Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: My solution to installs for little machines is a box I got from Newegg, has a USB connector and PATA inside for old drives (SATA available as well), and I install on a real computer with lots of resources, even if I'm running

Re: Network Audio

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:33:28PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: I would love to just use one system for sound and let other systems send audio to it. Is network audio a reasonable solution? Suggestions if not? Assume having multiple systems using the same server

Problem with ssh identies

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
the question is, how can I get ssh to offer the key I give it in the command line first? Preferably as the only key offered, actually, but definitely before the default key, which on several machines drops me into another application. Is there some clever means or option I missed? -- Bill

Re: mailing list losing mail?

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
the message explaining in painful detail how/why and what you might have to do to make your mail filters allow mail form the list. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing

Re: ati drivers f12

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
dozen filed with kerneloops.org. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Any linux-based microSD utilities?

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
, where XXX is the sd device. If you are lucky there will still be a partition /dev/XXX1/ which you can try to recover (and can dd it into a disk file for more future trials). -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
a local server and the tom of cruft that entails. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2009-July/msg00146.html -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit?

2010-01-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
, with that port? Absolutely not! If you ever get it again check it again. Learn how to do that, lsof is not rocket science. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: i686 packages in my Fedora 12 x86_64

2010-01-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
bit package and it pulled in dependencies. If you installed something which runs a lot of the commands you saw by execv (in some languages shell or system procedure) then they may have been pulled in the same way. Unless you have some misbehavior I would do nothing if it were my system. -- Bill

Network Audio

2010-01-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
I would love to just use one system for sound and let other systems send audio to it. Is network audio a reasonable solution? Suggestions if not? Assume having multiple systems using the same server is not an issue, coordination is possible, overlap is acceptable. -- Bill Davidsen david

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2010-01-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
john wendel wrote: On 12/31/2009 12:14 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Konstantin Svist wrote: On 12/31/2009 09:10 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: And leaves you with no Fedora patches and the disk performance regression issues of 2.6.32. Also a tainted kernel which some developers will ignore if you get

Re: Where did my penguins go? - THAT'S LIFE

2010-01-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:15 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: g writes: Richard Shaw wrote: Many thanks to all, but after trying all of the suggested VESA alternatives I've concluded that the nouveau driver sans penguins is vastly superior

Re: -ck with Fedora?

2009-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
, and the regression for random i/o (see LKML) I have gone back to Fedora kernel for now. The new 2.6.32 BFS patch is at http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/2.6.32-sched-bfs-311.patch -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2009-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
john wendel wrote: On 12/30/2009 06:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Konstantin Svist wrote: How come Fedora is still on 2.6.31? Is .32 held back on purpose or are there issues merging it? It took less than a week for .31.9 to be pushed through... but I don't see .32 in updates-testing and it's

Re: Where did my penguins go?

2009-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
but there are a few modes which work widely if you know your vertical resolution limit. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2009-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Konstantin Svist wrote: On 12/31/2009 09:10 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: And leaves you with no Fedora patches and the disk performance regression issues of 2.6.32. Also a tainted kernel which some developers will ignore if you get a trace, etc. I thought it's only tainted if there are non-GPL

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:58 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? I guess I don't know enough about Win7 to know why this is funny. One could always reboot to runlevel 1 and change back even the root passwd

Re: The Counter-Fedora People At #fedora

2009-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
got kicked. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines

Re: Can't burn DVDs

2009-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
:00:18:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2.00: status: { DRDY } ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata2: EH complete -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com

Re: Where did my penguins go?

2009-12-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
= and xdriver= Example of everything all at once, use vesa and see penguins: nomodeset vga=0x318 video=vesafb xdriver=vesa This allows you to use alternate framebuffer and X drivers, and trade the high performance and low reliability of some modern kernel drivers for the slow stability of vesa. -- Bill

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
the passwords and they couldn't into them. I just had to say to her , Thank God for Linux and Super User password. Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? I guess I don't know enough about Win7 to know why this is funny. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2009-12-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
2.6.32.recent is that if they enhance the video drivers any more we will be running text only. Let the developers have the holiday off, and hopefully they will have run 2.6.32 on their laptops and be motivated to work on it. A new year is coming. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more

Re: -ck with Fedora?

