Setting up Tigervnc [FAILED] ?!?

2010-01-08 Thread William Case
Hi; I think I have yummed every thing I need. What is the following warning telling me? ]# service vncserver start Starting VNC server: no displays configured [FAILED] And how do I fix it? I have checked the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file. I don't see anything about a

Re: Setting up Tigervnc [FAILED] ?!?

2010-01-08 Thread William Case
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 06:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: William Case wrote: Hi; I think I have yummed every thing I need. What is the following warning telling me? ]# service vncserver start Starting VNC server: no displays configured [FAILED] And how do

Re: Setting up Tigervnc [FAILED] ?!?

2010-01-08 Thread William Case
Thanks Ed; On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 08:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: William Case wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 06:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: First of all Why not try something simple by dumping the VNCSERVERARGS line since it may confuse things since nolisten tcp prevents X

Re: Setting up Tigervnc [FAILED] ?!? -- [SOLVED]

2010-01-08 Thread William Case
Thanks Ed; On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: William Case wrote: My frustration level is getting too high for now. A good drink and a sleep and I'll try again in the morning. But I now know what is most likely causing your problem Your user bill

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread William Case
Hi Tim; On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 15:26 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the

Boot Log annoyance/nitpick re: nvidia

2010-01-05 Thread William Case
Hi; I keep getting this warning in my boot log. Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 520: 941 Segmentation fault $@ [FAILED] It doesn't seem to affect anything; and it has been suggested that I just ignore it; but it has been there for two Fedora versions now and

Setting Application startup priority

2010-01-05 Thread William Case
Hi; How do I set/change Application's startup priority? I have three applications in my Preferences = 'Startup Applications' that are loading before Compiz et al. That means Compiz can't place those windows in the correct viewport/workspace and position when I login. Compiz does place them

Re: ]$ Compiz working but I am a little confused ?!?

2009-12-30 Thread William Case
Hi; To be honest, my family complains that I am a lot confused. On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 11:00 -0500, William Case wrote: I can add the ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia manually. But as the advice is dated April 2009, is it out of date (i.e. for versions earlier than F12

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-30 Thread William Case
Hi; On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 22:51 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 13:20 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: IMO, the current description should be changed, but I'd prefer to not see a lengthy debate on the list about it. My 2c: The Fedora users list Geez Patrick, would

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-30 Thread William Case
Hi; On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 21:54 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-12-30 18:27:53, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/30/2009 12:25 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: Suggestions for new text values are welcome -- but you will have to sell your proposal. I'd suggest something like: Fedora Users Too

]$ glxinfo: “Error: glXCreateContext failed”

2009-12-29 Thread William Case
Hi; Just to clarify things. I have the above error when I checked glxinfo after I tried Susyem = Preferences = Desktop Effects and got this warning Accelerated 3D graphics is not available Desktop effects require hardware 3D support. I googled and got the fallowing advice: The following

Compiz -- Discussion

2009-12-26 Thread William Case
Hi; I just want to get some user thoughts and points on using Compiz. I tried it a couple of Fedora versions ago. It was kind of cute using the spinning cube for workspaces and wobbly windows for a short while but I soon returned to using Metacity. Now that Compiz is more mature and more

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-23 Thread William Case
Thanks Patrick; On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 08:55 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 22:02 -0500, William Case wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 21:50 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; ** Just now, as I was typing this at 9:41 pm EST, I received 61 fedora-list posts

Missing posts again ??

2009-12-22 Thread William Case
Hi; I am once again not receiving some posts from the fedora-list. About half of the posts listed in the mail-list archives for this weekend have not yet (??) appeared in my Evolution's Fedora search folder. This happened several months ago for some unfathomable reason, then straightened itself

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-22 Thread William Case
Hi; On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 20:24 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 11:00 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; I am once again not receiving some posts from the fedora-list. Is it possible that you configured the list for awhile not to seed your posts back to you. No. I

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-22 Thread William Case
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 21:50 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; ** Just now, as I was typing this at 9:41 pm EST, I received 61 fedora-list posts. Six or seven of the posts are current. The rest are marked yesterday or two days ago and include all the posts I was looking for. It doesn't

Re: Annoyance Re: Gnotes ?!? -- [Solved]

2009-12-21 Thread William Case
Hi Aaron; Thanks for the reply. My Fedora users maillist is running about a day late again so I haven't received your response yet, but read it by going directly to the archives. On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 09:40 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; I have replaced TomBoy (which I used throughout

Annoyance Re: Gnotes ?!?

