Fedora Weekly News, Issue 139

2008-08-18 Thread Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 139 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Board IRC Public Meeting + 1.1.2 Fedora Test Day: Encrypted Installs Plymouth + 1.1.3 ACL Changes and New Package Group Policy + 1.1.4 Important Infrastructure

Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200

2008-08-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
Our team has been hard at work for several days now, restoring services in the Fedora infrastructure. We started with what we identified as Fedora's critical path, those systems required to restore minimum daily operation. That work to be completely finished by the end of the day. We then move on

packaging alternative themes?

2008-08-18 Thread Ian Weller
Is it plausible to package additional themes for Fedora, such as from gnome-look.org and the KDE and XFCE(?) equivalents, as long as they have proper licensing? If so, should we get with spot and see if we need separate guidelines for them? -- Ian Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packaging alternative themes?

2008-08-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: Is it plausible to package additional themes for Fedora, such as from gnome-look.org and the KDE and XFCE(?) equivalents, as long as they have proper licensing? Sure, I see not problem with that. If so, should we get with spot and see if we need separate guidelines for

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h58/mairinduffy/gears-blueswirl_steampunk3c.png While I think the all-blue one is less distractive and would work better for a wallpaper, the one with the widget is basically impossible to ignore. One thing that catches my eye is the

Re: Ideas and wining

2008-08-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ben Hamment wrote: I tried to make my wallpapers simple as i think this is important when using the desktop and makes it easy to see files etc. Yeah, and here lies the challenge in creating a good wallpaper: it was to be both simple and unobtrusive and at the same time to look good (as good

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-18 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 09:57 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: Martin Sourada wrote: http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h58/mairinduffy/gears-blueswirl_steampunk3c.png While I think the all-blue one is less distractive and would work better for a wallpaper, the one with the widget is basically

Re: [Echo] printer sketches

2008-08-18 Thread Martin Sourada
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:15 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Martin Sourada a écrit : Just a notice that I've redone the other = 22x22 sizes in that style as well. I attach the current candidates for approval (only PNGs). SVGs and the previous tries can be found on my fedorapeople page

[Bug 453017] Review Request: un-extra-fonts - Korean TrueType fonts

2008-08-18 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453017 --- Comment #26 from Jens Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-08-18 03:57:44 EDT --- (And un-core-fonts is approved though

[Bug 453016] Review Request: un-core-fonts - Korean TrueType fonts

2008-08-18 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453016 --- Comment #39 from Jens Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-08-18 03:56:02 EDT --- Dennis, ping :) Can you please follow

[Bug 459451] Changes in glyph point settings window could not be applied.

2008-08-18 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459451 Caius CHANCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

Old matplotlib bugzilla component

2008-08-18 Thread Orion Poplawski
I found the source of my matplotlib confusion. Apparently there is still an old maplotlib Fedora component. Can this be removed? The package is python-matplotlib in fedora. Thanks! (Please CC me, list delivery is disabled) -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager

RFC: split changelog out of spec

2008-08-18 Thread Jarod Wilson
Hey all, Been toying with the idea of splitting the changelog out of the kernel spec itself, to reduce the size of the spec file. Basically, instead of %changelog followed by all the entries, it'd be %include %{SOURCE1}, which is a file 'fedora-kernel-changelog', which carries all the usual

Re: RFC: split changelog out of spec

2008-08-18 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:13:26PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: Hey all, Been toying with the idea of splitting the changelog out of the kernel spec itself, to reduce the size of the spec file. Basically, instead of %changelog followed by all the entries, it'd be %include %{SOURCE1},

Re: RFC: split changelog out of spec

2008-08-18 Thread Neil Horman
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:20:05PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:13:26PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: Hey all, Been toying with the idea of splitting the changelog out of the kernel spec itself, to reduce the size of the spec file. Basically, instead of

Re: RFC: split changelog out of spec

2008-08-18 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:43:49PM +0200, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could also, if so desired, install the split-out changelog as a %doc file, the thought being that not everyone knows to look at 'rpm -q --changelog' output or

