Fedora Weekly News #138

2008-08-11 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 138 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 138 for the week ending August 11, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue138 Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues, events

Re: [Echo] Preferences-system-users draft

2008-08-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: New draft for this iconset based on Ambassadors icons from Fedora Project Wiki. Feedback welcome. I feel the image is a bit unbalanced, the bodies are too high and too thin, making them look more like bowling pins than stylized humans, so I would make the bodies

Re: [Echo] Preferences-system-users draft

2008-08-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
Nicu Buculei wrote: Attached is a quick modification of your SVG. Ops! One of the faces had the wrong color, corrected. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library:

Re: Small Suggestion Please

2008-08-11 Thread Milijana
I would go for mountains! :) Bye, Mili 2008/8/11 Vara Prasad Pepakayala [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi friends, I have few pictures of a beautiful Valley. I am a bit confused in deciding where to post them on this page[1]. In the Flora section or in the mountains section. Please confirm me whic

R: Re: [Linux Day Italy] Fedora Distribution Kit

2008-08-11 Thread Samuele Storari
As I said before, I'll do all the materials we need, if someone want to help...? Ciao Samuele - Messaggio originale - Da: Clint Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED], For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Small Suggestion Please

2008-08-11 Thread Vara Prasad Pepakayala
Thank you Very much friends.Updated the pictures in the Mountains section[1]. [1]-https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras#Mountains -Dreko On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Milijana wrote: I would go for mountains! :) Yes, mountains

RE: Small Suggestion Please

2008-08-11 Thread Khairul Anwar
I want oceans/seaside :DDate: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:25:36 +0530From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Small Suggestion PleaseThank you Very much friends.Updated the pictures in the Mountains section[1].[1]-https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras#Mountains -DrekoOn Mon,

Re: Small Suggestion Please

2008-08-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
Khairul Anwar wrote: I want oceans/seaside :D Next time when I will go to the sea side I promise I would take some wallpaper worthy photos, to bad that I do not have any such trip in the foreseeable future :p -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora

[PATCH] make authtype a config option

2008-08-11 Thread Dennis Gilmore
the attached patch adds a config option that can be in a config file or on the command line forcing the use of one authentication type. it is useful if a hub supports more than one authentication type. or using different hubs that support different authentications methods. Ive tested with

[Issue 79878] OO.o can not select modern font faces conveniently

2008-08-11 Thread dtardon
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79878 User dtardon changed the following: What|Old value |New value

[Bug 458592] Different render in the original and 1.0.4 version

2008-08-11 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458592 --- Comment #5 from Sylvain Beucler [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-08-11 13:45:50 EDT --- Created an attachment (id=313987) --

[Bug 458592] Different render in the original and 1.0.4 version

2008-08-11 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458592 --- Comment #4 from Sylvain Beucler [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-08-11 13:45:06 EDT --- Are two results generated on same

rpms/pango/devel .cvsignore, 1.76, 1.77 pango.spec, 1.140, 1.141 sources, 1.76, 1.77

2008-08-11 Thread Matthias Clasen
Author: mclasen Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/pango/devel In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv22384 Modified Files: .cvsignore pango.spec sources Log Message: 1.21.4 Index: .cvsignore === RCS file:

rpms/pango/devel pango-1.21.4-lib64.patch, NONE, 1.1 pango.spec, 1.141, 1.142

2008-08-11 Thread Matthias Clasen
Author: mclasen Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/pango/devel In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv2512 Modified Files: pango.spec Added Files: pango-1.21.4-lib64.patch Log Message: fix patch pango-1.21.4-lib64.patch: --- NEW FILE pango-1.21.4-lib64.patch --- diff

Re: STIX license issues?

2008-08-11 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Vasile Gaburici wrote: Thanks for the info. BTW, does anyone know how to contact the STIX fokes? The feedback form on their site sends a bouncing email. They miss some Romanian characters from the text part of the font. Granted, I could edit the font after the release, but giving them feedback

Best way to add a line to a config file from another package?

