Re: OT Qwest dsl gotchas for linux, F10 x86_64

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
stan wrote: > Third, their tech support will tell you that the smtp server, > smtp.live.com uses port 25 and ssl. Unfortunately, that is not true. > They use a combination of TSL and ssl. The only client that I tried > that could do this was claws. I set the smtp authenticate, leaving the > user

Re: Time-switched desktop background?

2009-06-23 Thread Sjoerd Mullender
On 2009-06-21 16:23, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I can set my screen-saver to display a random picture from my Pictures folder, and it will keep changing it every few seconds. But only when the screen-saver is active - I'd like to do the same for my desktop background (GNOME). Is there a way to do

Re: Problem mounting NTFS partitions in gnome automatically

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Gijs wrote: > I recently upgraded from F10 to F11 and after I did this, Gnome stopped > mounting my NTFS partitions automatically. If those are non-removable partitions, it's a bug that it did mount it automatically before. It's supposed to be allowed only with the root password. The right way to

Re: NM and TKIP

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Anne Wilson wrote: > It's highly unlikely, Mike. I'm a kde user, and I use kwallet heavily. > In the first place, I'm pretty sure that I was never asked about saving > this key in my wallet, but even if I was, I would have saved it, and the > wallet is always open throughout any session - I set i

Re: F11: can I connect to wifi before login?

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Konstantin Svist wrote: > NetworkManager starts up only after a user logged in. > Is there a way to make it associate with an AP during the boot process > (so that at the login window it's already on the network)? Yes, configure it as a systemwide network and it'll connect at boot time. K

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 07:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 06/24/2009 06:10 AM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:13 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > >> I had the same problem (F11) > >> The cure for me was to ensure that the name of the local machine (naxos) is > >> available to

Re: Fedora 11 top sata II speeds

2009-06-23 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Joseph L. Casale < jcas...@activenetwerx.com> wrote: > >I'm trying to know which is my SD's top speed (theoretically, 3 Gbps). > > The 3 Gbps you speak of is the bandwidth of the controllers port, if your > SATA drive is a SATA II variant, its port bandwidth is 30

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-23 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/24/2009 06:10 AM, Braden McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:13 +0100, John Austin wrote: I had the same problem (F11) The cure for me was to ensure that the name of the local machine (naxos) is available to "mount" Putting the name in /etc/hosts on naxos does the job naxos ~ 2# ca

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 24.06.2009 02:57, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:48 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: >> 2009/6/23 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht : >>> "Christopher A. Williams" writes: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b

Re: Rebuilding Kmod-wl

2009-06-23 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 23.06.2009 21:06, homb...@tips-q.com wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:18:37 +0200 > Pikachu_2014 wrote: > >> Why not install the akmod-wl available on RPM Fusion ? In >> your case, it is perfect, since you have a custom kernel; >> the module will be rebuilt the next time you'll reboot on >> you

Re: F11 fix for sound on Intel HDA machines ?

2009-06-23 Thread john wendel
On 06/23/2009 09:30 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:00 -0700, john wendel wrote: My Intel sound started working when I removed pulse-audio. I removed it and still no sound. If you run alsamixer (in a console), does it show the correct card and codec chip? I'm not sure about

RE: Fedora 11 top sata II speeds

2009-06-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I'm trying to know which is my SD's top speed (theoretically, 3 Gbps). The 3 Gbps you speak of is the bandwidth of the controllers port, if your SATA drive is a SATA II variant, its port bandwidth is 300MB/s but you typically only achieve 1/4 of that for the device itself. This is how the use ca

Fedora 11 top sata II speeds

2009-06-23 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
Hello, I'm trying to know which is my SD's top speed (theoretically, 3 Gbps). Also, if possible, I'd like to know how to get the most of them. Maybe there's some tweak or something I can do to make them work even better. Thank you very much for the help! # smolt page http://www.smolts.org/clien

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:13 +0100, John Austin wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 18:38 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > I'm trying to set up automounting of home directories using NFS4 and > > autofs. I seem to have it working except that all of the files in the > > mounted directories have their

