Fedora 9 - Wireless SUCCESS - Use TKIP, not AES

2008-05-24 Thread john wendel
After several hours of fiddling with the non-working wireless network in my new Fedora installation, I noticed in the log file a list of supported security modules - and WPA - AES wasn't in the list. So, I changed my router to use WPA - TKIP instead of WPA - AES. I then restarted the box,

Re: Fedora 9 - Wireless SUCCESS - Use TKIP, not AES

2008-05-24 Thread john wendel
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: john wendel wrote: After several hours of fiddling with the non-working wireless network in my new Fedora installation, I noticed in the log file a list of supported security modules - and WPA - AES wasn't in the list. So, I changed my router to use WPA - TKIP

Re: Unknown codec ID 86022, please add here

2008-06-09 Thread john wendel
Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, above message appears when I try to watch youtube with totem. It results in no sound. Does anyone have a clue which codec needs to be installed and which package ships it? rpm -qa | grep gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-base-devel-0.10.19-2.fc9.i386

Re: Things are poppin now!

2008-06-10 Thread john wendel
Tom Horsley wrote: The new 2.6.25.4-10.fc8 kernel update seems to have infected my fedora 8 boot partition with the same popping noise that I first noticed after installing fedora 9: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446535 I thought folks had finally figured out how to initialize

Red Hat CEO Interview

2008-09-11 Thread john wendel
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Re: Wow.

2008-10-07 Thread john wendel
Kevin Kofler wrote: Alan Evans ame.fedora at gmail.com writes: It's just that in this case, I didn't expect updating subversion to pull in a new version of openoffice! And sendmail??? If packages A and B both depend on library L and if Rawhide has a newer version of L with a different soname

Re: mplayer dependencies on RPM Fusion

2008-11-03 Thread john wendel
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 01:25:29 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: In other words, my question is not about whether mplayer really depends on those other packages, but whether it should depend on them. And I still think that downloading the rpm file will not answer this. (I may

Re: Preventing USB automount

2008-11-03 Thread john wendel
Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:18:55 -0600 (CST) Steve Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy rule to create for udev that will turn off that function? I don't know about easy, but I'm sure it can be done. Here is an example of a file I have in my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/

Build 64-bit kernel on 32-bit system

2008-11-08 Thread john wendel
After reading some of the 32bit vs 64bit thread(s), I thought I'd build a 64bit kernel on my 32bit F8 box. Got the latest kernel source and stable patch from kernel.org and tried running make menuconfig. Much to my surprise, there isn't a 32 vs 64 bit toggle in the kernel config. Google

Re: Build 64-bit kernel on 32-bit system

2008-11-08 Thread john wendel
Gordon Messmer wrote: john wendel wrote: After reading some of the 32bit vs 64bit thread(s), I thought I'd build a 64bit kernel on my 32bit F8 box. Got the latest kernel source and stable patch from kernel.org and tried running make menuconfig. Much to my surprise, there isn't a 32 vs 64

Re: More strange F9 dependencies

2008-11-20 Thread john wendel
Beartooth wrote: I have no PDA, nor expect ever to, much less hardware to connect it to a PC. When I was working, and literally running my life on rails, its ancestors, then called organizers, were fine things; I had a whole series of them. Those who want or need them are welcome to

Get F10 on usenet

2008-11-25 Thread john wendel
ftp.free.fr has posted F10 DVDs x86-64 and 386 to Usenet - alt.binaries.cd.image.linux. Coming down here at 1MB/sec (from newshosting.com). Get'um while they're still fresh! Regards, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Second try: Clarification of statement about stateless sytem]

2008-12-12 Thread john wendel
Aaron Konstam wrote: I tried once and got no response so I am trying again. It is strange that people understand all such obscure things but can't explain one of the many gobbledygook statements made in the release notes. In section 2.2.6 of the F10 release notes is the following statement:

Re: f9 without pulseaudio.

