Re: F10 themes: Round 1 closed, time for feedback and Round 2

2008-07-23 Thread Klaatu and Gort
invinXble ftw it's been my favourite since it hit the mailing list. conceptually the steampunk/gears and all that old/new sci fi ideas have potential as well but IMHO invinXble is something i'd be really proud to have on my desktop, and to show to friends. - klaatu On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at

building from git using custom koji install

2008-07-23 Thread Jesus M. Rodriguez
We've installed koji (1.2.5) on F8 and successfully got the buildroots generating and scratch builds of src.rpms working. I'm trying to build packages from our git repo. I gave it the url to our repo: git://git.fedorahosted.org/git?spacewalk.git#HEAD But it complains about not having a spec

Re: building from git using custom koji install

2008-07-23 Thread Mike McLean
Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote: I've tried several versions of the url with no luck. It seems that koji expects the scm repository house a single package which is not the case for us. There are innumerable ways that one might build an srpm from an SCM checkout. Koji can only support a limited set.

package upload/import speed

2008-07-23 Thread Naveen Gavini
Hello all, When importing or building RPM's from source is there an option that is throttling the upload speed of the package? We are seeing speeds of 10kbps which makes importing/building large packages very slow. Thanks. -- Naveen Gavini Student Systems Programmer OSS/CSS - OIT Rutgers

Problems using import --link

2008-07-23 Thread Naveen Gavini
Hello all, We are trying to bootstrap our new koji setup and when we attempt to import using --link we get the error below. The packages that we are attempting to import are on the hub and have been places in /mnt/koji/import (same volume). The ownership on the packages is daemon (same as

[Bug 456345] Review Request: sportrop-fonts - A multiline decorative font

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 456345] Review Request: sportrop-fonts - A multiline decorative font

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 445291] button labels fail if language support is a subset

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 445291] button labels fail if language support is a subset

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 445291] button labels fail if language support is a subset

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 16818] fontformat in match pattern is not respected?

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16818 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||fedora-fonts-bugs-

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 454078] Review Request: khmeros-fonts - Khmer free/libre font set created by Danh Hong of the Cambodian Open Institute

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 454078] Review Request: khmeros-fonts - Khmer free/libre font set created by Danh Hong of the Cambodian Open Institute

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 445291] button labels fail if language support is a subset

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
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Re: Mukti fontset license

2008-07-23 Thread Michal Nowak
ping? On 10:11 Wed 16 Jul , Michal Nowak wrote: Hi, Fedora Linux distribution considered packaging Your Mukti fontset, but we found out that the license is GPLv2+, which we consider as excellent for software but not for fonts. The problem we see is that when you embed the font inside

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Michal Nowak
ping? On 09:57 Wed 16 Jul , Michal Nowak wrote: Hi Bardaqani, sorry for not being clear on this for the first time. The problem with GPL licensed font is that when you for example create PDF file (like a book) the you usually embed the font inside the document and then is anyone able

TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi all, We have several issues posing the problem of dual OTF/TTF fonts packaging. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456345 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 Till now we've managed to avoid this issue, however it seems we can't escape Fedora guidelines on the subject

Re: Call for OpenType fonts! [Was: Re: Fwd: [Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar]]

2008-07-23 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people using OOo probably don't have clue what features OpenType provides, mostly because they've only seen Arial and Times New Roman. So I don't expect widespread requests from the userbase... Btw, is there a way

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 12:23, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : I'll share my thoughts in more detail later -- I'm in a hurry now. One bit I was going to say: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I don't know what algorithm fontconfig uses to choose between

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi Michal, Many thanks for sending those (and CC-ing the list). Many thanks to Martin-Gomez Pablo for doing the same. I know it's not exciting work (but it is necessary). If upstream does not answer after a while we of course still have the option to package those fonts under GPL without

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Vasile Gaburici
What are the implications of a GPL'd pdf? Having to give the (LaTeX or whatever) source? Having to allow others to modify said source? On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michal, Many thanks for sending those (and CC-ing the list). Many thanks to

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 13:00, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : What are the implications of a GPL'd pdf? Having to give the (LaTeX or whatever) source? Having to allow others to modify said source? I think the implications are mostly you can not tell someone here is my pdf document, you can look at

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 13:47, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : The LGPL seems not to suffer from the GPL problems when applied to fonts (but I've not done a deep analysis, IANAL). Strangely enough it's rarely used and Free Software oriented projects seem to prefer the GPL, which forces us to do the