Re: testing disk "speed" with hdparm -t

2009-06-23 Thread g
Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running F11. My box has 2 identical IDE disks (123 GB ATA Maxtor > 6Y120L0), /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. F11 is installed on /dev/sdb7. > hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sdb > Testing the speed of /dev/sdb with "hdparm -t /dev/sdb" shows constantly > 56 MB/s: > But tes

Re: gnome-keyring pop up from ssh

2009-06-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I used gnome-keyring-editor to delete the keyring. On the next login, it > got recreated. Since I have gdm autologin to my user account, it > demanded that I enter the keyring password. Then, I was back to square one. > > Bloody annoying. > > If I have gdm autologin to

Re: two F11 issues

2009-06-23 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:36:37AM -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:18:30PM -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: > > > Hi everyone! > > > > > > F11 live cd, booting from USB on a eeepc 901 (20 gig model). > > > > > > boots fine, pretty much everything works fine. > > > > > > But...

Re: How to assign IQR to PCI devices?

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:02:59 -0500 > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> I watch each of the ivtv devices on their own IRQ. As of now, all the >> changes I've made at the BIOS level have failed. Is it possible assign >> these at the OS level? > > As fa

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:48 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2009/6/23 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht : > > > > "Christopher A. Williams" writes: > >> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > >>> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > >>> > >>> This has worked perfectly for me, fo

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Martín Marqués
2009/6/23 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht : > > "Christopher A. Williams" writes: >> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: >>> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 >>> >>> This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you >>> try this, I would make sure broa

Re: Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Gary Greene wrote: > I again reiterate: have you tested this on a vanilla installation of KDE? No. In fact I haven't personally tested this at all, the OP did. > Don't assume its an upstream bug until you have verified it by getting the > upstream sources and testing it. This demand makes no sen

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Martín Marqués
2009/6/23 Sam Varshavchik : > On-topic for this thread: > > I've got a F10 laptop with a Broadcom chipset. The kernel driver works fine, > with the fw-cutter extracted firmware. > > How can I boot the F11 Live CD to verify that wireless works? It probably > does, but I'd like to be sure. I need to

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 19:13 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > On-topic for this thread: > > I've got a F10 laptop with a Broadcom chipset. The kernel driver works > fine, with the fw-cutter extracted firmware. > > How can I boot the F11 Live CD to verify that wireless works? It probably > does, b

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
"Christopher A. Williams" writes: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: >> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 >> >> This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you >> try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. > > Thanks! > >

Re: How to assign IQR to PCI devices?

2009-06-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:02:59 -0500 Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I watch each of the ivtv devices on their own IRQ. As of now, all the > changes I've made at the BIOS level have failed. Is it possible assign > these at the OS level? As far as I know, the only way to control IRQ assignment with modern

Re: Selinux, cups, hplip

2009-06-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 06/20/2009 01:50 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > >> On 06/20/2009 06:12 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> >>> On 06/19/2009 07:10 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >>> After installing hplip-gui, I got selinux errors when checking on the printer st

How to assign IQR to PCI devices?

2009-06-23 Thread Arthur Pemberton
I have the need to have two of my PCI devices on their own IRQ, this is my current interrupts setup: [r...@watson ~]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0:144 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 19 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0

Re: gnome-keyring pop up from ssh

2009-06-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: Sam Varshavchik writes: For some reason, on one of my machines, the first time I run ssh I get a pop-up to unlock my keyring. I don't use a keyring. How do I turn off this pop-up? You probably have a keyring that you didn't request courtesy of the gnome gremli

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
On-topic for this thread: I've got a F10 laptop with a Broadcom chipset. The kernel driver works fine, with the fw-cutter extracted firmware. How can I boot the F11 Live CD to verify that wireless works? It probably does, but I'd like to be sure. I need to have the firmware files merged into

Re: gnome-keyring pop up from ssh

2009-06-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik writes: > For some reason, on one of my machines, the first time I run ssh I get > a pop-up to unlock my keyring. > > I don't use a keyring. How do I turn off this pop-up? You probably have a keyring that you didn't request courtesy of the gnome gremlins. Check: ~/.gnom

