alsaconf for Fedora

2008-05-23 Thread Ric Moore
Is there any particular reason that alsaconf is not included in Fedora? If it works and it's simple, I'd like to see it. I'm getting a blooming headache reading the howtos to set up 6 channel sound. I've used kasound in the past and it worked well. Now, it's not doing the trick for whatever

Re: alsaconf for Fedora

2008-05-24 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 09:50 -0700, stan wrote: Ric Moore wrote: Is there any particular reason that alsaconf is not included in Fedora? If it works and it's simple, I'd like to see it. I'm getting a blooming headache reading the howtos to set up 6 channel sound. I've used kasound

Re: Amarock - wma format questions

2008-05-25 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 17:08 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 23:25 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Just for grins, I located several wma files and mplayer plays them just fine. There's some WMA files that mplayer will handle, and others that it will not. e.g. From http

Re: FC9 and Nvidia Drivers

2008-05-25 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:29 -0500, Daniel Auger wrote: Downgrading xorg to the F8 version is still the only way to get 3D as far as I know. I have done this and it works quite well. There has been no new news on a driver for the beta Xorg yet.

Re: Xvfb and fontpath.d

2008-05-27 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 09:09 +0200, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 26.05.2008 23:56, Ric Moore a écrit : | When I try this, I get this: | | Xvfb :2 -query iam | Could not init font path element catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, removing | | /etc/X11

Re: F9 - Install a Font

2008-05-28 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:06 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2008 16:09:23 Rex Dieter wrote: Michael C wrote: This thread reminds me of an unpleasant bug in the KDE Control Center (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251286) which hosed the X-server for anyone

Re: Xvfb and fontpath.d

2008-05-28 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:43 +0200, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 28.05.2008 06:27, Ric Moore a écrit : | On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 09:09 +0200, François Patte wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Le 26.05.2008 23:56, Ric Moore

Re: F9/KDE4.0/Nvidia not running/Dual monitors ?

2008-05-29 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 00:22 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: linuxguy wrote: Why is the nvidia module throwing an error during boot ? How do I fix it ? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common#Proprietary_.28third-party.29_video_drivers_do_not_work All I get is a blank page. :) Ric --

Re: F8 - F9 horror

2008-05-31 Thread Ric Moore
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 08:03 -0700, scm in seattle wrote: Surely you can, in some manner... as I replied much earlier, I had by mistake enabled the Rawhide development repository. The scary thing is that the normal/typical update manager found these packages and proceeded to 'upgrade' my

Re: Mono sound only, PulseAudio and Fedora 9... or where's system-config-sound?

2008-05-31 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 19:12 +1000, David Timms wrote: Antti Aspinen wrote: As of today I cannot get sound at all. PulseAudio Volume Control keeps ringing saying that connection failed: connection refused. And Phonon says that PulseAudio doesn't work. All the rest of the apps say that they

Re: Opengl and F8/F9

2008-05-31 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 11:24 -0700, Les wrote: Hi, everyone, It appears that Mesa is supposed to replace OpenGL for F8 and I assume for F9 (haven't upgraded yet), but the croquet application doesn't work, due to an undefined module. I looked for an implementation of OpenGl for F8 and

Re: Mono sound only, PulseAudio and Fedora 9... or where's system-config-sound?

2008-06-01 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 19:40 +0300, Antti Aspinen wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2008 19:42:59 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: how about changing the order of the soundcard with the webcam ? Just an edit of /etc/modprobe.conf ought to set it straight. The webcam is mono, right? But since it is loaded

Re: Mono sound only, PulseAudio and Fedora 9... or where's system-config-sound?

2008-06-03 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 21:36 +0300, Antti Aspinen wrote: On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:27:52 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:  Sorry, Antti. I'm still running F7 and I have no clue. I pine for simpler days and feel your pain. This may be even more clueless, but Thanks for the message Ric. It gave

Re: no more ddcprobe? where is /etc/sysconfig/hwconf? is kudzu gone?

2008-06-03 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what tool have replaced ddcprobe? Also where I could look for my hardware I used to look in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, now I can't find it? Does kudzu still being used on FC9? I have it on my

RE: Logwatch report on another machine?