2009-12-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dave Stevens wrote: Does anyone have experience to report in using the new -ck kernel patches? Have not tried them against Fedora kernel, the kernel.org kernel seemed stable. Wasn't that exciting, so I just booted and ran for an hour or so. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more

Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED

2009-12-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
BeartoothHOS wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:12:10 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: [...] What does System-admin-display say in the display tab? I find that I need to manually set that sometimes. I think I said system-config-display the first time, had the wrong WM in front of me. On the first

Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED

2009-12-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
BeartoothHOS wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:22 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: the the Preferences-Display to set the resolution. Failing in this use system-config-display --xorg to create a new file, then edit that. Only needed to do that on one machine. I got an error message

Re: how to increase the number of cirtual desktops?

2009-12-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
to the O.P. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: Calendar with recurring tasks?

2009-12-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:08 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Also does differences, so you can print not only the birthday of kids but their age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter, Easter, whatever. Just once, or maybe every time, I'd like to see a calendar NOT ask me

Re: Broadcom BCM4312 not working after updating the kernel

2009-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
). I'm going to post a bug on that if I can catch it. Might be firmware, though... -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: SELinux denial - F12

2009-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
/show_bug.cgi?id=549937 May be related, patch and workaround in the bug. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Calendar with recurring tasks?

2009-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
of kids but their age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter, Easter, whatever. And you can generate documentation or actually execute programs, which is also handy. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: Synaptic Touchpad not working

2009-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert Collard wrote: gsynaptics applet is becoming obsolete. Instead. install: gpointing-device-settings per instructions on the gsynaptics site. Was this in response to the recent upgrade to 2.6.31.9, or a random factoid? -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from

Re: how to increase the number of cirtual desktops?

2009-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
have room for the monitor app on the taskbar, so I can quickly see if the system is running badly. ;-) -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: Raid I/O error

2009-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
there. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: [Fedora] IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
firmware. Good board. Ran a bunch of them, TB of little tiny drives. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

2009-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
is better). Wal-Mart sells several smart phone using GSM, which I'm told run or can run Linux. Don't have details to give, sorry. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list

Re: What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

2009-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
, netbook and Skype (or similar) wins. My opinion only, warranty coverage limited to your purchase price on the advice. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list

Forcing vesa driver from boot line

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
unresponsive, system gets 2-3k int/sec from something, and Wifi stopped working. So far this release is 2 for 11 on my systems, the others have been rolled back to FC11. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked

Re: wireless problem.

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
with FC11, FC12 will not use them. I was not installing any magic drivers for them, they used to work. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Which is why I usually use either ext2 or put the journal file on another file system. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Forcing vesa driver from boot line

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kam Leo wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: I just upgraded my FC12 and now the X is unusable, due to improvements in the radeon driver. I tried using video= and xdriver= boot options, is there any way to restore this to slow but usable operation

Re: md raid 5 not working

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
there is also the linux-raid mailing list which handles issue regardless of release. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
--xorg to create a new file, then edit that. Only needed to do that on one machine. I make no claim to be an expert, I just have learned not to shoot myself in the foot. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Support for Logitech G11 keyboard - take 2

2009-12-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
from the fastest repo yum had cached... Also need g15render, found two copies neither of which is the right version. Ran out of time to work on unpackaged software not on the critical path. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
answered Bill Davidsen first. You can use an entire drive, or a partition on a drive, as a tar archive. (tar -cvf /dev/sdb /home/mikkel) Then, I have no idea where the /sdb1 partition comes from. I also have a lost and found directory on that drive. A thumb drive comes with a single partition

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com If you remember well, I said I formatted the drive by right clicking on the icon. If you format sdb, an sdb1 partition will be created. If you don't have a partition, the drive can't be used. Whatever gave

Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
decide what your personal ratio of time to money is, particularly if you were going to add another 2GB anyway. And if you bought it at Staples or similar where they do simple repairs, they *may* stand behind it and do the repair as good will. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more

Re: RFE? Or am I wasting my time?

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
-- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

G11 keyboard

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
another program or rpm for g15macro which works. BTW: my word per hour are up about 10% since changing, just because it's a better keyboard. Great investment. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked

SeaMonkey

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
Revision 2.0.1 is out, fixes one nasty bug with using authenticated news servers (motzarella in my case), as well as some minor security issues. No RFE, but the corresponding Firefox and TBird versions were packaged... -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
various options - use the option to set the X driver (xdriver= from memory) - use another framebuffer Can't guess which might help, sorry. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora

Re: mounting ext3 partition as ext4 without formatting Fedora 12/LXDE spin

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
have already formatted it? Clarification, please? -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: physical RAM restriction in Fedora 12 (32 bit and 64 bit)

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
size for anything but servers, most motherboards support 16-24GB max, and only half of that if you use affordable 2GB memory instead of 4GB. The PAE kernel allows use of the NX bit, to prevent execution of non-program memory areas. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from

Re: how to get F12 to 'send host-name' in dhcp request?

