On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Sam Sharpe wrote:
2009/12/31 Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net:
The nouveau driver is a big improvement over nv, but it apparently lacks
the ability to display core penguins after the startmenu. As I
speculated in my original post, this seems to be an artifact of
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, john wendel wrote:
On 12/26/2009 03:59 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html lists GeForce FX 5200LE 0x0323
as legacy.
Does that mean I shouldn't even try for 3D acceleration?
Use the Nvidia 173.14.22 series drivers for your FX 5200
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, john wendel wrote:
On 12/27/2009 08:58 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, john wendel wrote:
Use the Nvidia 173.14.22 series drivers for your FX 5200. 3D won't be
spectacular, but it will be useable.
Thanks.
Is it something I can do with yum
I'm pretty sure I my video card is AGP.
When I zapped the old one, I had to look hard to find an AGP card.
The old one has AGP1 printed on it.
As I have several windows open, my system (FC11) can't be too confused.
From
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Kevin Kempter wrote:
I updated my DELL bios this way, it worked great:
http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/create-a-bios-recovery-cd-in-
linux/
I'm not sure I understand the term recovery in this context.
My understanding was that if you trashed your BIOS,
I want to open a USB virtual serial port from python.
How do I figure out the name to pass to serial.Serial(...)?
From poking around in /sys/bus/usb/devices/ ,
the bus and dev numbers are 4 and 2.
I recognize product.
There is lots of stuff under
/sys.bus/usb/drivers/cdc_acm/4-2:1.0/tty/ttyACM0
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Julian Weißgerber wrote:
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 05:58:32, Michael Hennebry wrote:
gmplayer only produces audio, a control thingie,
and an error message where the video should be:
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out(-vo) device.
I remembered wrong
When trying to play a DVD-R,
mplayer produces audio and video,
gmplayer only produces audio, a control thingie,
and an error message where the video should be:
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out(-vo) device.
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd1
The preceeding command plays the
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 11/14/2009 01:55 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
As C is an ISO standard, I sincerely doubt there would be any difference in
the
syntax and behaviour of the keywords between C compilers on any Unix-like
operating system.
Incorrect. C, for example, does
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Steven W. Orr wrote:
On 11/16/09 13:54, quoth Rick Stevens:
On 11/14/2009 01:55 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:50:57 -0500
Steven W. Orr wrote:
There's nothing wrong with perl having all kinds of perldoc pages.
But perl
comes from one place. C, OTOH could
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Les wrote:
Given that I have seen all kinds of effects in C code, but generally
from compilers that are not ISO standard what ever that really means
(ISO is not cast in stone by any means either when it comes to almost
all things).
The standards of interest are written
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 28 August 2009 16:22:33 Gene Heskett wrote:
If only there were zoom buttons for both directions, there doesn't appear
to be a zoom in, only out to ever smaller muti-images, all the same pix
until it crashes.
Use the Magnifying glass with a +
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Frode Petersen wrote:
Michael Hennebry skrev:
I'm dual booting F9 and F11.
There is a partition that mounts on F9:/home and on F11:/home.
I suspect that my ~/.* directories are stepping on each other.
I want to reorganize so that the to-be-former home partition
mounts on F9
I'm dual booting F9 and F11.
There is a partition that mounts on F9:/home and on F11:/home.
I suspect that my ~/.* directories are stepping on each other.
I want to reorganize so that the to-be-former home partition
mounts on F9:/homes and on F11:/homes.
F9:/home would be a symbolic link to
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:13 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I'm dual booting F9 and F11.
There is a partition that mounts on F9:/home and on F11:/home.
I suspect that my ~/.* directories are stepping on each other.
I want to reorganize so
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Craig White wrote:
first...I made a mistake which I would like to correct.
edit /etc/fstab (dangerous) might want to use system tools to do this
craig:x:500:500:Craig White:/home/F11/craig:/bin/bash
should have been to edit /etc/passwd
second, there are many good
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Robin Laing wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, john wendel wrote:
On 09/19/2009 07:17 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Eventually I did a cntrl-alt-F2 to get
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
Most recently mplayer told me that my system was to slow.
