Re: Network Audio

2010-01-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:00 -0500, 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. > I do this in my home office with PulseAudio's network capabilities. I have so

Re: Compiz -- Discussion

2009-12-27 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 17:46 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:14:29 -0800 > Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > If it were _just eye-candy_, so many developers wouldn't have spent so > > much of their time on the project. > > I've never noticed any correlation between the value of a > proje

Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-26 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 07:42 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: > > Do/did you notice that your screen appeared a tad bigger once you went > to the propr. driver? As in, your fonts (evolution as example) appear > smaller than before? I"m not sure I understand the question. Obviously if you are running

Re: Nouveau driver with nvidia dual head

2009-12-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 11:43 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote: > > What I'm after is a way to tell the xserver to do it just like the > LiveCD does. I figure some boot (kernel?) parameter, or some command > line option supplied to the xserver at boot time? Did you try System -> Preferences -> Display (G

Re: Nouveau driver with nvidia dual head

2009-12-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 06:41 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote: > > So how does nouveau get away without an xorg.conf? The Xorg server will probe your monitor to get the information it needs to configure it. This is known as "EDID" (no doubt someone here can tell us what that acronym stands for). This is

Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 21:21 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver > instead of the nouveau driver. I use the proprietary Nvidia driver on two different workstations under F12, one at home and one at work, for two different reasons. At

Re: 3G dongles

2009-12-15 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 10:23 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:20:56AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:48:30PM +0100, Antonio M wrote: > > > are these kinds of dongles working in F12??? > > > > Yes, quite a large number of them in fact. This wa

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 07:29 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote: > Firefox simply tells me: "Server not found. Firefox can't find the > server at start.fedoraproject.org". There have been several postings from Fedora people indicating that the project web site is going to be down for 48 hours for a ph

Re: Domain of sender address ... does not exist

2009-12-11 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 18:02 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > there is no requirement that a > domain have an A record to exchange mail True, but there are plenty of mail servers (including sourceforge.net) that verify DNS information by back connecting. The domain therefore has to either have an A rec

Re: Is this possible in Fedora?

2009-12-11 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 12/11/2009 08:34 PM, Tim wrote: > It'll take quite some effort, not impossible, but very > > difficult, to get a signed compromising package into the repos. > > Unfortunately, I don't think it's that difficult. Why do you believe it is

Re: Someone was able to hack my mail account

2009-12-11 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:57 +, Dave Cross wrote: > 2009/12/10 kevin : > > Please if anyone knows how to stop this with postfix and amavisd-new please > > let me know !!! > > > > I am clueless how someone outside $mynetworks was able to do it. > > As others have said, it's just a spammer spoofi

Re: FlashPlayer-X86_64 Download

2009-12-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 14:26 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Thursday 10 December 2009 14:17:36 Jim wrote: > > FC12 > > > > I can't believe , doing a google search I can't find the X86_64 > > FlashPlayer. Does anyone know where it is ? > > It's a bit hard to find and navigate into, I think

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

2009-12-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:42 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On my system, I turn off NetworkManager and build (by hand) a ifcfg-br0 > script to define the bridge, and make ifcfg-eth0 part of the bridge, moving > all IPADDR and such parameters to the bridge. This was going to be my next step. I actual

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

2009-12-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 12:42 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> On Sunday 06 December 2009 16:11:11 Greg Woods wrote: > >>> I'm guessing I could set up a VM that has a real IP address rather than > >>> using NAT > Now I need to figure out how to do this

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

2009-12-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:55 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 06 December 2009 16:11:11 Greg Woods wrote: > > I'm guessing I could set up a VM that has a real IP address rather than > > using NAT > In VirtualBox you set this up as follows: > > * open Vir

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:53 +0100, Major Péter wrote: > On my winxp, I can do, that the left jack goes to the front speakers, > the center jack goes to the center speaker, and the right jack goes to > the rear speakers and everything works great. This is a sound driver issue (ALSA). I have found

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

2009-12-07 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:18 +0100, Joerg Bergmann wrote: > > The problem of the Pentium 4 D: It is not really a dual core one. > Hyper-Threading means: There is one core with two execution paths, which > means some of the common CPU features, but not all, are present twice. One feature in partic

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

2009-12-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:39 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > The VirtualBox-OSE (the open-source edition) is in rpmfusion and doesn't have > USB support. The VirtualBox (the Sun closed-source edition) is in Sun's yum > repository and does support USB. OK, then I am using the non-free version alr

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

2009-12-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 11:57 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: > On 12/06/2009 11:11 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > > > > I plan to try Xen at some point but I doubt if it will be any better. > > > > I suspect Xen is dying/dead and not well supported now ... That depends on what

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

2009-12-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 16:11 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > VirtualBox works for me (to the extent of synching my old Palm Tx) but > you have to use the non-free version as the free one doesn't have USB > support. How much does it cost to get a home user license for the non-free version? --G

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

2009-12-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 10:44 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: > I was/am hoping to be able to use windows vm to program a universal > remote via usb too ... by the way have you tried virtualbox ? I wonder > if it has better usb support than qemu? Still not very good though. I have never been able to syn

Re: Difficulty setting up Fedora 12 screen

2009-12-04 Thread Greg Woods
> After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 > screen resolution. Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. > Did you try booting with the "nomodeset" kernel option? That worked for me. --Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https:/