2008-06-06 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:17 +0200, KAPTURKIEWICZ Patrick wrote: The Dept of Agriculture in Texas used it to monitor hundreds of machines on their intranet. It was free, very basic, and it worked like a charm. For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of it, for the life of me. But,

Re: make thunderbird NOT show html

2008-06-07 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 00:13 +, g wrote: geoDavid Boles wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: snip And that bad news for us is those clueless people are developers that develop email programs and really don't have a clue what they are doing, but certainly think they do.

Re: Switching virtual terminals

2008-06-08 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 08:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2008 05:09:44 Ric Moore wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 14:09 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2008 08:29:12 Jim Dever wrote: g wrote: Jim Dever wrote: Tim wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 05:11

Re: Are usb headphone generic? ...and swan song.

2008-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 12:52 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: g wrote: Neal Becker wrote: My logitech usb headphone works fine, but I don't know if a generic USB headphone would work. I'm wondering if this will work on linux: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/95dd/ think

Re: [F8]: Getting MIDI player to work: HOW?

2008-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 18:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: What is missing is the midi module, I think. I just don't see it. Perhaps I need to manually add this in? If so, how is this done? Oh, I see the PA Device Chooser. It appears as an applet. Doh! Seems everything is there - just that

Re: nant/mono and nunit.core

2008-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 12:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry if this questions is something that has been answered, but I don't know how to find previous threads, and my search of FAQs and Google is not returning anything useful. I'm trying to compile something with nant/mono, and

Re: Switching virtual terminals

2008-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 22:56 -0400, Jim Dever wrote: Ric Moore wrote: Wow, it must be in the way the key combination works out in the resultant ASCII code. I wonder if you switched your keyboard setting to US instead of Hail the Queen if that would set ctrl-alt-F7 to rights, as well

Re: Checking CPU temperature

2008-06-13 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:27 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 09:41 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 18:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 17:01 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:06 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:

Re: f9 2.6.25 kernel driver module capability question

2008-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 21:10 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote: Hi, We use fedora at work and are trying to port our driver from F7 to F9. I am acting as gopher for our system architect so please be liberal with any commentary. I won't be able to post his feedback to any comments/questions (as

Re: flashplugin-nonfree and W32 codecs in F9 ?

2008-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 19:14 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: Hi 2008/6/13 linuxguy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: and W32 codecs for F9 ? What do you need these for? I haven't had these binary-only codecs for Microsoft Windows installed for at least an year and a half, and I haven't yet encountered

Re: flash video to mp3 file ? (ffmpeg doesn't recognize flash file...)

2008-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 11:51 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 11:47 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 16:00 -0600, linuxguy wrote: Never mind, the input file was corrupt. It works fine with a good file. On Fri,

Re: tr problem

2008-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 10:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I have an old Xerox Diablo 1650-ro printer, the fastest daisy wheel ever made at 40 cps. Whoops! You ferget the NEC Spinwriter at 50 cps! It was smart and tabbed over spaces to do it. Diablo's (I've had several) needed software

Re: Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10? I want it too !

2008-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 14:58 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Sat June 14 2008 14:21:29 Antonio Olivares wrote: stay here and write many, many bug reports, rally the troops in hopes of making KDE 4.X the best KDE that is possible, take the positives the good things and try to turn your face to bad

Re: flash video to mp3 file ? (ffmpeg doesn't recognize flash file...)

2008-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 12:55 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 03:03 +, g wrote: what i see as biggest waste ... very few ... clean out ... post that has nothing to do with what they are replying to. Me too! ;-) Tim, I agree!! ;) Ric --

Re: tr problem

2008-06-15 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 00:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2008, Ric Moore wrote: Whoops! You ferget the NEC Spinwriter at 50 cps! It was smart and tabbed over spaces to do it. Diablo's (I've had several) needed software drivers to do the same thing. I wish I still had mine

Re: flash video to mp3 file ? (ffmpeg doesn't recognize flash file...)

2008-06-16 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 03:56 +, g wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I agree :-) you do? that is a surprise to me. especially from what i have seen in a lot of your previous post. ;o) but, please, do not take my comments as a slam against you, as there are many others who are much

Re: Firefox for ever

2008-06-17 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 23:06 +0930, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 11:53 +, Tom Horsley wrote: For the boot log, I'd probably need a custom kernel for the tty to translate the output to 5 level baudot code and run the serial interface at 12 baud though :-). But then your computer

Re: Fedora ain't playin' around w/Firefox 3.

