Board appointment

2009-12-05 Thread Paul Frields
I am pleased to announce that Christopher Aillon will continue in his appointed seat on the Fedora Project Board for this cycle. His term will last until the selection process following the release of Fedora 14, in accordance with the Board's established succession planning. Christopher's

Fedora 13 release name

2009-12-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Fedora 13 release name is: Goddard The full GPG-signed message from our election coordinator, Nigel Jones, is attached. Thank you to the community for their suggestions, the Board for their work on additional diligence searches, and Nigel Jones for setting up the voting. -- Paul W.

v4l applications

2009-12-05 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
There are some old v4l applications that do not work in Fedora 12. I found so far fmtools and gnomeradio. Gnomeradio accepts v4l2, but one has to use a gconf editor to change the driver (there is no option in the application interface). I tried to patch gnomerario, but I do not know how to

Re: Orphaning gnome-common

2009-12-05 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:05:00AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 05:39 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: This is a heads up that I'm going to orphan gnome-common. I don't do any gtk programming anymore so it doesn't make sense for me to keep this package. mclasen has

Re: Kernel-2.6.31.6-134 seems to have a bug on R600 DRM

2009-12-05 Thread Rudolf Kastl
interestingly i just updated a radeon hd4650 box to latest rawhide and the same error pops up again: [drm:r600_cs_packet_next_reloc_mm] *ERROR* No packet3 for relocation for packet at 45. [drm:r600_packet3_check] *ERROR* bad SET_CONTEXT_REG 0x28014 [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command

Re: Upstart 0.6.3 coming to a rawhide near you

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
James Antill (ja...@fedoraproject.org) said: Does this mean that running dbus will be required to reboot/shutdown the system? No. The init daemon speaks the dbus protocol, and can be communicated with over the system daemon. But it can also be talked to directly. Looking at

Re: v4l applications

2009-12-05 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Saturday, 05 December 2009 at 15:48, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: There are some old v4l applications that do not work in Fedora 12. I found so far fmtools and gnomeradio. Gnomeradio accepts v4l2, but one has to use a gconf editor to change the driver (there is no option in the application

[Bug 23981] cairo doesn't respect TrueType gasp tables (and fonts look ugly as a result)

2009-12-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23981 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

[Bug 23981] cairo doesn't respect TrueType gasp tables (and fonts look ugly as a result)

2009-12-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23981 --- Comment #4 from Ben Laenen bl.b...@gmail.com 2009-12-05 03:56:46 PST --- (In reply to comment #3) As an end user, I would prefer my fonts to render correctly instead of incorrectly. In any case there should be a way to override the

[Bug 23981] cairo doesn't respect TrueType gasp tables (and fonts look ugly as a result)

2009-12-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23981 --- Comment #5 from Nicholas Miell nmi...@comcast.net 2009-12-05 10:38:53 PST --- (In reply to comment #4) (In reply to comment #3) As an end user, I would prefer my fonts to render correctly instead of incorrectly. In any case there

Intro ---Hi

2009-12-05 Thread Arun
Hello All, My name is Arun from INDIA, I've been using fedora at home/office since version FC 3. I'm a C and Java programmer. I have a little experience with Perl. I've worked as a Data Center/Infrastructure Engineer. I've worked with RH 7.3, 8, 9(testing project); RHES/AS 3, 4; FC 3,4,5,6;

Re: F12 upgrade on lenova - desktop issues.

