Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 02/14/18 15:52, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/15/18 04:24, Kevin Cummings wrote: >> On 02/13/18 16:59, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 02/14/18 05:23, Stephen Morris wrote: I use Negativo17 because in the past I have found that rpmfusion were very tardy with their Nvidia binary files in kee

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/15/18 10:06, Tim wrote: > On 02/13/18 20:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> Sorry for the confusion. The repo name misled me into thinking it >>> was an official Fedora one. > Ed Greshko: >> Understandable. IMO, they should be discouraged from using the >> "fedora" name for that very reason.

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Tim
On 02/13/18 20:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Sorry for the confusion. The repo name misled me into thinking it >> was an official Fedora one. Ed Greshko: > Understandable. IMO, they should be discouraged from using the > "fedora" name for that very reason. I have mixed feelings about that.

Re: fed/centos - recovery app/process???

2018-02-14 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 13 February 2018, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > I don't know of anything that will just restore all processes that > happened to be running when a crash occurred, or why you would even > want that. You'd be highly likely to get another crash, for one thing. Back when we used

Re: To replace fc27 Gnome with KDE spin?

2018-02-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/14/2018 09:33 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: I mistakenly installed the Gnome Desktop from a live DVD - my SSD is small, and I want KDE, so I have burned a disk with the Spin. Problem now, though, is that Fedora appears to have turned UEFI back on, and I can't find any way of getting back to p

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/2/18 8:18 pm, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 12/2/18 9:12 pm, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Also, I don't know what grub2-install would do to a GPT formatted disk. You can specify "TARGET" with "--target=". Fro

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/2/18 10:05 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 08:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: So from my perspective the vlc package you had problems with works fine on my system. The packages I have installed are: bash-4.4$ rpm -qa vlc* vlc-core-3.0.0-25.20180109git0c462fc.fc27.x8

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/2/18 8:59 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 05:23, Stephen Morris wrote: I use Negativo17 because in the past I have found that rpmfusion were very tardy with their Nvidia binary files in keeping pace with kernel version changes. I have all the negativo17 repositories enabled and all the

Radeon driver in 4.14.18

2018-02-14 Thread Leander Hutton
I'm currently running F27 KDE with a Radeon Pro WX7100 and the open source amdgpu drivers. After a kernel update from 4.14.14 to 4.14.18 my video card is no longer recognized. I'm seeing this in my Xorg.0.log: [ 6.640] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory [ 6.640] (EE) ope

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/15/18 04:24, Kevin Cummings wrote: > On 02/13/18 16:59, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/14/18 05:23, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> I use Negativo17 because in the past I have found that rpmfusion were very >>> tardy >>> with their Nvidia binary files in keeping pace with kernel version changes. >>>

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 02/13/18 16:59, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/14/18 05:23, Stephen Morris wrote: >> I use Negativo17 because in the past I have found that rpmfusion were very >> tardy >> with their Nvidia binary files in keeping pace with kernel version changes. >> I have >> all the negativo17 repositories enable

Re: To replace fc27 Gnome with KDE spin?

2018-02-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 15/2/18 4:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I mistakenly installed the Gnome Desktop from a live DVD - my SSD is small, and I want KDE, so I have burned a disk with the Spin. Problem now, though, is that Fedora appears to have turned UEFI back on, and I can't find any way of getting back to promo

To replace fc27 Gnome with KDE spin?

2018-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
I mistakenly installed the Gnome Desktop from a live DVD - my SSD is small, and I want KDE, so I have burned a disk with the Spin. Problem now, though, is that Fedora appears to have turned UEFI back on, and I can't find any way of getting back to promoting the DVD drive. Interrupting the boo

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 07:38:27AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ > ... snip ... > ah, yes, that's what i'm talking about, thanks. It's a lot less discoverable than it should be. I added a link on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/. -- Matthew Mille

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 04:35:47AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > is there a generic link i can use for a given fedora package that > > will keep up with new versions and just allows students to zip over > > there, read up on the package, and deci

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 04:35:47AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > is there a generic link i can use for a given fedora package that > will keep up with new versions and just allows students to zip over > there, read up on the package, and decide whether they want to install > it to play with it

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 17:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> i want to put together a wiki page for my students with links to >> all of the interesting git-related packages they might want to >> peruse after an upcoming course, and i'm looking for what would be >

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i want to put together a wiki page for my students with links to > all of the interesting git-related packages they might want to > peruse after an upcoming course, and i'm looking for what would be > the authoritative web page documenting each RPM

"canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i want to put together a wiki page for my students with links to all of the interesting git-related packages they might want to peruse after an upcoming course, and i'm looking for what would be the authoritative web page documenting each RPM package. for example, if they wanted to read about

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-14 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 12/2/18 9:12 pm, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> >>> Also, I don't know what grub2-install would do to a GPT formatted >>> disk. >> >> You can specify "TARGET" with "--target=". From the man page: