Re: Configuring a new laptop

2023-10-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/12/23 19:09, Roger Heflin wrote: The only thing I have had issues with on a laptop is the wifi cards. The default cards in the cheaper laptops seem to be RealTek and they seem to be generally troublesome. I have replaced my last 2 with current $20 intel cards and that has significantly

Re: Configuring a new laptop

2023-10-12 Thread Roger Heflin
The only thing I have had issues with on a laptop is the wifi cards. The default cards in the cheaper laptops seem to be RealTek and they seem to be generally troublesome. I have replaced my last 2 with current $20 intel cards and that has significantly improved my wifi experience. Pretty much

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
Since my previous post, I tried gnome with X11. This time I got a useful message: no H.264 decoder. I installed the decoder. Videos will play videos on both wayland and X11. Firefox only on X11. On Thu, 12 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: mesa is what provides opengl. Best guess is:

Configuring a new laptop

2023-10-12 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Features, options ... how to choose :-)? Is there a list of known-to-be-supported hardware: CPU, graphics ...?? Stupid question, right? Thanks ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: how to remove rhgb quiet from grub & make it permanent

2023-10-12 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 18:14 +0200, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: > On 12/10/2023 16:08, olivares33561 via users wrote: > > Dear kind fedora users, > > > > I will like to remove rhgb quiet from grub. I have checked out some > > literature[1] and want to make sure not to mess up my system. I have a >

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-12 Thread Joe Zeff
I have the appropriate netinstall for F38 and the CHECKSUM file downloaded and am trying to verify the download. Everything has gone well, until the last step: sha256sum -c Fedora-Everything-38-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM When instead of telling me that the .iso is good, I get this: sha256sum:

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/12/2023 12:34 PM, Eldon wrote: Here are a few things to try. It is possible that you are starting in some sort of USB mode, and then the bootloader is trying to switch mid-boot Three things to remember: first, if I use one of the USB ports, it tries to boot but if I use the other, it

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-12 Thread Eldon
Here are a few things to try. It is possible that you are starting in some sort of USB mode, and then the bootloader is trying to switch mid-boot Some ideas: 1) Look through the BIOS for usb compatibility boot modes and toggle them. It's not uncommon for new BIOSes to have different options to

Re: how to remove rhgb quiet from grub & make it permanent

2023-10-12 Thread Doug Herr
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 9:14 AM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: > On 12/10/2023 16:08, olivares33561 via users wrote: >> Dear kind fedora users, [snip] > The easiest way is using "grubby", the command: > # grubby --remove-args="rhgb quiet" --update-kernel=DEFAULT > will remove "rhgb quiet" from the

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/12/2023 07:04 AM, Tim via users wrote: How did you install F35 on it before? A LiveUSB, of course, just like I'm trying now. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: how to remove rhgb quiet from grub & make it permanent

2023-10-12 Thread GianPiero Puccioni
On 12/10/2023 16:08, olivares33561 via users wrote: Dear kind fedora users, I will like to remove rhgb quiet from grub. I have checked out some literature[1] and want to make sure not to mess up my system. I have a little problem, when loading system sometimes I don't get a desktop and have

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread Roger Heflin
mesa is what provides opengl. Best guess is: mesa-dri-drivers, mesa-vdpau-drivers and mesa-va-drivers-freeworld that have video drivers, but also some other mesa pieces that provide opengl may need to be install (or installing the above may install those extra pieces). glxgears and glxinfo will

Re: how to remove rhgb quiet from grub & make it permanent

2023-10-12 Thread olivares33561 via users
Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Thursday, October 12th, 2023 at 9:44 AM, stan via users wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:08:23 + > olivares33561 via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:16:41 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Can anyone play videos on F38? > If so, how did you do it? > > Firefox in uncommunicative when it will not play a video. > Videos says "cannot initialise OpenGL support". Found this possibility for firefox online. Advice: You

Re: how to remove rhgb quiet from grub & make it permanent

2023-10-12 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:08:23 + olivares33561 via users wrote: > I will like to remove rhgb quiet from grub. I have checked out some I don't know if this is the official way to do it, but, as root or sudo, edit the file /etc/default/grub and remove the rhgb quiet from the kernel command

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-12 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:11:35 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > only open a few nights a week. I'm going to try using a netinstall, > but I've never done that before, so I'd appreciate a little guidance I use the minimal netinstall, but on optical media. I have a dvd drive, with lots of old empty disks,

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
Can anyone play videos on F38? If so, how did you do it? Firefox in uncommunicative when it will not play a video. Videos says "cannot initialise OpenGL support". -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, happily entwined

how to remove rhgb quiet from grub & make it permanent

2023-10-12 Thread olivares33561 via users
Dear kind fedora users, I will like to remove rhgb quiet from grub. I have checked out some literature[1] and want to make sure not to mess up my system. I have a little problem, when loading system sometimes I don't get a desktop and have "No display" on screen. I have to manually poweroff

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-12 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> This is on a brand new computer? Joe Zeff: > No. It's on a laptop that I'd originally installed F35 because that's > what was current at the time. The hard drive has failed and a new one > installed. It's not in what you quoted, but when I picked the laptop up > from the tech shop,