F12, GRUB, and dual booting irritation

2009-12-28 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Who was the genius that changed the GRUB config updating process? Up until now, whenever a new kernel update came a long, GRUB's configuration file would remain basically the same, which would mean I didn't have to go in and manually set GRUB to boot to my Windows partition by default every

Re: F12, GRUB, and dual booting irritation

2009-12-28 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
On 12/28/2009 9:06 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Is there a way to get the old behavior (pre-F12) back with F12? Is this just a bug, and should I file it as such? There is an /etc/sysconfig/kernel file which has an UPDATEDEFAULT=yes setting in it by default, perhaps setting it to no would make

Re: F12 not playing well with Radeon HD 4870

2009-11-24 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
On 11/24/2009 09:31 PM, Raymond Rodgers wrote: Oh, and it seems that the Japanese Input Methods will suddenly no longer work. I've double checked the keystroke setting and even changed it, but I can't get it to activate even though I have the lovely icon in the system tray for it. All in

Re: pulseaudio deeply unreliable (Fedora 10)

2009-03-07 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: I'm getting the stuttering, static, and crashes too, and periodically something will happen with pulseaudio that results in thousands (at least) of identical error messages appearing in /var/log/messages. I looked up the error (I can't remember what it is off-hand

Re: pulseaudio deeply unreliable (Fedora 10)

2009-03-06 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Neil Bird wrote: OK, I've had a google, and a bit of tinkering with config. files, and I'm not really getting anywhere. PA was working OK for me in Fedora 8, but ever since I upgraded F8 to F10, it's been a right PITA. It'll either continually stutter (e.g., when playing music often

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-05 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Rahul Sundaram wrote: McGuffey, David C. wrote: Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those occasional Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools provides the best (read most accurate) virtualization environment on F10? Which one is the easiest to install and

Re: jEdit on F10?

2009-01-15 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Alan Evans wrote: Has anyone successfully installed jEdit on Fedora 10? How did you do it? Honestly, I've never used it myself. Although it looks to be a very capable editor. Most of the developers at my company just switched to it (Windows users, all), so I thought it would be prudent to test

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-16 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Robert L Cochran wrote: And the output of `ls /dev/mapper` Charles Crayne wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:09:44 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: From what I've seen, this can be done through initrd/mkinitrd some how, Apparently, I don't understand

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-15 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=526151 I already have it in /etc/fstab, but /dev/mapper/ device isn't getting created at boot, and so F10 just goes on and auto-mounts the individual drives as separate devices instead of jointly

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-15 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Robert L Cochran wrote: Charles Crayne wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:05:17 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: No other suggestions? Although I have used software raid for several years now, I am not an expert in the subject. In particular, I have never

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-14 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Under F8 or F9, I had managed to build an initrd image that would automatically mount my non-boot dmraided drives without any effort on my part; this was obviously a while ago, and I'm no expert on mkinitrd. When I installed F10, it wiped

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-14 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Robert L Cochran wrote: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=526151 I already have it in /etc/fstab, but /dev/mapper/ device isn't getting created at boot, and so F10 just goes on and auto-mounts the individual drives as separate devices instead of jointly as a dmraid device.

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64

2008-12-13 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Under F8 or F9, I had managed to build an initrd image that would automatically mount my non-boot dmraided drives without any effort on my part; this was obviously a while ago, and I'm no expert on mkinitrd. When I installed F10, it wiped out that configuration

dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64

2008-12-11 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Under F8 or F9, I had managed to build an initrd image that would automatically mount my non-boot dmraided drives without any effort on my part; this was obviously a while ago, and I'm no expert on mkinitrd. When I installed F10, it wiped out that configuration, and is instead intent upon

Re: ATI 3870 Graphics Card install Query

2008-10-02 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Dan Track wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Dan Track [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've just recently purchase an ATI 3780 card (Asus EAH3870) I'm having a problem setting up any compiz or dual monitor support under fedora 9. If I run compiz the screen remains blank with a beige

Re: lost my cordless mouse

2008-09-22 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Todd Zullinger wrote: Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Suddenly I lost my cordless mouse. Of course it might have something to do with the last updates. I checked xorg.conf, but I can not detect any differences with former versions. In fact the mouse is not mentioned in xorg.conf at all. A wired

Possible to Recover LiveUSB Overlay Image?