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Jon Stanley
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We have several issues posing the problem of dual OTF/TTF fonts packaging. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456345 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 Till now we've managed to avoid

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:53 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi all, We have several issues posing the problem of dual OTF/TTF fonts packaging. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456345 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 Till now we've managed to avoid this issue,

Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/22 Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i plan to release an extended version* of the family (under a different name) in september/october through my foundry. Wow! This is really great news Gustavo! :-) [the fonts were designed in the 'ivory tower' way No problem with that at all :-)

Re: Analysis of combining diacritics support

2008-07-23 Thread Ben Laenen
On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Vasile Gaburici wrote: - DejaVu has positioning issues The positioning issue you see is likely a problem that T doesn't have a cedilla anchor in Serif. Normally an easy fix. That's why renderers should have fall-back options (like Qt has). Usually these fall backs

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 11:51 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:53 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: 2. I don't know what algorithm fontconfig uses to choose between several formats of the same fonts, or even if its choices are stable. It uses the version number

Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 17:12 +0100, Dave Crossland a écrit : 2008/7/22 Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if anyone is interested in testing the fonts on linux and taking care of the packaging, please drop me a line. I've been meaning to get set up for packaging fonts for Debian

Re: Analysis of combining diacritics support

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 18:13 +0200, Ben Laenen a écrit : Because font foundries select their character sets based on the market demand, Because font foundries select their character sets based on the countries they want to sell fonts to… they don't see a lot of merit in adding

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 14:36 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 20:14 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Can you patch fontconfig so apps get OTF (OpenType CFF) versions by default, unless they explicitely request OpenType TTF files? (when the same version of the

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Vasile Gaburici
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In practice you can approximate cubic splines by just cutting cubic segments in many quadratic ones, which font editors like fontforge do automatically, and at the sizes text is typically rendered there's no visible

Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-23 Thread Martin-Gomez Pablo
Hi, As I'm attempting to create a package of the (great) Old Standard font, I have mail the founder and have got the answer (forwarded). The answer is quite harsh (if that I spare you the anti-source building paragraph. So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for finding a

Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/23 Martin-Gomez Pablo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for finding a good suffix (maybe iced as Nicolas propose), anyone of you have an lightning idea ? Why not use a build of FF from the same time the source files were published? --

Re: bash $TMOUT

2008-07-23 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Mike McGrath wrote: Trying to prevent stuff like this: XXX pts/7XXX 06Jul08 10:11 0.06s 0.10s sshd: XXX [priv] ^^^ holy moly :) holy alright -Jeroen ___

Re: bash $TMOUT

2008-07-23 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jorge Bras wrote: Hi there, If people start using screen they just have to reconnect, et voila, continue to work. At least for me, screen was the solution. just my 2 cents. Even in screen's case it'd kill the session during the timeout, unless someone unset $TMOUT

Spam headers @fp.o addresses

2008-07-23 Thread Mike McGrath
I've started adding spam headers to all @fp.o emails. Please keep your eyes and ears out for any strangeness. We'll likely have to further configure things. I've also been considering changing the standard spam headers to fedora specific headers so people understand where they are coming from

Re: Spam headers @fp.o addresses

2008-07-23 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 13:37 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: I've started adding spam headers to all @fp.o emails. Please keep your eyes and ears out for any strangeness. We'll likely have to further configure things. I've also been considering changing the standard spam headers to fedora

Re: bash $TMOUT

2008-07-23 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 2008-07-23 09:07:58 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jorge Bras wrote: If people start using screen they just have to reconnect, et voila, continue to work. At least for me, screen was the solution. A downside with that solution is that if I detach a screen session and end my

Re: bash $TMOUT

2008-07-23 Thread Jared Brothers
2008/7/23 Ricky Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2008-07-23 09:07:58 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jorge Bras wrote: If people start using screen they just have to reconnect, et voila, continue to work. At least for me, screen was the solution. A downside with that solution is

Re: bash $TMOUT

2008-07-23 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 07:44:25PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: The idea is more to ensure that sessions aren't just left open for someone to come upon and mess with. 6 days is a long time to have been logged in especially in idle. Means there's a shell who knows where protected by who knows

Re: bash $TMOUT

2008-07-23 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 2008-07-23 08:39:07 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: 1. Isn't it a bad idea to be storing your SSH keys long term in process memory of a remote system anyway? Or are these keys only for Fedora stuff? Yes and yes :-) Thanks, Ricky pgp6iOgBkiQGs.pgp Description: PGP signature