2009-12-05 Thread William Henry
Thanks Steve! I'll give that a go. William - Steve O sobrien@gmail.com wrote: I had the same problem, I was able to fix it by using my xorg.conf from FC11 - you can generate one using system-config-display (by default FC11 and 12 do not use xorg.conf). Here is mine: # Xorg

F12 and Epson Workforce 615

2009-12-05 Thread William Henry
Hi Anyone know where I might get a driver that would allow me to use the Epson Workforce 615 Printer? (I think the 610 drivers would work) It would be nice if Fedora 12 actually could at least see it on the network first. But I'll still need some driver I'm sure. Best, William

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Fedora and MS-PL (Dynamic Language Runtime)

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Fontana
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:31:28 -0500 saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote: I won't speculate as to whether it was the intent of the authors of the Microsoft Public License to consider mere aggregation to be excluded from the scope of their reciprocal terms and conditions[14], but

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Including of MARS code in cryptopp package

2009-12-05 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 12/04/2009 01:38 PM, alekc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi All, There is IBM implementation of MARS code in cryptopp 5.6.0 an it was removed from Fedora cryptopp package. But SVN 479 version of cryptopp contains mars.cpp that was written and placed in the public domain by Wei Dai.

su hangs for 30 seconds

2009-12-05 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
As of a day or so ago su has started hanging for 30 seconds. So has the lock screen. Jiggling the mouse unblanks the monitor and shows me the backdrop picture but the password entry box doesn't appear for 30 seconds. I don't believe I mucked with anything PAM related, but there were a few yum

Re: thoggen not loading

2009-12-05 Thread charles zeitler
the latest updates (incl gstreamer-plugins-good.x86_64 0:0.10.17-3.fc12 ) seems to have fixed it. ( at least for thoggen) charles zeitler Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law -Aleister Crowley -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: Difficulty setting up Fedora 12 screen

2009-12-05 Thread Dick Roark
Strange. While my actual graphics hardware is listed (and was being used), I find that the Generic VESA-compliant video card is the one that works. I haven't a clue why but I intend to let sleeping dogs lie. Thanks for the response, Dick On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Greg Woods

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:13 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: The problem I have specifically with rsync (or tar, or cp) is that it does not save ACLs, file attributes too well, and so on that I gave up using it. Perhaps the problem in this case is not to use the -a option but to use the manual

No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: [b...@box9 ~]$ system-config-display (xconf.py:4947): Gdk-WARNING **: DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID contains invalid UTF-8 Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Roger
On 12/05/2009 08:44 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: All I want to do is determine what display parameters I am using? What's wrong here? Bob yum install system-config-display I had to do

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Ed Greshko
Bob Goodwin wrote: I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: [b...@box9 ~]$ system-config-display (xconf.py:4947): Gdk-WARNING **: DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID contains invalid UTF-8 Traceback (most recent call

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/12/09 04:49, Roger wrote: On 12/05/2009 08:44 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: All I want to do is determine what display parameters I am using? What's wrong here? Bob yum install

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 04:56, Ed Greshko wrote: Well...FWIW, it works here fine on a fully updated F12 in both KDE and GNOME sessions. The GNOME session does have the following set [gno...@f12 ~]$ env | grep DESK IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome

how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). lspci does not give info about these hw. lshw, does not give the manufacturer dmidecode does not give the manufacturer

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Ed Greshko
Bob Goodwin wrote: I should have said this is F-11/XFCE. I don't have the F-12 box running at the moment ... [b...@box9 ~]$ env | grep DESK IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes Bob OK From my fully updated F11 system and running XFCE [egres...@f11 ~]$ env | grep

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:27am on Saturday, December 05, 2009 (UK time), François Patte scrawled: I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). lspci does not give info about these hw. lshw, does not give the manufacturer

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 05/12/2009 12:12, Steve Searle a écrit : Around 10:27am on Saturday, December 05, 2009 (UK time), François Patte scrawled: I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and

Re: su hangs for 30 seconds

2009-12-05 Thread Hiisi
2009/12/5 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com: As of a day or so ago su has started hanging for 30 seconds.  So has the lock screen.  Jiggling the mouse unblanks the monitor and shows me the backdrop picture but the password entry box doesn't appear for 30 seconds.  I don't

Re: su hangs for 30 seconds

2009-12-05 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/05/2009 01:32 PM, Hiisi wrote: 2009/12/5 Wolfgang S. Rupprechtwolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com: As of a day or so ago su has started hanging for 30 seconds. So has the lock screen. Jiggling the mouse unblanks the monitor and shows me the backdrop picture but the password entry box doesn't

