Re: microsoft natural keyboard 4000 F10/Spell

2009-08-03 Thread stan
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:28:33 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: So it appears that F10/Spell isn't recognized by the keyboard driver (or something). All the rest of the F-keys are recognized and have a keycode when F-lock is off, with the single exception of F10/Spell. Am I just

Re: Fedora 11 very very slow on Athlon DAM 1500+, 1.3 GHz Machine

2009-08-02 Thread stan
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:06:29 +0530 Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji jwalant.son...@gmail.com wrote: How much time the internal database creation should take. I had Fedora 11 with very very low speed running on my desktop for 3 days, and then had to move back to Fedora 10 :(. Less than that, for sure.

Automatically grant user permission to use USB scanner in F11 x86_64

2009-08-02 Thread stan
I managed to get a usb scanner working for root, but I don't want to always have to go into /dev/bus/usb/002/ and change the permissions so a regular user can use it. Is there an elegant way to allow a regular user to run xsane for a USB scanner? That works even when it is not present at boot

Re: Automatically grant user permission to use USB scanner in F11 x86_64

2009-08-02 Thread stan
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:43:51 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: There used to be a rule set for scaners in /etc/udev/rules.d that created a scanner symlink, and set permissions. But can't seem to find it any more. This makes me suspect that HAL or ConsoleKit has taken

Re: Automatically grant user permission to use USB scanner in F11 x86_64

2009-08-02 Thread stan
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 21:15:42 -0300 Itamar Reis Peixoto ita...@ispbrasil.com.br wrote: the solution is udev, you need to google about it. I hadn't found anything in my searches up to the point of writing the email so I thought I would ask. A grep of the rules already there finds many rules for

Solved: Re: Automatically grant user permission to use USB scanner in F11 x86_64

2009-08-02 Thread stan
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:09:47 -0700 stan gr...@q.com wrote: Is there an elegant way to allow a regular user to run xsane for a USB scanner? That works even when it is not present at boot but is hot plugged later? The solution is hal. It seems that libsane has been removed from /etc/udev

Re: Automatically grant user permission to use USB scanner in F11 x86_64

2009-08-02 Thread stan
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:30:49 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: If they use the same protocal, then it is mainly a matter of adding the usb ID. Do you want a quick and dirty fix, or a somewhat better, but more complicated fix? Simple fixes: mount -o

Re: Problem Installing VPN with pptpd in fedora 11

2009-08-01 Thread stan
On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:17:58 -0300 Tiago Araujo tiago.s.ara...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I can not install server pptp in fedora 11. The server for pptp doesn't seem to be packaged for Fedora. You can find a gpl version that says it works in linux here http://www.poptop.org/ Note that I haven't

Re: Problem Installing VPN with pptpd in fedora 11

2009-08-01 Thread stan
On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:17:58 -0300 Tiago Araujo tiago.s.ara...@gmail.com wrote: I can not install server pptp in fedora 11. I read this link on the poptop page, http://www.schneier.com/pptp-faq.html and suggest that given the security lapses in MS pptp, you consider openswan, an ipsec

Re: 2 firefox 3.5.1 issues

2009-07-31 Thread stan
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:29:01 -0700 Paolo Galtieri pgalti...@gmail.com wrote: I have 2 issues with the latest firefox on F11. The first is every time I start up firefox I get a tab that is a listing of the contents of my home directory. I have firefox configured to start up with the tabs

Re: Abnormal disk access

2009-07-31 Thread stan
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:12:48 +0100 (BST) Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, Since I installed fedora 11 x86_64, I do periodically (every 15-20 mn) disque access even when the machine is at rest. It does not appear that the machine should swap (the memory is not full at all). The

Re: missing dependency

2009-07-31 Thread stan
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:49:37 -0700 Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote: Hi all, I've just come across this: - Finished Dependency Resolution perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc10.2.i386 from updates has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9.0.11 is needed by

Re: Abnormal disk access

2009-07-31 Thread stan
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:56:12 +0100 (BST) Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: Then, it is kswap0 which takes 100%, 0.00% read, 0.00% write Why that ? I don't know, perhaps someone else will. However, firefox may interferes ! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: from 32 to 64

2009-07-31 Thread stan
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:12:05 +0100 (BST) Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, I do observe abnormal results with my applications Moving from a 32 to 64 bits architecture, using, c, C++, perl, is they something that I should be aware of ? like size of the float, integer ? Yes,

Re: missing dependency

2009-07-31 Thread stan
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:30:29 -0700 stan gr...@q.com wrote: yum update perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc10.2.i386 yum_output 21 There is an error in the above statement. It should be either: yum update perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc10.2.i386 yum_output 21 or yum update perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6

Re: Fedora 11 very very slow on Athlon DAM 1500+, 1.3 GHz Machine

2009-07-31 Thread stan
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 07:11:38 +0530 Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji jwalant.son...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried running Fedora 11, with it being only operating system installed, and it was too slow for everything. The message boxes, applications, games, etc... everything.. took a great time to load.