Re: Printing over network from VirtualBox [SOLVED]

2009-06-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 23:57 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: > Has anyone figured out how to create a printer instance to print from a > VirtualBox WinXP guest (on F10) to a network attached printer? > > The docs did not help, nor did google. One 'answer' stated to enter > //servername/printers/myprint

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:24:35 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > Old ??? > > I have a 386 here, and a DEC VT220 terminal. Pentium II is merely > "recent". I've got a model 12 5bit baudot code western union teletype! But my old 16 bit x86 something (I forget what chip it had) recently went to the electronic

Re: two F11 issues (brother printer)

2009-06-23 Thread Joe Smith
On 06/23/2009 02:02 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: ... For that model brother printer, this might also be relevant: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496521 ... Yep, that's right on target. I was using the hl1250 driver in f9 and it was working well. Good to see that it's being looked in

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> http://blogs.computerworld.com/new_linux_broadcom_wi_fi_drivers_arrive >> > Ubuntu 8 is about to be released... wait, that means the article is years > old. No, it was published October 7, 2008 - 8:05 P.M. (the date is right at the top) T

Re: Fedora 11 qemu-kvm virtual machine missing sound hw

2009-06-23 Thread Andy Wang
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I don't have that problem running from cli, so it is a problem in the > libvirt stuff, not in qemu-kvm. There is probably a way to get the virt-* > stuff to do what you want, I just never found a good reason to add one more > level of obscurit

Re: email / kontact question

2009-06-23 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all > > I have a new phone which allows the setup of a mail client. I think it would > be keen if I could get only certian messages that I care about based on some > rules. > > > So, I'm thinking I could setup a gmail account and somehow re

Re: Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Gary Greene wrote: > Debian patches the hell out of KDE, and so do most other distros, this bug > should not be called a "KDE" bug unless you've completely verified with > vanilla source and have fully analyzed the code paths to assure that it > isn't a distribution patch that screwed the pooch. H

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread alan
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Alan Cox wrote: I have a friend with an even older box that I'm working hard to rescue. That one has a 4 Gb SCSI hard drive and a Pentium II. It is old, old, old, equipment. It runs OpenServer 5.0.4 which is another migraine headache for me. That's my opinion of old hardwa

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
> > > I have a friend with an even older box that I'm working hard to rescue. > That one has a 4 Gb SCSI hard drive and a Pentium II. It is old, old, > old, equipment. It runs OpenServer 5.0.4 which is another migraine > headache for me. That's my opinion of old hardware. Old ??? I have a

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> F11 is -march=i586 -mtune=generic, F12 is going to be -march=i686 >> -mtune=atom. Everything from PPro up is i686, so everything should work >> just fine. > > VIA processors such as the C3 are PPro compatible *but* the GNU C > compiler definition

email / kontact question

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi all I have a new phone which allows the setup of a mail client. I think it would be keen if I could get only certian messages that I care about based on some rules. So, I'm thinking I could setup a gmail account and somehow re-direct emails based on my current 'hotlist' rules to the gma

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: > > My advice to you is to give the Pentium III box to a charity, and get > yourself a new quad core Intel machine. Why Intel? I prefer to support the underdog. Plus, AMD Opteron is better. ;-) I didn't say that was my only machine. It's an

any value in refactoring the yum "Authoring and Publishing" group?

2009-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
typically, when i install fedora, i install the above group since i know that i'll be working with docbook and XML and so on. but it seems that that group could stand some redefining, and possibly refactoring into smaller bite-sized pieces. here's the current definition: Group: Authoring an

Re: Error running Maple 7 on Fedora 10

2009-06-23 Thread William M. Quarles
Ed Greshko wrote: William M. Quarles wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-06-22 17:49:47, William M. Quarles wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-06-22 04:36:52, William M. Quarles wrote: Mike Cloaked wrote: William M. Quarles-2 wrote: ... OK, yes, I know this technically shouldn't work but a hack

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/23/2009 09:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: I´m contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a dual-dis

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
> F11 is -march=i586 -mtune=generic, F12 is going to be -march=i686 > -mtune=atom. Everything from PPro up is i686, so everything should work > just fine. VIA processors such as the C3 are PPro compatible *but* the GNU C compiler definition of i686 is (was ?) broken and incorrectly used cmov witho

Re: modprobe warnings

2009-06-23 Thread Ian Chapman
On 24/06/09 00:49, Beartooth TpBkR wrote: One machine always gives me warnings during boot, saying that modprobe.conf is deprecated, and that all conf files belong into [sic] / etc/modprobe.d Do I simply become root and run "mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/ modprobe.d"?? (Or the equiv

Re: docbook v5.0?

2009-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > any timeline for docbook-5.0 dtds for fedora? scratch that -- just found the package "docbook5-schemas". rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, O

docbook v5.0?

2009-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
any timeline for docbook-5.0 dtds for fedora? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: Rebuilding Kmod-wl

2009-06-23 Thread homburg
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:18:37 +0200 Pikachu_2014 wrote: > Why not install the akmod-wl available on RPM Fusion ? In > your case, it is perfect, since you have a custom kernel; > the module will be rebuilt the next time you'll reboot on > your vanilla kernel. > > Simple and easy :) > akmod kernel

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Simon Andrews wrote: I saw this too (but not for that long). Going into a shell I saw that anaconda was only taking ~2%CPU and that my load averages were low and that no significant data was coming in over the network, so I'm not sure what is happening over this time. I

Re: Installation FC11 failed

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Cloaked
Tim-163 wrote: > > > Perhaps for an upgrade, but it shouldn't for an installation. That > should only take a few minutes. And unless the original poster has > written about this in another thread, I only see an installation being > mentioned. > > Would the original poster please answer th

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Fernando Cassia wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been able to get WiFi to come up on at all. Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a Gateway MX6030 laptop equip

Re: Rebuilding Kmod-wl

2009-06-23 Thread Pikachu_2014
Why not install the akmod-wl available on RPM Fusion ? In your case, it is perfect, since you have a custom kernel; the module will be rebuilt the next time you'll reboot on your vanilla kernel. Simple and easy :) 2009/6/23 > I have been experimenting with 2.6.30 vanilla. I am trying > to recom

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:00 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: > > All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. Mine is dual in the sense of having > > two CPUs, including heatsink. You know, good ole "SMP" before the > > multicore craze started. > > > > Good to know F11 runs OK. I wasn´t

Re: two F11 issues (brother printer)

2009-06-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:28:54 -0400 Joe Smith wrote: > These two look relevant, at least: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_id=507628,507629 For that model brother printer, this might also be relevant: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496521 s-c-p picks a driver that doesn

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Fernando Cassia wrote: 2009/6/23 Alan Evans : On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: I惴 contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI video adapte

Rebuilding Kmod-wl

2009-06-23 Thread homburg
I have been experimenting with 2.6.30 vanilla. I am trying to recompile the kmod-wl rpm for the 2.6.30 kernel. I cannot find where, in the spec file, to specify the kernel. It builds for the installed kernel rpm. Do I need to create a 2.6.30 RPM or is there some way to edit the spec into submissio

Re: kdesu not working

2009-06-23 Thread Martín Marqués
2009/6/23 Rex Dieter : > Martín Marqués wrote: > >> I was changing some preferences on KDE and bumped with a problem when >> trying to change kdm settings. kdesu asks for the root password, and >> after supplying it, it asks for it again (tried numerous times to >> enter it, with the same result).