2009-12-20 Thread William Case
Hi; I have replaced TomBoy (which I used throughout the day) with Gnote. I want to set Gnote in my startup file so that it starts with the icon in the notification bar but the search window NOT open. I can get what I want when I start gnote from Panel Menu = Applications = Accessories but not

Clean your CD/DVD disks -- Just a PSA reminder !!!

2009-12-20 Thread William Case
Hi; An old lesson re-learned for the umpteenth time. Public Service Announcement --- Last week I upgraded the MY machine to F12 with preupgrade etc. No problem. This weekend I set out to install from the Fedora 12 LiveCD on to two other older machines I have here. On

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-15 Thread William Case
Hi Simon; On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 23:27 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote: On 12/14/2009 11:02 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: Simon wrote: I have come to this thread late and only given it a cursory read. My knowledge of NetworkMangager is limited. However, in a response to my post Re: Fedora 12 -- A

Fedora 12 -- A great new version !

2009-12-12 Thread William Case
Hi; Just thought I would say I really really like Fedora 12. It feels like a Christmas gift. I upgraded from F11 this morning with no difficulties -- worked like a charm. Everything looks and feels a little cleaner and a little tighter. The upgrading process (which I couldn't get to work for

LBA formatting question ?!?

2009-12-07 Thread William Case
Hi; Not a crisis -- I am just futzing about looking at the hardware on my machine using command line commands. Is there a way to confirm my hard disks have been formatted with an LBA (logical block accessing) scheme rather than CHS? Actually I am pretty sure they have been. I was just

Re: Compiz plugins + OT keyboard layouts ?!?

2009-12-06 Thread William Case
Hi; Although the subject of keyboard layouts is moving off topic and should be a new thread ... On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:20 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 09:45:53 Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 01:39 AM, Eric Tanguy wrote: How to know what key is

Where are gnome menu configuration files ?

2009-11-29 Thread William Case
Hi; I have posted this query to the gnome users list 4 or 5 days ago and received no response. Sorry for the double posting. I am about to replace Fedora 11 with Fedora 12. I have re-configured my gnome panel menu (Applications Places System) so that various applications' launchers appear

Just a quick double-check question re installation of LiveCD

2009-11-25 Thread William Case
Hi; Is the LiveCD updated as bugs are discovered and fixed, or do I get all fixes subsequent to installation from the update repo? In other words, if I download and burn the LiveCD now, it will remain the same when it comes to installing F12 on other machines later? I think the answer is 'yes'

Just asking -- re: cx23885 driver for v4l2

2009-11-23 Thread William Case
Hi; I couldn't get my TVtime working under F11 because the analog sound from my TV Cable supplier was not being being piped to a buffer/socket/whatever -- at least that is what I understood the problem to be. I am using tuner card: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 video driver: v4l2; driver: cx23885.

Re: unexpected logout

2009-11-10 Thread William Case
Hi Craig; On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:02 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 06:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: In addition, I had a power supply go wonky that ended up being the culprit. Is that a technical term (wonky)? Wonky is an open ended technical term. It describes a

Re: Is it me or is the list going NUTS? (Old messages are appearing new)

2009-11-07 Thread William Case
Hi Antonio; On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 18:28 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear fellow fedora users, Is it me or is the list going NUTS?, ie., the thread Should I go 64 bit Fedora just came in from the Original poster, wheras I have seen many replies already to this thread. Is something

Re: For Computer/Electronic Engineer types -- Intel Data Sheet interpretation ?!?

