Re: Steam on Fedora

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/04/2013 07:04 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: Correct, instead use http://software.opensuse.org/package/steam One should be aware of the license[1], including: B. You may not, in whole or in part: copy, photocopy, reproduce, translate, reverse engineer (with the exception of specific

Re: Steam on Fedora

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/04/2013 07:48 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: Pretty standard legal bulls**t for a closed source application. Why, did you expect it to be open sourced? Valve's own wiki points to this location, so for now it's the official way of getting it to run on Fedora. No, of course I didn't expect

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/03/2013 07:11 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: I'm I not in 2013? Is this back to 1999 so I need to recompile my own kernel to get anything working? I have been using Fedora since FC1 and reported numerous bugs but none stopped me from working, since F16 kernel (sandybridge atleast)

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/03/2013 08:49 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Now I ended up with 55MB kernel image, that is 10x bigger than fedora kernels, and 140MB initramfs for 3.7.1 kernel which I don't have space for on my /boot partition :( great. Could you just build/install kernel 3.7.0 from rawhide? -c

Re: Steam on Fedora

2012-12-22 Thread Chris Smart
On 12/22/2012 12:14 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: Update: looks like Spot's repo is now gone From memory, Steam is not re-distributable.. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Chinese written character input support?

2012-10-27 Thread Chris Smart
Installed Fedora 17 on a laptop and trying to get Chinese input working for a user who doesn't know pinyin (therefore he needs to write the characters using mouse/tablet). I've tried WritRecogn and while it recognises characters, doesn't input them anywhere (like into Firefox). I've installed

Re: Intel HD 3000?

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com wrote: Try http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-intel/2.15.0/3.fc15/x86_64/xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.15.0-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm That package works well - no black screen. I tried to replicate your issues, but it was

Re: Intel HD 3000?

2011-05-21 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com wrote: Looks familiar.  It seems to only affect the Oxygen widget style and window decorations, however.  Since I prefer Cleanlooks and Plastik respectively, I had forgotten about it. Thanks. I changed the widget style and the

Re: Intel HD 3000?

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com wrote: At this point, I'm reasonably happy.  I'm able to run KWin compositing and OpenGL screensavers, which is all I really want to do. Hey Ian, The laptop arrived and I put F15 on it which works well, including 3D. The only

Re: Amazing Linux victory!

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: I just hooked up a Dell Zino HD via hdmi to a vizio HD TV and no power on earth seemed to be able to get the desktop to display at full width and height 1920x1080 resolution with the ATI video that comes with it in

Re: yum problems

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Walter Cazzola cazz...@dico.unimi.it wrote: Dear Fedora Users, I'm just puzzled from an error I get from yum: What if you clean out yum first? yum clean all -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Intel HD 3000?

2011-05-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running F15 on a Core i7 2600 system.  I believe that it has HD 2000 graphics, but I'm not sure what the actual difference is. Thanks Ian. AFAIK that's the same chip, just with slower clock than the 3000. At this

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:15 AM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: I have disabled selinux. So I have no idea what/who is changing it back. This is the reason why I am asking this list. The virtualbox list does not seem to have an answer. You probably need to create a udev rule to match your device

Re: What is wrong with Tesseract ?

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:29 AM, james tate binary...@comcast.net wrote: what language pack, there is no english pack in the fedora repo. I don't know about how Fedora packages it - like I said, it's a wild stab in the dark :-) From: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ Important Download

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: [snip] Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I went with Debian. Dunno if this helps, but:

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: FWIW, and for the archives, the nvidia kmod driver doesn't show the 'acorn thingy' on boot, but a set of text-mode bars at the bottom of the screen, at least on my F14 boxk, a Dell Precision M65 with an nVidia Quadro FX 350M.  

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:19 PM, DB freddog...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi all, Yet again a problem! Are you running NVIDIA driver? Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:23 PM, DB freddog...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The nearest I can do to a normal boot is to start in init 3 to the cli, which gives in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: Everything is normal down to the last 3 or 4 lines 481.125] (EE) No devices detected         Fatal service error    

Re: Brasero has lost its mind!

