Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: What does "lspci | grep -i sata" show in the livecd? liveuser@localhost-live hennebry]$ lspci | grep -i sata >>sata.txt [liveuser@localhost-live hennebry]$ cat sata.txt 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE

Re: Fedora 38 wayland login user NO, root Yes SOLVED

2023-10-06 Thread old sixpack13
> Well, "we have met the enemy and he is us". > > I very regularly use rsync to backup my home directory to a different machine. > So, after installing from KDE Live, logging in from a remote machine, > I restored my home directory with the saved backup. ... and user/group rights and ownership

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
What does "lspci | grep -i sata" show in the livecd? And you don't have any bios/software raid enabled and have the disk set to AHCI if available in the bios? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Fedora 38 wayland login user NO, root Yes SOLVED

2023-10-06 Thread richard emberson
Well, "we have met the enemy and he is us". I very regularly use rsync to backup my home directory to a different machine. So, after installing from KDE Live, logging in from a remote machine, I restored my home directory with the saved backup. This created/over-wrote .local .config .cache

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: What kind of device/controller are those filesystems on? They would have to be something weird for anaconda to not have the right driver. it is not a sdhc/mmc type card is it? 'Tis an internal Seagate model ST380815AS. 80e9 bytes. 7200 rpm. SATA. I

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
keep a second firefox window open, alt-tab to it run about:performance and it will list out all of your tabs and you can X a specific tab. Try about:performance I have to use it a lot to figure out which tab lost its mind and is slowing everything down because it decided it needs gb's of ram. On

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
What kind of device/controller are those filesystems on? They would have to be something weird for anaconda to not have the right driver. it is not a sdhc/mmc type card is it? On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 4:02 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: > > > Typically

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: I am surprised that alt-tab does not switch to another app for you. I If it happens again, I'll try it. I'd forgotten all about it. Do not rmember the last time I used it. have used that to switch out of full screen applications and I would not

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: Typically you have to go full custom and assuming home is on a VG with free space you would then have to create a LV and define a fs on it, and assigned it as root (/). Similar would have to be done with /boot outside of LVM and if efi would you also

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
I am surprised that alt-tab does not switch to another app for you. I have used that to switch out of full screen applications and I would not expect firefox/malware to have any way to make the window be able to truly take over the screen. In firefox about:config there are some options that

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
I will pay money to simplify the config and/or the mess such that it is easier to get working and/or easier to keep working. 2 different cards from 2 vendors is going to be difficult to get working and difficult to keep working. If you are going to have to add/buy cards and/or buy a 2nd KVM for

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Mike Wright wrote: What would happen if you disconnected from the network just long enough to change the settings on the browser to NOT open new pages in a tab but instead to do it the old-fashioned way: open new pages in their own window. You might be able to X the

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
> > so you want a dual-dual-monitor setup with a KVM. > > Have you considered getting a single large 4k monitor/tv instead of 2 > smaller ones(assuming the smaller ones are 1080p)? That would > simplify a lot of what you would need to buy. Sure, but I already have the 2 monitors and the 2 PCs.

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Lukas Middendorf
Hello, On 06/10/2023 09:47, Patrick Dupre wrote: I plan to install a KVM for 2 monitors. One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP I have to replace the VGA out by a DP. What would be the best option: 1) Add a DP video card on the

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
so you want a dual-dual-monitor setup with a KVM. Have you considered getting a single large 4k monitor/tv instead of 2 smaller ones(assuming the smaller ones are 1080p)? That would simplify a lot of what you would need to buy. I am running a 4k TV across 2 machines, physically it is 43" and I

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
I am sorry for the confusion. I am attaching a pdf to clarify my approach. The question is about what to set in PC1. The VGA port cannot be used for this setup. Option 1: try to use the DVI of the MB and add a graphics card with one DP port Option 2: add a dual port DP/DP video card, with a

Re: Fedora 38 wayland login user NO, root Yes

2023-10-06 Thread Barry
> On 6 Oct 2023, at 15:57, richard emberson wrote: > > Back in 10/04/2023 I got "Pri Master Hard Disk SMART status BAD" > # smartctl -a /dev/sda | more > Western Digital VelociRaptor > WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 > SATA 2.5 3.0 Gb/s > 1 rpm > ... > health test result: FAILED! > failure

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Barry
> On 6 Oct 2023, at 08:47, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. > Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP Use a DVI KVM (check it allows EDID passthru). You can passively convert DP to DVI with a cable. Barry

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/6/23 07:58, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/05/2023 09:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: It's a pity there isn't a hotkey for killing just the frontmost/topmost program.  ALT+F4 will close the top/front window, if they're obeying control, but I mean instantly

Re: Solved: Re: Anyone know of any cards or accessories that allow a desktop to make calls on a cellular network?