[patch 7/7] Enable Xen support again

2008-07-23 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Now that i686 PAE and x86_64 Xen DomU support is fully upstream, re-enable it in the stock kernel. The only not-upstream patches we require are to support execshield Also note the Obsoletes/Provides to make upgrades go smoothely. Index: devel/config-x86-generic

[patch 3/7] Kill old xen cruft

2008-07-23 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Kill off most of the remnants of the separate xen package Gone is the kernel-xen variant and xen.gz Index: devel/kernel.spec === --- devel.orig/kernel.spec 2008-07-23 14:13:25.0 +0100 +++ devel.orig/kernel.spec

[patch 2/7] Change how we do nosegneg

2008-07-23 Thread Mark McLoughlin
We should really only install ld.so.conf files from packages that actually have CONFIG_XEN enabled, but it would be slightly messy to have only kernel-PAE.i686 and kernel.x86_64 include it. Since it won't actually be used unless it's enabled by the xen kernel at runtime, let's be lazy and have

[patch 6/7] Slightly re-org virt related configs

2008-07-23 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Get all OCD on virt related configs - bring them together, separate the host stuff from the guest stuff and make the x86_64 config look much more like the x86 config. Index: devel/config-x86-generic === ---

Re: [patch 0/7] Enable pv_ops Xen; kill the kernel-xen RPM

2008-07-23 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:20 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: I'm still doing a last bit of testing making sure that it all works fine, so don't apply yet ... but comments are very welcome. Okay, it seems to be in pretty good shape now. The only outstanding TODO item is to make

Re: [patch 4/7] Remove unneeded %kernel_variant_post args

2008-07-23 Thread Roland McGrath
Why bother? If it comes up in the future, the macro will be handy. ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list

Re: [patch 1/7] Fix kernel_{conflicts,obsoletes,provides}

2008-07-23 Thread Roland McGrath
If you try and use e.g. kernel_obsoletes, you'll soon find that it's actually kernel__obsoletes you currently need :-) So you want kernel to have an Obsoletes: that kernel-foo do not get? ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list

Re: [patch 4/7] Remove unneeded %kernel_variant_post args

2008-07-23 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 12:42 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: Why bother? If it comes up in the future, the macro will be handy. The spec file is complex enough that I thought it better to remove anything that was only added for Xen. Needless to say, though, I don't care much either way ...

Re: [patch 1/7] Fix kernel_{conflicts,obsoletes,provides}

2008-07-23 Thread Roland McGrath
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 12:44 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: If you try and use e.g. kernel_obsoletes, you'll soon find that it's actually kernel__obsoletes you currently need :-) So you want kernel to have an Obsoletes: that kernel-foo do not get? Yes; kernel-PAE.i686 obsoletes

Re: [patch 2/7] Change how we do nosegneg

2008-07-23 Thread Roland McGrath
We should really only install ld.so.conf files from packages that actually have CONFIG_XEN enabled, but it would be slightly messy to have only kernel-PAE.i686 and kernel.x86_64 include it. It wouldn't really be so hard to conditionalize it at least for the arch's that ever need it. (The

Flash player

2008-07-23 Thread Master M.A.G.E
Recently i had problems with my flash player when going into youtube i could see the video but there was no audio. so for weeks i had been surching for a fix and found one that might help if anyone is have the same problem with flash playplayer on firefox 3.0. The problem was that

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 22:34:39 -0300, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 22, 2008, Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have any evidence of that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd sounds about

recent changes of xscreensaver

2008-07-23 Thread Jouk Jansen
Hi All, I'm running F9 with Nvidia-twinview. Since the last update of xscreensaver this week xscreensaver sees the 2 sceeens as one big display, running one hack. It used to be that one hack per display was running. I prefer the behavior of one hack per screen. Is this a bug or a feature? Is

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: You're probably right that Red Hat gave GNU/Linux some polish that even enthusiasts needed, but it started 3 years into Linux's history and 11 years into GNU's history, so I don't think we're talking about the

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:30:14PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: The terms of a license have nothing to do with copyright law. You can agree to anything in a license as long as it isn't actually illegal. An exclusion of copyright rules is simply what you get

Re: need help removing/disabling LUKS disk encryption

2008-07-23 Thread Amitakhya Phukan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Konstantin Svist wrote: | Hi all, | | I've installed F9 with disk encryption to try it out -- and now I want to remove it. | Is there a way to just turn it off - revert to unencrypted partitions - without reinstalling the OS? | | Also, I've heard

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand here, why some licenses are compatible and which ones are not. License compatibiliy analysis requires looking into the permissions and conditions established by each license, and looking for conflicts between them.

