DES, kerberos, and kermit?

2008-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
I tried to build kermit from source on fedora 9, and got a bunch of link errors when I built with kerberos support turned on. Here's a bit of correspondence from the kermit guru, Frank da Cruz: I tried the linux+krb5+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam, but I get the impression that whatever is in the krb5

Re: livna nvidia at last!

2008-05-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 29 May 2008 18:44:17 -0500 Erich Zigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the text based installer doesn't allow you to pick and choose your packages or I would use it. You can use yum search to get a list of matching packages, then yum install to install exactly the one you want

tried out akmod-nvidia...

2008-06-01 Thread Tom Horsley
...and it does indeed seem to correctly build a working nvidia kernel module at boot time, but I did notice this system startup ordering bug I submitted to livna: http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1995 at least it seems like an ordering problem to me :-). Don't know if there is any

Re: Fedora 9 runlevel 3

2008-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
Thanks, guys, but it's not in /boot/grub/grub.conf. I'm sorry I didn't list every file I've looked at, but I have looked at everything in /etc/rc.d. I ran these commands: But startup is now being done via upstart. You also need to poke around in /etc/event.d for possible culprits :-). --

Huh? ~/.xsession no longer honored?

2008-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
Finally got enough stuff working on F9 that I thought I could finish customizing it the way I have F8, but when I create a ~/.xsession script, it don't run it. What the heck do I have to do to get gdm to start my own custom session script in F9??? -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Huh? ~/.xsession no longer honored?

2008-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:58:58 -0400 Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally got enough stuff working on F9 that I thought I could finish customizing it the way I have F8, but when I create a ~/.xsession script, it don't run it. What the heck do I have to do to get gdm to start my own

Re: Fedora 9 runlevel 3

2008-06-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:44:19 -0400 Bob Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd sure like to know what other process is running while /bin/login is waiting for me to login. Maybe you could replace telinit with a script that does a ps to a log file, then execs the original telinit? I certainly

OT: Does a proxy IMAP server exist?

2008-06-04 Thread Tom Horsley
Just curious if such a thing as a proxy IMAP server exists? (Preferably already available in some rpm I can install on fedora :-). What is that, you ask? I'd like to continue to keep my mail on the IMAP server at work, but I'd like better spam filtering than the server-side rules provide. What

Re: make thunderbird NOT show html

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:32:44 -0700 Mike Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A hearty toast to whomever can solve this one. I can't solve it for thunderbird, but the reason I use claws-mail is because it has no html support at all. You have to go to a lot of trouble to turn on html by activating

Re: xorg.conf for Logitech Marble Mouse?

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:21:41 -0700 Hugh Caley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the upgrade from Fedora 8 to 9 my Logitech Marble Mouse's small buttons aren't recognized anymore. Anyone have one of these (or something similar) running and can post your xorg.conf mouse section? I don't have

Re: New Kernel

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Ed Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to run a new kernel other than restart the machine? Depends on what you mean by restart. There is a thing called kexec that can (if supported in the kernel you started from) replace the whole running

Re: ATI, F8 and momentary black screen

2008-06-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:23:30 -0600 Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What could be the problem here? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2859 There is a long tradition of flickering and blanking of displays on radeons, now you can join the brotherhood :-). In my case, it actually

Re: New Kernel

2008-06-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:59:02 -0600 Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And don't forget: steel-toed boot. Don't use 'em - dull too many chainsaw blades that way :-). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: ATI, F8 and momentary black screen

2008-06-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:13:50 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only radeons. My CentOS box has an nvidia, and is fine in analogue mode, but in dvi mode it blinks exactly as described. Yea, when I plugged in an nvidia replacement and found the same flickering was when I tried the

Re: F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?

2008-06-08 Thread Tom Horsley
I just did some experimenting, and apparently the firefox designers felt compelled to introduce two different concepts: 1) The page displayed at firefox startup. 2) The home page. Obviously, we can all see the burning need to have those be configured to point to different places :-). In the

Obfuscation is too mild a word :-).

