Re: Linux drives,Fedora 10 screen image,DNS server

2009-01-04 Thread Russell Miller
Gene Heskett wrote: I registered here few days ago. My questions: How can I get the Fedora 10 drive in windows xp?(like windows drives in Fedora 10 after mounting) That will happen about 10 years after Balmer throws his last chair. If M$ lasts that much longer. There's a driver

Re: ATI driver installation

2008-12-30 Thread Russell Miller
Kevin Kofler wrote: Oh, and I forgot: The driver you can get from ATI is a completely different driver than the one in Fedora, not an update. It is binary-only and proprietary, whereas the one in Fedora is Free Software / Open Source, i.e. comes with source code and is freely modifiable. And the

Re: Advice to an audiophobe -- If others need it.

2008-12-27 Thread Russell Miller
William Case wrote: Hi; With special thanks to Tim and David, I have read and assembled a list of audio explanation sites. Tim and David gave me enough context so that when I read (or re-read) the information at these sites, things began to make sense. I have copied the list of sites I have

Re: midi question

2008-12-22 Thread Russell Miller
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; What can I do to allow .mid files to be played again? Probably the answer you don't want, but the one I use is - set up timidity as an alsa client. Then you can just play into the alsa ports and out comes music. I've never used sound card midi, never

Re: fglrx

2008-12-09 Thread Russell Miller
David Hláčik wrote: Hi guys, is this ATI driver working in Fedora 10? Yes, but setup is rather tricky. You have to create the /dev/dri device files manually. --Russell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: fglrx

2008-12-09 Thread Russell Miller
Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 07:06 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: David Hláčik wrote: Hi guys, is this ATI driver working in Fedora 10? Yes, but setup is rather tricky. You have to create the /dev/dri device files manually. Is there a how

Re: FC11: Two Suggestions

2008-12-02 Thread Russell Miller
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Defaults and configuration details *are* part of distribution choices. I've always thought that providing the means to quickly and easily change them is the other half of that equation. Oddly enough, no one ever seems to agree. --Russell Rahul -- fedora-list

Re: some feedback on fedora 10

2008-11-30 Thread Russell Miller
Timothy Murphy wrote: Antonio Olivares wrote: Most people do not have the need for a new kernel since the official Fedora ones do the job, but there might be special needs that the OP has, so he can go on and build his custom kernel. In my limited experience, it is much easier and

Re: Selinux

2008-11-30 Thread Russell Miller
Wayne Feick wrote: Generally speaking, in the security world you default to the most restrictive behavior and administrators loosen up the restrictions as needed. This, of course, tends to annoy everyday users who don't realize all the insecurities of what they want to do, and just want it

fglrx and network

2008-11-30 Thread Russell Miller
Anyone ever seen the fglrx driver cause the network drivers to just stop working on F10? Everything appears to be up, but the packets just stop arriving. I suspect interrupt issues. --Russell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

some feedback on fedora 10

2008-11-29 Thread Russell Miller
OK, I just upgrated to fedora 10. I've already filed some bug reports, but here's some feedback. 1) FC9 preupgrade didn't work. It left the /var off of the cache location. I had to fix it manually and reboot. 2) nv driver is broken with my card. Bug filed on that, so I won't go into too

Re: Selinux

2008-11-29 Thread Russell Miller
Tom Horsley wrote: So why isn't it much simpler and less trouble to just turn off selinux in the first place? I get the same level of security in the end, and much less hassle in the meantime :-). (Some days I feel like I should start the Linux Curmudgeon blog, but there is probably one out

Re: some feedback on fedora 10

2008-11-29 Thread Russell Miller
Lonni J Friedman wrote: Other than that fact that I can't get X to working properly either with the proprietary or free drivers, seems pretty cool. However, *that* is a showstopper. Which card do you have, and how exactly is the nvidia driver not working? geforce 6200. The

Re: some feedback on fedora 10

2008-11-29 Thread Russell Miller
Lonni J Friedman wrote: I've got a system here with a GeForce 6200 that is working perfectly with both the nv driver the 177.82 nvidia driver in F10. Are you using 177.82 or something else? Yes, I'm running 177.82. My suspicions are that the proprietary driver is fine, but the radeon