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
, both for administration and documentation. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: disk moves from /dev/sdd to /dev/sde

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
} echo -n Device connection: cat ${dev}/dev; echo smartctl --all /dev/$dev | sed -n 1,/INFORMATION/d;1,/${LastLine}/p SepLine=== done I swiped tis from my tool kit, later versions are more complex, but this will show when a device moves, and where. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com

Re: Routing with 2 ISP

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
of these a week. Sounds like you are going to have some learning experiences. You want to look at the 'recent' match in iptables, it may be useful in blocking some evil, depending on your policy. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
/sda* and look at the first letter, all block devices. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: That is a thought I suppose, but between 2 different distro's? Sounds a little dicey. OTOH, that would be a nice idea as it would be the quickest, dirtiest way I could think of to get amanda rebuilt

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
and the RPMs you download as upgrades. Any new upgrades will be pulled over the non-local net, but you can save them and update your local repo. This requires more effort that I want (did it for fc9 and fc10) but works fine on a technical level. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
/log/messages for an HPA message, I would say this is a 4GB drive. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: F12 and wi-fi dongles

2009-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
with FC12, I think I'll hold off any more upgrades. My favorite is that on a system with no sound hardware metacity crashes constantly. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot

Re: Daily Kernel Panics

2009-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
effect of interest to me is stability. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
to start a machine from cli and try the usb stuff. It's on my list for fc12 testing, but I'm very busy now and can't take on anything I can't do while my printer runs. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: F12 Boot error message re mount of loop device

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
, choose fixed size for the /boot, make it a primary partition (may no longer be needed, but I do), and set the filesystem type to ext3. Then define the / root, and since you're a fellow conservative a separate /home, unless you want to share the one on sda. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have

Re: Request for Input on Creating Linux Courses...

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
near teach themselves. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Flowchart-ish tool

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: I am trying to create a visual aid for some complex relationships (not software, sorry). It would seem that some flowchart, or similar software, might assist. I need to show the relationships between items and groups of items, and I really don't want to do it by hand

Re: Flowchart-ish tool

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 11/12/09 17:28, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: --snip-- Thanks, all. I have some things to try. Maybe something here? http://www.insideria.com/2009/12/28-rich-data-visualization-too.html That's a worthwhile tip even if it doesn't solve my

Re: Preventing mounting of media for a user

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/09/2009 11:39 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: FC11 or 12, GNOME. All the options set to not load, mount, browse, etc in Preferences. Still loads the DVD and mounts it. I thought there was a way to prevent this from the GUI. I can kill this with udev, but that applies to all

Flowchart-ish tool

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
relation 'child' while from B A has relation 'parent'. That term 'properties' seems to be used in some things I found, but I haven't gotten a solution. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Or even suggest a good manual tool, neither xfig nor gimp is ideal. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We

Re: Processes will not start up on reboot

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
. They will start when I start them by hand: /etc/init.d/clamd.exim start /etc/init.d/spamassassin start Scripts for each of these processes are in the /etc/init.d/ directory. Any ideas why they will not come up on a reboot? man chkconfig -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear

Re: Is Visualization possibe.

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
xtpr I'll bite, WTH do you mean by visualization? I assume you want fancy graphics, accelerated graphics are supported for some video chips. More detail on what data you want to visualize. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Run with . kvm-start.sh as root. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot kvm-start.sh Description: Bourne shell script -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:08 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and not a separate partition? See at: http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
, and use of either map or chain should work fine. Your F12 stanza looks OK (I have never used so many options but why not?). Is your /boot/grub/device.map on /dev/sda associating (hd1) to /dev/sdb? -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
to accomplish the same thing. And in a world where laptops are more common all the time, and better hardware is a dock or a plug away, instead of making the process as automated as plugging in a USB keyboard or a network cable. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from

