Seem to have screwed my F25......

2017-06-07 Thread DB
Evening all, I thought it would be a Good Idea to "improve" my Fedora system if I added an SDD. I put it in, plugged it in & it seemed to work - sort of What I now have is a selection window from grub which has 2 new versions of F25 Workstation (on sda), then an F19, also on sda,

Re: XP-332

2016-12-09 Thread DB
On 09/12/16 02:23, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: This information is from PCLOS, but it may also apply to your setup. It applies specifically to an Epson WP-4530 all-in-one. In order to make the scanner work, there is a file in /etc/sane.d named dll.conf. That file is a list of

Re: Epson XP_332

2016-12-07 Thread DB
On 25/11/16 07:44, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: From: Greg Woods <wo...@ucar.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 22:12:53 -0700 To: freddog...@yahoo.co.uk, Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:42 PM, DB <freddog

Epson XP-332

2016-11-24 Thread DB
Good evening all! I've recently bought an Epson all-in-one & am having a pile of difficulty to get it to work properly. a) Connected via USB, it appears to work. b) Connected via wifi, it'll print but not scan. c) operating via Oracle VirtualBox it does not get recognised, Does anyone have

Re: Question for Fedora users of Garmin nuvi GPS

2014-07-09 Thread DB
On 07/09/2014 04:58 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: Question for Fedora users of Garmin nuvi GPS From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:26:05 +0100 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 21:32 -0500, Steven

Re: Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora?

2014-01-20 Thread DB
On 01/20/2014 12:44 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora? From: Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:34:57 + To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org CC: gayle...@eircom.net On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:29:07

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-05 Thread DB
On 12/04/2013 11:14 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Fedora's audience From: Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:25:02 + (UTC) Hi all, Going on 72, worked with computors(!) before they became computers (started 1963) using Fedora since FC6,

screen-lock doesn't appear to work properly F18, F19 KDE

2013-11-22 Thread DB
Good evening all - at least, it is evening here in Austria! My 2nd machine is a Toshiba Equium A60-692, with a (massive!) 40GB harddrive a (minute!) 750MB RAM. It used to work fine, then I tried to fedup from F17 to F18.. Most of the time it would work fine, as long as I kept the mouse

Re: Clams

2012-09-09 Thread DB
On 09/09/2012 02:00 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Sound advice indeedand slowly but surely I'm getting the hang of itbut like..what you just described would have been for me?.a TOTAL re-installation of EVERYTHING!..I wonder if there's a manual with all the

Problem while upgrading 15--16 with yum

2012-04-05 Thread DB
Hi all, Hope someone can help me (again!!). I'm trying to upgrade my desktop from F15 to F16 using yum --releasever=16 distro-sync (with an added --skip-broken) (same as I did on my laptop without problems) after several minutes of lists of packages to be updated, the system comes to a

Re: How do I get half my KDE panel back????

2012-02-05 Thread DB
On 02/05/2012 12:16 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Please can someone tell me a) what this left-hand part of the panel is called It's called the task manager widget. Thanks, it's good to know what things are called!! b) how to get it back??? Unlock widgets (if

Re: How do I get half my KDE panel back????

2012-02-05 Thread DB
, DB wrote: What I'd like, is to move it out of the lost found back into the Internet, and for the Orange Firefox icon to come back Hover your mouse over Applications and then right click. Choose Edit Applications and you will get a gui that should be self explanatory. Thanks Ed

How do I get half my KDE panel back????

2012-02-04 Thread DB
Hi guys gals, Sorry to bother you with what must be a dead simple thing, but which is bigger than me at the moment! I'm using F15 KDE, until a week or so ago I had in the right hand part of my Panel the icons for the programs I most use in the left-hand half, were tags (right titlee??)

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-14 Thread DB
On 04/14/2011 01:30 AM, Chris Smart wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:23 PM, DBfreddog...@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

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-14 Thread DB
On 04/14/2011 02:00 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login From: Gabriel Ramirez gabriello.rami...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:00:36 -0500 Hi, My /var/log/yum.log shows: Feb 21 20:55:53 Updated:

Re: Problems reading files after writing them to DVD

2011-04-14 Thread DB
On 04/14/2011 04:34 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: Problems reading files after writing them to DVD From: Burkhard Plache burkhardpla...@gmail.com I had the same problem (Fedora 14 up-to-date, using Brasero), and blamed it on my CD/DVD burner. Hmm. - Burkhard

Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread DB
Hi all, Yet again a problem! I've been running F14 64 bit now for about a month, mainly without problem... until yesterday afternoon. I did a yumex update, installed a few apps, then poof... stuck! Firstly, trying to reboot, it shows the F14 blue screen with the acorn thingy in the

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread DB
On 04/13/2011 02:01 PM, Chris Smart wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:58 PM, DBfreddog...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Answer to both: NO! (MB has an ATI chip onboard) Hmm... if you boot normally, what does the X log say? /var/log/Xorg.0.log -c Hi Chris The nearest I can do to a normal boot

Re: My DVD reader doesn't always load....

2011-04-03 Thread DB
Sorry all, forgot to change the title! Mea maxima culpa!! On 03/31/2011 09:09 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: DBFreddog_deat yahoo.co.uk writes: Hi all, I appear to have a problem with my DVD reader (Gigabyte Technology 16x16 DVD rw/r). Check if you have a

My DVD reader doesn't always load....

2011-03-31 Thread DB
Hi all, I appear to have a problem with my DVD reader (Gigabyte Technology 16x16 DVD rw/r). When I put a dvd in the tray, sometimes the DVD title comes up in the recent device window, sometimes nothing. When nothing comes up, sometimes the tray is locked I can't get the disc out again. I

Re: My swap space seems to have vanished....

2011-03-19 Thread DB
for Fedora usersusers@lists.fedoraproject.org mailto:users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=unsubscribe mailto:users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=subscribe On Friday 18 Mar 2011 14:46:23 DB wrote: df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use

My swap space seems to have vanished....

2011-03-18 Thread DB
Hi All, Just gone wild updated my system to a 64 bit monster, installed F14 without problem BUT When I look at SystemManager, it lists that there is no swap space no swap space available... I remember setting Swap in an extended partition, then df tells me: df Filesystem

Re: KRandRtray ??

2011-02-07 Thread DB
On 02/07/2011 04:42 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: KRandRtray ?? From: Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:17:33 -0600 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org DB wrote: I have the feeling what you are writing is not true (or maybe I've

Re: KRandRtray ??

2011-02-06 Thread DB
On 02/06/2011 12:23 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: KRandRtray ?? From: Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:08:48 -0600 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Jim wrote: F14/ KDE-4 KRandRTray, how does it work ? As User if

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-26 Thread DB
Back in the day, we used paper tape for our NC machinery. Lots of it. -- cmg how often did that either break or get snarled up, just coz the humidity had dropped We suggested that Field Engineers should inspect all the young lady operators for *nasty* nylon clothing remove it

Re: Thoughts of a user

2010-12-26 Thread DB
On 12/26/2010 11:36 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Thoughts of a user 2) Wifi: It may be a sore point, but there is no ease of installing (newer) machines with built in wifi cards. While I understand that all those things are built for functionality with Windoze,

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-17 Thread DB
On 12/17/2010 01:10 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: About programing, a general question From: Parshwa Murdia b330...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:40:11 +0530 To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org On Fri, Dec 17, 2010

F13 my printer does not work....

2010-11-30 Thread DB
Hi All, Yet again I'll be very grateful for any help you can give me. I just upgraded to F13 on my 2 systems on both of them, I seem to be unable to print. The 2 machines are a) my desktop uname -ar Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Oct 19 04:24:06 UTC 2010 i686

Re: F13 my printer does not work....

2010-11-30 Thread DB
On 11/30/2010 11:15 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 11:00 +0100, DB wrote: Strange thing is that under previous Fedoras, I had to fight to get the scanner recognised, this time, the scanner is recognised working, but I can't get any of the print commands to offer me anything

Re: keyboard locale configuration

2010-10-23 Thread DB
On 23/10/10 15:41, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: I use the Irish keyboard in Gnome, and all is well, including when I start a terminal. However if I press CTRL-ALT-Fn to get a console, I get the wrong keys, for example, if I press '\' I get ''. These are the contents of my

Re: Help with VirtualBox??????

2010-09-29 Thread DB
On 30/09/10 00:35, Germán A. Racca wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 15:23 +0200, DB wrote: On 28/09/10 00:49, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: The version of VirtualBox from the fedora repos does not include USB access. 1) Uninstall VirtualBox-OSE. 2) Then copy the repo from here

Help with VirtualBox??????

2010-09-27 Thread DB
Hi All, Just loaded VirtualBox on my antique system - very pleasantly surprised how easily eveything (almost!) seems to have gone must be a problem waiting to bite me! Anyway, reason for going down this path is to be able to use Photbook software which runs on everything - so long as it's

Cpu usage by X

2010-05-04 Thread DB
Hi All! Anyone able to give me an idea where to look.. Sometimes when I start my desktop, System Monitor tells me that X is running at max CPU %-age. Other times, X is 4th or 5th in the list (I selected the CPU column to put the highest users on top), using 1 or 2 %. So, my question to

Re: Cpu usage by X (with more info) -even more

2010-05-04 Thread DB
On 04/05/10 21:28, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Cpu usage by X (with more info) From: DB freddog...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 18:34:34 +0200 To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Hi All! Anyone able to give me an idea where

Subject:,Re: QTParted - normal behaviour or BZ?

2010-01-31 Thread DB
On 01/31/2010 01:35 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: QTParted - normal behaviour or BZ? From: Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:54:52 +1100 To: freddog...@yahoo.co.uk, Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org | |

QTParted - normal behaviour or BZ?

2010-01-30 Thread DB
Evening All, Just tried to run QTParted on my F11-KDE desktop. If I click on the internal Linux formatted HDD, all is well. If I click on my external HDD (still NTFS), QTParted starts to look at the drive, then vanishes. Tried running it from Konsole got the message that QTParted is not

Re: A question to rsync....

2010-01-29 Thread DB
On 01/29/2010 02:57 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: A question to rsync From: Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:11:23 +1100 To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org On 28Jan2010 23:32,

Re: Boot Issues:

2010-01-28 Thread DB
On 01/28/2010 04:50 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Boot Issues: From: Jeff Maxwell vohnmaxw...@bellsouth.net Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:23:08 -0500 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org After installing the latest upgrades including Kernel updates, I have the following

Re: Anyone know how to rsync or ssh to an ftp site? (Follow on to Tar Oddity)

2010-01-26 Thread DB
On 01/26/2010 06:32 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:12 PM, DBfreddog...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Evening All, After many trials tribulations, I've finally got my laptop running F12 - got caught by the yumex kernel upgrade problem - still can't get ark to read

Anyone know how to rsync or ssh to an ftp site? (Follow on to Tar Oddity)

2010-01-22 Thread DB
Evening All, After many trials tribulations, I've finally got my laptop running F12 - got caught by the yumex kernel upgrade problem - still can't get ark to read consistently from my external disc -even after running cpu test for 2 days memtest for 80 hours without error getting a clean