Re: how to increase the number of virtual desktops?

2009-12-28 Thread David Timms
On 27/12/09 22:42, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:20:06 -0500 (EST), Robert wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Ed Greshko wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... Right click over the workspaces in the lower right corner and pick Preferences. wow ... that just blew away all of my

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Better information needed for noobs like me

2009-12-23 Thread David Timms
On 12/23/2009 10:27 PM, birger wrote: I have 3 kids with guitars. I have a keyboard somewhere. I need to learn how to set up the software for them :-D Move over Jonas Brothers... The future is getting ready. You mightn't think so, but even 'beginners' can be good documentation writers. Put

Re: All I want for Christmas is digiKam 1.0 in F12-stable...

2009-12-22 Thread David Timms
On 12/22/2009 09:15 AM, Ryan Rix wrote: On Mon 21 December 2009 10:46:51 am Rex Dieter wrote: I'd feel a bit uncomfortable without at least some testing and positive feedback. Once people try testing Rex's updated package, please provide feedback at Rex's link about it, eg what's working,

Re: packages requiring me to reboot - semi-off -topic response

2009-12-17 Thread David Timms
On 12/17/2009 08:38 AM, Jon Masters wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 16:30 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: too. My own preference would be a more discriminating dialog that offers three possibilities: 'do nothing', 'bounce the service/application' and 'reboot'. Yup, +1 Bounce the application

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread David Timms
On 12/13/2009 05:38 AM, Alan Evans wrote: I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. My question is this then: How safe is it really to allow the

Re: F12: Gnome Menubar missing on multiple applications,

2009-12-12 Thread David Timms
On 12/13/2009 08:56 AM, Wim ten Have wrote: Many applications that have dependencies towards seem all to have lost their title/window/dressing/top menu's. Could you post a screen shot somewhere (not the list), because I don't think I see what you describe ? -- fedora-list mailing list

switching to vts in a virtualbox guest ?

2009-12-11 Thread David Timms
I just installed a fedora 12 i386 guest on a fedora 12 i386 host. The virtualbox manual says the equivalent for ctrl-alt [backspace, delete, F1..F8 is to press the assigned Host Key (by default mine is right ctrl, along with just the bs,delete, F1. That doesn't actually work at the moment. Any

Re: Delay measuring

2009-12-10 Thread David Timms
On 12/10/2009 10:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:46 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote: for a long time now firefox annoys me now and then with second-long delay when entering a new URL in the URL-bar. When was the first time you noticed that (ie what firefox verasion) ?

Re: Audacity playback doesn't work for me

2009-11-25 Thread David Timms
On 11/26/2009 03:16 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Long story short: Got a new cell phone Tried to use audacity-freeworld to edit a .mp3 file down to a ringtone. So which version is it that you are using ? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Audacity playback doesn't work for me

2009-11-25 Thread David Timms
On 11/26/2009 05:43 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 11/26/2009 01:05 AM, David Timms wrote: On 11/26/2009 03:16 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Long story short: Got a new cell phone Tried to use audacity-freeworld to edit a .mp3 file down to a ringtone. So which version

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Tester needed for Audacious

2009-11-21 Thread David Timms
On 11/21/2009 09:20 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: I'm in search for somebody who can give me feedback about whether the following builds of the  audacious-plugins  package succeed or fail at playing Musepack (.mpc) audio files:  Fedora

Re: how to start with simple SDL programming?

2009-11-18 Thread David Timms
On 11/17/2009 07:19 AM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2009/11/16, Robert P. J. Dayrpj...@crashcourse.ca: having never done any SDL programming before (so be gentle), what would i need to do to get started in terms of loading framebuffer support for my first program? I'm just getting started with

Re: Plugging into Projectors

2009-11-14 Thread David Timms
On 11/14/2009 02:29 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, I am running F11 on a Dell Latitude D820. I am unable to connect to projectors except at ridiculously small screen resolutions. Running Windows on the same machine plugs into projectors easily. What can I do? - mention what

