Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-05 Thread poma
On 05.02.2014 22:57, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > I just assumed it would be better than the free open source application. > Maybe it is but I don't see much difference. I believe VMware deals with > the mouse/cursor a bit more conveniently, less messing with the right > CTRL key.

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20 [SOLVED]

2014-02-05 Thread Edward M
On 2/3/2014 8:16 PM, g wrote: If it's bad then make it good. "bad" can be _good_. like, "bad ass software". like, "bad to the bone". "bad" as _good_ just depends on which side of the "big pond" you are from. For the eternal law is that there is no good without bad, no beauty witho

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/05/2014 11:38 AM, Ed Greshko issued this missive: On 02/06/14 00:57, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 February 2014, Ed Greshko sent: Never a problem here. Keyboard/mouse retain connection no matter what. I even take the keyboard out of reception range to vacuum out the cat hair whi

Re: virtualization on f20

2014-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Just tried fedora 20 running off a 1G thumb drive and am impressed with its > speed. Looks like a lot of things are coming together. Good job. > > I'm most interested in virtualization. yum didn't show any package groups > related to that and

virtualization on f20

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, Just tried fedora 20 running off a 1G thumb drive and am impressed with its speed. Looks like a lot of things are coming together. Good job. I'm most interested in virtualization. yum didn't show any package groups related to that and I didn't find much in the release notes. Anyb

Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 05/02/14 15:42, poma wrote: The application appears to be intended primarily for Windows users who > need to run Linux, etc. Linux users are not supported. Am I wrong? http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/pdf/VMware_HOS_Compatibility_Guide.pdf Do you see reference to Fedora?;) Once upon

Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-05 Thread poma
On 05.02.2014 19:57, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: … > If it was readily available I would run the patch for 3.12, but I > haven't had much success finding it and even then when the next kernel > comes along I'm back searching for a patch again. It's not worth it to > me as long as vi

Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 05/02/14 14:54, David wrote: In an earlier message you named the program and it ended with '.txt'. '.txt' is not an executable file it would be a 'text' document for Windows. IIRC the Linux version of VMware ends with '.bunch' Or something similar to that. -- David That is an application th

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-05 Thread g
hello again, On 02/05/2014 08:52 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: It is the older trackball with the ball on the left. I have one at work with the ball in the center. In any case, the latest update seemed to have alleviated the problem. Not sure what the issue was.. great. glad to hear you have your

Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-05 Thread David
On 2/5/2014 1:57 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 05/02/14 05:57, John Austin wrote: >> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA >> wrote: >>> On 04/02/14 20:42, Rick Stevens wrote: > For VMware Workstation 10 there's no patch needed. Or at least

Re: Most recent iso file for installing F20

2014-02-05 Thread Martin Airs
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2014 14:57:53 Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to install F20. Is there some iso file more recent than > the one made available at the release date of F20? If so, where can > one download it? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul the best way to get the most recent p

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/06/14 00:57, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 04 February 2014, Ed Greshko sent: >> Never a problem here. Keyboard/mouse retain connection no matter >> what. I even take the keyboard out of reception range to vacuum out >> the cat hair while the system is up and bring it back and it >> r

Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 05/02/14 05:57, John Austin wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 04/02/14 20:42, Rick Stevens wrote: For VMware Workstation 10 there's no patch needed. Or at least I haven't needed one. I'm running Windows 7 in a VM with no issues. I run W

Re: BTRFS/Rollback & Yum Snapshot Plugin

2014-02-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:24 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 02/03/2014 03:16 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> It seems to me that there will be some error message in the log >> as the (stale) fstab tries to do a rw mount of a different subvol on >> top of the one specified by rootflags=. Or maybe it succe

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 04 February 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > I've had poor results from Logitech BT mice (mechanical problems, > several have failed after a few months of use). The mouse I keep repairing is a cheap basic Logitech. I've dirtied my other computer with a cheap Microsoft mou

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 04 February 2014, Ed Greshko sent: > Never a problem here. Keyboard/mouse retain connection no matter > what. I even take the keyboard out of reception range to vacuum out > the cat hair while the system is up and bring it back and it > reestablishes connection without prob

Re: sound works randomly?

2014-02-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 February 2014, Ed Greshko sent: > For that I simply use "pavucontrol". I use that instead of "kmix" > since it allows me to place the volume at 153%. Caution with that... It works well, for dealing with too-quiet audio (audio that never, originally, reached maximum out

Re: Most recent iso file for installing F20

2014-02-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 February 2014, Paul Smith sent: > I would like to install F20. Is there some iso file more recent than > the one made available at the release date of F20? If so, where can > one download it? The release ISO is the release ISO, it doesn't get updated revisions. Any updat

Re: 2 TB Seagate Drive ??

2014-02-05 Thread Jim
On 02/04/2014 02:20 PM, Dan Thurman wrote: On 02/04/2014 01:45 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Jim wrote: Fedora 18. Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST2000DM001 Has anyone had any experiernce with this hard d

Re: Virt-Manager with MacVTap not working?

2014-02-05 Thread John Obaterspok
2014-02-05 Jorge Fábregas : > On 02/05/2014 10:29 AM, John Obaterspok wrote: > > I've setup a VM with default networking (NAT) and this works fine but > hosts > > on my LAN can't get to the VM since it uses NAT. > > There are two possible scenarios that I can think of: > > - Keep using the default

Re: BTRFS/Rollback & Yum Snapshot Plugin

2014-02-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:23 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > I haven't follow the openSUSE community for years. Do you think they've > nailed most of these issues? or all distros on the same boat ? I'd say it's all pretty much up in the air. openSUSE uses snapper by default, so they take snapshots r

Re: Virt-Manager with MacVTap not working?