Re: Hi fedora Users ,i am new to fedora.

2009-07-30 Thread stan
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:10:18 +0530 Karthikeyan Loganathan krth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi fedora Users ,i am new to fedora. I downloaded 11g(383DVD) fedora recently.And i burned that iso image in DVD. When i installed ,i am getting *kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill init* .during

Re: From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

2009-07-30 Thread stan
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:20:57 +0200 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:39:25 -0700, stan wrote: I'm probably not the person to be defending pulse, because I leave it installed but disabled. Is there a bullet-proof way to do that? Disabling PulseAudio

Re: Fedora 11 does display suspend work for you: CRT vs. LCD

2009-07-30 Thread stan
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:02:46 -0400 Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: On Fedora 11, does your display suspend after the screensaver activates (assuming that you have asked it to suspend)? F11, x86_64, crt, gnome, nouveau. I didn't do anything to set it except change how long it

Re: Blank Display

2009-07-29 Thread stan
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Morisso Buffalo mangu...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks for response, am using fedora 9 This is problematic. Fedora 9 has reached EOL and thus there are no updates available for it. That would have been my next suggestion. In the terminal logged in as

Re: Blank Display

2009-07-29 Thread stan
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Morisso Buffalo mangu...@yahoo.com wrote: hi, just realised that only the root user has the X Gui for any other user the screen is still blank. Maybe someone else will recognize this behavior, I don't. The adduser I recommended in the previous

Re: Problems after a yum upgrade from F10 to F11

2009-07-29 Thread stan
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:56:19 +0200 lars.bjorn...@broadpark.no (Lars Bjørndal) wrote: Hope someone can help me with the following two issues. I've used yum to upgrade from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. The computer is an Lenove X61S laptop. Output from 'uname -rv' is: '2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i686.PAE

Re: Drive Eaten!!!

2009-07-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:16:31 +1200 Morgan Read mst...@read.org.nz wrote: Hello List This seems very very BAD! If someone could help me through, it would be very much appreciated (understatement). I agree, it seems like your hard drive is toast. I'm running f10 under gnome with a recent

Send to this list results in failure notice for hacker...@versanet.de

2009-07-29 Thread stan
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:45:19 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:46:41 -0700 From: stan gr...@q.com To: fedora-list@redhat.com In-Reply-To: debbc7550907290516x2b0365c1v83a4d4ad2fd5c...@mail.gmail.com References: debbc7550907290516x2b0365c1v83a4d4ad2fd5c

Re: Problems after a yum upgrade from F10 to F11

2009-07-29 Thread stan
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:28:57 +0200 lars.bjorn...@broadpark.no (Lars Bjørndal) wrote: I tried that too, without any difference - sorry. Perhaps you could try some of the other vga options - 0x312, etc. It has been years since I set this up, don't have a list of them anymore. Maybe someone

Re: Problems after a yum upgrade from F10 to F11

2009-07-29 Thread stan
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:56:26 -0400 Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 07/29/2009 06:14 PM, stan wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:28:57 +0200 lars.bjorn...@broadpark.no (Lars Bjørndal) wrote: I tried that too, without any difference - sorry. Perhaps you could

Re: Audio Plays Fast in F11 w/ Dell Optiplex GX240

2009-07-28 Thread stan
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:28:15 -0700 Keith ac7xc...@comcast.net wrote: Here is the info from lspci 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 12) When ever I play an audio file like ogg or mp3 the audio is playing slightly too fast. Video

Re: Problem with Fire Fox

2009-07-28 Thread stan
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:25:20 -0600 Wendell Nichols wc...@shaw.ca wrote: Where did all this top posting facisim come from in the first place? It makes it much harder to read hundreds of postings when I have to scroll to the bottom of every post so see whats been added! Mail readers display

