Re: FC39 Upgrade failure - Kernel not in grub

2023-11-12 Thread Robin Laing
Okay. My confusion. Still my first time to use it. On 12/11/2023 15.57, Barry wrote: On 12 Nov 2023, at 21:51, Robin Laing wrote: It was my first time on Discord. Its discuss not discord. Barry Okay. My confusion. Still my first time to use it. I thought it was discuss on discord

Re: FC39 Upgrade failure - Kernel not in grub

2023-11-12 Thread Robin Laing
kernel-not-shown-in-grub-list/ <https://www.shisaihua.com/fedora-39-upgraded-and-kernel-not-shown-in-grub-list/> to remove /boot/efi/ folder works. Robin Laing mailto:me...@telusplanet.net>> 于 2023年11月12日周日 16:46写道: On 11/11/2023 22.12, Mike Wright wrote: > On 11

Re: FC39 Upgrade failure - Kernel not in grub

2023-11-12 Thread Robin Laing
On 11/11/2023 22.12, Mike Wright wrote: On 11/11/23 19:48, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I did an upgrade today from from FC37 to FC39 and all went well except that the kernel is NOT in grub. All the apps are now FC39 but no option to boot with the FC39 kernel. I tried to reinstall the kernel

FC39 Upgrade failure - Kernel not in grub

2023-11-11 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I did an upgrade today from from FC37 to FC39 and all went well except that the kernel is NOT in grub. All the apps are now FC39 but no option to boot with the FC39 kernel. I tried to reinstall the kernel to see if it would be picked up by grub that that didn't work either. RPM show

Re: LibreOffice Base?

2022-05-04 Thread Robin Laing
On 2022-05-01 19:31, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I want to create an Access Database on my F35 system so my wife can also use it on her Windows system using Access. So I did a quick bit of googling and found that maybe LibreOffice Base is what I want. So I did: dnf install libreoffice-base whi

Re: LibreOffice Base?

2022-05-04 Thread Robin Laing
On 2022-05-02 09:27, jarmo wrote: Mon, 2 May 2022 09:54:05 -0400 Robert Moskowitz kirjoitti: A long list of all the files and directories in the current directory... Nothing else that I caught. When I type libreoffice in console, libreoffice opens, have you all rights ok. And which libreof

Re: Can new Fedora changes help users ?

2022-05-02 Thread Robin Laing
On 2022-04-27 13:10, Cătălin George Feștilă wrote: I read this article https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/27/fedora_starts_to_simplify_linux/. The question is whether we can still use old laptops. I have an HP 6710b and it works very well at the moment with Fedora 36. In this case, my opinion

Re: Help configuring internal network

2022-03-21 Thread Robin Laing
On 2022-03-20 12:50, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 12:13 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: 'Configuring the DHCP server to work that way', is to set it to deliver a static address. With a dhcp server, the problem is that any change in the network, or the items connecting to it, can cause

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-14 Thread Robin Laing
On 06/07/2021 09:57, Greg Woods wrote: Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer all that much, and every single one of

Re: What is wrong with new kernels 5.12

2021-05-26 Thread Robin Laing
On 26/05/2021 13:12, René Harder Olsen wrote: The new kernel begin with version 5.12.5 and 5.12.6 refuses to continue after login request. Rene Just a comment No video issues here but issues with USB3 external drives taking minutes to mount. 3 different drives. Get error messages with dmesg

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-27 Thread Robin Laing
On 26/08/2020 17:07, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:31:12 -0600 Robin Laing wrote: On 30/03/2020 08:01, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:50:01 +0200 Andras Simon wrote: FWIW I've been using Teams from chrome on Fedora 30 for like two weeks now for classes (

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-26 Thread Robin Laing
On 30/03/2020 08:01, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:50:01 +0200 Andras Simon wrote: FWIW I've been using Teams from chrome on Fedora 30 for like two weeks now for classes (audio, video, chat and screen sharing), and, touch wood, it's been very stable. I can easily believe the web i

Re: Please recommend a super fast video editing software for Fedora 31 Linux

2019-09-21 Thread Robin Laing
On 20/09/2019 01:32, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Good afternoon from Singapore, I am presently using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15.0 on Windows 10 Home Edition to render 4K Ultra HD 3840x2160 videos. My processor is 5th generation Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.3 GHz with 6 cores only. My m