Re: Problem with screen resolution after installing F12

2009-12-04 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 10:51 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Probably your monitor isn't doing EDID correctly and the video drivers are > playing things safe. For the record, many older monitors (my desktop monitor at work is about 3 years old) appear not to do EDID at all. If it does do EDID pr

Re: errors on trying to install latest nvidia driver with F12

2009-12-02 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:47 +, N James Bridge wrote: > There have now been a couple of replies about nouveau grabbing the > graphics card and ways of stopping this. Another method is described on > this page: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html. I > had expected that insta

Re: errors on trying to install latest nvidia driver with F12

2009-12-02 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:11 +, N James Bridge wrote: > I had (and now have restored) F12 (x86_64) working with the nouveau > driver. I have been watching for the nvidia drivers to make it into the > RPMfusion repo and they have now done so and last night I installed the > 173 legacy driver (a

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 12:37 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Greg Woods wrote: > > > Just to clarify, are you talking about KVM or how it behaves with a layer of > libvirt added? I'm talking about using it through the GUI provided with Fedora. Since in our environment our ope

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 06:49 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > Interesting replies - thank you - but noticeable that the fedora provided > facility of kvm has been mentioned by no-one! In my opinion, kvm is not quite ready for prime time. First of all, it doesn't work at all unless your system has h

Re: f12 sudden crash

2009-11-25 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 13:28 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I found a backtrace in the xorg log, and filed this bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541387 I have had this happen once to me as well. I added my own backtrace to the bug report. --Greg -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: F12 NFS Failures

2009-11-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 10:09 +, John Austin wrote: > > When copying a large file (2.7GB) from the server to the > F12 m/c a complete freeze of the F12 machine occurs. I haven't seen freezes, but I have seen corruption when trying to copy large files (e.g. like a DVD iso image) via NFS. In fa

Re: low res after F12 upgrade

2009-11-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 00:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/20/2009 12:46 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 00:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > >> > >> Did you try booting with "nomodeset" > > > > THANK YOU!!! This

Re: VPN server in Fedora

2009-11-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 21:40 +0200, Mark Ryden wrote: > Greg, > Thanks a lot for this info ! >I was afraid that this might be the case. >I would appreciate if anybody who knows more about it or can > provide a link to some info why pptpd may be unsafe as VPN server > will share his knowled

Re: VPN server in Fedora

2009-11-19 Thread Greg Woods
I can't say why nobody has packaged pptpd for Fedora, but I do know that the PPTP protocol was broken years ago. It is riddled with security design flaws that make it pretty much useless (in the opinion of our security staff, anyway). If you have assets worth protecting with a VPN, you probably don

Re: low res after F12 upgrade

2009-11-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 00:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Did you try booting with "nomodeset" THANK YOU!!! This is the magic bullet I have been looking for. I do have to push Fn-F8 to activate the external display after booting like this, but it does work at 1024x768. Now I can move forward!

Re: low res after F12 upgrade

2009-11-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 00:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Did you try booting with "nomodeset" How do I do that? Is it as simple as just putting "nomodeset" on the "kernel" line in grub.conf? --Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/

Re: Re: low res after F12 upgrade

2009-11-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:29 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > You mentioned being able to "restore my F11 system from backup". > Did that backup have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? I tried this too. Installed the old xorg.conf file from F11. Still NO JOY. If the external monitor is connected, it won't

Re: low res after F12 upgrade

2009-11-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:38 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > Here is a sample config I did for an nVidia card. You may need to change > some stuff. You can use cvt to make new mode lines. OK, I tried this. It *STILL* comes up only at 800x600! The mode lines I put in do not seem to have any effe

Re: low res after F12 upgrade

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:28 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > You can probably make an xorg.conf file to get around this. I don't think I have enough knowledge of xorg.conf internals to do this. I may just have a go at an over-the-top install if this is my only option. --Greg -- fedora-list

low res after F12 upgrade

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Woods
I just upgraded my laptop from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12, using the DVD. Unfortunately I cannot get it to do any better than 800x600 resolution which really sucks. The laptop has a 1024x768 LCD display, but even using system-config-display to set this doesn't help, even after rebooting I still can't d

Re: Postfix 'access denied' error

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:19 +0100, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > I'm note sure. My configuration works with all clients except the Lotus > Notes' ones That is going to be hard for anyone else to debug for you. You will need to look in the logs for more information: /var/log/maillog is the usual place for

Re: Postfix 'access denied' error

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:45 +0100, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > > I have setup a postfix server under a F11-x64. > All seem to be good, but when a user send a mail using 'Lotus Notes' > postfix says '554 5.7.1 client host rejected : access denied' Sounds like you need to set your "mynetworks" para

Re: Fedora 12 bad checksums

2009-11-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 15:25 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > The checksum used i SHA256, not SHA1. I got confused because the CHECKSUM file explicitly states: Hash: SHA1 But maybe that is for the PGP key? --Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://w

Fedora 12 bad checksums

2009-11-17 Thread Greg Woods
I have tried twice to download the Fedora 12 DVD ISO's for i386 and x86_64 through the torrents. In both cases, the SHA1 checksums do not match what is in the CHECKSUM file. Both of my downloads match each other. Is this a problem with the ISO's, with the CHECKSUM file, or a bizarre problem with my