Re: K3B won't burn Imaqe

2012-10-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/10/12 22:24, Jim wrote: Fedora 15 an 17 Trying to burn Fedora image on CD-R , the disk is new. When opening the k3b Create window it shows blank media in cd/dvd burner, but in the burn window it is telling you place blank cd in drve , even if you open and close drive it sill does not sho

Re: Did anybody successfully install the proprietary Nvidia driver on Macbook Pro(EFI boot)?

2012-10-03 Thread John Pilkington
When I sent my earlier posts on this I didn't check that there was a kmdl at dl.atrpms.net that matched the current f17 kernel. I see a new kmdl has arrived today for 3.5.4-2. That may help. http://dl.atrpms.net/f17-x86_64/atrpms/stable/nvidia-graphics302.17-kmdl-3.5.4-2.fc17-302.17-147.fc17.

Re: Did anybody successfully install the proprietary Nvidia driver on Macbook Pro(EFI boot)?

2012-10-02 Thread John Pilkington
Hi: I've no Mac experience and currently run f16 but here are a few comments. The rpmfusion and atrpms packages are generally believed incompatible. If you try one, remove all traces of the other - lib packages too. I use ATrpms; the nvidia-graphics package should pull in nvidia-graphics-help

Re: Did anybody successfully install the proprietary Nvidia driver on Macbook Pro(EFI boot)?

2012-10-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/10/12 15:03, Andre Massing wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I am running fedora 17 on a Macbook Pro 6,2 with an integrated intel and a nvidia graphic card, lspci -v | grep VGA gives: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Gr

f16 system-config-boot incompatible with grub2

2012-06-24 Thread John Pilkington
I recently used preupgrade from f15 to f16. The installation (x86_64) was new at f12. The upgrade was largely troublefree but booting has gone from grub to grub2 - and it did not carry over elevator=deadline to specify the kernel scheduler, or the timeout value. Now, if I try to run system-c

Re: question on Firefox and Thunderbird in F14 (yes, F14)

2012-03-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/03/12 06:50, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 3/15/2012 11:42 PM, Remi wrote: remi repo I searched and it looks like its all about Centos ... am I missing something? http://remi-mirror.dedipower.com/fedora/14/remi/x86_64/ That being said, upgrading is best and that is what I eventually wan

Re: Verify Burned CD\DVD?

2012-03-13 Thread John Pilkington
On 13/03/12 09:56, John Pilkington wrote: On 13/03/12 09:41, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/13/2012 05:38 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: Thought it was isomd5sum /pathto/mounted/dvd But no such thing as isomd5sum Maybe you've just not installed it? Available Packages Name : isomd5sum Arch : i686

Re: Verify Burned CD\DVD?

2012-03-13 Thread John Pilkington
On 13/03/12 09:41, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/13/2012 05:38 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: Thought it was isomd5sum /pathto/mounted/dvd But no such thing as isomd5sum Maybe you've just not installed it? Available Packages Name: isomd5sum Arch: i686 Epoch : 1 Version : 1.0.7

Re: FirewallD is not running. (fwd)

2012-02-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/02/12 20:29, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Could I get some comments about my email. Should I clarify teh point? Thank for your help. Perhaps: service iptables Administration > Firewall HTH John P -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscriptio

Re: perl

2012-02-20 Thread John Pilkington
On 20/02/12 12:22, Dave Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:42:06AM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: After an update fedora 13 to fedora 14, it looks like that perl has been installed properly. Linux teucidide 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 23 13:07:52 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 G

Re: startx fails with new kernel

2012-02-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/02/12 11:55, Patrick Dupre wrote: Thank for your email. Before I do any thing, I can see that I have kmod-nvidia-3.2.3-2.fc16.x86_64-290.10-1.fc16.12.x86_64 and kmod-nvidia-3.2.5-3.fc16.x86_64-290.10-1.fc16.13.x86_64 Should I remove the first one? Thank. Hi: I use the ATrpms repo and

Re: startx fails with new kernel

2012-02-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/02/12 11:21, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, With te new kernel 3.2.5-3.fc16.x86_64 I cannot start the graphics mode! You have a mix of nVidia and nouveau drivers, and probably need a nVidia kmod that matches your new kernel. See recent posts about 'no more nvidia' for hints. John P -- u