Re: RFC: split changelog out of spec

2008-08-18 Thread Jarod Wilson
John W. Linville wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:43:49PM +0200, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could also, if so desired, install the split-out changelog as a %doc file, the thought being that not everyone knows to look at 'rpm -q

Re: RFC: split changelog out of spec

2008-08-18 Thread drago01
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John W. Linville wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:43:49PM +0200, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could also, if so desired, install the split-out changelog as a

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] CeCILL-C license versus CeCILL for packaging Alt-Ergo theorem prover

2008-08-18 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 13:59 -0400, Alan Dunn wrote: I'm hoping to package the Alt-Ergo automated theorem prover (http://ergo.lri.fr) for use in Fedora. It appears that they have released this software under the CeCILL-C license, which is not one of those listed on

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

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Repo
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:29 AM, max bianco [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Matthew Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:09:09PM -0400, max wrote: I wondered that, too. The original posting was too vague. You can't tell if they're just

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

2008-08-18 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: max wrote: Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 15:13 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: So, is it safe to apply updates? I wondered that, too. The original posting was too vague. You can't tell if they're just fixing a

Proxy Settings

2008-08-18 Thread Leon Vergottini
Hi Can you guys please help me. I have tried now several ways to get yum going from behind a proxy server. In fact I have locked my account on 14 domain controllers today on our enterprise network. I ahve tried adding the the proxy settings in the yum.conf file as per certain forums. I have

Re: Proxy Settings

2008-08-18 Thread Ramprasad Rajendran
Hi, 2008/8/18 Leon Vergottini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I ahve tried adding the the proxy settings in the yum.conf file as per certain forums. I have tried the export http_proxy option. Still none is working. Does the proxy require authentication? If authentication is required you'll have to

Re: movies are blinking with ATI on Fedora 9

2008-08-18 Thread David Hláčik
Can someone point me to bug, which discuss this problem - as i know it currently has no solution - where can i find more info about that? Thanks! David 2008/8/7 David Hláčik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only one solution is to disable compiz, i will have to wait for stupid ATI drivers - i hate ati!

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:48:34 +, Tom Horsley wrote: I hope this isn't the same problem livna and fedora infrastructure had :-). Only Livna's x86 build server was down temporarily. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

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

2008-08-18 Thread Florian Sievert
The least fedora could have done is give some suggestions to users on how to take precautions if this is really a security issue which seems quite obvious now since it's been days and everyone is in the dark I completly agree. The way of communicating this issue is pretty bad. In fact,

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

2008-08-18 Thread Roger Grosswiler
The least fedora could have done is give some suggestions to users on how to take precautions if this is really a security issue which seems quite obvious now since it's been days and everyone is in the dark I completly agree. The way of communicating this issue is pretty bad. In fact,

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

2008-08-18 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:27:22AM +0200, Florian Sievert wrote: the best way to handle the issue. Else, I need to calculate with the worst case and that is a security breach with compromissed signed keys. No information about the time the problem occurs, so you have to see all fedora

ATI drivers - when?

2008-08-18 Thread David Hláčik
Hi guys, any info when is great ATI planning to release their drivers for x server which Fedora 9 / probably also Fedora 10 will use? Can someone provide me ATI forums, or ati contacts where can i keep asking them until they will do something ? Thanks! David -- fedora-list mailing list

Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Sundeep Pundamale
Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and existing configurations. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:36:54PM +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and existing configurations. Here's how I'd think about it: how would you get

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Sundeep Pundamale
Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:36:54PM +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and existing configurations. Here's how I'd think about

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Boy
Am Montag, den 18.08.2008, 13:36 +0300 schrieb Sundeep Pundamale: Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and existing configurations. Upgrade from version 6 is not specifically supported

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Mark Haney
Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and existing configurations. I recently did this (just to see if it /could/ be done. The best way to do this /without/

Re: ATI drivers - when?

