Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 01/04/2010 04:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The LiveCD version basic but functional. > The LiveCD is fairly basic, yes, but it still installs ~1.5G if I remember correctly. It has a lot of packages that are not always necessary, like gimp and multimedia packages. I wanted to set up a fil

default addresses in thunderbird

2010-01-04 Thread Konstantin Svist
Ever since Thunderbird went to 3.0 (or just before that), I've had this problem: When composing a new email, I type in a part of the name of recipient and it auto-suggests the emails -- the problem is that the ALTERNATE emails are the first ones in the suggestion. I write an email to my boss, and T

Re: Can't burn DVDs

2009-12-31 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 12/31/2009 04:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Konstantin Svist wrote: >> I just tried burning a DVD (authored by DeVeDe) and both K3b and >> GnomeBaker fail to start writing. Clean boot doesn't help, neither does >> lowering the write speed to 4x. >> Anyone else

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2009-12-31 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 12/31/2009 09:10 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > And leaves you with no Fedora patches and the disk performance > regression issues of 2.6.32. Also a tainted kernel which some > developers will ignore if you get a trace, etc. I thought it's only tainted if there are non-GPL modules compiled in. For

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2009-12-30 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 12/30/2009 06:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > My personal experience with building 2.6.32.recent is that if they > enhance the video drivers any more we will be running text only. Let > the developers have the holiday off, and hopefully they will have run > 2.6.32 on their laptops and be motivated

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2009-12-30 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 12/30/2009 07:39 PM, john wendel wrote: > F11 with kernel.org 2.6.32.2 + Nvidia driver working fine here. You > really should learn to build a kernel from sources, once you get the > config file done, the rest is easy. I've done this way: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel But don'

Where is 2.6.32?

2009-12-29 Thread Konstantin Svist
How come Fedora is still on 2.6.31? Is .32 held back on purpose or are there issues merging it? It took less than a week for .31.9 to be pushed through... but I don't see .32 in updates-testing and it's been almost a whole month... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: GRUB2?

2009-12-29 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 12/29/2009 09:22 AM, Eric Brunson wrote: > Is it in the roadmap to move from GRUB Legacy to GRUB2? > > Thanks, > e. > yum info grub2 yum install grub2 HTH -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http:/

Can't burn DVDs

2009-12-28 Thread Konstantin Svist
I just tried burning a DVD (authored by DeVeDe) and both K3b and GnomeBaker fail to start writing. Clean boot doesn't help, neither does lowering the write speed to 4x. Anyone else having this problem? kernel: 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686 dmesg: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! sr

Re: init: illegal runlevel (null)

2009-12-17 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 12/17/2009 08:41 AM, Luca wrote: #!/bin/bash cd /tmp mkdir newrootfs mount rootfs.img newrootfs cd newrootfs mkdir oldrootfs pivot_root . oldrootfs exec chroot . sh -c 'exec /sbin/init' dev/console 2>&1 I can see the new root is rootfs, but still there is something not working. When I run th

Re: no kernel in updates-testing?

2009-12-15 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 12/15/2009 09:44 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 15/12/09 17:42, Konstantin Svist wrote: How come I don't see fresh kernel versions in updates-testing? Should I be looking elsewhere? The infrastructure just moved house. Give them a chance. Sorry, I must'

no kernel in updates-testing?

2009-12-15 Thread Konstantin Svist
How come I don't see fresh kernel versions in updates-testing? Should I be looking elsewhere? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Plan for Thunderbird in F12?

2009-12-08 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 12/07/2009 04:23 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/08/2009 05:35 AM, Steven Stern wrote: We've been running on Thunderbird 3, beta 4 for a while now. The current beta release is RC2, released on 12/1. Is the plan to stay on beta 4 until the release of version 3 or will the updates repo pi

Re: SCP works one way only

2009-11-17 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/17/2009 10:36 AM, Aldo Foot wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: For some reason, I can only SCP files off my new NAS, not to it. I've tried both using it as a server and as a client with same result. ailingListGuidelines so, there is a

Re: SCP works one way only

2009-11-17 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/17/2009 10:11 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: Are there any other firewalls in the route between the two? That has been the most common problem I've run into when scp stalls like that. I've not bothered sorting out which part of my firewall was doing it, just that it was the firewall. Right, I'v

Re: SCP works one way only

2009-11-16 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/16/2009 05:51 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Try disabling iptables (service iptables stop) and try again. Doesn't make a difference -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/C

