relevance of Legacy Software Support in f9?

2008-07-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. will doing that break anything critical or anything still commonly used? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca

f9 install hangs regularly on a gateway laptop

2008-07-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OT?] after moving to f9, alpine lists sender on sent msgs

2008-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
admittedly, this is an alpine topic, but i'm guessing someone out there has already run across this. after moving someone else's system from f8 to f9 and restoring that user's personal mail (install alpine; restore mbox, mail/, .pinerc, .fetchmailrc, etc), looking at the sent-mail folder shows

Re: [OT?] after moving to f9, alpine lists sender on sent msgs

2008-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: admittedly, this is an alpine topic, but i'm guessing someone out there has already run across this. after moving someone else's system from f8 to f9 and restoring that user's personal mail (install alpine; restore mbox, mail/, .pinerc

Re: firefox plugins and mpeg and wmv support

2008-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for the ride.) at the moment, she's happy so i'll do extra research into codecs on an as-needed basis. still would be nice to have a comprehensive f9 multimedia guide. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training

how come Sys - Adm - Display can't see the full resolution?

2008-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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first googleearth ran slowly, then it blew up

2008-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the dependencies loaded, the correct module for the video (i915), etc. thoughts? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca

Re: why does driconf map to System - Preferences - driconf

2008-07-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 12:04 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Categories=Settings; so ... what dictates where the menu entry for driconf shows up? See above... Categories There's documentation about this, but I can't recall where to find

can i kexec a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
else's confirmation that they've managed to do it successfully without blowing up their system. thoughts? guidance? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom

Re: can i kexec a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:26:06 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quite simply, if i have a running f9 system, can i configure and build a new (relocatable, for convenience) kernel and just kexec over to it? I believe

Re: can i kexec a running f9 system to a new kernel?

2008-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:26:06 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quite simply, if i have a running f9 system, can i configure and build a new (relocatable, for convenience

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: console-kit: what is /proc/16750/environ

2008-07-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/30830/environ': No such process ... so what is console-kit-daemon looking for? and i see nothing in bugzilla about this. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom

Re: Fedora 9 Help creating jigdo file

2008-07-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: F9 and Flash

2008-07-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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suddenly, firefox is giving me ASSERT errors

2008-07-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: suddenly, firefox is giving me ASSERT errors

2008-07-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when trying to get to numerous sites: ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file! ... etc etc ... i have to imagine i'm not the only person seeing

DWARF 2[/3] the most advanced debugging format?

2008-07-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is still common but, in terms of being technically advanced, is DWARF 2 the most informative and most useful of the formats? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
wax. and a dessert topping. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

why two sets of output for every yum package query?

2008-07-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA -- fedora

Re: why two sets of output for every yum package query?

2008-07-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i don't recall seeing this behaviour before: $ yum info coreutils Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Installed Packages Name : coreutils Arch : i386 Version

updating my getting started with QEMU under fedora howto

2008-07-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: Removing the clicking noise.

2008-07-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: updating my getting started with QEMU under fedora howto

2008-07-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Phil Meyer wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: i was going to take what i thought was a couple minutes and update my writeup on QEMU under fedora: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/QEMU for fedora 9 but, apparently, it's not going to be a simple s/8/9/g

Re: updating my getting started with QEMU under fedora howto

2008-07-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Axel Thimm wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:06:24PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i was going to take what i thought was a couple minutes and update my writeup on QEMU under fedora: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/QEMU for fedora 9

any show-stoppers to exclude current git kernel from f9?

2008-08-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
vague question, but i was just curious if anyone had tried this and run face-first into anything screamingly fatal. naturally, if things don't work out, i can always reboot. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training

where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is there a specific bugzilla page where one requests the RPMifying of the newer version of an existing package? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have

Re: where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i? :-) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

External WUXGA Samsung monitor is forcing my laptop to VGA resolution.

2008-09-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
To make a long story short, I have an aging Dell Inspiron 9200 with a full WUXGA (1920x1200) display happily running F7. I hooked it via VGA to a WUXGA Samsung (1920x1200) monitor, hoping to see exactly the same content. Instead, hooking up to the monitor forced the laptop back to

Re: External WUXGA Samsung monitor is forcing my laptop to VGA resolution.

