Re: Video performance degradation in F24

2016-09-13 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 09/12/2016 01:21 PM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Dne 12.9.2016 v 17:48 Basil Mohamed Gohar napsal(a): >> On 09/11/2016 02:19 PM, stan wrote: >>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 22:04:22 -0400 >>> Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> On 09/08/2

Re: Video performance degradation in F24

2016-09-12 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 09/11/2016 02:19 PM, stan wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 22:04:22 -0400 > Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > > >>> On 09/08/2016 03:44 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: >>>> Even since I installed F24 on both my desktop as well as my laptop >>>> I've

Re: Video performance degradation in F24

2016-09-12 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 09/11/2016 02:19 PM, stan wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 22:04:22 -0400 > Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > > >>> On 09/08/2016 03:44 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: >>>> Even since I installed F24 on both my desktop as well as my laptop >>>> I've

Re: Video performance degradation in F24

2016-09-10 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
levant. > If it is, there is a recent Fedora magazine article on applying kernel > patches. > > > > On 09/08/2016 03:44 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: >> Even since I installed F24 on both my desktop as well as my laptop I've >> noticed a severe performance degrada

Video performance degradation in F24

2016-09-07 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
Even since I installed F24 on both my desktop as well as my laptop I've noticed a severe performance degradation in terms of video playback. One point of note is that I did an upgrade from F22->F23->F24, only using F23 for the upgrade process. I've noticed this performance issue in both MATE (my p

Rygel and firewalld's UPnP/SSDP handling

2015-08-01 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
After seeing my phone (Samsung Galaxy S III) picking-up some media shared from my mother's Windows 7 laptop and the experience being reasonably positive (it more-or-less worked to play videos), I decided to try my hand at getting this to work in Fedora 22. I've been generally pleased with GNOME vs

Re: SSH server always terminating after some time

2014-11-14 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 11/14/2014 08:49 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 11/14/2014 02:46 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > > The only non-standard thing I can think I'm doing is running SSH on > > another port, and I've already gotten SELinux to accept that fact. The > > issue is not th

SSH server always terminating after some time

2014-11-14 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
I have found that in Fedora 20 I've been unable to keep my SSH server at my home up for long periods of time. I will enable it with systemctl and start it, and it will work for a time, but then later days (after, maybe, 3 or so days) it will be unavailable and I'll have to restart it. The only no

Re: Multiple problems with multiple monitors

2014-11-04 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 2014-10-13 10:23 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > I've searched for bugs related to the specific problems I've been having, and > I've not been able to find anything that describes what I'm seeing. > > I have an HP EliteBook 840 that also comes

Re: Multiple problems with multiple monitors

2014-10-14 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 2014-10-13 05:18 PM, David Airlie wrote: I've searched for bugs related to the specific problems I've been having, and I've not been able to find anything that describes what I'm seeing. I have an HP EliteBook 840 that also comes with an UltraDock, to which I've plugged-in two external m

Re: Multiple problems with multiple monitors

2014-10-13 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 10/13/2014 05:18 PM, David Airlie wrote: > >> >> >> I've searched for bugs related to the specific problems I've been having, and >> I've not been able to find anything that describes what I'm seeing. >> >> I have an HP EliteBook 840 that also comes with an UltraDock, to which I've >> plugged-i

Multiple problems with multiple monitors

2014-10-13 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
I've searched for bugs related to the specific problems I've been having, and I've not been able to find anything that describes what I'm seeing. I have an HP EliteBook 840 that also comes with an UltraDock, to which I've plugged-in two external monitors and I use in conjunction with the built

Re: trimming down Fedora installed size

2014-04-10 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 04/10/2014 01:23 PM, Peter Oliver wrote: > On 9 April 2014 22:10, Florian Festi wrote: >> >> On 04/09/2014 08:42 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >>> Given the number of packages that ship localization, this seems like it >>> would have a pretty dramatic effect on metadata size. Is this a concern? >>

Re: trimming down Fedora installed size

2014-04-09 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 04/09/2014 03:33 AM, Marius A wrote: > > I think less than 0.1% of users ever look into /usr/share/doc, but I > don't have any data to back this up. I think I must fit into this 0.1% (and I am not disputing that that is the correct ratio, either) because I definitely use /usr/share/doc, but m

Re: Packages have "proxy" word.

2013-11-02 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 11/02/2013 12:46 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 11/2/13 10:50 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> مصعب الزعبي wrote: >>> Then do new rule to write "proxies" instead of proxy, at Fedora packaging >>> guidlines. >> >> Renaming packages, censoring descriptions etc. in Fedora at the whims of >> governments (o

Re: Graphics driver support in F21+

2013-08-28 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 08/28/2013 10:41 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:13:09AM -0400, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: >> Sorry to come out of left field like this, but would the system profile >> info we collect on install be useful in determining the weight of the >> need for

Re: Graphics driver support in F21+

2013-08-28 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 08/27/2013 11:20 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 14:54 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >> Is it not better to drop entirely graphics drivers that do not have kms >> support and at the *same time* adopt the policy >> >> "From this point forward only graphics driver that

