| From: Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net
| On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:13:57 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| []
| If not, you might have a curses problem (curses is the library that
| handles full screen manipulations of text-based terminals).
|
| Hmmm Dunno if it's relevant
| From: Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com
| Quoting Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net:
|
| In case anyone is interested;
|
| http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ramps-
| on-the-Fedora-12-Highway.htm
|
| Bruce, you gotta use tinyurl.
Is there an easy way to see
| From: Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net
|
| Many times, when I hit ^J amid text in compose mode, it merely
| makes a mess; and trying to mitigate that only keeps making it worse.
|
| This is with Alpine 2.0 under Fedora 11; I haven't yet managed to
| spot a pattern in when it
| From: Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com
| On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:57:37AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| Oh, while I'm asking, any idea why firefox spews this on the console?
| Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file
| From: Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com
| On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:57:37AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| Firefox has always been a bit unstable for me. It used to crash once
| a week or so.
| In the last few days, firefox has started to crash once a day or so.
| These recent
Firefox has always been a bit unstable for me. It used to crash once
a week or so. Usually this bug:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21583
I admit that I use a lot of windows and tabs.
In the last few days, firefox has started to crash once a day or so.
You can see this by the
| From: Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com
| On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com wrote:
| Unfortunately, the setfdprm command was dropped from Fedora around
| Fedora Core 6.
| Have you tried what happens if you run Fedora Core 6 in a Virtualbox VM
| From: Allan Swanepoel allanice...@gmail.com
| On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.netwrote:
|
| On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 10:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| Why was the command dropped? Would it no longer work? Is there
| another way provided
now. Sad.
Google found this
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/nabu/n1600a.jpg
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/nabu/n1600b.jpg
| From: Allan Swanepoel allanice...@gmail.com
| On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.comwrote:
|
| The whole block is 0. I don't
I want to rescue the contents of some old floppy disks. They are 5.25
inch quad-density with a 7th edition UNIX filesystem on them.
The normal way to select the appropriate floppy drive configuration is
to select the right device node. The closest is /dev/fdnh720, but that
isn't quite right (I
| From: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com
| Bruno Wolff III wrote:
| No gcc isn't broken. Deferencing a null pointer is an undefined operation.
| Obviously, but if you read (reread?) the report:
|
|if (!tun)
|return POLLERR; // if tun is NULL return error
|
|This code looks
| From: Mike Burger mbur...@bubbanfriends.org
| Well, we're not the only ones...there's a bug for this in reported for
| both F10 and F11, I believe.
Could you give us a pointer to the bugzilla entry or entries? Thanks.
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| From: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com
| Scott Beamer wrote:
| SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
| Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
| ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
| UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
| 195
| From: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca
| i ask since a problem i was having with the radeon driver during the
| test phase -- screen suddenly going dark, literally right in the
| middle of keystrokes -- is coming back and seems to be getting more
| frequent. never caused any breakage,
| From: Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com
| http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.2537
| This one works perfectly for me.
| The only downside is that shipping takes a week or two.
Which chipset does it use? Of course DX might change that without
changing the SKU.
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| From: John W. Linville linvi...@redhat.com
|
| On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:28:36AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
| Maybe we should package the free, reversed engineered firmware:
| http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/
|
| We almost certainly should...
Interesting!
This concerned me:
What
| From: William Case billli...@rogers.com
| Aldo Foot wrote:
| I have both the GParted LiveCD[1] and the SystemRescueCD[2]
| I have the tendency to use the SystemRescueCD because it starts out
| with a text CLI, which is helpful with some very old systems.
| This looks like the solution I
| Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:30:48 -0400
| From: Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com
| Ondřej Vašík (ova...@redhat.com) said:
| What's the best way to handle that situation? One possibility is to
| increase the threshold of system level id's (to 200? 300?), another is
| to check current
| From: Tom spot Callaway tcall...@redhat.com
| On 05/26/2009 10:09 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
| See above. Note that the Wassenaar Agreement excludes software that is
| in the public domain, eg free/open source software.
|
| This is not correct. Public Domain has a very specific legal meaning,
|
| From: Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu
| Seems frustrations are mounting:
| On policykit and standards
| http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2009-May/000119.html
[I'm an outsider. This thread is my introduction to the whole area.
I'm not even a KDE user.]
This certainly does
| From: Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk
| 90% of the time when I open a pdf file from firefox the document
| does not appear in the right window (I mean not in the firefox window, but
| in side any window), ie that I do not have any control
| on the document position !!
| How can it be fixed ?
I
| From: Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net
| The Intel line is so massively pipelined that it's almost impossible to
| write an optimizer that doesn't have to flush its entire cache every few
| instructions.
Don't confuse companies with technologies.