2008-09-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Wolfgang S. Rupprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does connecting the monitor somehow force the laptop into 640x480 mode? I think X is trying to find some commonality between the two monitors so that it can display the exact same image on both

video equipment still forcing my laptop to a lower res, argh

2008-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, i've fought with this for a bit but still have no solution. to recap, dell inspiron 9200, WUXGA (1920x1200) display, now running F9, runs in full WUXGA mode out of the box perfectly. the instant i connect via VGA to a video processing unit (sorry, i can't be more specific, i'm not

Re: video equipment still forcing my laptop to a lower res, argh

2008-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ed Greshko wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ok, i've fought with this for a bit but still have no solution. to recap, dell inspiron 9200, WUXGA (1920x1200) display, now running F9, runs in full WUXGA mode out of the box perfectly. the instant i

Re: video equipment still forcing my laptop to a lower res, argh

2008-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert P. J. Day wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ed Greshko wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ok, i've fought with this for a bit but still have no solution. to recap, dell inspiron 9200, WUXGA (1920x1200) display, now running F9, runs

Re: video equipment still forcing my laptop to a lower res, argh

2008-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ok, i'll get a chance to check that when i get into the workplace. but is there any way to de-activate that checking within X? from what you've written, i'm assuming that the X server sees what's happening, and consequently

desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm still fighting to get my WUXGA display laptop to ignore the EDID information coming back from a video device, so i simplified the problem and here's what's happening so far. i have a fresh install of f9 on an aging dell inspiron 9200 with a full WUXGA display, and i'm trying to

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Roger Heflin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm still fighting to get my WUXGA display laptop to ignore the EDID information coming back from a video device, so i simplified the problem and here's what's happening so far. i have a fresh install of f9 on an aging

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:22:28 +0100 Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you get wrong data from EDID information then - File a bug - Specify HorizSync and VertRefresh - On most drivers Option DDC false That way you can get it working but someone can

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Konstantin Svist [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try using fglrx instead of radeon driver. It has much better support for recognizing bad EDID. At least it works properly on my external monitor (while radeon and radeonhd fuck up the resolution) ok, but keep in mind we're not talking about bad

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Konstantin Svist [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert P. J. Day wrote: Quoting Konstantin Svist [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try using fglrx instead of radeon driver. It has much better support for recognizing bad EDID. At least it works properly on my external monitor (while radeon and radeonhd fuck up

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: in the long term, yes, we will eventually figure out what EDID info the video device should have but, in the short term, as tom appreciates, i just want my F9 system to ignore/ignore/ignore whatever is coming back in terms of EDID. and, thus far, i have been

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
was getting into with what i thought was a fairly simple problem. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Quoting Konstantin Svist [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try using fglrx instead of radeon driver. It has much better support for recognizing bad EDID. At least it works properly on my external monitor (while radeon and radeonhd fuck up the resolution

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Chris Tyler wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 17:20 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote: Since who ever it was made the change to using EDID, I have never had X work the way I want it to again. 1. It always chooses the wrong

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert, Have you read man radeon at all? In the man radeon on a handy gentoo system it says: Option IgnoreEDID boolean Do not use EDID data for mode validation, but DDC is still used for monitor detection. This is

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert P. J. Day wrote: Quoting Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert, Have you read man radeon at all? In the man radeon on a handy gentoo system it says: Option IgnoreEDID boolean Do not use EDID data for mode validation

Re: F10: a few issues and suggestions

2008-10-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Marcelo M. Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Yesterday I installed F10 and a few issues: 1) After checking the dvd, it ejected and when I inserted it back to continue the installation, there was a message saying that the there was no medium. I had to reboot and skip the checking to

Re: Fedora-10 problems

2008-10-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a text display was a workaround, but it's still somewhat inconvenient. rday p.s. f10 (x86_64) on gateway MX7120 laptop. p.p.s. should this stuff not be discussed on the fedora-test-list? Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

fedora on Dell XPS M1530 laptop?

2008-10-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as in, anyone done this? thoughts? mostly, i want to get it for the WUXGA screen. are there any show-stoppers with that laptop that i should know about? thanks. rday -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

quickest solution to a DVD player on f9 on a WUXGA laptop?

2008-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
on very short notice, i've been asked to put f9 on my old dell inspiron WUXGA 9200, and install a DVD player to drive a WUXGA projector just to test the video. so, what's the quickest/fastest solution, after i install stock f9, to get a DVD player that will play in fullscreen just to test the

Re: quickest solution to a DVD player on f9 on a WUXGA laptop?

