Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
> > > This seems like very poor behavior, I hope you report it. Bug 458574 submitted. Let's see what happens. --Russell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Kernel errors reading DVD

2008-08-09 Thread Colin Paul Adams
On two separate machines (both running Fedora 9) VLC fails when trying to play DVDs, complaining of kernel errors trying to read a particular sector (and just repeats - it is very hard to actually stop - in one case i had to reboot the machine). Aug 10 07:35:02 susannah kernel: end_request: I/O er

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 21:20 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > *Denatured* alcohol! Yes. For those unfamiliar with the term, the usual cleaning alcohols that you can buy are deliberately *poisoned* to stop people drinking them (go figure!). I had to convince the local pharmacist to give me some un

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Arthur Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This seems like very poor behavior, I hope you report it. Oh, you want bugzilla entries? I can do bugzilla entries. BTW, the problem *is* with pulseaudio. Alsa is working just fine underneath, but guess what?

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Ed Greshko
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 for many NVidia graphics chipsets, but

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:44 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > 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.n

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Arthur Pemberton
2008/8/10 Russell Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Russell Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Updates not getting installed.

2008-08-09 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 11:31 +0530, Sandesh Karanth wrote: > Hi There, > > I've been using Fedora 9 since it got released. > > Its great to use it but since 2 weeks, I'm not able to install the > updates available. IT shows me that there are new updates and I say > install them, it goes into a bu

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Russell Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are >> >

Re: Fedora upgrade breaks openLDAP

2008-08-09 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 16:46 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > I just upgraded a system from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9 (directly, using > the official Fedora 9 DVD). Everything appears to be working ok with > the exception of the OpenLDAP server. It appears to be doing > anonymous binds ok, but any atte

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Tim
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 for many NVidia graphics chipsets, but you may hav

Updates not getting installed.

2008-08-09 Thread Sandesh Karanth
Hi There, I've been using Fedora 9 since it got released. Its great to use it but since 2 weeks, I'm not able to install the updates available. IT shows me that there are new updates and I say install them, it goes into a busy loop searching for the updates If i click the icon on the taskbar, it

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
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 it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are > > pretty well supported, at least in basics. > > Out of curiousity, what soundchip is i

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

2008-08-09 Thread Tod Merley
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Ric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 appl

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Tom Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:02:10 -0500 > "Arthur Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Seems like PulseAudio is the way forward towards reducing the myriad >> of "other ways". What problem do you have with it besides that it i

Re: VNC - connection refused (111)

2008-08-09 Thread Teo Fonrouge
On Saturday 09 August 2008 11:32:44 pm Colin Paul Adams wrote: > > "Teo" == Teo Fonrouge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Teo> On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:35:23 am Colin Paul Adams wrote: > >> > "Tim" == Taylor, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tim> If you are sure a firewal

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-09 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 21:42 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > They can also fail from silly things that happen by accident often > un-noticed. I zapped one a few months ago by the fine and wonderful > technique of dropping a small screw into it. Ah yes, the "extra screw"... ;-) Which is usually better th

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-09 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:46 +, Beartooth wrote: > the power cords I have plug so deep and so tightly into both ends that > the only way to remove one is to wiggle it, gaining perhaps 1/5 mm per > wiggle. Not generally a good idea, wiggling connectors weakens them, never mind any arcing that mi

Re: setting up WPA Personal (F9 & KDE 4.1 (from updates-testing))

2008-08-09 Thread Tim
Tim: >> I wonder a couple of things: Whether the original poster has tried >> both right clicking and left clicking on the network manager icon. >> And whether they're trying to use access points that aren't >> broadcasting their SSID (which is a complete waste of time). Beartooth: > I have to be

Re: Importing locked private ssh key

2008-08-09 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Aaron" == Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aaron> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 14:47 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: >> I have the following in my .bash_profile: >> >> keychain --eval id_dsa seahorse-agent >> >> Whenever I login to X11, I am prompted for the passp

Re: VNC - connection refused (111)

2008-08-09 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Teo" == Teo Fonrouge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Teo> On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:35:23 am Colin Paul Adams wrote: >> > "Tim" == Taylor, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tim> If you are sure a firewall isn't running on the server, and Tim> you can telnet to that

Re: For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 14:49 -0400, William Case wrote: > I thought there would have to some kind of institutional illogic > involved. Glade I asked. I presume, that by now, you've read the avian carrier RFC? ;-) Anything with a committee approach is somewhat divorced from reality, while being a