SCP works one way only

2009-11-16 Thread Konstantin Svist
For some reason, I can only SCP files off my new NAS, not to it. I've tried both using it as a server and as a client with same result. When sending a file to it from another computer, scp reports a certain amount transferred (1.9M) and then immediately stalls. The target file stays 0-bytes in

Re: XBMC for Fedora

2009-11-16 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/16/2009 11:01 AM, Rolf Fokkens wrote: Anyhow, given the fact that there isn't an XBMC RPM in one of the mentioned repositories, I built it myself based on an RPM by Scott Harvanek. It's here: http://rolffokkens.dyndns.org/ I have been running XMBC on F10 for a while now. At first, I us

Re: XBMC for Fedora

2009-11-16 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/16/2009 11:01 AM, Rolf Fokkens wrote: Anyhow, given the fact that there isn't an XBMC RPM in one of the mentioned repositories, I built it myself based on an RPM by Scott Harvanek. It's here: http://rolffokkens.dyndns.org/ I have been running XMBC on F10 for a while now. At first, I used

Re: Extra mouse buttons

2009-11-12 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/12/2009 04:51 PM, suvayu ali wrote: In my F11 install it works without any tweaks. I use XFCE. Before F11 I had to do some customizations in xorg.conf. Try this url, http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.9.0/doc/html/mouse5.html But i think this is an outdated way to make this work, it should "jus

Extra mouse buttons

2009-11-12 Thread Konstantin Svist
Hi all, Is there a "good" way to make the extra mouse buttons work in F11/F12? In F8 I used something called btnx to map buttons to actions, is that still the way to go? BTW, I use a Logitech VX Revolution. Thanks! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www

Re: Affraid to Upgrade from FC9 to FC12

2009-11-12 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/12/2009 09:43 AM, Roger wrote: The question really comes down to how important the constant upgrades really are to each of us. Not quite. I lived very happily with F8 (KDE3.5) until 11 came out. Mind you, it was because KDE4 sucked, but that's another discussion. By F11, though, there w

Re: Affraid to Upgrade from FC9 to FC12

2009-11-11 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/12/2009 01:08 AM, Roger wrote: Would it be possible to install another hard drive and fresh install F12 on that, tweek it, get it how you want then copy your files over, then use the F9 hard drive as a back up. Roger This is the part I hate most about these upgrades. All options resul

Re: Hotswapping SATA question

2009-11-10 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/10/2009 09:42 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: I just hot swapped all (including boot and swap!) the drives out of my F10 server for an upgrade. I used the raid tools to cleanly fail and remove the drive, then just pulled them out. The syslog showed them hardware-failing. Then I plugged the new one

Re: Hotswapping SATA question

2009-11-09 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/09/2009 09:12 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Konstantin Svist wrote: How does one go about hotplugging/hotswapping SATA drives in Fedora? I just got a new NAS box with hotswapping capabilities (HP EX470) and would like to know how it works, usually. This

Hotswapping SATA question

2009-11-09 Thread Konstantin Svist
How does one go about hotplugging/hotswapping SATA drives in Fedora? I just got a new NAS box with hotswapping capabilities (HP EX470) and would like to know how it works, usually. Thanks! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinf

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/04/2009 05:10 AM, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I'm running a command like this: for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i "`hostname`";done. However the hostname command always outputs the hostname of the server that the above command is run from. I'd like to know how to run this hostname command

Re: Countdown is on... 13 days until F12 stable.

2009-11-04 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/04/2009 12:40 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: 13 days until Fedora 12 hits the streets. (November 17th, according to this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule) I am looking forward to XI2, which I am hoping will allow my wife and I to work on the same computer in the same session.

resolution messed up

2009-10-30 Thread Konstantin Svist
After an update a few days ago my XFCE desktop started resizing to odd resolutions after login. The splash says starting xfce4-power-manager, but I've tried renaming the file so it doesn't start and the resolution still gets messed up. As a workaround, I have a script which runs xrandr to set t

Re: Heads up: Brute force attacks on the rise recently

2009-10-28 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/28/2009 04:03 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: -Make sure your root password is not a dictionary word. -Add iptables rules to limit multiple connections on SSH to 4 within a minute.[1] Perhaps this needs to become a Fedora default. -Update your system. -Use SELinux. Depending on situation,