2008-12-14 Thread john wendel
Reg Clemens wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Reg Clemens r...@dwf.com wrote: I keep reading comments on this list that one can remove pulseaudio from f9 and it will run like a normal alsa system. I have removed alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and libflashsupport from my f9 system,

Re: Avahi docs

2008-12-16 Thread john wendel
Dave Feustel wrote: man avahi produces no output. apropos avahi produces avahi [] (1) - browse - Browse for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon avahi [] (1) - discover - Browse for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon avahi [] (1) -

Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-21 Thread john wendel
Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 09:50 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Comcast bundles several accounts with email and space on their servers for storage and http service along with the connection. There's not a lot of reason to run your own server unless you have dynamic content. Or space? I

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-21 Thread john wendel
NiftyFedora Mitch wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Tim: Five seconds is probably ambitious, but I still like how my old Amiga would COLD BOOT in 13 seconds, warm boot was 11 seconds. That's from off, to fully working system. g: also, think

Re: Got networking, now missing hardware 3D graphics

2008-12-23 Thread john wendel
tom wrote: Aside: I can not remember a Red Hat or a Fedora release that has given me these kinds of fits. I'm sure they have but... Must have been a while. To quickly recap the situation. I started by installing F10 from DVD, and the networking aspect declined to function. Two reinstalls

Re: Linux apps to convert music files to MP3

2008-12-31 Thread john wendel
Jim wrote: Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Does Linux have any Appa for converting music files to MP3 to play on Ipods. You'll need to install a 3rd party repo like rpmfusion[1] and install lame. Personally I installed RockBox[2]

F10 - Firefox won't start

2009-01-24 Thread john wendel
Fresh F10 install from a live-cd. When I try to start firefox from a console, here's the error. Error: Platform version '1.9.0.4' is not compatible with minVersion = 1.9.0.5 maxVersion = 1.9.0.5 Any clues. Thanks, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-24 Thread john wendel
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem

F10 - kernel build problem

2009-01-24 Thread john wendel
I recently installed F10 on a really old computer that previously was running FC6 (perfectly). The hardware is a Dell 900 Mhz P3, 512 MB memory (all it will take) and a ancient Nvidia card with a PCI interface (dog slow). Everything went well, except for a few quirks and a big problem. I

Re: F10 - Firefox won't start

2009-01-24 Thread john wendel
g wrote: john wendel wrote: Any clues. after installing from a 'live cd' run 'yum update'. Good suggestion, but that was the first thing I did. Several times actually, the last being yesterday. Regards, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: F10 - kernel build problem

2009-01-24 Thread john wendel
g wrote: john wendel wrote: I recently installed F10 on a really old computer that previously was running FC6 (perfectly). The hardware is a Dell 900 Mhz P3, 512 MB speed may not be a problem, it will just react slowly. 512mb may be a problem running x server, especially if you try to use kde

Re: F10 - Firefox won't start

2009-01-24 Thread john wendel
g wrote: john wendel wrote: Good suggestion, but that was the first thing I did. Several times actually, the last being yesterday. same box you are trying to build new kernel? Yes. Regards, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: F10 - kernel build problem

2009-01-24 Thread john wendel
David Timms wrote: john wendel wrote: this box without any problems. Now with F10, I can't compile the kernel, gcc dies with a segmentation fault and the output tries to tell me that Can you provide the text of the segfault (without that you are asking for speculation) ? I'll get

Re: AGP 4x Video Recommendation for FC10 w/ 1600x1080 LCDs

2009-01-28 Thread john wendel
Kevin Kofler wrote: Blake Hudson wrote: The 9250's are a little dated and I've since started using GeforceFX 5200's as replacements due to availability. I've found the 5200's to be equal or better in quality, They're not. The Radeon 9250 is supported by the Free Software drivers in Fedora.