What you don't like is the Pentium 4 design
| From: g gel...@bellsouth.net
| intel sucks on anything but ms, because intel joined the ms whore house
| years ago along with many other oem suppliers because of their fear of
| not being included in ms specs.
I actually subscribe to your conspiracy theory.
Having said that, there are levels
| From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200...@gmail.com
| D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com writes:
| Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200...@gmail.com:
| After running flawlessly for 6+ months I just had my Seagate
| ST31500343AS (w. SD35 firmware) flake out
| From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200...@gmail.com
| D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com writes:
| I'll see if I can find a way to report this to seagate. They
| don't seem to make it very easy by not having a prominent support@
| address that I can find documented anywhere
| Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:59:50 -0700
Sorry for such a slow reply.
| From: Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com
| Subject: Re: Seagate disk problems (NCQ bug???)
|
| Quoting Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200...@gmail.com:
|
|
| After running flawlessly for 6+ months I just had my
[I'm trying to figure out how to support portable media players with
Fedora 10. Lots of roadblocks.]
In Amarok, I press F1, or go to the Help drop-down menu and press Amarok
Handbook and get an error popup:
The file or folder help:/amarok/index.html does not exist.
When I dismiss the
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com
| | From: Bob Marcan bob.mar...@gmail.com
| I'm quite surprised at your observations.
| (The other thing I noticed is that your glxgears performance is very
| very good. This may indicate that something else is going on.
| Perhaps the intel driver now
| From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au
| It strikes me that many laptops are designed very badly. They feet are
| too small (you can buy bigger adhesive rubber feet from electronic
| stores, so you can do a neat upgrade), and they put the vents on the
| bottom instead of the side (making it
| From: Bob Marcan bob.mar...@gmail.com
Thanks very much for trying this.
I'm quite surprised at your observations.
It looks to me as if your video card's buffer needed to be uncovered
but the performance you observed didn't improve significantly. I've
never seen that before.
I'm wondering if
| From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com
| The problems with Goto were pointed out by
| Dijkstra in his famous 1968 letter to CACM Go To Statement Considered
| Harmful, which is several years before C appeared on the scene. (Note
| also Knuth's 1974 rebuttal to Dijkstra Structured
MTRRs are still not handled well in X. I suspect this shows up in a
lot of machines with 3G or more of memory. I'd like to know how
common this is.
I'd like affected people to answer my informal survey. In return, I
will suggest how you can speed up your system.
MTRRs control how memory is
| From: Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com
| runlevel=$(/bin/awk -F ':' '($3 == initdefault) ($1 !~ /(#|;)/) { print
$2 }' /etc/inittab)
Probably you meant ($1 !~ /^(#|;)/)
Simpler, I think:
runlevel=`/bin/awk -F ':' '/^[^#;]/ ($3 == initdefault) { print $2 }'
/etc/inittab`
| From: Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) frankl...@gmail.com
| The one thing I can't find is how to compare
| the downloaded iso to the Burned media.
| Google on compare iso to cd(dvd)
| just brings up proprietry efforts.
|
| Can someone supply the cli for this?
| I think:
| diff /path to iso -o loop
| From: L yuan...@gmail.com
| 5Linux version 2.6.17.14 (cla...@mccoy.oxsemi.com.asic.oxsemi.com)
| (gcc version 4.1.1) #1 PREEMPT Fri Jan 18 10:40:25 GMT 2008
| 4CPU: ARM926EJ-Sid(wb) [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ)
| 4Machine: Oxsemi NAS
Neat! Fedora(?) on an ARM!
| From: Smith, Herb herb.sm...@boeing.com
| I have used Mathematica on Fedora for a number of years. I have found
| that if I contact Mathematica and explain that I have updated my OS and
| need a new password for the new configuration, that I get what I need
| with no problem.
Good to hear.
I just noticed that my Fedora 10 X86_64 installation DVD has a fair number
of packages labelled fc9 rather than fc10. In fact some are
fcearlier.
1 is fc6
8 are fc7
16 are fc8
355 are fc9
2272 are fc10
Why would the packagers not rebuild all packages for a release? Is
there not a risk that
| From: Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru
| Maple is not open source (free). It was main argument for me to choose another
| symbolic arithmetic program - maxima ( maxima.sourceforge.net ). It's
| brilliant.
My daughter bought Mathmatica for a project perhaps five years ago.
She ran it on RHL9 or
| From: Jens Schmidt listin...@tpg.com.au
| I am having trouble getting kino running on F10. I've been able to
| capture video from my JVC GR-DV2000EA in the past. Today i tried again
| and I am not able to capture video though I can control the camera from
| Kino.
I have no idea if this is
| From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au
| On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 22:55 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
| http://beagleboard.org/
|
| Are they a
| reasonable alternative to an ordinary computer?