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Fedora Jacklab like spin

2009-11-13 Thread David Timms
On 11/13/2009 05:19 AM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: Where do I find the open build servers in Fedora / RPMFusion? By open build (with openSUSE) you can create one or more projects on openSUSE's server and the server is used to compile the sources based on your configuration settings. If you

Re: Evolution mail and TNEF attachment plugin

2009-11-10 Thread David Timms
On 11/10/2009 09:45 AM, Jud Craft wrote: Hello all. I see on the internet that there is a utility to decode TNEF/(Microsoft Outlook)-type email attachments. The utility (library?) looks like its available in Fedora. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/search/ for tnef you'll see what is

Re: Old Dual Pentium III 500Mhz Servers

2009-11-10 Thread David Timms
On 11/10/2009 09:40 AM, Aaron Gray wrote: I have two old servers Dual Pentium III 500Mhz and have just replaced two older single CPU Pentium III 500Mhz machines. I had FC4 and FC5 on the older servers. Now have F11 on the two newer machines. I would say the same for an old pentium II 366

Re: Evolution mail and TNEF attachment plugin

2009-11-10 Thread David Timms
On 11/10/2009 11:56 PM, Jud Craft wrote: I have heard about that, but as a non-evolution it isn't interesting for me. I meant non-evolution user, it isn't ;-) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Old Dual Pentium III 500Mhz Servers

2009-11-10 Thread David Timms
On 11/11/2009 04:54 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Computer users nightmare number 9: Part way through the installation process, a message pops up, You're going to need a bigger boat Nice way of putting it! Ack ;-) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Why can't I launch qgis - segfault

2009-11-08 Thread David Timms
On 11/09/2009 05:48 AM, Beartooth wrote: Is there a way to be notified when the bug is squashed? Or to check whether it's still in F12? I'll start upgrading a week or two after the release. You might like to keep a bookmark to: http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/qgis Since you can reproduce

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Fedora Jacklab like spin

2009-11-08 Thread David Timms
On 11/08/2009 09:08 PM, Simon Lewis wrote: Assuming that the user does and will install packages from all 3 repos (Fedora, RPMFusion and PlanetCCRMA) then there are in fact only 2 differences between the standard fedora spin and a studio type spin: Wait, firstly the spin couldn't be hosted at

Re: Is it me or is the list going NUTS? (Old messages are appearing new)

2009-11-07 Thread David Timms
On 11/07/2009 05:26 PM, Tom H wrote: If it is me? Scratching my head, then I'll take a pill and go to sleep and forget that all of this is happening :) Are you on thunderbird, F11 ? Do you sort by thread on the mailing list traffic ? Thunderbird 3 changed to sorting by date order based on

pdf viewer wont zoom in enough

2009-11-02 Thread David Timms
Wondering if anyone is having trouble reading pdf files. Document Viewer. Using poppler 0.10.7 (cairo), opens the pdf OK, but even at the largest zoom (400%), the page is shown at less than the full height of the screen, making it real hard to read it. What's with that ? DaveT. --

Re: NMI interrupt received

2009-11-02 Thread David Timms
On 11/02/2009 07:18 PM, Jatin K wrote: On 11/02/2009 12:02 PM, pandi k wrote: Hi All, We are using Fedora Core 7 with 2.6.21 kernel and facing a issue in booting. Do you have the chance to use a newer version of Fedora, like 10 or 11 ? Remember that there have been no updates for F7 for some

Re: pdf viewer wont zoom in enough

2009-11-02 Thread David Timms
On 11/03/2009 01:42 AM, Andras Simon wrote: On 11/2/09, David Timmsdti...@iinet.net.au wrote: Wondering if anyone is having trouble reading pdf files. Document Viewer. Using poppler 0.10.7 (cairo), opens the pdf OK, but even at the largest zoom (400%), the page is shown at less than the full

Re: How to set VNC display resolution on F11?

2009-10-31 Thread David Timms
On 10/29/2009 04:32 PM, Comcast Mail wrote: I just installed F11 on an AMD X2 5600+ machine with 4GB and an integrated video system, 9100M, to experiment with it. I'm using the 32 bit OS for right now since I don't want to deal with issues mixing 32 and 64 bits apps and libraries together on one

Re: Phoronix Test suite - like to create an updated package ?