2009-11-04 Thread William Case
Thanks David; Somewhat off topic for this list .. Yes I agree somewhat, but a couple of years ago I asked if this kind of question was acceptable on the Fedora users list. From time to time, I have had questions that touch on the physical layer of my computer. I have no interest in becoming

For Computer/Electronic Engineer types -- Intel Data Sheet interpretation ?!?

2009-11-03 Thread William Case
Hi; I have the 102 page Intel Data Sheet in front of me. I am trying to determine the High and Low voltage numbers for transistors on my system. I am not trying to do anything mysterious or build a CPU in my garage. I am just doing a small write up for myself that has an introductory

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread William Case
Hi; On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 12:24 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:39 +, Alan Cox wrote: Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: res 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) F Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Oct

Re: udev messed up again

2009-10-28 Thread William Case
Hi Aaron; I posted yesterday that mine was fixed. On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 08:17 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: Well I see someone messed up udev again. I can no longer play Audio CDs automagically in F11. No icon shows up when the CD is inserted and no program is launched. I know . File a

Curiosity re: Rhythmbox and CD places fix ?!?

2009-10-27 Thread William Case
I just did a yum update; somewhere in there was the fix for Rhythmbox finding my CD/DVD drive as well as the icon for the CD/DVD drive showing in 'Places' on my menu. They Work. Which downloaded update had the fixes? Just curious. I have been watching the 'Announce List' and didn't see any

Looking for an Accounting package recommendation ?!?

2009-10-25 Thread William Case
Hi; I have a friend who is looking to switch to Linux in the next few days. I have agreed to help him get up and running on Fedora. He has one major concern -- an appropriate accounting package. I have recommended gnucash to him. I know and have used gnucash, also I have reviewed grisbi. I do

Re: Looking for an Accounting package recommendation ?!?

2009-10-25 Thread William Case
Thanks Bruno; On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 14:56 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 15:13:01 -0400, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: He has one major concern -- an appropriate accounting package. I have recommended gnucash to him. I know and have used gnucash, also

Re: [Bulk] Re: bournal reviews please !?!

2009-10-16 Thread William Case
Thank you Tim; On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 01:05 +1030, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 20:11 -0400, William Case wrote: I want a encrypted, password protected, container/file into which I can store things like some personal data, site passwords, and bank account numbers and passwords

bournal reviews please !?!

2009-10-15 Thread William Case
Hi; I just noticed the Bournal application that is new to me appear in the announcement list. Summary : Write personal, password-protected journal entries Description : Bournal is a bash script that allows you to keep a personal, minimalistic, password-protected journal, log, or diary. It

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-10 Thread William Case
Hi; Patrick, I am with you! On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 09:52 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 14:34 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Joshua C. wrote: The installation process guides you through some basic points (like grub, partitioning, basic packages). While I am

Re: [Bulk] Installing Windows afterFedora

2009-10-02 Thread William Case
Hi; On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 19:19 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: I have managed to go for just under a decade without a Windows machine, but now I need to have such, and I'd like to add it to an existing machine with a large enough partition which was used as work area for a project since

Re: A couple of DRAM memory stick questions ??

2009-09-30 Thread William Case
secondary. On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:07 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote: William Case kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 30. syyskuuta 2009): The second diagram shows a set of 4 X 4 arrays -- with a major disclaimer about its accuracy at the bottom. I have also seen other sites plus

Re: A couple of DRAM memory stick questions ??

2009-09-30 Thread William Case
Thanks poc; Then it gets confusing again! On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 10:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 10:55 -0400, William Case wrote: It's the data that's stored in units of 8 bits. When addresses are stored then of course the same applies. When they're

Re: A couple of DRAM memory stick questions ??

2009-09-30 Thread William Case
Hi poc, Markku. I think I have what I wanted. Thanks for taking the time. On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:02 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:03 -0400, William Case wrote: Thanks poc; Then what was Markku referring to when he said A typical 64-bit DIMM stick has

Re: A couple of DRAM memory stick questions ??