Re: KDE on Fedora 30/31

2019-09-21 Thread Robin Laing
Most machines running F30 with no issues. One machine. 2005 nVidia video card and I have issues with any driver I have tried. Frame buffer errors. With current drivers and current nVidia card, no issues at all. Had major issues with an older AMD video that kept locking up. Not that old of

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-08-03 Thread Robin Laing
On 01/08/2019 01:28, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/31/19 7:44 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Still should be a Fedora package though. There are lots of packages that would be nice to have, but someone has to do the work. ___ So very true. One reason so many

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-08-03 Thread Robin Laing
On 31/07/2019 20:44, Robin Laing wrote: Will try it.  Not sure if I can get it through the work firewall that way but will try. Never knew about the pip2 pip3 though. Tried it and FreeCAD addon manager installed the plugin.  Now to test it. Thank you. Still should be a Fedora package though

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-07-31 Thread Robin Laing
your home folder preventing them from breaking your system-wide python installation. Use pip3 if you want to install them for Python 3 and pip2 for Python 2. Hope this helps On 7/31/19 7:23 AM, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I was trying to install the InventorLoader addon for FreeCAD and it requires th

How to request a new package.

2019-07-30 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I was trying to install the InventorLoader addon for FreeCAD and it requires three python modules to install. xlrd, xlwt and xlutils xlrd and xlwt are available through DNF, xlutils isn't. I saw it mentioned in an old bug report but nothing more. I would like to request that this pac

Re: selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-08 Thread Robin Laing
On 08/07/2019 21:05, Ed Greshko wrote: On 7/9/19 10:00 AM, Robin Laing wrote: Thanks.  In the hours of looking, not once did I see a reference to regex.  Never even thought of that.  Now I have a direction to go. Tim gave such a detailed explanation that I didn't think it was need

Re: selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-08 Thread Robin Laing
On 07/07/2019 02:53, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 00:35 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: I want to modify a policy to allow a more localized directory for creating thumbnails for videos and such. Presently the policy "thumb_exec_t" is set for "thumb_home_t"

Re: selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-08 Thread Robin Laing
On 07/07/2019 07:44, Robert Nichols wrote: On 7/7/19 1:35 AM, Robin Laing wrote: I cannot find out in anything I have searched what the syntax description for the two directories under this policy. /home/[^]+/\.cache/thumbnail(/.*)? /home/[^]+/\.thumbnail(/.*)? So, does the  [^] mean the

selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-06 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I have searched documentation but I cannot find the answer to my question. I want to modify a policy to allow a more localized directory for creating thumbnails for videos and such. Presently the policy "thumb_exec_t" is set for "thumb_home_t" I cannot find out in anything I have sea

Re: comments in pdf

2019-05-28 Thread Robin Laing
On 26/05/2019 09:21, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2019 11:29:52 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: Would you have a suggestion for a software capable of adding comments in a pdf file? okular HTH, :-) Marko I second the vote for okular. I use it. Can add comments, highlight, underli

Re: Scanning problem with HP4620. Robin Laing: Installing scanning driver

2019-03-10 Thread Robin Laing
On 03/03/2019 06:38, Ger van Dijck wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 09:11:46 +0100, Robin Laing wrote: On 02/12/2018 10:34, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 17:12 +0100, Ger van Dijck wrote: Hi all, After an update to Fedora29 I can print but not scan anymore with

Re: OT: F29+ alternatives to evolution for fetching and sending e-mails with multifactor authentication

2019-03-02 Thread Robin Laing
On 22/02/2019 14:58, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Dear friends, Over the past 20 years, I have had e-mail set up in the following way: Use fetchmail and procmail along with filtering to get things into folders, and then use a mailer (sylpheed for the last 15 years along with sylfilter) to read and se

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-02 Thread Robin Laing
On 01/03/2019 18:02, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 07:02 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan writes: The latest drive is a replacement given to me by Seagate; they said that the drive had failed and had to be replaced, which they did, since it was still under warrant

Re: Scanning problem with HP4620.

2019-02-09 Thread Robin Laing
On 02/12/2018 10:34, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 17:12 +0100, Ger van Dijck wrote: Hi all, After an update to Fedora29 I can print but not scan anymore with a HP officejet 4620 in WLAN. When running HP-check I get two messages : cups required incompat : cups may nt be ins

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-02-05 Thread Robin Laing
On 28/01/2019 20:30, Robert Nichols wrote: On 1/28/19 8:03 AM, Ian Malone wrote: I wouldn't recommend just doing /dev/zero if the CIA, or even a moderately funded newspaper might specifically be after your data, I would be interested to know if you can name any data recovery service that has

strange issue with tty

2019-02-05 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I am trying to trace down a strange issue with one of my computers. tty1 will display a strange character "Ĝ" instead of spaces. Clear the screen and the characters fill all the blankspaces. Reboot, the terminal is filled with these characters. Other tty's (ctl+alt+F{x}) on the compu

Re: New f29 install, windows 10 not detected / grub2-editenv nit

2019-01-09 Thread Robin Laing
On 09/01/2019 12:35, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 12:16 PM Hans de Goede > wrote: >> SNIP << We'll see what happens. I've recovered from worse and my son doesn't have any critical data anyway. When I had this problem, I just let my son pick Wi

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-09 Thread Robin Laing
On 08/01/2019 17:52, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 12:10, Alex > wrote: Hi, I need a gateway for our new office. I'd like it to run Fedora. What are my options? I'd like to be able to do the following:   - provide VPN back to th

Re: Optical track ball with wheel

2018-11-15 Thread Robin Laing
On 15/11/2018 20:33, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/16/18 11:24 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: This is michigan non-fault auto insurance item, so I am not paying for it... Oh, OK. I use Kensington Expert Wireless Trackball Mouse (K72359WW) http://tinyurl.com/ycsu6gwv for example. It is big and heavy

Thank you - F27 to F29 upgrade

2018-11-14 Thread Robin Laing
I just wanted to say thank you to the developers of the upgrade. I upgraded two machines to F29 from F27 with only one small issue related to a 32bit library used by Wine. I liked the boot screen showing which packages were being installed and the increasing icon. Robin

Re: Turning off LEDs on MSI GM10 gaming mouse

2018-09-27 Thread Robin Laing
On 20/09/2018 18:57, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/21/18 8:22 AM, George N. White III wrote: Some wireless mice do work with some USB KVM's, so wireless may still be an option. Besides, Kensington makes a wired USB trackball. https://www.kensington.com/us/us/4493/k64325/expert-mouse-wired-trackball

Processes not closing on logout

2018-06-17 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I have a large number of processes that don't close on logout and it creates problems if I want to unmount the partition that is used by that user. Most look related to gnome which I am not running in KDE. I start with sddm as a login manager. I use multiple sessions and if I open a

Re: Help debug a network issue

2018-04-13 Thread Robin Laing
On 26/03/18 11:57, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 26.03.2018 08:40, Robin Laing wrote: sudo modprobe -r r8169 sudo modprobe r1869 So, what is my next step in finding out why this won't restart on suspend? you can place a script for automatically load/unload your network driver. see

Re: Help debug a network issue

2018-04-13 Thread Robin Laing
I have been busy and unable to look at this until today. On 26/03/18 01:05, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/25/2018 07:45 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Network controller is: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c) Module is

Re: Help debug a network issue

2018-03-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 25/03/18 17:34, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/25/2018 02:49 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I am trying to trace down a problem with a laptop that when it goes into suspend for any reason, the network won't come back up.  Only a reboot will enable the wired network. Have you tried unloadin

Re: Help debug a network issue

2018-03-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 25/03/18 17:34, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/25/2018 02:49 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I am trying to trace down a problem with a laptop that when it goes into suspend for any reason, the network won't come back up.  Only a reboot will enable the wired network. Have you tried unloadin

Help debug a network issue

2018-03-25 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I am trying to trace down a problem with a laptop that when it goes into suspend for any reason, the network won't come back up. Only a reboot will enable the wired network. This problem started in February after a kernel update with Fedora 26. Upgraded to Fedora 27 today and the pro

Re: Adding an application to Fedora

2018-03-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 22/03/18 06:37, chicago wrote: Start by writing a bug report and following up at least once a week. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org I have done that.