2008-08-11 Thread Vasile Gaburici
I need to add line to /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps to get some extra functionality enabled for lcdf-typetools, namely Type 42 support. The config.ps file is properly marked as a config file in texlive-texmf-dvips. Is there some infrastructure that's normally used to hack config files or

bugzilla down?

2008-08-11 Thread Chuck Anderson
I'm getting 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable from bugzilla.redhat.com. ___ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list

Re: RFC: script to run sqlalchemy migrations on the db

2008-08-11 Thread Mike McGrath
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: 2008/8/9 Toshio Kuratomi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FAS started using the python-migrate package to update its db. This is a good thing for third-parties that want to install their own FAS server as it lets us ship the database changes in a way that is

Re: RFC: script to run sqlalchemy migrations on the db

2008-08-11 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Mike McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: 2008/8/9 Toshio Kuratomi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FAS started using the python-migrate package to update its db. This is a good thing for third-parties that want to install their own

Re: bugzilla down?

2008-08-11 Thread Ian Weller
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:30:12AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: I'm getting 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable from bugzilla.redhat.com. I've seen these happening periodically (downtimes of about 2 minutes each) since the Bugzilla was upgraded last week. -- Ian Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bugzilla down?

2008-08-11 Thread Mike McGrath
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:30:12AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: I'm getting 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable from bugzilla.redhat.com. I've seen these happening periodically (downtimes of about 2 minutes each) since the Bugzilla was upgraded last

Re: RFC: script to run sqlalchemy migrations on the db

2008-08-11 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: app2 $ migrate-runner -h db2 -d fas2 /usr/share/fas/database This script must create a temporary db user, fas2temp on db2. That user will have permission to modify anything in the fas2 database. If you stop this script in the middle of running you will want to remove the

Re: *.fedoraproject.org

2008-08-11 Thread Till Maas
On Mon August 11 2008, Mike McGrath wrote: We now have a *.fedoraproject.org wildcard cert. This will make creating Yippie, this is superp. I've never worked with a wildcard cert before and right now plain old fedoraproject.org doesn't work. This makes sense but I'm wondering if anyone

DNS serial number

2008-08-11 Thread Mike McGrath
Should the first serial number for a day be 00 or 01? EX: 2008081001 or 2008081000 -Mike ___ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list

Re: DNS serial number

2008-08-11 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:54 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: Should the first serial number for a day be 00 or 01? EX: 2008081001 or 2008081000 01 imo -sv ___ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com

Re: DNS serial number

2008-08-11 Thread Roland McGrath
Uh, who cares? It should be at least one less than the number for the second zone update of the day. ;-) The elisp mode I use for zone files does 0. When in doubt, start a 0/1-origin flame war just for the hell of it. ___ Fedora-infrastructure-list

Re: DNS serial number

2008-08-11 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Mike McGrath wrote: Should the first serial number for a day be 00 or 01? EX: 2008081001 or 2008081000 Common practice is 01, along with (usually) appending your (account) name to the '; serial (mmcgrath)' in case you want other people with the same amount of control over the zone to be

Re: DNS serial number

2008-08-11 Thread Gianluca Varisco
Mike McGrath wrote: Should the first serial number for a day be 00 or 01? EX: 2008081001 or 2008081000 -Mike I always use 01 as first serial number for a day ;-) Cheers, -- Gianluca Varisco, RHCE Intern - Web Engineering, Red Hat Italia Tel.: +39 02 5681 4487 Fax : +39 02 669

Re: DNS serial number

2008-08-11 Thread Ryan Ordway
On Aug 11, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Gianluca Varisco wrote: Mike McGrath wrote: Should the first serial number for a day be 00 or 01? EX: 2008081001 or 2008081000 -Mike I always use 01 as first serial number for a day ;-) 01 FTW! -- Ryan Ordway E-mail: [EMAIL

