Re: How to test a computer's HDMI port on FC33

2020-04-10 Thread J.Witvliet--- via users
Hi, From: "Ed Greshko" mailto:ed.gres...@greshko.com>> Date: Saturday, 11 April 2020 at 06:04:36 To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org" mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Subject: Re: How to test a computer's HDMI port on FC33 On 2020-04-11 11:28, George R Goffe via users wrote: >> what type

Re: How to test a computer's HDMI port on FC33

2020-04-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-04-11 11:28, George R Goffe via users wrote: >> what type of graphics device?   > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT > 550M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > > Is this system a laptop?  Does it have an Fn+KEY which may possibly disable the

Re: How to test a computer's HDMI port on FC33

2020-04-10 Thread George R Goffe via users
Sizpack13/Samuel, Thanks for responding. This journal got jumbled somehow. I'm currently booted from a Live Fedora 31 system. I did this in the hope that the monitor would work. It did NOT. When I first connected this TV (2 years ago?) I did nothing special... it just worked. I have been

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-10 Thread home user
(I've tried 6 times in over a day to reply to my 1:03 PM mountain time yesterday post, but they're not getting through. 7th try, this time using the HYPERKITTY rather than Thunderbird...) > all goes well, after a few hours, I'll update this thread. Basically, the upgrade succeeded.

Re: How to test a computer's HDMI port on FC33

2020-04-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/10/20 4:45 PM, George R Goffe via users wrote: My HDMI to TV (Samsung) stopped working 2 days ago and I'm trying to find out how to test the port. This is a Fedora 33 (Rawhide) (x86_64) system. The cable is good... swapped with a known working cable. Directional 15' Saphire cables...

Re: How to test a computer's HDMI port on FC33

2020-04-10 Thread sixpack13
On 11.04.20 01:45, George R Goffe via users wrote: Hi, My HDMI to TV (Samsung) stopped working 2 days ago and I'm trying to find out how to test the port. This is a Fedora 33 (Rawhide) (x86_64) system. The cable is good... swapped with a known working cable. Directional 15' Saphire cables...

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread sixpack13
On 10.04.20 20:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: ... I raw boot a second disk with vbox. I currently don't know if it's possible to do so with kvm - I should check it ... - It's easy.  Just add the raw device as a hard drive.  You can even setup a qcow2 overlay so any changes get stored separately and

How to test a computer's HDMI port on FC33

2020-04-10 Thread George R Goffe via users
Hi, My HDMI to TV (Samsung) stopped working 2 days ago and I'm trying to find out how to test the port. This is a Fedora 33 (Rawhide) (x86_64) system. The cable is good... swapped with a known working cable. Directional 15' Saphire cables... have arrows and are pointing the right direction

Re: grub-customizer doesn't show entries... how do I remove phantom kernels ?

2020-04-10 Thread linux guy
LOL. Collectively we'll figure it out. :) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/

Re: grub-customizer doesn't show entries... how do I remove phantom kernels ?

2020-04-10 Thread Jerry James
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:00 PM linux guy wrote: > Thank you ! And that fixes another problem I had on another computer ! > > First it was grub, then grub2... now systemd-boot ! I guess that is > progress. That's the hope. :-) I confess that I haven't learned much about systemd-boot yet,

Re: grub-customizer doesn't show entries... how do I remove phantom kernels ?

2020-04-10 Thread linux guy
Thank you ! And that fixes another problem I had on another computer ! First it was grub, then grub2... now systemd-boot ! I guess that is progress. On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 3:57 PM Jerry James wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:14 PM linux guy wrote: > > I have kernel entries in my grub

Re: grub-customizer doesn't show entries... how do I remove phantom kernels ?

2020-04-10 Thread Jerry James
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:14 PM linux guy wrote: > I have kernel entries in my grub menu that don't have corresponding rpms. > Long story, don't ask. > > I want to remove these menu entries. For some reason grub-customizer doesn't > show any kernel menu items. > > How do I manually remove

[389-users] New Instance errors

2020-04-10 Thread Nick Bright
Greetings, I've performed a fresh CentOS 8 installation within VMWare, updated the OS fully, installed 389-ds through yum by: yum module install 389-directory-server:stable/default This installed the server, along with the cockpit module. I then used the cockpit module to create an

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > I still get > > mount: /dev/loop0p1: can't read superblock Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > May be I am doing something wrong. Success by mistake is a classical pattern. :)) We will learn more when success vanishes righteously. > I did not even know that USB sticks had a MBR

Re: Rant: HDMI sound hasn't worked forever ! Huge PITA.

2020-04-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/10/20 1:19 PM, linux guy wrote: But... I'm really losing my patience with the whole HDMI sound bug situation.  It has been a problem since May, 2019 IIRC.  It appears that one aspect gets fixed and that breaks something elsewhere. Can we not just revert the whole code in question to what

kickstart installation - DNF error in POSTIN scriplet of flatpak-selinux

2020-04-10 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
I am doing a Kickstart installation of Fedora Workstation from the Fedora Server NetInstall ISO. Everything is going as expected until I hit the installation of the package: flatpak-selinux. It fails with the error: DNF error in POSTIN scriplet of flatpak-selinux Well I wish Anaconda would let

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-10 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
> Hm. This should yield the same result as -dev test.iso. > I still get > mount: /dev/loop0p1: can't read superblock May be I am doing something wrong. Without your help I think I would have left Fedora since there are no tutorials as to how I can get a Kickstart file on to a disk. You have

Rant: HDMI sound hasn't worked forever ! Huge PITA.