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 August 2008, John Aldrich wrote: >On Saturday 09 August 2008, Nigel Henry wrote: >> On Saturday 09 August 2008 22:20, Frank Cox wrote: >> > On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:59:50 +0200 >> > >> > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clea

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:02:10 -0500 "Arthur Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems like PulseAudio is the way forward towards reducing the myriad > of "other ways". What problem do you have with it besides that it is > new? As near as I can tell, they have reduced the myriad of other ways to

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 09 August 2008, g wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video head? > > I'm thinking cleaning fluids here. > > _do_not_ use anything abrasive, as are head cleaning tapes. > > pure grain alcohol or denatured alcohol only. no oil b

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
> 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 prepared :-). > > -- Apparently it is not there :( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum search lxde Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit u

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 09 August 2008, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 09 August 2008 22:20, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:59:50 +0200 > > > > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video head? > > > I'm thinking cleaning fluids h

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
> > 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 prepared :-). > > -- Thanks. Currently taking a look to see if i

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

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Tom "spot" Callaway
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are > pretty well supported, at least in basics. Out of curiousity, what soundchip is it? What does lspci say it is? What kind of motherboard is it on? ~spot -- fedora-l

.serverauth.*

2008-08-09 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
On my FC7 system, ls -a yields 42 files of the form .serverauth.* where the wild card is a number. For example: .serverauth.3016 What are these? Are they evil? Thanks, Mike. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 03:38 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > I tried to boot, shift alt f1, then used the ..http://..nvidia command > as bescribed earlier, but it just said that it could not find that > adress?! > What im I doing wrong here? I don't think anyone said http://...nvidia. Better

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Russell Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> >> I'm sorry to hear that... but I don't think PulseAudio has anything to >> do with drivers. As I understand it, it's more of an abstraction >> system so applications need not support, ALSA, OSS,

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
Arthur Pemberton wrote: I'm sorry to hear that... but I don't think PulseAudio has anything to do with drivers. As I understand it, it's more of an abstraction system so applications need not support, ALSA, OSS, etc.. just PulseAudio. But of course, if your hardware isn't being recognized by the

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Bjørn Ivar Johnsen
I tried to boot, shift alt f1, then used the ..http://..nvidia command as bescribed earlier, but it just said that it could not find that adress?! What im I doing wrong here? I will try more in the morning, as it is 03:36 in the night here now, and hope to finally get it right then. I am su

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Russell Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> >> >> Seems like PulseAudio is the way forward towards reducing the myriad >> of "other ways". What problem do you have with it besides that it is >> new? >> >> > > If PulseAudio is what comes sta

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 14:20 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:59:50 +0200 > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video head? I'm > > thinking cleaning fluids here. > > Alcohol. *Denatured* alcohol! And a Q-tip.

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
Arthur Pemberton wrote: Seems like PulseAudio is the way forward towards reducing the myriad of "other ways". What problem do you have with it besides that it is new? If PulseAudio is what comes standard with FC9... guess what. It doesn't work. The drivers don't recognize my sound card.

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Newell
First, an additional thanks for input from Aaron and Poc ... it was f3 and I found info in other vterms once I knew to look f1-7 Repeating same procedure, I looked at ctrl-alt-f3 after the successful media verification but before it ejected the disk when I clicked "OK" ... the output (hopefull

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Tom Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: > > ht

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
> 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 use

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, O

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:20:12 +0200 Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is that based on the Get Smart TV show? Yes. > If so I just love that show, > absolutely hilarious, and a whole bunch of laughs. That would be it. You should find "a theatre near you" and go watch it. Otherwise, you w

Fedora upgrade breaks openLDAP

2008-08-09 Thread Lonni J Friedman
I just upgraded a system from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9 (directly, using the official Fedora 9 DVD). Everything appears to be working ok with the exception of the OpenLDAP server. It appears to be doing anonymous binds ok, but any attempt to actually do an ldapsearch or use the LDAP server for queryin

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
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 never tried anything like this before. I > suspect that I hav

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:44 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > Thank you for the fast answer:) I have newer gotten such fantastic > response before:D > > 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? H

Re: Mobile Broadband connection through NetworkManager

2008-08-09 Thread Andrig T. Miller
I have additional information on what's going on for me with this. I ran nm-connection-editor from the command-line, and when I hit the add button on the Mobile Broadband tab I get the following error messages: ** (nm-connection-editor:6655): WARNING **: create_new_connection_for_type: unhandled