Re: F10 - kernel build problem

2009-01-28 Thread john wendel
g wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: I have not done it in a few months, but before that I built my own since RH8 and FC4 in that series. i would not say that it is not possible. it is just that because fedora does customize their software, it is best to stay with fedora source to insure that

Re: Sound with gstreamer-apps is unbearable

2009-01-28 Thread john wendel
Hugh Caley wrote: Ah, OK, I've also had this problem since F9. I'd assumed it was general pulse audio problems, glad to know it's actually specific to my hardware (seriously). The information is much appreciated. Hugh Welcome on the band of snd_intel8x0 guys.!!! I have your hardware and

Re: XFCE depends on GNOME, why?

2009-02-04 Thread john wendel
Javier Perez wrote: Hi I tried to install a pure XFCE system but I can't It looks like in order to install XFCE, I have to install also GNOME. It is so very counterproductive because my idea was to setup a small,efficient system specifically without GNOME or KDE's overhead. This is an old

Re: Building latest kernel on FC7

2009-02-11 Thread john wendel
JD wrote: I have built kernel 2.6.28.2 on my FC7 machine, but I cannot boot it. It panics very very early in the boot. Is there a dep I am missing? If so, shouldn't the build belch out some message about it? Hard to diagnose without seeing the boot output. Maybe a problem with your initial

[RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-14 Thread john wendel
Rant mode I recently upgraded my computer at work from FC6 to F10 and performance went from OK to barely usable. The box is an ancient PIII 900 MHz with 512 MB memory, a PCI Nvidia graphics card with the free nv driver, a 1600x1200 monitor, and a slow 13 GB disk (your US tax dollars at

Re: [RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-15 Thread john wendel
Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 21:50 -0800, john wendel wrote: Rant mode With FC6, I ran KDE 3.5 without any problems. I could drag and resize windows without glitches, scrolling was slow but basically usable, and Vim in a console (where I spend most of my time) was pleasant

Re: [RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-15 Thread john wendel
Gordon Messmer wrote: john wendel wrote: Now with F10 I'm using XFCE, and the box is a total P.O.S. Resizing or moving a window is a nightmare, the screen redraw is too slow to keep up with the cursor, and I see lots of screen glitches. When I open an app like Firefox with a complicated

Re: [RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-15 Thread john wendel
Peter Arremann wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:50:48 am john wendel wrote: a 1600x1200 monitor With FC6, I ran KDE 3.5 without any problems. Now with F10 I'm using XFCE, and the box is a total P.O.S. Sorry for the big edit but I cut out everything that wasn't 100% on topic ;) Anyway

Re: [RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-18 Thread john wendel
Gordon Messmer wrote: john wendel wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: My first guess is that your system is using the VESA driver rather than nv. Maybe you should send /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thanks, I didn't think of this one. I'll check when I return to work. Did you ever get to check that, John

Network Manager problem with wpa_supplicant

2009-02-20 Thread john wendel
On my newly installed F10 box, NM insists on starting wpa_supplicant, but I don't have any wireless devices. How can I configure NM so that it doesn't run wpa_supplicant? Thanks, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Network Manager problem with wpa_supplicant

2009-02-20 Thread John Wendel
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 14:18 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: john wendel wrote: On my newly installed F10 box, NM insists on starting wpa_supplicant, but I don't have any wireless devices. How can I configure NM so that it doesn't run wpa_supplicant? I'd like to know

Unconventional F10 installation

2009-02-21 Thread john wendel
I'd like to install F10 on a tiny box that has only a compact flash disk (ide interface) and a network interface. I tried cobbler, but it died with some strange python runtime error, so a network install is out (I'm too lazy to learn how to setup a PXE server). Is it possible to do an

MCE Remote Control

2009-02-21 Thread john wendel
I got a cheap MCE remote control (usb interface), and thought I'd give it a try. After reading the lirc documentation, my brain exploded, so I thought I'd just plug the sucker in and see what happened. Well, what happened is that the keyboard stopped working along with the mouse buttons.