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Repo
2008/8/18 David Hláčik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi guys, any info when is great ATI planning to release their drivers for x server which Fedora 9 / probably also Fedora 10 will use? Can someone provide me ATI forums, or ati contacts where can i keep asking them until they will do something ?

[OT] Machine won't boot

2008-08-18 Thread Marko Vojinovic
This is a rather old Celeron machine, 433 MHz with 320 MB ram. It was working properly up to a couple of days ago, when the first hd started dying out (which is understandable, given its age and the conditions it's in). But then at some point the computer stopped booting completely --- bios

Cairo-like dock for KDE?

2008-08-18 Thread Marko Vojinovic
Ok, you know, that thing from Mac OS X, that zooms the icons parabolically when you hover the pointer over them... Trying to find some equivalent eyecandy for KDE 4.0 or 4.1 or whatever. I already have Compiz-fusion pretty customized, but all that is not enough, I want even more eye-candy...

Re: No audio when recording using Audacity in Fedora 9

2008-08-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:17:22 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote: I've been able to get audacity to work without disabling pulseaudio by installing audacity-nonfree (1.3.4-0.7.20080123cvs.lvn9) instead of audacity. Eventually give audacity in fedora updates-testing a try. -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Dumb X Resolution problem - need help

2008-08-18 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 18 August 2008 14:34, don vogt wrote: I was fooling around with some image files and trying different resolutions. I went to System Preferences Resolution and changed my screen resolution to 640x480. Now, the change resolution screen is cut off at the bottom so the Apply button

Re: ATI drivers - when?

2008-08-18 Thread David Hláčik
Well thank you very much for info! Unfortunatelly i can not have compiz running on radeonhd , or xorg ati drivers right? Based on your info i have discovered xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd-1.2.1-1.1.20080429git.fc9.i386 pakage for Fedora 9 in updates repo which i have tried. But so far functionality is

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:02:07PM +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Thats the constraint i have. The linux box has apache, php, mysql,svn, openfire, openvpn, samba and many more applications running. Doing a fresh installation and reconfiguring all these applications would be a very time

fonts in QT application (Skype)

2008-08-18 Thread David Hláčik
Suddenly , i have installed and then removed freetype-freeworld package from Livna Repo, and strange think happend. I have Fedora 9 with Gnome - using subpixel-font rendering. When i open QT application - there are no subpixel rendered fonts , but normal fonts (best shape). What is wrong?

Re: fonts in QT application (Skype)

2008-08-18 Thread David Hláčik
Well, so subpixel-font rendering works on them, what did not work is Hinting feature for smoothed fonts. I have set hinting to small - it works everywhere in gnome, but QT application (skype) uses hinting full . strange - no way to configure it. Thanks , David On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:21 PM,

Re: [OT] Machine won't boot

2008-08-18 Thread Alan Cox
What could fail and induce such behavior? I have never seen anything similar before. A computer usually does boot completely or does not boot at all. I've never seen it boot halfway and then lock up. Age, component failure , corrosion, static damage finally killing a device, fan failure ...

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 David Hláčik
So Firefox is GTK app also? (because it uses gnome-settings) 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 settings? Thanks!

Re: [OT] Machine won't boot

2008-08-18 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What could fail and induce such behavior? In addition to what Alan Cox already mentioned, you might also want to find a spare power supply and plug that in temporarily. Capacitors to get old, dry out, etc. You might get lucky and it could just be

Re: fonts in QT application (Skype)

2008-08-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: 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 We've been looking into this recently, and it seems that qt(4) doesn't fully support subpixel rendering abilities of recent

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: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and existing configurations. The best advice I can give (having just done this on my laptop) is to read *all* of the

Re: fonts in QT application (Skype)

2008-08-18 Thread David Hláčik
Thanks guys, but kdebase or kde-libs will not install kde utility to configure fonts :( Do you know where QTconfig stores its config files, so i can remove them and use defaults ? Thanks! (sorry for bothering with such stupid questions) D. On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Will Partain
Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and existing configurations. A couple of caveats though. Any 3rd party repos you

Re: Re: Re: VMware Server 1.06 on Fedora 8 x86_64

2008-08-18 Thread Gene Poole
Group, I've found the following files: VMware-server-vmmom-1.0.6-91891-2.6.26-1.patch VMware-server-vmnet-1.0.6-91891-2.6.26-1.patch Along with these installation instructions: #get tarball and install, do not run vmware-configure.pl when prompted# #get patches and run aginst

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Claude Jones
On Mon August 18 2008 10:29:18 am Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and existing configurations. The best advice I can give

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 13:36 +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and existing configurations. a LOT of useful information here...