Lawmaker Wants Schools To Phase Out Fluff

2008-08-11 Thread Chrzan Kiepert
Hej, ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list

Re: Intel 965GM chipset with compiz

2008-08-11 Thread Craig Preston
I am using F9 with the intel chipset. With desktop effects turned on, the cube and wobble windows and all that stuff works fine. Video and multimedia all seemed to be fine as well, but scrolling in Firefox was terrible. Turn it off and scrolling is back to normal. I have left it off for the time

Re: Intel 965GM chipset with compiz

2008-08-11 Thread Asgeir Frimannsson
On Monday 11 August 2008 16:35:48 Craig Preston wrote: I am using F9 with the intel chipset. With desktop effects turned on, the cube and wobble windows and all that stuff works fine. Video and multimedia all seemed to be fine as well, but scrolling in Firefox was terrible. Turn it off and

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Bjørn Ivar Johnsen
2008/8/11 Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 23:38 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: How do I disable that X11?? I dont even know what that is?? X11 is the basic graphical interface subsystem, on top of which run the full eye-candy environments like KDE or Gnome.

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 00:39 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Russell, I've got a K9A Platinum. I've had sound working from day one, with a better set of drivers and a better mixer. The difference is that I went to http://www.4front-tech.com/download.cgi And downloaded the

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (and an apology)

2008-08-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 12:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: Having source available is not enough for Software to be Free. It might come as a surprise to some, but it's not even enough for it to be Open Source. Perhaps you don't even realize that the word 'free'

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:38 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 14:35 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: May be time to change my choice of OS, or just to keep using it and start bitching, because that seems to be what you

Re: Kde on F9 -died

2008-08-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 August 2008 22:53, Bob Hartung wrote: Hi all - having trouble with KDE on F9. While adjusting the background the desktop disappeared. I am left with a black screen and a white cursor arrow - no desktop. Tried ./kde/share/config/plasma* but this did not reset things. I do

Re: Kde on F9 -died - Restore solved

2008-08-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 August 2008 23:42, Bob Hartung wrote: Am I correct that if the .kde directory does not exist in /home/whatever-user that kde will start up in a default configuration? Yes, that is correct. Anne -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

spawnve on Linux

2008-08-11 Thread Calin Iaru
I cannot find the documentation for spawnve and I need a function that creates a process and returns. execve is not suitable because it will execute that process in place. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Bjørn Ivar Johnsen
Vennlig hilsen Bjørn Ivar Johnsen Den 11. aug.. 2008 kl. 03.12 skrev Björn Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] e: Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: Den 10. aug.. 2008 kl. 22.00 skrev Mike Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try going with the VESA driver initially. Just edit the xorg.conf. How, exactly, do I edit

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-11 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 17:45 -0700, Paul Newell wrote: right now I am burning 6 CD boot media to see if the CD is at least understood for booting. You only need to burn the first disc to test that. It's the one that you boot up. The rest aren't booted. The smallest ISO to test whether your

Re: Intel 965GM chipset with compiz

2008-08-11 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:42 +1000, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote: Turning off smooth scrolling in Firefox might help (about:config and search for smooth), but then again, you won't get 'smooth scrolling' :) I've never seen the point of that, what you get is slow/sticky page crawling, like someone's

configuration for gdmgreeter

2008-08-11 Thread michael
I've tried and tried but failed and failed to determine where the setting is for the delay post wrong user/pass at the gdmgreeter screen. It current seems about 90 secs which is a bit too long (I'd be more than happy to have a longer delay between attempts on ext ssh connections but not when

Re: spawnve on Linux

2008-08-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Calin Iaru writes: I cannot find the documentation for spawnve and I need a function that creates a process and returns. execve is not suitable because it will execute that process in place. This is done by fork(), followed by exec(). man fork. pgpMWXUgAdwfS.pgp Description: PGP

