Re: why does perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker depend on systemtap-sdt-devel?

2014-09-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 12:32 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: possibly admitting my ignorance, but why does installing perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker drag in systemtap-sdt-devel? i see no logical connection, and i don't even have any systemtap packages installed. i ask since i'm working with a

Re: i845G - X locks up machine

2014-10-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 14:10 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Adam Jackson composed on 2014-10-14 11:56 (UTC-0400): Might this be worked around via some manual acceleration option for the Intel X driver? Probably. Option AccelMethod UXA perhaps? /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-flags.conf

Re: rawhide report: 20141028 changes

2014-10-28 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 10:57 +, Fedora Rawhide Report wrote: [dragonegg] dragonegg-3.4-0.3.rc0.fc21.i686 requires libLLVM-3.4.so dragonegg-3.4-0.3.rc0.fc21.i686 requires gcc = 0:4.8.2-14.fc21 This one's a joy. dragonegg is a gcc plugin that basically replaces the middle and

Re: F15 RC3 at Caddyshack

2011-05-16 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/15/11 4:11 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Given that the anointed Gnome 3 needs a competent X driver, Fedora 15 should make installing Nvidia or ATI easy. Ubuntu usually gets this right, and so should Fedora. Presumably you would want to send patches to that to the third-party

Re: usb mouse failure X thinks it's a keyboard

2011-05-16 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/16/11 6:43 AM, Neal Becker wrote: The mouse that doesn't work says: [ 437.939] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver (/dev/input/mouse1) [ 437.939] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring) [ 437.947] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech

Re: Fedora 15 install makes PC Unbootable

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/27/11 8:06 AM, cornel panceac wrote: 2011/5/27 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com mailto:c...@omen.com 64 bit Fedora 15 release install using the basic video driver and manual partitioning completed without error messages. Boot loader was to set to the default

Re: nouveau and multimonitor with mutter problems

2011-06-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On 6/7/11 4:21 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: Perhaps it is a problem of the top bar representing a top limit for windows placement? gnome-shell considers the top bar an impenetrable wall (from below), yes. Can I change its position to test? Use the display control panel to drag the position of

Re: nouveau and multimonitor with mutter problems

2011-06-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On 6/7/11 12:17 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: BTW: suppose I put the top bar on top of external monitor. Then I disconnect it. What is it the expected behaviour? Top bar automatically repositioned to the only surviving laptop display that was below or what? Yep. Would be pretty unusable if

Re: my excitement is unreachable...

2011-06-16 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 19:15 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:30:30PM -0700, Rob Healey wrote: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.0-0.rc3.git0.3.fc16.x86_64=3.0.0 gives version code 196608 Could anyone explain this, and if it is important to worry about?

Re: S3

2011-06-24 Thread Adam Jackson
On 6/24/11 5:49 AM, Rick Leir wrote: I just installed f15 via BFO, onto a system with S3 PCI video. By default, the Xorg X11 S3 video driver is not installed. Was this intentional or should I file a bug? The S3 card is old, but I want my server to use less power. If you do mean s3 (and not

Re: Can't see Verne through the GUI

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On 8/14/11 2:17 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Installed with the default video driver on a Geforce 460SE. Still won't run Genome 3. Wether or not one agrees with Linus's characterization of Gnome 3, the fallback mode is unarguably brain damaged. You keep saying things like this

Re: Can't start X on Intel GMA600 display card system

2011-09-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 22:04 +0800, TOE Physics wrote: [ 166.329] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0 [ 166.329] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 7872 kB [ 166.329] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(R)Oaktrail Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS GMA600 (Oaktrail) is, like Poulsbo, an

Re: Can't start X on Intel GMA600 display card system

2011-09-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 12:55 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 11:19 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: Probably we should just build the staging driver, because I seriously do not have any desire to implement emulation of MMX through whatever SSE we're on now. Life's too short

Re: F16 slowness

2011-09-08 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 09:29 +0200, Matthias Runge wrote: On 07/09/11 21:06, Adam Williamson wrote: Is there a graphics benchmark to try out? I don't see that a benchmark is going to tell you anything you don't already know ('it's performing slow'). I'd suggest grabbing a set of older

Re: Remove a package from critpath ?

