Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread g
James McKenzie wrote: I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third 1/3 of screen followed by that 1/3 again. it is possible that

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread g
g wrote: James McKenzie wrote: I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage snip an addition that i left out, fc8 is a bit old and no longer supported, and has several security bugs. if live cd for f12 or f13 work, consider using either of them. -- peace out.

system mail

2010-07-27 Thread JB
Petrus de Calguarium kwhisk...@... writes: When I receive system mail, I read it on the command line with the 'mail' program. It appears to be called Heirloom Mail version 12.4 7/29/08. Now, as I scroll down, I see that the system mail is sent as: Content-Type: text/plain;

fc13 preupgrade failure on swap

2010-07-27 Thread JB
Don Vogt dnvot at yahoo.com writes: I have been using fedora since fedora 4 with great satisfaction. I tried to do an fc12 to fc13 preupgrade. All went fine until I was running anaconda ( I believe) with the install.img. I got a pop-up that said the swap device has not been created and

Gnome top bar apperance changed F13 updates

2010-07-27 Thread Andrew Gray
I Just applied the latest F13 update and logged out and back-in The Gnome top bar now appears to be too small showing underlines under bar items Yum.log tail Jul 27 09:01:03 Updated: dbus-glib-0.86-3.fc13.x86_64 Jul 27 09:01:04 Updated: libuuid-2.17.2-6.fc13.x86_64 Jul 27 09:01:05 Updated:

Re: Gnome top bar appearance changed F13 updates

2010-07-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/27/2010 06:34 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: I Just applied the latest F13 update and logged out and back-in The Gnome top bar now appears to be too small showing underlines under bar items No problem here on a full updated F13 32 bit systembut not using radeon drivers Have you

Re: Gnome top bar appearance changed F13 updates

2010-07-27 Thread Andrew Gray
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 19:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/27/2010 06:34 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: I Just applied the latest F13 update and logged out and back-in The Gnome top bar now appears to be too small showing underlines under bar items No problem here on a full updated F13 32

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third 1/3 of screen followed by

Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, As if to say, F-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the screen, and the whole computer locked up. Completely dead. Catatonic. Unresponsive.

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread James Mckenzie
g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: James McKenzie wrote: I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third 1/3 of screen followed by that

Re: [389-users] How to let users change their passwords?

2010-07-27 Thread Jason Vervlied
We wrote a site in perl that lets any user change their own password and also lets certain admin users change anybody's password. JASON VERVLIED LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR 525 Okeechobee Blvd. Suite 1800 West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Direct: 561-775-1126 EMAIL:

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-07-27 Thread Deepak Bhole
* Joerg Bergmann em...@jbergmann.de [2010-07-26 06:34]: Am 26.07.2010 11:41, schrieb Andrew Haley: On 07/25/2010 05:43 AM, Bob Hartung wrote: I have loaded Fedora13 without a hitch and am impressed by the improvements! However, I am just now beginning Java programming and I

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread James Mckenzie
Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: Sent: Jul 27, 2010 6:23 AM To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: I'm trying to install FC8 on my old,

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Chris Rouch
On 27 July 2010 16:44, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As if to say, F-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the screen, and the whole

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 10:44 -0400, Alex wrote: Hi, As if to say, F-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the screen, and the whole computer

re: preupgrade failure problem with swap Solved

2010-07-27 Thread Don Vogt
-- Message: 15 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:10:30 + (UTC) From: JB jb.123...@yahoo.com Subject: fc13 preupgrade failure on swap To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: loom.20100727t105136-...@post.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Re: system mail

2010-07-27 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:04 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I always wondered why system mail was not delievered in utf-8 That's only going to be necessary if the mail contains characters that aren't part of ASCII. Mail tends to use the simplest character set necessary for the actual message

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, Completely dead. Catatonic. Unresponsive. Nothing in the logs. you could reboot, switch to a text console (e.g ctrl f2) have a look in $HOME/.xsession-errors, though I've you've logged in again already it's probably been overwritten. my guess would be that something killed your X

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, Sounds like your machine started going into suspend / hibernate / shutdown. Did you close the lid? Did you set it to suspend on lid close? It's my desktop. I have the display set to turn off after 10 minutes, but I don't think it was even idle for ten minutes. The rest of the power

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/27/2010 04:16 PM, Alex wrote: that's kind of the point of fedora. if you want something stable, use CentOS (or RHEL) or maybe an ubuntu variant. I think the benefits of a cutting edge distro outweigh the drawbacks, but I agree that it is very frustrating when something fundamental stops

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Robert Myers
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sounds like your machine started going into suspend / hibernate / shutdown. Did you close the lid? Did you set it to suspend on lid close? It's my desktop. I have the display set to turn off after 10 minutes, but I

f1 / firefox 3.5.9 / cnn news / markets.