Re: Adding an application to Fedora

2018-03-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 22/03/18 05:17, Markku Kolkka wrote: Robin Laing kirjoitti 22.3.2018 klo 2.20: Hello, There is some discussion on a different list about adding an application to Fedora.  I looked at the web site https://developer.fedoraproject.org/start.html and is this all that someone starts from

Adding an application to Fedora

2018-03-21 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, There is some discussion on a different list about adding an application to Fedora. I looked at the web site https://developer.fedoraproject.org/start.html and is this all that someone starts from? How about taking over a project that seems abandoned? Thanks in advance. Rob

Re: Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine

2018-02-26 Thread Robin Laing
On 26/02/18 20:07, Fernando Cassia wrote: On 2/27/18, Robin Laing wrote: Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that require it. Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine? I spend quite some time to get Quantum to work close to what

Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine

2018-02-26 Thread Robin Laing
Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that require it. Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine? I spend quite some time to get Quantum to work close to what I and I don't want to lose that. Robin _

Re: End of i686 Support

2017-09-03 Thread Robin Laing
On 03/09/17 09:53, Jeff Backus wrote: Hello Fedora! As you may or may not be aware, there is an active discussion on the development side as to whether or not we continue to support the x86 architecture. There are a lot of exciting things happening within the Fedora community on top of the

Re: f26 KDE Install fail - SSD

2017-07-16 Thread Robin Laing
On 16/07/17 20:44, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/17/17 10:31, Robin Laing wrote: Now the issue is, is the problem the old laptop or the installer not partitioning the drive properly. One other thing. You can boot the Live image and see if "parted" is included and see if you ca

Re: f26 KDE Install fail - SSD

2017-07-16 Thread Robin Laing
On 16/07/17 02:00, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, Trying to help someone install F26 on an older laptop that has just had the HDD replaces with an SSD. The SSD was used for a short time on a different machine. A couple of install attempts with the KDE live stick were a big failure when

f26 KDE Install fail - SSD

2017-07-16 Thread Robin Laing
cylinders? Will test later once we get the drive out of the laptop to see if we can partition and format it. Robin Laing ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: System alive but can't access from the monitor

2017-04-03 Thread Robin Laing
On 03/04/17 13:54, Tim Jackson wrote: To add to this thread, I have the exact same problem using fully-updated (as of today, including libdrm-2.4.76-1) F25, GNOME and X11 session. To be a bit more specific: for me, when the problem occurs (after the screen locks and the monitors power down), I *c

Re: System alive but can't access from the monitor

2017-04-01 Thread Robin Laing
nor 0 On this system lspci shows: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] (rev a1) This problem occurs on both 4.10.5 AN 4.10.6 Paolo On 03/31/2017 04:08 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 30/03/17 01:35, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/30/17 14:24, Paolo Galtieri wrote:

Re: System alive but can't access from the monitor

2017-03-31 Thread Robin Laing
On 30/03/17 01:35, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/30/17 14:24, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks, I have 2 F25 systems that have been updated today. These 2 systems share a monitor. One system is attached via a kvm switch to the monitor, the other system is attached via hdmi. This morning and twice this

Re: avahi mdns configuration question.

2017-01-11 Thread Robin Laing
On 11/01/17 11:54, Rick Stevens wrote: On 01/10/2017 09:58 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to get mdns to work on my local network. I want all the different computers to broadcast or at least allow their mdns host names to be found by the router. As more devices are appearing, I am

avahi mdns configuration question.

2017-01-10 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I am trying to get mdns to work on my local network. I want all the different computers to broadcast or at least allow their mdns host names to be found by the router. As more devices are appearing, I am seeing them in the router list but not any of the Fedora machines. I have sear

Re: Down(up)grading from desktop to server

2016-11-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 21/11/16 23:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/21/2016 09:00 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I have an old desktop that is being re-purposed to a file server. What is the best procedure with F25 coming out. Presently running F23. As a desktop, it was dual purpose but now will be just a file server. Is

Re: grub recovery

2016-11-21 Thread Robin Laing
On 20/11/16 20:19, Tod Merley wrote: The grub command line shell affords you the opportunity to find out what has happened. But you need to take the time to learn how to use it. I think it would be well worth your time for you and for us. Then we know what happened. You are booting to grub.