Re: Blank Display

2009-07-28 Thread stan
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Morris Buffalo mangu...@yahoo.com wrote: Am new to fedora and i have a problem. when i start it loads ok up until when i login then the screen goes blank (whitish-greyish) but i can still see the cursor. How can i resolve this please help It sounds

Re: Gnome responsiveness

2009-07-27 Thread stan
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:42:29 -0500 Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote: Is it just me, or does gnome (don't have kde installed so can't test that) seem really slow? And I mean, like when hitting an button on a menu to close it, to hit a menu such as File/edit/etc.. Seems most of the time, it

Re: Option to select desktop

2009-07-27 Thread stan
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:23:44 +0530 RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.kopp...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for the reply. I have installed 'switchdesk' package and also created the /etc/sysconfig.desktop file, but it not working. What should I do next? Provide more information. What version of

Re: simple question

2009-07-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:13:26 +0800 solarflow99 solarflo...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have the file: cpufreq-userspace try a: find / -name cpufreq-userspace command to see, and if it exists, please also try: yum whatprovides cpufreq-userspace I cant find this file anywhere, and my

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread stan
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:40:58 -0700 Markus Kesaromous remotes...@live.com wrote: I have watched this thread for a couple of days, and finally decided to throw in my $.02's worth. 1. I had absolutely NO problems with F11's installation. 2. I did have a problem with the fact that the Kernel

Re: From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

2009-07-25 Thread stan
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:56:59 -0700 Markus Kesaromous remotes...@live.com wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 19:34 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Craig White wrote: pulse audio is little more than a collection layer for audio from various sources. I am fairly convinced that most of the griping I

Solution?? Re: Firefox complains while running, occasionally locks system at start

2009-07-23 Thread stan
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:52:16 -0700 stan gr...@q.com wrote: Hi, If I run Firefox 3.5 on F11 x86_64 from a terminal as /usr/bin/firefox the following messages come up on the terminal continuously: (firefox:20872): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref

Re: Success - finally

2009-07-21 Thread stan
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:20:20 -0700 Markus Kesaromous remotes...@live.com wrote: Bradley, On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Bradley wrote: Well, I've been tinkering with installing an optimized kernel for years and finally I understand how to do it! This was such a big thing for me,

Re: aspell rpm is defective.

2009-07-21 Thread stan
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:18:15 -0500 Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: No one responded to my question of the absence of dictionaries for aspell and ispell so I looked further. The aspell rpm at least through f9 put the dictionaries in /usr/lib/aspell-0.60/ They are not there or

Re: FC11 Random lockups with Celeron 1GHz CPU.

2009-07-21 Thread stan
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:03:00 -0500 Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am experiencing random lockups on my system. They started with FC10 and now I've had them about twice with FC11 First I thought the reason was the graphical drivers, but they continued (although less frequently)

Firefox complains while running, occasionally locks system at start

2009-07-18 Thread stan
Hi, If I run Firefox 3.5 on F11 x86_64 from a terminal as /usr/bin/firefox the following messages come up on the terminal continuously: (firefox:20872): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref 0x3edb469920(0x7f599462e1e0) (firefox:20872): GLib-GObject-WARNING

Re: Firefox complains while running, occasionally locks system at start

2009-07-18 Thread stan
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:12:17 + g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: stan wrote: If I run Firefox 3.5 on F11 x86_64 from a terminal as /usr/bin/firefox the following messages come up on the terminal continuously: what happens if you run firefox without '' ? Same thing. what happens

Re: Firefox complains while running, occasionally locks system at start

2009-07-18 Thread stan
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:20:46 + g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: g wrote: stan wrote: If I run Firefox 3.5 on F11 x86_64 from a terminal as /usr/bin/firefox the following messages come up on the terminal continuously: what happens if you run firefox without '' ? what

Re: missing audio after F11 install on IBM T61 Thinkpad

2009-07-17 Thread stan
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:32:51 -0700 (PDT) itsme_...@yahoo.com wrote: I have run the shell script and here is the output: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=514e34407ba9bad84fe86effa0942e0565747136 I am delighted with help! Everything looks good, but I vaguely recall a message from Takashi

Re: Partitioning FC11 ??

2009-07-17 Thread stan
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:15:18 -0400 Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: My partition layout is sda1 ext3 /boot sda2 ext4 /home sda3 ext4 / sda4 Extended sda 5 Swap I want sda1 /boot to be my boot, why is it default selecting sda3 / , in Boot Loader Operating system list ??