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 05:30, Ed Greshko wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: I should have said this is F-11/XFCE. I don't have the F-12 box running at the moment ... [b...@box9 ~]$ env | grep DESK IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes Bob OK From my fully updated F11

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
Matthew Saltzman wrote: Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still defaults to using LVM for everything *other* than /boot. This brings no benefit to most users. Well, it means I can have separate filesystems for things that I don't want overwritten if I

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ryan Lynch wrote: Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still defaults to using LVM for everything *other* than /boot. This brings no benefit to most users. With all due respect, the fact that one of us can't imagine the need for some technology doesn't say much,

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:18:06 Bob Goodwin wrote: I must admit I don't know how to change env and man env is not helping. I did : env DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce4 export DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce4 Read the man bash, search for export keyword. HTH, :-) Marko --

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: But the point is taken. There seem to be quite a few posts from folks that make their lives needlessly complex by mucking with the defaults and that ends up breaking something downstream. Are you saying that something is broken downstream if you don't use LVM?

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Ed Greshko
Bob Goodwin wrote: I must admit I don't know how to change env and man env is not helping. I did : env DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce4 but that did not make it work. It asks for pasword and then comes up with the error message. I even tried re-booting the computer from

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Samstag, den 05.12.2009, 04:44 -0500 schrieb Bob Goodwin: I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: [b...@box9 ~]$ system-config-display (xconf.py:4947): Gdk-WARNING **: DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID contains

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:43:52 Timothy Murphy wrote: Matthew Saltzman wrote: Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still defaults to using LVM for everything *other* than /boot. This brings no benefit to most users. Well, it means I can have separate

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 08:53, Marko Vojinovic wrote: export DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce4 Read the man bash, search for export keyword. HTH, :-) Marko Yes, that helps. I should have added that the F-12 computer does not have that line, is like this F-11 box. The F-12 box works as expected, but

Re: su/kdesu not working

2009-12-05 Thread Dj YB
On Monday November 9 2009 18:47:30 you wrote: Dj YB wrote: # strace -u foo -f su - wow that was incredibly long output the important line was about 1023 times repeating [pid 24172] close(3) = 0 [pid 24172] close(4) = 0 [pid 24172] close(5) = -1 (EBADF) bad file descriptor [pid

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:52:36 Timothy Murphy wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: But the point is taken. There seem to be quite a few posts from folks that make their lives needlessly complex by mucking with the defaults and that ends up breaking something downstream. Are you

Re: youtue problem-SOLVED

2009-12-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 09:55 +0530, Jatin K wrote: On 12/05/2009 05:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: When I try to run a youtube video in my newly installed F12 I get the following error message. You have Javascript disabled or an old version of Adobe flash player. Neither statement is true.

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 08:57, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Samstag, den 05.12.2009, 04:44 -0500 schrieb Bob Goodwin: This is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480534 All I want to do is determine what display parameters I am using? use xrandr What's wrong

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 08:56, Ed Greshko wrote:FWIW, I am pretty sure I was barking up the wrong tree. It seems that DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID is actually related to Xorg than anything elseand it is too late and I've got to get up too early to really delve into it.

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:52:36 Timothy Murphy wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: But the point is taken.  There seem to be quite a few posts from folks that make their lives needlessly complex by mucking with

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:04:05 + Marko Vojinovic wrote: That said, if one does not work in multi-platform software development, I totally agree that cluttering the disk with all that stuff is very ugly, at the very least. These days virtual machines are much cleaner and easier to maintain

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:39:10 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: Assuming the LVM or no-LVM decision is not negotiable, perhaps it would be better to work on improving tools such as system-config-lvm to abstract less experienced users from the complexity? While s-c-lvm is functional it has a lot of room

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 20:17 -0500, Ryan Lynch wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 20:13, Matthew Saltzman m...@clemson.edu wrote: Well, it means I can have separate filesystems for things that I don't want overwritten if I reinstall (/home, /usr/local, /opt, /var/www, etc.) and I can dynamically

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Mikkel
On 12/05/2009 04:27 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). Tape a look at hdparm -I and sdparm for the drives. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou

Is anybody using screentoaster with Fedora 12?

