" way to disable blank the screen in F16? until now i had "setterm -blank 0" in "/etc/rc.local" since upgrade to F16 on the test-machine this does no longer help - connect to the vmware-console shows a black screen, you have to click there and press enter and after that C

Re: F16: "setterm -blank 0" in rc.local ignored

2012-03-10 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10-03-12 15:09, Reindl Harald wrote: what is the "new preferred" way to disable blank the screen in F16? until now i had "setterm -blank 0" in "/etc/rc.local" since upgrade to F16 on the test-machine this does no longer help - connect to the vmware-console shows a black screen, you have to cl

Re: F16: "setterm -blank 0" in rc.local ignored

2012-03-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:52:23 +0100 Patrick Lists wrote: > Iirc systemd has a special way to "enable" stuff in rc.local. Use > systemctl to show a list of available services and you can probably find > the one resembling rc.local which you will need to enable. I'm not sure > if rc.local contents

Re: F16: "setterm -blank 0" in rc.local ignored

2012-03-10 Thread Frank Murphy
On 10/03/12 15:08, Tom Horsley wrote: I seem to recall rc.local has now moved to the obviously superior location /etc/rc.d/rc.local (who would ever look for it directly in /etc, that's just crazy :-). It has been deprecated in F16. ala release notes. -- Regards, Frank "Jack of all, fubars" --

Re: F16: "setterm -blank 0" in rc.local ignored

2012-03-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.03.2012 16:08, schrieb Tom Horsley: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:52:23 +0100 > Patrick Lists wrote: > >> Iirc systemd has a special way to "enable" stuff in rc.local. Use >> systemctl to show a list of available services and you can probably find >> the one resembling rc.local which you will

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 01:14 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:07 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > On 03/08/2012 05:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > You are right but changing the desktop environment is what OP seems > > to want to do. > > No - he wants to change the D

Re: F16: "setterm -blank 0" in rc.local ignored

2012-03-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:17:22 +0100 Reindl Harald wrote: > /etc/rc.local was all the years a symlink Yea, but on f16 they don't make the symlink anymore. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Re: F16: "setterm -blank 0" in rc.local ignored

2012-03-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.03.2012 16:49, schrieb Tom Horsley: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:17:22 +0100 > Reindl Harald wrote: > >> /etc/rc.local was all the years a symlink > > Yea, but on f16 they don't make the symlink anymore ah, OK i am usually upgrading systems because it is faster for me as reinstall 20 virtual

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Charles Zeitler wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. It doesn't work. How do I debug this? Any ideas? From the lack of other responses, I

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-03-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:26:45 -0800 ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > Not familiar with fvwm, but I have 4 wm's that I run on a regular > basis, and what I have done is make a little shell script: I modified your script to allow an argument, and to start several more window managers, all available as packa

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-10 Thread stan
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:34:39 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> > >>> I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. > >>> It doesn't work. > > >>> How do I debug th

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-10 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 08/03/12 00:07, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. > It doesn't work. > > The boot menu asks me to install or troubleshoot. > Hitting enter for install results in lots of text > scrolling off the page followed by catatonia. > The first time, th

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, stan wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:34:39 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry > wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >>> I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. >>> It doesn't work.

gtklp for F16?

2012-03-10 Thread Rupert Kolb
Hi, where is gtklp for F16 (64bit)? Or is there an other GUI printing program, which I can use on remote clients (cups is runing there) ? gtklp did exactly what I need. xpp did the job before. And now? Rupert -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-10 Thread stan
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:14:52 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: > > And you might want to be a little more specific about what "doesn't > > work" means. Does the CD not boot?, Does it hang after you start?, > > You mean like this? > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > On Wed,

Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-10 Thread Fedora User
I made the "mistake," last night, of powering off with the sound muted. For reasons that I will NEVER understand PA decides to select the next sound device if the first one is muted. That would be the HDMI output (from the same sound card). The analog output is then not an option under hardware se

Re: Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-10 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 03/10/12 22:24, Fedora User wrote: > since it was first introduced? For years I could harmlessly remove the > damned thing but that is no longer really an option. nope ... its enougt to have ONLY this packages : adrian@t420sev : ~ $ rpm -qa | grep pulse pulseaudio-libs-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64 pul

Re: Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-10 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 15:24 -0500, Fedora User wrote: > I made the "mistake," last night, of powering off with the sound muted. > > For reasons that I will NEVER understand PA decides to select the next > sound device if the first one is muted. That would be the HDMI output > (from the same sound

Re: Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-10 Thread Fedora User
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:20:23 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 03/10/12 22:24, Fedora User wrote: > > since it was first introduced? For years I could harmlessly remove > > the damned thing but that is no longer really an option. > nope ... its enougt to have ONLY this packages : > > adrian@t42

Re: Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-10 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 03/11/12 00:01, Fedora User wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:20:23 +0200 > Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > >> On 03/10/12 22:24, Fedora User wrote: >>> since it was first introduced? For years I could harmlessly remove >>> the damned thing but that is no longer really an option. >> nope ... its enoug