Re: Partitioning FC11 ??

2009-07-17 Thread stan
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:50:24 -0400 Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 07/17/2009 09:44 PM, stan wrote: On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:15:18 -0400 Jimmickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: My partition layout is sda1 ext3 /boot sda2 ext4 /home sda3 ext4 / sda4 Extended sda

Re: missing audio after F11 install on IBM T61 Thinkpad

2009-07-16 Thread stan
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Globe Trotter itsme_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I have been missing audio after installing F11 (from the XFCE spin) on my IBM Thinkpad T61. I looked around and even tried the following:

Re: F9 --- F11 server update with preupgrade?

2009-07-16 Thread stan
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:11:52 +0200 Peter Diercks d...@jls-hh.de wrote: Hello List! I am running Fedora 9 on a remote dedicated server leased from a service provider. Access is through SSH. It is a LAMP server with moodle (an educational cms) as the only application. I want to upgrade to

Re: F9 --- F11 server update with preupgrade?

2009-07-16 Thread stan
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:29:06 -0700 stan gr...@q.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:11:52 +0200 Peter Diercks d...@jls-hh.de wrote: Hello List! I am running Fedora 9 on a remote dedicated server leased from a service provider. Access is through SSH. It is a LAMP server with moodle

Re: grub Q

2009-07-15 Thread stan
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:13:27 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Greetings all; I have added another drive, making 4 sata drives now, and installed a 64 bit distro on it, but didn't let the installer overwrite my dual boot setup on /dev/sda1. Is it sufficient to add the

Re: grub Q

2009-07-15 Thread stan
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:21:46 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: I have tried to do that and failed, but after I gave up and booted back to F10, I found that diskdrake did not actually use the /dev/sdd3 and up partitions that I told it to, translating /dev/sdd2 into the

Re: simple LDAP for address book?

2009-07-14 Thread stan
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:03:47 -0400 Tom Horsley tom.hors...@att.net wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:46:52 -0700 Craig White wrote: At least I have never found someone who linked something on the Internet that took from from knowing nothing about LDAP to understanding it. I don't want to

Re: How do I switch mirror for rpmfusion?

2009-07-12 Thread stan
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:03:47 -0700 Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com wrote: I'd prefer a system based on existing proven technology, e.g. bittorrent. It already does all this and more -- and works great for high loads, e.g. when a new version comes out. It doesn't matter where the

Re: How do I switch mirror for rpmfusion?

2009-07-12 Thread stan
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:04:52 -0700 Kam Leo kam@gmail.com wrote: Torrent speed depends upon the combined donated bandwidth of participants. Works great when you have a large pool of peers and seeders. Too few participants and you might be downloading at 3K-4K bit/sec or waiting forever

Re: Errors were encountered while downloading packages

2009-07-12 Thread stan
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:09:47 -0400 Blaine Dominoe fedorau...@rogers.com wrote: I keep getting this error when trying to install system updates: Errors were encountered while downloading packages. dbus-cxx-tools-0.4.1-1.fc11.i586: failure: dbus-cxx-tools-0.4.1-1.fc11.i586.rpm from updates:

Re: prelink segfault

2009-07-11 Thread stan
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:21:35 +0100 Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com wrote: I am getting the following on one of my Fedora boxes. Has anyone any ideas how to tackle it. I have reinstalled prelink. /etc/cron.daily/prelink: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: line 47: 594 Segmentation fault

Re: How do I switch mirror for rpmfusion?

2009-07-11 Thread stan
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:22:51 -0700 Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com wrote: gil...@altern.org wrote: Why isn't this the default? Probably because it doesn't work too well. The way it works is by pinging the IPs of all mirrors to see which one has the smallest latency. In a perfect

Re: Logging on ATT Yahoo Dial-Up with Linux

2009-07-09 Thread stan
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:29:22 -0500 Roy Quick roy.qu...@att.net wrote: July 9, 2009 Anybody, please advise me how to log on ATT Yahoo dial-up after installing Fedora. Frustrated. I have not be able to make connect after installing any Linux OS. ATT Yahoo techs, of course, respond that

Re: One or more disks are failing ?

