Re: Re: Display setting problem -

2013-11-25 Thread Richard Sewill
I hesitate trying to answer this question because what I am doing may be wrong. I tried the following on F18. I edited the line, found in file /etc/default/grub, which starts GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 ... rhgb quiet" appending strings so it had GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 ... rhgb quiet" drm_km

Re: Proposal: Fedora should install with IPv6 disabled by default [was: Re: Disabling ipv6]

2013-07-13 Thread Richard Sewill
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 13.07.2013 13:07, schrieb David Beveridge: > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Fernando Lozano > wrote: > >> > >> If people on the users list don't agree with me, there's no point > >> submiting to developers. > >> > > Well I for one

Re: Proposal: Fedora should install with IPv4/6 disabled by default [was: Re: Disabling ipv6]

2013-07-13 Thread Richard Sewill
The question, should IPv6, be disabled by default, is asked of people of the user list. At the moment, I am on the fence. Is there a compromise where, during the Fedora install, when the person is asked for some network information and asked for time zone and root password, can the question be po

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-11 Thread Richard Sewill
I turned on IPv6 in my router. I am still getting 6to4 Tunnel from my ISP. Netflix is currently streaming so my network is not idle. I tried ping and ping6 anyway. This is NOT on an idle network. rsewill@localhost:~ <3:3> $ ping www.google.com PING www.google.com (74.125.227.146) 56(84) bytes

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-10 Thread Richard Sewill
I also would like to try using IPv6 periodically. It's only recently, my local router had a firmware upgrade to support IPv6. The default setting for IPv6 within the router is still "Disabled". When I change this setting to "Auto Detect", the router gets an IPv6 address from the ISP. The router in

Re: F18: ~/.vnc/xstartup example

2013-01-30 Thread Richard Sewill
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:03:49 +0100 > Fernando Gozalo wrote: > > > could someone copy-paste a working ~/.vnc/xstartup so I can have a gnome3 > > session when I access my computer using VNC? > > > > The ~/.vnc/xstartup I used in F17 doesn't wor

Re: telnetd mystery ....

2013-01-29 Thread Richard Sewill
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/30/2013 09:37 AM, jdow wrote: > > > > On 2013/01/29 06:23, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 01/29/2013 10:19 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > First No need to bring up the ss

Re: Booting gets in emergency mode

2013-01-26 Thread Richard Sewill
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > After doing the last F18 updates, I cannot boot my machine. I get in > the emergency mode and the message: > > sulogin: /root: change directory failed: Permission denied. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > -- > I do

Disappearing cursor problem with F18. FYi. (Solved hopefully).

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Sewill
I installed F18. Was previously on F15. Overall, am pleased with F18. Have old hardware, 1G RAM. Was afraid to upgrade, but all is well. I used KDE on F15. Still using KDE on F18. One thing. Similar to F15, my cursor disappeared several hours after I booted up. I added the same fix I used

Re: Illegal question...

2012-08-16 Thread Richard Sewill
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > Donning flame retardant cloak, I have a question for the network > experienced... > > After doing a non-fedora install of a like OS (but more community centric;) > , I find the network stack falls over if a user login on the console logs > out!