2011-09-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 13:10 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Given that critpath is currently done solely by dependency resolution of certain comps groups, 'excluding' a package isn't really possible. If you look at the group, you'll note: !-- Just the mandatory packages from base-x.

Re: Remove a package from critpath ?

2011-09-16 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:39 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 09:57 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/16/2011 09:56 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:33 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: Dne 15.9.2011 21:38, Adam Jackson napsal(a): If someone wants to send me

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:05:28 +0200 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: IMO, it could be much more productive if you also evaluated Fedora 16 development instead of Fedora 17 development. Sigh. I've been running Rawhide

Re: f 16 beta in virtualbox

2011-10-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 17:03 -0400, David wrote: The 'advanced graphics' video feature in Virtualbox seldom works in Rawhide and the current 'branched' package (currently Fedora 16) because Virtualbox does not support alpha/beta/non-release versions of Xorg. F16 has xserver 1.11.1. I don't

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 20:54 +, JB wrote: Hi, I performed a simple home test, a comparison of startup and shutdown times of: - Live-CD Fedora 16 beta - systemd parallel boot, GNOME 3 Cool story. Have you tried using systemd's built-in boot profiling infrastructure to see where this time

Re: f 16 beta in virtualbox

2011-10-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 20:04 -0400, David wrote: There are some users that have older monitors that to not identify themselves so that the resolution is not properly set. With a true install or an install in a VDI. *Most* of those can never be set to higher resolutions because

Re: f 16 beta in virtualbox

2011-10-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:43 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:32 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: RANDR 1.2 has the ability to set arbitrary video modes at runtime. I admit Gnome's display tool doesn't expose that, but I'm comfortable saying that's Gnome's bug. What does

Re: rhgb boot - monitor losing signal (sometimes)

2011-10-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 17:26 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: Shortly before the Plymouth LUKS passphrase prompt, the screen turns black, the monitor reports No signal and enters power-saving mode. The system hasn't crashed, because instead of pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del I can also enter the

Re: F16 Beta on Pentium III

2011-10-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 00:08 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: I tried an ATI card and a Matrox card without success. ATI and Matrox have both made rather more than one card, so that's not especially useful information. - ajax signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: failed to create drawable

2011-10-17 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 09:05 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: Bottom of ~/.xsession-errors: Failed to play sound: File or data not found JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Sat Oct 15 2011 09:00:52 GMT+0200 (CEST) failed to create drawable After logging out and back in, desktop

Re: Interactive white boards and Fedora Xorg setup

2010-12-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:58 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: Also, where do I get the name for the pointer device? atropine:~% xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2[master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointerid=4[slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳

Re: nohz=off and system performance

2010-12-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 03:03 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: I just noticed that when I boot with nohz=off I get improved vmstat numbers. When playing a YouTube video I get an idle percentage of around 25-30 but when I boot with nohz=off the system seems to cope much better and show an

Re: rawhide report: 20101208 changes

2010-12-08 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 12:10 +, Rawhide Report wrote: 1:libtheora-devel-1.1.1-1.fc13.i686 requires libogg-devel = 2:1.1 1:libtheora-devel-1.1.1-1.fc13.x86_64 requires libogg-devel = 2:1.1 1:libvorbis-devel-1.3.1-2.fc14.i686 requires libogg-devel = 2:1.1

Re: F15 alpha problem.

2011-03-16 Thread Adam Jackson
On 3/16/11 7:30 AM, James Laska wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 12:09 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I've just installed F15 alpha in a virtualbox machine and at the first boot I get a gnome 3 error explaining that it can't be fully initialised because 3D is not supported. I don't know if this is

Re: F15 alpha problem.

