Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2009-12-28 Thread TNWestTex
Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > François Patte wrote: >> Paul Allen Newell a écrit : >> >>> To all: >>> >>> Installed f12 without any problems. >>> >>> Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I >>> could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature. >>> >>> Searched Fedora f1

Re: Preupgrade to F11 worked but... [can't get httpd to start]

2009-12-28 Thread TNWestTex
Steve Blackwell wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:18:59 -0800 (PST) > TNWestTex wrote: > >> >> >> >> Steve Blackwell wrote: >> > >> > I ran preupgrade to go from F10 to F11 and I was pleasantly >> > surprised (be

Re: grub configuration, boot.

2009-12-23 Thread TNWestTex
Bugzilla from yehi...@mail.ru wrote: > > hello, > > I have been trying to look over many solutions and tutorials with no luck. > my goal was and still is, to clone my internal 40GB hard-drive which > contain > fc11 on to my external usb-hard-drive 500GB. > aftar many tutorials I finally used

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

2009-12-23 Thread TNWestTex
Linuxguy123 wrote: > > Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver > instead of the nouveau driver. > > Or some other video driver that doesn't support kernel mode switching. > > DON'T reply otherwise, I don't want to hear a debate on the free > versions versus pr

Re: Upgraded Fedora 12, only loads shell...Need GUI if possible

2009-12-23 Thread TNWestTex
Matt Kalinec wrote: > > Hey people... > > I just upgraded a 256mb ram laptop that I had FC11 running on to FC12, but > now it only loads shell. I need the GUI accessible to, if that is > possible. > > I'm still fairly new to Fedora, and could use the help. > With out your hardware specificat

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-22 Thread TNWestTex
Steven Ringwald-3 wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:29 -0600, Mikkel wrote: >> My experience with ZIP disks was that if they came formatted, or if >> you used the Omega formatting tools, they always had one partition. >> What partition was an indication of what system they were formatted >> f

Re: Preupgrade to F11 worked but...

2009-12-22 Thread TNWestTex
Steve Blackwell wrote: > > I ran preupgrade to go from F10 to F11 and I was pleasantly surprised > (because F9->F10 was a mess) that it worked almost flawlessly. > > When I booted into F11 for the first time, I got a warning about a ssl > library not being found. To cut a long story short, I

Re: updating F12 broke KDE display

2009-12-16 Thread TNWestTex
Mick M. wrote: > > Hi; > I just loaded F12 onto my old IBM R51 laptop. > It went fine, everything but USB worked. > > I created two users "guest" users Gnome, "mick" uses KDE. > > I prefer KDE so logged onto that. > My wireless network connected just fine, the display was fine. > I did a "y

Re: F12 Upgrade Stumped

2009-12-12 Thread TNWestTex
TNWestTex wrote: > > Getting more and more unhappy since F8. Multiboot system with VISTA, F8 > and F10 with only minor Glitches in F10. Tried to do preupgrade on the > F10 partition.Things seemed to go alright until the reboot. System locks > up with a blank screen. The per

F12 Upgrade Stumped

2009-12-09 Thread TNWestTex
Getting more and more unhappy since F8. Multiboot system with VISTA, F8 and F10 with only minor Glitches in F10. Tried to do preupgrade on the F10 partition.Things seemed to go alright until the reboot. System locks up with a blank screen. The performance of the driver for the "Intel C

Curious Thumbdrive

2009-10-08 Thread TNWestTex
Got a thumbdrive at a conference with the conference proceedings on it. While both linux and windows mount the device as a FAT filesystem and access the files, fdisk doesn't show me the expected structure. Anyone know what is changing? [r...@mcbr ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc Command (m for help)

Re: Upgrade from FC6 to FC11

2009-07-12 Thread TNWestTex
The total restructuring of X in that sequence is a deal breaker. If you use kde the change from kde3 to kde4 with F9 would get you. Even if you don't use the graphical interfaces there are problems. I've had to keep a FC6 installation around to keep some legacy programs running with change in