2008-06-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 12:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 08:34 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: /***/ 8. U.S. GOVERNMENT END-USERS. This Product is a commercial item, as that term is defined in 48

Re: Fedora ain't playin' around w/Firefox 3.

2008-06-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:16 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: Red Hat does not charge for the software, they charge for the services that they provide. At least that is what I have been told many many times. So now Firefox is not free anymore :(, is that what you are saying. Opera is Free/but

Re: totally offtopic (race to make car that runs on tap water)

2008-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:44 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Yeah, exactly. And if you buy in the next 4 hours, we'll include a fantastic solar powered clothes dryer. Careful - there are sound useful reasons for solar powered clothes driers that go via electricity or steam first. Jeeez, Alan. I'm

Re: Fedora ain't playin' around w/Firefox 3.

2008-06-20 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 16:34 +0930, Tim wrote: Try telling them that when a government decides that they do own you, and that you must do this and that... You must pay us taxes or else, you're drafted, you can't leave/enter a country without our say so, these are the laws that will be applied

Re: Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-20 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 23:31 +0200, wwp wrote: Hello Jim, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:12:24 -0400 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wwp wrote: Hello Jim, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:26:29 -0400 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wwp wrote: Hello Jim, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008

Re: Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10? I want it too !

2008-06-22 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 05:56 +, g wrote: David Boles wrote: Then, if I was you I would run to these other distros and drop Fedora like a hot brick. Oh, BTW, IMO *anyone* that would use Fedora version anything in a production environment is a fool. Fedora itself has said that. Many

Re: F8 All multi media is TRIPLE SPEED!

2008-06-23 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 20:15 -0400, Nat Gross wrote: Running Fedora 8 32 bit on an Intel 1.6ghz. (This box has run Fedora since FC Test 3.) (Latest yum updates.) About 2 weeks ago, my sound/video system started playing back everything at double-triple speed! Actually video seems like double

Re: F8 All multi media is TRIPLE SPEED!

2008-06-23 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:09 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:15:06 -0400, Nat Gross wrote: Running Fedora 8 32 bit on an Intel 1.6ghz. (This box has run Fedora since FC Test 3.) (Latest yum updates.) About 2 weeks ago, my sound/video system started playing back

Re: F8 All multi media is TRIPLE SPEED!

2008-06-23 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 21:22 -0400, Nat Gross wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Ric Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the OP has more than one kernel installed, maybe try using the older one? I have had a few kernel upgrades since and I think my config keeps only 3 kernels around

Re: epson usb scanner - device busy

2008-06-27 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:21 +0100, Carrot Cruncher wrote: hi. just tried to use the scanner in my epson rx425 mfp for the first time since upgrading (actually a brand new install) to fc9. sane-find-scanner returns the following entries when run as root : found USB scanner (vendor=0x0557,

Re: Cant use Crystal Eye webcam on my Acer Laptop with Fedora 9

2008-07-06 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:02 +0530, Rohan Kulkarni wrote: I installed kernel-devel and the finally installed the linux-uvc driver :) but still the webcam is not working :( Please don't top post. It screws up the reading of the progression of the problem and responses. If you've read other posts,

Re: linux distribution

2008-07-07 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 14:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 10:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: ann kok wrote: what is the different between fedora and gentee Thank you for your help First gentee is an Open Source Free Programming Language. You probably

Re: Closed source modules will be banned from kernel?

2008-07-08 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 10:05 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 08:35 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 07 July 2008 20:37:33 Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:51:51 +0100 Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Binary modules usually last only a few releases before

Re: No streams available

2008-07-13 Thread Ric Moore
Colin == Colin Paul Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin I just tried installing skype 2.0 on my Fedora 9 x86_64 Colin box. But it said problem with audio playback when i tried Colin to make a call. Colin So I opened the ALSA mixer. It says no streams avaialble.