2009-10-28 Thread David Timms
On 10/29/2009 04:40 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: Currently there is a Phoronix Test Suite version 2.2 beta. Even if it is in beta it is much more usable than current version that is in Fedora repository because the version that is in Fedora repos it so obsolete that most of test suites even fail

Re: Qemu vs VMWare

2009-10-27 Thread David Timms
On 10/26/2009 10:04 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sunday 25 October 2009 21:57:18 David Timms wrote: On 10/26/2009 08:05 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: cat /proc/cpuinfo will tell you what to your CPU and kernel combination has. [r...@yoda ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id

Re: Updating Fedora 11 to FC12 beta!

2009-10-27 Thread David Timms
On 10/27/2009 11:10 PM, Pauls Lists wrote: Hi All, Can I update my current FC11 to FC12 without having to wipe the disk and install from scratch again?. I would just like to be able to download the necessary kernels and files and upgrade rather than having to reinstall completely. Have you

Re: mass rebuild and i586 rpms - glglobe

2009-10-25 Thread David Timms
On 10/20/2009 08:48 PM, Milos Jakubicek wrote: http://mjakubicek.fedorapeople.org/need-rebuild.html hmmn, glglobe is mine, wonder what went wrong. It seems that the build logs are no longer available ? https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1504772 eg for: x86_64 (red)

Re: Qemu vs VMWare

2009-10-25 Thread David Timms
On 10/26/2009 08:05 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I wish to share my first hands-on experience with qemu, compare it to vmware player, and (since I'm highly disappointed with the performance difference) ask is there anything that can be done configuration-wise to improve the user experience under

Re: [Fedora-music-list] wishlist Fedora multimedia - ProjectX

2009-10-24 Thread David Timms
On 10/25/2009 02:38 AM, Simon Lewis wrote: Hello Please add ProjectX (an essential mpeg2 ts conversion tool) to the standard fedora repositories. see http://www.lucike.info/page_projectx.htm mpeg2 is a patented, licensed codec, that can't be included in Fedora. You might like to develop a

Re: Where is VNC, FC11 - ask yum!

2009-10-23 Thread David Timms
On 10/24/2009 05:25 AM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: # yum search vnc and even: yum search vnc server this will provide a list that matches both search terms first, then a list for each search term individually (which does take a bit of scrolling back through). DaveT. -- fedora-list mailing

Re: USB link to phone doesn't work in FC11

2009-10-16 Thread David Timms
On 10/17/2009 01:40 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: I cannot connect my Samsung phone using USB, although it still works with my FC10 based desktop computer. When I try, I get the following errors in /var/log/messages. The system has all updates. Anyone got any ideas how I can fix this? Is the phone

Re: bournal reviews please - keypassx

2009-10-16 Thread David Timms
On 10/17/2009 03:34 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: I use revelation for storing encrypted data like that. It is very simple and easy to use. Just yum install revelation. I use revelation as well. It's perhaps not as good for storing random personal data, but for

Re: Recommendations for choosing the Python GUI packages?

2009-10-05 Thread David Timms
On 10/05/2009 11:29 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: What python GUI packages are recommended for developing Fedora/Linux applications and is the most portable? wxWidgets for crossplatform (linux, mac, windows), natively compiled code. wxGlade is a wxWidgets gui designer. There are language

Re: wmii window manager

2009-10-03 Thread David Timms
On 10/03/2009 07:12 PM, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Do we have wmii (a window manager, http://wmii.suckless.org) packaged for Fedora? Not that I can see for f11 or rawhide. Would you like to begin packaging it ? DaveT. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Questionable Status

2009-10-01 Thread David Timms
On 09/24/2009 02:05 AM, Frank Cox wrote: I haven't seen anything about SMART on any of my Fedora desktops; what am I missing? You are missing disks with faults ;-) It's a good thing. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: installing new graphics card FIXED

2009-09-28 Thread David Timms
On 09/28/2009 09:09 AM, Gerhard Magnus wrote: (If this question doesn't have a short answer maybe someone could suggest a webpage to look at) Perhaps have a lok at the nvidia config page at rpmfusion (where you are getting the rpm packaged version of the kernel modules driver from.

adding/using a mimetype that matches every file ?