2008-06-09 Thread Tom Horsley
Where in the blue blazes has the settings for the options to run the X server with gone? As near as I can tell, they may just be hard coded in the /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave executable? I'm trying to discover two things: 1. How do I add the -dpi 96 option so the greeter will use fonts big

Re: f9 NetworkManager doesn't honor DHCP hostname and domain

2008-06-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:12:05 +0100 Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I don't understand why you don't give your machine the name you want it to have. Well, in my case, I've got a Xen server with scripts that create new virtual machines and provide a hostname that matches the virtual

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

2008-06-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:22:16 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fedora made the only possible decision. That's the most ridiculous statement I've ever read. Anyone still trying to delude themselves that fedora isn't primarily a beta test for redhat enterprise? :-). -- fedora-list

Re: Firefox for ever

2008-06-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:47:46 -0700 Richard England [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have numbers on the distribution of Gnome vs KDE users in Linux at large and Fedora specifically? There there are us true die hard stick-in-the-mud users who don't use either gnome or kde :-). --

Re: Fedora 9 runlevel 3

2008-06-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:25:05 -0400 Bob Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never before had this kind of problem. The kind where the developers go off on some experimentation tangent, but supply so little information for the users. I'm disappointed in Fedora 9. That's hard to believe: It

Re: Firefox for ever

2008-06-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:23:49 +0930 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How's your punch card tool faring, and which model teleprinter do you use? ;-) Actually, I do have a model 21a tty in the back room I keep thinking about adding a computer interface to :-). -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Firefox for ever

2008-06-16 Thread Tom Horsley
Actually, I do have a model 21a tty in the back room I keep thinking about adding a computer interface to :-). If you like that sort of tinkering, then do it. Hardware hacking for the sake of it is fun. You can even use it to compensate for Fedora abandoning the boot.log several

Re: That thread - Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10?

2008-06-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:45:14 -0500 Rex Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just keep in mind that constructive feedback, even in the form of complaining, is invaluable. The constructive part being very important. Yea, but developers by their very nature are utterly incapable of interpreting:

Re: Gnome Settings Daemon does not start when connecting via VNC

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Horsley
This is my /root/.vnc/xstartup file: ** unset SESSION_MANAGER #exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc #[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] xrdb $HOME/.Xresources #startkde gnome-session ** Did anybody encounter a similar problem or do you have some

Re: Upgrade from 8 to 9: Yes or no ?

2008-06-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:31:49 +0200 Martin Schoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone made similar considerations and then did the upgrade then? I always keep extra partitions around where I can install from scratch the new release and decide if things work well enough to switch (also allows me to

Re: Upgrade from 8 to 9: Yes or no ?

2008-06-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:42:43 +0100 Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One slight problem with this is that if one shares /home between the two versions this could conceivably cause problems. True. I usually use a fresh /home during testing, and only point to the old /home once I'm sure I

Re: F8 k3b problem or just random glitch?

2008-06-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:23:28 -0400 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally am not inclined to blame it on the kernel unless some error message was changed and whatever k3b uses to keep track of that stuff is now getting an answer it doesn't like or doesn't know how to translate.

emacs curiosity

2008-06-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On two different fedora 8 systems now, I have done a yum update, then the next time I started emacs, I've had it error off during initialization with a message about regular expression too big. If I attempt to reproduce the problem, I find emacs starts up perfectly OK on the next try. If I look

Re: Wide, flat, weird : HP w2207h with F8 F9

2008-06-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:44:25 + (UTC) Beartooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some secret driver somewhere that I should be getting? Depends on what driver you have now. The nv driver has problems with lots of video cards and monitors: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234824

Re: Wide, flat, weird : HP w2207h with F8 F9

2008-06-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:56:41 + (UTC) Beartooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:05:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: So, if you have an nvidia card, the best bet for a working driver is to add the livna repo and download the kmod-nvidia driver. I *think* so; what I

Re: NetworkManager -- and what else??

2008-06-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:56:55 + (UTC) Beartooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Often both fail. Then what? Since my systems don't need to randomly connect to different wireless networks, I find the old network stuff works lots better for me than the improved NetworkManager. I've done this to

Re: let root be root?

2008-06-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:27:20 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you run rpm from a terminal? Yep, in fact all I did was save the rpm to disk then did a rpm -ihv on it, and all was well. If not, do you have SElinux running in enforcement mode? If so, just being root isn't

Re: F8 All multi media is TRIPLE SPEED!

