Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-02 Thread Beartooth Comcast
of the things of which I know only how to spell them; life is too short -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: small gripe -- for Fedora, or KDE, or ....?

2009-12-31 Thread Beartooth Comcast
. The Germans have an apposite saying: Wie man's auch macht, ist es verkehrt. [Roughly, whatever you do is wrong.] sigh -- Beartooth Implacable Death is not evil. Suffering is evil. Guns are not evil. Tyranny is evil. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Sleep Problem

2009-12-16 Thread Beartooth
button ever does much good, and that may have any of several results. The machine, however, contains stuff I would be glad to save; it has failed endlessly to upgrade from F11 to F12, by any means short of a fresh install. I'll start copying things to media tomorrow. -- Beartooth

rpmfusion catch-22

2009-12-10 Thread Beartooth
~]# PackageKit has been doing the same thing. (It started with a demand for two keys, eventually bethought itself of getting one, and did; but it persists, like yum above, in failing with the other.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious

F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-03 Thread Beartooth
I don't know what I did that made my panels go away -- but I need them back. All I see is the bare desktop, with launchers for Computer, my user's home, and the trash. I need my left (originally top) and bottom panels. How do I get them back?? -- Beartooth

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-03 Thread Beartooth
effectively full At any rate, df -h shows it far fuller than it ought to be. LATER : after another reboot, leaning hard and long on Ctrl-Alt- F2 did get me another prompt; I logged in as root -- and am wondering what to try next -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless

Re: TRIUMPH! Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...

2009-11-27 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:31:40 +, Beartooth wrote: PC #4, my oldest and slowest, is now running F12! Gnat in ointment: I could swear I told it to upgrade existing (and got suspicious when it let me customize now), but it didn't. However, that machine and all it had were

Re: TRIUMPH! Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...

2009-11-27 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:12:38 +, I Beartooth wrote: [] I tried it in PC #3, which is *not* nearly so expendable, and noticed this time that when it gets to partitioning, one choice is to replace existing linux installation -- which might mean putting either an upgrade

TRIUMPH! Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...

2009-11-26 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:19:49 +, I Beartooth wrote: [] Meanwhile, there is a new development. I had burned the install DVD on the first disk that came handy, which happened to be double-sided. I thought to try a well-used DVD-RW instead, and put that into #4 machine

Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...

2009-11-25 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/24/2009 11:32 PM, Beartooth wrote: I've tried all the tricks on this list a/o the troubleshooting site, over and over. I finally gave up : downloaded and burned a DVD -- and *still* hit the catch-22 error, with too little

Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...

2009-11-25 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:08:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/25/2009 09:11 PM, Beartooth wrote: That url is the troubleshooting site I meant. I've tried both ways. The first fails because I can't get enough cruft out of /boot; Ok. So whats the size of your /boot and how much space

Upgrading : give me strength ...

2009-11-24 Thread Beartooth
, or everything in it? All of grub.conf? Or what? It's going to be a royal pain if I have to burn all my data to media, and then sneakermail that back onto each machine, instead of just upgrading f11 -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious

Re: F12 upgrade needs more space for /mnt/sysimage/boot

2009-11-22 Thread Beartooth
seconds; but it disregards that, and barely flashes.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: Alpine paragraph justification failing

2009-11-17 Thread Beartooth
, let alone use a full screen command. That frame of desktop background is what keeps me aware of which machine I'm on, without having to waste conscious attention on it. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up

Can I preupgrade Omega?

2009-11-17 Thread Beartooth
It's really a question about remixes generally, I guess; but Omega is the one I'm running. Will it take a preupgrade, as I think, or is there some gotcha out there?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where

Alpine paragraph justification failing

2009-11-15 Thread Beartooth
, and was told inter alia that Alpine 2.00 in Fedora 11 has been known to have bugs not related to Alpine, but to gcc. You may want to report this to them and see if they can duplicate it. What I know of gcc, alas!, would go in a gnat's eye. Can anyone here help?? -- Beartooth Staffwright

Re: screensaver

2009-11-14 Thread Beartooth
. There are lots more choices and controls. From this point, you should be safe to play with them till you find a preference -- or just leave them as they are. Enjoy! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up

Re: screensaver

2009-11-13 Thread Beartooth
-screensaver installed, you have to set both of them not to lock the screen, if you want that. It can be very irritating ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Lo! F11 dependency hell