Re: "Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices" fails and blocks boot for about 1 minute

2012-02-11 Thread John Pilkington
On 11/02/12 13:28, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, Since last update, booting my ssd powered notebook takes quite a lot of time (2-3min instead of 30s). In /var/log/boot.log I found the following message: Failed to start LSB: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices. Is this a known pr

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread John Pilkington
On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: maybe after soem hours your machine would be clean, but realize it is not an easy job since yu have enabled all sort of braindead repos including ATrpms and your whole setup is broked You seem very free in your dismissal of the ATrpms repo, which I have

Re: K3B burning problem

2011-12-04 Thread John Pilkington
On 04/12/11 06:38, david walcroft wrote: > On 12/04/2011 02:33 PM, Craig White wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 14:19 +1000, david walcroft wrote: >>> I can not burn an ISO,there are no error messages,it recognizes a medium >>> and completes it's md5sum and stops.It also cannot format and erase.This

Re: Bug 648732 – Intel wireless broken on 11n for many users

2011-12-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/12/11 12:04, Ian Malone wrote: > On 2 December 2011 08:46, John Pilkington wrote: >> This looks as if it could be another instance of the problems with >> nvidia 290.10 Try reverting or going to the new 'long-lived' 275.36 >> >> Several examples on

Re: Bug 648732 – Intel wireless broken on 11n for many users

2011-12-02 Thread John Pilkington
This looks as if it could be another instance of the problems with nvidia 290.10 Try reverting or going to the new 'long-lived' 275.36 Several examples on the atrpms-users list. HTH John P -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-13 Thread John Pilkington
On 13/10/11 11:50, Per Anton Rønning wrote: > Ian Malone wrote: >> There are two packages: java-1.6.0-openjdk and >> java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin, you need to install both, it sounds like >> you've only installed java-1.6.0-openjdk. (If you had Yum working it >> would get java-1.6.0-openjdk when you

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-12 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/10/11 10:25, Per Anton Rønning wrote: > Deepak Bhole wrote: >> * Per Anton Rønning [2011-10-11 15:50]: >>> Deepak Bhole wrote: >>>> * John Pilkington [2011-10-09 10:23]: >>>>> On 09/10/11 14:33, John Pilkington wrote: >> ... >> ...

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/10/11 14:33, John Pilkington wrote: > On 09/10/11 14:04, Per Anton Rønning wrote: >> Deepak Bhole wrote: >>> * Per Anton Rønning [2011-10-06 05:12]: >>>> Hi suomi, >>>> No, I have not. Do you have any experience with that one? >>> >>

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/10/11 14:04, Per Anton Rønning wrote: > Deepak Bhole wrote: >> * Per Anton Rønning [2011-10-06 05:12]: >>> Hi suomi, >>> No, I have not. Do you have any experience with that one? >> >> Hi Per, >> >> Can you please try with the IcedTea-Web plug-in and let us know if it >> works? Installation

Re: Problem with blacklisting kernel modules with boot parameter

2011-09-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/09/11 21:28, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: > On 2011-09-02 22:06, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:43:53 +0200 >> Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: >> >>> I've read about rd.blacklist boot parameter [2] which should work >>> starting with Fedora 12 (as I understand it) [3], but in my case i

Re: Update on needs-restarting

2011-08-29 Thread John Pilkington
On 29/08/11 19:46, Joe Zeff wrote: > As some of you may remember, I opened a bug report for the > needs-restarting script on August 25. If any of you out there are > having difficulties with it, go to > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733537 and download the > *second* version of it, f

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-28 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/08/11 17:00, linux guy wrote: > Here is my grub.conf file. > > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot p

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/08/11 22:34, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >> Haven't seen any problems yet... > > I just fired up my laptop, also running F 14. After making sure firefox > and the GIMP were running, I used yumex to update my system. Both were

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/08/11 20:29, Joe Zeff wrote: > I've tried using needs-restarting after updates, but never had it report > that anything was needed, either running it as myself or as root. > Today's update included Firefox, Thunderbird (both running at the time) > and a new kernel. > >> [joe@khorlia Desktop]$

Re: Time sync is foobar

2011-08-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/08/11 12:21, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 04:51 +1000, Roger wrote: >>> sounds like one of them is set to use UTC and the other is not. >>> >>> on Fedora, run the command (as root) >>> >>> system-config-date >>> >>> check the tab 'Date and Time', verify the time server, under 'A