Re: External eSATA drive downgraded to 1.5Gbs

2009-10-26 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/26/2009 11:32 AM, Kam Leo wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Andy Campbell [snip] [trantor] ~ $dmesg | grep ata7 ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8...@0xfeafe000 port 0xfeafe100 irq 10 ata7: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata7.00: ATA-8: WDC WD10EACS-00D6B1, 01.01A01,

Re: External eSATA drive downgraded to 1.5Gbs

2009-10-26 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/24/2009 05:12 AM, Andy Campbell wrote: I've noticed that an external eSATA drive I use for backups gets downgraded to 1.5Gbs, with errors when I boot. + I'm running Fedora 11 (64bit ). + The eSATA port is from a JMicron JMB361, which is also used for two PATA DVD drives - if that makes

Re: CPU temperature Thinkpad R61

2009-10-17 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/17/2009 02:31 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: Install and run powertop It shows which program/driver/etc causes a lot of CPU wakeups. I just followed my own advice and noticed that my CPU was taking a lot of time in higher P-states. Turned out xfce power manager wasn't running for

Re: CPU temperature Thinkpad R61

2009-10-17 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/17/2009 09:50 AM, Christoph Höger wrote: Today I used a compressor to clean up my cooler. That did not help alot. (There wasn't much dust inside). My cpu temp still goes up from 40° to 47° in ~ 2 minutes which causes the fan to start. Since the cpu has basically nothing to do and the coole

Re: CPU temperature Thinkpad R61

2009-10-16 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/16/2009 02:41 AM, Christoph Höger wrote: I am aware of that dust thing (I am going to give a compressor a try), but the heat goes up when the notebook and the fan is idle. That should not have anything to do with dust, right? I feel comfortable opening up my electronics, so I open up the

Re: CPU temperature Thinkpad R61

2009-10-16 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/16/2009 07:48 AM, Tim wrote: You have a fan-cooled backlight? Some laptops need the lid left open while running, as their lid blocks the airflow. Some of those laptops deliberately make the fan run when the lid's shut, others of them leave it up to you to do something about it. No, it'

Re: CPU temperature Thinkpad R61

2009-10-15 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/15/2009 03:19 PM, Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, I just wondered why my fan always runs after a while. After closing firefox (which took 50% cpu along with X) I now have a load of roughly 0.06 - barely nothing computed at all. Both cores are in the lowest config and yet my cpu temperature goes

Re: [FYI] Laptop/netbook keyboard on/off toggle of WiFi transmitter stopped working with Fedora's 2.6.30 kernel

2009-10-13 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/09/2009 11:27 AM, Mike Fleetwood wrote: Under kernel 2.6.30 the rfkill module is automatically loaded, however the rfkill_input module is never loaded. I'm on 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586, Dell Inspiron e1505. Just like you, I only see rfkill in lsmod $ lsmod |grep kill rfkill 8

Re: root mail [SOLVED]

2009-10-13 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/13/2009 12:08 AM, Christoph Höger wrote: Nice to here this, but how do you sendmail to a real mta outside your box then (aka: How does esmtp decide to route without aliases)? Well, in this case I don't really need to send mail directly from the box. From what I understand, esmtp only use

Re: root mail [SOLVED]

2009-10-12 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/12/2009 03:35 AM, Markku Kolkka wrote: Konstantin Svist kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 12. lokakuuta 2009): I don't want the localhost mail to go out through a real smtp server, and I'm not too keen on running a huge mailing package like sendmail or postfix on

root mail

2009-10-11 Thread Konstantin Svist
Hi all, I have a problem with unix mail Whenever there's a cron failure, etc. mail gets sent to root on localhost. It seems that it tries to use sendmail, except I have ssmtp set up in the alternatives. From reading the docs, it looks like ssmtp doesn't support unix mail. I don't want the lo

Re: Fedora 11 - Cannot Set Screen Resolution

2009-10-09 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/09/2009 10:27 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 10/09/2009 01:19 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: And the lovely new Thunderbird 3b4 apparently resets your settings to compose messages in HTML by default. Just lovely. It doesn't do that for me. Pretty sure this happened af

Re: Fedora 11 - Cannot Set Screen Resolution

2009-10-09 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/09/2009 10:17 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 10/09/2009 10:07 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: File a bug! Provide whatever logs or output the devs request. Yeah, a lot of good *that* does... I filed one on 2008-02-14 about my quirky monitor - that went nowhere fast. Finally, on 2009-09-09 I