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Craig White wrote: You don't seem to care that things like NetworkManager and PulseAudio are trying to solve userland device control over things that have on Linux been traditionally root controlled devices/daemons. Both NetworkManager and PulseAudio are not perfect - in fact, far from perfect

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Gene Heskett wrote: That isn't always true Craig, I have been denied permissions on several occasions. It always surprised me at the time I don't now recall a specific instance I can quote, but it has happened in the past and will no doubt occur at some point in the future. ATM, not

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Craig White wrote: I think you have personalized these things as if they were intended to make your attempts to use Fedora more difficult. No. Not personalized. I know they're not intended to make my attempts to use Fedora more difficult. If anything, I'd say they were intended to make

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Les Mikesell wrote: You must have missed a lot - this was discussed to death when people first had problems with pulseaudio. Consolekit assumes that the speakers are owned exclusively by whoever happens to be logged into the console at the moment. Personally I think this is as bad as if

Re: H.D. install problem -

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Bob Goodwin wrote: I removed the 80gB WindowsXP hard drive [/dev/sda] and replaced it with a larger drive on which I installed F9 from a Live CD. The second drive [dev/sdb] has F8 on it, my primary Linux until this morning. I would like to extract some configuration date from the F8 drive

Re: H.D. install problem -

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Bob Goodwin wrote: Ok, thanks, more information to ponder, not sure what to do with it yet ... # pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VolGroup01 lvm2 a- 232.69G 32.00M /dev/sdb2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a-74.41G 32.00M # vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Bruce Byfield wrote: As for a public ass-kicking, if you really want to do something effective (as opposed to indulging in self-righteousness), I suggest you contact Red Hat and Fedora officials directly, not merely vent in forums. Actually, that's not a bad idea. The company I work for has

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Frank Cox wrote: I sincerely hope that I can, Ed. Starry-eyed as it may sound, I always try to think the best of people. Really. Which is a really poor trait for a security analyst, and perhaps one reason why you are not understanding where they are coming from. Food for thought.

Re: time stupidity

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Craig White wrote: crap...the clock moves ahead 7 hours when I boot Fedora ;-( that is my offset from GMT I need someone to toss me a bone here... Craig Have you checked /etc/sysconfig/clock? How about /etc/adjtime? --Russell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: time stupidity

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Miller
Craig White wrote: crap...the clock moves ahead 7 hours when I boot Fedora ;-( that is my offset from GMT I need someone to toss me a bone here... Craig Another stupid question: Is your TZ variable being set somewhere? --Russell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Russell Miller
Craig White wrote: I do detect a pattern though...it's the same one that had you giving up on NFS and using samba for filesharing because you couldn't make NFS work. I would like to state for the record that like Rex, I have many, many systems running with pulseaudio and no problems. I

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Russell Miller
Craig White wrote: - bugzilla # ? I just searched bugzilla for all reports for your e-mail address and couldn't find any. Craig Different email address. #458611 --Russell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Russell Miller
Craig White wrote: I think he gave you a really good answer too... pulseaudio doesn't set the user permissions on devices but is handled by ConsoleKit / HAL If you give a report on your audio hardware submitted to ConsoleKit package, they could fix the problem (assuming that someone else

Re: Cancel mv after execution

2008-08-23 Thread Russell Miller
Adil Drissi wrote: Hi, Is it possible to cancel one command after execution? my command was : mv includes ../includes i was in /var/www so if a directory includes already existed in /var it was replaced. Thank you It wasn't replaced, it was put inside of it. You now have a

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Russell Miller
Craig White wrote: that was the first thing that occurred to me too and then I realized that you didn't have any details of the hardware that would have made a report to ConsoleKit worthwhile. Obviously his issue was to respond to the report against pulseaudio and that he did. OK. But I

Re: Cancel mv after execution

2008-08-23 Thread Russell Miller
Adil Drissi wrote: no i have just n empty includes (my includes was empty). ctrl+c interrupts a process but in this case it is already complete. Then you did something different, as mv does not replace a directory by default. --Russell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-22 Thread Russell Miller
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: just a thought, if padmin is seeing ac97 and not sbo-400, could you possibly be having address conflict. Never had one before pulseaudio. No legitimate reason I should have one now. Have you tried checking to see if

Re: ATI drivers - when?