Re: Now ON TOPIC, libGL.so, libMesaGL.so on missing list of F8 repo's

2008-07-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:56:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: For libGL, yum install mesa-libGL-devel Already installed, but gmerlin's configure can't find it. There is no libGL.so link, but I can make that from libGL.so.1 which is installed. Doesn't sound right. The link is included in

KDE settings program from command line

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, What is the command to run the KDE settings program from the command line? I am running F9. Thanks in advance, Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

OBM ?

2008-07-23 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, A advertising for OBM (http://www.obm.org) says that OBM is available in Fedora 9 public mirror, so a 'yum install obm' is intended to work. But it doesn't seem to be the case. Has anyone information about this ? BR -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

more information on FUDCon Brno 2008

2008-07-23 Thread Max Spevack
Hi, The FUDCon information and sign up page has been updated, with a tentative schedule for each day, and also with a place for people who are traveling from out of town to indicate which nights they will need hotel rooms. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008 Please

Re: OCR in Fedora?

2008-07-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gustav Degreef wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Valent Turkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anybody do OCR using software available in Fedora? Which ones do you use?

Re: 2D CAD with background image map (qcad? brl-cad?)

2008-07-23 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Thompson Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/22/2008 04:07:35 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, I need to draw routes of fiber optics cables ontop of a city map and I would like to do this in some open source CAD application. It would be great if the cad

Re: 2D CAD with background image map (qcad? brl-cad?)

2008-07-23 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, I need to draw routes of fiber optics cables ontop of a city map and I would like to do this in some open source CAD application. It would be great if the cad app would be something like Map3D so

Endless lines of rubish after running KDE applications

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, After closing KDE applications (running on XFCE), I get endless lines as the following ones on the console: kbuildsycoca4(15800) KBuildServiceFactory::populateServiceTypes: /usr/share/applications/totem.desktop specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype

Re: signal to noise

2008-07-23 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
for them. Regards Marcelo Anders Karlsson wrote: * Ron Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080723 10:58]: this list is too noisy. bye-bye fedora, hello ubuntu. You'll find the same flame-fests on the Ubuntu lists. Take it from someone who knows. /Anders -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

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

2008-07-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 21:14:40 -0500, Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:55:00 -0400, Todd Denniston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or are you indicating you _have_ gotten anaconda to use an additional repository that was on a local hard drive or NFS?

Re: Now ON TOPIC, libGL.so, libMesaGL.so on missing list of F8 repo's

2008-07-23 Thread dexter
On Wed July 23 2008 04:06:58 Gene Heskett wrote: That seems to be faad2 now, but I didn't have the -devel installed. But that was from faac, and I didn't have that -devel installed either. Humm, I have added the /opt/gmerlin/lib directory to a gmerlin.conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, and I'm

Re: Two different users on the same machine

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I am using XscreenSaver. How to switch to gnome screensaver? # yum remove xscreensaver\* # yum install gnome-screensaver Thanks, Rahul. Tried that, but when switching user, got the following error: Unable to start

Re: signal to noise

2008-07-23 Thread g
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: snip I only think that there should be a limit. For example this discussion if Fedora is or not GNU/Free software (or would you like help in setting you filters in thunderbird? very easy to do and will drop 's/n'. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without

Re: Two different users on the same machine

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I am using XscreenSaver. How to switch to gnome screensaver? # yum remove xscreensaver\* # yum install gnome-screensaver Thanks, Rahul. Tried that, but when switching user, got the following error: Unable to start new

Re: Now ON TOPIC, libGL.so, libMesaGL.so on missing list of F8 repo's

2008-07-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Rex Dieter wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: So what do we do when we want to install a program that expects to find those libraries and will not build without them? For libGL, yum install mesa-libGL-devel Already installed, but gmerlin's configure

Re: Printing with Canon Pixma iP1800 on Fedora Core 7

2008-07-23 Thread Valentina M
Oh, well, I will try to log in as root and send something to print.. that's they way right? On 7/21/08, Kevin Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Valentina M wrote: xD Here it goes, lpstat -t says: scheduler is running system default destination: iP1800_Ver.2.70 device for EPSONLX300:

GLib-GIO-Warning

2008-07-23 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
After installing Fedora 9 on a few systems I'm seeing a boatload of warnings in /var/log/messages similar to: gdm-simple-greeter[9522]: GLib-GIO-WARNING: Missing callback called fullpath = /home/username/.face#012 I've tried creating a .face file both as a zero byte file and as a jpg for a

Re: OBM ?