Re: Fedora 11 - Cannot Set Screen Resolution

2009-10-09 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/09/2009 10:07 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: File a bug! Provide whatever logs or output the devs request. Yeah, a lot of good *that* does... I filed one on 2008-02-14 about my quirky monitor - that went nowhere fast. Finally, on 2009-09-09 I found a mode that works and posted it in that b

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

2009-10-08 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/08/2009 10:47 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 10/08/2009 10:31 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

2009-10-08 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard drive, if the new drive is smaller? If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a f

turning off multi-finger scrolling

2009-10-06 Thread Konstantin Svist
Hi, I'm running XFCE on F11; synaptics touchpad. How do I turn off multifinger scrolling, it annoys the hell out of me. Thanks -- 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: Thunderbird 3.0b3 focus issue

2009-10-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/01/2009 11:58 AM, Chris Bredesen wrote: On 10/01/2009 02:13 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 10/01/2009 10:47 AM, Chris Bredesen wrote: Anyone else seeing this? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511100 Extremely annoying; makes tabbed viewing unusable. I'm wondering now

Re: Thunderbird 3.0b3 focus issue

2009-10-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/01/2009 10:47 AM, Chris Bredesen wrote: Anyone else seeing this? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511100 Extremely annoying; makes tabbed viewing unusable. I'm wondering now if I should have filed this in Fedora and not upstream... -CB If someone can tell me how to turn

Re: Your favourite Flash websites and testing Gnash

2009-09-30 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 09/30/2009 08:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi, I am running the Gnash browser plugin for the past few days and it seems to work well for the websites that I use (YouTube et all). I am curious if anyone else has used it recently and if so what has been your experiences? Can you give the list

Re: backlight control

2009-09-29 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 09/29/2009 04:00 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-09-29 18:43:39, Konstantin Svist wrote: ... Thanks, that was it. The problem is that apparently X thinks my laptop panel doesn't support DPMS and because of that the backlight doesn't disable Where do I dig now? If `xset

Re: backlight control

2009-09-29 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 09/28/2009 03:12 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 13:58 -0700 schrieb Konstantin Svist: What component is responsible for turning off the backlight when the laptop lid is down? I'm running F11/radeon/xfce xfce4-power-manager, if it's installed

Re: .wine not installing in home directory

2009-09-29 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 09/29/2009 10:27 AM, Jim wrote: What wine command should I run ? just the "wine" only just gives you usage. Wine doesn't run a windows session. Instead, it makes it so that you can run a windows program natively in linux. You run it as $ wine program.exe winemine.exe sample is installed

backlight control

2009-09-27 Thread Konstantin Svist
What component is responsible for turning off the backlight when the laptop lid is down? I'm running F11/radeon/xfce -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/Maili

Re: Discussion -- perhaps a trollette -- re: upgrades !

2009-08-20 Thread Konstantin Svist
Tom Horsley wrote: > Mostly that it is really really hard to do right and > you'd probably never get the kind of discipline and > testing require from the wild west open source > community :-). > Maybe it's not all that hopeless. Virtualization progressed in heaps and bounds recently. What can

Re: capital letters in firefox

2009-08-18 Thread Konstantin Svist
Germán Racca wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 10:26 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> Germán Racca wrote: >> >>> Hello people: >>> >>> I don't know what I did, but firefox is showing text in capital letters >>> in most o

Re: capital letters in firefox

2009-08-18 Thread Konstantin Svist
Germán Racca wrote: > Hello people: > > I don't know what I did, but firefox is showing text in capital letters > in most of the pages, and this is irritating! How to back to 'normal' > behavior? > > Here are some useful screenshots, you can compare with the sites seen in > your own web browser: >

lots of interrupts

2009-08-17 Thread Konstantin Svist
I just ran powertop on a server which has a lot of small HTTP requests coming in. I'm wondering if there's anything here that can be optimized (other than powertop's suggestion of optimizing disk access... the number of interrupts there is so low in comparison that it doesn't seem worth the time).

Re: Partitioning tools and ext4?

2009-08-12 Thread Konstantin Svist
Mike Cloaked wrote: > Does anyone know which partitioning tools will play nice with ext4 in F11? > > eg fdisk, parted, qtparted etc > > It would be nice to have a list of those tools that can be trusted to change > partitions for F11 and for F12 upcoming. I guess there is always > PartedMagic

Re: F11: Bug in sh-4.0 source build-in command

2009-08-07 Thread Konstantin Svist
John Cornelius wrote: > It's not a bug, it's supposed to work that way. The behavior can be > changed by: > sh-4.0# PATH=$PATH:. I used to do this because that's how Windows does it -- until I realized how bad of an idea it really is. Suppose you're root, looking around in a user-writable directo

Re: How well does Fedora handle ATI cards?