2009-09-29 Thread William Case
Hi David; On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 08:17 +1000, David Timms wrote: On 09/28/2009 01:07 AM, William Case wrote: I have been re-reading some notes I have made on how DRAM works. As a result I have a couple of unanswered questions? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_random_access_memory has

Re: I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!? [SOLVED - kinda]

2009-09-28 Thread William Case
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:06 +0400, Hiisi wrote: 2009/9/28 William Case billli...@rogers.com: Hi Hiisi On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 00:37 +0400, Hiisi wrote: 2009/9/28 William Case billli...@rogers.com: Does it matter if you have a replay to your post (like now)? Can you see your message

Re: I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!? [SOLVED - kinda]

2009-09-28 Thread William Case
Hi Todd; On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:11 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: William Case wrote: Just for future reference, and to add to my own personal knowledge, I wish I had a better idea of what was going on. I have wasted 2 or 3 hours try to figure out what I did wrong when I probably haven't

Re: I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!? [SOLVED - kinda]

2009-09-28 Thread William Case
: KAqppJIVM1lR_01CEixbanPuHkLNvwtaCGtpVi4LmO4FKqqEYlnzsejNhPDSXUb7sQ-- From: William Case billli...@rogers.com To: Fedora List fedora-list@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:32:29 + Message-Id: 1254083549.4957.58.ca...@case b) 20+ hour delay re-send from fedora list. X

Re: I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!? [SOLVED - kinda]

2009-09-28 Thread William Case
Thanks poc; On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 11:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:37 -0400, William Case wrote: Just for future reference, and to add to my own personal knowledge, I wish I had a better idea of what was going on. I have wasted 2 or 3 hours try to figure

A couple of DRAM memory stick questions ??

2009-09-27 Thread William Case
Hi; For anyone, but particularly Les H. I have been re-reading some notes I have made on how DRAM works. As a result I have a couple of unanswered questions? 1) This question is for personal visualization purposes. I fully realize it makes no real difference on how DRAM works. What is the

I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!?

2009-09-27 Thread William Case
Hi; I have sent 2 or three posts to the mailing list but have not received a return copy of those posts. I have double checked the archive list and the posts are there. My user profile is checked 'yes' to receive a copy of my own posts. It has always worked up to a couple of days ago. Is

Re: I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!?

2009-09-27 Thread William Case
Hi; On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 20:32 +, William Case wrote: Hi; I have sent 2 or three posts to the mailing list but have not received a return copy of those posts. I have double checked the archive list and the posts are there. My user profile is checked 'yes' to receive a copy of my

Re: I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!?

2009-09-27 Thread William Case
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 00:37 +0400, Hiisi wrote: 2009/9/28 William Case billli...@rogers.com: Hi; I have sent 2 or three posts to the mailing list but have not received a return copy of those posts. I have double checked the archive list and the posts are there. My user profile

Re: I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!?

2009-09-27 Thread William Case
Hi Hiisi On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 00:37 +0400, Hiisi wrote: 2009/9/28 William Case billli...@rogers.com: Does it matter if you have a replay to your post (like now)? Can you see your message now? Can you see your message now? I sent a message over a half an hour ago replying 'Yes' to your

Re: [Solved] Re: Why update Swahili? [RE-SENT]

2009-09-26 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 15:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:28 -0400, William Case wrote: [Message didn't seem to get through last night. Could be a screwed up Evo filter here!] It did get through, as you could have verified by checking the archives. Yes poc

Re: [Solved] Re: Why update Swahili? [RE-SENT]

2009-09-25 Thread William Case
[Message didn't seem to get through last night. Could be a screwed up Evo filter here!] Hi gilpel; On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 20:13 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 06:14 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: Well, in my book, rm is a bash command. It might not be exclusive to

Ebooks -- How?

2009-09-25 Thread William Case
Hi; I came across some ebooks online I would like to read. Is there anyway to do it in Fedora 11 on a desktop? Checked Fedora repo etc. I couldn't see anything useful other than ebook-tools. I wasn't sure whether that was what I wanted or not. -- Regards Bill Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3

Re: [Solved] Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-24 Thread William Case
Hi gilpel; On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 20:13 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 06:14 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: Well, in my book, rm is a bash command. It might not be exclusive to the bash shell, but it definitely is a bash command. Otherwise, maybe you could tell us

Re: Music Appreciation teaching program ??

