Re: Keyboard doesn't work in GDM

2011-04-24 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/04/2011 03:31, Richard Shaw a écrit : Anyone else ever seen this? My computer got restarted (presumable by my 3 y.o. daughter) and now all of a sudden my keyboard doesn't work in GDM. Works fine in the BIOS, plymouth, it will even wake

Re: Keyboard doesn't work in GDM

2011-04-24 Thread James Wilkinson
Richard Shaw wrote: My computer got restarted (presumable by my 3 y.o. daughter) and now all of a sudden my keyboard doesn't work in GDM. Works fine in the BIOS, plymouth, it will even wake up the monitor when it goes to sleep, but when GDM comes up I can't do anything. Not even numlock.

Re: Keyboard doesn't work in GDM

2011-04-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:51 AM, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: Stop gdm service and see what happens I'll have to try that, but if there's no gdm service and I telinit 5, what exactly happens? Have a look in dmesg, in /var/log/messages (grep -i gdm) I just

Re: Keyboard doesn't work in GDM

2011-04-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 3:10 AM, James Wilkinson fed...@aprilcottage.co.uk wrote: Out of interest, is it USB? If so, does unplugging it and replugging it help? Yes it's USB, but no, I've tried plugging it in almost every port. I too figured it was a USB issue at first. Same result: Nothing in

Re: Fedora weather station software? -

2011-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 22/04/11 11:02, Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 01:23:21 PM Bob Goodwin wrote: Has anyone been able to interface F-14 with a weather station such as the Oregon Scientific stuff, e.g. the WMR100CA? The excellent Weather Display software is available in a Linux

Re: Keyboard doesn't work in GDM

2011-04-24 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/04/2011 13:48, Richard Shaw a écrit : On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:51 AM, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: Stop gdm service and see what happens I'll have to try that, but if there's no gdm service and I telinit

When an Application is installed using yum install, How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

2011-04-24 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
In Windows the set-up displays the the directory into which an application was installed and most of the installation instructions display the Directory structure into which the Application ultimately gets installed.But How to Find the Linux or Fedora 14 Directory structure into which an

Re: When an Application is installed using yum install, How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

2011-04-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/24/11, Varuna Seneviratna varunasenevira...@gmail.com wrote: In Windows the set-up displays the the directory into which an application was installed and most of the installation instructions display the Directory structure into which the Application ultimately gets installed.But How to

Re: When an Application is installed using yum install, How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

2011-04-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Varuna Seneviratna writes: In Windows the set-up displays the the directory into which an application was installed and most of the installation instructions display the Directory structure into which the Application ultimately gets installed.But How to Find the Linux or Fedora 14 Directory

Re: When an Application is installed using yum install, How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

2011-04-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/24/11, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Varuna Seneviratna writes: In Windows the set-up displays the the directory into which an application was installed and most of the installation instructions display the Directory structure into which the Application ultimately gets

Re: When an Application is installed using yum install, How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

2011-04-24 Thread g
On 04/24/2011 02:59 PM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: In Windows the set-up displays the the directory into which an application was installed and most of the installation instructions display the Directory structure into which the Application ultimately gets installed.But How to Find the Linux or

Re: When an Application is installed using yum install, How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

2011-04-24 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
On 24 April 2011 20:29, Varuna Seneviratna varunasenevira...@gmail.com wrote: In Windows the set-up displays the the directory into which an application was installed and most of the installation instructions display the Directory structure into which the Application ultimately gets

Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread james tate
I have a PowerPoint Slideshow that I want to look at the pictures one at a time in Impress, but how do I stop the slide show from starting in full screen mode. I want to extract a picture from slide show. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Dang! DVD printing busted again...

2011-04-24 Thread Tom Horsley
I don't print DVDs often enough to notice when it first broke, but I can't print them with fedora 14: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699241 If I boot my old fedora 13 partition, it works fine with the same hardware. Could be anywhere from the Qt libraries to cups or hplip. I hate

Re: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed? - pygtk2 broken

2011-04-24 Thread James McKenzie
On 4/19/11 3:24 PM, Christoph A. wrote: On 04/19/2011 03:21 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: And if you upgrade again, the problem is reproducible again? Then it would be a bug. Yes, if reinstalling pygtk2-2.17.0-8 the problems reappear. I tried that out - involuntary - broken packages got

Re: Many connection reset when iptables enabled.