Down(up)grading from desktop to server

2016-11-21 Thread Robin Laing
I have an old desktop that is being re-purposed to a file server. What is the best procedure with F25 coming out. Presently running F23. sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=25 As a desktop, it was dual purpose but now will be just a file server. Is it better to just remo

Re: encrypted partitions

2016-08-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 20/08/16 05:03, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, On a laptop, I would like to setup 2 encrypted partitions with the same passphrase (this is easy). Now, when I boot the laptop, I would like to have to provide the passphrase only one time. Is it possible? Thank. Look at Pam_mount. I use pam_mo

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-08-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 20/08/16 09:44, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a linksys router model WRT160NL but the range is too short. I experience many situations where the connection is dropped when the distance from the router is more than 25 feet. What is the recommended router when it comes to signal strength? I would

Re: Browser Privacy

2016-08-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 25/08/16 06:41, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 August 2016 at 03:14, Tim wrote: [...] I used to use NoScript up until a couple of years ago when loading pages took extra time *because of* NoScript which is just irritating. So I ditched NoScript (which over the years became *too much*) and switc

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 24/08/16 20:51, William Mattison wrote: (I'm replying to the entire discussion as of Wednesday evening US Mountain time.) I'm now wondering if evercookies can really be fully blocked. I do want to block what I reasonably can. But as was pointed out, a lot of wanted web functionality needs c

Re: Decent picture viewer

2016-08-19 Thread Robin Laing
On 17/08/16 07:53, Tethys wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Andras Simon wrote: In 25+ years of using linux, I haven't seen anything that comes close to xv. Correct answer. I've been using it since the late '80s, and it's still the best option for the vast majority of use cases. For t

Re: Recommended cases and HDDs for home server

2016-08-19 Thread Robin Laing
On 19/08/16 10:41, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I'm looking for any recommendations for both HDDs and cases for a simple home server setup. I have a good working mobo. I have used a few Antec Sonata cases; are there better similar cases to consider? As for HDDs, any recommendations on manuf

Re: F23, Nouveau, and GeForce 750 Ti

2016-08-02 Thread Robin Laing
On 02/08/16 07:06, Justin Moore wrote: Can anyone help me understand whether VDPAU is even supported on my hardware/kernel/driver combination, and if so, what I need to do to get it to work? I don't know about that, but I do know that on F24 the nouveau driver would freeze up solid as a rock on

Re: Drive ordering mechanism /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc

2016-08-02 Thread Robin Laing
On 01/08/16 00:51, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I know that it is possible to refer to drives by various naming conventions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Persistent_block_device_naming but it is annoying that the "SCSI" drive (SATA and USB) order in which their corresponding devic

Re: Date change on reboot

2016-07-31 Thread Robin Laing
On 25/07/16 08:38, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/25/16 22:30, Tim wrote: Tim: I'm sceptical, too (about that belief). I'm inclined to believe that story has been conjured up by someone to explain things, and everyone else has simply gone along with it. Joe Zeff: Be as skeptical as you want, but

Re: Date change on reboot

2016-07-31 Thread Robin Laing
On 31/07/16 19:16, Stephen Davies wrote: Back to square one. I have checked the battery and it seems fine and the hardware clock is correct. More recent reboots suggest that the "extra" log entries are from eight days before the reboot. There is nothing in the logs to suggest that the clock is b

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade. [success]

2016-07-15 Thread Robin Laing
On 13/07/16 18:47, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin I thought I would post my experience. I started with the fear that it was going to create many headaches. I was wrong

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

2016-07-13 Thread Robin Laing
On 13/07/16 20:38, Doug wrote: On 07/13/2016 07:47 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- I did this twice. In both cases I had a dual-boot Windows plus Linux / and /home

dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

2016-07-13 Thread Robin Laing
I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedorap

Re: Strange messages from sudo dnf repoquery --unsatisfied after upgrade from F23 to F24.