2009-12-05 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I am running Fedora 12 x86_64 and I have noticed that I cannot use www.screentoaster.com. The java app used to make screencasts starts, seems to run, but I cannot stop it or control it in any way. For example, there is a pop-up windows to set the audio: if I try to click on the button

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: On SATA, it is 15.  On IDE it's 24?  Not sure about PATA. I'd like to see documentation supporting the idea that the data structures ON the disk are somehow tied to the underlying interface technology, please. -- Marc

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: As far as I can see, the poster was not objecting to LVM per se; he was simply asserting that it should not be the default, which I agree with. The original objection was mine, and that is absolutely correct. Just

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/05/2009 04:27 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). lspci does not give info about these hw. lshw, does not give the manufacturer dmidecode does not give the

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: But the point is taken. There seem to be quite a few posts from folks that make their lives needlessly complex by mucking with the defaults and that ends up breaking something downstream. Are you saying that

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Mikkel
On 12/04/2009 06:49 PM, Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Tom Horsley tom.hors...@att.net wrote: Because you can only have a max of 15 partitions on a disk without using LVM? The maximum number is 24, not 15. From devices.txt in the kernel documentation: 3 block

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Wayne Feick
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold. 1. It won't allow one to save things in the /home tree when doing an upgrade or re-install. I have an almost 10GB corpus of email, and several scripts that are needed for my daily

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Mikkel
On 12/05/2009 10:08 AM, Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: On SATA, it is 15. On IDE it's 24? Not sure about PATA. I'd like to see documentation supporting the idea that the data structures ON the disk are somehow tied to the

Re: youtue problem-SOLVED

2009-12-05 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am Samstag, den 05.12.2009, 08:21 -0600 schrieb Aaron Konstam: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 09:55 +0530, Jatin K wrote: On 12/05/2009 05:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: When I try to run a youtube video in my newly installed F12 I get the following error message. You have Javascript disabled

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Wayne Feick wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold. 1. It won't allow one to save things in the /home tree when doing an upgrade or re-install. I have an almost 10GB corpus of email, and

Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-05 Thread Mikkel
I ran into something strange with cron in FC12. The monthly cron jobs ran on December 2nd, instead of December 1st. The system was up continually from before November 30th, until after December 2nd. But for some strange reason the monthly jobs were run on the 2nd. This is a problem because the

Recent texlive anyone?

2009-12-05 Thread Christoph Höger
Hi, has anybody seen some rpm packaging for the current texlive distribution? Since fedora switched over things look stalled. I am asking because I could really use the \KOMAoption{listof}{leveldown} thing. (So if anyone knows how to have the same effect in the old version ...) regards

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 05 December 2009 08:18 AM, Steven Stern wrote: On 12/05/2009 04:27 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). lspci does not give info about these hw. lshw, does not

Compiz plugins

2009-12-05 Thread Eric Tanguy
Is there somewhere a howto or something like that about compiz plugins. I don't know which plugins are in fedora, which one could be add and how to use it (key combinations). I try to test the water one and i can't achieve to find the keys to use or the keys does not work ... Thanks Eric --

GNOME notification; black background?

2009-12-05 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
Hi. I'm currently using F12 and GNOME. When I upgraded to F12, I noticed that the notification popups changed from being a popup with a yellowish background in the lower-right corner to a popup with a black background in the upper-right corner. I can deal with the location change, but the black

Re: F12 Wireless Network intermittently Dropped: AR9285 card / ath9k module

2009-12-05 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Thursday 03 December 2009 20:11:11 Reuben Budiardja wrote: On Thursday 03 December 2009 19:59:57 jaivuk wrote: I use F12 with latest F11 kernel - this is only way how can I use my freshly installed F12 and have my WIFI AP (hostapd) working. If you upgraded to F12 from F11 via yum, you