2011-04-24 Thread James McKenzie
On 4/19/11 3:30 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I've configured my system using system-config-firewall and have all sorts of problems accessing Google and Facebook, often resulting in either a hung page load or a connect reset message from Firefox. When I turn off iptables, there are no problems.

Re: Dang! DVD printing busted again...

2011-04-24 Thread Frank Murphy
On 24/04/11 17:08, Tom Horsley wrote: I don't print DVDs often enough to notice when it first broke, but I can't print them with fedora 14: No problem using F14, HP D5460 and the Gimp to print directly to DVD\CD. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing

Re: Dang! DVD printing busted again...

2011-04-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'll just leave my old fedora 13 partition around till the printer dies and always boot it to print a DVD :-). Maybe you should convert it to a virtualized installation :) If you do, you can share it with me! I

Re: BFO source?

2011-04-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:54:36 +1000 Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au wrote: People, Where is the source for BFO? I thought I would try to hack it to allow a F15 Live CD install . . BFO uses gpxe, so you could look there. ;) There was some experemental live media support added... look in

Re: Dang! DVD printing busted again...

2011-04-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:17:51 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: Maybe you should convert it to a virtualized installation :) Actually just for grins I tried connecting the USB printer to a Windows Xp KVM once, and it was a disaster. Mostly all it did was bluescreen :-). I should try glables again. If

Re: Many connection reset when iptables enabled.

2011-04-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/24/2011 09:14 AM, James McKenzie wrote: That is why I have AdBlockPlus on my system. I stopped most of the Flash 'junk' with it. Even better for that type of thing is FlashBlocker. All you see is an outline with a button to click on if you really want to see the flash. And, you can

F13: Nautilus menu item: Compress... does not work?

2011-04-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I tied to compress a folder and its subs into an archive using the Nautilus menu Compress... but it returns the following error message: An error occurred while adding files to the archive. No such file or directory Am I doing something wrong or is this menu item broken? Thanks- -- users

Re: Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:04 AM, james tate binary...@comcast.net wrote: I have a PowerPoint Slideshow that I want to look at the pictures one at a time in Impress, but how do I stop the slide show from starting in full screen mode. I want to extract a picture from slide show. Just open it

Re: Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread james tate
On 04/24/2011 01:46 PM, suvayu ali wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:04 AM, james tatebinary...@comcast.net wrote: I have a PowerPoint Slideshow that I want to look at the pictures one at a time in Impress, but how do I stop the slide show from starting in full screen mode. I want to extract

Re: Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/24/2011 01:27 PM, james tate wrote: On 04/24/2011 01:46 PM, suvayu ali wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:04 AM, james tatebinary...@comcast.net wrote: I have a PowerPoint Slideshow that I want to look at the pictures one at a time in Impress, but how do I stop the slide show from

Re: Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:04 AM, james tate binary...@comcast.net wrote: I have a PowerPoint Slideshow that I want to look at the pictures one at a time in Impress, but how do I stop the slide show from starting in full screen mode. I want to extract a picture from slide show. Is the file

Re: Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I'm not sure what the OO behavior is, but you could open Impress first then File-Open the file. Maybe that way it will not go into presentation mode. +1 I think this should work. -- Suvayu Open source is the

Re: Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread james tate
On 04/24/2011 02:32 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:04 AM, james tatebinary...@comcast.net wrote: I have a PowerPoint Slideshow that I want to look at the pictures one at a time in Impress, but how do I stop the slide show from starting in full screen mode. I want to

ksh problem/question

2011-04-24 Thread JD
I am running ksh in my terminal - have been for many years and I am used to it and like it :) Have a question about backgrounding a job I ran a short script as follows: for i in *.fin; do cp $i Recent{$i#updated} done The I decided to background it by typing Ctl-Z followed by bgCR Well it

Re: ksh problem/question

2011-04-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:13:27 -0700 JD wrote: I am running ksh in my terminal - have been for many years and I am used to it and like it :) The ksh in fedora used to be pdksh, then they switched to the official ksh, and either no one has figured out how to build it correctly or it has been

Re: Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/24/2011 03:06 PM, james tate wrote: On 04/24/2011 02:32 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: .. Thanks guys !! Who would have thought it would be that simple. sometimes pressing ESC key will do it .. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: ksh problem/question