2008-07-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 11:49 +0200, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, A advertising for OBM (http://www.obm.org) says that OBM is available in Fedora 9 public mirror, so a 'yum install obm' is intended to work. But it doesn't seem to be the case. Has anyone information about this ? It also has a

Re: Endless lines of rubish after running KDE applications

2008-07-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 12:02 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, After closing KDE applications (running on XFCE), I get endless lines as the following ones on the console: kbuildsycoca4(15800) KBuildServiceFactory::populateServiceTypes:

Re: signal to noise

2008-07-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 04:57:34 am Ron Morin wrote: this list is too noisy. bye-bye fedora, hello ubuntu. Sorry about that. Be sure to say hello to Karl... -- cmg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: signal to noise

2008-07-23 Thread Mark Haney
Ron Morin wrote: this list is too noisy. bye-bye fedora, hello ubuntu. \ Wait, you're changing distros because the list is too noisy? Really? Do you change cars when you get low on fuel? Or the radio station plays a crappy song? Have you EVER heard of unsubscribing? And do you think the

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Those are not (pure) licenses, those are license agreements. Agreements as in contracts. Contracts are meeting of minds and mutual obligations. The GPL is a unilateral grant of rights. Not even close. You must accept it or you are not free to redistribute existing

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

2008-07-23 Thread Todd Denniston
Bruno Wolff III wrote, On 07/22/2008 10:14 PM: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:55:00 -0400, Todd Denniston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or are you indicating you _have_ gotten anaconda to use an additional repository that was on a local hard drive or NFS? I did a URL install about two weeks ago and

Re: Endless lines of rubish after running KDE applications

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After closing KDE applications (running on XFCE), I get endless lines as the following ones on the console: kbuildsycoca4(15800) KBuildServiceFactory::populateServiceTypes:

Re: F8 - Error in xine installation failure - Resolved!

2008-07-23 Thread Barry
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:16:08 -0700, Barry wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:50:07 -0700, Barry wrote: At the end of Xine installation got messages below; Transaction Check Error: file

Re: OT: Audio Feedback Problem on Thinkpad T40

2008-07-23 Thread Björn Persson
R. G. Newbury wrote: Booted my Thinkpad T40 this morning and it immediately started a high pitched feedback squeal. The volume controls do nothing and of course there is nothing in the BIOS section to even attempt to control or change the behaviour. Interestingly, it also seems to affect CPU

How can mplayer play rmvb video file

2008-07-23 Thread Barry
Downloaded and extracted all-20071007.tar.bz2 to /usr/lib/codec; mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2 --strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/ (I can see some *.dll files and others under the /usr/lib/codecs/) Mplayer started and is play sound but no video, pop up

Re: Joining with team.

2008-07-23 Thread max bianco
2008/7/23 Ahmad Al-Zard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All… It is my pleasure to be member of fedora. Hope to deal with you all and share our knowledge together. :^)Welcome to what is alternately heaven hell. At least its not boring. -- If opinions were really like assholes

Re: f9 wireless reconnection problems

2008-07-23 Thread max bianco
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Jack Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing a problem under Fedora 9 x86_64 with the madwifi wireless drivers in use. What I find is that on occasion the wireless connection will drop and the NetworkManager will attempt to reconnect to the wireless

Re: Now ON TOPIC, libGL.so, libMesaGL.so on missing list of F8 repo's

2008-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 July 2008, dexter wrote: On Wed July 23 2008 04:06:58 Gene Heskett wrote: That seems to be faad2 now, but I didn't have the -devel installed. But that was from faac, and I didn't have that -devel installed either. Humm, I have added the /opt/gmerlin/lib directory to a

Re: KDE settings program from command line

2008-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 17:16:38 Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, What is the command to run the KDE settings program from the command line? I am running F9. Thanks in advance, Paul kcontrol should do it. No, that is up to F8, and he is

Re: NetworkManager sabotages DNS? on fc9

2008-07-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Dave Burns wrote: I just installed fc9 on a Dell precision T5400 from the live CD. On previous fc9 installs, I've had a problem that networking doesn't start at boot if I didn't open up the network panel and check controlled by networkmanager. On this new install, when I have that box checked,

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