2009-08-04 Thread Konstantin Svist
gil...@altern.org wrote: > So, Radeon is free, Catalyst/fglrx non-free? Not quite. radeon and radeonhd are free-as-in-speech (libre). They're [supposedly] fully supported by the community and Redhat. These are updated with every kernel version. - Radeon will work on most cards, and will almost de

Re: microsoft natural keyboard 4000 F10/Spell

2009-08-03 Thread Konstantin Svist
Frank Cox wrote: > The keyboard actually does remember the F-lock setting across reboots, so > changing the default setting wouldn't actually accomplish much anyway Then why bother with translation? Just don't ever press the F-lock key and you'll be okay :) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-lis

Re: microsoft natural keyboard 4000 F10/Spell

2009-08-03 Thread Konstantin Svist
Frank Cox wrote: > It does, however, have those horrible dual-function F-keys where the F-keys > work > normally (F1, F2, etc) when the F-lock key is on, but have different functions > (Help, Undo, etc) when the F-lock key is off. > > I figure the fix is to fire up xev, get the keycodes for each o

Re: grub: splash screen resolution

2009-07-28 Thread Konstantin Svist
Kam Leo wrote: > Try appending a "vga=341" to the kernel stanza of grub. Get other > supported vga values by entering "vga=ask". > That's for kernel resolution, which is applied right after grub. François is talking about grub itself, however. I don't think it's possible to change grub's reso

Re: will we ever have radeon drivers that aren't crap?

2009-07-23 Thread Konstantin Svist
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > it's a bit maddening that all that effort produced nothing in the > way of a method that allows me to get a working configuration at full > resolution. i'm open to ideas but, AFAICT, nothing's changed since > that bug report. > I have similar experience with radeon an

Re: How do I switch mirror for rpmfusion?

2009-07-12 Thread Konstantin Svist
stan wrote: > I turned it off for exactly the reason you cite above. This isn't a > measure of a fastest mirror. I think it would be really great if yum > would keep track of the mirrors used and the actual download rate > obtained over time with each mirror. It would have to be a weighted > upda

Re: How do I switch mirror for rpmfusion?

2009-07-11 Thread Konstantin Svist
gil...@altern.org wrote: > Why isn't this the default? > Probably because it doesn't work too well. The way it works is by pinging the IPs of all mirrors to see which one has the smallest latency. In a perfect world, that would be the source you want to use, but in reality all it tells you is

Re: Fn key doesn't work on Vostro 1500

2009-07-08 Thread Konstantin Svist
Konstantin Svist wrote: > Fresh F11 install on Vostro 1500, no proprietary drivers, selinux disabled. > I can't seem to get Fn key to work. Fn+up/down is supposed to adjust > brightness, Fn+PrntScrn is SysRq, etc. None of these combinations work > right now. > I'v

Fn key doesn't work on Vostro 1500

2009-07-08 Thread Konstantin Svist
Fresh F11 install on Vostro 1500, no proprietary drivers, selinux disabled. I can't seem to get Fn key to work. Fn+up/down is supposed to adjust brightness, Fn+PrntScrn is SysRq, etc. None of these combinations work right now. I've found that I can adjust brightness from command line with solid-pow

Re: any known working USB/serial converters?

2009-07-07 Thread Konstantin Svist
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > a while back, i was whining about the lack of functionality of a > particular USB/serial converter: > > http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-test-list/2009-05/msg00398.html > > does anyone have such a converter that just plain works out of the > box? i'm more than happy to buy

Re: sudo for gnome apps

2009-07-04 Thread Konstantin Svist
suvayu ali wrote: > 2009/7/2 Konstantin Svist : > >> What's a good howto/quickstart for polkit in Fedora? >> > > I didn't follow any howtos or guides, what I used to do was look at > the "details" drop down thing on the dialogue that comes up

Re: How do you know when a reboot is required after yum update?