2011-04-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Brasero has been buggy for me (and apparently others, I've found) for a while. Shouldn't the default burning app for Gnome get a little more attention? It's never worked properly for me, on any machine I've tried, since

Re: Need help with rpmbuild

2011-03-23 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Specifically the install section. I'm not understanding how the %install section works with the %files section. I hope this is not considered OT. AFAIK, the %install section is what you're actually copying as the

Re: Brasero to create video DVD?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lots of questions today. I'm trying to use brasero on fc14 x86_64 to create a DVD video from an AVI that I downloaded, and was just wondering what people's opinion was of this program? sudo yum erase brasero sudo yum

Re: Brasero to create video DVD?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, to answer another post from this thread, I am indeed trying to create a standard DVD movie from an AVI for an older regular DVD player that doesn't directly play AVIs. Here's how you can create a basic DVD (no editing

Re: Brasero to create video DVD?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:39 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to combine 2 and 3 into a single invocation? Most likely, but I was breaking out the steps for clarification of what's actually happening. Also, perhaps the 4th step wold be better as: growisofs -dvd-compat

AES-NI useful?

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Smart
Anyone know how useful AES-NI are in new Intel CPUs for encrypting one's hard drive? Is it well supported in the kernel, and does the hardware implementation make a lot of difference (I'm guessing so, as that's the point, but can't find any specific references..) -c -- users mailing list

Re: AES-NI useful?

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Yes, the latest kernel supports it. Fedora 13 14 support it. It should reduce the overhead of LUKS drive encryption to near nil from my understanding. Great, that's what I was hoping! -c -- users mailing list

Re: help setting umask corrently

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Gregory Machin g...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: Hi. I have a hack that sets the usmak for users in /etc/bashrc umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r A umask is back-to-front, so don't you want something like this in /etc/skel/bash.profile umask 077 That means, the user has

Re: help setting umask corrently

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Gregory Machin g...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: so I ended up with umask 003 Just to make sure you want it, this means everyone can read everyone else's data. It's equal to 774. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Kororaa 14 Beta2 released

2011-03-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote:        My attempts to try this out (after having asked for it!) have been attended by great difficulty and annoyance, as Mark Twain said of learning German.        But I have tried it, on an EeePC 701, and liked it. I

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@gmail.com wrote: Yum (which was based off of the Yellow Dog Unix system for Macs) was Really? I thought it was Yellow Dog Linux for Power architecture (which Macs were at the time). built on a case sensitive file system.  Thus, to

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@gmail.com wrote: True, and this applies mostly to Western languages, with maybe Viet as an exception. The 'real' fun starts when you have a file in German with the double s character or an umlatted a, o or u and a file with the

Re: Fedora/3.6.14-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.14 youTube colors are mostly red/yellow, how to reset?

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: The last two updates seems to have messed up the color palette for FF YouTube videos. All I see are mostly red/yellow colors. Hardware acceleration on Flash? Right click, disable. -c -- users mailing list

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: In addition to all the suggestions you already got, I'd add a non-software one: replace the HDD with a SSD. It has an amazing impact on the daemon starting phase. True, thanks. -c -- users mailing list

Re: KDE Appearance/icons

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote: In F14, when using gnome, I could go to where themes are selected (personal/appearance?) and change icons that theme used. How do you do this in KDE in F14? If I understand correctly, start up System Settings and then open

Re: KDE Appearance/icons

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote: I know one thing, I remember couple years ago seeing a KDE theme/widget or something, that was part of the desktop that had all kinds of cook stuff with it, and can't remember what it was. Not sure, but there are other

Re: KDE Themes

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote: I downloaded a theme for KDE (kde-look.org I think) and it's a tar'd file.  I also extracted it.  How do I add it to KDE?  DO I point something at the unextracted source file, or do I point something at the 2 extracted

Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
Hi all, Has anyone got any tips for decreasing boot time? I've done the usual things, such as disable (what I think are) unnecessary services for a desktop, but are there any other tips? These are the services I'm disabling, please tell me if you think any of those are a stupid choice: capi,

Re: Live CD install

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM, m...@miketc.net wrote: When  you boot up a live cd and go to install to hard drive, does it do it's own partitioning, or do you have the option of customizing it yourself? Can customise it yourself, or let it automatically do it. -c -- users mailing list

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: What are you doing which is taking time? You can put a tool like btime in rc.local to show what the system did during boot, in terms of cpu use and iowait. Are you mounting filesystems which could be mounted after the login

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: run lsmod to see all the modules loaded, many of which you do not need because fedora, like most all linux distribs is written to be 'universal'. that is 'one shoe fits all'. in so doing, there are many modules loaded that you do

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:21 PM, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know about btime but I have used bootchart before. It generates amazingly detailed charts for the entire boot process. All you need to do is put init=/sbin/bootchartd in the kernel line and once you have