Re: problem with pidgin and Yahoo Messenger

2009-06-23 Thread Martín Marqués
2009/6/23 Rick Stevens > > > That's one way.  Another is to edit your /etc/hosts file and add: > >        66.163.181.170  scs.msg.yahoo.com > > to it and try reconnecting. That will work until they update the authentication protocol at 66.163.181.170, which should be soon. -- Martín Marqués sele

Re: Installation FC11 failed

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I tried to install FC11 and it failed. F11 1). I tried to use my internet card Realtek Semiconductor RTL-8139 etherne

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 13:17 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2009/6/23 Christopher A. Williams > > > > 02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One > > 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) > > This chip is supported. > > Download the firmware and follow the instr

Re: two F11 issues

2009-06-23 Thread Joe Smith
On 06/23/2009 06:35 AM, fred smith wrote: ... Do you know if anyone has filed a Bugzilla against this problem? Good question. I forgot to check. These two look relevant, at least: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_id=507628,507629 It might be a good idea to go ahead and file a new o

Re: F11: How do I get my battery monitor back ?

2009-06-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Linuxguy123 wrote: > One of the things that disappeared in the F10-> F11 upgrade was my > battery monitor in the system tray. How do I get it back ? kde? cashew -> add widgets -> battery monitor -- Rex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/

Re: kdesu not working

2009-06-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Martín Marqués wrote: > I was changing some preferences on KDE and bumped with a problem when > trying to change kdm settings. kdesu asks for the root password, and > after supplying it, it asks for it again (tried numerous times to > enter it, with the same result). > > Is there something wrong

Re: full java development out of the box?

2009-06-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/23/2009 09:43 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > at the moment, does f11 have a full java development environment > using only the openjdk packages? on my system right now: > > java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-22.b16.fc11.x86_64 > java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-22.b16.fc11.x86_64 > java-1.6.0

modprobe warnings

2009-06-23 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
One machine always gives me warnings during boot, saying that modprobe.conf is deprecated, and that all conf files belong into [sic] / etc/modprobe.d Do I simply become root and run "mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/ modprobe.d"?? (Or the equivalent using drag-&-drop, with modprobe.d o

Re: problem with pidgin and Yahoo Messenger

2009-06-23 Thread Rick Stevens
Martín Marqués wrote: From the changelog of latest pidgin: * Sat Jun 20 2009 Warren Togami 2.5.7-1 - 2.5.7 with Yahoo Protocol 16 support 2009/6/21 Frank Murphy http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/how-to-fix-pidgin-and-yahoo-issues/ Found this feed. That's one way. Another is to e

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread James Kosin
Alan Evans wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. > > Of course I knew that. In my mind, "dual" and "dual core" are the same > thing and don't necessarily mean that the cores are on the same die. > Kind of like when I say a Sun E1

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. Of course I knew that. In my mind, "dual" and "dual core" are the same thing and don't necessarily mean that the cores are on the same die. Kind of like when I say a Sun E1 is 64-core, I don't mean on

Re: F11 fix for sound on Intel HDA machines ?

2009-06-23 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:00 -0700, john wendel wrote: > >> My Intel sound started working when I removed pulse-audio. > > > > I removed it and still no sound. > > > > If you run alsamixer (in a console), does it show the correct card > and > codec chip? I'm not sure about that. Does this look

F11: How do I get my battery monitor back ?

2009-06-23 Thread Linuxguy123
One of the things that disappeared in the F10-> F11 upgrade was my battery monitor in the system tray. How do I get it back ? Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/C

Re: F11 XKB troubles

2009-06-23 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:10:25 +0100, M A Young wrote: [] > I had that on an install created from a Fedora 11 beta live CD. In the > end I got rid of it by renaming .gconf and letting it create a fresh > .gconf (as it was a test install I didn't care what other settings I > lost).

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Martín Marqués
2009/6/23 Christopher A. Williams > > 02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One > 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) This chip is supported. Download the firmware and follow the instruction from: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 -- Martí

full java development out of the box?