2020-04-10 Thread linux guy
I love Linux/GNU/OS. Fedora rocks. I really appreciate the work the devs and support people do. But... I'm really losing my patience with the whole HDMI sound bug situation. It has been a problem since May, 2019 IIRC. It appears that one aspect gets fixed and that breaks something elsewhere.

grub-customizer doesn't show entries... how do I remove phantom kernels ?

2020-04-10 Thread linux guy
I have kernel entries in my grub menu that don't have corresponding rpms. Long story, don't ask. I want to remove these menu entries. For some reason grub-customizer doesn't show any kernel menu items. How do I manually remove grub kernel menu entries ? # uname -a Linux bigboy

Re: device names

2020-04-10 Thread Jack Craig
thx frank, tom got me pointed in the right direction and your info here is a Big push down that path. thx again, jackc... On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:13 PM Frank Elsner wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:53:11 -0700 Jack Craig wrote: > > hi all, > > > > on F30, i would like to swap enp4s0 to

Re: device names

2020-04-10 Thread Frank Elsner
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:53:11 -0700 Jack Craig wrote: > hi all, > > on F30, i would like to swap enp4s0 to eth0. For this my /etc/default/grub contains GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 ..." Greetings, Frank ___ users mailing list --

Re: device names

2020-04-10 Thread Jack Craig
thanks tom, i knew there was more to it. thx, jackc... On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:03 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:53:11 -0700 > Jack Craig wrote: > > > on F30, i would like to swap enp4s0 to eth0. > > You have to get the system to stop inventing "immutable" names > first,

Re: device names

2020-04-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:53:11 -0700 Jack Craig wrote: > on F30, i would like to swap enp4s0 to eth0. You have to get the system to stop inventing "immutable" names first, which means adding net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 to the kernel boot parameters which means learning how to use grub2-editenv

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/10/20 5:23 AM, sixpack13 wrote: On 10.04.20 13:54, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-04-10 19:52, sixpack13 wrote: On 10.04.20 13:24, Ed Greshko wrote: ... Good to know. Yet, I am happier now that I've switched to qemu/kvm.  :-) I raw boot a second disk with vbox. I currently don't

device names

2020-04-10 Thread Jack Craig
hi all, on F30, i would like to swap enp4s0 to eth0. outside the network ifcfg* files, any other place(file) to update? i scanned /etc/ find no additional references. also any wisdom that sez this idea is folly?? tia, jackc... ___ users mailing

Re: anybody using IceCat ?

2020-04-10 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 12:50 -0500, David wrote: > I looks like it will not allow me to log into Google.I use Google > extensively. > > I think that it forces you ( out of the box ) to watch YouTube videos > on ViewTube. > > CNN was all garbled mess, unusable. > > I assume IceCat is for

anybody using IceCat ?

2020-04-10 Thread David
I installed the new version of IceCat. I know nothing about IceCat, and had only briefly tried it once about 2 years ago in another distro. I looks like it will not allow me to log into Google.I use Google extensively. I think that it forces you ( out of the box ) to watch YouTube videos on

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:46:55 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > I think I'll now give up completely trying to understand > what is going on :-). I lied :-). I tried one more experiment which led to this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822948 When the drive in the USB enclosure

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread sixpack13
On 10.04.20 13:54, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-04-10 19:52, sixpack13 wrote: On 10.04.20 13:24, Ed Greshko wrote: ... Good to know. Yet, I am happier now that I've switched to qemu/kvm.  :-) I raw boot a second disk with vbox. I currently don't know if it's possible to do so with kvm -

Head up: selinux update trouble

2020-04-10 Thread sixpack13
hallo guys and dolls be aware trouble is in the air :-) : it just happens to me during commandline update 1 h ago that I updated to selinux-policy-3.14.5-35.fc32 it's marked as obsolete, but it was still available on the mirrors.

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-04-10 19:52, sixpack13 wrote: > On 10.04.20 13:24, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 19:01 Joachim Backes > > wrote: >> >> >>     Hello Ed, >> >>     thanks for your reply, but i found these URL's too, and it seems that >>     the kernel

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread sixpack13
On 10.04.20 13:24, Ed Greshko wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 19:01 Joachim Backes mailto:joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de>> wrote: Hello Ed, thanks for your reply, but i found these URL's too, and it seems that the kernel 5.6.3 needs to be patched... brr No simple 

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 19:01 Joachim Backes wrote: > > Hello Ed, > > thanks for your reply, but i found these URL's too, and it seems that > the kernel 5.6.3 needs to be patched... brr > > No simple solution? > IMO, 2 simple solutions. Don't run 5.6 kernel until Oracle gets its act

Re: dnf Nothing to do but "Software Updates" GUI showing updates

2020-04-10 Thread David
Does the GUI function update flatpaks ? If so, then that could be it. On a different note, does Fedora or flathub have that new giraffe game that snapcraft has ? And has anyone ever played "Puzzle Moppet." In Fedora.That old game used to be in the Mageia repository.