In what sense?
For most cases where one would use an ordinary computer (PC) they are not
a good
| From: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com
| David wrote:
| from the CLI (since no X)
|
| X -configure
Interesting that X -help doesn't say anything about this option.
Interesting that there is no X(1) manpage.
There is no x(1) manpage.
There is an Xserver(1) manpage. It calls itself
| From: William Case billli...@rogers.com
| Hi;
|
| On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 23:31 +, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
| 2009/3/14 William Case billli...@rogers.com:
| I am trying to install mythtv but there is no bttv driver.
|
| lsmod |grep bttv returns nothing
| yum list available returns
| From: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca
| c) keep all those respin-related files at a mirror *somewhere* and
| never let them be deleted even if they go out of date. ugh.
Koji has everything. If jigdo fell back to looking in koji, I guess that
this particular problem could be solved.
| From: Chad Trotter chadtrot...@mac.com
| I am having an issue with running and installing the F10 Live KDE CD. I
| have spent several days reading posts about how to pull the correct
| video driver I need for this work on my wife's ACER Aspire 4520.
|
| I am an absolute n00b when it comes to
| From: Andrew Kelly ake...@corisweb.org
| Same problem here, also running F 10 on X86-66 and with an Asus EAH3650
| Silent Magic. Although, when my stuff hangs, it's hung, I can't get to a
| text console at all. I have to do a hard reboot (cringe) and then grab
| grub on the way up to boot into
| From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200...@gmail.com
| D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com writes:
| I don't know which update is the problem. Certainly one in the alst
| few days.
|
| Try reverting the Xorg server back one notch. That is what worked for
| me.
|
| rpm
| From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200...@gmail.com
| Looks like today's yum in F10 broke my X.
An update just broke mine too, but in a different way.
Actually, I'm using the RADION driver.
I had an earlier (as yet unfixed) problem with this driver
so I'm sticking with the old
X broke on me with recent updates. Has anyone else experienced
a problem like this?
When I downgrade from
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64
to
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64
X started working again.
Symptom: my login screen is blank. Ctrl-Alt-F2 works so at least some
of X is
| From: Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to
| On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 15:20:04 -0500,
| D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com wrote:
| X broke on me with recent updates. Has anyone else experienced
| a problem like this?
|
| Yes. Some of these appear to be related to kernel modesetting as the bug(s
| From: Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com
| I think this comes from the wake on LAN (WOL) feature of most modern
| mobos. To make it go completely dead, you need to unplug the net cable.
|
| Perhaps there's a BIOS setting to have the system ignore that feature?
| I can understand that if WOL is
| From: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com
| Jerry Feldman wrote:
| On 01/17/2009 12:40 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
| One other note is that the original version of PGP used the IDEA
| encryption
| algorithm. This algorithm is covered by a patent for a couple of years
| yet.
That is true
|
| From: Neil Bird n...@fnxweb.com
| Ordinarily, I'd say that this sort of thing is hardware related, and
| although I will be trying memtest for a while over the weekend, I'm suspicious
| that this has only started happening immediately after I upgraded from Fedora
| 8 to Fedora 10.
Memtest
| From: Faust Nijhuis fed...@nijhuisenco.nl
| Is firewire working in fedora 10?
|
| output of lspci;
|
| 02:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)
I don't know. But you might want to look here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415841
| From: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fedora-10-i386-DVD]# dd if=/dev/sr0|sha1sum -c SHA1SUM
| Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso: OK
[Spaces around the pipe symbol would help readability. Partly because
at least some fonts don't make that glyph very distinct.]
I don't think that that
| From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| I've got a motherboard with a fairly new chipset (Asus M3A78T
| w. AMD/ATI 790GX) and I'm seeing a funny MTRR setting. I have 8GB
| memory and am running a 64-bit kernel, but I'm only seeing ~4GB
| mentioned in the MTRR's. Is this a bug? Do I
| From: Mike Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| I have 2Gb Ram, and running 64bit,
| and still only see 1.8Gb of memory, as it did with 32bit as well.
You probably have a shared video device buffer.
If you look at dmesg output, you can kind of puzzle out how the BIOS
maps memory. Here's from one
| From: Ivan Cat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: gaim problem: version too old in F9
| 2008/7/2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| Hi, anybody seen this in F9 when calling gaim:
|
| The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at
| http://pidgin.im/
| yes, pidgin 4.2.3 is
| From: William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| 1) stage1 is one line that is installed on the mbr within the 64 bytes
| or 512 bits that is reserved on the disk for booting purposes.
Boot records are 512 bytes. The code must fit into about 440 bytes of
this.
The Master Boot Record (MBR) is the
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