2008-08-18 Thread Russell Miller
2008/8/18 Steve Repo [EMAIL PROTECTED] What graphics card do you have? If you have R300/R500 graphics card, compiz runs very well. If you have an R600 graphics card you may need a newer RadeonHD driver than what is distributed by fedora. I have an R600, and the latest versions from the

Re: [F9] radeon dual-head display w/Xinerama

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
Sean Bruno wrote: o, Xinerama just doesn't work with the radeon driver any more? Or was it just pure luck that it worked at all before? Just for reference, I have a dual head setup with one Radeon and one Nvidia card under FC9. Acceleration is hosed but everything else works just fine

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
Tom Horsley wrote: Is this just a sign of superb quality control in the samsung disk factories turning out identical disks that last almost the exact same amount of time in the same CPU case with the same number of power cycles? I'd bet on a power spike. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with the others, most likey power or impulse related. Yea, power could be it. I unplugged everything earlier in the day the first one died because one of those Wrath of God style thunder boomers was heading my

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a little while, this was one of those flash-boom varieties with no time delay between flash and boom, so some of them were indeed pretty close. No time delay? Yeah, I think you found the source of your problem.

Re: Invalid ELF header

2008-08-15 Thread Russell Miller
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:24 PM, James McManus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made the mistake of linking ln -s /usr/lib64/libc.so /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 How can I unlink this? If I try unlink /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 I get the following error message: unlink: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: Can I create a link to an inode?

2008-08-15 Thread Russell Miller
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Doug Wyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the situation - I have video file, currently open in Mplayer, which I accidentally deleted from its directory. So, the storage and inode still exist as long as I don't close the Mplayer. Does anyone know of a way,

Re: Can I create a link to an inode?

2008-08-15 Thread Russell Miller
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Doug Wyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the situation - I have video file, currently open in Mplayer, which I accidentally deleted from its directory. So, the storage and inode

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Russell Miller
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install a few new systems in the next few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might be better off

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Russell Miller
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Christopher Mocock [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: since the release. My main blocker with F9 now is that I haven't yet figured out how to rip pulseaudio out and get alsa functioning again. I've never managed to get pulse-audio working (although

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are pretty well supported, at least in basics. Out of curiousity, what soundchip is it? What

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are pretty well

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems like very poor behavior, I hope you report it. Oh, you want bugzilla entries? I can do bugzilla entries. BTW, the problem *is* with pulseaudio. Alsa is working just fine underneath, but guess what?

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
This seems like very poor behavior, I hope you report it. Bug 458574 submitted. Let's see what happens. --Russell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are pretty well

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 After I fixed that wonderful permissions problem it almost all

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
After I fixed that wonderful permissions problem it almost all started working. I can't get youtube videos to work for some reason, and the USB audio adapter I just bought refuses to output stuff, but the azalia is working. But then I tried to install the proprietary ATI driver (because

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
In all fairness Russel, unless you specifically want to mess with this problem, the common way is to use Livna/Atrpms.. Livna even has a kernel independent package whose name i can't remember which will/should work with any kernel. So really, you chose the toughest way if you ran into that

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
yum install libflashsupport from the Adobe repo That did the trick, thanks. But I had to yum install libflashsupport.i386. --Russell -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the advice via irc://freenode/fedora myself, didn't need the i386 suffix however. You'll only need it on a 64 bit system. I also needed to install the 386 version of nspluginwrapper and a whole bunch of other

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A newbie would likely either stick with the OSS drivers, (assuming they get at least 1024x768) or they would Google it, or they would give up. That last option is to me what's inexcusable. We (and by we I mean the

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fedora is for a user who is interested in rapid progress or free software. It is always in a state of change, even between the stable versions. If you explicitly want a system that rarely changes, some other

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Write bug reports, look for solutions, share them with your fellow Fedorians. It is an adventure. Many things are improving and changing with new releases, but that is how software works here. It is constantly

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Russell Miller wrote: I did write a bug report a couple of months back that hasn't even been looked at yet - and I handed them a new specfile on a silver platter. Oh well. Maybe it'll get better the more reports I

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Russell Miller wrote: 454127 And it was closer to a month ago than two months. My bad. Still a long time though. It would be useful to product a diff instead of a new spec and attach that instead. We have a quite

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 guys are looking

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
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 disk and then cannot continue the installation. Reboot and skip the media check and the installation proceeds

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
Arthur Pemberton wrote: Seems like PulseAudio is the way forward towards reducing the myriad of other ways. What problem do you have with it besides that it is new? If PulseAudio is what comes standard with FC9... guess what. It doesn't work. The drivers don't recognize my sound card.

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
Arthur Pemberton wrote: I'm sorry to hear that... but I don't think PulseAudio has anything to do with drivers. As I understand it, it's more of an abstraction system so applications need not support, ALSA, OSS, etc.. just PulseAudio. But of course, if your hardware isn't being recognized by

Re: Fedora core 9 frezzes up after 2 or 3 hours

2008-08-03 Thread Russell Miller
dump wrote: Hello guys, I’m new to this list, and I hope this is the right list to post this issue. My guess is a video driver crash. Try seeing if it freezes without X running. Even if it does, there's a chance you might get some useful diagnostics out of it. Also, try making sure

Re: Disk error

2008-08-03 Thread Russell Miller
g wrote: in trying to follow along with what poc has gone thru with you and getting back to check sums, i am a little lost. i think. not sure. so excuse me if i repeat something. in reading check sums and having 2 dvd drives: on which drive did you run sha1sum? running 'sha1sum /dev/sr0' on

Re: ssh / bind help?

2008-08-03 Thread Russell Miller
Bill Davidsen wrote: Adding the trailing dot, for names, prevents the value of the 'search' field in /etc/resolve.com from being used. So host fubar.bazfaz.net could resolve to fubar.bazfaz.net.your.domain, if your DNS has a wildcard MX record (like *.your.domain) would return a pointer to

Re: How to recover root password

2008-08-02 Thread Russell Miller
Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 19:34 -0400, Ricky wrote: Hi, I had a root passwd which was so secure that even i cannot remember it now, lol! Can Someone help as to how i can recover it??? Any suggestions??? The suggestions so far have assumed you won't get asked for a

Re: How to recover root password

2008-08-02 Thread Russell Miller
ons so far have assumed you won't get asked for a root password to go to single user. There's a way around that too. Append init=/bin/sh to the end of the kernel line and boot. mount -o ro,remount / That should be mount -r rw,remount Sorry. Typing too fast. --Russell -- fedora-list

Re: How to recover root password

2008-08-02 Thread Russell Miller
Russell Miller wrote: ons so far have assumed you won't get asked for a root password to go to single user. There's a way around that too. Append init=/bin/sh to the end of the kernel line and boot. mount -o ro,remount / That should be mount -r rw,remount And THAT should be mount -o rw

Re: Pidgin/Kopete problems with ICQ

2008-07-01 Thread Russell Miller
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Rick Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ICQ servers seem to be blocking ICQ accounts using Pidgin or Kopete, claiming that their protocol is too old. I've not yet squawked this to the Pidgin or Kopete people. It surely is annoying. It is indeed annoying,

Re: nvidiafb problems

2008-06-29 Thread Russell Miller
. REgards, Les H On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 17:48 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: I have been having this problem for a while. I was told on the fedora IRC channel that this has nothing to do with fedora and to stop my blathering, but I think that it is something that perhaps the community should

Re: nvidiafb problems

2008-06-29 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Les [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And before everyone jumps on me, sorry about the top post. I have returned to work where everything is top posted and I haven't adjusted to changing gears yet. Geez, same here. I've been using gmail and outlook for so long that

nvidiafb problems

2008-06-28 Thread Russell Miller
I have been having this problem for a while. I was told on the fedora IRC channel that this has nothing to do with fedora and to stop my blathering, but I think that it is something that perhaps the community should at least be aware of and perhaps even hopefully can help me to solve. I am