It made suggestions that were scrolled
off the screen by many cpoies of
AO: [pulse] pa_stream_get_latency() failed
This is a corrected version oof a slightly earlier post.
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, john wendel wrote:
On 09/19/2009 07:17 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
More precisely, is there an nvidia driver
that does
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
Most recently mplayer told me that my system was to slow.
It made suggestions that were scrolled
off the screen by many cpoies of
AO: [pulse] pa_stream_get_latency() failed: Connection terminated
AO: [pulse] pa_stream_write
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Is there an nvidia driver that allows suspend to
disk and does not experience extreme slowness?
More precisely, is there an nvidia driver
that does not experience extreme slowness?
I've had trouble getting flash to play right
either through
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Bruce Korb wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Michael Hennebry
Since I installed F11,
rather a lot of labels are black on dark gray or black on black.
'Tis quite annoying.
That's controlled by the theme and many need compositing on to avoid this.
Experiment
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Is there an nvidia driver that allows suspend to
disk and does not experience extreme slowness?
More precisely, is there an nvidia driver
that does not experience extreme slowness?
I've had trouble getting flash to play right
either through
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 30 August 2009 17:43:22 Michael Hennebry wrote:
Since I installed F11,
rather a lot of labels are black on dark gray or black on black.
'Tis quite annoying.
That's controlled by the theme and many need compositing on to avoid this.
Experiment
Is shred cpu bound?
I see two ways to test:
Fill the drive from /dev/zero .
cp is not cpu bound.
Run top while shred is running.
top will tell you how much cpu time shred has used.
After an hour,
divide the number of shred's cpu seconds by 36 to get the percentage.
If random number generation is
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Ed Greshko wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
The latest insult is that news services, like cnn or fauxnews or the bbc, are
all being throttled, so if I want to watch a story without a bunch of 20
second pauses in a 3 minute package, I'll pause it for a minute or 5 go
check
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, stan wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:35:31 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
It almost worked.
The medium font is wider than the normal font,
but not any taller.
The large font is taller and even wider than the medium font.
In other words
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:
http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_activities_.3F
On second thought, I might do it that way.
Again, thanks much
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, stan wrote:
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:43:30 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
No two fonts have the same height.
Until I understand what's going on, I really don't dare tinker.
Why not? I don't understand what harm this does. Are you
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, stan wrote:
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:43:30 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
No two fonts have the same height.
Until I understand what's going on, I really don't dare tinker.
Why not? I don't understand what harm this does. Are you
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
I'd forgotten how I did it. You may remember that I said a long time ago that
you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops. Now you combine the two.
Use the desktop cashew to zoom out create an Activity for each desktop that
you want - IOW 4
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:
http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_activities_.3F
On second thought, I might do it that way.
Again, thanks much.
--
Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
Also, I sent another post with an easier way, but it never seems to have made
it to the list (the same info did, in another list). What it said was:
It did.
Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:
Since upgrading to F11, I cannot get a medium font on my xterms.
I've done yum update.
My guess is that the fonts are in some package
that didn't get installed by default.
google has not told me its name.
Anyone else know?
--
Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Pessimist: The glass is
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Since upgrading to F11, I cannot get a medium font on my xterms.
I've done yum update.
My guess is that the fonts are in some package that didn't get installed by
default.
google has not told me its name.
Anyone else know?
yum install xorg-x11
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If yes
how?
Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
Wah.
--
Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Since upgrading to F11, I cannot get a medium font on my xterms.
I've done yum update.
My guess is that the fonts are in some package that didn't get installed by
default.
google has not told me its
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 08:31 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Does anyone currently have suspend to
disk working with nvidia's drivers?
Yes, suspend to RAM and suspend to disc both work for me.
If so, how?
Don't know, it just works. I'm using Gnome
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Does anyone currently have suspend to
disk working with nvidia's drivers?
Has anyone tried and failed to get suspend
to disk working with nvidia's drivers?
If so, how?
One of the items I googled hinted that
it might not be possible with SMP
Does anyone currently have suspend to
disk working with nvidia's drivers?
If so, how?
One of the items I googled hinted that
it might not be possible with SMP.
In another thread (no hardware acceleration?),
another poster mentioned pm-suspend quirks,
but I've not been able to figure out how to
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Michael
Hennebryhenne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
Whatever its origin, nv was the driver name.
My current problem is getting suspend to disk working again.
Either you diagnose the problem or switch the
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Michael
Hennebryhenne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
Whatever its origin, nv was the driver name.
My current problem is getting suspend to disk working again.
Either you diagnose the problem or switch the
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, john wendel wrote:
I've got a box with a geforce 5200 LE, and it displays video just fine if I
use the evil Nvidia driver. The nouveau driver (which you probably
have) isn't quite ready for prime time.
I get the driver from
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM, john wendeljwende...@comcast.net wrote:
Not true. Software rendering refers to the display of 3D objects in OpenGL.
Unless you have a very strange setup, mplayer won't be using OpenGL to
display video data.
Not
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, john wendel wrote:
Not true. Software rendering refers to the display of 3D objects in OpenGL.
Unless you have a very strange setup, mplayer won't be using OpenGL to
display video data.
I've got a box with a geforce 5200 LE, and it displays video just fine if I
use the
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
From glxinfo:
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
I guess that the second means I don't have hardware aceleration.
What does the first one mean?
From sysinfo:/ :
Display Info
Vendor: Mesa Project
Model: Software
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
From glxinfo:
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
I guess that the second means I don't have hardware aceleration.
What does the first one mean?
From sysinfo
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Same problem here. Using ffplay till mplayer gets fixed.
In other words:
This is a recent and known problem.
Using ffplay is your workaround.
Correct?
I'm trying to use ffplay.
ffplay filename
has no sound and freezes after about 30 seconds.
I can
Since a recent update, I can no longer use mplayer.
It freezes after two seconds with the meassage:
[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.0.040 ct: -0.004 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
A: 0.0 V: 0.2 A-V: -0.159 ct: -0.012 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
In /var/log/Xorg.0.log is the line:
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0
I'm running KDE and Fedora 9.
When running Fedora 8, I had a different wallpaper for each desktop.
With Fedora 9, I haven't figured out how to do that.
Everything I can find to change the desktop background
changes it for all the desktops.
What is the incantation to change them one at a time?
--
I wrote:
I'm running KDE and Fedora 9.
When running Fedora 8, I had a different wallpaper for each desktop.
With Fedora 9, I haven't figured out how to do that.
Everything I can find to change the desktop background
changes it for all the desktops.
I did find this on docs.dke.org, but it
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
I'm running KDE and Fedora 9.
When running Fedora 8, I had a different wallpaper for each desktop.
With Fedora 9, I haven't figured out how to do that.
Everything I can find to change the desktop background
changes it for all
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan
The second sentence is incorrect.
by definition !=
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 14:15 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
I purchased a drive that had U3 and it was not marked on the packaging.
I wouldn't have purchased the drive if I knew about it.
I had to find a Windows user so I could remove it. One person was
Ideally, the X server has the correct DPIs
and the application is written to use them.
The application can discover the number of pixels in a 12pt font
and enlarge or not depending on the answer and the purpose.
Given that many applications don't do that,
lying about the DPIs is a perfectly
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, psmith wrote:
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:36:02PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
If I need a different drive, how, if at all,
do I recognize one without an autorun.inf?
shrug Don't buy one with the U3 label. It's not like the thing wasn't
plainly
When I plugged in my first memory stick,
F9 told me two new devices had been plugged in:
TravelDrive and U3 System Files.
The latter has an autorun.inf file on it.
I'm told that that is so when one plugs it into a Windows box,
it will do things to you.
I don't want it to do things to me.
I just
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:38:35AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox.
Most of the header lines were blinking at me.
What's going on?
How do I make it stop?
If I find the inventor of blinking text
When printing a two-page file from gvim,
it gives me a 3/4 inch margin at the top
(I measured) and overflow at the bottom.
A line is missing between the pages.
How do I fix this?