2009-07-03 Thread Konstantin Svist
Donald Russell wrote: > Obviously a reboot is required when loading a new kernel Well, actually... http://www.ksplice.com/ They make special patches for kernel which can be applied to a running kernel. Not sure this one is open source, but there probably will be one soon :) -- fedora-list m

Re: increasing time spent on grub during pm-hibernate

2009-07-02 Thread Konstantin Svist
Roberto Ragusa wrote: > I think that the new kernel will simply refuse to load the hibernated > image and boot normally (as after an improper shutdown). > Right, but the image will be removed, so what was the point of hibernation? If you wanted to reboot into the new kernel anyway, a plain rebo

Re: sudo for gnome apps

2009-07-02 Thread Konstantin Svist
suvayu ali wrote: > 2009/7/2 Konstantin Svist : > >> Is there a way to make UI apps prompt for sudo password, instead of root >> password? >> I'm talking about the same thing as ubuntu does. >> > > Fedora uses polkit for that. At first I wasn'

sudo for gnome apps

2009-07-02 Thread Konstantin Svist
Hi all, Is there a way to make UI apps prompt for sudo password, instead of root password? I'm talking about the same thing as ubuntu does. Thanks! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:47 -0400, William Case wrote: > >> Hi; >> >> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 18:55 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: >> >>> Aldo Foot wrote: >>> >>>> I have both the GParted Li

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
Aldo Foot wrote: > I have both the GParted LiveCD[1] and the SystemRescueCD[2] > I have the tendency to use the SystemRescueCD because it starts out > with a text CLI, which is helpful with some very old systems. > I usually use clonezilla-sysresccd because I need to clone partitions pretty of

Re: increasing time spent on grub during pm-hibernate

2009-07-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
Globe Trotter wrote: > Dear all, > > When my machine wakes up from pm-hibernate, I spend less than a second on the > grub bootloader. I am wondering if and how this can be increased to (say) 5 > seconds? > > Many thanks and best wishes, > T > Hibernation is pretty tricky - it dumps all memo

Re: Burning .thunderbird to a cd/dvd changes r/w

2009-06-28 Thread Konstantin Svist
Jim wrote: > When burning .thunderbird folder to a cd/dvd it changes the r/w > priviledges in Mail folders to r only. > and you say no way, well i'm sitting here looking at the mail folders > on the dvd and all of them say 'read' > > In the past I noticed if I move the .thunderbird folder onto a

Re: EEEPC FC11 install

2009-06-28 Thread Konstantin Svist
Andrew Cocker wrote: > Hi > I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months on an > Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I > have had to restart from scratch. The EeePC has no optical drive and I have > tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB h

Re: ssh time out

2009-06-27 Thread Konstantin Svist
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I need to increase the timeout of the ssh session, so I set > ClientAliveInterval 7200 > in the file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config > but I did not observe any change. > What am I doing wrong ? > > Thank > The TCP connection may be timing out (if you're behind a firewall s

Re: screen corruption when switching to TTYs

2009-06-27 Thread Konstantin Svist
solarflow99 wrote: > the only time i've had this happen is when the the screen type or > video is set wrong, also if I make a change to those settings without > rebooting. > The only thing I've set is vga=0x369 in kernel params, and that's the value it told me to put in for the laptop's native re

Re: screen corruption when switching to TTYs

2009-06-26 Thread Konstantin Svist
Konstantin Svist wrote: > I have a laptop with nvidia card (8600M GT (rev a1)) where I just > installed F11 x86_64. > I've added vga=0x369 to /boot/grub/grub.conf (that's 1860x1050, native > resolution). > The system boots up without incidents. > > While in X, I try

Re: Unable to Automate SSH authentication

2009-06-25 Thread Konstantin Svist
Rahul Tidke wrote: > Hello, >I am configuring Fedora Core 6 and CentOS5.3 for automatic SSH > authentication, ssh version is OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b, I have > executed following commands but still both systems prompt me for > passwords instead of using public keys. > > ssh-keygen -b 10

screen corruption when switching to TTYs

2009-06-24 Thread Konstantin Svist
I have a laptop with nvidia card (8600M GT (rev a1)) where I just installed F11 x86_64. I've added vga=0x369 to /boot/grub/grub.conf (that's 1860x1050, native resolution). The system boots up without incidents. While in X, I try to switch to TTYs (Ctrl+Alt+F2, for instance). Instead of a tty, I se

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

2009-06-24 Thread Konstantin Svist
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 07:41:47 Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> 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 >>>