2011-03-17 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 22:54 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 22:54 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Hm, which graphics hardware should I choose that is well supported? We're doing pretty well with most _real_ (i.e. not VM) cards. Intel is probably the safest bet, but most

Re: Can't seem to be able to install libreoffice-3.3.1.2-11.fc15.x86_64

2011-03-24 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 08:18 -0500, Brian Millett wrote: Error: Package: 1:libreoffice-impress-3.3.1.2-11.fc15.x86_64 (updates-testing) Requires: libreoffice-presenter-screen = 3.3.1.2-11.fc15 Installing: 1:libreoffice-presenter-screen-3.3.1.2-11.fc15.x86_64

Re: F15: Systemd, Gnome3 Radeon 9200

2011-03-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 20:03 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote: Acctualy what prevents me to start without nomodeset is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=536686 Bit old one, but still valid. I like how you found the solution - of emitting enough xorg.conf fragment to compensate for your

Re: Gnome 3 and VNC

2011-04-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On 4/3/11 8:06 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: How is Gnome 3 going to work with VNC, which does not do 3D? Why do you think VNC needs to do 3D to work? - ajax -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Gnome 3 and VNC

2011-04-04 Thread Adam Jackson
Followups to the list, please. On 4/4/11 1:07 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On 04/04/2011 06:46 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On 4/3/11 8:06 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: How is Gnome 3 going to work with VNC, which does not do 3D? Why do you think VNC needs to do 3D to work

Re: Gnome shell corruption

2011-04-08 Thread Adam Jackson
On 4/7/11 3:54 AM, Massimo Gengarelli wrote: I'm experiencing the same issue here, using radeon's drivers on an ATI Radeon 9200 Pro. In my opinion it's related to the OpenGL version we're running; probably the Gnome Shell (specifically Mutter) requires some OpenGL extension that were

Re: Who took my beep?

2011-04-19 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 23:19 +0200, Göran Uddeborg wrote: I've been experimenting a bit by installing bits and pieces from F15, without doing a complete install. Now I realised my beep had disappeared. I'm talking about the nice classical square wave PC speaker beep. The thing that sounds

Re: Multiple F15Beta bugs in under an hour

2011-04-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 20:57 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 20:07 -0500, John Morris wrote: My large display is to the left of the laptop. This is correctable via the GUI. Making it the primary display isn't, xrandr is required to set the primary display with 'xrandr

Re: Multiple F15Beta bugs in under an hour

2011-04-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 20:07 -0500, John Morris wrote: Launch firefox and display the About popup. Notice anything missing? Yup, the only way to be rid of it is to stop FF and kill off xulrunner-bin. Or perhaps xkill? Is this a window manager (mutter?) bug? Probably? I have difficulty

Re: MPX aware window manager?

2011-04-28 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:17 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: So, the multi pointer X has been in xinput 2 in the stock X servers for a while now, but searches for window managers that actually support it come up kind of skimpy on results. Is does any window manager in the fedora 15 repos support

Re: F15 email

2011-10-24 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 03:10 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Seems to be working at omen.com now after adjusting for a few FLAG DAY changes. The new Dovecot drops a few protocols that were in the old one, so email clients have to be adjusted. If you wanted this to be a useful

Re: vlc and rtsp-videos in F16?

2011-10-25 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 18:57 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi, I tried to play a RTSP video stream by vlc-1.1.12-1.fc16.x86_64, but did not succeed: vlc http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/cgi-bin/mml/allfilms.ram?ram=http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/mml/galerie/Ram/neunzert_werth.ram; main decoder

Re: sometimes sighup needed for gnome-shell

2011-11-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On 11/18/11 9:44 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: Sometimes (latest days at least one time a day), the gnome session goes unusable: I'm able to move mouse, but when selecting a menu item it is greyed but no drop down of its options appears, no alt-tab or alt-f2 possibility Only way to come

Re: sometimes sighup needed for gnome-shell

2011-11-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 12:11 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: If you debuginfo-install gnome-shell, attach with gdb instead of sending SIGHUP, and run 'thread apply all backtrace', what do you get? As MJ whould have said

Re: sometimes sighup needed for gnome-shell

2011-11-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 18:22 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: [snip] So my next intuition would be to gdb the X server and see what's up. If you find it waiting patiently on a call to select(), then the second case is more likely

Re: Todays yum dependency update issues....