2023-10-06 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 14:35:42 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2023-10-05 12:34, stan via users wrote: > > Inspired by the responses here that allowed me to understand what I > > was searching for, I eventually found a program called scrcpy. > > > > https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/ > > > > It

Re: Anyone know of any cards or accessories that allow a desktop to make calls on a cellular network?

2023-10-06 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:14:50 +1030 Tim wrote: Thanks for the explanations, Tim. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
Typically you have to go full custom and assuming home is on a VG with free space you would then have to create a LV and define a fs on it, and assigned it as root (/). Similar would have to be done with /boot outside of LVM and if efi would you also need a /boot/efi again outside of LVM. No

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Stephen Morris wrote: On 6/10/23 13:12, Michael Hennebry wrote: I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. When I tell the installer to install, it claims it cannot find a hard drive.  Grrr. The first

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/05/2023 09:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: It's a pity there isn't a hotkey for killing just the frontmost/topmost program. ALT+F4 will close the top/front window, if they're obeying control, but I mean instantly killing the topmost window despite what it

Fedora 38 wayland login user NO, root Yes

2023-10-06 Thread richard emberson
Back in 10/04/2023 I got "Pri Master Hard Disk SMART status BAD" # smartctl -a /dev/sda | more Western Digital VelociRaptor WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 SATA 2.5 3.0 Gb/s 1 rpm ... health test result: FAILED! failure less than 24 hours SAVE ALL DATA ... Vendor Specific SMART

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
ok. that makes a bit more sense. And by KVM he means just keyboard-mouse since he has 2 monitors and does not need the video and/or the video is separated by monitor. I am not sure what he is trying to do given this setup. Depending on what he is trying to do, there may be easier ways to do

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 05:55 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > I don't believe KVM allows separation by video port.  I think you can > only give a KVM the entire card.  And even if KVM allowed you to give > it a single port I think X/Wayland assumes total control of the card > and cards ram (I could be

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
I don't believe KVM allows separation by video port. I think you can only give a KVM the entire card. And even if KVM allowed you to give it a single port I think X/Wayland assumes total control of the card and cards ram (I could be wrong, but that would require knowing about the 2nd instance

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
Technically it does, you just have to figure out what the os process is and kill it, each tab is a separate os process.I have killed weather channel with kill -9 many times(it is easy to find it as it leaks ram and is the only multiple-gb firefox thread). If you have a 2nd firefox window open

Re: 4k video playback on some videos makes entire system sluggish

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 9:01 PM Alex wrote: > > Hi, > >> You might try uninstalling mesa-va-drivers and replacing with this: >> mesa-va-drivers-freeworld >> >> one of my 2 machines was ok and a 2nd one looked closer to what yours >> looked like. >> >> And replacing with freeworld it now looks much

Re: Anyone using 5G as their internet access method?

2023-10-06 Thread Peter Boy
Another drawback might be that you can’t access your home server or desktop while on the road. You can't configure port sharing or a VPN endpoint like you can on your landline router. > Am 06.10.2023 um 06:58 schrieb Jeffrey Walton : > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM stan via users >

Re: 4k video playback on some videos makes entire system sluggish

2023-10-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 6/10/23 08:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 08:20 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 6/10/23 07:04, Roger Heflin wrote: You might try uninstalling mesa-va-drivers and replacing with this: mesa-va-drivers-freeworld one of my 2 machines was ok and a 2nd one looked closer to

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 6/10/23 13:12, Michael Hennebry wrote: I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. When I tell the installer to install, it claims it cannot find a hard drive.  Grrr. The first time I got the message, I just rebooted. On

Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I plan to install a KVM for 2 monitors. One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP I have to replace the VGA out by a DP. What would be the best option: 1) Add a DP video card on the PCIExpress bus (and use the DVI of the