2008-06-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:40:36 -0400 Ric Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previous poster's idea concerning CPU speed sounds like it has much merit. Bring up a clock app: Is the second hand going aound triple speed? I had a virtual machine do that on me once, but it was more than triple speed, it

Re: F8 All multi media is TRIPLE SPEED!

2008-06-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:57:38 +0930 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you couldn't log in, how did you bring up the clock? I eventually found that some combination of kernel options like noacpi and other dumb thing down options made it work normally, at which point I was able to install some ssh

compiz-fusion-gnome?

2008-06-24 Thread Tom Horsley
Just idle curiosity while waiting for yum... Anyone know why installing the latest compiz-fusion-gnome update is spending what seems like hours running gconftool-2? (This is what comes of trying to copy every bad idea from Windows :-). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: What is the matter with fedora 9?

2008-06-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:53:37 +0200 fedora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it introduced a NetworkManager which prohibits networking. Don't know about the other problems, but for me this makes networking function just like always: chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager off chkconfig --level 2345

Re: Problem with NIS in Fedora 9

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:25:26 +0800 (CST) Michael Hannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have any thoughts about this, please send 'em my way. My constant thought with all network problems in F9 is to disable the NetworkManager service, enable the network service and reboot to see if things work

Re: Problem with NIS in Fedora 9

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Horsley
Thanks, Tom. That seems to have done the trick. NIS is working just fine now. You might want to submit a bugzilla documenting yet another thing that doesn't work right with NetworkManager to add to the enormous collection already submitted :-). -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: usb warning at boot time with kernel 2.6.25.6-27.fc8

2008-06-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:02:31 +0200 François Patte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unable to enumerate usb device on port 1 same message is repeated for other ports. What does it mean? And how to get rid of it. I found some mention of that in some other linux mailing lists. Apparently it means

Re: F9 NFS install fails

2008-06-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:06 -0400 Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something I'm missing? I think I have seen notes that say you are just supposed to make the .iso file available via NFS, not the mounted filesystem inside the iso. I've often done installs via HTTP by

speaking of grub graphical boot...

2008-06-29 Thread Tom Horsley
I have from time to time tried to make my own grub boot image. I've seen all the rules I'm supposed to follow about making it the right size and the right number of colors, and my own attempts often work out fine. But then there are those other times, when I'll have an image that looks perfectly

Re: speaking of grub graphical boot...

2008-06-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:18:57 +1000 Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You say you've followed all the rules. What rules, exactly? 640x480, xpm file with 14 colors, gzip compressed. I'm just wondering if there are color pallet restrictions I don't know about. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: speaking of grub graphical boot...

2008-06-30 Thread Tom Horsley
Just a WAG, but are you using a different color map then the default color map in your images? I suspect that Grub is not changing the color map to match your image. But as I said, this is just a guess. Well, xpm files always specify their own colormap. If those colors need to be selected from

Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:16:39 -0400 William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) My project for the next while is to work out how various multimedia work. I'd tackle something simpler if I were you, like maybe quantum theory or ending war. All I know is that the only tool that (so far) has worked

Re: Can't get DHCP to assign specific addresses

2008-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:09:10 -0400 James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas what the problem could be? I once had a long battle with dhcp (which it won :-), but I think I remember discovering that it just does the first thing it sees. Your subnet range is from 50 to 100, but your host

Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:05:06 -0400 William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WebCam UVC is a (relatively) new standard for webcams. I see the latest fedora 8 kernel (and fedora 9) includes the uvcvideo driver by default (previously I had to build it myself). It seems to work fine for me with my

Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:05:06 -0400 William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions of additions or deletions gratefully accepted. I just remembered another thing for the general multimedia list: LIRC: http://www.lirc.org/ It is another thing I have to manually build the driver for (my

blown fuse?

2008-07-07 Thread Tom Horsley
I hate bugs like this :-). I tried to mount a truecrypt filesystem (http://www.truecrypt.org/) and kept getting an error about a write that failed to write the requested amount of data. Truecrypt uses a strange and wondrous combination of fuse and loop devices to access the encrypted image, so

Re: Closed source modules will be banned from kernel?