2011-04-24 Thread JD
On 04/24/11 12:27, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:13:27 -0700 JD wrote: I am running ksh in my terminal - have been for many years and I am used to it and like it :) The ksh in fedora used to be pdksh, then they switched to the official ksh, and either no one has figured out how

Re: RT2870 (D-Link System AirPlus G DWL-G122)

2011-04-24 Thread Vicenç Meĺendez
Thanks a lot for your prompt replies, Lázaro and JD. After doing yum -y install kernel-devel, I find the following error message: $make -C tools make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Blai_isabel_Vicenc/Downloads/2008_0528_RT2870_Linux_STA_v1.3.0.0/tools' gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h make[1]: Leaving

Re: ksh problem/question

2011-04-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:24:54 -0700 JD wrote: At any rate, back to my question. Should I file a bug with redhat or with ksh maintainers (if they have a dedicated bugzilla page). I don't think it matters. I'm pretty sure I remember filing bugs before about rotten jobcontrol and nothing ever

Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-24 Thread Tom Horsley
Everything I read tells me this may be possible with hostapd (which I see is in the repos), but that you have to have a wireless dongle that supports it, so I'm hoping some folks have actual examples of working product model numbers :-). (I'm hoping I can provide a wi-fi connection for my phone

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-24 Thread JD
On 04/24/11 13:44, Tom Horsley wrote: Everything I read tells me this may be possible with hostapd (which I see is in the repos), but that you have to have a wireless dongle that supports it, so I'm hoping some folks have actual examples of working product model numbers :-). (I'm hoping I

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:07:25 -0700 JD wrote: (I'm hoping I can provide a wi-fi connection for my phone from my desktop at work). Be sure to set your desktop to enable ip forwarding, and if you have a firewall enabled on y our desktop, be sure to add a rule to allow packets to/from your

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-24 Thread JD
On 04/24/11 14:22, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:07:25 -0700 JD wrote: (I'm hoping I can provide a wi-fi connection for my phone from my desktop at work). Be sure to set your desktop to enable ip forwarding, and if you have a firewall enabled on y our desktop, be sure to add a

ecryptfs and password

2011-04-24 Thread ssc1478
Hi, I'm new to Fedora - been using Ubuntu for years. I just installed Fedora 14 to my laptop and selected to encrypt /home. When I boot, I have to enter the password for the encrypted directory. Did I set it up wrong? I didn't expect to have to enter the password at boot but instead thought

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011-04-24 Thread Digimer
On 04/24/2011 09:46 PM, ssc1478 wrote: Hi, I'm new to Fedora - been using Ubuntu for years. I just installed Fedora 14 to my laptop and selected to encrypt /home. When I boot, I have to enter the password for the encrypted directory. Did I set it up wrong? I didn't expect to have to

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-24 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 17:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: I should also be sure to setup wireless security and not broadcast my SSID, etc. (so as not to attract the MIS department's attention, who would surely tell me I'm not allowed no matter how secure I make the interface :-). If they're

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-24 Thread James McKenzie
On 4/24/11 8:28 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 17:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: I should also be sure to setup wireless security and not broadcast my SSID, etc. (so as not to attract the MIS department's attention, who would surely tell me I'm not allowed no matter how secure I make the

UPnP monitoring

2011-04-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I *think* I might be having trouble with UPnP. It's enabled on my router but qbittorrent says it can't see any UPnP-enabled routers. This used to work so I'm not sure what might have changed. Is there anything I should look at in iptables? Are there any tools for checking UPnP-related issues?

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: If they're doing their job, then not broadcasting your SSID isn't going to help. Oh yeah, because IT departments are continuously war driving around the office with directional antennas, scanning the airwaves for access

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-24 Thread JD
On 04/24/11 21:06, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Timignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: If they're doing their job, then not broadcasting your SSID isn't going to help. Oh yeah, because IT departments are continuously war driving around the office with directional

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011-04-24 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/2011 09:48 AM, Digimer wrote: On 04/24/2011 09:46 PM, ssc1478 wrote: Hi, I'm new to Fedora - been using Ubuntu for years. I just installed Fedora 14 to my laptop and selected to encrypt /home. When I boot, I have to enter the password

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011-04-24 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/24/2011 11:58 PM, Gregory Hosler wrote: alternately, you can setup /etc/crypttab so that the password is not entered manually. All the best, -Greg Would this not then defeat the purpose of encrypting the partition ? :) -BEGIN