2011-11-30 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:37 -0600, Kevin Martin wrote: What's with the xserver-abi dependency problem (ie: xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.0-11.fc17.x86_64 requires: xserver-abi(ansic-2009) = 0 -- Processing Dependency: xserver-abi(ansic-2009) = 0 for package:

Re: xserver restarting with certain usb events

2011-12-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On 12/6/11 11:27 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: [ 428.783] Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. This message is there for a reason. It means the X server is terminating normally, ie, because the session has gone away. Check in ~/.xsession-errors for relevant messages, or in

Re: xserver restarting with certain usb events

2011-12-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On 12/7/11 12:20 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: On 12/06/2011 12:35 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: On 12/6/11 11:27 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: [ 428.783] Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. This message is there for a reason. It means the X server is terminating normally, ie, because

Re: f 17 netinst.iso in virtualbox 4.1.8

2012-02-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On 2/6/12 1:36 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785652 . This problem has existed for months in Rawhide. It seems that the vesa driver (which VirtualBox uses) is broken. I'm aware, vesa's actually broken on intel chips too. I've got one fix that can

Re: f 17 netinst.iso in virtualbox 4.1.8

2012-02-08 Thread Adam Jackson
On 2/7/12 1:25 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: On 2/6/12 1:36 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785652 . This problem has existed for months in Rawhide. It seems that the vesa driver (which VirtualBox uses) is broken. I'm aware, vesa's actually broken on intel

Re: A question about Software rendering for gnome-shell

2012-02-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 23:52 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: At https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome_shell_software_rendering I am reading The standard Gnome 3 experience is now available on all hardware. Is this a plan, a wish or this is supposedly describing the current situation?

Re: A question about Software rendering for gnome-shell

2012-02-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 12:08 -0500, mwesten wrote: FYI - I can get the shell with this on RV200 in F17ARC2 (Live), but the processor gets pegged at 100% continuously and it's not usable. Performance reports for software gnome-shell need to include the CPU speed and model to be informative.

Re: A question about Software rendering for gnome-shell

2012-02-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 13:10 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: Running 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 gnome-shell --replace', as proposed by drago01, indeed starts an intended mode gnome session, both before and after installing these scratch packages, but results are spectacularly useless.

Re: A question about Software rendering for gnome-shell

2012-02-22 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 16:35 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: This particular one is a 64-bit (albeit quite old) processor: vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family: 15 model : 5 model name: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 142 stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1600.062

Re: Can't start acroread in F17/Alpha

2012-02-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:21 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: Did somebody try to run acroread in F17? I did it and got as result: acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot enable executable stack as shared

Re: A question about Software rendering for gnome-shell

2012-02-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 08:44 -0500, mwesten wrote: Fedora-17-Alpha-i686-Live-Desktop.iso (RC2) on USB 2.13GHz AthlonXP 2600+ / RV200 (Radeon 7500) / 1280x1024 Fallback mode is fine, but once the shell starts, it's a battle just to get System Monitor open and to the Resources tab. Once

Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 16:00 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: I'm trying to test Fedora 17 RC4 in a Virtual Box environment. I had problems doing this with F16 as well. It is up and running, but tortuously slow. I noticed that it complained when I was installing the guest additions about the

Re: Multiseat on F17 alpha

2012-03-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 12:07 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Hi, I heard that F17 will support multiseat, so I've just installed the alpha. Is there a HOWTO for this, or do I just edit custom.conf in /etc/gdm and create an xorg.conf in /etc/X11? I have an Ubuntu (hence debian) background and

Re: A question about Software rendering for gnome-shell

2012-03-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 13:01 -0500, mwesten wrote: I set this up on the Alpha release and the results are below. I'm assuming there's something wrong with that top entry, but I don't know how to fix it. Events: 50K cycles 55.99% gnome-shell perf-6425.map [.]