2008-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert P. J. Day wrote: on very short notice, i've been asked to put f9 on my old dell inspiron WUXGA 9200, and install a DVD player to drive a WUXGA projector just to test the video. so, what's the quickest/fastest solution, after i install stock f9

Re: vlc-playing DVD won't display on external monitor

2008-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ok, as a followup to my previous post, i slapped f9 on my inspiron, then VLC and associated RPMs, popped in a DVD, it plays nicely on the laptop. then, connected an external (samsung WUXGA) flat-panel monitor via DVI, and the entire laptop

Re: vlc-playing DVD won't display on external monitor

2008-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Michael Hennebry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Quoting Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ok, as a followup to my previous post, i slapped f9 on my inspiron, then VLC and associated RPMs, popped in a DVD, it plays nicely on the laptop

Re: vlc-playing DVD won't display on external monitor

2008-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Paulo Cavalcanti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: ok, as a followup to my previous post, i slapped f9 on my inspiron, then VLC and associated RPMs, popped in a DVD, it plays nicely on the laptop. then, connected

Re: vlc-playing DVD won't display on external monitor

2008-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Paulo Cavalcanti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: ok, as a followup to my previous post, i slapped f9 on my inspiron, then VLC and associated RPMs, popped in a DVD, it plays nicely on the laptop. then, connected

Re: vlc-playing DVD won't display on external monitor

2008-10-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Mogens Kjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... then, connected an external (samsung WUXGA) flat-panel monitor via DVI, and the entire laptop display is reflected nicely on the monitor *except* for the actual DVD image in the VLC window -- that just shows up as blank

Re: vlc-playing DVD won't display on external monitor

2008-10-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/10/24 Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]: someone else suggested that the DVD image was bypassing the framebuffer, which i didn't follow. can someone clarify the technical issues behind why i need to deactivate the attached LCD display on the laptop

Re: Fedora 9/10 and NVIDIA ?

2008-10-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting kevin kempter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All; I'm considering the purchase of a Dell 64bit laptop with an NVIDIA video card. - Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition X9100 3.06GHz, 1067MHZ, 6M L2 Cache Dual Core (224-3154) - 1GB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M Mobile Precision M6400 Covet (320-7518)

fedora on dell vostro 1510?

2008-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as a followup to an earlier post, i'm interested in finding an entry-level laptop who's most important property is that it have a full WUXGA (1920x1200) display, preferably non-NVIDIA video, and runs fedora reliably. the dell vostro seems to fit the bill:

Re: password question.

2008-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Rick Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aldo Foot wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under F9, I want to create an account such that the user will be required to change the password on login, but I don't have control over how soon (or late) the

the kind of endorsement you can live without

2008-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, this is just plain creepy: http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=529481 rday -- 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: fedora on dell vostro 1510?

2008-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Matt Domsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:56:09PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as a followup to an earlier post, i'm interested in finding an entry-level laptop who's most important property is that it have a full WUXGA (1920x1200) display, preferably non-NVIDIA

Re: fedora on dell vostro 1510?

2008-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Matt Domsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:56:09PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as a followup to an earlier post, i'm interested in finding an entry-level laptop who's most important property is that it have a full WUXGA (1920x1200) display, preferably non-NVIDIA

Re: fedora on dell vostro 1510?

2008-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Andrew Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Matt Domsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:56:09PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as a followup to an earlier post, i'm interested in finding an entry-level laptop who's most important property

the proposed super-duper new f10 laptop

2008-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is there anything i should know about linux compatibility with the following: * dell studio 15 laptop * intel core 2 duo T8100 CPU (2.1GHz/800MHz FSB) * WUXGA display * 4GB shared dual channel DDR2 RAM @ 667MHz * 320GB SATA HD * 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon 3450 video * Integrated

Re: the proposed super-duper new f10 laptop

2008-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Fred Silsbee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- On Wed, 10/29/08, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: the proposed super-duper new f10 laptop To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 12:07 PM is there anything i

another EDID question, if i might

2008-11-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i finally have a decent handle on interpreting and manipulating EDID information based on a couple threads here not that long ago, but i just ran into another curious problem. someone handed me a piece of video processing equipment that (allegedly) had decent EDID programmed into it, i hooked

Re: another EDID question, if i might

2008-11-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:42:57 -0400 Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0 x 0 mm?? i'm not sure what to make of that Well, if it is a projector, there isn't any particular size they can say the image will be since that depends on how far you

how to get a 1920x1200 virtual desktop on an f9 laptop?

2008-11-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a colleague yesterday handed me a laptop with a 1440x900 display running f9, and wanted to increase the virtual desktop to full WUXGA (1920x1200). i can see from a quick google that xorg.conf supports something along the lines of: Virtual 1920 1200 in the Display subsection. i have to

any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?

2008-11-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
reasons why i might want to use the safer 32-bit version? i don't know of any, but i'm willing to be persuaded one way or the other. i have no strong opinions on the topic. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

Re: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?

2008-11-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the 64/32-bit firefox plugin issue. i was just curious if there were any other annoyances that one should know about. is there a web page that summarizes these issues? that would be kind of handy. rday -- Robert P. J

Re: getting /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on a 64-bit f10 preview install?