CUPS

2008-08-11 Thread seeism
Hi, I installed cups in my fedora 8 system.I wanted to check the mime.convs and mime.types file in the /etc/cups folder but it is not installed in that path. Why so Seeism -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CUPS-tp18922498p18922498.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing

Re: time/ntp[d]

2008-08-11 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 11:15 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: michael wrote, On 08/07/2008 10:47 AM: On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:40 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: michael wrote, On 08/06/2008 11:42 AM: On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 09:20 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: michael wrote, On 08/06/2008 03:56 AM:

Re: spawnve on Linux

2008-08-11 Thread Calin Iaru
I used posix_spawn. The api accomplishes what I need. - Original Message From: Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 1:02:58 PM Subject: Re: spawnve on Linux Calin Iaru writes: I cannot find the documentation

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:26 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: Vennlig hilsen Bjørn Ivar Johnsen Den 11. aug.. 2008 kl. 03.12 skrev Björn Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] e: Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: Den 10. aug.. 2008 kl. 22.00 skrev Mike Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try going with the VESA

Fedora 9, WarCraft3 troubles

2008-08-11 Thread Makurin Roman
Hi All! My configuration: System: Fedora 9 i386 with all latest updates. Graphics Card: ATI Radeon X700Pro (RV410) Im using opensource radeon driver and there is no problem with native opengl games, eg Quake3. Also I didn`t have any problem with Warcraft in wine on symilar system(grappbics cards

Re: F9, F8 periodicially hanging upon user login, dbus zombie process, etc.

2008-08-11 Thread Cameron Mura
Hi all, Still haven't been able to solve the F9 locking problem (email below), part of the delay being that I don't know what exactly triggers it (so can't easily test it, and have to wait some time (~ 1 day) before it falls into this lock-able state...). But, in case it's of any help to

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 08:43 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: It is almost confusing with all the different distributions there is of Linux, but I think that if you are happy with one, there is no reason to change to another. BUT, I must admit that I think Fedora looks better in a way, so I

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: The full path to the file is /etc/xorg.conf. Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:26 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: You see I finally got those yum update and the nvidia driver installation to work, (I think, Surely after I wrote the command yum update, after giving the new repo adress for nvidia, it started downloading, at an incredible

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (and an apology)

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:31 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Linus Torvalds advocates developers being able to choose their own licensing. etc. etc. etc. Please don't wake the demon. This thread died a natural death over a week ago, to universal relief. poc -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:29 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: 2008/8/10 Fennix [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that Ken Murray has the right idea. My experience with the installation of F9 is the same. When I do the media check it reports a good

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:47:13 -0700 Dan Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any advice in how to do this up properly? chainloader is what I use. I've got a partition with nothing but grub on it (used to be a /boot partition for an old fedora, and I kept it

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/8/10 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 454127 And it was closer to a month ago than two months. My bad. Still a long time though. What the specfile does goes against existing guidance. If you want static libs then the package should provide a -static subpackage. For example look at

F9 joining a windows domain

2008-08-11 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi. I' trying to join my Fedora box to the corporate Windows domain. I tried Domain Membership from Samba Documentation, but it's doesn't seems what I want. I want my machine simply as a client, mimicking a XP machine (something like this.) I changed the lines in my /etc/samba/smb.conf: *

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Björn Persson
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: The full path to the file is /etc/xorg.conf. Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It was until recently. In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: CUPS

2008-08-11 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
seeism wrote: Hi, I installed cups in my fedora 8 system.I wanted to check the mime.convs and mime.types file in the /etc/cups folder but it is not installed in that path. Why so Seeism I'm not sure why you don't have them. They exist on my F8 server, and rpm -qf says they are both part

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:27 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS with current installed driver : 175.19 And about the graphical mode and level 3 or 5.. I really do not know what that is or how to do it. I am as new to Linux as they come!!:( Could it have something to

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Mike Chambers
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: The full path to the file is /etc/xorg.conf. Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It was until recently. In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf.