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-26 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 11:58 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a while, though I've seen it before. I'm not sure where to file a bug on this one... There's several levels of X locked up pathology, let's see if I can shed some light

Re: [Test-Announce] Test Day 2012-03-29: GNOME Shell Software Rendering

2012-03-28 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 08:25 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: There will be a GNOME Shell Software Rendering Test Day on Thursday! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-03-29_Gnome_Shell_Software_Rendering I've updated the How to test section with more details on exactly what kind of coverage

Re: F17 video annoyances, old hardware

2012-03-30 Thread Adam Jackson
On 3/30/12 10:46 AM, stan wrote: F17 boots using nouveau for my old Nvidia hardware (MX420). There are two problems with this for me. - nouveau doesn't allow different resolutions on consoles and gui. Why do you want this? If the console text is unreadably small for you, would simply

Re: Launching WINE causes screen flicker in Screen#2 on a dual-head setup..

2012-04-16 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 11:04 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: When I launch any win32 app under WINE the screen flickers for about 2 seconds, but only on the 2nd display. Then it returns to normal. As soon as the win32 app launches, I can work with it just fine, move it between displays, and

Re: gnome-shell cpu usage, audio, opengl - work fine only as root

2012-04-19 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 13:01 +0200, Saulo Bonfim wrote: Hi all, first post to the list. Using FC17, recently updated (ran yum update yesterday) on a i3 2.13GHz HP G62 First issue: as of its installation (3 weeks ago) noticed a high cpu consumption of the gnome-shell process (circa 30%

Re: setting default monitor on multi-monitor setup

2012-04-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 18:57 +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: On 04/21/2012 11:53 AM, Tommy Pham wrote: I'd like to have my VGA as primary and DVI as secondary. I can't seem to adapt [1] to make fit my hardware above. Create a text file which will go in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and will start

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 14:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 14:11:15 -0400 Bill Nottingham wrote: In my experience, extremely slow FF performance is usually due to writing out either the assorted sqlite data files in the profile directory, or the big javascript pile that is

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/1/12 6:09 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:51:08 -0400 Adam Jackson wrote: - xulrunner maybe shouldn't assert PRIMARY ownership in this case That's the point for me: What on earth in the bookmarks sidebar needs or wants the selection? And it is a super long delay just

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/3/12 7:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:21 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote: While I consider the latest development on gma500, present in many Atom base netbooks, a great success and would like to say thank you to developer(s), When you say latest development, what exactly

Re: Nomodeset in grub

2012-05-11 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/11/12 2:35 AM, A.J. Werkman wrote: I noticed, that as soon as grub comes up in graphical mode, the nomodeset boot option has no effect in F17. Is this a bug or a feature or is there a new option I am not aware off? You're going to need to be more specific than that. The kernel

Re: Nomodeset in grub

2012-05-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/15/12 3:53 AM, A.J. Werkman wrote: I freshly installed F17-TC5, changed gfxpayload to text and added nomodeset to the boot options. Then I rebuild the grub config-file with grub2-mkconfig. Indeed I now have a 80*25 text screen on the console when I boot. In /sys/class/drm I do see

Re: Nomodeset in grub

2012-05-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/15/12 2:51 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I don't know what his use case is, but I set this up recently as well. I have an HP server with ILO with lets me remotely view the console. However, they require a license if you want to view it in graphical mode. Someone at HP needs a stern talking to,

Re: GDM: (F17, all updates) When I try to log in, login fails and I get switched to a different VT

2012-05-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 07:42 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: On 05/21/2012 07:30 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: I can't find anything in /var/log/messages, dmesg output, ~/.xsession-errors, or /var/log/Xorg.0.log to explain this. I have auto-login configured, and if I reboot my machine, I _am_

Re: Gnome screenshot tool issues

2012-05-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 17:34 +0530, Pratyush Sahay wrote: Hi Joachim, On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Joachim Backes joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: On 05/26/2012 10:56 AM, Pratyush Sahay wrote: There are a couple of issues am facing with the gnome screenshot

Re: f17 and ATI RAGE128

2012-05-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 20:22 -0700, John Reiser wrote: Peter, how in general do you want to proceed where we have documented cases of graphics mode setting failure in grub2? Do you want individual bug reports for each affected bit of hardware? Downstream, upstream? What kind of info should

Re: F17 Geforce GTX 550Ti

2012-05-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 01:35 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: Got this new card today and it seems not to work with F17. I got it installed and tried all the slots, which include HDMI, dvi, and nothing worked. It does during BIOS boot and in windows, so it's installed correctly. I also got it to