F10 custom install

2009-02-28 Thread john wendel
Clueless here, I've got an F10 install running well, and I'd like to move the system to a flash disk. This flash will become the boot device for a small system I'm building. Can I just use cp and end up with a workable system? I know that I need to do a grub install. Anything else? I'd

[SEMI-OT] USB flash fails to boot on Intel motherboard

2009-02-28 Thread john wendel
I built a bootable flash F10 using the wiki instructions, but I'm having boot problems. I'm pretty sure it's a bios problem, since it never gets to grub. 1st try was X86-64 and it didn't boot on either of the 2 intel based systems I tried. One system prints boot error and the other silently

Re: F10 custom install

2009-03-01 Thread john wendel
Phil Meyer wrote: john wendel wrote: Clueless here, I've got an F10 install running well, and I'd like to move the system to a flash disk. This flash will become the boot device for a small system I'm building. Can I just use cp and end up with a workable system? I know that I need to do

XFCE 4.6 Success

2009-03-02 Thread john wendel
For those of you lusting after XFCE 4.6, I just wanted to report that I ran the graphical installer and installed in a sub-directory in my home directory. The only tweak I had to do was edit the gtk-doc.pc pkgconfig file and pretend that it was version 1.10. The build took 7 minutes. Added

Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-23 Thread john wendel
I first noticed the X slowdown when I installed F8. I've used every version of Fedora, and I noticed that the user experience with F8 was not as smooth as earlier versions. I spend most of my day hacking code in vi, so 2D video performance is important to me. I care nothing about 3D video.

Re: Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-24 Thread john wendel
Alan Cox wrote: regardless the difference between X and no X in each version/hardware is astounding! what are the reasons for this, your not telling me that X is chewing up that much cpu cycles to turn a 1minute 40sec operation into a 4minute 53sec one? Why do you assume this has anything to

Re: Intel HD Audio, sound too quiet

2009-03-31 Thread john wendel
David Hlác(ik wrote: Hello, I have following audio device in my notebook : 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) I am user of Fedora 10 x86_64 , with latest updates as well. My current experience is, that when audio volume on maximum (in

[Way OT] Tiny Core Linux

2009-04-03 Thread john wendel
Stumbled across a reference to Tiny Core Linux on distrowatch, thought I'd give it a try. 10MB download (yes, I said 10MB). Burned a CD, booted, and it was running. Read the single page help, installed mplayer and OSS sound and in 2 minutes I was playing a video. These guys have some unique

Re: Resources to learn C

2009-04-04 Thread john wendel
Robert L Cochran wrote: You had it easy with the tiny text window. I started my mainframe career just as IBM shops were converting over to huge CRT monitors and the joys ISPF edit, but were still using punched cards for some things. So I had a little exposure to correcting a punched card which

Re: 2 sata drives using 1 cable

2009-04-16 Thread john wendel
Mike Chambers wrote: I tried googling this question and not having any luck. And not being the hardware expect, thought I would ask here. I have 2 sata slots on my MB, 1 goes to my dvd player, the other to my HD. And I do have one IDE slot to use. Now to the question. What I want to know,

Question about mkfs.ext3

2009-04-18 Thread john wendel
I'm formatting a new disk and running mkfs.ext3. I asked for 25000 inodes with -N 25000, but it gave me 118,272 inodes. What did I do wrong? Thanks, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

PCSCD failure

2009-04-24 Thread john wendel
I'm trying to use a smart card reader, without any luck. I've installed pcscd and whatever else yum pilled in and have 2 new services running (pcscd and ???). The system log shows the following failure to setup the device. I'm stuck. Any clues appreciated. Thanks, John Apr 22 13:50:58