2009-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
at the moment, does f11 have a full java development environment using only the openjdk packages? on my system right now: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-22.b16.fc11.x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-22.b16.fc11.x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-22.b16.fc11.x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk-p

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 23/06/09 22:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been > > able to get WiFi to come up on at all. > > > > Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is

Re: Output of "yum list installed"

2009-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:52:56 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:47 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:40:20 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > You're absolutely right. I naively thought that info on colourizing the > > > output of yum would be in the man p

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 09:48 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:51:28 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Anything for a laugh. I enclose a new screenshot with those exact > > settings. > > I was just noticing that your window decorations look different than mine. I > use FBRea

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Your wish is my command! > > ...At least for the Gateway laptop. It's sitting right next to me so > that was pretty easy. I'll have to get the other laptop back later. > > 02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce O

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:51:28 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Anything for a laugh. I enclose a new screenshot with those exact > settings. I was just noticing that your window decorations look different than mine. I use FBReader on a Gnome desktop. I wonder if you're using something else and

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
> > (Single-core Pentium III, 750MHz, 384MB RAM, Blah video hardware.) > > All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. Mine is dual in the sense of having Yes. > two CPUs, including heatsink. You know, good ole "SMP" before the > multicore craze started. > > Good to know F11 runs OK. I wasn´t even sure

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:34 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2009/6/23 Christopher A. Williams > > > > I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been > > able to get WiFi to come up on at all. > > > > Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a > > G

kdesu not working

2009-06-23 Thread Martín Marqués
I was changing some preferences on KDE and bumped with a problem when trying to change kdm settings. kdesu asks for the root password, and after supplying it, it asks for it again (tried numerous times to enter it, with the same result). Is there something wrong with kdesu? I'm with F11 with the

Re: Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: But I have worked out that the cause of the problem is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, "uidvalidity", which is listed among the folders on the kmail page but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server. >>

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Ian Chapman
On 23/06/09 22:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been able to get WiFi to come up on at all. Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
2009/6/23 Alan Evans : > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> I惴 contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a >> dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and >> ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI >> video adapters (video chi

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I惴 contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a > dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and > ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI > video adapters (video chipset? I don�� even remember)

Re: group chat in kopete

2009-06-23 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Anyone know if kopete can create/join group chats? If so can you point me to > a doc or how to instructions? > Speaking of Kopete, does it support Jabber TLS, yet? -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Martín Marqués
2009/6/23 Christopher A. Williams > > I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been > able to get WiFi to come up on at all. > > Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a > Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the >

group chat in kopete

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Kempter
Anyone know if kopete can create/join group chats? If so can you point me to a doc or how to instructions? Thanks in advance... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communi

Re: problem with pidgin and Yahoo Messenger

2009-06-23 Thread Martín Marqués
>From the changelog of latest pidgin: * Sat Jun 20 2009 Warren Togami 2.5.7-1 - 2.5.7 with Yahoo Protocol 16 support 2009/6/21 Frank Murphy > > http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/how-to-fix-pidgin-and-yahoo-issues/ > > Found this feed. > -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@'

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been > able to get WiFi to come up on at all. > > Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a > Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadc

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:52:39 -0300 > Fernando Cassia wrote: > >> plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI >> video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a >> dual-display config. > > I was running a dual PIII with about the same specs

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:52:39 -0300 Fernando Cassia wrote: > plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI > video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a > dual-display config. I was running a dual PIII with about the same specs not too long ago. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't really pepp

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:52 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I´m contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a > dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and ATA-33 hard disk > controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI video adapters Do you have a network of computers?

Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-23 Thread Christopher A. Williams
I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been able to get WiFi to come up on at all. Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 a

x86_64 install fails, i386 install works, but ubuntu fixes all

2009-06-23 Thread B Wooster
Summary - based on the Fedora docs, I started with x86_64 install for a Core 2 Duo system, with NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i Chipset, IDE CD/DVD, and SATA hard drive. Seems like the packaging of x86_64 is different from i386 in terms of supported drivers - i386 is much better at recognizing

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-06-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Simon Andrews wrote: > I saw this too (but not for that long). Going into a shell I saw that > anaconda was only taking ~2%CPU and that my load averages were low and > that no significant data was coming in over the network, so I'm not sure > what is happening over this time. I may be wrong, but

Re: Output of "yum list installed"

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:47 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:40:20 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > You're absolutely right. I naively thought that info on colourizing the > > output of yum would be in the man page for yum, while in fact that page > > simply mentions that you ca

OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
I´m contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a dual-display config. Would Fedora 11 run OK in such a sy

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