2016-07-06 Thread Robin Laing
On 05/07/16 15:31, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I have issued the command specified in the subject as recommended on site https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade to see if there are any old packages that should be removed because they would not be working properly anyway, and received

Re: No video from Gigabyte GT710 graphics card

2016-07-05 Thread Robin Laing
On 05/07/16 15:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 05:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/06/16 05:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 13:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:47:20 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Enable the rpmfusion repo and

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-07-01 Thread Robin Laing
On 01/07/16 05:46, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:40:50 +0200 Matthew Colton wrote: Additionally, using the akmod-nvidia as opposed to relying on rpmfusion to supply kmods will free you from having to wait or worry about rpmfusion repositories keeping in sync with released kernels.

Re: rpmfusion for F24

2016-06-27 Thread Robin Laing
On 27/06/16 17:28, Clifford Snow wrote: I use the non free rpmfusion for Nvidia drivers. (The nouveau doesn't work for my card, no or insufficient thermal controls.) Where is the best place to ask for drivers compiled for the latest kernel, 4.5.7-300? Thanks, Clifford Just installed a new syst

Re: Fedora 24 install fail

2016-06-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 25/06/16 23:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/25/2016 08:58 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Trying to install Fedoar 24 to a new machine. System freezes on the install just after and EDAC sbridge, - couldn't find mci handler. It freezes while booting the installer or during the install? --

Fedora 24 install fail

2016-06-25 Thread Robin Laing
Trying to install Fedoar 24 to a new machine. System freezes on the install just after and EDAC sbridge, - couldn't find mci handler. Used to have an message about KVM before but enabled VT in bios and that disappeared. Tried Fedora 24 live and Fedora 24 KDE live with the same problem. ASUS

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

2016-06-24 Thread Robin Laing
On 20/06/16 08:30, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 00:14 +0930, Tim wrote: Does anyone have any good/bad experience with this graphics chipset: On-motherboard AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series I'm keeping watch on this thread, and have seen the five replies, so far. I can say things for and agains

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

2016-06-24 Thread Robin Laing
On 19/06/16 23:44, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/19/2016 05:12 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Last year I purchased a motherboard with onboard AMD graphics. A real nightmare. Check the AMD site for support for the video card. As it turned out, AMD dropped support for the chipset and their web site states

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

2016-06-24 Thread Robin Laing
On 19/06/16 22:43, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/19/2016 05:12 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I would have to do a reboot to know the onboard video. Use this: lspci | grep VGA Doesn't even need root. HTH, HAND. Doesn't show the onboard video. Tried that before I posted. I only get the Nvid

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

2016-06-19 Thread Robin Laing
On 17/06/16 08:44, Tim wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any good/bad experience with this graphics chipset: On-motherboard AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series I was offered a reasonable price for a system using it, but really don't want to have to deal with something that's going to be pain. Last year I

Re: Par2cmdline with non normal characters.

2016-05-14 Thread Robin Laing
On 14/05/16 21:55, c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 14May2016 18:25, Robin Laing wrote: I am trying to run par2 to repair an archive that has an apostrophe in the name. Not a single quote. This archive was created on Windows. Is there any reason you can't just rename the file by hand, wit

Re: Par2cmdline with non normal characters.

2016-05-14 Thread Robin Laing
On 14/05/16 18:58, Pittigher, Raymond wrote: From: Robin Laing Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 8:25 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Par2cmdline with non normal characters. Hello, I am trying to run par2 to repair an archive that has an

Par2cmdline with non normal characters.

2016-05-14 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I am trying to run par2 to repair an archive that has an apostrophe in the name. Not a single quote. This archive was created on Windows. File name should be Joe’s file.part01.rar If I do ls I get Joe?s file.part01.rar ls -b I get Joe\302\222s\ file.part01.ra

Fedora 23 - Davmail - Thunderbird - localhost blacklisted

2016-03-19 Thread Robin Laing
For years I have been using Davmail on my workstation to get my email into Thunderbird at work from Exchange Server. There is no POP access and never could get any mapi suggestions to work. Upgrading from F20 to F23 via a clean install of F23 and moving my home partition to F23 and I am stuck

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-06 Thread Robin Laing
On 05/02/16 23:30, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 February 2016, g sent: something that amazes me is that with all the add-ons that have been written for cookie handling, none have a feature that ties in to url bar or bookmarks that will disable/enable cookies with out user having to make