Re: FC12 , DNS Problems

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
for this device is checked, turn it off. I was going to suggest finishing the IPv6 config process, but that works. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
___] Thanks, this is a good cheat sheet to give to new (or reluctant) LVM users. Don't know if it helped the OP but I found it useful. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
of the building where my laptop sits I'll check the stanza I used, as it still has a fallback fc10 present. In the meantime, you can try booting off sdb, using (typically) the F12 key to enter the boot manager. I suspect the boot info is in the MBR of sdb. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have

Re: F12 Boot error message re mount of loop device

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
the ISO image file. Change the 0 0 to something reasonable, I think 1 3 will work, or 2 1 if it doesn't. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
user mode), that it would be a problem to run as root and root's home directory is not available. Why would it be missing? The /root mount point would be there, the home directory would just be empty, and that's not an issue. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
are in a small minority. The filesystem information is in /etc/fstab, if that's gone you're in a rescue disk boot anyway. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing

Re: To hyper-thread or not to hyper-thread

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
on, meaning it reports ht status, but it probably doesn't have the extras enabled. There are rumors that a firmware hack can turn it on, but I have never seen a working example. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: preupgrade with local repo

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
, but I think the solution lies in using the cost parameter for your local repo, set it to about 500 and it should be used before any other. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot

Preventing mounting of media for a user

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
FC11 or 12, GNOME. All the options set to not load, mount, browse, etc in Preferences. Still loads the DVD and mounts it. I thought there was a way to prevent this from the GUI. I can kill this with udev, but that applies to all users. Kind of negates the idea of per-user setup. -- Bill

Re: F12 Wireless disabled with kernel 2.6.31.6-162

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
is in use. If it's not a Fedora driver you are on your own. At least people here are polite, LKML is less so on occasion. ;-) -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list

Re: can Fedora's QEMU run ppc guest in F12 x86_64 host?

2009-12-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andre Robatino wrote: On 12/05/2009 08:27 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Andre Robatino wrote: I've tried to create a F12 ppc guest in a F12 x86_64 host, using F12's Virtual Machine Manager and with qemu-system-ppc installed. It's reading a verified copy of Fedora-12-ppc-DVD.iso from the HDD

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:54:26 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of this as a way to control USB devices? My one attempt to use a non-trivial usb device resulted in this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
. The original issue was that xen was too pervasive IIRC, and it's certainly in RHEL which I run on several P4 machines. As to xen or KVM on non-x86_xx hardware, I have no idea. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
using kvm. I'm writing this on a VM with most definitely it's own IP, etc. Started from cli, I was doing KVM before libvirt and friends and haven't converted. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked

Re: can Fedora's QEMU run ppc guest in F12 x86_64 host?

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
. I have found that this works when more convenient tools don't, due either to limitations in the tool or in the doc, or in my understanding. If this works it will point to the need to understand the convient tool better. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
. This brings no benefit to most users. +2 -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
get used up pretty quickly. Have a big /boot and you can have many kernels available. During the 2.5 development cycles, between 2.4, 2.5, -ac, -mm, -aa, etc kernels I hit the limit of LILO to support more than 19 (from memory) kernels. Sane people don't have these problems. -- Bill Davidsen

Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
(if that would even work). -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: changing GDM background image on F12

2009-12-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris wrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:48:50 -0500 fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:53:14PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Could you explain a little more what you are trying to do? If you're just trying to change the wallpaper, what

Re: Problem with using wireless usb adapter

2009-12-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Brian Wood wrote: Bill Davidsen writes: Brian Wood wrote: I'm having some trouble getting internet/ssh working over a Linksys wireless usb adapter -- model WUSB54GSC. I did get it working one time, but don't know why or if I did something to make it work. I see the access point I

Re: FC12 System Hangs when AC adopter is connected

2009-12-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
connection before powering on (connection glitch issue) - attach charger and fully charge before powering on (Battery fully charged pop-up issue) - repeat the test in 32 bit (Live-CD, not reinstall) I'm happy to offer thoughts, but happier that I don't have the problem. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com

Re: KVM reboot fails

2009-12-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
if you don't regularly build kernels. I have a device needing a closed source driver not available for recent kernels. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing

Re: rkhunter warning after updating

2009-12-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
, and long term, if Kevin doesn't push a new list, you can build it yourself. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: Problem with using wireless usb adapter

2009-11-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
wlan2, please read and report. Also in a separate matter ... [_...snip..._] -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

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