2009-09-27 Thread David Timms
this on gmome/nautilus (I can already do it in kde/dolphin, but don't really use that) ? Cheers, David Timms. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: A couple of DRAM memory stick questions ??

2009-09-27 Thread David Timms
On 09/28/2009 01:07 AM, William Case wrote: I have been re-reading some notes I have made on how DRAM works. As a result I have a couple of unanswered questions? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_random_access_memory has some pretty pictures, surely you found/searched that already ? --

Re: solved: combining image files into a pdf

2009-09-26 Thread David Timms
On 09/26/2009 12:52 AM, David Timms wrote: OK, eventually got this working in a way where the final output was both free of weird colour tints (white had become pink), and a reasonably small file size: for each jpg image: (losslessly rotate the jpg so that the text is the correct way up

Re: solved: combining image files into a pdf

2009-09-26 Thread David Timms
On 09/27/2009 12:25 AM, David Timms wrote: Oops, missed a step: for the tif images: - gimp open, transform -90degrees, select rectangle, delete or fill to get rid of blotches in the scans, save tiff group 4 fax. (convert the tiff to pdf): tiff2pdf -p A4 rotated.pN.tif -o rotated.pN.pdf So

Re: How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?

2009-09-26 Thread David Timms
On 09/26/2009 08:27 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I find myself in another nice catch 22. ... So I'm having a hard time with things today. Can someone put me out of my misery? Yeah, mate, take that .22 above and... No seriously: Without having a ppc machine, I imagine that you can hit escape or

Re: combining image files into a pdf

2009-09-25 Thread David Timms
On 09/25/2009 02:11 AM, Jay Mistry wrote: xsane can do this- you have to start (create) a multi-page project (it's there in the menus somewhere). After you are finished scanning I think you missed the bit where the scanning is already complete, with file types as mentioned above. I don't have a

combining image files into a pdf

2009-09-23 Thread David Timms
Hi, I have image files of type: - png - tif (b/w) - fax like - jpg that were produced by my scanner, during scan of a document. I've tried a few ways to achieve this, with limited results: - gscan2pdf: all png pages have a strong purple tint. - tiff2pdf: works for the tiff files - pdfedit:

Re: How much memory do I have?

2009-09-21 Thread David Timms
On 09/21/2009 02:01 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: I just upgraded my MB from 1 to 4Gig of ram. The relevant part of lshw is below. So I saw that and then I though I was ok. Then I went and did a cat of /proc/meminfo It says: [r...@saturn proc]# cat meminfo MemTotal: 3114472 kB Without

[Fedora-legal-list] License of included source in tnef with Unicode license

2009-09-19 Thread David Timms
Hi, review request [1] for the tnef archive extractor, we request an analysis of the license of the included ConvertUTF.c source, which Jason has copied into the review request. It sort of says that the UTF conversion code can be freely used, as long as it used to create products supporting

unintentional (re-)install of nexuiz game

2009-09-13 Thread David Timms
Hi, I don't remember installing nexuiz, nexuiz-data, at all. I noticed that it was a 800MB hit on my disk, and removed it yesterday. A yum update later, and both have been re-installed. Jul 04 00:27:31 Installed: nexuiz-data-2.5-1.fc11.noarch Jul 04 00:27:36 Installed: nexuiz-2.5-1.fc11.i586

Re: [solved] unintentional (re-)install of nexuiz game

2009-09-13 Thread David Timms
On 09/13/2009 08:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: If it's reproducible like that, what do you get if you remove them and take a close look at the full yum update output? * slaps forehead ... ;-) hadn't thought it would be repeatable. Anyway, yum remove the pair again, and tried a yum -d 10

Re: Yumex: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: fedora

2009-09-13 Thread David Timms
On 09/13/2009 07:23 PM, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote: 2009/9/13 Alan Evansame.fed...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote: What could be the issue? It is on Fedora 10. I presume you can otherwise use the network -- DNS working, etc. So did you try yum