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 03:18 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jul 15, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: What we *are* advocating is that the GNU/Linux operating system be referred to as GNU/Linux because GNU is the name of the project whose goal is to

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-19 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 13:57 +0800, Robert Bernabe wrote: sorry..i changed the subject and I thought that would be enough to change the thread...didn't know an entirely new email had to be done...will resend...sorry..really didn't know that the thread would be picked up even when the subject

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-19 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:34 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: A rare bit of honesty there: In 2008, we found that GNU packages made up 15% of the “main” repository of the gNewSense GNU/Linux distribution. Linux made up 1.5%. So the same argument would apply even

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-20 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 14:01 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Ric Moore wrote: Has HURD actually become a working kernel?? Ric Apparently yes: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install Björn Persson I just took a peek at it. Crufty comes to mind. And, it took over ten years to do what

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-20 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 05:34 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 02:42 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Besides, T.A.G. was about free software since 1980. (Thieves and Assassins Guild) If it wasn't free, it was made free. grins Ric Arghhh - they've since moved to Sweden Good idea

Re: I need help with Fedora

2008-07-20 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 02:13 +0530, aakash sharma wrote: Dear Kevin Should I go with FEDORA or any other distribution? I like fedora because it's based on red hat and they are most trusted worldwide. Plus it's interface is quite cool. So, just guide me. The interface (desktop) IS

Re: I need help with Fedora

2008-07-20 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 21:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Do you have Windows data in there|/ \if not, let the installer delete the partition. Linux partitions are best created with Linux tools, so again, do it in the installer. Whoops! Forgot to mention defragging the drive!! Gotta get

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-20 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 14:56 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make

Re: I need help with Fedora

2008-07-20 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 20:02 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 02:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: In general, if you don't know what you are doing then maybe Linux isn't for you? Oh please. Can you avoid that elitist

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-21 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 22:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 04:47 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Having said that, my *usage* of the term Linux encompasses any accumulation of software that has a useful purpose and is constructed around a

Re: I need help with Fedora

2008-07-21 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 04:57 +, g wrote: Ric Moore wrote: snip When I first started using Linux, I bugged the living heck out of anyone snip fsck themselves while leaving them liking it! :) Ric i am really going to enjoy checking f9 respin. i am going to see what all i can get

Re: I need help with Fedora

2008-07-21 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 05:59 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:20 +0530, aakash sharma wrote: See, one of the problems with open source is . THERE'S NO SUPPORT: Wrong, wrong, wrong! there is, of course, the irony

Re: SHUT THE F*CK UP ALREADY!!! Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, you freaking people are never gonna agree, and that's fine. We are not here to watch zealots clog up our inboxes with this garbage. Take it off list, or meet in the alley out back and handle it with your favorite dueling

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-21 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 04:47 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: I kept asking in the hope that at least some people would start thinking about whether their opponents even understood what meaning they put in the words. I expected that some of the anti-GNU/Linux folks would say that Linux is the

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-21 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 20:42 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jul 21, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Alexandre Oliva So, if someone said I'm a Linux developer, you'd immediately know that the person: .. wrote some code that runs on the Linux OS. And you're not the least

Re: flock

2008-07-22 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 07:29 +0530, Arnav Kalra wrote: i do not know hoe to install it Didja ever get some help?? I don't know what flock is, but I'll try, if you're desperate! Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-25 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 12:18 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:36:58PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, Nifty Fedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: systematic interface between the kernel services and the applications. This interface consists of

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-27 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 13:49 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have also found a page in which it clearly explains some problems with the GPL snippage The analogy collapses once you realize that information can not be moved, only copied, and matter can not be copied, only moved.

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-27 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 10:29 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: which is an interesting read as well. Here's a quote taken directly from it if you add 'large pieces of originality' to the code which are valid for copyright protection on their own, you may choose to put a different and separate

Re: Older machine, Install-DVD doesnt boot

2008-07-27 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 22:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my problem: I've got an older pc (Asus Cusi-M) with Celeron(1100MHz), 500MB RAM. As I tried to boot the installation-dvd (which works with nearly every other distribution, e.g.ubuntu does and is installed) it hanging

Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 23:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really. This list worked great until Alexandre hijacked it. He needs to be booted for persisting in spewing all that OT shit into our mailboxes after being asked repeatedly to stop. I used to be ambivalent about the Free

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-29 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:05 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Come on folks, what do you say? Is anyone willing to co-found a non-profit organization with me for this cause? I apel on your morality, ethics and a feeling on what is the Right Thing here. Just use your quantum intentionality and

Xvfb - desperate -- help needed...