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/08/11 11:02, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/12/2011 11:10 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use Google >> translate on it. I tried copy/paste but it won't copy from a .pdf. >> >> I don't care a

Re: Sony Laptop Sound Problem

2011-02-01 Thread John Pilkington
On 01/02/11 10:35, Apurva Tripathi wrote: > Hello , > I have sony vaio laptop I am running fedora 14 now but it > have the same problem as fedora 13 that is no sound. No sound come when it > turns on or when we try to play music or movie anything related to sound is > not getting soun

Re: F14 K3b and ISOs

2011-01-20 Thread John Pilkington
On 20/01/11 13:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 07:20 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Tom Horsley wrote: >> Mind filing a bug someone? (both for k3b to use growiso by default, as well as against wodim for the big fail here). >>> I'll help make sure they both get at

Re: no sound in FC 14

2011-01-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 13/01/11 22:05, CAPT Dave Giurintano, USPHS-retired wrote: > I have tried everything. Nothing is muted. I reinstalled pulse audio. > Still no sound. Videos work great but no sound. > > Any suggestions of where to look or what to try would be appreciated. > I had a similar problem some time ago w

Re: java problem

2011-01-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/01/11 07:22, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Peter Larsen > > wrote: > > I wonder what problem is preventing you from simply: yum install > @java ?? openjdk/icedtea works fine. > > > > We can use either Sun java or th

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/12/10 15:01, Temlakos wrote: > Everyone: > > Some package-management questions: > > 1.The package called "smart" doesn't seem to work anymore. It seems > to me that it can't keep up with its channel files. I wonder why F14 > even has a version of "smart" in its repos, if we already have y

Re: Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-12-04 Thread John Pilkington
On 26/11/10 14:21, John Pilkington wrote: > On 26/11/10 08:46, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> Am 25.11.2010 14:30, schrieb John Pilkington: >>> Hi: My system spends a lot of its time processing video data, often >>> with not much numerical processing involved - just remuxing

Re: Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-11-26 Thread John Pilkington
On 26/11/10 08:46, Harald Hoyer wrote: > Am 25.11.2010 14:30, schrieb John Pilkington: >> Hi: My system spends a lot of its time processing video data, often >> with not much numerical processing involved - just remuxing or making an >> iso image. atop often shows disk act

Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-11-25 Thread John Pilkington
Hi: My system spends a lot of its time processing video data, often with not much numerical processing involved - just remuxing or making an iso image. atop often shows disk activity above 90%. I do most of this using ionice -c3, (ie 'idle' scheduling) which is supposed to reduce impact on o

Firefox scrolling: breakup under overlying window

2010-11-20 Thread John Pilkington
Hi: I have no idea what is the best place to post this, but it feels like new behaviour and I haven't found a clear reference to it elsewhere. If I scroll in a Firefox window that is partially obscured by another window the emerging display is corrupted. Anyone else/fix? F13 x86_64, Firefox 3

Re: Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target (solved?)

2010-11-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/11/10 22:04, John Pilkington wrote: > Hi: I'm new to this list and haven't found a searchable archive, but I > haven't seen this topic in Google. > > My box came with MS Vista and I initially added f10, which was fully > updated until near EOL. Later I ad

Re: Fedora-14-i386-dvd.iso, file corrupted

2010-11-12 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/11/10 22:06, William Stock wrote: > in a terminal window, cd to the directory with the bittorrent files > (example: cd Download/Fedora-14-i386-DVD) and enter: sha256sum -c > *CHECKSUM > > (This is the lazy man's way to do it. The system will try to find all > the CDs too, and fail them, but

Re: Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target

2010-11-12 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/11/10 22:11, Rick Stevens wrote: > > I don't think a preupgrade which skips three releases (10->14) is > supported. Single upgrades (10->11, 11->12, 12->13, 13->14) generally > work, but skipping intermediate stages is quite problematic. There's > a lot of stuff that changed significantly

Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target

2010-11-12 Thread John Pilkington
Hi: I'm new to this list and haven't found a searchable archive, but I haven't seen this topic in Google. My box came with MS Vista and I initially added f10, which was fully updated until near EOL. Later I added a second disk and f12, and recently I used preupgrade for f12-to-f13. That went

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