2009-07-07 Thread stan
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:12:47 -0600 Robin Laing robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca wrote: I am also seeing this on drives that are only a few months old. I was having system crashes so I wouldn't be surprised about the need to re-allocate blocks. Now the question that I pose is, how do get these

Re: F11 x86_64 problems -- my disks are getting locked out

2009-07-06 Thread stan
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:15:58 -0400 Rich Mahn r...@lat.com wrote: I did a clean install of F11 x86_64 on a system that also has F10 i686, F8, and others for a multi-boot situation. F11 is working fairly well except for one problem. I can't mount one of my disks. snip Does anybody have any

Re: Building a custom kernel with directions from Fedora

2009-07-06 Thread stan
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:01:53 +0100 psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: or you can just adjust the kernel spec file to build what you need ;) phil I went and looked in the kernel.spec file. It says the following about default build options. # The following build options are

Re: TRY AGAIN, error running Maple 7 on Fedora 10

2009-07-06 Thread stan
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:04:40 -0400 William M. Quarles wal...@bellsouth.net wrote: # #!/bin/sh # Copyright (c) 1993-2001 by Waterloo Maple Inc. # All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication prohibited. # Permission is granted to modify this file to

Re: preupgrade 10 - 11 pain: network error

2009-07-05 Thread stan
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:55:22 -0400 brian br...@zijn-digital.com wrote: I've run preupgrade to download packages, etc. At some point, there was a msg stating that there was no room for a boot image (i believe--it was /boot/something) but that it would be fine if I have a wired network

Re: TRY AGAIN, error running Maple 7 on Fedora 10

2009-07-05 Thread stan
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:04:40 -0400 William M. Quarles wal...@bellsouth.net wrote: OK, I wasn't able to get enough attention or help the first time I posted about this error, so I am trying again. I installed Maple 7 on my laptop running Fedora 10. Maple 7 is somewhat old now (original

Re: preupgrade 10 - 11 pain: network error

2009-07-05 Thread stan
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:45:24 -0400 brian br...@zijn-digital.com wrote: Thanks for the response. I had to go out for a bit and, after booting, I got back into F10 without any problem. I'd assumed (yeah, I know) that it would attempt to continue the install process again. I see nothing at all

Re: preupgrade 10 - 11 pain: network error

2009-07-05 Thread stan
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:24:51 -0400 brian br...@zijn-digital.com wrote: But I'm wondering *when* I can edit that. If I run preupgrade again, how do I edit that file before rebooting if it's preupgrade that generates the file? Presumably, the file is written to after the user clicks reboot.

Re: forced to do text-based F11 install

2009-07-03 Thread stan
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:21:51 -0400 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu wrote: On 07/03/2009 10:11 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: The GUI in anaconda works fine right up to the point where the creating filesystem on /dev/sda1 window starts and Xorg starts using ~95% of the CPU. Should

Re: Logged in twice?

2009-07-03 Thread stan
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:23:08 -0400 Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: Top looks at CPU times and process sizes, you want to know what looks at IO reads/writes. (Sorry, off the top of my head, I can't remember) iotop shows disk reads and writes. Usually has to be

Re: Preupgrade still not working

2009-07-02 Thread stan
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:53:13 +0100 Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: stan wrote: Either this is a bug somewhere in the chain between you and fedora or you have some kind of filtering activaed. What happens if you try wget or curl to get the file? Or galeon or seamonkey

Re: Preupgrade still not working

2009-07-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:22:33 +0100 Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I'm puzzled by this comment, which seems to have closed Bug 508439 - preupgrade has Failed to fetch release info. -- This capture shows that preupgrade tries to get the url

Re: Totem Movie Player

2009-07-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:05:19 +0200 (CEST) gil...@altern.org wrote: On 06/30/2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Make sure you have gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-ffmpeg installed. It certainly looks like a good suggestion as 32 more packages were installed after the

Re: Preupgrade still not working

2009-07-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:07:48 +0100 Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: stan wrote: I'm puzzled by this comment, which seems to have closed Bug 508439 - preupgrade has Failed to fetch release info. -- This capture shows that preupgrade tries

Re: Audio woes on F11

2009-06-30 Thread stan
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:50:08 +0100 Chris chris1.nore...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I've got an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card (ICE1712 chip) running on an AMD 64 bit CPU (can't remember exact model right now). I originally installed F11 x86_64 and had a few sound problems, but it worked if I

Re: Live CD fails to boot

2009-06-29 Thread stan
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:17:17 +0200 archp2008 no-reply...@fcp.surfsite.org wrote: I have downloaded and burned two different versions of Fedora 11 but both copies failed to boot giving text messages about bad sectors, etc. The two versions were i686 and the x86-64. I assume that either I got