2014-02-05 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/05/2014 10:29 AM, John Obaterspok wrote: > I've setup a VM with default networking (NAT) and this works fine but hosts > on my LAN can't get to the VM since it uses NAT. There are two possible scenarios that I can think of: - Keep using the default networking (NAT) but you'll have to create

Most recent iso file for installing F20

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I would like to install F20. Is there some iso file more recent than the one made available at the release date of F20? If so, where can one download it? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-05 Thread Jerry Feldman
It is the older trackball with the ball on the left. I have one at work with the ball in the center. In any case, the latest update seemed to have alleviated the problem. Not sure what the issue was.. On 02/04/2014 05:45 PM, g wrote: > > hello jerry, > > On 02/04/2014 11:45 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote

Virt-Manager with MacVTap not working?

2014-02-05 Thread John Obaterspok
Hello, I've setup a VM with default networking (NAT) and this works fine but hosts on my LAN can't get to the VM since it uses NAT. When I try to set network to use MacVTap with either default or bridged I get no networking for the VM. Any hints around this? I would like to have the VM's on the

Re: sound works randomly?

2014-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/05/14 20:53, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:47:27 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I use KDE. As such, to ensure I get sound under KDE I would have to bring >> up "systemsettings" go to "Multimedia--->Audio and Video Settings and ensure >> that "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" is

Re: sound works randomly?

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:47:27 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > I use KDE. As such, to ensure I get sound under KDE I would have to bring up > "systemsettings" go to "Multimedia--->Audio and Video Settings and ensure > that "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" is at the top of the preference list for > the p

Re: sound works randomly?

2014-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/05/14 20:27, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 13:07:51 -0500 > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> but if I run >> mplayer or youtube in google-chrome, I still get no sound. > I've been doing more experiments. I made a brand new user > and logged in as him. He can get sound from mplayer and > yout

Re: sound works randomly?

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 13:07:51 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > but if I run > mplayer or youtube in google-chrome, I still get no sound. I've been doing more experiments. I made a brand new user and logged in as him. He can get sound from mplayer and youtube, but only when logging into a gnome session.

Re: Fedora 20 Installation Problem

2014-02-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:13:55AM +, L.G. wrote: > Today I have tried to install Fedora 20 on my Sony SVE1512Y1ESI notebook. > First of all I have loaded a .ISO image on my USB pen drive, using very > useful UltraISO program. At this point I have restarted my PC and, after > appropriate config

Re: BTRFS/Rollback & Yum Snapshot Plugin

2014-02-05 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/03/2014 03:16 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > It seems to me that there will be some error message in the log > as the (stale) fstab tries to do a rw mount of a different subvol on > top of the one specified by rootflags=. Or maybe it succeeds silently, > I haven't recently tested this scenario.

Re: BTRFS/Rollback & Yum Snapshot Plugin

2014-02-05 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/03/2014 03:16 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Yes, there are challenges, much of which are the result of unanswered > questions. For example: > > What should the layout be? (See opensuse's layout for an alternative to > Fedora's.) How discoverable should this be for mortal users vs experts? > How

Fedora 20 Installation Problem

2014-02-05 Thread L.G.
Good morning everybody. Today I have tried to install Fedora 20 on my Sony SVE1512Y1ESI notebook. First of all I have loaded a .ISO image on my USB pen drive, using very useful UltraISO program. At this point I have restarted my PC and, after appropriate configurations, I have run the Fedora ins

Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-05 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 04/02/14 20:42, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> > >> For VMware Workstation 10 there's no patch needed. Or at least I > >> haven't needed one. I'm running Windows 7 in a VM with no issues. > > > > I run Win7 and Win8 using

Re: another systemd oddity: why is "syslog.socket" inactive when syslog is running?

2014-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/05/14 17:06, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just another one of those little curiosities -- playing on my f20 > system and the difference between: > > $ systemctl list-sockets > $ systemctl list-sockets --all > > is the single additional line: > >> /run/systemd/journal/syslog syslog.socket

Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-05 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/04/2014 06:10 PM, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: > I'm changing my PC (from an old Fedora 14) and I installed Fedora 20. > I need to have a Windows virtual machine Hi Ambrogio, I was on the same boat: using F14 until a couple of weeks ago (avoiding GNOM3 mainly) but now I'm using F20 along with

Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/02/14 20:42, Rick Stevens wrote: For VMware Workstation 10 there's no patch needed. Or at least I haven't needed one. I'm running Windows 7 in a VM with no issues. I run Win7 and Win8 using libvirt straight out of the box on 64-bit F19 with no issues. Granted, I don't do anything fanc

Re: confused by "inactive dead" syslog.target on fedora 20

2014-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/05/14 16:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 02/05/14 05:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> just digging into systemd (so be prepared for several potentially >>> silly questions), and i was playing with some variations of listing >>> systemctl services,

another systemd oddity: why is "syslog.socket" inactive when syslog is running?

2014-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just another one of those little curiosities -- playing on my f20 system and the difference between: $ systemctl list-sockets $ systemctl list-sockets --all is the single additional line: > /run/systemd/journal/syslog syslog.socketrsyslog.service which seems odd when syslog is clearl

Re: confused by "inactive dead" syslog.target on fedora 20

2014-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/05/14 05:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just digging into systemd (so be prepared for several potentially > > silly questions), and i was playing with some variations of listing > > systemctl services, and i ran: > > > > # systemctl list-units -t ta