2008-07-31 Thread Ric Moore
I tried installing Kubuntu to Mom's machine. It failed to reboot. Tried Mandrake, same deal. Installed CentOS, installed and rebooted like a charm. But, I'm still having the issue with Java's Wonderland launching X11 applications from with it, using Xvfb. On the Wonderland list, everyone says it

Re: messed-up encoding

2008-08-03 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 09:17 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: This is true. Perhaps the OP used the accent because he thinks the app is named after the Catalan artist Joan Miró, though the site doesn't appear to say this. OTOH, miro without an accent is Spanish for I watch, so who knows? I

Re: messed-up encoding

2008-08-03 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 02:49 +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ric Moore wrote: snip I thought that was a trademarked name of a pressure cooker. :) Ric i thought that was with 2 'r's. It is, I just thought to toss a yuk yuk into the salad of conversation

Re: /etc/profile and Xvfb question

2008-08-07 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 00:19 +1000, Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: /etc/profile # Start the X virtual frame buffer (Xvfb) #if [ -f /usr/bin/Xvfb ]; then #/usr/bin/Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1024x768x16 #fi # Set the DISPLAY variable for the X virtual frame buffer (Xvfb) #export DISPLAY=localhost:1.0

Re: Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

2008-08-07 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 02:10 +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom spot Callaway wrote: snip Rawhide will not show you pictures of Bush blowing a bugle and leading a charge by Dick Chaney, John Ashcroft, and John McCain to eat baklava confiscated from an

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 08:01 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 23:01 -0700, Russell Miller 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

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

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

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

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

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

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

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

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

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

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

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

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

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

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

Re: Ubuntu v Fedora on an Inspiron

2008-08-12 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [was Re: burning iso image on a Mac] I'm just starting to play around with Linux. A couple of days ago, I installed Ubuntu on my Inspiron 7500. When I switch from one application to another by clicking (say) on a Firefox window

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

2008-08-12 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 06:30 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Ric Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:57 -0700, Tod Merley wrote: but I gotta have the X11 applications features enabled (thus Xvfb

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-12 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:04 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf. Not here. How odd. Maybe it depends on how the file is initially created? That sounds more like you've moved it out

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 06:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: The answer is either yes, no, or maybe. And you get 10 points for asking one of the silliest questions I've seen asked her in quite some time. Why is it silly? Basically because

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 09:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:50, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If you have ATI, F8 is the only way to go. F9 is not good for ATI cards, the ati drivers won't support any x server greater than 1.4.2. I presume you mean for accelerated desktop

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part II

2008-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 15:43 -0600, linuxguy wrote: Its now 2 weeks past the end of July, when we were told KDE 4.1 would ship. I've been stuck with this crappy, half working KDE 4.0 interface for 6 weeks. You could say I'm a bit miffed. Say whatever you want about Fedora being bleeding

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:13 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2008 07:05:12 am Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED 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

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part II

2008-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 18:37 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:43 PM, linuxguy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its now 2 weeks past the end of July, when we were told KDE 4.1 would ship. It has. I've been stuck with this crappy, half working KDE 4.0 interface for 6

Re: F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

2008-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 03:07 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 21:40 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah. I've used kino before. The button has been pushed, and Ubuntu 8.04 is

Re: F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

2008-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 06:16 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 05:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Antonio Olivares wrote: [...] This is the same stuff/error that kills vlc from building when compiling from source. It asked for ffmpeg, I got

Re: F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

2008-08-19 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 17:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 14:42 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: Of course I am not asking that Fedora to include it. I am not stupid and do not want to hurt Fedora in any way shape or form. I am stating that those programs that

Re: F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

2008-08-19 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 19:36 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Gmail also encourages top-posting, though at least the quoting mechanism is a bit more standard. You do know how to move the cursor, don't you? Starting with the cursor at the top shouldn't

Re: F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

2008-08-19 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 19:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 00:01 +, g wrote: switch to gmail and set up configurations. Gmail also encourages top-posting, though at least the quoting mechanism is a bit more standard. It could also be said that it encourages

So long and thanks for all the fish.

2008-08-19 Thread Ric Moore
I've fixed my Wonderland problems using CentOS. That's weird, that what is basically FC6 works just fine with Wonderland, while Fedora refuses to pass a Xvfb to Wonderland. I'll live longer, too. Far less stress! :) It's been sweet, thanks to Rahul and the other developers for doing what they do.