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-04 Thread Robin Laing
On 03/02/16 07:33, g wrote: On 02/03/16 04:35, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:13:30PM -0700, Robin Laing wrote: This is a pain. I am frustrated and my productivity has taken a nose dive. I'm curious. Why not use one of the many more sophisticated cookie manager ad

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-04 Thread Robin Laing
On 04/02/16 12:11, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/04/2016 06:50 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 2/4/2016 9:36 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: After (two?) mentions to Google search, I wonder if any you know of any paid web search engines? I don't know about search engines that cost money, but I do know of a fre

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-04 Thread Robin Laing
On 04/02/16 14:01, stan wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:47:00 +1030 Tim wrote: On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:18 -0700, stan wrote: I doubt that you are experiencing traditional cookie tracking. Hmm, I reckon they probably still do that. I'd agree. But my bank, to increase security, tried to use

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-04 Thread Robin Laing
On 04/02/16 09:04, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 February 2016, Tom Rivers sent: I do know of a free one that is privacy oriented and it works really well: https://duckduckgo.com/about I can't say that I find them anywhere near as good as Google. Much as it pains me to say it. I d

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-04 Thread Robin Laing
On 03/02/16 03:35, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:13:30PM -0700, Robin Laing wrote: This is a pain. I am frustrated and my productivity has taken a nose dive. I'm curious. Why not use one of the many more sophisticated cookie manager add-ons? https://addons.mozilla.o

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-02 Thread Robin Laing
On 02/02/16 23:02, Robin Laing wrote: On 02/02/16 21:58, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: Why would they remove it? Was it a big maintenance burden? Seems something reasonable to keep around. There was an issue with poorly written sites opening hundreds of cookie requests. So to fix that problem

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-02 Thread Robin Laing
On 02/02/16 21:58, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: Why would they remove it? Was it a big maintenance burden? Seems something reasonable to keep around. There was an issue with poorly written sites opening hundreds of cookie requests. So to fix that problem they now have two choices. Accept or do

Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-02 Thread Robin Laing
For those that like to control how sites track you, you may want to think again about using Firefox 44. As of now, the cookies settings don't have the option to "Ask Me Every Time" Choice is to accept or deny all cookies from a site. I for one, like to know if I am being asked for cookies or n

kernel source - "make prepare" - error

2016-02-02 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I am trying to compile a module and having a problem. When I run make oldconfig I have no issues but when I try to run "make prepare", I get an error. 4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64]# make oldconfig scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig Kconfig # # configuration written to .config 4.3.4-300.fc23

Re: nvidia-304xx broken with new kernel

2016-01-29 Thread Robin Laing
On 29/01/16 13:50, David A. De Graaf wrote: The latest two kernels and the nvidia-304xx module are incompatible. That is, the nvidia.ko module built by akmod-nvidia-304xx won't load. That means that my three machines with older nvidia video cards (one built into the mobo) are stuck running the ol

Re: Looking for a printer

2015-12-31 Thread Robin Laing
On 31/12/15 12:47, William Henry wrote: I have a HP Laserjet Pro 200 and it meets all your criteria. You will change cartridges less often but they are expensive. William P.S. I had no idea tweakers were that into ink cartridges! Sent from my iPhone On Dec 31, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Thomas Came

Re: installation on a HP250 as UEFI

2015-12-28 Thread Robin Laing
On 2015-12-28 08:14, maderios wrote: I've had that on a work laptop (also an HP). You can try to disable secure boot in the UEFI screen, or you can try and tell the USB stick to treat the laptop like a BIOS machine. The problem is that changing those settings now will break the existing Windows

Re: yum configure to only download one package at a time

2015-12-18 Thread Robin Laing
On 2015-12-18 06:49, Robin Laing wrote: On 2015-12-18 01:34, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:05:21 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade

Re: yum configure to only download one package at a time

2015-12-18 Thread Robin Laing
On 2015-12-18 01:34, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:05:21 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade, yum was downloading five packages at a

Re: yum configure to only download one package at a time

2015-12-17 Thread Robin Laing
On 2015-12-17 17:45, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/17/2015 04:05 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade, yum was downloading five packages at a time. Due to the

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