Re: F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40 LCD TV

2011-02-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Geoffrey Leach ge...@hughes.net wrote: What does the xrandr command show when you have it plugged in? I have a (possibly) similar Sony Bravia. I'm running 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10 on an ASUS P5N7A-VM with an nVidia MCP79 (probably significant) HDMI video worked

Re: F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40 LCD TV

2011-02-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Geoffrey Leach ge...@hughes.net wrote: Like I said, FWIW. Sure, just making it clearer for him, in case. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40 LCD TV

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM, barry yu barry10...@gmail.com wrote: I have an HP Pavilion dv3 AMD Tution x2 dual core, pre loaded Vista H Premium 64bit, the HDMI function works soon as the Vista starts booting into desktop, both sound and video works fine with Sony 40 LCD 16x9 TV through

Re: Fedora Core 14 wireless issue with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200)

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Sebastian seb...@gmail.com wrote: Any hints to get wirless working? Is there a firmware update for your machine/wireless card? Seems to suggest that the EEPROM is too old..? http://osdir.com/ml/linux-wireless/2009-05/msg00293.html -c -- users mailing list

Re: Video editor

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Is there a video editor which can easily snip bits from several files and write them to another? We have video of a kids football game taken with multiple cameras, and would like to quickly combine the pictures in

Re: USB 3.0 support, and results.

2011-02-19 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: The first thing, of course, was to re-enable USB 3.0 (xHCI) functionality; found that on the F14 bugs page ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs#USB_3.0_ports_not_working ). Once that was done, the WD drive came up

Re: username, password and proxy setting for yum and in general

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Alain Roger raf.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, at work i installed Fedora 14 and i needed to export http_proxy variable because we use a proxy. What kind of proxy is it? Windows NTLM? -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:18 AM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: hey g consider /etc/default/useradd;  # useradd defaults file  GROUP=100,20,63,1010,2020 Thanks, but I actually tried this and it didn't work because it treats them as a single group, 100,20,63.. and doesn't separate them :-( -c

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:27 AM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: then how about this; add an 'alias' to you '.bashrc', like 'usernew'  that will call a script that takes name entry as argument and passes it to I did something similar in the end, but I was looking for a proper way to set a

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: /etc/default/useradd contains the values used to fill out the useradd command if you don't put in the options, but it doesn't supply anything for the -G|--groups option of useradd.  You still need to add that option to the

Kororaa 14 Beta2 released

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smart
If anyone's interested, Beta2 has been released (https://kororaa.org/download). This release includes several fixes, updates, as well as the following major changes: * GNOME version – that’s right, now Kororaa comes with GNOME too! * GNOME Shell – experience the future of the GNOME

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: beesu should help Yep, thanks Rahul. I've added this and it works fine - would be good if it respected sudoers though, instead of always prompting for root's password :-) I saw another post about doing it the proper way

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: or see http://fedoranews.org/contributors/matt_hansen/nautilus/ for a tutorial Yep, that's the post I saw, thanks :-) -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: sudo in .desktop file when launching graphical app

2011-02-08 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/matt_hansen/nautilus/ Ahhh, so _that's_ how it works.. thanks! -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smart
Anyone know the GNOME version of kdesu? I thought it used to be gtksu or something, but I can't find it. I have a script which I want to run as root, so in KDE I have kdesu '/path/to/script' - how can I do this in GNOME? Thanks, -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Jatin K ssh.fed...@gmail.com wrote: su -c '/path/to/script'     I didn't mention that the script is a graphical program which is launched by a .desktop file, so I never see the prompt to put in the password if I use su or sudo. Thanks for the link to gksu,

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Hiisi hi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: What's the name of the program? One can usually find the actual command executed by desktop icon examining it's properties. IMHO, there's not yet a thing that can't be done in text mode. And hopefully will never be. It's a

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: It uses either one. I also have xpdf installed, as well. No dice. Does it work for you? Yep, it works for me.. i.e. http://xena.sourceforge.net/media/DigitalPresevervationBrochure.pdf Comes up inside Firefox using

Default user groups

2011-02-05 Thread Chris Smart
Does anyone know where Fedora sets the default user groups for new users? Say I want to create a new user and have them automatically added to a few more groups, how can one do that? Thanks! -c --   _  °v° /(_)\  ^ ^  Chris Smart -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: Does anyone know where Fedora sets the default user groups for new users? Or is there not such config and in the scripts (such as firstboot) it passes the group options to adduser command? -c -- users mailing list

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: When you use the user add gui it puts that user into a group with his username as the group name. Then you can use chgrp to put that user into any group you want to. Sure, but I'm after a way to specify what groups a