2008-07-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:51:51 +0100 Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Binary modules usually last only a few releases before changes in the kernel break them by accident anyway so I would assume that if a binary driver vendor goes under the clock is ticking. I wouldn't say by accident - It has

Re: Closed source modules will be banned from kernel?

2008-07-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:35:45 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it considered OK to insult people on a mailing list, when you wouldn't to their face? Never fear, I'm perfectly willing to tell them the same thing to their faces, but it is like nothing can stop them. Wholesale

RE: Fedora / RHE compatibility

2008-07-08 Thread Tom Horsley
Thanks a lot, I'm probably asking a lot :-) But is there a documented list of possible issues differences and expected incompatibilities ? I doubt anyone knows all of 'em, but most of the time, things are very similar at a low level. At higher levels like versions of gnome or KDE people may

Re: Any suggestions for Really Annoying Alarms !!?

2008-07-09 Thread Tom Horsley
Has anyone found a really annoying, really persistent alarm program or applet that can find you anywhere? What, from your personal experience, would you recommend? Well, I don't know if it is annoying enough for you or not, but checkout the silly program I wrote:

Linux api for device description?

2008-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
Before I resort to digging up the source code, does anyone happen to know how to get from a device name like /dev/dvd to a description like Toshiba Model XYZ CDRW? I see tools like k3b display that info, but I don't know off hand the api call or magic /proc/whatever file that allows me to dig up

Re: Linux api for device description?

2008-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:11:35 -0400 Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I resort to digging up the source code, does anyone happen to know how to get from a device name like /dev/dvd to a description like Toshiba Model XYZ CDRW? I found it! It isn't in /proc, it is in /sys. If I have

blkid still confusing me :-).

2008-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
Back on May 2, 2007 (I looked it up in the archive :-), I was very confused because the blkid tool was telling me about the label of a DVD I no longer had in the drive. Now, more than a year later, I see blkid no longer says anything at all about DVDs, even when I have one mounted. Anyone know

Re: blkid still confusing me :-).

2008-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:25:00 -0400 Kevin J. Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: blkid /dev/sr0 tells me about the dvd in my dvd drive Yea, but only if you explicitly ask about /dev/sr0. If you just say blkid with no args, it doesn't mention it any longer. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: can i kexec a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:26:06 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quite simply, if i have a running f9 system, can i configure and build a new (relocatable, for convenience) kernel and just kexec over to it? I believe the running system needs to have kexec support built

Re: can i kexec a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:48:59 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) what are the *required* config options for building a new kernel that you can kexec *to* from the current kernel? I don't think there is anything magic at all required on the destination kernel (other than

Re: blkid still confusing me :-).

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:25:17 -0400 Kevin J. Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it list your DVD drive? Does it list it *after* a blkid /dev/sr0? Yea, I tried some more experiments, and I think my original confusion was caused by a video DVD I put in that only shows up as TYPE=utf with no

using dbus-devel on fedora?

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
Through combinations of compiler error messages and the locate command, I've determined that I need the following -I options in order to successfully compile C programs that use the dbus interfaces (on a 64 bit system): -I /usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I /usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include Is there some

Re: using dbus-devel on fedora?

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:25:19 -0400 Todd Zullinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pkg-config command is what helps here. The dbus-devel package ships a pkg-config file (dbus-1.pc): Thanks! I knew there had to be something like that, but it wasn't obvious that dbus-1.pc was useful (I was looking

Docs (was Re: Serving data from a DVD via httpd)

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
I've been trying to find a list that explains what the different contexts mean, but no luck so far. While the first two are guessable, I couldn't possibly guess what s0 means. The heck with GPL-pure linux distros! What we need is a documentation-pure linux distro! Nothing included if it

Re: Fedora 9: dbus problems with /home on nfs

2008-07-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:21:28 +0200 David Jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else seen this? I have noticed some kind of problem with logging in via GDM when I use a user with an NFS home, but never investigated exactly what the problem was because it is usually only by accident that I

Re: F9 'top' output: cpu usage of busy process over 100 percent ??

