Re: is suspend broken?

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: When I bought my laptop, it was shipped with a cubbi-suspend2 kernel and the fglrx driver and ran under FC6.i386.  suspend worked for me on the shipped configuration. When I upgraded to F9.x86_64, I no

Re: is suspend broken?

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Langfelder
HTH, It did indeed.  Thanks! Peter Is this still broken in F12?  If so, it should be in the release notes since its obviously also broken in F11 Glad I could be of help. BTW, this was also broken in Fedora 10. Peter -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Firefox menus don't work after last update

2009-12-01 Thread Peter Langfelder
Hi all, just curious if anybody else noticed this: after today's updates, with a fully updated 32 bit F11 under Gnome desktop, menus in firefox don't work. Clicking on File, Edit, etc. produces nothing. Further, history seems to be inoperative - hints in the address bar don't appear, and the

Re: Firefox menus don't work after last update

2009-12-01 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru wrote: 2009/12/2 Peter Langfelder peter.langfel...@gmail.com: Hi all, just curious if anybody else noticed this: after today's updates, with a fully updated 32 bit F11 under Gnome desktop, menus in firefox don't work. Clicking

Re: combining image files into a pdf

2009-09-23 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:14 PM, David Timms dti...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, I have image files of type: - png - tif  (b/w) - fax like - jpg that were produced by my scanner, during scan of a document. I've tried a few ways to achieve this, with limited results: - gscan2pdf: all png pages

automount defaults for VFAT file systems

2009-09-17 Thread Peter Langfelder
Hi all, just installed F11 from scratch and things are working very well, except that the default vfat automount option appears to be shortnames=lower, and I need the shortnames=winnt value. Under F10 I could change the default options in GConf-editor. It appears that F11 disregards whatever is

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm

Re: low-level formatter for linux

2009-08-04 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Markus Kesaromousremotes...@live.com wrote: I canvassed the web looking for a linux util that will low-level format a hard drive, and found noting but dos and windows tools. Is there a low-level HD formatter for linux? Markus K. How low is low? mkfs will

Re: FC11 Random lockups with Celeron 1GHz CPU.

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am experiencing random lockups on my system. They started with FC10 and now I've had them about twice with FC11 First I thought the reason was the graphical drivers, but they continued (although less frequently)

Re: cd to folder with spaces - in a script

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Michael Casey michaelcase...@gmail.com wrote: How can I cd into a dir, when it contains spaces, and I need to use it in a script? the directory: /home/user/this is a folder/something normally I would use: cd /home/user/this\ is\ a\ folder/something/ but

Re: firefox

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, 90% of the time when I open a pdf file from firefox the document does not appear in the right window (I mean not in the firefox window, but in side any window), ie that I do not have any control on the document

Re: Cannot find -lf2c compilation error

2009-05-19 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Peter Langfelder peter.langfel...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am trying to compile a program which was written in C. (The Makefile is shown below.) However, when I run the command 'make', I

Re: Cannot find -lf2c compilation error

2009-05-19 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am trying to compile a program which was written in C. (The Makefile is shown below.) However, when I run the command 'make', I get the following error: $ make cc bpmain.o minput.o mpsinp.o convert.o mpsout.o

Re: mv and exlude list

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Guillaume CHARDIN guillaume.char...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, maybe some scripting genius gonna help me :D I need to move some file from one directory to other with some exclusions. Ex: move files from /data/product/ to /data/archives/2005 while the *.dat file/dirs

Re: hibernate/suspend problems

2009-05-01 Thread Peter Langfelder
I installed f10 on my laptop. hibernate works quite badly: very long time to hibernate, very long time to resume (if it resumes). suspend does not work at all: suspend, yes, then no possibility to resume Should I install tuxonice stuff? (If it works!) My laptop: Toshiba Qosmio F20

Re: Fedora XP on same machine, good bad or ugly

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Steven Kemp skemp...@roadrunner.com wrote: Good Idea? on different hard drives. XP home installed now. Good, Bad or ugly? Recommendations. Steve I have Win XP and F10 installed on the same HDD on a Lenovo T60 laptop. No problems, but then I don't think I used

Re: System freeze with ATI

2009-01-07 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: Hi all. I installed Fedora 10 on my Asus A7D laptop, which have an ATI Radeon Mobility x700 video card. Fedora automagically detected it and used the open source drivers. All worked fine,

Re: X locks up after a random time

2009-01-04 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009 23:10:30 Kevin Kofler wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: This is an ATi X600 graphics card. At first I had the OSS ati driver, then I added flgrx in case I was trying to do something that really needed

X11 crash on ATI X1400: how to find out what's the problem?

2008-12-26 Thread Peter Langfelder
Hi all, sorry if this has been answered, I didn't find the answer online. I'm experiencing intermittent X server crashes when running applications such as open office on my F10 thinkpad T60 with ATI X1400 card, running the newest updates etc with the Xorg ati driver. The crash causes me to be

Re: F10 Strange Audio Errors

2008-12-26 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Sean Bruno sean.br...@dsl-only.net wrote: I used to experience similar skipping and hesitating from Amarok 1.4... until I removed PulseAudio. Now amarok plays smoothly. Peter I assume that requires more than just stopping the pulse audio demon? Sean I

Re: Gnome Session Management

2008-12-25 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Andreas Waldenburger wilde...@freakmail.de wrote: Hi all, has this just slipped by me? Ever since I installed F10, Gnome seems to have lost its session management capabilities. Not only does it not remember running applications on logout, it also does not seem

Re: F10 Strange Audio Errors

2008-12-25 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Sean Bruno sean.br...@dsl-only.net wrote: I'm seeing strange audio issues(skipping and buffering) when playing audio from Amarok(1.4), Audacity and from the video game Quake Wars. I have an on-board sound card: 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia

Re: tar question

2008-11-08 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:30 PM, chloe K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have number of selected files to backup and it is also in different folders How can I make it easy? eg: tar zcvf select-file.tar.gz from selected file or tar zcvf select-file.tar.gz (from selected files in file.txt)?

Re: Intel 915GM dual screen (1280x1024 and 1024x768)

2008-11-06 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Valent Turkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 Linux (prerelase) on IBM R52 laptop with Intel 915GM video chip. I'm now using only one monitor - external 19 Samsung, but I would like if possible to also use laptop's screen.

Re: Slow Second Access to Internet

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my FC7, using Firefox, if for example, I access www.google.com, I get an essentially instantaneous response. If I then close the browser, reopen it, and again try to access google, there is a long delay,

Re: Slow Second Access to Internet

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Langfelder
I actually have two routers, and in neither could I find the DNS test you mention. However, on the same LAN I have three MSWin boxes, two XP and one 2k, and none of these have exhibited the same problem. Does this not rule out the provider? I'm not sure - IIRC Windows uses a local DNS

Re: FONTS

2008-10-27 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, David Hláčik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, once again a question from me ... How you are satisfied with current font look in Fedora ? It is a blocker for daily work for you? I have no problem with the fonts, maybe I'm just used to them. I use F9

Re: How do I do a selective, recursive copy ? Bash script ?

2008-10-27 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Linuxguy123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a huge multi level directory of legally ripped music. I ripped my CDs as flac and mp3. How do I easily copy just the mp3 files onto another drive ? Ie, ignore the flac files and copy only the mp3 files ? I want

Re: NetworkManager crashes system on Thinkpad T41 (?)

2008-10-03 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried this by unclicking Enable Networking in NM-applet and no crash occurred. Is that what you did? Yes, that is correct. The crash only occurs if the cable is connected and the ethernet (wired) connection is

Re: playing mpeg has cone screwey.

2008-10-03 Thread Peter Langfelder
Well two things. Playing mpeg video in Firefox worked up to last week. Now it doesn't. So it must be an update that fouled things up. Second , I have a perfect record. Fedora totem has never worked for me ever. Previously to get totem to work I had to install totem-xine from livna. And that

Re: NetworkManager crashes system on Thinkpad T41 (?)

2008-10-03 Thread Peter Langfelder
I just tried this by unclicking Enable Networking in NM-applet and no crash occurred. Is that what you did? Yes, that is correct. The crash only occurs if the cable is connected and the ethernet (wired) connection is active - if the cable is unplugged, nothing bad happens. Peter To

Re: playing mpeg has cone screwey.

2008-10-02 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to play a mpeg file(.mpg) in Firefox instead of getting video I get a window telling me I am trying to use proprietary formats for which I need codecs to run under Fedora. The available codecs cost money. If I

NetworkManager crashes system on Thinkpad T41 (?)

2008-10-02 Thread Peter Langfelder
Hello, when I'm connected to the wired network and try to disable networking in NM, it produces a hard system crash (desktop and everything else stops, only way to move forward is the power button). This with the newest updates as of today. Anyone noticed this before? I looked at the system logs

Re: Installation weirdness

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Downloaded i386 installation DVD. Went to install, but installation is calling for a 'Disc 1'. What 'Disc 1'? Isn't the installation DVD sufficient? I seem to recall the same... and just hitting enter every time it asked for another

yum/RPM crash?

2008-08-30 Thread Peter Langfelder
Hi all, RPM on my F9 install seems to be misbehaving. Add/Remove Software (aka PakageKit) seems to hang on certain packages. It hung once on wine 1.0, and now it hung twice in a row on gtk+=1:1.2.10-61.fc9(i386). In the case of wine, it didn't move overnight before I killed it. The program gets

Re: yum/RPM crash? Solved

2008-08-30 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ Rahul Thanks - problem appears solved, both gtk-1... and wine now installed successfully. Peter -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Ooo writer: autocorrect MIA?

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I enable autocorrect in writer? The help says to go to autocorrect-options and check 'use replacement table', but there is no such option. Any thoughts? I'm using 2.4.1-17.4.fc9.i386 (Fedora 9). I'm not sure

Re: LVM - Install F9 without LVM

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Bob Hartung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, How do I install F9 without LVM? Even when selecting custom install/partitioning, I cannot delete the LVM volume. Hmm.. I installed F9 on my desktop using the graphical installer (anaconda) without LVM without any

Re: Wine 1 and Office 2003?

2008-07-10 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:10 AM, max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use any office suite for more than the basics. What kind of differences keep you using M$ Office vs. open office? Is it some missing functionality or just compatibility issues? In my somewhat limited use of things like

Re: FC9 install DVD want additional disks

2008-07-03 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Robert Holtzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded an FC9 installation iso (3.3 Gb) and burned it to a DVD. When I tried to install, it led me thru the media check which it said was fine and then asked to check additional disks. As far as I know, the

Capital letters in (windows) file names on Fedora 9

2008-06-27 Thread Peter Langfelder
Hi, I just installed F9 on my desktop machine and am running into a problem when trying to transfer files from a windows system. Here's a bit of background: I used to switch back and forth between a linux (FC6) laptop and a windows desktop, transferring my work files back and forth using a USB

Re: Capital letters in (windows) file names on Fedora 9

2008-06-27 Thread Peter Langfelder
, shortname=winnt. Adding that to my configuration via config-editor solved the problem. Thanks for your time, Peter On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 19:44 -0700, Peter Langfelder wrote: Hi, I just installed F9 on my desktop machine