Re: fedora 11 kernel installation question

2009-09-11 Thread David Timms
On 09/12/2009 07:30 AM, Michael Mueller wrote: by default the kernel-PAE is loaded and i need the non-PAE kernel loaded; i've been using yum to remove the PAE version and install the non-PAE; a problem arose today when i noticed that while building 6 boxes, the mirrored repos have changed; i was

Re: system unbootable after online upgrade to Fedora 11

2009-09-08 Thread David Timms
On 09/06/2009 02:09 AM, Simon Tierney wrote: Help, please, I recently upgraded online from F10 to F11 Can you summarize what commands/process you used, it will make it easier to fault find ? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: For hardware engineer types re: sound controlers and/or codec chips ??

2009-09-08 Thread David Timms
On 09/06/2009 03:36 AM, William Case wrote: Where is the sound data kept immediately on arrival at the sound card? You might find the following description of how modern pulseaudio feeds audio data around to be relevant: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse-glitch-free.html DaveT. --

howto making rescue mode available from grub prompt with install.img ?

2009-08-24 Thread David Timms
Hi, I want to config grub so that I have a rescue mode entry. I can do this with the following in /boot/grub/grub.conf: = title Fedora 11 Rescue from disk root (hd2,0) # kernel /vmlinuz rescue stage2=hd:/dev/sda1:/ kernel /vmlinuz rescue lang=en_AU keymap=us repo=hd:/dev/sdc5:/

meeting minutes posts - line / wordwrap in

2009-07-19 Thread David Timms
Hi, what would be the best location to list an issue with the meeting minutes, where the entries overflow the width of the user's screen ? DaveT. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Files corrupt on copy

2009-06-27 Thread David Timms
On 06/28/2009 04:58 AM, Andy Campbell wrote: On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:16:47 -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: Hmm always out by 1 ... Would it be worth using badblocks to perform the destructive (to your data - move / backup first) test on the partition you are having trouble with ? Does smartctl

Re: F11 scp stalls - rsync command

2009-06-27 Thread David Timms
On 06/28/2009 02:26 AM, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 16:18 +, Beartooth TpBkR wrote: I've been using scp to transfer data and settings around from one machine on my LAN to another. (I know, I should use rsync instead; I hope to get started learning it one of these days.

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-27 Thread David Timms
On 06/28/2009 11:10 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 4) Anaconda sees neither the softraid partitions, nor the actual underlying /dev/sd? devices at all. When you say softraid, you mean linux software raid, rather than bios raid or hardware raid ? Maybe it is related to:

Re: Managing .rpmnew files?

2009-06-08 Thread David Timms
On 05/06/09 15:56, Michael Rohan wrote: Is there a standard way to manage the .rpmnew files created on yum update? It would seem the updates should be merged into the locally modified files when appropriate My suggestion is to yum install meld, then meld /etc/something.rpmnew /etc/something

Re: F11

2009-06-08 Thread David Timms
On 09/06/09 10:28, Chris wrote: What are the chances that the New Zealand mirror actually has the F11 release as of right now? High, since most tier 0/1 mirrors need to have it ahead of time, so that lower level mirrors can get synced before the release announcement. It shows it as the

Re: Fedora 11 (Rawhide) and Firefox

2009-06-08 Thread David Timms
On 08/06/09 00:11, Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: Is anyone having problems with FireFox 3.5 Beta 4 having upgraded to Rawhide? No. But if you did it this weekend, then you may have been upgraded to the real rawhide, ie a heap of pending changes that had been held back while F11 was finalized

Re: multi-media packages/gcc/latest CPU optimizations

2009-05-31 Thread David Timms
On 31/05/09 08:51, RS wrote: I'd like to understand how some of the multi-media packages are compiled for distros to make maximum effective use of the latest CPU features (SSE4,multi-core,large L2/L3 caches etc) You can take a look at the specs that are used to compile and package the apps eg:

Re: [Fedora-music-list] LMMS

2009-05-24 Thread David Timms
On 24/05/09 23:29, Michael Schwendt wrote: ... Michael, I wondered if you need to manually edit the reply to address so that a normal reply to fedora-music-list is sent back to the list. It seems that I do. Cheers. ___ Fedora-music-list mailing list

Re: Fedora 10 Installation: Hangs at *Disabling IRQ #9*

2009-05-20 Thread David Timms
On 20/05/09 10:11, Yang Yang Hu wrote: The live CD doesn't work. Instead, at boot, I get *irq 9: nobody cared* and the boot screen recommends I try booting with the *irqpoll* parameter. But how do I pass this parameter? At the screen where you boot the installer or where you choose to run the

Re: Installing Fedora as a Virtual System?

2009-05-20 Thread David Timms
On 20/05/09 21:49, Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote: Edwin Tan wrote: You mean you running Fedora on vmware on win xp based? Maybe on a CenOS Base. with KVM? In any case you won't get as good a performance as the physical hardware, especially in the 3d graphics department. The type of

Re: NAT routing problems with f11

2009-05-19 Thread David Timms
On 10/05/09 21:04, Clemens Eisserer wrote: 2009/5/9 Clemens Eissererlinuxhi...@gmail.com: I have I server which routes a private network to the internet through ppp. All I had to do on Fedora-8 was: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.1.1 echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/iptables -t

Re: digital tv on Fedora guide needs review.

2009-05-19 Thread David Timms
On 07/05/09 04:13, Rick Stevens wrote: Mick M. wrote: I was trying to depmod pvrusb2, and insmod pvrusb2. I could go to /lib/modules and drill down and find the module. But it would not load. Try cd /lib/modules/`uname -r` and verify there's a modules.dep file. If not, then modules won't load

Re: Dell Vostro 1510 - sound only gives clicks on the speakers

2009-05-19 Thread David Timms
On 15/05/09 20:06, Gary Stainburn wrote: Still slowly working through setting up my Dell Vostro 1510 with Fedora 10. When was it first released ? Can you find it in the smolts.org hardware database, and has anyone marked it as works, doesn't, need config ? Also try the linuxquestions site's

Re: Fedora-11 No sound - can you file a bug.

2009-05-19 Thread David Timms
On 19/05/09 20:52, Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote: Have a look in alsamixer with the command below, and look for anything muted, or sliders down at zero. alsamixer -D hw:0 That was the one. two or three sliders were at zero. Frank, I would like to request that you create a bugzilla.redhat.com

Re: Fedora 10 Installation: Hangs at *Disabling IRQ #9*

2009-05-19 Thread David Timms
On 20/05/09 08:03, Yang Yang Hu wrote: I'm currently running a Windows Vista machine, and I'm trying to install 64-bit Fedora 10 to dual boot. I run into my problem after I select the *Install* option from the Fedora welcome screen, as the installer tries to load but then stops at *Disabling

Re: deltaisos for F11?

2009-05-17 Thread David Timms
On 17/05/09 11:49, Andre Robatino wrote: Are there any plans for deltaisos for F10-F11 to be available at release time? No idea on that. I wrote a python program that can be used to construct an iso based on a isoinfo dump of the iso you are after (usually about 200kB). You then tell the

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Re: Mixer Wowes

2009-05-16 Thread David Timms
On 15/05/09 05:05, William M. Quarles wrote: TheOther wrote: David, or Fernando, or ANYBODY else out there, do you have any idea why this isn't working for me? Something smells funny about Pulseaudio, but I don't know enough about it to be able to say why. Hi William, I've been across the other

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Re: Mixer Wowes

2009-05-16 Thread David Timms
On 17/05/09 07:10, William M. Quarles wrote: David Timms wrote: I have no idea what you are talking about, and I didn't change anything having to do with reply-to settings. I use Gmane to for all of my lists, so everything I send to a Gmane newsgroup gets sent to all mailing list members

Re: Video Capture Software

2009-05-07 Thread David Timms
David Timms wrote: Look at videodog, kino, mlt (in RPM Fusion RSN ?) Also cinelerra http://cinelerra.org/ Currently in review at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118 But kwizart has it in kwizart repos: http://rpms.kwizart.net/fedora/10/i386/repoview