2009-09-21 Thread William Case
Hi Tim; The thread has turned a bit OT. That's OK by me. It lets me get a few things about music off my chest. On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 04:38 +0930, Tim wrote: Tim: That was the title to a program on our (Australian) ABC, Classic FM station: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/keys/ Found the

Music Appreciation teaching program ??

2009-09-20 Thread William Case
Hi; Can anyone recommend a program to download from Fedora repo / any Linux repo / or the world that teaches Music Appreciation? I have something in mind like 'Rosette Stone' but for music. Something that really starts with the basics and works up. I am think that maybe after 65 years, I

Re: Music Appreciation teaching program ??

2009-09-20 Thread William Case
Hi Aaron; On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 09:04 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 09:01 -0400, William Case wrote: If you want a way out solution install Sugar Development Environment using yum group install. It is not that 'way out'. I have been an interested bystander watching

Re: Music Appreciation teaching program ??

2009-09-20 Thread William Case
Hi Tim; On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 23:29 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 09:01 -0400, William Case wrote: Can anyone recommend a program to download from Fedora repo / any Linux repo / or the world that teaches Music Appreciation? I have something in mind like 'Rosette Stone

Boot.log question/fix ?

2009-09-18 Thread William Case
Hi; I was looking at my boot.log this morning and found confusing symbols that distract from its clarity. E.g. ... emounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ] Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ] Enabling local filesystem quotas: [

Re: Boot.log question/fix ?

2009-09-18 Thread William Case
Hi; On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 08:22 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: On 09/18/2009 08:00 AM, William Case wrote: Hi; I was looking at my boot.log this morning and found confusing symbols that distract from its clarity. E.g. ... emounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [

Re: [Bulk] Re: Viewing virtual memory locations from the command line ??

2009-09-15 Thread William Case
Hi Bryn; On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:34 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 14:32 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Thanks. That was a very thorough answer. Luckily, I have 'Understanding the Linux Kernel' by Bovet and Cesati. In fact, it was in preparation to reading/studying

Re: Rhythmbox --command-line ?? [SOLVED]

2009-09-14 Thread William Case
Thanks to Sam and Peter; On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 07:03 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/9/14 William Case billli...@rogers.com: Hi; Peter, I simply followed your advice using the my radio stations URI and it worked. [...@samlap ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop | grep Exec

Viewing virtual memory locations from the command line ??

2009-09-14 Thread William Case
Hi; I can use gnome-system-monitor with the Ctrl-M key to view memory addresses for various processes. It will show me a pop-up window with | VM Start | VM End | VM Size | Flags | VM Offset | etc. What would be the command line equivalent ? I am assuming that such a command line equivalent

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-13 Thread William Case
Hi; On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 07:26 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: Tim wrote: I was referring to the following message from William Case. that I had completely misunderstood: You can set it up as a page style in Styles and Formats; (...) ; or, add the page style as part of template

Rhythmbox --command-line ??

2009-09-13 Thread William Case
Hi; Does anyone know how to get RhythmBox started from a command line in a launcher? I would like to put a Gnome launcher on my desktop or panel that launches RhythmBox gui but with the Radio source and my favourite Radio Station selected i.e already included in the launch command line. I have

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-11 Thread William Case
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 03:47 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: Sometimes OpenOffice reminds me of the bad old days of WordPerfect. Everything is so complicated, even though the document formatting I need is just elementary. For now, all I want to do is set automatic page numbering in the x/y

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-11 Thread William Case
Hi; On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 21:26 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:30:15 -0400 Christopher K. Johnson wrote: I'm not sure whether there is any way to set this up automatically other than creating a document or document template which you open for each new document you

Re: aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??

2009-09-10 Thread William Case
Thanks Stan; On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 08:23 -0700, stan wrote: Checking some backlog, saw I hadn't responded to this. You have other responses and seem to have moved on, but I'll just put in my 2 cents. :-) On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:15:21 -0400 William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Hi

Re: OT Enlightenment 16 = 17 opinions ??