Re: fonts in QT application (Skype)

2008-08-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
David Hláčik david at hlacik.eu writes: Suddenly , i have installed and then removed freetype-freeworld package from Livna Repo Why have you removed freetype-freeworld? You need it for subpixel rendering, it's disabled in the Fedora freetype package. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list

Re: fonts in QT application (Skype)

2008-08-18 Thread David Hláčik
I am using a port of subpixel fonts rendering from Ubuntu - http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=186789 Regards, D. On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Kevin Kofler [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: David Hláčik david at hlacik.eu writes: Suddenly , i have installed and then removed

Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 54, Issue 143

2008-08-18 Thread don vogt
-- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:45:01 +0200 From: Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dumb X Resolution problem - need help To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Monday 18

Re: ATI drivers - when?

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Repo
2008/8/18 David Hláčik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well thank you very much for info! Unfortunatelly i can not have compiz running on radeonhd , or xorg ati drivers right? What graphics card do you have? If you have R300/R500 graphics card, compiz runs very well. If you have an R600 graphics card

Bluetooth headset with fedora 9

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Repo
Hello all, I have fedora 9 x86_64 install with all updates up-to-date. I have Belkin USB dongle that works on fedora with my Motorola Phone (I can browse my phone over bluetooth) I bought a Jabra 125 bluetooth headset that works with my Motorola Phone. I want to use this headset with fedora

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-18 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 greetings, to make this easier and more enjoyable, '4 in 1'. first off, 'beware of greeks bearing gifts'. Anne Wilson wrote: Now you are being offensive :-) 'Scotch' is whisky, and the Scottish people take this issue very seriously :-)

Re: fonts in QT application (Skype)

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 15:56 +0200, David Hláčik wrote: So Firefox is GTK app also? (because it uses gnome-settings) Yes. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Bluetooth headset with fedora 9

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 21:24 +0530, Steve Repo wrote: Hello all, I have fedora 9 x86_64 install with all updates up-to-date. Why are you re-posting this? You sent an apparently identical message yesterday. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Re: Re: VMware Server 1.06 on Fedora 8 x86_64

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 10:48 -0400, Gene Poole wrote: Group, I've found the following files: VMware-server-vmmom-1.0.6-91891-2.6.26-1.patch VMware-server-vmnet-1.0.6-91891-2.6.26-1.patch Where? poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 14:02 +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:36:54PM +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote: Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the

F8 system crashed

2008-08-18 Thread Barry Yu
During start up noticed avahi daemon Failed, and then Greeter appears to be crashing. Attempting to use a different one, this Greeter keeps attempting to do the same but never can start the log in. Need help to fix it if can avoid fresh installation. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Bluetooth headset in Fedora 9

2008-08-18 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:12:34 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Repo) wrote: I have fedora 9 x86_64 install with all updates up-to-date. I have Belkin USB dongle that works with my Motorola Phone (I can browse my phone over bluetooth) I bought a Jabra 125 bluetooth headset that workswith my

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 16:01 +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 greetings, to make this easier and more enjoyable, '4 in 1'. first off, 'beware of greeks bearing gifts'. Anne Wilson wrote: Now you are being offensive :-) 'Scotch' is whisky, and

Re: movies are blinking with ATI on Fedora 9

2008-08-18 Thread dexter
On 07/08/2008, David Hláčik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only one solution is to disable compiz, i will have to wait for stupid ATI drivers - i hate ati! D. First before you start spittin feathers, AMD/ATI have been dropping documentation since last year If you are capable you can help out! if

Re: F7 on EeePC : how to connect?? -- SOLVED

2008-08-18 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:27:04 +, I Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:59:13 -0700, Roopnarine, Peter wrote: Even though you might have an older eee PC model, I suggest that you install Fedora 9 on it. Even Fedora 8 is lacking suitable drivers. I'm not sure I even made a

Re: I think I have shut off a wrong service !?