Re: F9 joining a windows domain

2008-08-11 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:10 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi. I' trying to join my Fedora box to the corporate Windows domain. I tried Domain Membership from Samba Documentation, but it's doesn't seems what I want. I want my machine simply as a client, mimicking a XP machine (something

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:44 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: The only thing is that I do not know how to work this# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm;... where do i enter this text? Hope you bear with me, I have

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:52 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: I just realized that I have to download a driver to nvidia card specially for Linux!!! Just FYI, that sort of thing *may* or may not be necessary. Fedora already comes with a driver

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: Could anyone please tell me exactly how I am supposed to install Fedira, and if I have to write something, please tell me exactly how I should proceed with that too, as I am suspecting im nit doing this right?! When you boot

Re: Broken F8 driver for e-Sata chip

2008-08-11 Thread Dean S. Messing
Alan Cox wrote: Can someone (Alan?) give me some help on this. What is the current status of this driver? Tejun Heo got the driver working sort of based on the minimal data sheet available. Initio promised info but then went silent whenever asked but recently threw an updated driver over the

Fedora 8 and VMware Server

2008-08-11 Thread Gene Poole
I'm attempting to install the latest vmware server onto my running Fedora 8 server (AMD x2 5600+ 4-GB RAM) and I continue to run into issues when it attempts to create a kernel module. Has anyone run into this issue? And how did you solve it? TIA, Gene Poole-- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:37 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: Could anyone please tell me exactly how I am supposed to install Fedira, and if I have to write something, please tell me exactly how I should proceed with that too, as I

new kernels coming, but livna buildsys is down, thus no new kmods in time

2008-08-11 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Just fyi, new kernels will afaics hit the Fedora 8 and 9 repos over the next few hours. But Livna has a buildsys outage and won't be able to builds new kmods for them in time. Sorry for the trouble. We'll build them asap; consider to wait with updating to the new kernels (they are afaics

Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-11 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:10 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb. Some days I find myself switching between the two quite often. I can also go weeks with no need of Windows. I am not sure if what I propose is possible, but

Re: Fedora 8 and VMware Server

2008-08-11 Thread Mike Fleetwood
2008/8/11 Gene Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm attempting to install the latest vmware server onto my running Fedora 8 server (AMD x2 5600+ 4-GB RAM) and I continue to run into issues when it attempts to create a kernel module. Has anyone run into this issue? And how did you solve it? TIA,

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:36:43 -0700 Daniel B. Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot figure out why I cannot get the chain-loaders to work for w2kPro and XP, but it works for Vista now (go figure!). It is entirely possible that XP and W2K will only boot if they believe they live on the

Re: Fedora 8 and VMware Server

2008-08-11 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Mike Fleetwood wrote: 2008/8/11 Gene Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm attempting to install the latest vmware server onto my running Fedora 8 server (AMD x2 5600+ 4-GB RAM) and I continue to run into issues when it attempts to create a kernel module. Has anyone run into this issue? And how did

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: The full path to the file is /etc/xorg.conf. Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It was until recently. In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf.

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:06 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:44 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: The only thing is that I do not know how to work this# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm;... where

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:36:43 -0700 Daniel B. Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot figure out why I cannot get the chain-loaders to work for w2kPro and XP, but it works for Vista now (go figure!). It is entirely possible that XP and W2K will only boot if they believe

F9 and nVidia Quadro NVS 140 M

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Is anyone running this combination with either the nv driver or the binary nvidia driver? Are there any issues--in particular with suspend or hibernate and resume? I have a ThinkPad T61 with this card. I'd like to know before I upgrade that I will still be able to suspend/resume. Thanks. --

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:57 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: If you're dual-booting, with Windows installed, just boot into windows and see what it's set to. Use those figures. The refresh rate can also depend on the modeline. This is deep magic. Just copying stuff from the Windows setup is not