2008-08-16 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Last night I ran into a bit of bad luck. The Fedora 9 LiveUSB stick that I've been using on my notebook for several months stopped responding so I did a hard reset of the notebook thinking that it'll just reboot and everything would be fine. As usual, I was wrong. On boot, I now drop into a

Re: Possible to Recover LiveUSB Overlay Image?

2008-08-16 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Richard Shaw wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Raymond C. Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I ran into a bit of bad luck. The Fedora 9 LiveUSB stick that I've been using on my notebook for several months stopped responding so I did a hard

Re: fglrx driver on F9 x86-64?

2008-08-07 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Keep a watch on ati.amd.com for the next driver release. When they release it, livna will have it. The real question is wether the next ati driver version will support 1.4.99+. -LX Thanks for the info LX! Raymond -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

fglrx driver on F9 x86-64?

2008-08-05 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Well, I haven't seen recent word on this so I thought I'd ask the public at large. Has there been any update on the fglrx driver for Fedora 9 x86-64? F9 has been out for months now, and ATI/AMD has released several versions of their driver since the F9 release date, but the fglrx driver is

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
William Case wrote: Hi; I have been delving into (messing around with) my network connections and now I can't get Network Manger or my browsers to work. This post attests to the fact that there is some physical connection to my ISP cable connection and my eth0 is active; xchat and FM Radio on

Re: OT: ATT U-Verse internet

2008-07-23 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I've been offered ATT's U-Verse television/internet service but have been told that it's Windows only (which sounds nonsensical to me; they said the same thing about my DSL service). I've scoured the net looking for information about the gateway device but have

Re: Verizon DSL ??

2008-07-03 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Jim wrote: Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Jim wrote: I had a bad experience with dealing with setting up a Dialup connection with Verizon, once I mention Linux the help desk, a Indian , he drop me like a hot potato, I failed to do so, never in my 100 years of use of Linux was not able to setup

Re: Wide, flat, weird : HP w2207h with F8 F9

2008-06-22 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Beartooth wrote: I've been running several F8 and F9 machines behind a KVM switch against what seemed the current high-end monitor in local stores. (My old LCD, which was 1280x1024, died suddenly.) The first weirdness, of several, is that my three PCs all handled it well enough to be

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-12 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:08 -0700, stan wrote: Brian C. Huffman wrote: I don't know for sure, but I think this must have been fixed by rc2 (based on my current performance). I couldn't live with the IO thrashing in b5. I just downloaded the binary from

Re: Special Character Problem

2008-06-06 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Ed Greshko wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Hi folks, I have a rather annoying problem. My company uses a special character as a part of a password for an ftp account a Linux server, and I cannot seem to get Fedora 9 to connect to the server as a result. All the Windows

Re: Special Character Problem

2008-06-06 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Michael Wiktowy wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Raymond C. Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any further ideas on how to get around this? BTW ... what are you using as an ftp client? Just the command line one? You might try some different ones. /Mike I've tried the command

Re: Special Character Problem

2008-06-06 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
g wrote: Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: I've tried the command line, with '.netrc'? excuse my questioning. something is/may/also be wrong elsewhere. do you have other ftp sites you can log? No, I haven't tried .netrc yet, mainly because I'm not familiar with it. I do seem to be able

Re: Status of F9 and ATI

2008-06-06 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Frank Cox wrote: Does anyone know what the current status of Fedora 9 and the fglrx proprietary ATI video driver is? Are we still out-of-luck? When I installed an ATI video card in this (F8) computer, I discovered that to get the correct resolution for my monitor (1680x1050) I had to install

Re: make thunderbird NOT show html

2008-06-06 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, It seems that there are many clueless people who could never write a web page but seem to feel more than qualified to send html mail. I am tired of squinting at itty bitty fonts that are rendered by Thunderbird whenever it displays html email. (List denizens,

Special Character Problem

2008-06-05 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Hi folks, I have a rather annoying problem. My company uses a special character as a part of a password for an ftp account a Linux server, and I cannot seem to get Fedora 9 to connect to the server as a result. All the Windows and even Mac clients that connect to that server seem to have no

Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-04 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Dave Cross wrote: As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really appreciate any help to fix this. I basically have two problems. 1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media. When I boot with the

Has OpenBSD's spamd been ported to Linux?

2008-05-28 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
While I know there are lots of anti-spam utilities out there, I've found OpenBSD's spamd (spam deferral daemon) to be quite useful, and now that I'm managing the Linux servers for my company and the amount of spam and bounce-back spam we've received today, I thought I'd inquire as to whether