Re: F17 Gallium 0.4 on NV34 and Mesa 8.1-devel

2012-06-20 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:37 -0400, mwesten wrote: [10432.323596] [drm] nouveau :01:04.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: DATA_ERROR nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT [10432.323612] [drm] nouveau :01:04.0: PGRAPH - ch 3/7 class 0x0697 mthd 0x0208 data 0x04050348 Driver bug. Probably best to follow up

Re: not able to boot Rawhide 3.5.0-0.rc4 kernels in runlevel 3

2012-06-27 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 15:06 +, Andre Robatino wrote: Kevin Martin ktmdms at gmail.com writes: You may be running into the same problem that I have. Check out this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830916 Should have mentioned that my Rawhide is a VirtualBox

Re: not able to boot Rawhide 3.5.0-0.rc4 kernels in runlevel 3

2012-06-27 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 16:10 +, Andre Robatino wrote: Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com writes: Should have mentioned that my Rawhide is a VirtualBox 4.1.18 guest (which uses the vesa driver). Nope: I booted in graphical mode, then when the black screen

Re: Anaconda new UI testing: new snapshot available

2012-07-17 Thread Adam Jackson
On 7/17/12 12:50 PM, Felix Miata wrote: This new way is akin to how Mandriva/Mageia (and IIRC *buntu) do it, which is one area where I preferred what Anaconda did. I want my users set up with my choice of UIDs/GIDs, which M/M wouldn't permit, and presumably Anaconda now doesn't. I only create

Re: Anaconda new UI testing: new snapshot available

2012-07-17 Thread Adam Jackson
On 7/17/12 2:58 PM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2012/07/17 13:46 (GMT-0400) Adam Jackson composed: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#user Thanks! That's nice, for people who use Kickstart. I don't, for a mix of reasons. I might be inclined to try Kickstart someday but for http

Re: First experience with F18-ALPHA-TC1

2012-08-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On 8/13/12 10:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: It is a test compose of the Alpha. Alpha comes before Beta which comes before Final. For each of Alpha, Beta and Final, we do test composes and then release candidates. The first test compose of the Alpha is by definition the earliest and most

Re: First experience with F18-ALPHA-TC1

2012-08-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On 8/15/12 2:40 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: We've discussed various ways to re-jig the structure in the past, but something that simplistic certainly isn't it. We have specific requirements for the Alpha, Beta and Final releases: they _must_ meet those requirements in order to be shipped. I

Re: First experience with F18-ALPHA-TC1

2012-08-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On 8/15/12 9:42 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: It would be far more honest to just call this alpha 1. Sorry, I don't get it - is the problem calling Alpha gold, as it's definitely not gold final release. Calling alpha gold is a problem, sure. Calling test composes something with alpha in the

Re: Intel Graphics: SNA testing report with xorg-x11-drv-intel = 2.20

2012-08-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 15:40 +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Pedro Francisco pedrogfranci...@gmail.com wrote: I'm testing SNA on an Intel Graphics card (...) Does anyone here who is using Gnome fallback has lack of screen refreshing (using Intel SNA)?

Re: New pre-TC4 test images

2012-08-30 Thread Adam Jackson
On 8/30/12 4:35 AM, Noriko Mizumoto wrote: I gave it try. It failed x startup and falled back to text mode. It means, unfortunately, this can not be used for L10n test which is planned on 6-Sep :-( Can you attach the X log from attempting to start with this image? I don't know what hardware

Re: xorg IOPL issue under rawhide...can't run X

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 19:22 -0500, kevin martin wrote: Can't run X on my laptop anymore due to the IOPL error shown below. I've also included lines from an strace of xinit that I did at this same time. Anybody with any thoughts on how to get this fixed so I can run X again? The only reason I

Re: [Test-Announce] Join Fedora X Test Week - Nouveau, Radeon, Intel (2012-09-25 - 2012-09-27)

2012-09-24 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 13:30 -0700, John Reiser wrote: Do you have any old or new graphic hardware, working or not? Join this test week and help us to hunt down driver bugs before Fedora 18 Beta release! There is doubt about whether this particular test day is worth the time. You're free