Re: F12 Wireless Network intermittently Dropped: AR9285 card / ath9k module

2009-12-05 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Thursday 03 December 2009 20:11:11 Reuben Budiardja wrote: On Thursday 03 December 2009 19:59:57 jaivuk wrote: I use F12 with latest F11 kernel - this is only way how can I use my freshly installed F12 and have my WIFI AP (hostapd) working. If you upgraded to F12 from F11 via yum, you

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-05 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:13 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: The problem I have specifically with rsync (or tar, or cp) is that it does not save ACLs, file attributes too well, and so on that I gave up using it. Perhaps the problem in this case is not to use the -a

Re: Compiz plugins

2009-12-05 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/5 Eric Tanguy eric.tan...@univ-nantes.fr: Is there somewhere a howto or something like that about compiz plugins. I don't know which plugins are in fedora, which one could be add and how to use it (key combinations). I try to test the water one and i can't achieve to find the keys to

internet connection sharing

2009-12-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
In earlier releases of Fedora, I recall this being possible but not w/o some extra work. In F12, is it actually as simple as the Redhat Magazine video suggests? Does simply creating a wireless connection enable all required elements such as forwarding, dhcp etc for sharing a wired connection out

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-05 05:27:38, François Patte wrote: ... I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). ... lshw, does not give the manufacturer ... It does here, under vendor:. Be sure to run it as root, or it won't cover

Re: Difficulty setting up Fedora 12 screen

2009-12-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-04 23:59:43, Dick Roark wrote: After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 screen resolution. Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. I was using F11 at 1280x1024 on this hardware before upgrading to F12. After that, so far no joy. I would appreciate any

Re: locale setup, LANG variable - strange

2009-12-05 Thread Michal
Hello Ed! On the login screen, after selecting the user, there is a language selector on the lower left. Have you set that to be Polish for your account? I do not have such switch in fc12. I remember there was one in fc9? Maybe because my system installem kdm instead of gdm??? Do YOu think

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Marc Wilson
2009/12/5 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: And just how do you do that?  The last time I tried to save /home, anaconda would not proceed until I checked the format it box. I did not have this problem when I upgraded to F11 a couple weeks ago. I always wait for a respin but that wasn't

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 13:43 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: Matthew Saltzman wrote: Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still defaults to using LVM for everything *other* than /boot. This brings no benefit to most users. Well, it means I can have separate

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Wayne Feick
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 12:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2009, Wayne Feick wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold. 1. It won't allow one to save things in the /home tree when doing an upgrade or

YouTube problem solved!

2009-12-05 Thread Pauls Lists
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 09:55 +0530, Jatin K wrote: On 12/05/2009 05:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: When I try to run a youtube video in my newly installed F12 I get the following error message. You have Javascript disabled or an old version of Adobe flash player. Neither statement

Re: Difficulty setting up Fedora 12 screen

2009-12-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 screen resolution.  Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. I was using F11 at 1280x1024 on this hardware before upgrading to F12. After that, so

How to read/write to diskette

2009-12-05 Thread vinny
Hello, I have f12 just Installed every thing is OK so far other than I can't read/write to a diskette, the icon appears in the desktop, if I click on it shows empty if I drag and drop a file to the diskette icon give me an error there was an error copying the file into /media/disk, error opening

Re: Recent texlive anyone?

2009-12-05 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 18:43 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, has anybody seen some rpm packaging for the current texlive distribution? Since fedora switched over things look stalled. http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/ I am asking because I could really use the

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/05/2009 03:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 06/12/09 04:49, Roger wrote: On 12/05/2009 08:44 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: All I want to do is determine what display parameters I am using?

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 12:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2009, Wayne Feick wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold. 1. It won't allow one to save things in the /home tree when doing an upgrade or

Re: Recent texlive anyone?

2009-12-05 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 18:43 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, has anybody seen some rpm packaging for the current texlive distribution? Since fedora switched over things look stalled. Have a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor

Re: GNOME notification; black background?