When I print a CUPS test page, the margins are in the range 0.1 to 0.2 inch.
vim's default printer options are 5% for
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Richard England wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
When printing a two-page file from gvim,
it gives me a 3/4 inch margin at the top
(I measured) and overflow at the bottom.
A line is missing between the pages.
How do I fix this?
When I print a CUPS test page, the margins
After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox.
Most of the header lines were blinking at me.
What's going on?
How do I make it stop?
If I find the inventor of blinking text,
how slowly should I kill him?
--
Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
My dual-boot box had FC8 and Windows XP on the same drive.
I installed FC9 on another internal drive, attempting a triple boot.
I can get FC9 and XP, but not FC8.
Editing /boot/grub/grub.conf has not given me any joy.
I can still boot the others, but trying to boot FC8 gives me
error 13. I think
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, g wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
What is the magic formula to make this work?
does fc9's '/boot/grub/device.map' show all drives?
It did.
if not, add.
is fc8 shown in fc9's '/boot/grub/grub.conf'?
No.
if not, mount fc8 partition, copy lines from fc8 grub.conf
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Peter J. Stieber wrote:
MH = Michael Hennebry
MH I recently went from FC8 to FC9.
MH Since then commands like g++ -save-temps main1.cc
MH give me .s files with names like
MH main1.tmp.localhost.localdomain.2918.s
MH and don't give me any preprocessed source at all.
MH What
I recently went from FC8 to FC9.
Since then commands like g++ -save-temps main1.cc
give me .s files with names like main1.tmp.localhost.localdomain.2918.s
and don't give me any preprocessed source at all.
What is going on?
How do I fix it?
I'm sure the messy .s file names are useful for people
Hennebry wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, g wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
I did an experiment.
snip
Eventually something else blanked the screen and wanted my password.
2 good reasons for what i have 4 suggestions.
1a) if not already level 3, change '/etc/inittab' to *id:3:initdefault
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, g wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
More data:
The problem went away for a while for no apparent reason.
Hence, I haven't posted in a while.
I turned off my computer when I went away for a weekend.
you should have stayed home or left computer on.
I turned
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, g wrote:
i have gone back thru old post and tried again to locate just where kde hides
config for locking desktop, it still evades.
I did find, rather someone on the list told me,
but it didn't matter.
Thank you for the effort.
I discovered the program:
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, g wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
I did an experiment.
snip
Eventually something else blanked the screen and wanted my password.
2 good reasons for what i have 4 suggestions.
1a) if not already level 3, change '/etc/inittab' to *id:3:initdefault:*,
reboot.
1b
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 20:25 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I'm trying to find a repository that has Itcl.
I suspect extras, but can't seem to find the data to put in a .repo file.
Currently
I did an experiment.
I used the gui to tell the screensaver to turn one after 1 min.
It worked once.
The next time the screensaver animation didn't come on.
Eventually something else blanked the screen and wanted my password.
--
Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Those parts of the system that you can
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, g wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
Alas, I wrote too soon.
It seems to have worked just once.
what sel level? as which user? during same session? x restart? reboot?
What is an sel level?
hennebry as usual.
yes, no, no.
think about this;
from a term,
~]$ touch
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, g wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
What is an sel level?
SELinux
Apparently not enforcing.
A .so file compiled without -pic ran.
hennebry as usual.
yes, no, no.
was if you had any type of 'file recovery' running'.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ find . -newer tstamp.fn
I'm trying to find a repository that has Itcl.
I suspect extras, but can't seem to find the data to put in a .repo file.
Currently none of my .repo files contain the string xtra.
--
Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised)
are called
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, g wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
I recently installed FC8 and haven't been able to find
the incantation to tell FC8 and KDE not to lock my screen.
How do I tell them not to lock my screen?
bring up kde 'control center', click '[+] appearance themes', click
I recently installed FC8 and haven't been able to find
the incantation to tell FC8 and KDE not to lock my screen.
How do I tell them not to lock my screen?
--
Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised)
are called Hardware; those program
On Sun, 25 May 2008, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
On Sat, 24 May 2008 23:14:29 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
So I can't change this, can I?
You're perfectly free to change them. However, if you change them to
use device names, you're not allowed to complain if it breaks
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