2009-11-11 Thread Beartooth
) -- I hit catch-22. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Desktop launchers bollixed

2009-11-10 Thread Beartooth
to their use, and have tried to get them back. I don't know what I did, but they now appear on one (only one!) of my dozen-and-a-half workspaces. And I can't seem to find a way to tell the machine to put them on all. How do I fix this?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck

SOLVED : Desktop launchers bollixed

2009-11-10 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:39:39 -0200, Germán Racca wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 19:20 +, I Beartooth wrote: For as long as I can remember, any install of Fedora or RedHat before it has put launchers for Computer and my home folder on the desktop -- even the Live CDs do

Re: Why can't I launch qgis??

2009-11-09 Thread Beartooth
the time. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Wine or Fedora display problem?

2009-11-09 Thread Beartooth
to keep the choice of the old vista etrex (on the road, where it can usually see clear sky) and the rino 120 (which does much better under Eastern forest canopies, and also gets longer battery life). Are you able to run MapSource in Wine and get it to do updates?? -- Beartooth

Re: Wine or Fedora display problem?

2009-11-08 Thread Beartooth
. Note also that I did first try the other APTs on lists for Wine, for GPSs, and for Garmin specifically. If not you, who? If not now, when? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora

Re: Why can't I launch qgis??

2009-11-08 Thread Beartooth
/xerces to get that behaviour No Matches found Both as user, and as root, I still get : [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ qgis Segmentation fault [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list

Re: Why can't I launch qgis??

2009-11-08 Thread Beartooth
failed with man:gdb in konqueror, I tried info gdb at a user prompt. Like the web site, that's going to take me a while to read. I will, however, do gdb qgis, as you suggest, once the debugging install completes, and report again. Many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite

Re: Why can't I launch qgis??

2009-11-08 Thread Beartooth
=Cannot access memory at address 0x0 ) at /usr/src/debug/qgis-1.0.2/src/app/main.cpp:390 (gdb) I hope some of that helps! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Re: Why can't I launch qgis??

2009-11-08 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:18:45 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:02:51 + (UTC), Beartooth wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x021c6ebb in QListData::isEmpty (this=value optimized out) at ../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h:88 88 inline

Re: Why can't I launch qgis - segfault

2009-11-08 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:05:04 +1100, David Timms wrote: On 11/09/2009 05:48 AM, Beartooth wrote: Is there a way to be notified when the bug is squashed? Or to check whether it's still in F12? I'll start upgrading a week or two after the release. You might like to keep a bookmark to: http

Re: Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?

2009-11-07 Thread Beartooth
-- at *my* convenience, just like the updates. It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that gpk-update-viewer also has an upgrade function; being comfortable with my compromise, I haven't bothered to look. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have

Re: shutdown problem -

2009-11-07 Thread Beartooth
fine. Iirc, the last few times I tried Ctrl-Alt-Delete on any computer (even one running XP), what it did was not shut down, but reboot. That's one large reason I got out of the habit. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious

Wine or Fedora display problem?

2009-11-07 Thread Beartooth
on alt.satellite.gps.garmin, and got none there either. Maybe it's a Fedora problem??? Is there a fix? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Why can't I launch qgis??

2009-11-07 Thread Beartooth
the CLI (by commanding qgis as user or as root). Any guesses why not? There is a little more detail at http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=3t=4969 but no answer there, either. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very

Updating methods

2009-08-15 Thread Beartooth
the proper round tuits -- and many of those, such as instances of Dillo, do not survive rebooting. Would somebody please explain to me, again, in words of one syllable, why we're putting up with all the un-Linux-like rebooting? What am I gaining on my machines, or losing on hers?? -- Beartooth

Re: Updating methods

2009-08-15 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:41:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 18:33 +, I Beartooth wrote: I've just gone back to plain ssh to my userid on her machine, then su - , then yum clean all followed by yum update. Why the yum clean all? It's almost never necessary to do

Re: Updating methods

2009-08-15 Thread Beartooth
and can update shared libraries behind the scenes and programs automatically switch to the new installed instance, but it can't, sorry. IOW, all those people with little auto-updaters in their .sigs saying how long they've been running are asking for trouble?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo

Re: Updating methods

2009-08-15 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:05:33 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: 2009/8/15 Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net:        I've been dutifully updating my own machines with        gpk-update- viewer; but ssh -X for some reason doesn't seem to handle it well when I update my wife's, on another floor. So

dellsysidplugin2??