2008-08-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 22:55 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; With all the playing and poking around for the last couple of weeks over networking, I think I might have shut down a crucial service. I have developed the following problems. * information for system = networking missing

Re: F8 system crashed

2008-08-18 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 09:12 -0700, Barry Yu wrote: During start up noticed avahi daemon Failed, and then Greeter appears to be crashing. Attempting to use a different one, this Greeter keeps attempting to do the same but never can start the log in. Need help to fix it if can avoid fresh

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ?? [SOLVED -- for now]

2008-08-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 15:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 13:09 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Aaron et al; This is my last post (for a while) on this subject. Actually the answers are quite simple. Just after spending $45 for Understanding Linux Network Internals

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

2008-08-18 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: The main Fedora developers and Red Hat have a strong background of respectability, so I deposit my trust that if it was such a thing we'd be notified about it. Calm down, and wait, I'm sure we'll know soon enough.

Re: F8 system crashed

2008-08-18 Thread Tod Merley
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Barry Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During start up noticed avahi daemon Failed, and then Greeter appears to be crashing. Attempting to use a different one, this Greeter keeps attempting to do the same but never can start the log in. Need help to fix it if

Re: Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

2008-08-18 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you do a fresh install and save the /home , and /etc directories before install most of the configuration files will be retained and can be copied to the new installation. I second that. In fact, I like to go one step further and just take out the

Re: Re: Re: VMware Server 1.06 on Fedora 8 x86_64

2008-08-18 Thread Gene Poole
I found those patch files at the same place I located the vmware-any-any files: http://groups.google.com/group/vmkernelnewbies/files TIA, Gene Poole-- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

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

2008-08-18 Thread max
Steve Repo wrote: If only all the sysadmins in the world had the time to check on each system and every packet on the network! Try looking for a needle in a haysack? Sure but I would assume, wrongly it seems, that a good admin has taken the time to establish some sort of baseline for the

Re: Cairo-like dock for KDE?

2008-08-18 Thread Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Em Seg 18 Ago 2008, Marko Vojinovic escreveu: Ok, you know, that thing from Mac OS X, that zooms the icons parabolically when you hover the pointer over them... Trying to find some equivalent eyecandy for KDE 4.0 or 4.1 or whatever. I already have Compiz-fusion pretty customized, but all that

Re: ATI drivers - when?

2008-08-18 Thread Russell Miller
2008/8/18 Steve Repo [EMAIL PROTECTED] What graphics card do you have? If you have R300/R500 graphics card, compiz runs very well. If you have an R600 graphics card you may need a newer RadeonHD driver than what is distributed by fedora. I have an R600, and the latest versions from the

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

2008-08-18 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:27 AM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone who is not subscribed to 'fedora-announce-list' have no one other than them selves to blame for not being aware. fact that something such as this has happened, it would be best that all who are not subscribed to

Re: ATI drivers - when?

2008-08-18 Thread David Hláčik
What graphics card do you have? If you have R300/R500 graphics card, compiz runs very well. If you have an R600 graphics card you may need a newer RadeonHD driver than what is distributed by fedora. I have Radeon HD2400 (mobile on my Asus F3Sr) Based on your info i have

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

2008-08-18 Thread Alan Cox
list the best thing we can do? Or is it just the best thing we can do right now given our current tools? Nothing's ever perfect but their maybe room to try something new with regard to communication mechanisms... if there are people willing to put the effort in to build it. Some

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

2008-08-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 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