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Craig White
boot up using the 'a' and '3' commands. then login as root then execute the commands rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm yum install kmod-nvidia that should get the livna version of the nvidia drivers installed and a reboot should automatically configure the display Craig On Sun,

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:56 +, Beartooth wrote: > Well, all of my UPSs (iirc) are wired by the maker (APC) to > complain if not; this particular one, a duplicate of what my computer > shop uses, would probably do its celebrated imitation of a fire engine > in > a fight to the death with an a

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Bjørn Ivar Johnsen
Thank you for the fast answer:) I have newer gotten such fantastic response before:D 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 never tried anything like this before. I sus

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 09 August 2008 22:27, g wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video head? > > I'm thinking cleaning fluids here. > > _do_not_ use anything abrasive, as are head cleaning tapes.

Re: Mobile Broadband connection through NetworkManager

2008-08-09 Thread Andrig T. Miller
>> I just purchased a EVDO USB broadband card from Sprint, and I'm trying >> to set it up using NetworkManager. >> >> When I select Edit Connections from the applet, and then select the >> Mobile Broadband tab, I come to an empty screen, as I would expect. >> Then I click on the Add button, but not

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 09 August 2008 23:51, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:45:08 +0200 > > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Frank. I was sort of thinking along the alcohol line, but just > > wanted some confirmation. > > I use alcohol every night to clean the projector as the firs

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:45:08 +0200 Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Frank. I was sort of thinking along the alcohol line, but just wanted > some confirmation. I use alcohol every night to clean the projector as the first step before threading up the night's show, and it works very

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 August 2008, Nigel Henry wrote: >Sorry for this totally OT ? > >Some years ago, while on a boat in Belgium, which had a 3 phase shoreline, >some silly electrician who was going to work on the electrics, removed the >neutral first, which resulted in 400+ volts ending up in the tuner t

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 09 August 2008 22:20, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:59:50 +0200 > > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video head? > > I'm thinking cleaning fluids here. > > Alcohol. > > That's what I use to clean crud out o

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi. To install the NVIDIA driver there are 2 ways: easy and hard. The easy (and recommended) is to use the livna repository[1]. First you have to install the rpm from the repository: # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm or download the rpm, and the install it. Then search for th

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-09 Thread Alan Cox
> If you mean the brand then I wouldn't worry about it. They are all > pretty standard (and are also liable to fail after a few years). They can also fail from silly things that happen by accident often un-noticed. I zapped one a few months ago by the fine and wonderful technique of dropping a sma

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:51:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 16:07 +, Beartooth wrote: >> The young friend was here yesterday evening, and concluded immediately >> that the power supply was dead. Maybe it did arc somewhere; odd that >> that hasn't happened before. >

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Bjørn Ivar Johnsen
I really feel stupid now, but I just realized that I have to download a driver to nvidia card specially for Linux!!! That certainly bring some light to my problems:) The only thing now is that I am not sure how to install that driver.. Should I start the text interface and install the driver from

Re: Importing locked private ssh key

2008-08-09 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 14:47 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > I have the following in my .bash_profile: > > keychain --eval id_dsa > seahorse-agent > > Whenever I login to X11, I am prompted for the passphrase, which I > enter (no problem). > > then whenever I first try to do an ssh, I get a dial

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Newell
Aside from ejecting and the error box with "ok", nothing; but I am going to try again with control-alt-f3 to see if I can get more information. Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 13:25 -0700, Paul Newell wrote: Put them in DVD/CD drive of Linux box. I ran the media check and it succ

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-09 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 13:25 -0700, Paul Newell wrote: > > Put them in DVD/CD drive of Linux box. I ran the media check and it > successfully verified. Continuing on, the disk ejects with an error > box > that say, in text in upper left, "ok" and has a button to push which > says, of course, "ok

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:12:25 +, g wrote: > Beartooth wrote: > >> I thought I had implied that it was indeed the only way, or the > > you did, but you failed to mention 2 computers on same ups. [see below] That was probably a red herring and a brain fart, actually; the second is a l

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Newell
Never knew about those ... thanks ... will try later this afternoon and see if it can explain what happened. Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:34:43 -0700 Paul Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What other virtual terminals? I looks to me like it is in single user mode trying to boot

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:34:43 -0700 Paul Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What other virtual terminals? I looks to me like it is in single user > mode trying to boot from DVD and I think I "just have the existing > screen". Is there some way to get additional information at the point of > err

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Newell
Frank: What other virtual terminals? I looks to me like it is in single user mode trying to boot from DVD and I think I "just have the existing screen". Is there some way to get additional information at the point of error that I am unaware of (I've never done an FC/Fedora install so I'm a to