2009-08-03 Thread Beartooth
[] Google Linux gets lots of hits on it, but the ones I've looked at seem to be just people asking what it is and why ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Re: How to gut %$##@ Firefox?

2009-08-03 Thread Beartooth
-- with vastly less trouble than by the add-on GUI. Many many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: dellsysidplugin2??

2009-08-03 Thread Beartooth
that that machine should have such a plugin; but is there any way it could have contaminated any others?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: F11 (Thpd T30) : reproducible display loss

2009-08-02 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:34:05 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: I Beartooth wrote: The same map program works fine on other F11 machines, under Wine. Does that not show, as I think, that the problem is specific to the T30 in some way?? My guess is an issue with the specific hardware+driver

Re: F11 (Thpd T30) : reproducible display loss

2009-08-02 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:01:57 +, Beartooth wrote: [] After some other stuff, there are more such screens -- lots of them. Finally, [b...@thpd30 log]$ cat Xorg.0.log|most ends with : (II) RADEON(0): Printing probed modes for output LVDS (II) RADEON(0): Modeline

How to gut %$##@ Firefox?

2009-08-02 Thread Beartooth
browser is not worth the trouble it takes? Is there a reasonably similar one without this disgusting practice? Seamonkey, maybe? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: How to gut %$##@ Firefox?

2009-08-02 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:00:06 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 19:06 +, Beartooth wrote: They make it incredibly tedious to get rid of all their miserable language-pack cruft -- and the minute you turn your back, they shove it all in again

Re: How to gut %$##@ Firefox?

2009-08-02 Thread Beartooth
you to mean a bug against Fedora. It is now Bug 515153. Thank you. Y'all pile on, now! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: F11 (Thpd T30) : reproducible display loss

2009-07-12 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:02:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Beartooth wrote: [...] So I'm altogether at sea about what is wrong with the T30 -- the new hard drive, the old BIOS, its version of X, or what. I read your post rapidly, but I give you my two cents: the program (and/or wine

Re: F11 (Thpd T30) : reproducible display loss

2009-07-12 Thread Beartooth
don't *think* I've seen those swaths on the T30 itself, when it opens the display at all. But I don't swear.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

F11 (Thpd T30) : reproducible display loss

2009-07-11 Thread Beartooth
of the window with the swaths). So I'm altogether at sea about what is wrong with the T30 -- the new hard drive, the old BIOS, its version of X, or what. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora

Re: how eliminate canned wallpaper?

2009-07-06 Thread Beartooth
else, it should be considered off-limits. :) OK, afaik I never heard of it. So are you saying just omit it? I.e., do an rpm -e on whatever rpm -qa | grep backgrounds found? Or is it not that simple?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have

gpk : why so many reboots??

2009-07-03 Thread Beartooth
I'm sure I don't want, it alerts me to go uninstall it. One thing bugs me. It seems like practically every update I get has not one but several of those little icons telling me I have to reboot when the update finishes. Is this really necessary?? Why??? -- Beartooth

Re: Logged in twice?

2009-07-03 Thread Beartooth
to me worth the weeding I have to do after my local access provider screens out most span. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Can I check on remote gpk-update-viewer??

2009-07-03 Thread Beartooth
(inside my own house, and only over the LAN) that Fedora absolutely blocks because of the use a cracker could make of it over the Net?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: gpk : why so many reboots??

2009-07-03 Thread Beartooth
Zen forty years ago; but bodhi as a linux app is completely new to me, afaik. The google hits I get are either dead ends (No Such Project lots of times) or over my head. It sounds as if it were another name for package-kit. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I

Re: Display all washed out

2009-07-03 Thread Beartooth
. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: Firefox 3.5 final?

2009-07-03 Thread Beartooth
the standard repo. The mirrors are probably taking a while to resynch. Question for those of you who have the final -- what is rpm -q showing? I see firefox-3.5-1.fc11.i586 -- so do I have the final?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very

how eliminate canned wallpaper?