2010-07-27 Thread reg
Starting yesterday (26July), I am having problems with Firefox 3.5.9 and CNN.news. At the right of the display there are a number of options for subdisplays, including the line 'Markets'. In the past, this line has been expanded, and I see the market reports. If not expanded I can click on it

Re: f1 / firefox 3.5.9 / cnn news / markets.

2010-07-27 Thread reg
That should read f11 -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: f1 / firefox 3.5.9 / cnn news / markets.

2010-07-27 Thread James Mckenzie
r...@dwf.com wrote: Starting yesterday (26July), I am having problems with Firefox 3.5.9 and CNN.news. Did this start happening after you upgraded to Firefox 3.5.9? If so, you need to let the folks at Mozilla know. Firefox is upgraded separately from Fedora (I run a Mac in addition to my

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-27 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Really.  I did have a history composed but I had sent something to a printer, which ran out of paper, that put dbus-notifier at 100% cpu on one core, so I went and refilled the paper drawer and got the last 2 pages.  

Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread JB
Alex mysqlstudent at gmail.com writes: Hi, As if to say, F-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the screen, and the whole computer locked

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-27 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: You'll always have warring or pranking brothers and sisters, and then there's untrusting snooping parents... Not always! -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-27 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:45 AM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: ok. found it. from what i see, you are in 'good hands' with JD helping. with what he is telling you to do, only thing i could/would add/recommend, is checking deeper to insure that you do not have any more deps causing problems.

Kernel source and headers for Fedora 13

2010-07-27 Thread Patargias, George
Hi The NVIDIA driver installer complains that it can't find the kernel source files and headers in Fedora 13. Are they part of the standard distribution? If so, where are they? If they are not how can I install them? Thanks. George -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-27 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:21 AM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: being that clients who could have been wireless that i set up are pre wpa2, yes, i set them up wired, because wpa can be hacked in time. Really! none of which have found anything to worry about. Yes. -- Regards, Parshwa

Re: Kernel source and headers for Fedora 13

2010-07-27 Thread Frank Murphy
On 27/07/10 17:07, Patargias, George wrote: Hi The NVIDIA driver installer complains that it can't find the kernel source files and headers in Fedora 13. yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/27/2010 07:54 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: Robert G. (Doc) Savagedsav...@peaknet.net wrote: Sent: Jul 27, 2010 6:23 AM To: Community support for Fedora usersusers@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread JB
James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net writes: STOOPID question time from a long time Linux/UNIX sysadmin: How do I select the VESA video driver at the wonderful install screen? I don't readily see the ability to do this. Maybe I'm missing something. If it's in the docs, give

[389-users] Windows Sync

2010-07-27 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
Hi, We have a Windows replication agreement in place which works great; plus we are using the PassSync on the Windows server itself. The issue we have is that when somebody changed their password on the Windows server it has got stuck due to a Constraint Violation on previous passwords and

securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread mike lan
Hello I've installed a Fedora 12 kde live cd on a local area network, that I want to keep safe from hacking ( specially from network admin. !!) Is a default fedora 12 install secure enough ? or do i still take some measures to secure the pc ? I need also to monitor scans or probes to the pc

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread James Mckenzie
JB jb.123...@yahoo.com wrote: Sent: Jul 27, 2010 12:58 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net writes: STOOPID question time from a long time Linux/UNIX sysadmin: How do I select the VESA video

Screensaver no longer working

2010-07-27 Thread jackson byers
$ uname -r 2.6.32.14-127.fc12.i686.PAE After a power-glitch in my home, my Screensaver is no longer working. The power-glitch was very slight-- it didnt turn off my desktop. System Preferences Screensaver slider for Regard the computer as idle after: variously set, from 1min to 17 min,

Help with dns... named...