[Semi-OT] OSS audio vs ALSA

2009-04-26 Thread john wendel
While playing with tinycore linux, I installed OSS audio drivers for my onboard Intel HD audio. AMAZING IMPROVEMENT VS ALSA! With ALSA, I have to max the volume to hear anything, with OSS 20% volume was a normal listening level. Everything that I tried sounded much better with OSS. I'm

Re: PCSCD failure

2009-04-27 Thread john wendel
Todd Denniston wrote: it looks like you have a ActivCard USB Reader V2, http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/iManufacturer.html with usb product id 0x0008 http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/unsupported.html#0x09C30x0008 Some folks have had luck upgrading the firmware on SOME instances of that

Nouveau driver on F10

2009-04-30 Thread john wendel
Since the nv driver seems to have lots of problems, I thought I'd try the nouveau driver. The result was a black screen and a locked up box. No Xorg.0.log file created, so no errors to report. Does this actually work with F10? Anybody got it running? Tips? Thanks, John -- fedora-list

Re: Nouveau driver on F10

2009-04-30 Thread john wendel
Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Thu, 4/30/09, john wendel jwende...@comcast.net wrote: From: john wendel jwende...@comcast.net Subject: Nouveau driver on F10 To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 8:52 PM Since the nv driver seems to have lots

Re: very long starting udev

2009-05-02 Thread john wendel
François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonsoir, At boot up starting udev step is very long ( 1 mn) how can I get infos on what is going on at that time? f10 on toshiba laptop. Thank you. Just wanted to add a me too, so you wouldn't feel lonely. f10 on Intel

Re: Off topic - mobo recommendations

2009-05-02 Thread john wendel
Kevin Kofler wrote: Tod Thomas wrote: I'm partial to AMD chips. I'm not a gamer but I do like nice visuals Well, then maybe you should stop being partial to AMD and looking for Intel chipsets with integrated graphics. :-) Intel integrated graphics just work in Fedora (just keep your hands

Re: Off topic - mobo recommendations

2009-05-03 Thread john wendel
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com writes: A vendor such as Newegg will put you in a nice machine for about $800 for CPU, M/B, and 12GB RAM. That's my goal for my next system, four cores, eight threads, 12 Gig? You really want to run with 3 sockets filled and one

Re: If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this

2009-05-16 Thread john wendel
Steven W. Orr wrote: On Saturday, May 16th 2009 at 15:00 -, quoth g: =Valent Turkovic wrote: = = If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this article, it = expains all complexities of Intel drivers and for me it shows hope = that Intel drivers are becoming better. = =intel sucks on

E-sata hotplug

2009-05-17 Thread john wendel
Stupid question ... How can I tell if my sata controller supports hot-plugging an e-sata connection? I'm afraid to just try it, don't want to fry something. Thanks, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

RE: E-sata hotplug

2009-05-18 Thread john wendel
After a little reading (thanks for the link), I decided that it was safe to hot-plug my e-sata disk. So, I did. And what happened? A big nothing. I've got a WD e-sata disk connected to an Intel ICH7 controller, using the AHCI driver. If I boot with drive powered up, it comes up as device

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread john wendel
Kevin Kofler wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAudio is evil. Its a very troublesome program with poor documentation, and little output to help you resolve problems. If you

Re: Running 2.6.27 on F11 instead of 2.6.29

2009-06-07 Thread john wendel
Suvayu Ali wrote: Hello, I wanted to check with you whether this is feasible before I attempted it. I use a ATI HD4870 so I _need_ the proprietary drivers for a working GUI. However they don't support 2.6.29 yet. So I was advised on the RPMFusion list, that if I really wanted to upgrade to

Re: Running 2.6.27 on F11 instead of 2.6.29

2009-06-07 Thread john wendel
Suvayu Ali wrote: john wendel wrote: Suvayu Ali wrote: I want to upgrade mostly because of XFCE 4.6. I wanted to get rid of Gnome completely and move to XFCE and Windowmaker. Gnome is too slow even on high-end hardware like mine. Sometimes simply opening Firefox or Thunderbird takes ages(5

