Re: how to install skype on F20

2014-01-20 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 09:12:40PM +0100, Raf Roger wrote: i followed the tutorial available on http://edmondscommerce.github.io/Fedora/getting-skype-working-on-fedora-20.html to install skype on F20. however, when i launch skype it crashes all the time... I have installed Skype using

Re: f20 - Suspend not working

2014-01-20 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:09:19AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Lenovo x120e. So perhaps I do have a radeon video, how do I check? Typically: lspci | grep VGA Some external sources: «The ThinkPad X120e's Radeon HD 6310 integrated graphics...»

Re: f20 - Suspend not working

2014-01-19 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:58:02PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/18/2014 08:48 PM, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: To suspend try systemctl suspend Is this different than sudo pm-suspend? Certainly so, although it may not cure your problem. Doesn't systemctl have to be run as root

Re: f20 - Suspend not working

2014-01-18 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
To suspend try systemctl suspend Maybe this can help: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/37731/suspend-lenovo-flex/ HTH, Mihai On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 08:02:27PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: f20 x86-64 on my Lenovo with all the problems I had installing x86_64. Well I **think**

Re: Anyone upgraded from F19 to F20 with yum?

2014-01-14 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:41:44PM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: Any gotchas that I should be aware of? Thanks! I was thinking to go with you, but then I decided that the recommended way: sudo fedup --network 20 may be smoother, and so it was. Do you have any reason to use yum instead of

Re: Acroread vs. ctrl/z

2013-12-19 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 03:07:49PM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: When Adobe acroread is run from a terminal, ctrl/z doesn't suspend it. ^Z appears on the terminal, which hangs until acroread terminates itself or ctrl/c is pressed on the terminal. However $ acroread starts acroread in the

Re: OT: C programs and architectures (use on Fedora)

2013-11-02 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 05:55:37PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I have obtained a set of open-source programs from http://petertoft.dk/PhD/Recon2D.tar.gz uncompressed, etc, and it all goes through fine. When I compile, the programs work fine on my old 32-bit machine (results

Re: Printing of colour pages from adobe reader comes out greyscale

2013-09-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:57:21PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Subject says all. Printing the same pages with gimp comes out correctly. Printing is ordinary colour print not photo. Adobe reader: Version 9.5.5 Fedora: Version 19 fully updated as of 25/9-2013 CUPS: 1.6.3-4.fc19.x86_64

Re: Printing of colour pages from adobe reader comes out greyscale

2013-09-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:37:26AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 27/09/13 11:17, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:57:21PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Subject says all. Printing the same pages with gimp comes out correctly. Printing is ordinary colour print not photo

Re: USB memory stick - where?

2013-09-20 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:38:05PM +0200, ppq wrote: Am 20.09.2013 14:35, schrieb Timothy Murphy: If I install a memory stick in a Fedora-19 laptop, is there a simple command that will tell me where it is on the filesystem, eg /dev/sdb1 ? I know I can find this indirectly, but is there eg a

Re: USB memory stick - where?

2013-09-20 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 01:48:18PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:57:39PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:38:05PM +0200, ppq wrote: Am 20.09.2013 14:35, schrieb Timothy Murphy: If I install a memory stick in a Fedora-19 laptop

Re: WHY !!! ?

2013-09-15 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 06:27:08PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.09.2013 18:03, schrieb Jim: On 09/14/2013 08:11 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Do you explicitly unmount your flash drives, before yanking them out. I have to admit that is the one thing I don't do so answering with your

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-28 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:52:02AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:05:27AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: One thing I noticed, 'gdm

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-28 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:23:44AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:21:58AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:52:02AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: $ rpm -e --test gdm error: Failed dependencies: gdm is needed by (installed

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-28 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:29:52PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:23:38PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: The discussion was about the high CPU drain on slow GPUs due to gnome-shell, apparently triggered by gdm. This means that gnome-shell runs, not just

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-28 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:20:39PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: I do not think you are following what I mean. I'll try to illustrate. First some comments on your tests: Tests: 1. reboot normally. Result: gnome-shell is started at the login screen: ps axuww | grep -w

Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
Check also if the MAC and name of the WiFi interface in the user configuration of NetworkManager matches that of the hardware. Mihai -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora

Re: cannot access incoming yahoo from evolution

2013-08-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:20:07AM -0500, g wrote: On 08/27/2013 07:57 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: I've been seeing this problem as well, but intermittently. After a failure and after a few retries, I get my mail again. Haven't been able to detect circumstances where it fails reliably.

Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 02:34:29PM +0100, John Horne wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 15:03 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: Check also if the MAC and name of the WiFi interface in the user configuration of NetworkManager matches that of the hardware. NetworkManager is not being used

Re: cannot access incoming yahoo from evolution

2013-08-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:04:12AM -0500, g wrote: On 08/27/2013 08:32 AM, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:20:07AM -0500, g wrote: On 08/27/2013 07:57 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: I've been seeing this problem as well, but intermittently. After a failure

Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:57:04PM +0100, John Horne wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 11:18 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Mihai T. Lazarescu mtl...@gmail.com wrote: Check also if the MAC and name of the WiFi interface in the user

Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 06:11:35PM +0100, John Horne wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 18:16 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:57:04PM +0100, John Horne wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 11:18 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Mihai T

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a system w/out accelerated graphics, your CPU will still be eaten by gnome-shell even if you

Re: Can't read DVD

2013-08-25 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 07:06:04AM +0200, Martin S wrote: On Saturday, August 24, 2013 03:17:10 PM Doug wrote: I'm sure you are aware that there are some things that run in Wiondows that cant be run in Linux. This seems to be an example. That's why most of us who use Linux *most* of the

Re: Read Only file system

2013-08-23 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:23:30PM -0400, Jim wrote: Fedora 18 / kde My Flash Drive has somehow been change to Read Only and I cannot delete files from it. The drive is at /run/media/mickey/0A73-237A and the owner is user mickey:mickey in /mickey/0A73-237A the files on this drive are

Re: F19 Kernels 3.10.5, 6, 7 won't boot

2013-08-22 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:34:59AM -0400, Robert McBroom wrote: Updated to Fedora 19 but none of the kernels will boot. The process begins and something about an error with connecting to DBUS flashes on the screen then the cycle starts over. I can still run with kernel-3.10.4-100.fc18.x86_64

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-20 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:56:56PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 20.08.2013, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I add to the mix my test results for F19 with kernel 3.10.7 on an ASUS UX31E with its factory 256GB SSD-only mass storage. CFQ scheduler run1

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-20 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:02:42PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 20.08.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: Then, open another one and run fsync-tester. The numbers that count to compare different elevators on your system is the output fsync-tester generates while your machine is generating the

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-20 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:32:22PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 20.08.2013, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: Here are the program numbers while running the script: CFQ: [] Seems that cfq performs better on your machine, under this workload. Apparently so. But I can't explain

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-20 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:36:24PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 20.08.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: [] And the kernel is vanilla from kernel.org: [htd@kiera ~]$ uname -a Linux kiera.fritha.org 3.10.8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 20 19:53:31 CEST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux F19 is

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-19 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 06:30:06PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: Don't forget to switch to the deadline elevator, it works a lot better than cfq in combination with non-rotational drives. It appears that CFQ can sense and adapt to SSD and has little if any loss to other I/O schedulers:

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-19 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 09:24:14PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 19.08.2013, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: It appears that CFQ can sense and adapt to SSD and has little if any loss to other I/O schedulers: http://www.velobit.com/storage-performance-blog/bid/126135/Effects-Of-Linux-IO

Re: f19 scientific and boolean calculator

2013-08-18 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 09:44:35PM +, Andre Robatino wrote: Les Howell hlhowell at pacbell.net writes: Does anyone know what happened to the calculator? I upgraded to F19 and now the calculator shows up like a 2.00 simple calculator. I need the boolean and scientific functions.

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-18 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:57:09PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I plan to swap the HD on my laptop with an SSD of same size. Will it work OK if I dd the HD to an external HD, swap the HD with the SSD and dd the contents back to the SSD? I believe I can use knoppix to the process. You can dd