Re: Yum configuration for multiple architectures

2009-07-12 Thread TNWestTex
x86_64 can be installed strictly as 64 bit or as "multilib" with support for both 64 bit programs or 32 bit programs. It is an adventure in computing as there are things one wants to do that don't have x86_64 support yet, but the x86_64 and 33 bit libraries can get out of synchronization with a

Re: help: fedora installation to USB external hard disk

2009-06-02 Thread TNWestTex
Sumit Agrawal wrote: > > I am new for Fedora. I was trying to install Fedora 10 core to my external > USB 40GB harddisk using bootable Fedora 10 core DVD. > I have unplugged all internal hard disk for any risk. > But while installation it was not detecting USB hard disk. > Can anybody help me r

Re: Can't get updates

2009-05-29 Thread TNWestTex
> > Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm having great problem after upgrading F9 to F10 (using an install dvd). I > get huge numbers of updates downloaded, but then it fails. Are the downloaded updates still on your system? /var/cache/yum/updates/packages Sometimes it helps to use yumex or kyum to do the

Re: f10 xorg

2009-03-09 Thread TNWestTex
> > Anthony Messina wrote: > original message- > From: "François Patte" francois.patte mi.parisdescartes.fr > To: fedora-list redhat.com > Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:53:51 +0100 > - > > > Can't find xorg.conf Where

F10 Upgrade Snag

2008-12-08 Thread TNWestTex
In running the Preupgrade sequence on F9, the process was interupted. Restarting the upgrade ran to completion and seems to be working. Running yum to get the updates gives a message that there were imcomplete transactions and prompts to run yum-complete-transaction Doing that gives the fol

Re: Video card

2008-10-08 Thread TNWestTex
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Monday 06 October 2008 21:04, Dan wrote: >> Could you give me some names of Video cards that are most compatible >> with Fedora 9 and that have drivers for Fedora 9?? > > I've had experience with all three vendors, nVidia, ATI and Intel, with > various versions o

Re: Unable to build NVIDIA kernel module

2008-10-07 Thread TNWestTex
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > > TNWestTex wrote: >> >> >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 ro root=LABEL=/ 3 vga=791 >> early-login >> >> Robert McBroom >> > Hi > > Or you can issue the command "init 3" while X

Re: Unable to build NVIDIA kernel module

2008-10-07 Thread TNWestTex
Alex Makhlin wrote: > > Trapper wrote: >> Alex Makhlin wrote: >>> Has anyone ran into this error "Unable to build NVIDIA kernel module" >>> while installing the latest Nvidia drivers? Anyone know the fix? >>> >> I don't know if it's the same circumstances but I do know I had to do >> >> this p

Re: VDQ : machine names??

2008-10-03 Thread TNWestTex
Beartooth > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost > ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 > The line beginning ::1 is the equivalent to 127.0.0.1 for the migration to intern

Re: Moved hard drive, can't get display set properly... Intel Graphics card... Xorg.conf

2008-07-29 Thread TNWestTex
linuxguy-3 wrote: > > Good morning, all. > > My laptop died on the weekend. (HP, 4th time in the last year !) So I > pulled the hard drive and installed it in a Dell desktop machine. > Everything works fine except that I can never get the video/display > working properly with this setup. >

Re: OT: What is fusebulk filesystem? ntpass fails to reset windows password :(

2008-07-29 Thread TNWestTex
Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Dear all, > A Lenovo Laptop running Windows Vista locked out the teacher who was > issued the computer at school.  The teacher forgot the password.  I have > successfully used the SystemRescue CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page >  with the utitlity ntpass many tim

Re: Intel Soundmax integrated adapter No Sound

2008-07-22 Thread TNWestTex
> > stan wrote: > Download and run the script at > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh [1] > Then post the link back here to enable others to see > the output. > If you just want to run it for personal use run it as > ./alsa-info.sh --no-upload Stan The output is here ALSA information is loc

Re: Current Respin for F9, or how to build updated F9 live dvd on an F7 system?