2008-11-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, James Wilkinson wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: long story short: x86-64 f10 preview install on AMD64 laptop. install coldfire cross-compile toolchain, which immediately fails looking for /lib/ld-linux.so.2, which it obviously won't find since the system has /lib64

name of 32-bit library compatibility package?

2008-11-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: f10: what happened to XFCE?

2008-11-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, John Austin wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:44 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm sure this is explained somewhere but i finally got a copy of F10 for i386 and the first thing i noticed is that the desktop choices are back to just GNOME and KDE -- XFCE, which i'm sure

f10: what happened to XFCE?

2008-11-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: f10: what happened to XFCE?

2008-11-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:44 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm sure this is explained somewhere but i finally got a copy of F10 for i386 and the first thing i noticed is that the desktop choices are back to just GNOME and KDE -- XFCE

eth0 keeps dropping its IP address

2008-11-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is statically assigned, why would it decide to drop its address? or is there something else at play here? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http

Re: Why was this dbus disaster released mid-release?

2008-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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how to push video out a dell laptop display port?

2008-12-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
with the port connected, i get absolutely no video in *either* place. has anyone messed with one of these? can you share the secret? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry

how to force my laptop external video refresh rate to 50 Hz?

2008-12-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
assuming X is then just faking up a default one. is there a quick way to force a lower refresh rate? specifically, on the DVI port. thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry

using fedora and a decent laptop to build an image generator?

2008-12-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. rday p.s. obviously, if there's a particular distro that is strong in this area, i'm sure you'd be happy to tell me about it, even if it isn't fedora. :-) Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel

thanks, computerworld!

2009-01-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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how to identify the missing perl module to be installed

2009-01-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to RPM package? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

f11 alpha x86_64 live KDE image too large to fit on CD?

2009-02-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: f11 alpha x86_64 live KDE image too large to fit on CD?

2009-02-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: From: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca Subject: f11 alpha x86_64 live KDE image too large to fit on CD? To: Fedora List fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Friday, February 6

Re: f11 alpha x86_64 live KDE image too large to fit on CD?

2009-02-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:51:07AM -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: From: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca Subject: f11 alpha x86_64 live KDE image too large to fit on CD

Re: I need copy of fedora linux in DVD form -reg

2009-02-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
in a reputed engineering college and are unable to download a copy of fedora? that just seems weird. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http

Re: I need copy of fedora linux in DVD form -reg

2009-02-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: I need copy of fedora linux in DVD form -reg

2009-02-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Senthil Kumar wrote: Respected sir/madam, I am working as a lecturer in a reputed engineering college. I am handling computer networks for Electronics and Communication Engineering

Re: I need copy of fedora linux in DVD form -reg

2009-02-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

required compat packages to run 32-bit toolchain on x86_64?

2009-03-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
on this system now? thanks. the actual diagnostic when i try to run the cross-compiler program is: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training

how to display a full WUXGA test pattern on the laptop?

2009-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
almost certainly a dumb question, but i've never tried this before -- if i have a 1920x1200, say, png file, how can i display it *fully* on a laptop display, temporarily overriding the menu bars and so on? thanks. rday p.s. ideally, i guess i'd want to need to press ESC to get back to a

Re: how to display a full WUXGA test pattern on the laptop?

2009-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
yOn Mon, 9 Mar 2009, stan wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: almost certainly a dumb question, but i've never tried this before -- if i have a 1920x1200, say, png file, how can i display it *fully* on a laptop display, temporarily overriding the menu bars and so on? thanks. rday

Re: how to display a full WUXGA test pattern on the laptop?

2009-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

fedora on asus M70VN-X1?

2009-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these running fedora? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412 rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel

Re: fedora on asus M70VN-X1?

2009-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
on this one -- while we may not like closed source technology, nvidia has generally worked well for me when i've had to deal with it. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have

Re: fedora on asus M70VN-X1?

2009-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these running fedora? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412 No experience, but this thing has an NVidia graphics card. Those

Re: fedora on asus M70VN-X1?

2009-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: philosophically, i don't like closed-source drivers any more than the next geek, but sometimes you simply can't avoid getting an nvidia card in some models of laptop. Then you buy another model. i'm curious, kevin

jigdo versus jigdo-lite

2009-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for simply jigdo. does the concept of jigdo-lite even exist anymore? if not, perhaps that page should be corrected. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture

getting the F10 respin with jigdo -- the short version

2009-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Re: getting the F10 respin with jigdo -- the short version

2009-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as someone who once wrote a tutorial on how to grab a fedora respin with jigdo, for people who just want the instructions, here's what seems to still work. (it's running as we speak, so i'm assuming it still works as it used to.) * find

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