Re: No modules get loaded

2009-05-06 Thread David Timms
Mick M. wrote: Hello; I have F10, the two latest kernels. I did a insmod pvrusb2, and a depmod pvrusb2, under both kernels. Now I do not have any modulles loaded at boot. lsmod produces no output ? modprobe.conf is empty. I think most module load is triggered through (udev/hal) rules these

Re: Wireless speed drops

2009-05-06 Thread David Timms
Georgi Hristozov wrote: I'm having an odd problem with Fedora 10. I'm using the x86 version (fully updated) on Toshiba Satellite A200. My network card is Intel 3945ABG and I'm using 802.11g with WPA. After a few minutes with this maximum speed of my home network (20-23MBps), it suddenly

Re: No modules get loaded

2009-05-06 Thread David Timms
Mick M. wrote: [r...@localhost ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf # default modutils aliases alias binfmt-204 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-263 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-264 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-267 binfmt_aout I don't think you really need an /etc/modprobe.conf at all ? (But I'm no expert) ... The man

Re: Video Capture Software

2009-05-06 Thread David Timms
Robert L. Cochran wrote: Is there video capture software that works similarly to Pinnacle Studio? I need to capture video from a bunch of 16-20 year old VHS tapes from a VCR. I'd like to do this in Fedora if possible. If such software exists, do I need a specific video capture card. Or is any

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Mixer Wowes

2009-05-06 Thread David Timms
William M. Quarles wrote: I have Fedora 10 and a machine with a (please, no laughing or snickering) Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE 64 Value sound card and a Sigma Designs RealMagic Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card. While the computer loads the ALSA drivers needed for both cards, As evidenced

Re: phoronix-test-suite for Fedora?

2009-05-03 Thread David Timms
Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009 16:12:07 -0700 Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Does anyone have experience to share making this work? The site talks about Ubuntu and not a lot else... yum install phoronix-test-suite man it it does download the tests definitions live.

Re: laptop overheating using F9

2009-05-03 Thread David Timms
ADITYA KRISHNAN wrote: Let me know is there any particular software i can download for preventing this overheating. yum install iotop iotop: what apps are doing the most io ? top: what apps are doing the most cpu usage ? There might be a process that has gone awol, that could show itself up

Re: how to install vmware in my fedora 64

2009-05-03 Thread David Timms
Nathan Huang wrote: Please tell me who to install vmware server on my fedora 64. My suggestion: use the virtual package vmware-server-requirements currently in package review for rpmfusion: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351 Basically, it just installs packages that you could

Re: USB tuner and kernel.org

2009-05-03 Thread David Timms
Mick M. wrote: Hello list; I recently bought an Autumn Wave OnAir HDTV USSB tuner. Hmmm, a digital TV tuner device. I read the pvrusb2 driver setup information. Is that a URL on the web ? Did you take care of their advice ? Under F10 it fails with: [r...@localhost ~]# tvtime 1. you

Re: Update and Report on Fedora August 2008 Intrusion

2009-03-30 Thread David Timms
Jonathan Dieter wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 10:00 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: This communication provides additional information on the Fedora infrastructure intrusion first reported on August 14, 2008. In part this communication reiterates information provided in previous announcements.

Re: System not booting after yum updates

2009-03-06 Thread David Timms
Craig Preston wrote: After using my F10 system the other day, it automatically downloaded a bunch a new updates and installed them. When I came back the next day to use the system it will not boot now. After the grub screen it goes to start loading and then displays the following error -

preupgrade to go from F9 i386 - F10 x86_64 ?

2009-02-19 Thread David Timms
Wondering if it might be possible to have pre-upgrade do a cross arch upgrade ? What file tells preupgrade what arch you are on ? DaveT. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Revisor livecd for soho emergency use

2009-02-19 Thread David Timms
Peter Malcolm Croft Price wrote: However in both scenarios ppp0 would have to be configured with username and password to bring up xdsl internet connection. I cannot rely on any user expertise beyond restarting the server and/or booting from the livecd. Has anyone on the list any ideas about

Re: preupgrade to go from F9 i386 - F10 x86_64 ?