2010-07-27 Thread JB
Marcelo Moretti mmoretti at geribello.com.br writes: Hello :D I'm having problems with named...did not make any changes or updates ...but now it stopped working on some sites , do not know if the provider can be wrong, but I've been checking the logs, and I think it might be something with

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:32pm on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (UK time), mike lan scrawled: I've installed a Fedora 12 kde live cd on a local area network, that I want to keep safe from hacking ( specially from network admin. !!) Is a default fedora 12 install secure enough ? or do i still take some measures

Re: [389-users] Windows Sync

2010-07-27 Thread Nathan Kinder
On 07/27/2010 10:21 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Hi, We have a Windows replication agreement in place which works great; plus we are using the PassSync on the Windows server itself. The issue we have is that when somebody changed their password on the Windows server it has got stuck due to a

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread James Mckenzie
Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com wrote: Sent: Jul 27, 2010 1:38 PM To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan Around 06:32pm on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (UK time), mike lan scrawled: I've installed a Fedora 12 kde live cd

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread mike lan
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com wrote: Around 06:32pm on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (UK time), mike lan scrawled: I've installed a Fedora 12 kde live cd on a local area network, that I want to keep safe from hacking ( specially from network admin. !!)

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 01:59:59 pm Parshwa Murdia did opine: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Really. I did have a history composed but I had sent something to a printer, which ran out of paper, that put dbus-notifier at 100% cpu on one core,

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 18:49:13 mike lan wrote: the fact is I don't like being spied on my desktop , this means there is no fast way to secure a fedora 12 pc ? Exactly what kind of security are you interested in? Fedora is quite secure with its default installation, if you didn't turn off

securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread JB
mike lan lan.mike88 at gmail.com writes: ... the fact is I don't like being spied on my desktop , ... I mean looking at my dekstop on the other room, or installin some rootkits  to gain access to the pc on my behalf. Mike, we are all concerned about privacy, hackers, etc. But if you are in

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/27/2010 12:22 PM, mike lan wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marko Vojinovicvvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 18:49:13 mike lan wrote: the fact is I don't like being spied on my desktop , this means there is no fast way to secure a fedora 12 pc ? Exactly

does Fedora need Google search logic?

2010-07-27 Thread Valent Turkovic
Package search has been bugging me for a long time now, I as an advanced user know exactly what I want and any package is just yum install name away, yes I still use yum and will continue to do so because I prefer yum over pkcon :) rant also pkcon is harder spell the phone line or skype (when

Re: [389-users] Windows Replication Agreement Help

2010-07-27 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 23:15 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 18:08 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 14:15 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 10:05 -0600, Rich Megginson wrote: --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: - Original

Re: Kernel source and headers for Fedora 13

2010-07-27 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 12:07 -0400, Patargias, George wrote: Hi The NVIDIA driver installer complains that it can't find the kernel source files and headers in Fedora 13. Are they part of the standard distribution? If so, where are they? If they are not how can I install them?

[389-users] Synching with multiple Windows ADs

2010-07-27 Thread John A. Sullivan III
Hello, all. I know one can only have one sync agreement with an AD. However, is it possible to have a sync agreement with multiple ADs. We would like to synchronize the top of our tree with our main, multi-tenant AD and then synchronize lower levels of the domains with separate domains

Re: does Fedora need Google search logic?

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:29:18 +0200 Valent Turkovic wrote: We need some king of google logic that would sort package search results. I've always thought the descriptions of all the packages should be on a nice public website somewhere where google would simply wind up indexing them, and then you

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 20:22:59 mike lan wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 18:49:13 mike lan wrote: the fact is I don't like being spied on my desktop , this means there is no fast way to secure a fedora 12

yum update problem?

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Shaw
I was just updating and saw the following: Updating : nautilus-2.30.1-4.fc13.x86_64 15/72 WARNING: failed to parse type name `boolean' WARNING: invalid or missing type for schema (/schemas/apps/nautilus/preferences/navigation_window_saved_maximized) Is this a

Re: [389-users] Synching with multiple Windows ADs

2010-07-27 Thread UxBoD
Is the DIT object ntuniqueid constructed from the Windows user object uuid and domain sid to keep the uniqueness ? Sent from Zimbra and my HTC Desire - Reply message - From: John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010 21:42 Subject: [389-users] Synching

Re: yum update problem?

2010-07-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/28/2010 03:12 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I was just updating and saw the following: Updating : nautilus-2.30.1-4.fc13.x86_64 15/72 WARNING: failed to parse type name `boolean' WARNING: invalid or missing type for schema

Re: yum update problem?