2008-07-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:46:42 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see, at this particular time incident, the yum process consumes 101.0 percent of CPU. This must be an error. Is it? Also, I've never noticed this before, I therefor think this is introduced with F9 or F8 (I

Re: Truecrypt on Fedora

2008-07-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:34:01 +0200 Valent Turkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can truecrypt be included in Fedora? Probably not fedora, but if someone had the energy to maintain it, I bet it could go in the livna repos (but don't look at me - I don't have the energy :-). -- fedora-list mailing

Re: DWARF 2[/3] the most advanced debugging format?

2008-07-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:13:34 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that seemed like an easy answer at the time, but is there a better choice? i realize stabs is still common but, in terms of being technically advanced, is DWARF 2 the most informative and most useful of the

Re: KVM Hypervisor

2008-07-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:15:29 -0400 Alex Katebi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like Dell laptops but there is no information regarding hardware assisted virtualization (Hypervisor). First, it is important to note that I may be completely wrong :-), but I don't think anyone makes chips any longer

Re: DWARF 2[/3] the most advanced debugging format?

2008-07-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:38:25 -0700 Les [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Michael, For a very well written paper. I had dug into COFF before, but had stumbled upon some of its limitations. DWARF seems very well thought out. Do you think it will become as widely implemented as COFF?

Re: How can mplayer play rmvb video file

2008-07-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:23:14 -0700 Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Downloaded and extracted all-20071007.tar.bz2 to /usr/lib/codec; That's just a start :-). I once spent a while doing google searches for mplayer codecs, and downloading every collection I could find, as well as doing things like

Re: How can mplayer play rmvb video file

2008-07-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:36:48 +0930 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it look in /usr/lib/codecs/? Here, I'm using /usr/local/lib/codecs/ and /usr/local/lib/win32/. One of them is actually a symlink to the other, I haven't got two copies of each codec, one in each directly. Yep. I always

X server startup options?

2008-07-26 Thread Tom Horsley
Just curious if anyone has yet stumbled across the solution to this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451562 I want to be able to influence the X server startup options, and they seem to be totally hard coded in fedora 9 gdm. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: unable to enumerate USB device

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:37:36 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything works fine, but I would like to know what causes them. According to what I found on Google, I can safely ignore them. As near as I can tell from my googling, they are warning messages from code that got

Re: network configuration file

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:59:13 +0200 Christoph H__ger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Networkmanager (that I am very aware of ;)) is not an option. I should have mentioned that I need to assign static ip addresses to some virtual machines by editing something in their root-tree. I find it very

Re: howto: write a init script

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Horsley
Why don't you start with one in /etc/init.d and modify to you needs? I've done that myself a couple of times, and I can never seem to get it to act exactly like the script I started with. It always seems to echo an extra blank line or the [status] doesn't come out at the end of the line or with

Re: gcc varargs problem

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:36:54 +0100 whoosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 64 bit Fedora 9's gcc regards this as an error, all the other gcc's eg on 32 bit Fedora Core 3 have no problem with this. The standard regards it as an error as well, and if you looked up the insane argument passing

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:47:13 -0700 Dan Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any advice in how to do this up properly? chainloader is what I use. I've got a partition with nothing but grub on it (used to be a /boot partition for an old fedora, and I kept it around to just use for

Re: Sorta OT - Cheap certificate authority?

2008-08-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:27:19 -0500 Thomas Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because perception==reality. It will be publicly facing, and that whole Firefox will not allow you to access this site without accepting that this is an untrusted CA thing is off-putting for most members of the

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:20:01 +0930 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people think that a boot directory inside / is fine, rather than a partition, because it works for them, at *that* time. But later on, as they install updates and other files, the location of boot-up files (e.g. kernel and

Re: change fonts DPI in gdm (Fedora 8)

2008-08-04 Thread Tom Horsley
Here is the question, how can i change font properties, currently DPI for login screen ? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451562 If you ever discover how, please add the information to the above bugzilla :-). I don't think it is possible to configure anything useful in gdm in the

Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
I saw a message go past not too long ago about making fedora 10 the best ever. If anyone has any desire to cater to reactionary stick-in-the-mud users like me who hate almost everything new, then take a look at: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/stick.html (Half rant, half useful information,