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:14 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:37 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: Could anyone please tell me exactly how I am supposed to install Fedira, and if I have to write something,

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:32 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:52 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: I just realized that I have to download a driver to nvidia card specially for Linux!!! Just FYI, that sort of thing *may* or

Sony videocam w/ USB

2008-08-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
I have a video camera, TRV-260, which works nicely and has the Sony IR low light capability. It also has USB rather than Firewire for connectivity. Any thoughts on getting data out of this without huge loss of picture quality? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:51 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:14 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:37 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: Could anyone please tell me exactly how I am

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Björn Persson
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: The full path to the file is /etc/xorg.conf. Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It was until recently. In my

Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: Hi; I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb. Some days I find myself switching between the two quite often. I can also go weeks with no need of Windows. I am not sure if what I propose is possible, but ... I would like to create a script in

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Björn Persson
måndagen den 11 augusti 2008 skrev Mike Chambers: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: The full path to the file is /etc/xorg.conf. Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It was

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:50 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:36:43 -0700 Daniel B. Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot figure out why I cannot get the chain-loaders to work for w2kPro and XP, but it works for Vista now (go figure!). It is

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: As I pointed out, I was ABLE to boot w2kPro, XP, and Vista ONLY if my BIOs is set to boot Windows-Drive as the Primary boot drive. Heck - the boot-loader IS Grub! It WORKS and note that the boot-win is a logical partition! As the table shows, for the Windows drive,

burning iso image on a Mac

2008-08-11 Thread Jeffrey Berger
Apologies for the newbie question, but ... the Readme file contained in the download for f9 describes what needs to be done to burn an installation DVD on a windows platform, but my windows platform is not where I live. Most of the file seems to be windows-specific. Can someone point me

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 00:38 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Perhaps you meant -ql in both cases? Indeed. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: burning iso image on a Mac

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 20:13 -0500, Jeffrey Berger wrote: Apologies for the newbie question, but ... the Readme file contained in the download for f9 describes what needs to be done to burn an installation DVD on a windows platform, but my windows platform is not where I live. Most of

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: As I pointed out, I was ABLE to boot w2kPro, XP, and Vista ONLY if my BIOs is set to boot Windows-Drive as the Primary boot drive. Heck - the boot-loader IS Grub! It WORKS and note that the boot-win is a logical partition! As the table

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:49 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:57 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: If you're dual-booting, with Windows installed, just boot into windows and see what it's set to. Use those figures. The refresh rate can also depend on the modeline. This is

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:26 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:32 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:52 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: I just realized that I have to download a driver to nvidia card

Re: burning iso image on a Mac

2008-08-11 Thread jeffrey . berger
Thanks! When Leopard helpfully mounted the image, I got confused by all the files and folders. Another question: I tried Ubuntu on my Inspiron 7500, but context switching was so slow it drove me crazy. Will Fedora be any swifter? -J On Aug 11, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Patrick

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Newell
Fennix wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:29 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: 2008/8/10 Fennix [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think

Re: burning iso image on a Mac

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 21:07 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! When Leopard helpfully mounted the image, I got confused by all the files and folders. Another question: I tried Ubuntu on my Inspiron 7500, but context switching was so slow it drove me crazy. Will Fedora

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/8/8 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: Well ... my experience is different from those in the reviews ( maybe they were using windows as some were talking about re-install? ). Signal strength is about 75% according to network-manager when I

OT: top ten books for web site makers?

2008-08-11 Thread Dave Stevens
I am running a little project to host web sites (on a CENTOS and Virtualmin box) for non-profit groups. The local public library is taking recommendations for a small special collection to support web site newbies. Suggestions? Dave -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing

Re: Xvfb - desperate -- help needed...

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:57 -0700, Tod Merley wrote: but I gotta have the X11 applications features enabled (thus Xvfb) Hi Ric! The little I know of virtual frame buffers is that they are used to test hardware or provide a virtual KVM for an X client. I think you simply want to get

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