2009-09-07 Thread William Case
Hi Mamrou; On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 15:49 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: $ rpm -qi enlightenment Regards, Mamoru For some unknown reason, I had forgotten about rpm -qi *. I had gotten in the habit of always using rpm -qa. Bad habits I guess. Thanks for reminding me! -- Regards Bill

Re: Kernel update to 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 issues

2009-09-07 Thread William Case
Hi; On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 11:04 -0700, Jason Turning wrote: I did the update to kernel 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 today, noticed there were updates to pulse audio, and when I rebooted wireless didn't work and I heard these loud sound pops, one at boot, one at login, so I just reverted back to

OT Enlightenment 16 = 17 opinions ??

2009-09-06 Thread William Case
Hi; I have opened a new user account to try out Enlightenment desktop. I have been playing with E16 all afternoon and kind of like it. Before I really dive in though, I was wondering if it is worth downloading E17. It is not an rpm so I would have to install it from source. That's OK -- but,

Re: For hardware engineer types re: sound controlers and/or codec chips ??

2009-09-06 Thread William Case
Thanks Les; On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 17:02 -0700, Les wrote: On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 13:36 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Is my assumption about temporary, perhaps 1-2 ticks, storage accurate? Where is this data stored? Does the sound card itself have some small capacity

Re: OT Enlightenment 16 = 17 opinions ??

2009-09-06 Thread William Case
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 18:59 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; I have opened a new user account to try out Enlightenment desktop. I have been playing with E16 all afternoon and kind of like it. Before I really dive in though, I was wondering if it is worth downloading E17. It turns out

For hardware engineer types re: sound controlers and/or codec chips ??

2009-09-05 Thread William Case
Hi; I am chasing down the creation or production of sound on my computer. Everything is fitting into place after being at it, on and off, for a couple of years. However, there is one hardware answer I don't seem able to chase down. Where is the sound data kept immediately on arrival at the

Re: For hardware engineer types re: sound controlers and/or codec chips ??

2009-09-05 Thread William Case
Thanks; On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 13:51 -0700, john wendel wrote: On 09/05/2009 10:36 AM, William Case wrote: Hi; Take a look here... http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/hdaudio.htm Regards, John It all seems to be there. I will work my way through it -- slowly. -- Regards Bill

aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??

2009-09-04 Thread William Case
Hi; Tried ]$ aplay ~/Music/babycry.wav I got the following error message: aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 which is not PCM or FLOAT encoded. What does it mean? How can I fix it? Tried a couple of Ubuntu solutions from a year ago I found on the internet. They

Re: aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??

2009-09-04 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 16:24 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:16:05 +, William wrote: Hi; Tried ]$ aplay ~/Music/babycry.wav I got the following error message: aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 which is not PCM or FLOAT

Re: aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??

2009-09-04 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 16:24 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: file ~/Music/babycry.wav $ file ~/Music/babycry.wav /home/bill/Music/babycry.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, MPEG Layer 3, mono 11025 Hz -- Regards Bill Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3 Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1 -- fedora-list

Re: aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??

2009-09-04 Thread William Case
Hi; On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:07 -0700, stan wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:12:29 -0700 jack craig ja...@linuxlighthouse.com wrote: hi stan, may i ask how you made this determination? i have long wanted to know how to decipher audio formats at the byte level. or did you use the

Re: aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??

2009-09-04 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 15:32 -0700, stan wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:35:43 + William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Oops Sorry. Found snd_hda_codec 65408 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel But still no actual hardware codec chip. -- Regards Bill Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3 Evo

Re: aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??

2009-09-04 Thread William Case
Hi Stan and others; On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 15:32 -0700, stan wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:35:43 + William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: If you really want to understand the hda-intel architecture and its relationship to alsa, and how to configure it in alsa, read the document

Re: start location for windows

2009-09-01 Thread William Case
Hi; On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 10:57 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I start a new program in Gnome, it positions the new window at the top left of the screen. Is there a way to tell it to use some other location (e.g., center)? In gnome, screen

Sunday morning Question re: Desk Top ??