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

cant pair blue tooth phone to redhat fedora 8 blue tooth stack

2008-08-18 Thread Ralph Blach
I have a Nokia 6555 with bluetooth. When I bring up bluetooth on my x86_64 linux machine, they both can detect each other, but I cannot get them to pair. What is the magic to getting pin from my phone to the bluetooth stack. the passkey agent seems to be running, but I dont know what the

Re: Re: Re: VMware Server 1.06 on Fedora 8 x86_64

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 13:06 -0400, Gene Poole wrote: I found those patch files at the same place I located the vmware-any-any files: http://groups.google.com/group/vmkernelnewbies/files Thanks. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

rkhunter (root kit hunter) warning

2008-08-18 Thread Dean S. Messing
I just installed rkhunter on this F7 machine and am using the default config file (probably a mistake.) This morning I found this in my mail: Subject: [rkhunter] Warnings found for medulla Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Please inspect this machine, because it may be infected.

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

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 19:10 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: list the best thing we can do? Or is it just the best thing we can do right now given our current tools? Nothing's ever perfect but their maybe room to try something new with regard to communication mechanisms... if there are people

Re: I think I have shut off a wrong service !?

2008-08-18 Thread William Case
Hi Aaron; On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 11:21 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 22:55 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; With all the playing and poking around for the last couple of weeks over networking, I think I might have shut down a crucial service. I have developed the

Re: Cairo-like dock for KDE?

2008-08-18 Thread Phil Meyer
Marko Vojinovic wrote: Ok, you know, that thing from Mac OS X, that zooms the icons parabolically when you hover the pointer over them... Trying to find some equivalent eyecandy for KDE 4.0 or 4.1 or whatever. I already have Compiz-fusion pretty customized, but all that is not enough, I want

Fedora 9

2008-08-18 Thread Don Killen
Hello list, I am hoping to find someone whom may be able to help. I have been using fedora or red hat for many years. I have bought five toshiba laptops in as many years and have never had a proble loading it. I recently bought a A305-S68641 with 4g ram and 320 drive, core2 duo 2.26.

Re: Fedora 9

2008-08-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:49:16 -0700 Don Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I am hoping to find someone whom may be able to help. I have been using fedora or red hat for many years. I have bought five toshiba laptops in as many years and have never had a proble loading it. I

Re: Fedora 9

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Lemire
You could try another distro if Fedora won't work. This guy got the issue solved with Ubuntu 8.04, and his wireless works. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=834640highlight=A305-S68641 On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:49:16 -0700

Re: F8: Nautilus: Strange behaviors...

2008-08-18 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel B. Thurman wrote: snip As the rolling joke goes, I keep my mouse balls clean. :D to wit, your mouse has more than one? does jumping occur in both axes? open it's sack [unscrew top from bottom, not just remove ball retainer] and look inside.

Re: Problems with ath5k and Madwifi drivers

2008-08-18 Thread Jim
huppert wrote: ath5k shipped with Fedora 8/9 doesn't work with the AR500EG pci-express card. The simplest solution is to take the old ath_pci driver from madwifi. The only problem is to compile it with the current iw_handler.h file. Take the old one of Fedora 7 and use it temporarily just to

cups start problem

2008-08-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
When I restart cups the stop goes well but the start takes a very long time placing in the cups error.log the lines below. This happened after I installed a new hplip file. Clearly something is wrong with the laoding of something that is not loading fast enough. After waiting cups works. Doews

Re: network printer setup, Vol 54, Issue 130

2008-08-18 Thread Vincent Onelli
4. Re: Network printer setup, (Mikkel L. Ellertson) -- Message: 4 Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:18:31 -0500 From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Network printer setup, To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: [EMAIL

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-18 Thread Jorge Luis González
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, g wrote: never forget what one of england's greatest prime ministers said to a teacher, 'prepositions are something of which i know nothing of' The phrase mistakenly attributed to Churchill is, This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. It's ironic, in

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

2008-08-18 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Spaleta wrote: snip The specific current situation aside for a moment. As a Board member, I am interested in thinking about a better mechanism of communication i see nothing wrong with way it is now. leave tech support on 'fedora-list'.

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