Re: Running 2.6.27 on F11 instead of 2.6.29

2009-06-07 Thread john wendel
Suvayu Ali wrote: john wendel wrote: Suvayu Ali wrote: I want to upgrade mostly because of XFCE 4.6. I wanted to get rid of Gnome completely and move to XFCE and Windowmaker. Gnome is too slow even on high-end hardware like mine. Sometimes simply opening Firefox or Thunderbird takes ages(5

Re: amazonmp3

2009-06-12 Thread john wendel
Kevin Kofler wrote: Dave Cross wrote: Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_date_time.so.3 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_filesystem.so.3 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_iostreams.so.3 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_regex.so.3 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_signals.so.3 Package

Re: Kernel 2.6.30

2009-06-18 Thread john wendel
On 06/18/2009 03:14 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:44:17 +0900, Misha wrote: В Чтв, 18/06/2009 в 00:44 -0300, Itamar Reis Peixoto пишет: koji is the fedora build system there are a 2.6.30 compiled in koji. I am using F10. Would it be safe for me to

SATA Hotplug fails

2009-06-18 Thread john wendel
I've got a WD external drive with an e-sata connection. Works fine if I boot with it connected/powered. If I hot plug it, I see the following in the messages log Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x405 action 0xe frozen Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2

Re: Kernel 2.6.30

2009-06-19 Thread john wendel
On 06/19/2009 06:10 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: [snip] BTW, If kernel.org releases 2.6.30.1, Are there any delta *.tar.gz's that one can download instead of downloading the full kernel source again to update to 2.6.30.1? I have been yearning to ask this question, but never had the courage

Re: F11 fix for sound on Intel HDA machines ?

2009-06-19 Thread john wendel
On 06/19/2009 03:39 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 14:38 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Sorry, but it is a driver problem. The current ( 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE in my case ) kernel ships the 1.0.18a Alsa driver (confirm this with cat /proc/asound/version) Significant work was

Re: Kernel 2.6.30

2009-06-19 Thread john wendel
On 06/19/2009 11:17 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: john wendel wrote: On 06/19/2009 06:10 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: [snip] BTW, If kernel.org releases 2.6.30.1, Are there any delta *.tar.gz's that one can download instead of downloading the full kernel source again to update to 2.6.30.1? I

Re: SATA Hotplug fails

2009-06-19 Thread john wendel
On 06/19/2009 01:54 AM, John Austin wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:19 -0700, john wendel wrote: I've got a WD external drive with an e-sata connection. Works fine if I boot with it connected/powered. If I hot plug it, I see the following in the messages log Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel

[SEMI-OT] Impressive F11 boot speed

2009-06-19 Thread john wendel
Great job, whoever setup the F11 boot scripts. My old Intel motherboard box, P4, boots F11 from a cold start to runlevel 3 in 18 seconds (includes the BIOS time). I don't use any of the graphical boot stuff. I was on the phone last night with a Comcast tech trying to fix a broken cable

Re: [SEMI-OT] Impressive F11 boot speed

2009-06-19 Thread john wendel
On 06/19/2009 08:27 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:46:54 -0700 john wendel wrote: Great job, whoever setup the F11 boot scripts. Yea, I think I forgot to mention that as well. Huge improvement in boot time on fedora 11! (Makes up for the steadily increasing boot times starting

Re: F11 fix for sound on Intel HDA machines ?

2009-06-20 Thread john wendel
On 06/19/2009 08:58 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 19:13 -0700, john wendel wrote: On 06/19/2009 03:39 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 14:38 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Sorry, but it is a driver problem. The current ( 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE in my case ) kernel

Re: How to tell if kernel compiled from kernel.org is x86_64 or just 32 bit?