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:25:25 -0700 Paul Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the disk ejects with an error box > that say, in text in upper left, "ok" and has a button to push which > says, of course, "ok". Both DVDs do this and I tried on two different > Linux boxes. Let's just say I'm not gett

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Newell
Frank: Re-reading the post I just sent on FC9 install, my wording on trying to respond to the ham sandwich failed again. I meant to say my original letter was poorly worded and yes, I ended up sending a "ham sandwich". Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:20:35 -0700 Paul Newell <[EMAIL P

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nigel Henry wrote: > Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video head? I'm > thinking cleaning fluids here. _do_not_ use anything abrasive, as are head cleaning tapes. pure grain alcohol or denatured alcohol only. no oil base l

backedup 0.1

2008-08-09 Thread Armin
hey guys, I just release a backup script I've been using for months and thought it would be good to share it with others. It is just a shell script. project URL: http://code.google.com/p/backed-up/ blog post: http://fengshaun.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/backed-up-01-released/ -- Armin -- fedor

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Newell
Thanks for the "fedora core" -> "fedora" correction. And, to other respondent, I could have phrase that "ham sandwich" better. I have a couple systems running of FC5. I am trying to upgrade to Fedora 9. Haven't been able to get the Linux boxes to talk to internet, so I downloaded the DVD FC9 i

Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:59:50 +0200 Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video head? I'm > thinking cleaning fluids here. Alcohol. That's what I use to clean crud out of the film projector in my theatre. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melv

Re: setting up WPA Personal (F9 & KDE 4.1 (from updates-testing))

2008-08-09 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2008/8/9 Beartooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:37:15 +0930, Tim wrote: > >> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 15:14 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: >>> At least on my laptop, running Fedora 9 with KDE, clicking the >>> NetworkManager icon in the tray immediately shows me the available >>> netw

Re: setting up WPA Personal (F9 & KDE 4.1 (from updates-testing))

2008-08-09 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Beartooth wrote: On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:37:15 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 15:14 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: At least on my laptop, running Fedora 9 with KDE, clicking the NetworkManager icon in the tray immediately shows me the available networks, just as in Fedora 8. I never ne

Re: setting up WPA Personal (F9 & KDE 4.1 (from updates-testing))

2008-08-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:37:15 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 15:14 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: >> At least on my laptop, running Fedora 9 with KDE, clicking the >> NetworkManager icon in the tray immediately shows me the available >> networks, just as in Fedora 8. I never need to manu

Re: webcam in xps 1530?

2008-08-09 Thread Nicolae Ghimbovschi
I'm not a owner of a Dell XPS 1530. But played with one. Yes, the webcam works with gspca drivers. The wifi also works, but you will need to install the original firmware to connect to WPA protected networks. The video 3D acceleration works out of box. On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 22:45, Marcelo M. Gar

OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

2008-08-09 Thread Nigel Henry
Sorry for this totally OT ? Some years ago, while on a boat in Belgium, which had a 3 phase shoreline, some silly electrician who was going to work on the electrics, removed the neutral first, which resulted in 400+ volts ending up in the tuner timer unit of my Sony Betamax VCR, which killed it

webcam in xps 1530?

2008-08-09 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi. I'm considering to buy a Dell XPS 1530, and I would like to know if some one consider himself a is a happy owner of one and if the Webcam works. Thanks Marcelo -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi A quick test: after the boot, when you are looking at the stripes, press "ctrl"+"alt"+F1, and you should see the login prompt. And return to the stripes, press, "ctrl"+"alt"+F7. You said that you driver is 175.19, but seems that the latest driver in NVIDIA page is 173.14[1]. Did y

Re: For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread William Case
Hi Bjorn; On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:56 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: [snip] > You might want to read RFC 2026, titled "The Internet Standards Process – > Revision 3": > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2026 > Laughing out loud. Gawd its good to be alive and living in the same world with people who in

Re: For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread Björn Persson
William Case wrote: > My question is this: These memos are entitled Requests for Comments and > each have received several detailed and learned comments, yet, the RFC > seems to become adopted as written with the comments only attached but > not adopted. I am I misreading the actual RFC process?