2009-02-19 Thread David Timms
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Phil Bieber wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 15:11, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: David Timms wrote: What file tells preupgrade what arch you are on ? look at /etc/rpm/platform But is it possible to upgrade between different platforms? I always thought that one cannot

OT - brain is melting...how is this temperature

2009-02-06 Thread David Timms
Hi, just noticed the temperature in Melbourne, Vic, Australia (where I am) has got to (celsius scale!) : http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60900.shtml I think we made a Melbourne record, cheers, DaveT. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: OT - brain is melting...how is this temperature ?

2009-02-06 Thread David Timms
David Timms wrote: Hi, just noticed the temperature in Melbourne, Vic, Australia (where I am) has got to (celsius scale!) : http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60900.shtml And a screengrab for archival purposes. http://members.iinet.net.au/~timmsy/weather/melbourne.weather.2009-02-07.15-40.png

Re: Gateway DX4720 installation problems - nvidia 7100

2009-01-26 Thread David Timms
Charles Landau wrote: Apparently Linux is known to have problems with the nVidia GeForce 7100; I found this post: https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=62357forum=12 I'm looking for the right driver in hopes that will fix the video problem. It may be that kernel

Re: F10, NetworkManager, and intermittent dns -- Update

2009-01-26 Thread David Timms
Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:32:08 -0500 McGuffey, David C. wrote: Update: Intermittent dns is still present. I'd strongly suspect this is NM getting the resolv.conf file correct on initial connect, then screwing it up on subsequent DHCP lease renewal. I get the no entries in

Re: vmware winxp guest on fedora

2009-01-25 Thread David Timms
brian wrote: brian wrote: Windows n00b here. I've installed a WinXP image, hosted on fedora and need to be able to see websites served by the host. For me, the similar ssh/scp/sftp from the winxp guest to the fedora host works for me. I only set up bridged networking though. Why do you want

Re: Install Fedora 10 for the 1st time

2009-01-24 Thread David Timms
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:28:33PM -0600, Harvey Folse wrote: I am having a problem installing Fedora on a Dell Poweredge box. Keep getting the following error Volume group VolGroup00 not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVolGroup00/LogVol101) I

Re: X11 sweep frequencies, how are they determined?

2009-01-24 Thread David Timms
Leslie Satenstein wrote: My question is in the subject line. You might have to give a little more info on this query (I certainly aren't sure what you are talking about) ? Where did you see it mentioned (internet, config file... ?) DaveT. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: F10 - kernel build problem

2009-01-24 Thread David Timms
john wendel wrote: this box without any problems. Now with F10, I can't compile the kernel, gcc dies with a segmentation fault and the output tries to tell me that Can you provide the text of the segfault (without that you are asking for speculation) ? Could you try running the compile inside

Re: Gateway DX4720 installation problems

2009-01-24 Thread David Timms
David Timms wrote: Charles Landau wrote: I just bought a DX4720-03 from Gateway. Has anyone succeeded in installing Fedora on this system? checkout: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6611313 last post for a potential fix. DaveT. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Telling a module to claim a device.

2009-01-17 Thread David Timms
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: My memory is failing me today. I have a USB device that is not on the list of devices that the module knows it is for. I know you can pass the Vendor and Product IDs of the USB device to the module, but I can not remember how to do it. Can someone refresh my memory?

Re: debuginfo-install failing for libtdb - just me ?

2009-01-16 Thread David Timms
Rahul Sundaram wrote: File it. fyi: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480316 DaveT. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

debuginfo-install failing for libtdb - just me ?

2009-01-15 Thread David Timms
trying to debug a segfault in firefox, and gdb suggests: debuginfo-install libtdb-1.1.1-25.fc10.i386 trying to run that command gives: Could not find debuginfo for main pkg: libtdb-1.1.1-25.fc10.i386 I can see from rpm -q --info libtdb that it comes from the samba package. Should this work, or

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