Slow gnome startup with compiz enabled

2009-12-06 Thread Dan Burkland
Hi all, I've noticed that when starting gnome up for the first time after boot it takes at least 10 seconds before I can navigate the desktop. I have enabled compiz using the System=Preferences=Desktop Effects menu. I have tried re-enabling metacity and that seems to solve the problem. Has

RE: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-08 Thread Dan Burkland
I don't personally own a MacBook Air however I'm sure you could make a bootable USB drive and install Fedora from that. Regards, Dan Burkland -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Colin Paul Adams Sent: Tuesday

RE: LDAP authentication error

2009-12-09 Thread Dan Burkland
While I operate a similar network I don't require password resets (I have them choose a long and more secure password). In order for them to be able to change their password you would have to allow them write permission to their own userPassword attributes by putting something like the

Re: Slow gnome startup with compiz enabled

2009-12-09 Thread Dan Burkland
the delay in loading gnome? Regards, Dan Burkland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

RE: [fedora-virt] how to active XEN on Fedora 12

2009-12-23 Thread Dan Burkland
Xen uses a special kernel so as far as I know you will first have to remove the default one with yum remove kernel. Then try the yum install xen virt-manager kernel-xen command and it should work. Regards, Dan -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com

RE: How many people need to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-23 Thread Dan Burkland
I have used the proprietary driver for its superb handling of 3D acceleration over nouveau. However, with the release of 2.6.33 near, I may give Nouveau as it now supports KMS (It may have in the past I'm not quite sure). Dan -Original Message- From:

RE: How many people need to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-23 Thread Dan Burkland
To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: How many people need to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?) On 12/23/2009 07:54 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: I have used the proprietary driver for its superb handling of 3D acceleration over nouveau. However, with the release

RE: vmware workstation 7 on 64-bit fedora 12?

2010-01-06 Thread Dan Burkland
I'm running it just fine on my installation of Fedora 12 x86_64. When I installed my custom kernel (2.6.32.2), I had to do a bit of tinkering to get the network vmci modules to compile/install. You shouldn't have any problems though with the stock Fedora kernels. Regards, Dan

RE: vmware workstation 7 on 64-bit fedora 12?

2010-01-06 Thread Dan Burkland
Here is a link to the blog post that helped me get the modules to compile properly on 2.6.32.2: http://sadevil.org/blog/2009/12/31/vmware-player-3-vs-linux-2-6-32/ Dan Burkland   -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list- boun...@redhat.com