Re: A new problem with preupgrade - CORRECTION

2009-06-29 Thread stan
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:31:25 +0100 Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rpm yum Then try I'm afraid this doesn't do anything for me: - [...@alice yum.repos.d]$ sudo yum

PING Frank Cox: your privoxy-squid setup need visible_hostname set in squid.conf to work

2009-06-28 Thread stan
Hi, I used your instructions for how to set up a privoxy-squid interface to the internet successfully in F10, though modified slightly for my situation. When I tried to use the F10 configuration files in F11, I could not get squid to start. It kept saying it wanted the visible_hostname set. The

Re: Post upgrade F10-F11: Galeon browser fails to start

2009-06-28 Thread stan
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:41:21 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur p...@brama.com wrote: Greetings, I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 600m Laptop this weekend to F11. A few bumps, most of which I've resolved. One that is left is that my galeon web browser fails to start. Firefox works correctly. I am

Re: Firefox 3.5b4 from F11 -- Forward and Back buttons disabled

2009-06-28 Thread stan
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:59:19 -0400 Steven F. LeBrun ste...@lebruns.com wrote: I did a clean install of Fedora 11 (32bit version) on my laptop. After the install, I copied back my home directory from my previous Fedora 10 install. In other words, when I first ran Firefox 3.5b4, it used the

Firefox 3.5 beta occasionally completely locks system when starting f11 x86_64

2009-06-27 Thread stan
Hi, Occasionally, when starting Firefox in F11 x86_64 it will completely lock the system, requiring a hard reboot. Is anyone else experiencing this? If it is just an idiosyncrasy on my system, I won't bother opening a problem record. I have no indication of what is causing this, it might not

Re: Firefox 3.5 beta occasionally completely locks system when starting f11 x86_64

2009-06-27 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:51:46 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: Try firefox -safe-mode. If it still happens, report a bug. If not, the problem is probably in one of your add-ons. You can then selectively enable them till you discover which one it is. I'll try this. The

Re: Firefox 3.5 beta occasionally completely locks system when starting f11 x86_64

2009-06-27 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:35:01 -0700 Jason Turning jturn...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I haven't had a problem on my F11 x86_64 laptop. I do run the closed Nvidia driver. Are you running a closed driver? Maybe it is locking X, so see if you can re-enable the CTRL-ALT-BKSP key to reset just X.

Re: Firefox 3.5 beta occasionally completely locks system when starting f11 x86_64

2009-06-27 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:51:46 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: Try firefox -safe-mode. If it still happens, report a bug. If not, the problem is probably in one of your add-ons. You can then selectively enable them till you discover which one it is. Tried this a half

Re: Firefox 3.5 beta occasionally completely locks system when starting f11 x86_64

2009-06-27 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:32:35 -0400 Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: stan wrote: On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:35:01 -0700 Jason Turning jturn...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I haven't had a problem on my F11 x86_64 laptop. I do run the closed Nvidia driver. Are you running a closed driver

Scrapbook+ on FF 3.5 beta, script to convert original scrapbook pages so they can be used with plus

2009-06-26 Thread stan
only the bottom input_filename and output_filename in the file. All that!!! Is it worth all that trouble? It was for me. If it is for you, here it is: import os import string import re import sys import subprocess def convert_scrapbook_to_plus(input_filename='/home/stan/.mozilla/firefox

Re: Pungi and kickstart problems for F11 install

2009-06-25 Thread stan
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:54:18 +0200 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: stan wrote: I installed F11 x86_64 from the DVD. I did a minimal install using only the base and development groups because I have several thousand extra packages I like to install. Usually I do them via script

Re: Some issues in F11

2009-06-25 Thread stan
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:09:55 -0500 Bradley pursley...@comcast.net wrote: - I can no longer play MP3 files with Rythymbox and in Nautilus (audio preview) by default in F11 where it could in F8! (This is a major issue with my family) You can see here why mp3 is not supported for baseline

Re: need to change non-existant xorg.conf

2009-06-25 Thread stan
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:46:59 +0800 Ian Chapman packa...@amiga-hardware.com wrote: On 25/06/09 21:06, Gary Stainburn wrote: Using xrandr I get the following error message. I have been told that I need to change the virtual screen size in xorg.conf to fix this. however, when I went to do

F11 DVD install video problem and solution

2009-06-24 Thread stan
While installing F11 x86_64 from the DVD everything would go swimmingly during language, timezone selection, then fail when it moved on. It would be happily running along, then the screen would go blank and all DVD and HD access would stop, obviously no error message :-) . Media passed the check.