2009-08-30 Thread William Case
Hi; I have been following the thread Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? with interest. I have started a new thread because I have a question or topic that is related but a bit different. I am using Gnome for my desktop. For the last 2 or 3 years I have been

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-27 Thread William Case
Hi; On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 14:49 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:39 +0930 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: The pulseaudio.desktop file contains this: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=PulseAudio Sound System Comment=Start the PulseAudio

Re: [Solved, kinda]Nvidia driver problem

2009-08-26 Thread William Case
Hi gilpel On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 00:07 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: Having already removed akmod-nvidia, I booted with kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64, which was the only one still working and just did: yum remove kmod-nvidia* yum install kmod-nvidia which took care of

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

2009-08-25 Thread William Case
Hi gilpel; I am up early in the morning and adding just a bit more. I really think you should be using yumex. Its a graphical front end for yum and keeps everything visual, simple and informative. yum install yumex. However ... On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 00:55 -0400, William Case wrote: On Tue

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

2009-08-25 Thread William Case
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 05:09 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi gilpel; I am up early in the morning and adding just a bit more. I really think you should be using yumex. Its a graphical front end for yum and keeps everything visual, simple and informative. yum install yumex. However

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

2009-08-25 Thread William Case
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:06 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:00 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: I would clean everything out and start over $ yum list installed xorg-x11-drv-nvidia* (...) Installed Packages xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64185.18.31-1.fc11

Re: Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha

2009-08-25 Thread William Case
Hi; What is the mail list where Fedora Project new release announcements are made; also for GNOME KDE releases for Fedora ? I am presently subscribed only to the main Fedora list (i.e. this one: fedora-list@redhat.com), and woefully out of date on new release info. Thanks, Jay For

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

2009-08-24 Thread William Case
Hi gilpel; On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 02:04 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 09:36 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: Again, any messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Yes this one, in dmesg: NVRM: API mismatch: the client has version 185.18.31

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

2009-08-24 Thread William Case
Hi gilpel; I repeat my warning. I am new at playing around with video drivers, sockets and libraries. But I am willing to help if I can. On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 06:17 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: Hi gilpel; On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 02:04 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: On Mon,

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

2009-08-24 Thread William Case
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 22:35 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi gilpel; I repeat my warning. I am new at playing around with video drivers, sockets and libraries. But I am willing to help if I can. On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 06:17 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: Hi gilpel; On Tue, 2009

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

2009-08-24 Thread William Case
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:00 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: Hi gilpel; I repeat my warning. I am new at playing around with video drivers, sockets and libraries. But I am willing to help if I can. Other weird things: yum search 185.18.31 Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit ===

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-23 Thread William Case
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 11:18 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 08/22/09 16:46, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: Just remember: Do one simple thing and do i well. ;-) And to carry this one step farther, you can create aliases or function to do things you require often. For example, you could use

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

2009-08-23 Thread William Case
Hi; To whom it may concern: If you got that from RPMfusion, it's from the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing repo. Yes it was. I am not sure whether it came from the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing repo or not. In frustration, at one point I might have downloaded it from the

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-23 Thread William Case
Hi Ann; On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 12:07 -0700, ann kok wrote: ]$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '.*' or, ]$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -regex '^.*/\..*' or, ]$ ls -hl | grep ^- This works fine but there is ./file as result How can remove ./ in the command also?

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

2009-08-23 Thread William Case
Hi gilpel; I am no hardware expert; but maybe I can suggest some things to double check and to remove and reinstall. On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 09:36 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: I'm trying :) But I never enabled rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing, and I installed the new update for kernel

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike?

2009-08-22 Thread William Case
Hi; On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 02:53 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: My last kernel was installed on: Aug 17 23:07:07 Installed: kernel-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64 The last updates for kmod-nvidia were: # 16-Aug-2009: kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64-185.18.14-1.fc11.5.x86_64 #

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