2009-06-21 Thread john wendel
On 06/21/2009 09:56 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear fellow Fedora users, Is there a way to tell if a kernel is 64 bit or 32 bit? If one compiles and installs a kernel from kernel.org. Why am I asking? I have a 64 bit Fedora 11 installed and it showed 2.6.29.4-???x86_64 at the end so I know

Re: Time-switched desktop background?

2009-06-21 Thread john wendel
On 06/21/2009 07:23 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I can set my screen-saver to display a random picture from my Pictures folder, and it will keep changing it every few seconds. But only when the screen-saver is active - I'd like to do the same for my desktop background (GNOME). Is there a way to

Re: Time-switched desktop background?

2009-06-21 Thread john wendel
On 06/21/2009 07:23 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I can set my screen-saver to display a random picture from my Pictures folder, and it will keep changing it every few seconds. But only when the screen-saver is active - I'd like to do the same for my desktop background (GNOME). Is there a way to

Re: F11 fix for sound on Intel HDA machines ?

2009-06-23 Thread john wendel
On 06/23/2009 09:30 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:00 -0700, john wendel wrote: My Intel sound started working when I removed pulse-audio. I removed it and still no sound. If you run alsamixer (in a console), does it show the correct card and codec chip? I'm not sure about

Re: Graphics card recommendation?

2009-06-24 Thread john wendel
On 06/24/2009 03:04 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: Certainly with the advent of the DRI2 utter and complete rewrite of 3d support in the server, everyone is either giving up or taking a long time to cath up (it is never clear which :-). As near as I can tell, the only option for

Re: Wonderful radeon driver feature :-)

2009-06-25 Thread john wendel
On 06/24/2009 10:58 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506552 Hmmm, that's, uh, interesting... (Blowed up capacitors on the nvidia card :-). And that shows the great quality of NVidia hardware. :-D Kevin Kofler Kevin, don't

Firefox 3.5RC3 - Broken for me

2009-06-28 Thread john wendel
Running updated Fedora 11, downloaded FF3.5RC3 and installed in my home directory to test. Crashed on almost every web page. Removed it, but my bookmarks were clobbered when I restarted FF3.5B4. Working/not working for anyone else? Regards, John -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all

2009-06-30 Thread john wendel
On 06/30/2009 09:23 AM, Kam Leo wrote: [snip] I do not mind the experimental nature of Fedora. In fact, it is one of the features that draws me to the distribution. Unfortunately, in the F11 release the Fedora project team screwed up royally by not providing or leaving available fallback

Re: State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all

2009-07-01 Thread john wendel
On 07/01/2009 12:30 AM, Kam Leo wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:05 PM, john wendeljwende...@comcast.net wrote: On 06/30/2009 09:23 AM, Kam Leo wrote: [snip] I do not mind the experimental nature of Fedora. In fact, it is one of the features that draws me to the distribution. Unfortunately,

Re: Sound breaks up at start

2009-07-02 Thread john wendel
On 07/02/2009 11:41 AM, Jim wrote: FC11/Kde4 . Intel 82801G (ICH7 family) High DEfinition Audio snd_hda_intel Sound breaks up when starting a video, youtube or wma video. It's slow at starting and breaks up, into the first 10 sec, of a video. What's up ? I have the same problem on my ICH7

Re: any thoughts on why cooling fan keeps spinning up and down?

2009-07-05 Thread john wendel
On 07/05/2009 08:07 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote: I think there is probably a physical cause. It gets too easy to blame the operating system for physical device issues. The fan speed is controlled in part by temperature sensors on the CPU and feedback from the fan circuit itself. I think all the

Re: Disabling IRQ #19

2009-07-14 Thread john wendel
On 07/14/2009 02:22 PM, Chris wrote: 2009/7/14 Luc MAIGNANluc.maig...@winxpert.com: We can note that Linux is unable to manage my sound card (Creative SB X-FI). Can it be the problem ? (but no driver is loaded...) Well, maybe somebody knows another way of investigating this... but the only

Re: From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

2009-07-14 Thread john wendel
On 07/14/2009 11:22 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: I've been using F11 since it came out and it works great. But I haven't had any sound since I did the upgrade. Sound worked great in F10. Its getting old not having sound. How do I get it working ? $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain

Re: From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

2009-07-15 Thread john wendel
On 07/14/2009 10:02 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 20:31 -0700, john wendel wrote: Looks like our junk is similar - Intel chip I had lots of sound problems until I moved to a 2.6.30 kernel. You'll note that all the sound modules have very different sizes from yours. And your

Re: F11 and PulseAudio

2009-07-19 Thread john wendel
On 07/19/2009 08:05 PM, Markus Kesaromous wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:09:51 -0700 From: olivares14...@yahoo.com To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: F11 and PulseAudio --- On Sun, 7/19/09, Markus Kesaromous wrote: From: Markus Kesaromous

Re: Has anyone with a PCIe bus and Intel internal sound chip got sound working yet?

2009-07-20 Thread john wendel
On 07/20/2009 09:26 AM, William Case wrote: Hi; I haven't. Thought I might have missed a [SOLVED] or something. I have tried just about everything I can think of and every bit of advice on the list. I am just hoping there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Sound working fine here on

Re: Has anyone with a PCIe bus and Intel internal sound chip got sound working yet?

2009-07-21 Thread john wendel
On 07/21/2009 07:04 AM, William Case wrote: Hi John; On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 20:10 -0700, john wendel wrote: On 07/20/2009 09:26 AM, William Case wrote: Hi; Sound working fine here on 2 different Intel motherboards (with PCIe bus). Just an afterthought. Since you have got your internal

Re: What is this .gvfs directory?

2009-07-23 Thread john wendel
On 07/23/2009 01:15 AM, Ron Yorston wrote: Bradleypursley...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/22/2009 09:01 AM, Bradley wrote: On 07/22/2009 07:17 AM, davide wrote: Bradleypursley001at comcast.net writes: I have my system do regular automated backups and just noticed that the backups have been

Can I have a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userland ?

2009-07-23 Thread john wendel
Anyone have a simple recipe for building a Fedora system with a 64-bit kernel and only 32-bit applications? Thanks, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Can I have a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userland ?

2009-07-24 Thread john wendel
On 07/24/2009 12:53 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: john wendel wrote: Anyone have a simple recipe for building a Fedora system with a 64-bit kernel and only 32-bit applications? I'd say you have to install the 32 bit distro and then manually install the 64 bit kernel. Then you have to be a little

Re: Can I have a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userland ?

2009-07-24 Thread john wendel
On 07/24/2009 08:35 AM, Steve Berg wrote: On 07/24/2009 12:53 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: john wendel wrote: Anyone have a simple recipe for building a Fedora system with a 64-bit kernel and only 32-bit applications? I tried it, using the kernel from my F10 64-bit system on a F11 32-bit box

Re: no hardware acceleration?

2009-07-24 Thread john wendel
On 07/24/2009 07:59 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote: From glxinfo: direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer I guess that the second means I don't have hardware aceleration. What

Re: will we ever have radeon drivers that aren't crap?

2009-07-27 Thread john wendel
On 07/27/2009 06:58 PM, John Mellor wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:23 +0200, Julian Aloofi wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 23.07.2009, 20:13 -0400 schrieb John Mellor: This is a Fedora-killer. Nothing should be higher priority. Is there any way to get Radeon HD support as a mandatory blocking

Re: FC11 Freezes at udev on boot

2009-07-28 Thread john wendel
On 07/28/2009 09:28 PM, Jatin K wrote: I've installed fedora FC (2.6.29.4.fc11.i586) ... after getting update my kernel updated to 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586, now my system freezes at udev when booting, before update it was fine !!! what it could be ?? how do I solve this issue ? Regards Jatin

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