Pungi and kickstart problems for F11 install

2009-06-24 Thread stan
/mnt/r2s1/home/stan/dl/iso/Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso /media/dvdr -t iso9660 -o loop) This is the boot record to put in grub title Fedora 11 install root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-f11-install askmethod initrd /initrd-f11-install.img It started fine and I could have pointed

Re: Change Machine, No Sound (longish)

2009-06-22 Thread stan
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:27:21 -0500 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: stan wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:22:59 -0500 When I looked at my file, I realized I've been giving you bad information. The file in /etc is modprobe.conf, not modules.conf. Here is how you set it Hmm

Re: Skype is a CPU hog on Fedora 11

2009-06-22 Thread stan
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:03:00 -0600 Robert Wuest rwues...@wuest.org wrote: Skype was working fine on Fedora 10, but on 11 it consumes 100% of a CPU (running on a Q6600 system). On Fedora 10, it's CPU usage was in the noise. After a while (a couple of minutes), the lag time increases to where

Re: F11 fix for sound on Intel HDA machines ?

2009-06-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:37:25 +1000 Danny Yee da...@anatomy.usyd.edu.au wrote: stan wrote: This will tell you the maker and model of your HDA-Intel chip (and a lot of other potentially useful information for troubleshooting). You could post it here so people can see what your system

Re: Hard Drives not accessible after Update to F11

2009-06-20 Thread stan
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:35:45 +0200 Andreas Burget andibur...@gmx.de wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:15:51 +0200 Andreas Burgetandiburget gmx de wrote: Hi there, I updated my System via Preupgrade from F10 to F11. The update went smoothly but after the reboot the System stopped

Re: Yum not working after upgrade

2009-06-20 Thread stan
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:49:22 +0100 Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: Yum is not working after I upgraded from F10 to F11. yum update gives me: here was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No

Re: Yum not working after upgrade

2009-06-20 Thread stan
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:31:52 +0100 Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: Frank == Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com writes: Frank On 20/06/09 19:20, Colin Paul Adams wrote: Colin == Colin Paul Adamsco...@colina.demon.co.uk writes: Actually there are

Re: this is why I hate changing Fedora versions

2009-06-20 Thread stan
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:37:18 -0700 Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Apart from Ubuntu, does anyone have a suggestion where else I can look to get things working? The system _thinks_ it's working, kplayer chugs through Sweet Home Chicago just as if it was doing something useful, but no

Re: F11 fix for sound on Intel HDA machines ?

2009-06-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:50:35 +1000 Danny Yee da...@anatomy.usyd.edu.au wrote: stan wrote: Your drivers are at 1.0.18, and as someone else said there was a lot of work done on hda-intel from 1.0.18 to 1.0.20. You need to update the driver package as described earlier in the thread

Re: Change Machine, No Sound (longish)

2009-06-19 Thread stan
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:04 -0500 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Anyone have any suggestions? I sure need some. Mike These are instructions about your chip from the latest alsa driver snapshot. That snapshot is available here:

Re: Unable to boot F11 with multiple drives on system

2009-06-19 Thread stan
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:05:43 +0200 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I was given the option to put my boot loader on sda1 amongst others even though F11 had chosen a PATA drive as default for grub. My other SATA drives where also shown. Anyway i choose sda1 like it works with

Re: Change Machine, No Sound (longish)

2009-06-19 Thread stan
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:33:21 -0500 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Thanks for the reply. I've downloaded, untarred, and am reading. So far, I don't see anything, but there's a lot there. You want to look in the directory alsa-kernel/Documentation. That is where all the driver

Re: clone

2009-06-19 Thread stan
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:30:39 +0100 (BST) Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: Thank for your email. THis is not what I want. I have a machine installed 6 months ago, which has then been enriched by a lot of packages. Now I would like to clone the installation. typically I want to pass from

Re: Kernel 2.6.30

2009-06-19 Thread stan
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:44:52 -0400 Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: I'm going to assume that question is for the O.P. and pass on it. Fedora kernels are not kernel.org kernels, there are patches applied, so there is at least some justification for starting with a Fedora source. I wish

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