2009-12-05 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am Samstag, den 05.12.2009, 11:35 -0700 schrieb Reid Rivenburgh: Hi. I'm currently using F12 and GNOME. When I upgraded to F12, I noticed that the notification popups changed from being a popup with a yellowish background in the lower-right corner to a popup with a black background in the

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
Never thought of that! I know the OP would prefer command line utilities but still he can try lshw-gui. It presents the lshw output in a much more readable form. GL -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. In order for lshw-gui to run in needs to load something

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 17:36 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: Never thought of that! I know the OP would prefer command line utilities but still he can try lshw-gui. It presents the lshw output in a much more readable form. GL -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us

Re: su hangs for 30 seconds

2009-12-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Joachim Backes wrote: On 12/05/2009 01:32 PM, Hiisi wrote: 2009/12/5 Wolfgang S. Rupprechtwolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com: As of a day or so ago su has started hanging for 30 seconds. So has the lock screen. Jiggling the mouse unblanks the monitor and shows me the backdrop picture but the

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 17:30, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/05/2009 03:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 06/12/09 04:49, Roger wrote: On 12/05/2009 08:44 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: All I

Screen brightness controls missing in Fedora 12

2009-12-05 Thread Robert Nichols
In a Fedora 12 Gnome desktop, where has the control for screen brightness gone? It used to be controlled in Power Management, but those settings have disappeared and I can't find them anywhere else. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 12:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2009, Wayne Feick wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold. 1. It won't allow one to

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Bob Goodwin wrote: Ok, I installed [yum] kudzu but still the error persists. I have not re-booted though if that is required? [b...@box9 ~]$ system-config-display Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: Difficulty setting up Fedora 12 screen

2009-12-05 Thread Dick Roark
Yup, I tried that right off... with no effect. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 screen resolution.  Only

Re: su hangs for 30 seconds

2009-12-05 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it writes: Joachim Backes wrote: On 12/05/2009 01:32 PM, Hiisi wrote: 2009/12/5 Wolfgang S. Rupprechtwolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com: As of a day or so ago su has started hanging for 30 seconds. So has the lock screen. Jiggling the mouse unblanks the monitor

yum lockup at Running Transaction

2009-12-05 Thread Jim
FC12/KDE Yum is hanging up at Running Transaction , how do I correct this problem. Downloading Packages: Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata Processing delta metadata Package(s) data still to download: 9.0 M (1/8): keyutils-libs-devel-1.2-6.fc12.x86_64.rpm| 29 kB

Re: can Fedora's QEMU run ppc guest in F12 x86_64 host?

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andre Robatino wrote: I've tried to create a F12 ppc guest in a F12 x86_64 host, using F12's Virtual Machine Manager and with qemu-system-ppc installed. It's reading a verified copy of Fedora-12-ppc-DVD.iso from the HDD. It fails with CDROM boot failure code : 0004 Boot failed: could not read

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I had understood the complexity to be the separate /boot not the use of lvm... Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still defaults to using LVM for everything *other* than /boot.

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:45 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I had understood the complexity to be the separate /boot not the use of lvm... Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still

Re: su hangs for 30 seconds

2009-12-05 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
As of a day or so ago su has started hanging for 30 seconds. So has the lock screen. Jiggling the mouse unblanks the monitor and shows me the backdrop picture but the password entry box doesn't appear for 30 seconds. I don't believe I mucked with anything PAM related, but there were a few

Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of this as a way to control USB devices? Some devices are simply not usefully supported at the application level in Linux, although the drivers are fine. Therefore the need to run an app, preferably in a VM rather than under wine

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net writes: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: But the point is taken. There seem to be quite a few posts from folks that make their lives needlessly complex by mucking with the defaults and that ends up breaking something downstream. Are you saying that something

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com writes: And I was just about to ask what exactly is broken downstream... :-) I've been driving several Fedora versions on several machines for several years now with a custom-partitioned disks (simple setups, typically just swap, / and /home, no LVM or

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