2008-07-17 Thread TNWestTex
Paul Johnson-11 wrote: > > I have access to F7 systems where I can download the F9 install dvd. > While doing that, I was wondering if it is possible to get a version > of the dvd that includes the updated RPMS. That search leads to the > Fedora Unity community (http://fedorasolved.org) web

Re: Intel Soundmax integrated adapter No Sound

2008-07-15 Thread TNWestTex
Seems that root can see the sound system. Tried adding user to all groups that seemed to apply to sound but still do not get any sound as aregular user. Robert McBroom -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/view

Intel Soundmax integrated adapter No Sound

2008-07-10 Thread TNWestTex
Installed F9 and there is no sound. It worked with F8. System has a Soundmax integrated adapter that showed as snd-intel8x0 on F8. It is not detected at all now. Looked at modprobe.conf. I don't understand what I see. alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 options snd-card-0 index=0 instal

Re: Online resizing NTFS & ext3

2008-06-30 Thread TNWestTex
Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:48:35PM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> Axel Thimm wrote: >>> I have a running F9 installation where I want to move some free space >>> from the NTFS partition to Fedora's. >> >> It is important to understand how your disk is configured. (LVM?) >

Re: Double checking grub-install ??

2008-06-26 Thread TNWestTex
William Case wrote: > > Thanks for replying Tim; > > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 16:05 +0930, Tim wrote: > > I was trying to avoid wasting peoples time with a long description. > > When I first boot I get the Fedora grub splash screen/menu twice -- > besides that everything else boots normally. >

Re: F8 Update Tromps on Network

2008-06-17 Thread TNWestTex
Tim-163 wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 18:18 +0200, Robert McBroom (TNWestTex) wrote: >> It is an unwarranted assumption that all systems are connected with a >> DHCP server!!! > > It's been the way, for quite some time, than if you didn't manually > c

F8 Update Tromps on Network

2008-06-16 Thread TNWestTex
Updated F8 system to updates as of 6/12. On reboot the network interfaces would not start. The scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts had been changed to assume DHCP. This is on a small cluster of machines used as a compute engine that does not connect to the internet. Fixed IPs are all th

Re: All White Screen With Compiz

2008-06-09 Thread TNWestTex
Tom London wrote: > > Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:33:37 +0200 > From: Robert McBroom (TNWestTex)<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: All White Screen With Compiz > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; chars

All White Screen With Compiz

2008-06-05 Thread TNWestTex
Trying for the F9 desktop effects on Gnome with Compiz. System is HP DC7100 with a Intel 82915G/GV/910GL integrated graphics. SyncMaster 191T monitor though a KVM switch. compiz --replace makes the screen go white with the mouse cursor only. Things are still there as I can click on the bar a

Display from Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller offset to left

2008-06-04 Thread TNWestTex
I have the 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller. The i810 driver works in F8, but in F9 it does not detect my card. Disabling /etc/X11/xorg.conf automagically finds the card but the display is left shifted on the Dell D1028L monitor. system-config-video shows the default driver as Intel

Re: Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread TNWestTex
Nigel Henry-3 wrote: > > I'm having a problem setting my address properly on a French site. The > address > includes the line, 2 Chemin de L'AA. L'AA is composed of L plus apostrophe > plus AA, in case you are seeing this different. When I set L'AA in my > address > box on this site, it view

Re: F9: The good and the bad

2008-06-03 Thread TNWestTex
> > lanas wrote: > > Video is: > > Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) > > A quite slow glxgears reports: > > Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic. > 4790 frames in 5.0 seconds = 957.905 FPS > XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource tempor

Re: Updated NVIDIA Driver 173.14.05

2008-06-02 Thread TNWestTex
Srikanth Konjarla-2 wrote: > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=113919 > > Does this mean that it would work with Fedora 9 without having to > backout to older version of Xorg? > > Good for you guys. I'm still waiting for the Legacy driver for my RIVA TNT9, Geforce2 MX 100/