Re: VNC - connection refused (111)

2008-08-09 Thread Teo Fonrouge
On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:35:23 am Colin Paul Adams wrote: > > "Tim" == Taylor, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tim> If you are sure a firewall isn't running on the server, and > Tim> you can telnet to that port from the server but nowhere else > Tim> then I would suggest ch

Re: For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread William Case
Hi Patrick; Thanks; On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 13:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 12:39 -0400, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > Just a quick process question. I have been digging into various RFCs > > (RFC1918, RFC1700, RF3513 etc.) issued by committees of the IETF.

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
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!!:( When Linux boots it can run

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Teo Fonrouge
On Saturday 09 August 2008 03:18:07 am Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > Hello. > I have a serious problem with (all) Linux distributions included > Fedora. After installing or use of live dvd, I cannot see anything but > stripes on my screen. I have a pentium 4 with 1GB RAM and Nvidia card. > I have tri

Re: For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 12:39 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > Just a quick process question. I have been digging into various RFCs > (RFC1918, RFC1700, RF3513 etc.) issued by committees of the IETF. They > are very good and surprisingly clear explanations of how network > addressing is to be

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-09 Thread Bjørn Ivar Johnsen
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 do with the refresh rate of the screen? It is currently set to 75 H

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 16:07 +, Beartooth wrote: > The young friend was here yesterday evening, and concluded > immediately that the power supply was dead. Maybe it did arc > somewhere; odd that that hasn't happened before. Not at all. Power supplies can die after a while like everything else,

Re: Java browser plugin Broken on one login only

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 10:07 -0400, Jim Duda wrote: > Okay, the broken user is using plugins from /usr/lib/firefox while the > others use /usr/lib/mozilla. I didn't even know there was a > /usr/lib/firefox. I have a /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.1 but no /usr/lib/firefox (or /usr/lib64/firefox). Do '

Re: For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Case wrote: > My question is this: These memos are entitled Requests for Comments and > each have received several detailed and learned comments, yet, the RFC > seems to become adopted as written with the comments only attached but > not adopt

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-09 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beartooth wrote: > I thought I had implied that it was indeed the only way, or the you did, but you failed to mention 2 computers on same ups. [see below] > No power cord I've ever seen could be pulled fast from anything I not a matter of strength.

For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread William Case
Hi; Just a quick process question. I have been digging into various RFCs (RFC1918, RFC1700, RF3513 etc.) issued by committees of the IETF. They are very good and surprisingly clear explanations of how network addressing is to be used. My question is this: These memos are entitled Requests for

Re: WiFi: Conceptronic C54Ri (RaLink RT2500) and WPA no go

2008-08-09 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick wrote: > 0xD464C3FC key could not be found by any of the keyservers offered by > enigmail. my 'round2it' has not rolled that far. now that you have reminded, i will 'get2it' with in next 24hr. >>> Does anyone have any experience with this ca

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-09 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:14:36 +, g wrote: >> It hung up, early in the reboot sequence -- just starting >> to shut down, in fact, iirc. Reset button did nothing; power button did >> nothing; I pulled the plug, and walked away. > > never just pull a power cord, unless that is only way to

Re: Thunderbird: howto disable colored quote lines?

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick
Mike wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Patrick wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how I can disable the colored quote lines in Thunderbird? I prefer just ">" or ">>" etc. In Thunderbird's config I set mail.quoted_graphical to false. Now I get some colored quote lines and some ">". Close but no cigar :)

Re: VNC - connection refused (111)

2008-08-09 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Tim" == Taylor, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> If you are sure a firewall isn't running on the server, and Tim> you can telnet to that port from the server but nowhere else Tim> then I would suggest checking that the VNC server is indeed Tim> listening on the EXTERNAL

Re: VNC - connection refused (111)

2008-08-09 Thread Taylor, Tim
If you are sure a firewall isn't running on the server, and you can telnet to that port from the server but nowhere else then I would suggest checking that the VNC server is indeed listening on the EXTERNAL interface. It sounds like it is listening on the local loopback only. - Tim - Origina

Re: Thunderbird: howto disable colored quote lines?

2008-08-09 Thread Mike
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Patrick wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how I can disable the colored quote lines in Thunderbird? I prefer just ">" or ">>" etc. In Thunderbird's config I set mail.quoted_graphical to false. Now I get some colored quote lines and some ">". Close but no cigar :) Thanks and

Re: WiFi: Conceptronic C54Ri (RaLink RT2500) and WPA no go

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick
Hi g, Thank you for your feedback. Comments inline. By the way, your 0xD464C3FC key could not be found by any of the keyservers offered by enigmail. g wrote: Patrick wrote: Does anyone have any experience with this card or any RaLink RT2500 based card howto make NetworkManager (or system-c

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