2010-07-27 Thread Andre Robatino
Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com writes: Is this a problem or something that can be safely ignored? Ignorable usually. Perhaps you can file a bug report though. Already reported: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618588 -- users mailing list

Re: Preupgrade F11 --- F12 ?

2010-07-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Mon, 7/19/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Peter Diercks di-lis...@jls-hh.de wrote: I am running a server under F11. It is a remote machine which I have no physical access to. It has a network connection. I

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 07/20/2010 05:53 AM, Michael Miles wrote: I am finding it hard to deal with as RPMFusion and Fedora are two seperate thing but when it blocks a update then yes I do think it is a Fedora issue. Among the mainstream distributions, Fedora is unique in that,

Re: yum update problem?

2010-07-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Richard Shaw wrote: I was just updating and saw the following: Updating : nautilus-2.30.1-4.fc13.x86_64 15/72 WARNING: failed to parse type name `boolean' WARNING: invalid or missing type for schema

Re: Fedora13 snapshot broken?

2010-07-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Hiisi wrote: 2010/7/26 Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com: Before I put in a CZ entry, in GNOME is the screen shot program broken? When I select select the current window it picks the whole root window instead of the current window. Running an Intel i9125 chipset in VESA mode (the Intel drivers

Re: Fedora13 snapshot broken?

2010-07-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Hiisivery-c...@rambler.ru wrote: 2010/7/26 Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com: Before I put in a CZ entry, in GNOME is the screen shot program broken? When I select select the current window it picks the whole root window instead of the

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, Yes, frustrating, particularly when it's one fundamental thing after another, like ethernet detection, printing, and basic networking. Sure, but it works both ways: sometimes getting up-to-date software from upstream fixes bugs that in a more stable distro you'd have to wait much longer

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, (5 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00) [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found. [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Try again with latest BIOS. The sixth core isn't enabled for some reason. It's a very recent board (Asus Crosshair IV) with the latest BIOS. Where is the

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-27 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: And if you run Radeon chipsets which worked with FC6 and FC9, should you expect that the developers would spend time on gamer features like 3D and compiz while long time users run in text mode or VESA mode at best? Not

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi,  I suspect it to be the main source of instability:  - directly    I happened to visit some sites that were so intensely heavy in content    that they could literally lock the FF (and the machine) for good. Perhaps    the cause was HTML plus JavaScript plus intentionally cleverly coded  

gtk library problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm running FC13 and when X starts, I see a few errors that I hoped someone could help me troubleshoot: (deja-dup-monitor:13186): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_get_uint: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_UINT (value)' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:13183): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/28/2010 04:15 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: And if you run Radeon chipsets which worked with FC6 and FC9, should you expect that the developers would spend time on gamer features like 3D and compiz while long time users run in text mode or VESA mode at best? Not everyone can throw

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-07-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/26/2010 03:48 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Except logon to my netbank which only is possible using Sun's java. :-( Do you have a bug report on that? Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-27 Thread James McKenzie
Bill Davidsen wrote: And if you run Radeon chipsets which worked with FC6 and FC9, should you expect that the developers would spend time on gamer features like 3D and compiz while long time users run in text mode or VESA mode at best? Not everyone can throw away what was a pretty

LVMs and Real Partitions (was Re: Preupgrade F11 --- F12 ?)

2010-07-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] I never could see any advantage to LVMs (over real partitions) other than being able to resize them while they are mounted. They do make it easy to move stuff to new hardware, that can be

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread James McKenzie
JB wrote: James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net writes: STOOPID question time from a long time Linux/UNIX sysadmin: How do I select the VESA video driver at the wonderful install screen? I don't readily see the ability to do this. Maybe I'm missing something. If it's in the

Re: gtk library problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Robert Myers
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: What is the 'libpk-gtk-module.so' module? Gtk-Message: Failed to load module pk-gtk-module: libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Shaw
Just wanted to update everyone as I've still been tinkering with the script some more making improvements and adding more options. Quick summary (some may be duplicates from previous posts): - Added the exact byte capacity of media to discspan.ini file - Added --size-factor option to change disc

Re: selinux throwing incomprehensible errors when trying to run GoogleEarth (Solved, sort of)

2010-07-27 Thread Claude Jones
Dan Walsh's suggestions took care of the Selinux problem. The second problem had to do with running x64 - Google is aware of the issue and this page goes into it: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/earth/thread?tid=314c37c583d3ba62hl=en Some have gotten successful performance by installing