Microphone Int's configuration is lost after a reboot

2012-03-10 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, In the mixer configuration panel, I have set the Mic Int level to the maximum possible. This works fine during the same session, but, when I reboot the laptop, I get the “Mic Int” set to the minimum level. Is this a bug or simply a feature? I am using F16 x64 and XFCE. Thanks in advance

Re: Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-10 Thread Scott Doty
On phone, but tersely: yum install pavucontrol # and try setting pa config with that. If it doesn't work, run alsamixer, hit f6, select the underlying sound card, and make sure the alsa settings are correct. Both of these tools have fixed 99% of my sound problems... -- Sent from my Android p

display

2012-03-10 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, On a fedora 14, I have a Samsung 204B display but I cannot get the 1600x1200 resolution (cart intel 82Q963/Q965) xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 8192 x 8192 VGA1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1600x1200

Re: Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-10 Thread Fedora User
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:36:45 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: > I assume you are frustrated but let me make a suggestion while > admitting I know nothing about PA works in the situation. The fact > that your audio is muted must be recorded somewhere by PA. So it > seems if we knew whore that was a com

Re: Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-10 Thread Fedora User
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:39:19 -0800 Scott Doty wrote: > On phone, but tersely: > > yum install pavucontrol # and try setting pa config with that. > > If it doesn't work, run alsamixer, hit f6, select the underlying > sound card, and make sure the alsa settings are correct. > > Both of these too

flash or firefox?

2012-03-10 Thread Tom Horsley
The weather radar pointed at by the http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ newspaper site stopped fully loading after a flash update a while back. http://content.wdtinc.com/clients/sunsentinel/map.php?MAPID=10995&CLIENTID=20421 never seems to completely draw (and sometimes doesn't even get started). I tho

Re: flash or firefox?

2012-03-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:23:31 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > The weather radar pointed at by the http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ > newspaper site stopped fully loading after a flash update > a while back. I just tried it with firefox 10.0.1 and flash 11.1r102 on Centos 6.2/x86_64 and it loaded fine. --

Re: flash or firefox?

2012-03-10 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 03/10/2012 06:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: The weather radar pointed at by the http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ newspaper site stopped fully loading after a flash update a while back. http://content.wdtinc.com/clients/sunsentinel/map.php?MAPID=10995&CLIENTID=20421 never seems to completely draw (an

Re: openbox not fully logging out

2012-03-10 Thread Joel Rees
Filed a bug on this, redhat bugzilla 80286 On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > I have openbox (from the F16 security live image via live USB install) > on a lenovo s100 and, sometime in the last couple of kernel updates, > it likes to hang up on logging out. > > Switch to a virtu

Re: flash or firefox?

2012-03-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:34:19 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: > I just tried it with firefox 10.0.1 and flash 11.1r102 on Centos 6.2/x86_64 > and it loaded fine. Weird. Not happening for anyone else (but happens to me on at least three different systems :-). I just booted my fedora 17 alpha partition and

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 09:21 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 01:14 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:07 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > On 03/08/2012 05:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > You are right but changing the desktop environment is wh

Re: flash or firefox?

2012-03-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:50:58 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > I guess the first step is to create a brand new user and > try it out as that user. That also worked, so I renamed my .mozilla directory and let it make a new one, and that worked too. I don't know which bit of my old .mozilla directory brok

Re: display

2012-03-10 Thread Patrick Dupre
I can the following: cvt 1600 1200 return # 1600x1200 59.87 Hz (CVT 1.92M3) hsync: 74.54 kHz; pclk: 161.00 MHz Modeline "1600x1200_60.00" 161.00 1600 1712 1880 2160 1200 1203 1207 1245 -hsync +vsync How can I make the mode 1600x1200_60.00 be detected automatically? Hello, On a fedora 1

Battery problems

2012-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Lenovo x120 running FC16. I just noticed friday when I unplugged to go into suspend for the sabbath, that the system was reporting only 1 hour on my battery, and then only 30 min so I plugged back in and suspended without turnning off the powerstrip (so that the battery was on charge). T

Re: Another Pulseaudio Adventure

2012-03-10 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 03/10/2012 05:11 PM, Fedora User wrote: > I have now moved from frustrated to laughing at myself for getting that > pissed off over a piece of software. Only 11 steps left! -- Ian Pilcher

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2012 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Lenovo x120 running FC16. > > I just noticed friday when I unplugged to go into suspend for the sabbath, that the system was reporting only 1 hour on my battery, and then only 30 min so I plugged b

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2012 06:09 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Currently I'm running KDE with the Desktop Environment set to Gnome as follows: /etc/sysconfig/desktop does not exist and the window manager, which is set on the login screen and remembered after setti

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/10/2012 08:41 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2012 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Lenovo x120 running FC16. I just noticed friday when I unplugged to go into suspend for the sabbath, that the system was reporting only 1 hour on my