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: Or is there not such config and in the scripts (such as firstboot) it passes the group options to adduser command? Maybe I'll just alias it.. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-29 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: Why wouldn't they put that libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus in with the rest of the RPM's and install all at once ? Could be because they conflict with each other (and aren't required)? -c -- users mailing list

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-28 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: I forgot to install redhat-menus, I did so but I got the following error when I ran  yum localinstall --nogpgcheck; Did you run it and pass the location of the redhat menus rpm? If you're in the extracted directory, then it

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-28 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: Or you can go into that directory and just install libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus-3.3-6.noarch.rpm (without the dir, obviously). So that would be 2 commands: cd desktop-integration yum localinstall --nogpgcheck

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:06 PM, L yuan...@gmail.com wrote: I tried this    wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.3.0/rpm/x86_64/LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz    tar zxvf LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz    cd

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: Don't forget your menus: sudo yum localinstall --nogpgckeck \ desktop-integration/libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus-3.3-6.noarch.rpm Gah, with check spelt right: sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck \ desktop-integration

Re: USB Serial Port

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Mike Dwiggins m...@azdwiggins.com wrote: Anyone know a simple way or the correct place to look for info about this on the Web? When you plug it in, dmesg should tell you. It's probably something like /dev/ttyUSB0 -c -- users mailing list

Help test extras installer

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Smart
In case anyone's interested, please help me test the new Kororaa bash extras installer script for Fedora. Essentially, I’ve merged the original Flash and NVIDIA driver installers into a new bash script, which also handles AMD’s fglrx driver. It supports KDE, GNOME as well as console, and if you

Re: HELP!!! I Borked Java...

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Christopher A. Williams chriswfed...@cawllc.com wrote: I tried following the guides to install SunOracle Java 1.6 Update 23 on my F14 x64 system. It got completely messed up. This might help get Sun Java working, if you want to: http://oliver.net.au/?p=92 -c

Re: PackageKit and no_proxy

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:03 PM, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: You can trying putting the proxy in yum.conf man yum.conf /proxy So you mean to override the proxy setting in yum.conf to nothing? That way PackageKit will use that one instead of the system proxy? I'll try that

Re: PackageKit and no_proxy

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: I've commented on the bug that you opened here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33009 Yep, thanks Richard. I've replied :-) -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

PackageKit and no_proxy

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Smart
Greetings. We have some machines which need a proxy to access the Internet, but we use a local mirror for Fedora packages (which doesn't go through the proxy). The proxy settings are configured in the GNOME proxy tool, which sets environment variables such as http_proxy and https_proxy, etc. The

Re: kde4 vs gnome ... stick with gnome for now

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: Add it to the menu first. Right-click the kde menu icon, select menu editor, do an add item in a convenient position, save, close. Then go to the menu, right-click your app, and select add to panel. Make sure to

Re: Easy PPTP Setup?

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker cur...@gmail.com wrote:  What tools can you recommend? Thanks! Perhaps try: su -c 'yum install NetworkManager-pptp' Then add it using NetworkManager? -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Easy PPTP Setup?

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker cur...@gmail.com wrote:  How do I do that?  On the other machine that I don't have access right now (which happens to be a laptop), there is a NetworkManager icon in the upper right corner, on the menu bar. Plus, there is a menu item to

Re: Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14!

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: What are you replying to? The message you quote is not in the archives. Looks like a post to the Fedora Forums: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-27348.html -c -- users mailing list

Re: Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14!

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: Looks like a post to the Fedora Forums: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-27348.html Sorry, ignore that :-) Google can't help me, but it's about http://fedorafaq.com -c -- users mailing list users

Re: Kororaa Lite beta released

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote:        I keep getting some puny 1 1/2 K html document *instead of the .iso I tell a browser (so far, Midori, Dillo, Opera) to get.        whimper, sniff Oh, really? What link are you downloading from? I just tried

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: We could probably combine efforts or to the extend possible merge kickstart changes. Hi Rahul, Sounds good, we'll stay in touch. There are some other things I still want to add to this, so we'll see how we go. Still

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote:        Sorry! I didn't mean to diss KDE -- I don't require anyone else to agree with me -- but only to say we have a dozen years' worth of head start on Gnome that we'd lose going to KDE. No worries ;-) -c -- users

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: Some of you might remember Kororaa from back in the day. Well after switching to Fedora a year and a half or so ago (and loving it), I've re-created Kororaa as a KDE Fedora Remix (inspired by Omega, so thanks Rahul