2009-07-03 Thread Beartooth
? How about if I eliminate only what rm will take, and leave all the directories in place, but empty? Or maybe put some of my own collection in instead? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up

Re: Display all washed out

2009-07-03 Thread Beartooth
. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Mappery : TRIUMPH at last, at long, long last

2009-07-03 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:09:13 +, I Beartooth had written: Followups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general I'm presently running four PCs, two thinkpad laptops (a T30 and a T42), and an EeePC (which doesn't come into this). Everything but my #1 PC is running Fedora 11, and all

Re: Mappery : uncertain success with Fedora/Wine/Garmin

2009-07-01 Thread Beartooth
candidates, but failed to spot any. (My userid was already in uucp.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Display all washed out

2009-07-01 Thread Beartooth
switch (other than in connecting and disconnecting). What I know of computer hardware would go in a gnat's eye; but I do presume that resetting the monitor for one bad machine could easily louse it up for all the good ones. So I let well enough alone. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck

Re: Upgrade F10/XP -- best way? : OUTCOME (long; sorry!)

2009-07-01 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:46:42 +, Beartooth TpBkR wrote: My #1 machine has F10 on one hard drive, and XPPro/SP2 on the other. [] So I'm looking at two opposite projects. [] So far, I've had better success with preupgrade than with an F11 DVD

Display all washed out

2009-06-30 Thread Beartooth
other way to fix the washed-out look? It's so bad that most text is very hard to read. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Display all washed out

2009-06-30 Thread Beartooth
now; launched it; ran it; and the display is still not entirely right, but it's a *lot* better. Resetting the colors for each profile in gnome-terminal helped, too. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up

Mappery : uncertain success with Fedora/Wine/Garmin

2009-06-29 Thread Beartooth
software connects to the same GPSs on two machines, but not on four others?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: F11 scp stalls - rsync command

2009-06-28 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
. The transfer will then resume by itself. (As long as you haven't aborted the copy manually.) I let it alone for most of one day -- longer than any scp command has taken here before. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious

F11 scp stalls

2009-06-27 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
directory (some 9.2 GB) from my #1 (F10) machine to one already upgraded to F11. But the scp has stopped, after doing 23% of a .jar file, saying stalled. What, if anything, can I do to make scp resume from where it left off?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power

Upgrade F10/XP -- best way?

2009-06-27 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Upgrade F10/XP -- best way?

2009-06-27 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Blessed be the developers! (was Re: Will F11 save sessions?)

2009-06-26 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:40:59 +, I Beartooth wrote: [] gnome-session-properties has failed to save my sessions for the last couple of Fedora releases. Iirc, there was some discussion here the first time this app began failing. Has it been fixed yet?? Any idea when

What is /usr/share/locale, and ...?

2009-06-26 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
I'm trying to make space on a hard drive on a F11 machine. Baobab shows /usr/share/locale raking up a lot, and most of it looks superfluous if not silly to my untutored eyeballs. What is it? Do I need it? If not, is there a good way to get rid of it?? -- fedora-list mailing

Re: F11 XKB troubles

2009-06-23 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
). It's probably a Very Dumb Question, but which gconf? Where? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

modprobe warnings

2009-06-23 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
open to receive it??) If it's that simple, why doesn't the software just do it? If not, what's going on?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

F11 XKB troubles

2009-06-22 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
into the proper field. What little I can follow seems to say that such tricks are what XKB does; but I don't use them now, and haven't since I retired. Should I just remove XKB? If so, how? If not that, what? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious

Re: left-handed mouse pointer

2009-06-20 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
such feature? Could not google the answer. Thanks in advance! -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ System Preferences Hardware Mouse -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little

Re: upgrading display problem

2009-06-20 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:42:01 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: Beartooth TpBkR wrote: [...] I think I'm going to have to shut everything down, take the problem machine off the switch, and re-tinker with all three peripherals connected directly to it -- the way I quit having to do

F11 Trash Not Emptying

2009-06-20 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

upgrading display problem

2009-06-19 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: F10 - F11 using preupgrade

2009-06-17 Thread Beartooth TpBkR
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:53:35 -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: I have a Dell Power Edge 1435SC that is running F10. I followed the preupgrade procedure on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade When the machine rebooted it asked me to select the Ethernet connection to update

Re: Fedoraproject certificate bad??

2009-06-08 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:31:16 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: https://fedoraproject.com/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMini Sure enough, that fixes it. Thanks! I *thought* it was odd to see a .com there; but I don't remember where I got it -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert

Re: F10: grub won't boot, beeps instead

2009-06-08 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:16:48 -0700, Colin Brace wrote: [...] At this point, I'd welcome suggestions on how to proceed further. Try Super Grub Disk. One place you can get it is http://prdownload.berlios.de/supergrub/super_grub_disk_0.9797.iso.bz2 -- Beartooth Staffwright

Fedoraproject certificate bad??

2009-06-07 Thread Beartooth
) and Galeon (which failed) is in fact the case, then the real trouble is an oversight in the fedoraproject wiki -- and perhaps thus correctible by someone on this list. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora

Re: Will F11 save sessions?

2009-06-06 Thread Beartooth
if the power fails again immediately). Does that work if I have several UPSs as well as several computers? Also, two laptops and an EeePC are sometimes in the LAN, sometimes not -- and may be connected to various UPSs ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I

Re: PS Re: Something bollixing packagekit

2009-06-06 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:41:23 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 07:16:23PM +, Beartooth wrote: On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:30:03 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: [] The problem exists only on this one machine. I thought I had disabled NM some time ago in system

Something bollixing packagekit

2009-06-05 Thread Beartooth
?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

PS Re: Something bollixing packagekit

2009-06-05 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:01:32 +, Beartooth wrote: When I click the launcher for gpk-update-viewer, it gets an error popup saying No network connection available, even though one is, and every other app is using it. The Details in the popup say merely Cannot refresh cache whilst offline

Will F11 save sessions?

2009-06-05 Thread Beartooth
-session-properties has failed to save my sessions for the last couple of Fedora releases. Iirc, there was some discussion here the first time this app began failing. Has it been fixed yet?? Any idea when it will be? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I

Re: PS Re: Something bollixing packagekit

2009-06-05 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:30:03 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:33:25PM +, Beartooth wrote: On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:01:32 +, Beartooth wrote: When I click the launcher for gpk-update-viewer, it gets an error popup saying No network connection available, even

Re: OT: Pushing back Time

2009-05-30 Thread Beartooth
. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-30 Thread Beartooth
? They will not let me play with C4 any more. :( Well, I'm not supposed to either, but it's only illegal if you get caught! I have it on excellent authority that a .45 acp won't make a hole clear through a hard drive, but that a .30-06 will. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Beartooth
people who actually like Windows would differ ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines

Screensaver usurpation

2009-05-27 Thread Beartooth
? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: Screensaver usurpation

2009-05-27 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:06:52 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: Around 03:59pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Rahul Sundaram scrawled: On 05/27/2009 08:21 PM, Beartooth wrote: I've tried the big hammer more than once -- told yum to remove gnome-screensaver; but it always threatens

Re: Screensaver usurpation

2009-05-27 Thread Beartooth
. (This is F10, btw.) Many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: F11p Wine?

2009-05-26 Thread Beartooth
from brinks; but it is the part of an adult to see them and face them. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know *something* of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: F11p Wine?

2009-05-25 Thread Beartooth
-3.2.22-4.fc11.noarch -- can you tell us when F10 and F11 will get 3.2.23? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: F11p Wine?

2009-05-25 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:51:24 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Beartooth wrote: I noticed, when PackageKit installed Wine to F11p, it added in a whole bunch of related stuff; but neither yum remove wine nor yum install wine mentioned any of them. (Yum update wine had done nothing.) That's normal

Re: DVD creation for Iso download.

2009-05-25 Thread Beartooth
. Where are you located? Somebody on this list probably lives nearby, and could make you one. (I missed the start of the thread; please remind me which image you want.) Don't give up, whatever you do. Once you get used to linux, you'll *hate* ever having to go back. -- Beartooth

Point of Order Re: F11p Wine?

2009-05-25 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 25 May 2009 14:25:31 -0400, Mail Lists wrote: On 05/25/2009 12:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: That's normal, installing an app installs its dependencies, removing the app again does not remove those dependencies, because they might also be used by other stuff or directly by you. They're

F11p Wine?

2009-05-24 Thread Beartooth
composed of monocotyledonous green plants? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Troubles with gnome-format

2009-05-23 Thread Beartooth
message) both times. But gnome-format still fails, still with the same error. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

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