Re: upgrading & display problem

2009-06-19 Thread Konstantin Svist
Beartooth TpBkR wrote: > I've now done several upgrades from F10 to F11, all on machines > where F10 was running happily. Three of them are behind the same KVM > switch. > > Of the three, one is fine; one has a pale, washed-out display, > but otherwise is fine; and one can't seem to

Re: Minimal installation and LXDE

2009-06-19 Thread Konstantin Svist
Angel Natan Villegas Vicencio wrote: > Hi All, > > I was done a minimal installation with fedora 11 on my old vectra 420 > with nvidia card 5200 and after do that, i install lxde but doesn't > work the X, also try lxde-remix and is the same situation, if someone > have some possible troubleshoot fo

Re: Minimal installation and LXDE

2009-06-19 Thread Konstantin Svist
Angel Natan Villegas Vicencio wrote: > Hi All, > > I was done a minimal installation with fedora 11 on my old vectra 420 > with nvidia card 5200 and after do that, i install lxde but doesn't > work the X, also try lxde-remix and is the same situation, if someone > have some possible troubleshoot fo

Re: Can't boot Live-XFCE [SOLVED]

2009-06-19 Thread Konstantin Svist
Thanks to magic keys, I was able to semi-debug the issue. Apparently, F11 waits for a device to be mounted to continue at this point. The script that does this normally prints out this info -- but apparently the caller dumps it into /dev/null. In other words, the problem is hidden. This laptop ca

Re: Thunderbird bug or feature?

2009-06-18 Thread Konstantin Svist
Frank Murphy wrote: > On 18/06/09 17:30, Konstantin Svist wrote: >> I received an email with this block of text (when viewing source) >> **snip** >> >> --=20 >> **snip** >> >> It displays fine when reading the message. the text after "--"

Thunderbird bug or feature?

2009-06-18 Thread Konstantin Svist
I received an email with this block of text (when viewing source) **snip** --=20 **snip** It displays fine when reading the message. the text after "--" is a signature, and it's displayed in gray (which is correct). But when I hit Reply, the quoted text only goes up to the "--" and doesn't quote

Re: how to disable tap from touchpad

2009-06-17 Thread Konstantin Svist
Markus Kesaromous wrote: > Since I have an external mouse, I tape a square cardboard on the touchpad. > Works for me! :) :) Some laptops have an off-switch for the touchpad. Any idea how to make it turn off by default? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://w

F11: can I connect to wifi before login?

2009-06-17 Thread Konstantin Svist
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)? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedo

Re: Can't boot Live-XFCE

2009-06-16 Thread Konstantin Svist
Frank Murphy wrote: > > > The fault you found check if they are known bugs, > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs Nope, none of those > > Then check agains bugzilla for any that may be relevant: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478893 Yep, already saw it. acpi=off worke

Re: Can't boot Live-XFCE

2009-06-15 Thread Konstantin Svist
Frank Murphy wrote: > On 15/06/09 01:01, Konstantin Svist wrote: >> >> What's my next step? >> I was able to install F8 onto this laptop, somehow (think I had to use a >> netinstall CD) >> >> Alternately, how do I start the install process from t

Can't boot Live-XFCE

2009-06-14 Thread Konstantin Svist
I'm trying to boot an aged laptop (Toshiba Portege 3110ct) from a Live-XFCE CD. It gets stuck at various stages: * normal (removed quiet and rhgb options): stuck at detecting EDD * edd=off: stuck at "Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle" * edd=off acpi=off: stuck at Running plymouthd inp

Re: ext4 for '/' was not allowed in fedora-11

2009-06-13 Thread Konstantin Svist
Frank Elsner wrote: > Make a seperate /boot an ext3 and all the other ext4. > By the way, why ext3 and not ext2? I thought ext2 was lighter, and since /boot is usually used in read-only mode, stuff like journaling doesn't matter -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscr

Re: Install Fedora11-AOS usinf kickstart How to?

2009-06-12 Thread Konstantin Svist
Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote: > I want to instsall Fedora11-AOS (RAW file) > to a bare PC (not as a virt-image) > > How can I do it using a kickstart file? I'm interested too. My assumption is that AOS is a minimal install that can be extended with yum. I want to install it on an older laptop. T

Re: amazonmp3

2009-06-12 Thread Konstantin Svist
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2009 14:57:07 Dave Cross wrote: > >> 2009/6/12 Kevin Kofler : >> >>> Dave Cross wrote: >>> Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_date_time.so.3 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_filesystem.so.3 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_

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