Re: Orphaning Blueman

2013-08-02 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
As long as we're reminiscing, for what it's worth, Blueman was the *only* way I could reliably get A2DP/High quality audio to work with my wife's Bluetooth headphones (Nokia BH-503) until Fedora 19. It is a nice utility, no doubt, but now I can get the behavior I want/need using just the MATE Blue

Re: Dependency issue with some mate packages

2013-06-12 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 06/12/2013 11:06 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:12:07 +0200 > Rave it wrote: > >> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972548 >> >> This update should fix the dependency issue. >> mate-desktop-1.6.1-7.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable >> repository. >> >>

Dependency issue with some mate packages

2013-06-11 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
I cannot update with yum upgrade due to some dependency issues related, it seems, to the mate-desktop package obsoleting a few other packages. I am including the full output because results can be related to loaded-plugins and possibly 3rd-party repositories. It seems that some *-devel packages ar

Re: Installing on old systems with only PATA/IDE hard drives

2013-05-12 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 05/13/2013 12:50 AM, John Reiser wrote: >> Any tips >> on what I can do to make a proper report out of this would be most >> appreciated, or just let me know if installs to PATA/EIDE systems are >> just no longer supported. > > I've got a i686 box with only PATA, and two root partitions of F19-

Installing on old systems with only PATA/IDE hard drives

2013-05-12 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
I thought that this might be an issue with incompatible hardware, as I was trying to install Fedora 18 on an old Dell (Celeron D processor) I'd bought for my mother that she was no longer using. However, I got an error when attempting to install when the process was probing the drives. I thought

Re: mate-file-archiver dependency problems

2013-02-21 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 02/21/2013 12:31 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > > On Feb 20, 2013 6:29 PM, "Basil Mohamed Gohar" > mailto:basilgo...@librevideo.org>> wrote: > > > > For a while now the package "mate-file-archiver" has had a > dependency problem and cannot b

mate-file-archiver dependency problems

2013-02-20 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
For a while now the package "mate-file-archiver" has had a dependency problem and cannot be updated. I've opened a ticket about it (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908137) but it has received no response for over two weeks. I am not sure that the package is terribly important, but

Re: firewalld and Ekiga

2012-12-27 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 12/27/2012 11:40 AM, Antonio wrote: > Il 27/12/2012 16:27, Basil Mohamed Gohar ha scritto: > > On 12/27/2012 10:09 AM, Antonio wrote: > >> Hello everyone. > >> > >> Currently I use the latest version of Ekiga on Fedora 18 > >> Spherical Cow.

Re: firewalld and Ekiga

2012-12-27 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 12/27/2012 10:09 AM, Antonio wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Currently I use the latest version of Ekiga on Fedora 18 Spherical Cow. > My internet connection implicates an outdoor antenna equipped with a > management software that includes a firewall (as well as other > services like NAT, UPnP, DDN

Re: Why samba-client not installed by default?

2012-12-19 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 12/19/2012 12:00 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:58 AM, drago01 wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Reindl Harald >> wrote: >>> >>> Am 19.12.2012 15:29, schrieb Ozan Çağlayan: On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > because most peop

Re: postfixadmin

2012-07-01 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 07/01/2012 06:34 AM, Christopher Meng wrote: Who intend to package this?This software is useful and helpful for server admins. -- Best Regards, Christopher Meng--'Cicku' Ambassador/Contributor of Fedora Project and Contributor of GNU. Blog:http://cicku.me Twitter:@cickumqt Hope you can

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-24 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 06/24/2012 05:07 PM, Jef Spaleta wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Jef Spaleta wrote: Users with existing revelation configurations can blow away .gconf/apps/revelation and relogin to avoid the errors and reconfig revelation in the process. But clearly that is not optimal. If there i

Re: Fedora remixes and Microsoft's secure booting crapola

2012-05-31 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 05/31/2012 10:26 PM, Arun SAG wrote: I have been reading about secure boot. I understand that we are going to pay Microsoft to get our keys signed. Will this change affect people creating remixes? What about kernel modules from third party repositories like rpmfusion? Will it be affected?

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-05-31 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 05/31/2012 12:53 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > On 05/31/2012 12:51 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:49:53PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: >>> The issue could be solved by having the SecureBoot default setting depend >>> on the OS being booted: >>> >>> SecureBoot should only be Defa

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-05-31 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 05/31/2012 12:21 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Basil Mohamed Gohar (basilgo...@librevideo.org) said: >>> Remove Microsoft's keys, problem solved. >> Ah, yes, but then you also won't be able to run Fedora, under the >> currently proposed solution. Oops! See h

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-05-31 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 05/31/2012 12:18 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: >> On 05/31/2012 12:13 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement Secure

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-05-31 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 05/31/2012 12:06 PM, Peter Jones wrote: > On 05/31/2012 12:04 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: >> SecureBoot is not about security. It is about restriction. > > If you're looking for a mantra to recite ad infinitum, that's a fine > one, but > right now we're looking for ideas that are helpful and producti

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-05-31 Thread Basil Mohamed Gohar
On 05/31/2012 10:52 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Gregory Maxwell said: >> Under this model there will be two classes of distributor: One which >> loads easily on systems, and one which requires the additional effort >> of disabling secure boot or installing user keys. (And ARM will b