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-25 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: Some of you might remember Kororaa from back in the day. Well after switching to Fedora a year and a half or so ago (and loving it), I've re-created Kororaa as a KDE Fedora Remix (inspired by Omega, so thanks Rahul

Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Smart
Some of you might remember Kororaa from back in the day. Well after switching to Fedora a year and a half or so ago (and loving it), I've re-created Kororaa as a KDE Fedora Remix (inspired by Omega, so thanks Rahul). I've just released an installable beta version of the x86_64 Live DVD (1.5GB) via

Re: command wvdial not found

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Adil Adil adil.dri...@yahoo.com wrote: [snip] I checked on internet, I found there is a way to do that using wvdial. But I cannot find it. Does this command have another name in fedora? This should provide your answer: sudo yum provides */bin/wvdial -- users

Re: Is an update to ClamAV on the way?

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Mark C. Allman mcall...@allmanpc.com wrote: I just started seeing this warning: Freshclam will still be getting the same definitions, so don't worry (as the message says). As Frank mentioned, there's a new version of ClamAV (the engine), which will be packaged in

Re: Is an update to ClamAV on the way?

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Mark C. Allman mcall...@allmanpc.com wrote: So there is an update on the way--that's what I wanted to know.  I didn't see it on the website.  I assume we've already picked up the database updates via freshclam (hence the warning). The ClamAV website says 0.96.5

F14 Anaconda language options

2010-11-25 Thread Chris Smart
Hi all, In previous versions of Fedora I was able to pass the lang and keymap options at boot to by-pass the need to select them later in Anaconda. This is important because Australian English is not in the list for me to select, so it gets overridden to US English. Also, previously, I has to

Re: F14 Anaconda language options

2010-11-25 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: Hi all, In previous versions of Fedora I was able to pass the lang and keymap options at boot to by-pass the need to select them later in Anaconda. This is important because Australian English is not in the list

Re: Testing needed: Orphaned dependency cleanup in yum

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: No yum-3.2.28-13 rpm there yet... There is now (3.2.28-14), and from my initial tests this is working really well. Thank you so much for this new feature, Seth! Finally, Debian converts can be happy on Fedora ;-) -c

Re: Background task to download FC14 isos

2010-11-10 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Well I want to grab the FC14 isos, and I am not home for a few days.  I can't do it in a SSH session to a server at home as I will drop my session before all the images are downloaded. Maybe take a look at screen..

Re: Solving all the KDE 4.5 Problems

2010-11-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Not bad, except for #2, that's pretty harsh, only to be done as a very last resort. Agreed - at least move it out of the way instead of deleting it. Then you can at least get your old settings back if you need to.. -c --

Re: Testing needed: Orphaned dependency cleanup in yum

2010-11-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/orphaned-dep-cleanup-in-yum/ Hallelujah! Yum's remove-leaves plugin never worked properly for me.. if this works as expected, it will fill a long standing hole in Fedora's

Re: Testing needed: Orphaned dependency cleanup in yum

2010-11-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: You can use the yum-rawhide repo at http://repos.fedorapeople.org/ No yum-3.2.28-13 rpm there yet... -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: (F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-08 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Dean S. Messing de...@sharplabs.com wrote: Clues? Do you mean the, monochromatic icons [which] give visual clarity, and more consistent user interactions improve usability - introduced in 4.5? http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/plasma.php -c -- users

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: It seems to me that if Oracle was serious in investing in free software, four years would've been plenty of time for Oracle to show how much development effort they are willing to put forth, and for their product to

Re: Can't install Fedora 14 on MacBook Air

2010-11-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: Any suggestions? Probably a poor suggestion, but have you tried the efidisk.img installer? I'm not sure if it does some extra hardware stuff at boot (because there's no BIOS), but it definitely does at the end.

Re: Fedora 14 mac mini

2010-11-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Shelby, James james.she...@nrel.gov wrote: After installing Fedora 14 it will be unable to find the SATA drives.  The solution I found is to install grub2 (not sure why I needed to do this but it resolved the boot loader problem) then blacklist=ahci Maybe it's

Re: nVidia on F14: Did I miss it?

2010-11-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Christopher A. Williams chriswfed...@cawllc.com wrote: Did I just miss the howto for installing nVidia drivers (from RPMFusion) on F14 64-bit? According to the Howto on RPMFusion website (http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia), it says you need to lower your system

Re: [FEDORA 13] - ia32-libs

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Mohamed El Morabity pikachu.2...@gmail.com wrote: So here:   # yum install glibc.i686 Thanks Mohamed. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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