Re: [Test-Announce] Join Fedora X Test Week - Nouveau, Radeon, Intel (2012-09-25 - 2012-09-27)

2012-09-25 Thread Adam Jackson
On 9/24/12 8:15 PM, John Reiser wrote: If it is known that any Radeon card less than Radeon 9600 won't work satisfactorily in the default Gnome3 desktop, then Fedora should admit it up front, and raise the minimum stated requirements. I'm sure the docs team takes patches. But also: that's

Re: ctrl-alt-bksp

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 16:05 +, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: On 09/27/2012 07:18 PM, Sergio wrote: Maybe the traditional way of creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/zap.conf with Section “ServerFlags” Option “DontZap” “false” EndSection ? No, this was disabled awhile ago and no longer

Re: ctrl-alt-bksp

2012-10-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 10:23 +, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: The all authoritative and never wrong google search for ctrl-alt-bksp. :-) Atually, it seemed to be confirmed when I tried the various methods suggested in this thread and nothing worked until I set the xkbd option using gsettings.

Re: gnome-shell high cpu consumption during install?

2012-10-25 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 09:52 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: Is anyone else seeing 100% CPU consumption in top for gnome-shell for the entire installation process? This seems excessive for something that isn't doing

Re: F18 at-spi* deps

2012-10-25 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 20:33 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: On 25/10/12 17:01, Matthias Clasen wrote: at-spi* is not an app though. It is a central piece of desktop infrastructure. Why? Because treating those who do need accessibility as second-class citizens means they inevitably get a

Re: F18 at-spi* deps

2012-10-25 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 22:21 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: I agree, but I don't need it, Wheres the script to turn if off? Everone else has to figure that out themselves. accessibilty.conf has no on=0\false switch. If the F18 install I just did is any indication, the state it ships in is as off

Re: Fedora 18: No GDM on boot.

2012-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On 11/8/12 7:17 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hi folks, My f18 system doesn't pull up a login screen on boot. It just waits. Restarting the gdm.service from a virtual terminal gets it up though, but I need to this at every boot now. Here's the gdm.service status when it didn't come up:

Re: TC8

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 11:19 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Noveau crashed again. I am now running Nvidia. The release notes should clearly explain the procedure for installing the Nvidia driver. Some will need it. No, we're not doing that, ever. Stop suggesting it. - ajax

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:43 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: 3) The installed system won't take to the FB X server by itself, I had to mangle a xorg.conf file to bring up an 800x600 fbdev instance and then let firstboot run on a reboot That's a bug, sir. X on efifb should work without

Re: Proposed release criteria additions for F14+

2010-06-30 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 16:49 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:28:16AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: * The desktop default update manager must not periodically check for updates when the system is booted live, but must periodically check for updates when running on

Karma request for m17n-lib

2010-08-11 Thread Adam Jackson
Just a boring little upgrade path fix from F13. The only reason I had this installed was because I had emacs installed; I've since corrected that mistake, but I figure I should fix it for everyone else too. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/m17n-lib-1.6.1-3.fc14 - ajax signature.asc

Re: Release criteria proposal: basic graphics mode boot

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 19:35 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Another proposed release criterion. This stems from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623129 ; we agreed that it really ought to always be possible to workaround a broken X driver for install. Alpha: The graphical boot menu

Re: Where is runlevel 5?

2010-08-26 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:18 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:14:59 -0400 Chris Lumens wrote: The VNC - runlevel 3 implication is working as designed. Though, I'd really like anaconda to have a screen that let's me choose the runlevel during install, but it isn't a big

Re: Please test basic video driver in 14 Beta TC1

2010-09-13 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 20:15 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:55:19 + (UTC) Andre Robatino wrote: I've reported https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632805 Could be the same as this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627073 It's not, even

Re: Xorg bug affecting VirtualBox, KVM, and maybe other platforms

2010-10-04 Thread Adam Jackson
=30585 which was closed as a duplicate of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30159 which was originally filed on 9-13 and for which Adam Jackson already has a proposed patch. It's possible that other basic video bugs such as 627073, No, radeons are VBE 3. 632805

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