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:57:26 -0700 (PDT) Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know, if Fedora has LXDE in its repositories. Don't know the answer to that, but yum search lxde is a good place to start when asking questions like that (may produce a large amount of output though, so be

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:34:01 -0700 Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope that you recognize that unless you submit bugzilla entries for those things, they are unlikely to be fixed. Oh, I got lots of bugzilla entries for all those and more. (Including bugs like 447442 which claims to be

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:11:57 -0500 Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, I think a compromise is necessary. If you're running a server, I think you're competent enough to turn of NetworkManager (it was really crappy a few versions ago). While I think there needs to be away to have a

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:36:43 -0700 Daniel B. Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot figure out why I cannot get the chain-loaders to work for w2kPro and XP, but it works for Vista now (go figure!). It is entirely possible that XP and W2K will only boot if they believe they live on the

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Tom Horsley
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 with F8 than F9. Is this true? I'm still running F8 as my primary system because

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:42:23 +0300 Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using: yum remove kde-settings-pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio Weird. Removing the alsa plugin worked for me in f8, but when I tried it in f9, I still didn't get sound. Maybe I also have the device permission

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Tom Horsley
From: Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 11:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid repo for fedora, so this morning I exchanged the comment to enable it from the downloads.fedora site. Ok that

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ??

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. If you have a DHCP server on the network, then *IT* will configure your network, automatically. There's no client-side user-configuration involved with that, the server holds the configuration data. Yes, it is possible for a DHCP client to have overriding

spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
Friday, my system disk died, so I took that as a sign to reinstall everything from scratch and reorganize my partitions (not to mention getting a much bigger disk). I figure the disk picked Friday to die because it knew fedora updates and livna build system were down, so it would be the most

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
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 way. Maybe I didn't turn it off soon enough. Anyway, it looks like the repos

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:44:23 -0700 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If lightning strikes close enough it doesn't matter if it's unplugged, lightning causes an EMP which could fry stuff. Has to be really close though,. and you'd know it. For a little while, this was one of those

Re: fonts in QT application (Skype)

2008-08-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:21:29 +0200 David Hlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i open QT application - there are no subpixel rendered fonts I'm fairly certain only GTK apps use the font properties provided by the gnome-settings-daemon where all that subpixel stuff is stashed. Qt and KDE get

Re: fonts in QT application (Skype)

2008-08-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:56:25 +0200 David Hlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should i install in order to be able configure font settings for Skype (QT,KDE apps)? (i really do not want to have KDE installed) ? I have qt4config application i system -- personal. Where it stores its config

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

2008-08-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:15:24 -0800 Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The specific current situation aside for a moment. As a Board member, I am interested in thinking about a better mechanism of communication of anything hoped to be seen by the entire community. Is the annouce list the

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

2008-08-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:42:54 +0930 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original notice was woeful, and nothing has been done to properly clarify the situation, since. Other than the possible hint that the repos started working again (I hope everything is OK, because I been updating :-). --

Re: How to export terminal to F9 using r-tools?

2008-08-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:46:00 +0100 Marcelo M. Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How do I enable my Fedora 9 (x86) to accept terminals from other machines using r-tools? I cannot use ssh -X in this case. I tried to configure using /etc/gdm/custom.conf in the xdmcp option: Enable=true

Re: Linux Outlaws

2008-08-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:46:29 + g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you did not mention better part of page; http://gizmodo.com/5035456/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting Ah, that's almost certainly explained by it being a pirate copy of windows

Re: How to export terminal to F9 using r-tools?

2008-08-21 Thread Tom Horsley
It should be something simple. I know in opensuse 10.x you have open the port 6000 in the displaymanager file. But I could not find something similar in Fedora. Oh, I agree, it should be simple. Before fedora 9 got all improved there was the gdmsetup tool where you could configure all this.

Re: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:50:00 -0400 William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does yum have a 'file' switch or option like most other programs dealing with several pieces of data? Yum works off the repository definitions in /etc/yum.repos.d/ You can setup your own repo fairly simply if you have a

Re: Automount of CD-ROMs no longer works

2008-08-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:18:11 -0500 Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone please advise me on how to proceed to get this drive to work for me the way I would like. Well, FC2 probably predates udev, but I know when I replaced a DVD drive I found a rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file

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